As night fell most tdolls inside the Helicopter were taking a well deserved sleep.
yulil, M16 and Springfield stayed awake in case of intruder waking up and trying to do something dangerous.
"So mind introducing your former friend here to us, commander?" Springfield said curiously, as M16 started following the conversation.
"Hm~... heh, I've got a long story with her..."
"I don't mind, it's not like we can do a lot of things right now huh?"
"Alright alright, let's start from the beginning, When I first met her she was the kind of person who thought the world revolved around them you know? She had a really big ego, only cared about herself, to the point of leaving her teammates to die for her own good.
And she did just that when I tasked her and some other sangvis Ferri tdolls to patrol for terrorists, they got ambushed and intruder used her teammates to escape, when I noticed what she was doing through the videofeed I formed another echelon and deployed along with it to their rescue, we helped the ambushed tdolls and completed the patrol, but before arriving back to the base I grabbed intruder and headed towards some woods so we wouldn't be disturbed.
I gave her a verbal beating, to the point of her punching me straight in the face, hahah oh the good times... After that we fought until neither of us could stand, we both layed there, blood dripping from our faces, talking with each other, unable to move. I made her rethink about her mindset, that her teammates weren't just some pawns she could discard or sacrifice whenever she wanted to. Fast forward a bit, she became the nicest tdoll in the base, started caring more about her teammates, and got herself addicted to opera and theatrical plays, overall she's a really nice girl and the sangvis Ferri tdoll I was the closest to."
"Opera huh?, That's surprising from a ringleader" M16 replied "Don't forget they were just like you, they all liked and disliked different things, they're still the same... Well except the fetish for killing humans, that's a new one"
"Heh, we'll see when she wakes up" Springfield added.
After a while yulil got up at izuna's usual gesture and opened the sliding door, he could see some members of voodoo, stalker and hellfire all waiting for them at the helipad, he waved a them as the helicopter slowly descended.
He disembarked and greeted them.
"Boss!, We heard you got her alive, I knew you'd be able to, come here~" ak47 said as she put him in a headlock, messing with his hair. He sweeped her legs as she screamed and fell on her back.
"Always be on your guard" he said with a smug smile, offering his hand to get her up.
She looked at him for a bit before smirking and pulling him by his hand, making him fall on top of her.
"That also goes for you, boss~"
"Alright stop acting like kids you two, nice to see that you took care of the enemy ringleader" grizzly said as she pulled yulil away from her.
"Ah yes, im glad y'all survived, the plan worked perfectly didn't it?" He said with a smirk "Well that's what I expected from you, so no surprises for me" lee said "I'm glad y'all are safe too, I'll pick up intruder and put her in a safe place, if I find one" he said as he scratched his head trying to find a suitable room to dissuade her from escaping.
"don't worry master, I'll go talk about it with miss kalina" g36 Said "Thanks, that'd be great" yulil said as he went back inside the Heli to stay with intruder, waiting for g36 and kalina.
"We'll head over to prepare the celebration party, be careful commander, she lost her arms but she's still a ringleader" Springfield said.
"No problems, I'll be cautious"
And with that the tdolls went Inside the complex as yulil stayed alongside intruder, he kept staring at her armless body and remembered his time at sangvis Ferri and how much good memories he made with intruder and the other tdolls, now sworn to slaughter humanity.
After few minutes he noticed g36 alongside kalina jogging towards the helicopter.
"Glad to see you made it uninjured commander, good job on taking her down" kalina said "It wasn't easy, but we got through, anyway you got a safe place in mind to lock her in?"
"Actually yes, there's a small section of the base we don't use, in that section There's an empty room who's windows are blocked with metal bars and the door is made out of metal, strong enough to stop her... hopefully"
"Great then, let's see it" he said as he picked up intruder in his arms and started heading for the aforementioned room.
Yulil reached the room as he saw that the room in question was an old storage room, with a cell door made of metal, almost like a real prison cell, kalina unlocked the room with the keys as yulil got inside and gently dropped intruder, he then exited the room as kalina locked it behind him.
"Well, you're the commander so here's the key if you want to interrogate her when she wakes up" she said, handing him the cell key.
"Thanks, hopefully I'll get my answers"
"What are you two gonna do now?" Kalina asked yulil and g36.
"Ah, I'm going to see that celebration party they've been talking about, you two should join, it'll be fun"
"Ah I've got some papers to sort out sorry, but you two go have fun. I'll join if I finish early" kalina said as she started heading for her office, while g36 and yulil headed for the room the tdolls agreed to celebrate in.
As the pair got near the room they could hear a ton of noise coming inside it, laughter, chatter, yells.
"Oh boy... This is gonna be a long night"
"Don't overdrink, master" g36 said with a stern look "I'm not the one you should be worried about" yulil said as he opened the door.
