Story/Emergency 9-2 (Part2)/Script

[...Two hours later.]

M4 SOPMOD II: RO…?

RO635: Are you awake?

M4 SOPMOD II: How long has it been?

RO635: Around…two hours?

M4 SOPMOD II: Has it been that long already? …What are you doing?

RO635: A small transmitter was installed on M16’s case, right?
I’m trying to amplify its signal. The Commander must be looking for us, so if we can get in touch then we’ll have a chance at escape.

M4 SOPMOD II: Really? You can do stuff like that?

RO635: Well, I certainly must be better than you in some respects if I’m weaker when it comes to stamina.
Alright, I guess we’ll need to wait some time for it to recharge.

M4 SOPMOD II: This needs recharging?

RO635: Transmitting a powerful signal does require a certain amount of energy.
I’m slowly transferring energy from my backup battery so that I won’t collapse while charging it.

M4 SOPMOD II: S-sounds very high tech. The AR Team has never done something like this before; this is probably the first time.

RO635: Haha, then I’m honored to be the first.
Ah right, why don’t you tell me stories about the AR Team? We’re gonna have to wait a while anyway.

M4 SOPMOD II: Hmm...
Past stories huh? Let me think.
Ah, I thought of something!
I remember when the AR Team had our first exercise, and it was a complete disaster!

...We spent a total of five hours.
M4A1 along wasted us two hours on correcting her orders.
In those two hours, we entered the wrong rooms, spent 20 minutes wading through cold water, shot the wrong targets, and broke three clocks that happened to chime and startle M4.

RO635: Wow… That’s really out of my expectations. Even an average T-Doll team leader wouldn’t make so many mistakes in one exercise...

M4 SOPMOD II: Probably because she was a new model of command-type T-Doll. You know, we thought we had joined an elite squad only to realize that the leader was such an unreliable person.
And AR15 is…you know, the type to value results the most, and she had hatred written all over her face by the end of it.
M4 was so frightened, so she kept asking M16 what to do since M16 was the only one willing to talk to her.
M16 told M4 not to worry about AR15, because she would make even more mistakes and anger even more people if she dwelled on it.
M4 stayed silent for a while, then told M16 that she couldn’t do that because it wouldn’t solve the problem.
So she went over to AR15 to apologize and said it wasn’t on purpose. AR15 just glared at her and said, “You should’ve listened to M16” and walked away.
M4 was super frightened and probably wanted to return and explain to M16, so she immediately turned around. She forgot that M16 was right behind her and ended up crashing straight into M16.
And the worst part was that M4’s gun stock smacked into M16’s stomach!

RO635: Ouch…that must’ve hurt.

M4 SOPMOD II: Yeah, pretty sure no one had seen M16 make an expression like that before.
Then, M16 gritted her teeth and said, “Look, now you’ve made an even bigger mistake of pissing me off.”

RO635: Haha, so did you guys manage to complete that exercise?

M4 SOPMOD II: We barely made it. Just at the end...and this is the best part, you gotta listen to this!

RO635: What?

M4 SOPMOD II: M4 did something so shocking that we all ended up in tears!

RO635: Everyone? Did she do something touching?

M4 SOPMOD II: Well…she messed up with the tear gas grenade.
We were about to destroy the final target, but M4 was so nervous…
She made a mistake and tossed that thing out while we were all firing. What’s worse is that she miscalculated the angle, so...it bounced back at us.

RO635: Hey…that’s not really a mistake a Doll is capable of making.

M4 SOPMOD II: So we were all up the creek without a paddle. Everyone ended up crying their hearts out in the tear gas.
AR15 was crying while trying to smack M4, you know? She was seriously trying to hit her...
But she couldn’t see properly, so she stuck her arm out and yelled, “M4! You idiot!”
“You’re hopeless! Your brain is biowaste just like a lobster! I’m going to grab you by the collar and smack that idiocy out of your neural cloud once I catch you! Once I catch you!”
Then M16 said, “Now, now, AR15. We got the target at least. Besides, M4’s shirt doesn’t even have a collar, so you’ll only be able to yank her hair like how human females fight.”

RO635: Haha, I’ve seen that happen several times in my old team over a bag of rations or some bottles of water...
Was M16 crying too?

M4 SOPMOD II: Of course. This was probably the only time M16 ever cried so much, but I wasn’t able to see clearly.
That’s because I was crying too, but I was also laughing at the same time… Yeah, don’t you think it was super funny?
Everyone was so serious before the exercise. It was only when everyone was wailing and sniffling that I felt they were just like me.

RO635: Then what about M4? Did she do anything while she was crying?

M4 SOPMOD II: She didn’t do anything at all!
But she was the only one seriously crying, and the loudest one as well. She kept saying, “It’s my fault, it’s my fault! I’m sorry!”
She was just like a bullied kid I once saw in a movie. I have no idea how she managed to emulate the look so perfectly!
It was super embarrassing how our leader was so useless! And making fools out of the rest of us as well, hahaha! I would love to see it happen again!
Hahaha…
Ha...
......
Though...it’s probably impossible at this point...

RO635: SOP II…
It’s still possible. M16 must be waiting for us somewhere, and AR15… Well, many things are still unconfirmed, right?
As long as we survive, there will surely be a way in the future.

M4 SOPMOD II: Yeah… RO, why do you think we have emotion modules?

RO635: About that...

M4 SOPMOD II: I once asked M16. She said maybe it is to prove that we aren’t simply killing machines.
We possess emotions, so we’re different from those cold, emotionless military Dolls...
But some people also said that emotions are our weakness and a proof of our defectiveness…
What do you think? Does the fact that we possess emotions...mean that we are defective?

RO635: I don’t know...
But emotion modules are something humans gave to us. No one would intentionally make their own products defective, right?
So…there must be some meaning to all of this.

M4 SOPMOD II: Maybe they just thought that it’d be funny to do so. Maybe they don’t really care about us.

RO635: Heh, if they really didn’t care about us, we’d be free.
Without an objective, there would be no order. That’s what Makarov said to me after returning from a night mission one time.

M4 SOPMOD II: Wow… RO, that’s…an interesting way of thinking.
At the very least, I don’t regret being equipped with an emotion module. It’s thanks to this module that I can keep AR15 and M16 close to my heart and work hard toward reuniting with them.

RO635: Yeah...
Unfortunately…emotions aren’t gonna help right now. What we need to do is survive.

We absolutely...have to survive.