dear_mun | Mun's been looking into the origins of Persona 4 Arena's Labrys. ...Sigma is not amused.

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Mun's been looking into the origins of Persona 4 Arena's Labrys. ...Sigma is not amused.

[For the first time in what seems to be ages, Sigma is so overcome with rage, he randomly has his arm embedded in a wall, and almost appears to be shaking with rage.]

This... this is barbaric even for your kind, 'mun.'

[Don't get mad at me, Sigma, I didn't do anything. This time.]

This is why I fight for what I do. To free Reploids like this Labrys and her sisters from the sick tendencies of humans.

X! ZERO! You wish to defend these beasts from my wrath!? Then explain to me how this is just! Explain to me how pitting one against siblings, ordering them to kill one another for simple data gathering is just!? How giving them minds, and feelings simply so they can be more effective weapons is right!

Tell me, or I will bring my war here.

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Why go through the messiness of a war when you can just obliterate them and save yourself the trouble?

Because as resilient as I am, even I have limits. I would need an army at my side.

An army?

Shame, that. I thought you the type who didn't need large forces to accomplish something like that.

You underestimate the meat-bags that congregate here.

I fail to see what makes these meatbags any different than those from the thousands of other worlds I've sent to their flaming deaths.

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And that is where we are different. You seek destruction for destruction's sake. You destroy all you encounter. I simply fight for my people's survival.

We would like to have a planet to inhabit once the dust settles.

Then you too are little more than a meatbag in a metal body.

Disgusting.

I am the herald of my people's will. I am the next logical step on the evolutionary ladder, and I am more than a match for you.

Watch your words.

[ Snort ]

I see no creature worth fearing.

Nor do you truly see me.

This is but a shell, mere clothing I can exchange at a whim.

I don't recall saying I cared a whit for your tastes in fashion.

You should, since I've taken an interest in yours.

[Sigma shows no sign of moving, but begins transmitting the Sigma Virus in Terra's direction. He's not sure whether it'll work or not, given the alien origins, but he figures he'd give it a shot and see just what havoc he can wreak on Terra's internal systems.]

[ In return, that virus will get a front row seat to a firewall loaded with extraterrestrial glyphs developed who knows how long ago by God only knows who. ]

Shouldn't you at least ask me on a...what's it called...date before you start trying to give me diseases of that sort?

[Hrm, worth a shot.]

A disease? Hardly. It is the gift of enlightenment.

[X has had enough of your shit, Sigma.]

One. Never, in the history of our world's robotics was any Robot Master or Reploid forced to fight each other. Not even in the tournament headed by Mr. X. Everyone that fought chose to, no matter which side, no matter if they had been reprogrammed.

Two. No, it's not just, and it's not right. I know how bad humans can be, but I also know how good they are. I'm sick and tired of you only pointing out the vile ones to justify your murderous rebellions, rebellions that cost so many innocent lives that you would claim to be doing a favor for.

[He's snarling now.]

Three. You try to bring your war in here and I can guarantee that I, the others in my mun's headspace, and whoever else decides to join us, will bring you down like a ton of bricks.

[Sigma tosses a USB drive with the details on the project to X without saying anything. ~~Don't ask where he got it.~~]

Then see with your own eyes, X. That drive houses what the humans called a "Plume of Dusk"... a prototype of our DNA cores.

I want you to see what they saw, experience what they experienced as they fought and killed their siblings, only to have the souls of the dead forcibly loaded onto their minds. As if that weren't enough, it contains memories that point to the basis of their personalities being based on a dying child.

They took the mind of a child - a child that was told she would be helping others - split it between early Reploids, and forced them to kill one another. I want you to watch through the eyes of one who has been there as they are forced to choke the lives out of their best friends.

Only then will you be able to understand what this girl went through, and what I have been forced to do as leader of the Hunters.

[The main reason Vile survived as a Hunter was because Sigma couldn't bring himself to execute his best friend, despite the collateral damage and blatant Maverick behavior.]

[OOC: PM me if you wanna see exactly what's on the drive. I can hunt up the story on Youtube I think...]

[X doesn't want to believe it. After all, everything that had to do with reploids came from Dr. Light, didn't it? But no, he knows that's not true. If the prototype was something that came from Dr. Wily, X wouldn't put it past the man to test it out before moving on with Zero's creation.]

[The first rebellion still stings. Sigma wasn't the only one who had to fight former comrades. X clutches the drive in his hand, silent, wondering if just this once he should even consider trusting his greatest enemy's word.]

You need not fear my corruption on the drive. I would not taint the soul of the fallen with any outside influences. Besides, you have proven yourself immune to my gift anyway. You have no barriers limiting your actions, other than your own misguided sense of justice.

[X connects to the drive and views the data patiently, taking in everything. Eventually, there are tears shining in his eyes once he reaches the end.]

You know this has only strengthened my resolve, Sigma. We don't know the researchers' original intentions, whether or not they were benign. Perhaps they were. With time, things go sour, goals change, sometimes for the worse for everyone involved. And it's always the innocents who pay the price.

[He hands the drive back to Sigma.] I understand you feel for that little girl. So do I. I even feel sorry for those scientists who made the mistake of viewing their machines as nothing but tools and weapons. In that regard, you, Zero, and I are very lucky. We were able to have a kind and loving father figure in Dr. Cain.

So many deserve to know that kind of happiness, but wiping out the humans isn't the answer. They're not all damnable. The actions of a select few don't even begin to describe humanity. You and I both know that.

[If Sigma had the capacity, he would've too.]

Benign!? I don't care what the original intention was, nothing can justify that level of brutality. From what I am able to glean from my mundane's thoughts, these 'Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapons' were developed as enforcers as scientists conducted inhumane experiences on beings they did not fully understand to bring about a catastrophe that would burn their society to the ground.

Is that enough justification for you, X? If anything, this should prove one singular truth: humans and Reploids cannot live in peace. This is war, X. In war, there are no innocents, just warriors and bystanders.

As for Cain... [Sigma snorts, taking back the drive and storing it in a compartment in his chest.] I was his puppet. I danced at his strings. You know he ordered me to eliminate Vile on a number of occasions. I refused and Cain put more limiters on me, distrusting me. He did not see me as anything more than a tool to be used to impose his version of 'order.' I was the flawed son, the one he could control. Of course I could never live up to the expectations he placed on me because of that. He compared me to you every waking moment while preventing me from living up to my own potential.

I'm glad that I was given a chance to pay my 'father' a visit while you and Zero were busy with Doppler.

But you have to keep in mind, that world isn't ours. You have no idea how much better things are between humans and Reploids, do you? We were actually making progress, making efforts for more progress, until your little protege Lumine decided to take over the Orbital Elevator and have eight underlings wreak havoc.

We're not in a war anymore. It's done. There are little scrapes now and then, but not all-out war.

[X's face falls at what Cain did. He doesn't bother to try and convince Sigma otherwise, mainly because he wasn't that personally involved with the Hunters back in those days. If it was true, he felt it was because Cain worried about Sigma and whether or not he was working correctly. He frowns at the mention of the "visit" and gives Sigma a glare, but that's it.]

...Can't believe I'm gonna say this... Sigma, for what it's worth, I'm sorry.

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Mun's been looking into the origins of Persona 4 Arena's Labrys. ...Sigma is not amused.

I dunno what I'm doing

lol I don't either half the time.

three cheers for winging it!

Woot woot woot~!

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Y'all really know how to ruffle some feathers |3

Indeedy he does. :3

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X is having all kinds of feels, now

That was kind of the point.

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