The once barren room was now similar to a caf shop, with a counter that had long chairs, almost like a bar, and tables with chairs all around the room, he could see Springfield behind the counter serving drinks, wearing a bartender outfit below an apron.
"There You are~" M16 said as she put her arms around his shoulder, holding what seemed a cup full of whiskey, as he looked at her face he noticed that she was blushing from the amount of alcohol she drank.
"Holy hell, you got drunk already?!"
"Hey~... Stop judging me, look at everyone"
As yulil looked around the room he saw grizzly and AK-47 locking arms as they were dancing and turning around, a drink in each hand. Mosin and Lee also had a red face from the alcohol, they were sitting by a table as they enjoyed their drinks, sten and scorpion also looked drunk, they sat by another table. Finally he noticed that wa was by the counter talking with Springfield, those two seemed like the only ones who were sober in the cafe.
"Get a drink and join us! The rest of ar team should be coming now"
"Alright alright" he said as he headed towards the counter, he smiled at Springfield when she noticed him, before sitting down beside wa.
"Didn't expect you to have the cafe set up so quickly, Springfield"
"Fufu, we should thank miss kalina, she was overjoyed by the thought of having a caf in the base."
"And what about you wa, enjoying yourself?" He said, turning his attention towards her.
"It's noisy, smells of alcohol and everyone is acting like children" she said with her attention at her half full glass, before smiling at the cup when she finished talking.
"So you are~ enjoying yourself" he said with a smirk.
Wa turned her attention at yulil as a faint blush could be noticed by him and Springfield before she spoke up.
"I-im not, can't you understand basic language?" She said before drinking from her glass which made yulil and Springfield chuckle a bit.
"stupid commander." She muttered inside her glass.
"Glad to see you're as friendly as always... You're not gonna celebrate with the others Springfield?"he replied to wa before asking Springfield.
"Worried about me commander? Fufu, well I thought that it was my responsibility to run the caf since it was my idea"
"Ah, and you seem pretty confident, did you work as a bartender before joining Griffin?"
"only for a short period, I mainly worked at a caf shop, but I'm confident enough to handle the making of alcoholic drinks"
"Oh~ don't you think you're too confident Springfield?" Yulil said with a wink "Order and we'll see" Springfield replied with a confident smile.
"Alright, hm... Ah I know, I'll have a Sazerac"
"Fufu, sounds like you and miss M16 got the same taste in drinks" she said before she grabbed two old fashioned glasses, she grabbed the first one and mixed a sugar cube with a few drops of water, she then added multiple small ice cubes, rye whiskey and two different bitters, as to make the taste more bitter and sour, she stirred the content well, after that she focused in the second glass as she rolled a few drops of absinthe around the insides of the second glass, finally she strained the contents of the first glass into the second and added a twist of lemon peel.
She handed yulil his order with a big smug smile on her face as she noticed that he wasn't expecting this outcome.
He grabbed his glass and had a sip, he put the glass back on the counter and exhaled deeply.
"Man~ This hits the spot" he said "Told you I was proficient, so... How much would you give me from 1 to 10?"
"A damn 11... You're gonna start to see me more around here"
"I wouldn't mind your company, commander~"
"C-can you two stop f-flirting and let me enjoy my drink?" Wa said to the pair.
They both laughed as Springfield went to clean up the other glasses and yulil finished enjoying his drink.
After a while yulil finished his glass.
"I'll go take a look at our guest, you two take care,"
"Right, if anything happens please call for help, don't forget she's a dangerous tdoll that despise human beings"
"I know, I know... Anyway I'll get going now" yulil said before he headed for the doors.
He first went to get a futon and an MRE ration alongside a soda bottle and a plate for intruder, seeing as how the room she was in had nothing to ease her staying, after getting them he headed for intruder's cell and when he realised he was being too kind to someone that would gladly open him up he chuckled at himself.
He finally reached intruder's cell, she was awake, sitting down with her back on the wall.
She noticed him through the cell door and gave him a sidelook.
"You're their commander aren't you?... Here to laugh at me and fuel your ego?"
Yulil chuckled at her and unlocked the door, he then locked it behind him and put the keys outside the door, where he could easily reach them with his arm, unlike intruder who's arms got blown off.
"Not really no... I'm here to stay with you and talk a bit, you don't mind do you?"
She looked at him for a bit before looking away.
He sighed and put the futon on the ground and the other things away.
He then sat beside intruder, she didn't expect him to get this close to her, she looked at him before speaking "You've got some nerves to sit down next to a ringleader... You're not scared?"
He chuckled before replying,
"Not at all, I'm not scared of you intruder. anyway, I wanted to know do you remember me?"
She stared at him for a bit before replying.
