To Another AGE

[break_away_from_fear]

[With the ancient computer system recovered it wouldn't be long before Leos would be escorted off the Unity Group base that the shuttle returned to and back to the institute to continue his recovery, so he simply sat quietly as he turned the unopened pudding cup in his hands round and round. It felt... odd to say the least. Encountering Nineball again was an unexpected and even frightening moment yet...]

Blaming someone for doing something they feel is right when they're broken... it'd be pretty hypocritical of me...

[Where he could have chosen to keep hating it, even after finding out it was responsible for the Vagan and possibly even the Meganoids... he chose to understand and forgive. As he said... there was no point in trying to hate something for being damaged, not when the right thing to do was to reach out and help them find their way... just like his friends had done for him.]

Did I finally do the right thing?.... Feels like it...

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[agedup]

You definitely did the right thing.

[Have a hand on the shoulder, and another celebratory pudding cup. Here Flit thought you hadn't grabbed one already, silly Flit.]

I had my doubts but... it ended that fight a lot sooner than it would've otherwise. And with the computing unit intact too.

[break_away_from_fear]

[Two pudding cups? Bliss! He takes the second one with a smile.]

Yeah... just... it really felt like it was the right thing to do after everything that's happened to me. A lot of the choices I made not so long ago ... I always made the choice to hurt someone...

[There was a soft sigh as he looked at the pudding cups in his hands.]

I think Nineball was as bad off as we were... maybe even worse. It was an AI true... but with how many robots there are with minds of their own, it was probably as alive as we are.

It was alone, hurt... it didn't know if the people who made it would come back or even if they were alive. It didn't have anyone to tell it what it was doing was wrong or to guide it on the right path. All it had was the purpose they left it.

In the end... what it needed was the same as us. Someone to reach out to them. Ending it this way... it feels more right than just shooting it down.

[Leos smiles before handing over the first one he had to Flit.]

Friendship pudding?