Echo Complex

The instructions were quite clear: go to PLC and R&D. The directions, however, were convoluted and strange.

Saib isn't making things better by directly leading Nota and E. She is taking her role of Team Leader and Loyalty Whatever quite literally. She disallowed Nota and E from even looking at the directions, and is silently wandering through the large open halls of Echo Complex.

"Are you sure we're going the right way, uh..." Nota realizes he doesn't remember Saib's name.

"I'm as sure as can be. And you might know my name if you spent less time looking at my ass, and more talking to me." She responded.

"To be fair, it's kind of hard to not stare at your ass, considering our forced placement." E pointed out.

Saib turned around and glared at E.

"And really, Saib-R-MAN? That's a bloody weird name. Now why don't you turn back around, that was a much better view." E continued to dig.

If looks could kill, E would have been incinerated.

"Gee, you're not lookin' too happy there, Saib." Nota walks around her.

"Tell me a joke then, Happiness Officer." Saib sneers sarcastically.

"What's red and has a needle in its side?"

"Wha-?" Saib felt a sharp pain in her side and went foggy-eyed.

E-R-ASE looks at her motionless, seemingly dead, body falls over. He looks up at Nota and asks, "What did you put in her?"

"I have no idea." He looks down at her.

"I guess we have to carry her." E sighs.

"Or we could not." Nota responds.

"What do you mean?"

"We take the directions and look out for ourselves. We'll 'hope' that she makes her way to PLC." Nota grins.

"I dunno. She's a bitch, but does she really deserve that?"

Nota looks directly into E's eyes and says, "Yes."

"Alright then, let's go." E grabs the papers and looks at them.

"I think I should look at the directions."Nota says to E.

E shrugs and says, "Sure."

Nota looks at the directions, scratches his head, and walks off in the direction they were going before. He rounds a corner and gets shot in the head.

The directions and instructions are covered in a Clearance Level liquid flowing from Nota-R-ATT.

E picks them up, getting some extra Red Clearance on his teeth. He puts them in his standard issue Guybrush Saddlebag, and silently walks down the hall.

E quickly arrives at PLC and waits for Nota to respawn. He begins whistling inconspicuously and waits for Nota to find his way out of the clone box, or whatever.

Saib is launched, screaming, out of an Auto-Hack. She puts her hooves out in an attempt to hit E.

E tries to jump out of the way, but she hits his flank. His rear legs are, again, completely useless. Saib, however, is remarkably unharmed!

E really wished it wasn't treason for him to have learned to fly. It would have made getting away from Saib much easier. As it is, Saib is currently smashing E's broken legs and laughing. A small ring of Citizens had gathered around and began betting.

Saib feels a horrible burning pain in her head. She is pretty sure there is a physical fire inside on her brain. She starts smacking her head into things in an attempt to put out the fire.

E picks himself up and looks at Saib.

She screams and falls to the floor weeping.

E takes out his PDC and contacts Friend Princess.

"Hello Citizen, how can I help you?" Friend Princess asks.

"Saib has attacked me unprovoked and I was forced to use my Mutant Power, please advise Friend Princess."

"Are you a registered Mutant?"

"Of course."

"...Do you have evidence that Saib-R-MAN attacked you?"

"My broken legs, a bunch of non-descript Citizens saw it."

"I will log this and question the Citizens later."

"Thank you, Friend Princess." His PDC cuts off communications.

E walks over to Saib, who is still crying, helps her up and says, "Nota's the one who drugged you."

"F-fine. I'll kick his ass then." She responds shakily, then looks around, "Where is he?"

"He got shot for holding a paper. I guess he forgot he wasn't allowed to have anything." E responds.

"Why did you let him?"

"He's one clone closer to being totally gone."

"How does that help you?"

"I didn't like him."

"Do you now?"

"No, I'm just going to deal with him and the last of his clones."

Nota is thrown from a tube and greeted with a burning sensation in his head. By the time he's out in the corridor, he's damn near dead.

He screams as his head pops like a can of Bouncy Bubble Beverage in a freezing unit for too long.

"Why don't you go get our stuff." E says to Saib.

"Yeah, sure."

Saib walks into PLC and sees a very long queue of Green Clearance Citizens waiting to be attended to by a Blue Clearance Quartermaster. She finds, upon closer inspection, that the Green Clearance Citizens are, in fact, mannequins with green sprayed onto them. The Blue Citizen seems very pleased with himself.

Her PDC begins ringing.

She answers it, "Yes?"

Friend Princess speaks quickly, "Red Clearance Citizen and Troubleshooter Nota-R-ATT has ran out of clones and been found guilty of treason. I will be sending a new Troubleshooter to aid you." She mumbles, "Never seen a Troubleshooter fail so fast before. That's going in the record book."

"What's their name?" Saib asks.

"I don't know."

"Okay. While you're here though, can you help me real quick?"

"What do you require, Citizen?" Friend Princess sounds exasperated.

"Well there's a bunch of Green mannequins blocking me from getting equipment from PLC." Saib moves the PDC to show the Princess.

"Just wait until they're done." Friend Princess disconnects.

E walks in and sees the situation.He looks at Saib and says, "I dunno, you're the Team Leader."

"Of one team member." Saib sighs. It seems the fight has been burned out of her.

"Well, not for long. I think we're getting an upgrade soon."

"Or a downgrade."

"Are you going to do anything here, or just stand around and wait?" E asks.

"Just, let me think awhile, OK?" Saib responds, "This is tricky."