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[Fiona is a little out of breath, like she just hustled very quickly away from somewhere. Which she did, but that's neither here nor there. The background behind her is some innocuous wood panelling; she's in a house.]

Okay. So. Crunch time. Things are getting nuts out there, if you didn't notice. We are gonna wind up super screwed if we don't hop to figuring out what the hell to do.

[She holds up a vial. It has some alien writing on it, as well as a familiar symbol on the label.]

We found this inside the hospital. A shit-ton of them, actually. So who wants to find out what Zymandis asshole is responsible for this mess and beat an antidote out of them?



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[aspearation]

Hey, not so fast there!

[ ...she doesn't know what else to say, okay. She knows how Koltira does. She knows. But she has to say something. ]

Don't you think we should at least question him or something first??

[respired]

And ask what? If we don't have a cure by the time he's found, perhaps that is something to consider. But either way, he will not escape.

[ex_mettacrusher33]

I appreciate the gumption, tiger, but darlingest Undyne has a point. If he doesn't have a cure, he may at least know the objectives behind what they've done, HOW they made this virus so we could prevent it from spreading, who in Woodhurst was working with him and why...

That's good motivation on your part, though. You're a shoe-in for one of our Bad Cops.

[respired]

My name is not 'tiger'.

We know their objectives. Destruction. I require little else.

[ex_mettacrusher33]

I'm sure you don't! But hasn't anyone told you that there's no "I" in "team", puma-darling?

[respired]

That is also not my name.

[ He narrows his eyes. ]

I will not risk anyone--on this team or otherwise--so that the rest of you can feel more comfortable about letting a vile agent of evil live. The agents in Perdition's Rest were not forthcoming. Presuming that this one will be is soft thinking. I have no time for it.

[ex_mettacrusher33]

...

[How noble. Mettaton's touched. Really, he is! He's so touched he could even... sing.

Which he does.]

Easy now
Hush, love, hush
Don't distress yourself; What's your rush?
Keep your thoughts
Nice and lush
Wait

Slow, love, slow
Think it through
Once it bubbles, then what's to do?
Watch it close
Let it brew
Wait

[conqueress]

He is the one agent in this city known to us. Find him, if that is your wish, but his confessions may be of great use to us still. Mettaton has the right of it.

[ And that is for the short term. For the long term: ]

We will meet Zymandis again. We had best gather what tidings we can.

[respired]

I will, if I can.

[ He shakes his head. ]

We know what they want of this world, and of every other world besides. I will not be wasting time.

[conqueress]

[ Her nostrils flare at the dismissiveness, and only years of schooling her face into neutrality keep her pride at bay. Yet Koltira saved her life once, when she was young and afraid. He claimed that man is dead now, but she does not forget. ]

It is not enough.

Once you took up your sword in vengeance for the Nalawi. Take it up now for us, and the people of Woodhust. If there is some antidote to be found, we must relieve him of his secrets, to start. That much justice at least is owed to the infected.

[ And so it is not for his life that they argue. ]

It is for their sake that I would stay your hand.

[respired]

We have people enough set to that task. Otherwise I let them take my blood for nothing, which I dearly hope is not the case.

[ But he's not totally unreasonable, and she's not treating him like an idiot child, so -- ]

If you or the others devise some quick method of pulling answers from him, I would allow this, even if I find him first. But I will not let him escape this planet with his life. His blood will be justice for the dead and the afflicted. The justice of the grave.

[conqueress]

I have learned even a hundred eyes may look and fail to see what two have hidden. It may be he carries a missing piece.

[ She's letting their hard-working people on the inside off the hook for that one. Just because they have not yet succeeded does not mean that they will not. ]

Loki bears a sword of truth. There are many among us who are skilled at putting men to the question, I'm certain. Swiftly.

[ The rest, she does not touch. She is a queen and he a knight, but she is not his queen. She has grown more shrewd in her battles, and small victories are enough, for now. ]

[aspearation]

He could have more than a cure! Like information, or something else we need that we don't know we need yet. I don't know what, but he could!

[ She's loathe to say this, but... ]

You can murder him later, let's just not be too hasty, alright? And that's coming from me!

[respired]

What makes you think he will offer that information willingly? Or at all?

[aspearation]

[ . . . ]

I didn't actually say willingly.

[ Even if it should be implied, since it's her. ]

If it were me though, and a bunch of people were threatening me with death by elf if I didn't talk, I'd tell them everything I had, too!

[respired]

[ He raises an eyebrow. ]

How far are you willing to go, Undyne?

[aspearation]

[ She starts her reply like she's ready to say something, but stops herself, takes a few moments, and heaves a sigh. ]

I want to do what's going to save the most people, and preferably the innocent ones.

The guilty ones... I'll give them a chance. But hey, I have my limits too.

[moneyballer]

Maybe we ask questions first, shank him later?

[do not stick your white girl nose in2 this-]

Huh? Whaddya say?

Sounds like a plan to me.

[respired]

Ask what? We have our own work on the cure. We need nothing else from him.

[ He grows increasingly frustrated. ]

I will not allow evil to flourish so that the rest of you can waste time.

[moneyballer]

Whoa, hey, hey, hey.

I'm with you on this one. This shit right here? This Night of the Living Dead garbage? It's awful, dude. I feel ya! If one guy really is responsible for all this, he deserves whatever he's got comin' to him.

[He tilts his chin downwards, as if he's not trying to start a fight.]

Would you hear me out, for a sec?

[respired]

[ He folds his arms over his chest. He's already agitated by the responses so far, and by people elsewhere TALKING LIKE HE ISN'T THERE. ]

Go on.

[moneyballer]

[Koltira's gaze is terrifying, not because of what he can do-]

There's a chance that whoever started this is a part of a bigger picture.

[But because of what he will and won't believe.]

If we kill him outright, whose to say this won't happen again?

I know, I know, it might! Even if we try to find somethin' out.

There's no guarantee he or she or it or what the hell ever will even talk, or tell the truth, but it's a worth a shot.

[He does his best not to be condescending in tone, keeping his voice level.]

It'd suck if they did this somewhere else, in another universe.

I'm super bummed about everything that's been goin' on. Isn't that why you're mad too, bruh?

[hedonistic]

What's the rush? We could always crush their limbs so they can't escape, see what we can get out of 'em and finish the job after. Plus, if you're into the whole retribution part, just slitting his throat is a bit clean and easy, right?

[...A bit dark, perhaps, but--Kagari never claimed to be a good person.]

[respired]

[ He neither likes nor has a high tolerance for Kagari at this point--seeing as how the guy has been nothing but disrespectful and invasive--so Koltira doesn't have a lot of tolerance for this remark. ]

I have no personal desire to 'get' anything out of him. Nor do I wish to torture him. He is simply a threat that must be neutralized.

[hedonistic]

Don't get me wrong, I'm with you on the neutralizing part--

[That's how it's generally done in Japan, too. When a suspect resists arrest, you fire the Dominator first and ask questions later. It falls to Sybil's hands whether they live or die. Of course, that final part is different here, but Kagari doesn't particularly have compunctions about doing it nonetheless.]

But we don't lose anything trying to see if we can find out who else is involved in this whole mess, either. End result, he's still gonna be dead. Kinda doubt one asshole can pull all this off on their own, anyway. There's probably other threats that are gonna need neutralizing.