[The beginning of the end, though of course they hadn't known that the end had started a long time before then, started with the acquisition of an Alpha A.I. and the facilitation of a Beta protocol and a million other variables that he only learned about after the fact.]
[He's not witnessing irony. He's not sure if there's a word for what this is other than dread. Some part of him doesn't protest to this, to be handcuffed to the unit heavy, as if that would be enough to just anchor him in the spot before he takes a full magazine to the throat and gets a burning man downloaded into his brain as if that could ever make up for it.]
Guess this whole mission's gone a little off the rails, huh? [Try for a laugh, a nervous huff, like a rookie who's in over his head and knows it. Like someone who's in power armor a few marks lower than the suit he's currently wearing.]
[Like someone who has no idea what's coming for him, for them both, and that they'll both end up spent shells in one way or another.]
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[The beginning of the end, though of course they hadn't known that the end had started a long time before then, started with the acquisition of an Alpha A.I. and the facilitation of a Beta protocol and a million other variables that he only learned about after the fact.]
[He's not witnessing irony. He's not sure if there's a word for what this is other than dread. Some part of him doesn't protest to this, to be handcuffed to the unit heavy, as if that would be enough to just anchor him in the spot before he takes a full magazine to the throat and gets a burning man downloaded into his brain as if that could ever make up for it.]
Guess this whole mission's gone a little off the rails, huh? [Try for a laugh, a nervous huff, like a rookie who's in over his head and knows it. Like someone who's in power armor a few marks lower than the suit he's currently wearing.]
[Like someone who has no idea what's coming for him, for them both, and that they'll both end up spent shells in one way or another.]