"And everything came down to this." Johnson sighed.
Albur's mouth opened so wide it nearly dropped onto the ground. The tragic story lagged his brain. Albur looked at his hands, and looked at Johnson again, standing there calm and emotionless. Albur remembered what he called Johnson previously, a failure, no wonder that made him stumble onto the ground, that word triggered his past trauma.
"Wh-what have I done?" Albur questioned himself.
"You don't have to blame yourself.....its my fault I have anger issues and neglecting problems." Johnson said it oddly calmly.
"Why don't I blame myself?"
Johnson looked at him, confused.
"You don't have anger issues. Anger is literally your only emotion! And its not that you don't care about anyone, its because you no longer feel the caring emotion anymore."
Johnson tilted his head.
"But I....cared about no one but..."
"She is the last fragments that still have your sis's shadows. It is normal for you to care for her so much. I.....misunderstood you....Calling you only cared for her cus she is your healing robot. "
Johnson was slightly startled. People who understands him like that exist, is already out of his expectations.
"After hearing you story, everything make sense now, you aren't lying or trying cover your crimes, you are just protecting yourself, from dangers and government punishment that shouldn't be yours."
Johnson's eyes begun to widen, Albur looked at him.
"This life was real tough, your parents are monsters, you have to read tons of books, just for a home made exercise. If I were you I would really choose to get clapped. "
"You....could understand my pain?"
"Many people out there could as well, I bet you really never have any interaction with society before in your childhood."
"That's not child hood, that is fighting hell demons while I play as red Riding Hood."
Albur smirked.
"Your jokes are funny, but all of them are cold and expressionless."
Albur continued to laugh quietly, Johnson got a little annoyed.
"Sorry, sorry, just uh, I really need to apologies to you. I owe you one big apology. For calling you those things, misunderstanding you, and even fight with you, I always never go and find out ones past before speaking anything. I'm really sorry man. "
Albur lowered his head, while putting his hands together.
Johnson's anger calmed down, he quietly looked at Albur, although he doesn't feel happy, but, he smiled.
"I am sorry about what I done too, my feelings are gone, so I really couldn't remember to help you all out, I would always like to teamwork, but my feelings just...."
"I can't blame you, you have lost the emotions that cared about people. You caring for Covie really could show that how important your elder sister is to you."
Albur chuckled, Johnson smiled as well.
The 2 of them eventually went to the shore of the river, they sat next to each other, looking at the sky.
"So, you're rejoining us? " asked Albur.
Johnson scoffed, and nodded his head.
"Of course, I accepted your apology. Also, thank you for understanding me, I really appreciate it."
"Let other people understand you is that important?"
"No one except my sis does, after she died, no one truly understands me, not even Covie, I mean, she is just 4 years old."
Albur smiled.
"So, you did made RNP yourself, that was impressive."
"Using a fake identity is not easy, being shut from society made me forgot I was called John Hamilton right now, I accidentally told you all my real name."
"I will keep it as a secret."
"That's nice from you. "
"By the way, you don't really have any friends? Not even a single one?"
Johnson smiled bitterly, and shook his head.
"Unfortunately,"
Albur thought of something.
"Hey, do you, wanna be friends?"
Johnson's eyes widened, he turned and look at Albur.
"C-come again?"
"I said, wanna be friends?"
Albur said as he lend out his fist, Johnson looked at Albur's fist, then looked at his. He looked at Albur's fist again, he slowly lend out his fist. At first, he still hesitated to do that, but after a while, he still reached out, and gave Albur's fist a gentle bump.
Albur smiled, as he took back his hand.
"Took you long enough."
Johnson looked at hold onto his fist, and blinked.
"I had never have a fist bump before....and I never had a friend like you..."
"Well now you got yourself one, bros?"
Albur lend out his fist once again, this time, Johnson smiled, as he fist bump with him without hesitating.
"Bros."
Albur chuckled. Johnson also laughed quietly as well. Then, a white light shone on their faces. They looked up into the sky. The light of the full moon peaked through the clouds. This night, doesn't feel that depressing anymore.
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"Oh boys...."
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Someone went back to the moon hut, leaving the 2 men under the moonlight.
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"Beep, beep, Owner wake up, Owner wake-..."
Albur clicked his watch, shutting the alarm. He stretched his limbs and yawn. He walked put of the room, waiting for the others while eating roast potatoes. After a while, Mysty also woke up, Covie and Wilton were also awake.
"You guys are up."
"Just get going....." Wilton clicked his tongue. Albur looked at him, knowing he is still not happy with the event yesterday. Covie said nothing, her face is visibly covered with dried oil marks. Mysty said nothing, she quietly packed her stuff and stood by the door.
"You guys ready?"
No one answered, everyone is just minding their own business.
Albur opened the map, there is still a couple of kilometers they will need to walk.
"Let's get going. " said Albur.
The gang exit the moon hut, Covie pressed a button which turned the moon hut back into a bag and put it back into her telescopic bag.
"Everyone ready?"
Everyone nodded quietly, Albur sighed as he signaled them to follow him.
Suddenly, glitch bullets rained down from the sky again, shooting in front of their feet. Glitch spaceships gathered around them.
"This is patrol team #41 reporting to the admiral! We found them! Send back up! I repeat! Send backup!"
"Oh you've got to be kidding me..." .murmured Mysty.