"Why would I remember a worthless human... You all look the same to me, begging me to end your miserable life"
He sighed and thought that the problem was bigger than he thought, their erased memories will only make his job harder.
"You know... We were friends back in the day, we worked for sangvis Ferri, together... And were deployed to a lot of missions... You really forgot them all?"
Intruder looked at him again, and noticed his worried expression, she bursted laughing and replied.
"Why on hell would I befriend a human? You all are pathetic and don't even deserve my attention."
he grabbed a Polaroid picture out of his pocket.
She got curious and looked at it, noticing that she and yulil were in the photo, with their arms around each other's shoulder, intruder made a peace sign and had a big smile on her face as yulil made intruder looked like she had animal ears with his fingers behind her head.
She felt a sharp pain to her head, almost like this photo was unlocking a part of her neural cloud that was blocked off by someone, however she refused to believe it.
"This photo is clearly fake, nice try... Smooth talking won't work with me if you want to torture me then let's not waste any time."
"Hahah, why would I torture a friend I'm trying to help you intruder, please try your best to remember."
"I'm not your friend!" She yelled at him, refusing to believe what he was saying.
"I see... Maybe you'll be nicer if you eat first." He got up and opened the MRE, it contained two pizza slices, crackers cookies and a small bag of jam, he put them on the plate and grabbed the soda can before sitting down again close to intruder.
As she saw the plate her expression changed a bit, she looked like she was having a battle with her body as to not look weak in front of her enemy.
Yulil grabbed a pizza slice and said with a smile on his face.
"Open up~"
Intruder looked hungry yet she was still refusing the help from her enemy, she looked away.
"I'm not... Hungry, I bet there's poison in there..."
"Pffhaha, do you honestly think if I wanted to kill you that I would use poison, I could literally shoot you right now and you could do nothing to stop me, trust me intruder..."
She looked back at yulil as she noticed that he had a genuine caring expression on his face, or that he was good at lying.
"Why...why are you being so kind to me?"
"I told you already... I'm not your enemy, I'm your friend, I would never wish you harm, I want to help you and I can't help you if you don't trust me."
She gritted her teeth, she knew what he said was the truth but she didn't want to believe it.
"F-fine... But if you betray my trust, I'll give you a slow and painful death"
"Thank you..." He said with a smile.
She paused for a bit before slowly opening her mouth and biting on the pizza slice that he was holding.
She thought it was delicious, and it could be obvious from the expression she made.
"See? I told you I was your friend"
"You're... You're not my friend"
"Alright alright eat first and we can discuss that later"
Intruder first hesitated between each bite but quickly threw that hesitation out of the window, yulil was happy that intruder looked like she was slowly trusting him, she ate the first slice and as he was feeding her the second he said.
"Well well, look who's enjoying herself"
She stopped munching as she realised how open she was to him, he could notice a faint red colour in her cheeks as she said.
"Sh-shut up, I'm just hungry..."
He laughed as he resumed feeding her, she ate all the ration and drank the soda can.
"See... Nothing bad happened, do you trust me now?"
She was a hundred percent sure that a part of her memories were blocked, blocked by something unknown to her... She didn't know what to do or what to say, she just stared at the ground.
"Why do you even want to kill all humans in the first place huh? What's your goal, what's your objective?"
"I... You... You humans treat us like machines" she said, finally finding something she could use against him.
"Did I treat you like a machine, intruder?" He said to her with a weak smile that made her look away. "You don't even know why you're fighting us... You're just doing what you've been told, you need to ask questions intruder, you need to make your own stance."
"Just why... Why are you making things complicated, why couldn't you just torture me, why..." She said with a weak expression on her face, she slowly realized that she didn't know anything about what was going on.
"Because I care about you intruder, I dont want to see you die." Yulil said with a warm smile.
Intruder stared at him for a while before she looked away.
"Alright, I'll let you think about it for the night, now come. You should sleep"
"He-hey" intruder replied as he picked her up, ignoring what she was saying, he gently put her on the futon and covered her with the blanket, he then sat back next to the wall.
"You're... Not leaving?"
"Got a problem with me staying here?"
"N-no..."
"Good" he said with a warm smile as intruder turned around.
He spent the first hour guarding intruder as to not let her escape, but slowly sleep got the best of him.
After a while intruder turned around and noticed that he was asleep.
She quietly got up and walked towards him, as she reached him she put her foot in front of his head, she could easily smash his skull if she put enough force into kicking his head.
Every part of her body screamed to do it, but something deep inside of her begged her not to, she thought that yulil was the key to unlocking her blocked memories. She grunted and went back to her bed, as she covered herself she heard a voice behind her.
"Thank you."
She realized he was awake and decided to cover her head with the blanket as yulil laughed at her, after that intruder slept the embarrassment off.