Asch, Josei, and Kharaxel continued their small talk when Sakura entered the room.
"Oh Sakura you're back how did...it....?" Asch cut himself off when he noticed the look on Sakura's face, she looked like she did when she had that nightmare or when she found out what happened to PB.
"Asch..." Sakura said pitifully.
"Sakura what's going on?" Asch asked worriedly as he went over to her immediately and hugged her.
"Asch I...PB....he....he...." Sakura sputtered out as she began to cry into his chest.
"Sakura...." Asch said softly as he picked her up bridal style "Let's go to my room, you can tell me what happened there."
"O-Okay...." Sakura nodded into his shirt and continued crying.
"Guys I'm sorry but I have to take care of this." Asch apologized
"No problem dude you don't need to say anything, me and Kharaxel will stay here." Josei replied understandingly.
"This is more important, you can tell us what happened tomorrow." Kharaxel nodded
"Thanks guys." Asch said as he left the room.
Meanwhile.....
"I guess she was more tired than I thought." Zeta thought to herself as she closed the door to her room softly with the Egg in her arm "I hope Red finds out more about herself, she's a bright girl."
Zeta walked away from her room when she saw a group of security bots leading PB to his room.
"PB?!" Zeta shouted as she ran towards him only to be stopped by the force field and falling on her butt and hands grabbing both sides of the Egg case "Oh what the hell, I fell on my butt again!?"
"Zeta...." PB said to her but unable to look at her.
"PB what's going on?!" Zeta asked as she looked up at him and her eyes widen. He looked worse than last night and his Doubt FRESCA had at least tripled in size.
"Protoman Blues is to be confined to his quarters." One of the security drones said to her.
"What?!" Zeta shouted as she got up. "PB what the hell is going on, what happened to you?!"
"Zeta you should probably go back to your room, you don't have to come with me..." PB began.
"I'M GOING!" Zeta yelled at him for even suggesting the idea.
"But I know I can't stop you..."PB finished.
"Understood." Another security drone said as they continued towards PB's room. PB still refused to look at her, and he felt ashamed about everything.
Zeta had an idea of what could have happened but decided to wait until she had the full story.
Eventually they reached his quarters and PB stepped into the room and sat on his bed. The security drones stopped Zeta for a moment to explain a few things to her.
"There will be a force field at the entrance of this area, should you feel the need to exit we will lower it to allow you to do so. Also for your own protection..." One of the drones opened a compartment and handed her a taser.
"Seriously?" Zeta asked with eyes wide open staring at the object.
"It is for your protection." The drone repeated.
"Whatever." Zeta shook her head as she entered the room herself. Two drones stood at the entrance side by side as they put up the force field.
"Have a good night, sir." A drone said before shutting the door.
"Oh god that's just not right!" Zeta shuddered.
"What's wrong?" PB asked a bit curious but still not looking at her.
"I kinda don't like talking to drones, they're just so...robotic!" Zeta said filled with disgust.
"You mean that they don't express emotion right?" PB stated.
"I just don't like something that I can't read, I rely on reading body language, facial expressions, and tone much more than FRESCA, but more than that I just find them creepy." Zeta sighed as she put the Egg and taser on the nightstand where she can reach them. "Anyway what the hell is going on, why are you being confined here?"
"You'd probably hate me if I told you..." PB sighed.
Zeta looked at him before sitting down on the bed next to him putting one of her arms around him and used her other hand to turn his head and forced him to look at her.
"PB please..." Zeta said softly "I can't stand seeing you like this and not knowing why."
PB stared at her blankly before slightly nodding and Zeta let go of his head. He looked down again and began to tell her everything that happened. Zeta listened carefully as PB told her everything that happened a few minutes ago.
"So now I can't leave the base at all and my status as commander is officially gone..." PB finished.
"I guess the
Trauma Conga Line stops for no man." Zeta said quite bluntly.
"...What?" PB asked incredulously and looked at her with his eyebrow raised.
"Sorry BB got me into reading TvTropes." Zeta said sheepishly "What I meant to say is I can't believe your week got worse than it already was."
"No doubt this might be the second worst day of my life, but I know it can get even worse." PB sighed.
"Yeah it can always get worse, I know that very well." Zeta sighed.
"Aren't you going to slap me, you must hate me now for how I acted." PB asked sullenly.
"What would slapping you do when you already feel like [parasitic bomb] and you're not even trying to hide it this time." Zeta replied "You've been through enough in such a short amount of time, no need for me to humiliate you more."
"I see...." PB sighed.
"Besides....I kind of expected something like this to happen, well except Quickie working for Baldy II." Zeta admitted.
"Really?" PB asked as he looked at her.
"Think about it, with something as crazy as this do you think that people can think rationally about it, especially yourself?" Zeta started "People are confused and the media doesn't care about reporting the truth, they only care about ratings and will do anything to get them.
The worst part is that 99.9% of them will believe whatever is spoon fed to them, seriously me and BB turned the News on this morning and turned it off 5 minutes in because we couldn't stand what those firmly pressed suits were saying."
"I guess when you said our reputation wasn't good you were saying it nicely." PB stated.
"The media is pretty much pro Baldy now, they didn't even show me fighting you, Sakura's concert, or mentioned that the Raptors killed people too." Zeta sighed "For gods sake those things killed one of my regular customers but I sure as hell don't think they would believe me."
"You sure it was a Raptor?" PB asked.
"He had no burns and he wasn't sliced to pieces, he was clearly smashed through and through." Zeta said looking down. "Unfortunately that slowed me down a little."
"...I'm so sorry Zeta." PB apologized.
"It's not your fault." Zeta shook her head "Yes you made some mistakes that led to this situation but you can't blame yourself for everything that's happened, Wily is trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes and he's already shown that he has no qualms of controlling people in anyway possible.
Sure you may have seen this war coming and could have stopped it if you acted but the man is too good of an actor and other people didn't give a damn until it was too late. Neko could have stopped him but she's a neutral in all this and felt that someone else could handle it. Borockman stopped him every time Baldy II did something but always let him go in the end.
Hell that bastard Sparky could have easily take down RPM if he went after Wily and took over his [parasitic bomb] but he was so stupidly obsessed with his hatred of cat girls that he...."
Zeta stopped herself from finishing her sentence and looked at PB who looked at her with concern.
"Um I guess I shouldn't have let that slip didn't I." Zeta said embarrassingly.
"I kind of had a feeling he was involved because of the other things you mentioned but we'll talk about that some other time if you want." PB said understandingly.
"Sorry I guess I'm irritated with this entire development, especially that Quickie is our enemy now." Zeta sighed "I just can't believe that she would work for him and how cruel she is now."
"That's right, you knew Quickie didn't you." PB recalled.
"She was like a big sister to me, a mentor, a role model even." Zeta replied "The fact that everything I knew about her is pretty much gone now, it's just devastating to me."
"I know what you mean, I couldn't believe what I was hearing either." PB said as he put his head in his hands "What in the world happened to her in the time that I left her there?"
"What do you mean left her?" Zeta asked.
PB took a deep breath and looked at Zeta with an unreadable expression.
"I'll tell you what happened the last time I saw her." PB began.