The Business of War

Dr. Wily War Journals 5


HOW MUCH LONGER?

December 17th, 20XX
3:35 PM

«Déjà vu,» Saturn thought. Once again, the graceful Pseudo-Human found himself sitting in a dark corner in Skull Castle calling the other Cosmic Gladiators after meeting Hyper Storm.H. It was too weird, he thought, but he decided to cut to the chase and call Pluto again.

"Pluto?" he said, shocked by the visual on the screen. "What happened to you?"

"The Neostardroid armor got destroyed while we were in Rome," Pluto replied, "so I had t' replace it with parts from the Sagittarius and fight in this in Kaliningrad."

"I'm so sorry," Saturn replied sympathetically. "I wish you'd been as lucky as me, all I got was a lost hand and a few deep marks here and there, I was almost destroyed in Lisbon. Wily repaired them all now, but… I fought Hyper Storm.H again, like I did in Mexico City. But I don't get— why's everyone spreading rumors and thinking Mars knows the guy?"

"He does," Pluto explained. "I don't know how, but they do know each other, 'n' knowing an SA operative's definitely enough to not trust someone."

"But the Scissor Bastards just brainwashed the Mercs, right?" Saturn asked back. "They couldn't've joined that psychopath by choice, I don't think… Besides which, I wanna know if they stopped spreading those rumors about us."

"Not really," Pluto corrected. "I guess Hyper Storm being in the RPD isn't THAT much better than the SA in these guys' books. But anyway, if losing my Neo armor wasn't enough, Mercury is DEAD."

Saturn's eyes grew wide.

"Wraithman killed him" was added after a brief pause.

"Was this also in Rome?" Saturn asked.

"Yeah," came the feline Stardroid's reply.

"I wish I'd been there," Saturn answered apologetically. "I should've been there. Now I'm starting to question why I didn't bring up leaving for Wily with the whole team. Plus I worked with the Comrades in St. Petersburg but I wanted to tell them so bad that he's on Wily's side. I think they had a right to know, but… I just couldn't tell them."

He paused for a moment.

"Pluto, I… I'm just so sorry. I'm sorry I ever left Cossack."

" 'Sorry' isn't gonna replace all the missing armor and Mercury," Pluto replied. "And now the SA's coming to Cossack's place for a little party."

Saturn tensed. «First Mercury, and now the rest of them,» he thought. «I don't know if Mercury would still be alive if I'd been there. Or would I have been destroyed? I don't…»

The ringed robot's face fell. "I wish I could do something to help this time," he spoke softly, but began to raise his voice as he continued. "But Wily's probably got something for me to do and the Scissor Bastards're almost halfway around the world. I HATE how the war's turning out!" He then closed communications with the Stardroids.

"I HATE how we're losing so hard to the General," Saturn raved, "I HATE the Scissor Bastards and I HATE to think about how much damage they've DONE! FUCK THEM ALL!"

The wielder of Black Holes then stood up and tried his best to compose himself.

"One more time," he said to himself, his fists clenched and his head bowed slightly. "Just one more time, then I'm gonna go back."

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