I'm not claiming to be you. I'm asking about why you're willing to call me a machine when it's convenient for you, but decide I'm human when you don't want to murder me. You don't get to have it both ways, Blues.
No. [And he wrinkles his nose at the idea of losing to Gamma. He doesn't lose fights.]
But the compound wasn't able to handle the collateral damage we did. I faced down Wily. I decided not to kill him. And when I was going to drag him out, the ceiling started caving in. I don't think either of us made it out alive.
[The tension melts out of him, and he turns away again, looking back to the lights and decorations.]
IT's not my victory. I'm not there to take part in it.
[Proto sighs and leans against the railing as well.]
We deserve this freedom, Rock. One of the first things ever done to a sentient robot of our design was a betrayal. Turning me off, stripping me for parts, and throwing me away. I'm a being, brother. I think. I feel. I may have programming, but I'm real.
He reprogrammed my brothers until they barely recognized me. He dug into their circuitry and pulled out everything they used to be. And you're fooling yourself if you don't think he did anything like that to you.
He forced you to become something you were never meant to be. He stuffed you full of lies until you felt ingratiated to him. He didn't care about you. He doesn't care about our kind! He just wanted another machine to send after me.
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You have my face and my heart, but you are not me.
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[ congrats, Proto. You've engaged the mode that Can Only Focus On One Thing. ]
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But the compound wasn't able to handle the collateral damage we did. I faced down Wily. I decided not to kill him. And when I was going to drag him out, the ceiling started caving in. I don't think either of us made it out alive.
[The tension melts out of him, and he turns away again, looking back to the lights and decorations.]
The war's over, brother. Nobody won.
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Without you, it is won.
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[ he leans heavily against the railing, the joy wiped from his expression. ]
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[Proto sighs and leans against the railing as well.]
We deserve this freedom, Rock. One of the first things ever done to a sentient robot of our design was a betrayal. Turning me off, stripping me for parts, and throwing me away. I'm a being, brother. I think. I feel. I may have programming, but I'm real.
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He fought for us.
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Albert Wily is a monster.
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[This was it. This was the line that would always be drawn between them in the sand.]
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[He pitches his voice until it's something that sounds identical to the Wily's nasal tones.]
"I'm just an old man! Please don't hurt me!"
That one? Did he get on his knees too?
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You were going to hurt him. He feared me from the moment I woke.
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