Double trouble

[lostamigo]

[An alley in the city where Sakihama Base is located. Daniel is standing on one side. On the other - another large figure, wearing a yellow raincoat. Under the raincoat's hood, there's a robotic face - one that's identical to Daniel's.]

...

[Both of them seem surprised by the encounter.]

Comments

[lostamigo]

I don't have much. Doubt you care to hear my life story, or what happened when I was with those assholes. You got someone here who can tell you the latter.

Yeah. I remember the whole thing with Lost Seekers well. And the incident at the compound. You weren't an officer, were you, April?

Nope. Just a common grunt, trash to be lied to and sent to die. Good that fire started and I ran before that could happen! I've been trying to make ends meet since then, live some kind of life. As much as you can when you're stuck inside a tin can forever.

...

Anyway, a week or two ago, a Lost Seeker agent contacted me. Talk about a surprise, I thought these jerks were done for! He told me that they suffered a big loss with the death of two Wise Men, but Jason Godefroy survived and rebuilt and is going to start a crusade again, blah blah, you know their bullshit talk, and they're looking for the "stray sheep" to rejoin their "glorious mission". Like I'm going to let them ruin my life AGAIN! I told him where he can shove his offer. He said I'm making a mistake, asked me to think it over, and said he'll be back. And then pretty much disappeared, just like that.

Must've been a Smoke Legionnaire. And... he threatened you. "Join us or die." Between the lines.

No shit. I've been on the run since. I'm not going to let these bastards kill me. They can go to hell.

[majestic_keiki]

Where did he contact you? Do you know where he came from? It could help track them down.

[lostamigo]

Beats me. He just appeared out of the blue, in the shitty hotel room I rented at the time being. I can give you an address, but I'm not coming back there.

That'd help. You're a drifter?

Yeah. You've been through the same stuff like me, you know I'm in no place to have a real place to live.

...Yeah. I know what you mean.

[majestic_keiki]

The address still helps. Any description of him to help find him?

[lostamigo]

Take a guess.

...All members of Lost Seekers are cyborgs. Like me. Or April.

[majestic_keiki]

So there's no anonymous-looking support staff, recruiters, spies or anything like that? Is the one leader remaining a cyborg as well?

That should make it easier to locate them since they stand out quite a bit.

[lostamigo]

Only the cyborgs knew what's really going on. But the Three Wise Men weren't cyborgs. I don't know is Godefroy one now, or not.

I don't know either. Never met him. These guys are secretive as hell though. You'd think you'd see them in the news or something, at some point. But no, nothing.

That's right. I didn't even know there are other survivors... Until now.

[majestic_keiki]

Still, now that we know, we can try to get the intelligence agencies of various ESUN countries to keep an extra eye out fo them.

[lostamigo]

True. Maybe we'll find out where their base of operations is, too.

Well, you look for those crazies all you want. I'll be happy if I never get to see one of them ever again.

[majestic_keiki]

It's literally our job, you know. We have to find them or we'd have failed at it.