"Surprising. If I knew it was you who saved my brothers, I wouldn't have waited to meet you at all." he said, satisfied of my arrival no doubt. I really was scared shitless and surprised that I blindly yet willingly drove right into Pro Forma's doorstep.
"I didn't know." That's all I said to him, 'I didn't know.' No explanation, no other words besides the simple phrase 'I didn't know,' and it bugged me soon afterward. It wasn't a lie, at the very least, but at the time I couldn't think of anything else to add.
"Well you saved random and injured poleepkwa and brought them home. In the short time we have met it seems all you want to do is help us.."
That triggered a nasty response I had. I didn't realize until much later who hurt them. So, I told him "I don't even know who all of you are in the first place. I'm the one who made them crash, so I stopped them. If I knew any better then I would never have come to your help." At the end I gave a slight squint, as in to tell him off.
"It was you made them crash?" he said. The leader was actually convincing, I wasn't sure if he did know, since he puts on devious acts most of the time. The leader continued with "Well, unless you did it on purpose, which I doubt you intended to cause a car crash, it doesn't change anything. You still have once again helped our cause. Now I owe you 2 favors, both of which have risen in less than 2 days. By now they should have captured you, but if they did then you must have had a revelation to escape from MNU, no doubt a reckless escape. That must be how you caused the car crash. Tell me: did you kill anyone in your escape?"
It was at that point that I realized how clever he can be. He knew that I would try to escape MNU's hold on me. That's why he knocked me unconscious. If I did escape then he must have thought that the only other place I could go to was him. He must have waited for me to come but was surprised that it was so soon, and that I didn't intend to flee right into the leader's plan. If it wasn't for the car crash then I would probably have outright joined his terrorism group for the sake of fear and protection. That's how the leader would have gotten me, but he didn't, and I wasn't going to let him convince me to join his group.
"No, I did neither. I didn't have my eyes open, it was my antennae. I escaped not to save myself but to save a little one. I overheard what they would do to me and I refused their offer. I know how dark MNU can be, and how abusive they can get, you didn't make me realize anything horrific about MNU. All you did was show me how selfless I can be."
The Pro Forma Leader got angry, I saw it in his face, which I thought was because I canceled his objective at the time. He got up, surprisingly without his grenade launcher, and circled around his desk only to walk toward me slowly.
"You're an MNU prawn; A drone slave for them. Why the hell would I insist that you need to know how stereotypically evil they are. I know how they turn us into traitorous drones and abuse our people. What I needed you to understand, just like all poleepkwa, is how you need to take action against them. Escaping, for example, but if you neglected to kill anyone then that facility is still up and running. You refused to do what's necessary and therefore accomplished much for yourself, you just found a will to take action, but couldn't take action."
"YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME!" I yelled as I punched him quickly in the face. It was instinctive and I couldn't help it. The leader didn't really move, he kept his stance, but he made me remember that large portion of my life about how I turned into an MNU drone. Those memories were almost forgotten some years after the process was complete. I just refused to think about it and go on with my life. He made me look back at my long, true, real life nightmare. Prepare yourself for a sad life because now I will tell what I went through. You will understand why I refused for so long to look back at my past, and how painful it is to even note it down for the public.