NOS-4A-2 paced back and forth in his cell. Something had been disturbing him for awhile now, and he couldn't get the thought out of his head.
Not only had he felt better than he had in five months, but Aya...she...she was...okay, there's no way to say this that isn't creepy; she was delicious. Draining her of her power gave him the most exhilarating high he'd felt in a long time. Was it the regenerating nature of her battery? Since he was so hungry at the time, he drank quickly, but he tried to restrain himself from draining her so fast she would switch off. Thinking back, that may have been a bad idea, since she was in pain for so long, but he didn't want to drain her.
How did he care about her so much? And why was she so tasty?
The wall was knocked out suddenly, "Hello, Nos-4a-2!"
"What the-!?" Nos' eyes narrowed, "Shannon..."
"Hello, my darling!" she drawled from her hoverpod, "I take it prison life isn't quite your style?"
Nos turned away, crossing his arms stubbornly, "Go away."
Forthright was baffled, "What?"
"I'm not evil anymore, so just let me serve my sentence in peace."
"Are you kidding me!?" she tugged at her bangs, "Come on! First Eve now you!?"
"Eve?"
"My beautiful black servant..." she gushed, "She abandoned me for those clowns on the Axiom! Can you believe that!?"
Nos stared daggers at her, "Yes, I can actually." he sat in the corner, hugging his "knees", "Leave me alone."
"What about our alliance!?"
"It's over." Nos licked his contaminated fangs, "Go away before I bite you too."
Shannon sucked in a breath of air through her nose, "I thought you said you hated the taste of-!"
"I don't care about that anymore!"
"Is that so?" Forthright snapped her fingers, "Try this on for size."
He was suddenly seized by a myriad of killer robots. He struggled against them, but he couldn't even raise his wings.
"Let's go somewhere nice..." Shannon laughed while she carried him away.
"WAIT! STOP!" Nos tried to escape to no avail, "LET ME GO!"
"No way! I don't take too kindly to being betrayed!"
Nos made a sound deep in his throat, trying in vain to bite the robots that were carrying him high into the air. He felt so frenzied that he was afraid he'd go feral. Finally, he was brought onto a giant ship and locked in another cage.
He grabbed the bars of the cage, "What are you going to do with me?"
"Well, I would erase your memories and force you to attack, but I can't really do that, since your hardware is much different than that of my own robots..." she turned back to the livid energy vampire, "Who created you?"
"I don't see any reason to tell you!" he spat in disgust, "He's not in this universe anyway! You'd never find him!"
"Is that so?"
"Yeah!" he tried to chomp through the bars of the cage, but they didn't even dent.
"Nice try!" Shannon laughed, "Anyway, if you don't cooperate with me, I might have to, oh I don't know..." she smiled sickeningly, "...kill your friend? What was her name...Aya?"
"No!" Nos pushed against the bars with all his might, "STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER!"
"Since when did you care so much about her anyway?"
"Since she showed me mercy! Since she gave herself to me so I wouldn't suffer anymore! She is a selfless kind-hearted wonderful soul, and she's my greatest friend!"
"Oh?" Shannon got out of her pod so she could hold Nos' face in her hand. He gave her an icy glare as she dropped to a whisper, "Then I will take great pleasure...in ruining her life..." she sashayed back to her pod.
He picked up on her signature and noticed something off, "What's this?"
She turned back, "What?"
"Your signature...is off..." he said simply, "You aren't human at all, are you?"
Her eyebrows shot up, "You can tell?"
"Why do you look so human!? Why do you not feel like a human!? Are you really a robot!?"
Her manic grin was plastered back into place, "I see..."
"Ohhh...I am going to bite you so hard and drain your energy so fast you won't even remember your own name!"
Shannon laughed at the threat, "Good luck even getting close enough to bite me you imbecile!"
Nos growled angrily.
"Anyway, I have a city to take over. You with me or nah?"
"Of course not!" he spit on the ground.
"You think that's going to offend me? Don't make me laugh." she returned to her computer, "Let's see...who should I go for first...?"
Nos had never felt so much boiling hatred in his life. XR, Buzz Lightyear, not even Emperor Zurg had stirred up such an overwhelming desire to break someone's neck as this woman standing in front of him.
"You won't get away with this..." he seethed.
Shannon Forthright laughed, smiling at him with the innocence of an angel yet the eyes of a demon;
"Try me..."
EVE finished showing the rest of her family the recorded events from NOS-4A-2's perspective, and everyone stared with wide eyes.
"That's crazy!" Rio exclaimed.
"AAAyyyaaa?" WALL-E asked, concerned.
"Yeah, I'm fine..." she absently rubbed the bite marks on her neck, "Is that really what it looked like from his perspective?"
"What was it like in yours?" Leah asked.
"Really scary." Aya admitted, "And really painful."
"But you didn't pull away..." Rose noticed.
"Yeah. If I had, Nos would've still been sick."
"That was very brave of you." EVE pat her shoulder, "I'm proud of you, Sis."
"Thanks. So am I."
"Hey, weren't we all going to meet Nos today?" Leah asked.
"Right. Let's get going." EVE lead the way from the Axiom to the police station.
"Clear a path! Search the perimeter! I don't want anyone to leave until we find this blasted vampire!"
"Huh?" EVE tapped a policewoman on the shoulder, "Officer, what's going on?"
"Nos-4a-2 has escaped."
"What!?"
"He blew a hole in the wall and flew off. We're currently trying to relocate him." then she walked off.
"I thought that..." Rio grimaced, "Did he betray us!?"
"No, that can't be right." EVE replied, "He was so submissive yesterday. Hang on."
Now Aya was worried.
"Chief!" EVE got his attention, "What happened to Nos!?"
"What do you think!? He's gone!" Chief took his hat off and raked a hand through his hair, "I knew he couldn't be trusted!"
"No. He didn't escape." Aya decided, "Can we see his cell?"
"Sure, it's right over here." he went around the building to the back, "This is where he escaped from.
"Huh?" Aya bent down to pick something up, "Why is this here?"
"Is that Nos' cape?"
"Yeah..." Aya ran her thumb over the clip on the front, "It must have come undone...oh wow, it's so soft..." she put the fabric to her cheek, "Mmm..."
EVE's logical side took charge, "Why would he leave his cape here if he escaped?" she took the edge of the fabric, "And why is it ripped?"
"Hm?" Aya looked at the cloak, "Oh wow. It didn't have any rips yesterday."
EVE nodded, "Signs of a struggle."
"So he was kidnapped?" Rio asked incredulously.
"Who would have kidnapped him though?" Leah asked.
EVE frowned angrily, "Forthright..."
"We have to save him!" Aya realized.
"Wait!" EVE stopped her before she could fly away, "Charging head-long into battle without a plan is suicide! Let's approach this rationally!"
"But look at this!" Aya showed off the inside of the cape, the part that sat on Nos' shoulders, "It's burned! That means he got hurt and the fabric was electrocuted! What if he falls into madness from getting no energy!?"
"Aya!" EVE shook her shoulders, "Get ahold of yourself! We'll get him back, okay!?"
Aya stopped, then she nodded.
"Okay." EVE turned to the others, "Let's go."