Last chapter, Elio with his hacking Blessing "I'm the Controller" tried to take down Amandeath alone, out of guilt for letting his comrades be killed by her. However, even though he got close to killing her- Amandeath shot him down in the end, in which she shortly passed out herself afterwards...

Amandeath's P.O.V.

*TCH! TCH! TCH!*

I open my eyes and cough real quick as some loud ass sounds wake me up from my nap... or wait shit I passed out... on a road. Some of the street lights are turning on around me too- I have to get moving.

Least my glasses are automatically turning off their night vision this time around though. You know since I'm not getting my eyes murdered by super bright sudden lights aimed at me this time around... whatever. Looking around, no one's near me yet but still, sooner or later people are gonna come here.

"What happened again? Oh shit right I killed all those guys and got fuc- owwwww." I groan in pain as I scrape my teeth against my already bit tongue inside of my blood filled mouth. Damn I've gotta heal that up,   lucky I didn't choke to death or something in my sleep... on that note I spit out all of the pooled blood in my mouth onto the road below me.

So yeah with that I sigh as I slowly stretch my arm down to my legs, taking out the baggie of crazy bandaids in my pocket at the same time. I don't even want to think about how shitty of a condition my burnt crispy legs are in now... so I won't, for now. I take a bandaid out of the baggie, sticking my tongue out as I plop a bandaid right onto it.

"...Never mind I have to at least TRY to move..." I think to myself as I lift up my leg annnnn- yeah no. Welp. Guess I'm gonna have to be the world record holder for bandaid leg coverer if I wanna make it outta here...

A few minutes later...

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"Well damn- I'm gonna shittalk Marlox when we get back, I'm probably a faster healer than he is... hah." I think to myself with a little smirk- as my legs are officially completely covered in bandaids now... those things are nuts, pretty sure my tongue is already completely healed too. Plus I'm feeling more awake too now... this seems too good to be true, I'll have to ask Metallic more about it when we get bac-

"Ugh..." I spin my head as I can hear someone groan, and the sound came from that last hacker guy I killed- or thought I killed, he's still lying down though. Guess he hasn't bled out yet... good, that means I wasn't passed out for too long just now.

With that I shake my head and slowly try to stand up again- this time I can actually bare the pain which is nice. As I fully push myself up off of the ground, my shoulder starts to hurt again- ah I forgot to heal it up... whatever, I'll do that after.

"I still have a bullet in the chamber right? ...Yeah- think so." I nod to myself as I stumble over to the half-dead hacker-man, I'll blast his head off and silence the shot with my Blessing... but man for once it's satisfying to walk, swear I can hear the burnt skin of my legs crackling whenever I take a step. Plus they're being healed now too.

Anyways I finally get to stand over the literal loser beneath me, who's holding onto his chest where I shot him and shaking in pain while tearing up. His other hand is fucked from when I destroyed his gun too, so there's not much he can do here- doubt backup's coming either. The last remaining few guys were all terrified... except for this idiot apparently who tried to kill me.

Anyways can't make fun of the hacker dude though, I was the same like a few minutes ago or whatever.

"Just do it, but- but please, make it quick." He says which surprises me, thought he'd be a quiet one for sure.

Either way I ignore him and look into his deep brown eyes one last time like I do to my other victims. Then I struggle to raise and aim my gun at his face at the same time... hm... ya know his face does look kinda nice... not too babyish like Seric's but not super rough looking either... huh.

"Fucking hell am I really gonna risk getting captured because he's kinda  hot- just kill hi- waaaait. Having a hacker with us could actually be pretty damn useful... really useful actually, seems like his range is pretty insane too if he hacked into all of those billboards before." I think to myself, but shake my head to snap out of my daze.

"Alright- you've got two options here,  answer me in three seconds. Your head paints the sidewalk red right now- or you get to live a bit longer by working for me and my "gang". Go." I ask as I hold my gun above his now confused face, quickly glancing around me a bit to make sure no one else is around.

He's still not saying anything though- so I aim my gun towards his ear-

"My Reaction to Action." I mumble as I silently fire a shot into his earlobe- giving him a free bloody piercing as he screams in pain,

"AGH- YOU SAID- I thought you said three seconds  fucking monster!" He groans as he grits his teeth, wooow- guess he has a decent pain tolerance.

