Sacrificing Sanity

[Not Espi]

Derilos sat up as the medical bot finished repairing his arms and legs, it insisted on fixing the hole in his forehead but Derilos pushed it away, he had to stop that corsair and he doubted the solider robots were capable. His opponent was smart and had to be stopped. Grabbing his coat his flipped on his hood and took off. Within seconds he was on the scene, his hood prevented him from noticing everything but he got the general scope of it all. The corsair was wreaking havoc and it would only be a matter of time before he escaped. Crouching next to some of the soldiers hiding, it seems as one of the medical robots were down which meant only nine were left now. Surprisingly one of the green soldiers was on the scene, something Derilos didn't expect. "Give me a status update." The green robot looked at him and was confused at first. "Ah, he got into one of our fighters and started shooting at us. We had to take cover." Derilos shook his head in disappointment. "You should have chosen option one corsair." He peeked out and watched the corsair run for his ship. He sat still and waited for his chance.

Espi quickly opened his ship's entry door as he was hiding from the fire behind it. It had a few scratches from his previous endeavors, but he was a bit disappointed that it was getting directly shot at with no shields. He jumped in and activated the lock down sequence and powered up the basic systems - shields, guns, engines. He strapped in and put his targeting interface on his head. the Gladiator started to hover and turned towards the bay's airlock.

Seeing there was not many options left, Derilos jumped out of his cover as the gladiator started turning towards the bay doors. 'The idiot thinks he can fly away so easy?' Using all the power he could muster into his legs, he jumped. Way to high, going over the ship. As he started to fall, he decided to try to make the best of it and brought out his right arm. A long, thin blade directly connected to his arm came out and with some effort, Derilos used all the energy he could, to pierce the cockpit. The shields naturally repelled him but there was a flaw as the windshield cracked slightly. Just what he wanted. Derilos fell to the floor with a sickening thud.

"BASTARDO!" Espi observed the crack in his cockpit. He aimed his guns at Derilos' body on the ground in front of him. "Try to survive this, you freak!" Derilos looked into a barrel of Tizona del Cid gun with a petrified expression. "Well is this the final thing you want to see? Repair this, let me go in my ship and you will live to watch your simulated stars on your ceiling. What say you?" ,said Espi calmly into the intercom. Derilos smiled slowly, his energy consumed so he was stuck there on the floor. He looked dead into the eyes of Espi. "See? I told you, I know how I die...it isn't a pretty one..."

"Killing the same person twice in one hour is the last thing I would ever thought of doing. You have an option here. I am not going to ask you another time. What will it be?" Derilos laid back trying to recover his energy. "Do you know...the muffin man?" Espi shaked his head in confusion. "well, she is married to the muffin man Espi...do you know what that means? It means I'm but a pawn if that makes sense to you. Kill me and nothing changes but you damage your ship and guarantee your escape to be trivial. If I do as you ask, then the plan would fall apart, if you followed the plan, you would have reached stage two with no problems and nothing missing...now all of this...chaos you have created. It's only a matter of time my boy, kill me if you wish, but she still comes.."