Sahlonek shrugs. "Don't need anything else to say besides the truth."
They sigh. "Whatever it is that you've sent will only hurt you."
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“You’re fucking boring. You can fuck off any time now, you stupid motherfucker,”Malcolm snorted.
A hoarse chuckle came from him.
“I highly fucking doubt that. You don’t know my connection to ‘whatever it is’.”
Sahlonek simply blinks in response.
They look bemused. "I wouldn't be so confident if I were you."
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Malcolm snorted.
“I would leaving if I were you. Because that’s the only way you’re getting out of here somewhat alive.”
Almost immediately after Malcolm spoke, a tall android appeared directly behind Sahlonek. It was smooth and white, with few defining features. Its eyes were a bright orange, almost red, and one of its hands was a pistol.
“You will have only one warning. Leave the home of Malcolm-Lifeform immediately, or we will open fire,”the android said in a monotone voice.
“Cocksucker, meet the AI. AI, meet Cocksucker,”Malcolm said casually.
Sahlonek shakes their head slowly. "No can do, boss."
They cock their head, amused. "Open fire, huh? Tell me, Malcolm, what makes you think these pieces of shit can do to me?"
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Malcolm snorted. He then snickered.
“A lot more than you think.”
He turned to the AI.
“By the way, bullets don’t do shit to this fucker, and water doesn’t seem to affect him either. Think ‘godly’,”Malcolm mentioned, rolling his eye at the last bit.
A click came from the AI and its pistol hand morphed into a small cannon.
“Leave,”the AI commanded.
Sahlonek looks amused still, and then the lights all go out in the shop. Every electronic is fried as well, including the AI.
"No, I don't think I will. Honestly, I came here to see why there was still someone alive. But now I'm interested in helping." they grin.
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The AI collapsed, its eyes flickering before shutting off.
Malcolm grunted, wincing a bit. He still glared, an angry growl coming from him.
Moments later, another AI appeared, unfazed by Sahlonek’s attack. Malcolm chuckled hoarsely.
The same thing happens to that one. Sahlonek tuts, as though disappointed. "I think you can see reason here. You cannot make me leave, and I do not want to leave. Therefore, there is no reason for this show to continue, yes?"
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The AI fell, but quickly rose again, a layer of nanobots falling away. It aimed the cannon and fired, but nothing came out. Instead, the cannon was absorbing energy from Sahlonek.
“Dumbass,”was the only reply from Malcolm.
Sahlonek grimaces, then fries the nanobots and the cannon, seeing no point in trying again with the AI itself.
"Not me. You are a dumbass." they sigh.
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Malcolm laughed,”You’re the dumbass! You just attacked dead nanobots and a gun. Fucking idiot!”
The AI lifted its other hand, which had become a cannon. Its fried hand simply fell off, and a new cannon grew. The AI fired both at Sahlonek.
Sahlonek shrugs. "If possible, I'd like to keep as many of these as intact as possible. By the way, sorry about the shop. I can probably fix them."
They sigh, and then fry all of Malcolm's AIs. "But if I have to, I will fry every single electronic in here."
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Malcolm just glared.
Electricity arced off of several dozen AI that were scattered in and out of the building. However, none of them fell, as if they had become immune to Sahlonek’s attack. All of them had red eyes, and all of them had two cannons ready to be fired.
“You do that, and you will have countless AIs after you. I built the first one, and they took over from there. I honestly have no fucking clue how many of them there are, but it’s probably in the billions by now. This is just a fucking team that was summoned by the alarm. So, quit attacking them, show you’re not a threat, and fucking leave. Otherwise, you’ll remain a threat to them,”Malcolm stated.
Sahlonek looks surprised. "And you think I can't fry all of them?"
Sahlonek shakes their head. "Very well."
They shift to their human form, and raise their hands. "I won't leave, but I'm no longer a threat."
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“Shut the fuck up already!”Malcolm snapped.
The AIs watched, their eyes turning orange. They lowered their hands, but they all remained cannons.
“Why the fuck are you here? And don’t tell me that you ‘want to help’ or ‘were just curious’, or I’ll find a way to make a bullet fucking kill you,”Malcolm hissed.
Sahlonek shakes their head. "No, I don't think I will, if it pisses you off this much."
They grin, and lean in conspiratorialy, putting the lips right next to Malcolm's ear. They whisper: "I'm here because I heard you were looking for a potent fuel source, and someone to help keep assholes like me away. So yes, I want to help."
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Malcolm rolled his eyes.
He then glared at Sahlonek, waiting for him to finish speaking before shifting so they were face-to-face.
“You do realize I didn’t hear a goddamn thing you just said, right? I’m fucking old, and I’m already half-deaf in one ear and almost deaf in the other!”he snapped.
Sahlonek shrugs, then sends a jolt of electricity through the ear. "I guess that should do something."
They repeat what they'd said.
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Malcolm yelped, then fell back, convulsing. Then, his arms fell limp at his sides and he groaned, oblivious to Sahlonek’s words.
The AI rose their arms, eyes red again.
"Can you hear me?" Sahlonek asks curiously, watching Malcolm with an almost scientific curiosity.
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Malcolm barely registered that someone was nearby. It was strange… so many years of being used to pain, and now he couldn’t feel much of anything. And what little he felt of his limbs didn’t respond to his demands.
The AI moved between the pair. Three picked up Malcolm, while the rest shot at Sahlonek with their energy-absorbing cannons. The three quickly moved outside, their lower body moving independently from their upper so that they didn’t have to constantly shift Malcolm.
Sahlonek looks a little confused at first, but their mind acted before their body could catch up.
"Move!" they shout, pushing past the AI, forcing them to set malcolm down. "Don't shoot, or I'll make a mistake."
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The AI, all of them quickly surrounding Sahlonek, continued to shoot their cannons at him.
“You have harmed Malcolm-Lifeform. We cannot abide this! We know how to fix him. Leave!”all of the AI demanded, their voices synchronized.
Sahlonek throws up an impenetrable barrier of energy, then goes to work on Malcolm, restoring fried components with jolts of power, effectively supercharging the cyborg's limbs and organs. They left the mechanical shit for the AI themselves to fix, but effectively turned Malcolm from a dying centuries old man to a very much alive and well centuries old man.
"You gonna get up anytime soon, or…?" they mumur, leaning back.
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The AI, all of them severely pissed off, shot at the barrier in an attempt to draw out enough energy that it would collapse.
Meanwhile, Malcolm was unaware of anything that had just happened, as he had passed out while the AIs were carrying him. Though, once Sahlonek finished working on him, he went from being eerily silent to loudly snoring. He didn’t register Sahlonek’s question whatsoever.
Sahlonek snorts. "He's fine now. Check him all you want, yu'll find his systems better than what they were."
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“You harmed Malcolm-Lifeform. Why should we trust you?”the AI asked, still synchronized.
They didn’t stop attacking the energy field.
Malcolm remained asleep, still snoring.
"Because it is in my best interest for him not to die, dipshits." Sahlonek snaps.
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(Um… question, lol. For Malcolm not to do what?)