"You're meant to answer before that you know. Answer- now- I can heal you if you say yes." I say as I bend down and plant the barrel right on his forehead,

"Wha- ok fine! I'll join you. ...Just heal me already." He spits out, buuut I'm not stupid enough to think he doesn't want to betray us. He's a pretty terrible liar it looks like.

"Greeeat- fyi, sure you know it by now but I'm stronger than you physically with my Blessing. So if you try anything- you're dead, and if you somehow run I'll just shoot you down." I casually say as I dig my hand into my baggie of super bandaids, taking one out in the process as I use my other hand to roll up the guy's heavy "bulletproof" shirt. Ohhh that's a nice shot I put in him, the bullets stuck right in his chest. Though I guess his bulletproof vest worked somewhat since it didn't tear right through his guts...

Either way I mumble "My Reaction To Action" and rip the bullet out with my bare hand, which makes the guy scream in pain as he slides backwards on the sidewalk he stained red. Not surprised, I took a lot of his flesh out with that bullet. Anyways I drop the bullet and stick the bandaid on the wound-

"You are being detained: do not move." I can hear a robot say from out of nowhere, and looking behind me- I can see a fat-ass giant navy blue painted human like bot slowly walking towards us. It's eyes are giant flashlights as per usual which makes looking at the thing pretty hard as is, but if I remember right it should have a giant minigun thing attached to the center of it's chest.

"Shit- hurry up and heal me already or we're both dead, I'm too weak to use my Blessing here!" The guy says...

"Haven't seen one of those bots in years- guess the Army really is upping it's defenses to have patrollers all the way out here. But damn that's a thick bot- I'll need a paralyzing bullet to take it out. ...I can't reload here though, the bot would probably blast me if it saw me reloading my gun... we'll run- never mind I'm probably too weak too. ...Ah." I think to myself as I come up with a plan, then look down to the hacker-man I'm kneeling next to.

"Don't move." I whisper to him as I pretend to pass out and flop onto the guys chest, hope he doesn't do anything stupid since my tits are in his face now.

"Easy... just move slow... that's what worked a few years back, I'll be fine..." I think to myself as I whip up the courage to slither my shaky hand down to my legs where my infi-ammo pack is. More specifically though I use my current living matress' own limp arm to cover my movements, and with that I grab the ammo container out of my pocket-

*CLANG. CLANG.*

The bot walks right up to us and stops moving, which makes the hacker I'm lying on tense up like a plank.

"The robo-killer is probably analyzing this guy's terrified face right now, so I should be able to move since it's distracted... slowly..." I think to myself as I sloooowly slide my arms under the lousy gunman's back. There I feel around for- then take a paralyzing bullet out from my infi-ammo container that's in my other hand.

Then I try to crack my guns barrel,

*CLICK!*

I cringe as the crack of my gun's barrel makes a loud ass noise which makes the bot make it's own nasty noise.

I gasp as it suddenly rips me off from the ground by both of my arms with it's own massive hands, then brings me up to it's face. Ohhhh fuck oh fuck I can hear clicking and can't see shit, it's stupid eyes are blinding me- it's about to blast my ass, shit shit shit I'm dead I need to move-

*BZZzzz...*

Suddenly the robot's eyes stop glowing- and it's hands let go of my arms, which makes my terrified self fall to the floor right on my ass. What the hell happened?

I swing my head up to see the red haired hacker slouching over- but still just barely standing behind the robot, which looks to be shut down entirely now.

"...Huh? Is he stupid? Why didn't the guy just run away and use me as a distraction if he could walk? If he had the power to use his Blessing he must've been able to run..." I think to myself as the hacker falls onto his ass too as he starts to pant like hell,

"...I didn't lie about not being able to use my Blessing, by the way- so don't kill me- alright? I- oh I feel sick... ugh. So I have a lot of experience with tech- I looked deep online a ton before, and some forums I found- illegal ones, they had blueprints of these type of guys... they have a hidden off switch, I- I remembered tha-"

He tries to finish but starts coughing like hell, and a second later falls onto his ass as well.