"Why terrible things always happen at the most convenient way possible?" Yelled Wilton.
The gang got into battle pose, but Albur simply smirked,
"Hey you! You glitches! I bet on 30 dollars that you all will be destroyed within the next 30 seconds."
The gang was confused by Albur's actions, same as the glitches.
"Sorry? Come again?" A glitch asked.
"Wait, you stupid! Shoot them!" The captain glitch of the squad smacked that glitch in the head.
Suddenly, the spaceship next to them exploded.
The gang looked at it in confusion, Albur just scoffed and kept his rifle.
Then, another spaceship was destroyed, the captain glitch looked outside, trying to see what is the cause, then, a figure hopped onto their spaceship, he shattered the glass and kill the glitches inside. It then rode it and landed on the ground. The spaceship exploded, the glowing explosion light revealed who is that figure. Johnson.
The gang was shocked to see him, Albur simply smiled. They took a step backwards, thinking the 2 of them would fight again.
"Hey guys? What are you all afraid of?" asked Albur.
"You guys gonna fight? Again? " asked Wilton.
Johnson smirked as he shook his head. But then, electric sparks is seen on his body, he forgot he was still damaged, the battle just now worsen the damage.
"M-m-master? "Covie looked at him, she hesitated to float to him, afraid he would yell at her again.
Johnson noticed it, and sighed. Albur noticed he wasn't going according to the plan and the air is a little awkward, so he decided to stand out for him.
"Hey guys, uh, well, Johnson is here to uh...apologise....."
The gang looked at Albur, confused and feeling awkward.
"Hey look, uh, I....will explain the whole thing later...but, he is going to finish his part first....."
Albur signaled him.
Johnson looked at him, and gave a bitter smile, then, he faced the others.
"Uh guys.....I am uh.....I am sorry.....I shouldn't have done those things without discussing with you all.....and...flying solo on battles and even want you all to cooperate. I really don't mean to....but....I have still done it anyways. So....yeah, I am sorry, for....every terrible thing I done in the past. " he lowered his head.
The gang looked at him, the air was silent for a while.
"I'm sorry Covie, I shouldn't have yelled at you like that, please, stop crying."
Covie slowly floated to him, Johnson prevented eye contact with her. Covie noticed it, her frown slowly turned upwards.
"Its ok master. You just lost your temper, I don't hate you."
Johnson looked at her, and smiled. Then, the 2 of them hugged each other. Johnson slowly cleaned the dried oil marks her her screen and cheek.
After they let go, Johnson looked at Mysty.
"Uh, Mysty....I am also sorry for what I did earlier. Pushing you away very hard, yelling at you and, fighting each other."
Mysty blinked, she then smiled,
"Its alright, keeping the team together is not an easy job, you must be going through a hard time as well."
Johnson smirked, while scratching his head.
"I also wanna apologize, I, shocked you earlier with my tazer."
"No, no, that's completely fine, I mean I was one step away from ending Albur."
Albur raised his eyebrow, Mysty looked at him, and smiled.
Johnson then looked at Wilton, he realized he is staring at him, so he quickly looked away.
"And you....."
Johnson slowly walked to him, Wilton flinched slightly and took a few steps back.
"I am sorry too, I shouldn't call you a burden just because you are weak, we should be a team, helping each other is what we should do. And I completely overlooked that, I'm sorry."
Wilton was surprised he would apologize to him, his emotion quickly shifted.
"Hey, you know, its not bad to have a cyborg as a friend." he said.
Johnson scratched his head. He looked at the others.
"You can all, be my friends?"
Albur and Mysty looked at each other, then chuckled.
"Of course, why not?" asked Albur.
Johnson looked at Covie.
"No longer teammates now, its now friends. "
Johnson looked at all of them, a different feel of warmth appeared in his heart.
"By the way, we should really get going shall we?" asked Mysty.
"Oh, yeah, right. Let's get going." said Johnson.
"Welcome back captain." said Albur.
"Let me heal you up real quick."
Covie repaired Johnson's metal body and healed his injuries.
"Speaking of this, where's my minigun?" asked Johnson.
"Oh, the....minigun is....." Albur dumped his bag, taking out a severely cracked and shattered minigun.
"'The heck? I smashed it that hard?"
"You did."
Covie repaired the minigun. Johnson looked at his minigun, then took out a cloth to polish it.
"I'll never break you ever again, my best battle buddy."
"Well, let's go save the world! Glitch Wipeout Gang!" announced Albur.
"Gang sounds like gangster stuff, no?"
"Well then what better suggestion you have?"
"How about the Glitch Wipeout Crew?"
"That's not even a good change."
"Though it sounds better than gang."
"Whatever."
Albur then returned the password keys and the map to Johnson.
"You are more capable of holding these things than I do, since you're the captain."
"What? Oh come on! I am the leader again?"
"Albur you should really let him rest, he had an entire tragic journey to here."
Albur and Johnson's eyes widened, they then stared at Mysty.
"Why the heck do you know?" asked Johnson.
"You heard the 2 of us talking earlier?" asked Albur.
Mysty covered her mouth, she blushed as she stuck her tongue out.
"Oops..."
"I have the sudden urge to end you right now." murmured Johnson.
The gang, no, crew all laughed, the quiet depressed night is no longer depressed and heavy.