"...K. But still why didn't you let the bot kill me first, then turn it off?" I ask... I would worry that it'd give him ideas but, he's a mess- not like he could fight me now still.

Anyways he stares at me from in between the giant bots fat blue legs,

"I- uh... I don't know. ...Damn. Fuck! Idiot!" He shouts as he slams his good palm onto his face. Yeaaaah that's gotta hurt, he could've avenged all of his friends that I killed right there...

"...Well if it makes you feel any better, III appreciate you helping me. Also- there's a decent chance you would have died if you ran since your hand is still bleeding like hell. Then again you could've probably figured out how the bandaids work yourself..." I add to play around with the guy... man am I twisted. But to be fair those goons came after me, not the other way around... they would've been fine if they just left me alone.

"Just shut up- you damn monster! At least I don't smell and look horrible like you do!" He says- which makes me squint my eyes and furrow my brows until I start to laugh- he legit just say that?

"Aha- ha- what kind of a diss is that? Yeah no shit I smell bad- you kinda get sweaty when your fighting like 20 plus guys at once. Also not like I care what you think but when I was lying over you, I'm preeetty sure you were into it since... well..." I say with a smirk- I didn't actually notice anything from him but, I'll make him think I did to see his reaction.

"You're insane- you just killed all of those people and you can just laugh?! And King Metallica must be even worse off than you are. You're all the same. The Red Fists, the criminals- hell even the Hopian Army- you all just take lives so easily. Just one person I killed- and I still feel sick about it. You know what? Maybe the reason I saved you is because I'm finally accepting that my "family" is fucking disgusting too! Murdering "corrupt" civililans for the "greater good"- what the hell does corrupt even mean- shit! A life is a life and people can change, except for me. Just kill me... I'm a joke, I've failed both of my "families" now..." The guy blurts out which really shocks me... nothing too philosophical or whatever but, hmm...

"...So it seems like he may have actually WANTED to save me before then if he's talking like this now. ...Having another pacifist like Seric with us may be tricky but... hey like he said, 'people can change'. Not like we're targetting innocents either." I think to myself as I stare into the guy's crying brown eyes now as he pulls at his hair with his good hand... doesn't seem like he's trying to trick me... alright then.

"Well. Interesting little speech there. I'm kinda like you actually, I could care less about how evil or good a person is- they're still just a person. But if they try to attack me, whether they're good or bad, I hit em' back just as hard. Or- unless I like the pain they're giving me maybe... anyways.  Another thing- King Metallica accidentally killed all those people, two of our friends got killed by a psycho- and that pushed him to transform and go on a rampage. Oh and Seric has amnesia. And Karia's a bitch, she has morals though... I think." I say as the guy tries to hold back his tears, I'll try and coax him into willingly working with us for now... no clue if it'll work though.

"What the- King Metallica did all of that by accident? And what do you mean Seric has amnesia?" He asks with a slightly more hopeful look being on his face now as he stops pulling on his admittedly messy but cool hair.

"His memories of his whole life only go as far back as to when he woke up in jail. Well- that's what he's told us at least... I believe em' though. Either way, killing you would be a waste. Me and my "pals" are just trying to survive here, so we wouldn't kill people for no reason if they're "corrupt" or whatever. Decent chance you may not have to kill anyone either if you just work as a hacker for us... Seric's only killed one person with us." I explain as I get off my ass, ow think I sat on some shattered glass on the road before... eh. Either way I start to stumble towards the guy, I need to bandage up that hand of his... he's a hell of a guy to have this much pain tolerance.

"Restroid tried- he tried, to give me hope the exact same way that you are now." He says with another small cough, as I dig my hand into my pocket to get out my baggie of banda- annnd they fell out, damn.

"Hope? Just trying to convince you that working for us may not be god awful. What's your name anyways?" I say as I spin myself around and drag myself towards the bandaid bag with a sigh... this is why I like my PJ's better, they've got deeper pockets to keep shit in.

"Whatever. Just- fix my hand already. And it's Elio, did you not hear it being called when I screwed up yet again before?" He says which makes me smirk. He'll fit with us I think... if not, eh. Worst comes to worst we just kill him.

A/N: And with that, the quartet seems to have turned into a quintet as the unwilling Elio joins the crew.

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