(the brick misses traffick boss, who is hypothermic, but upset that zombie government worker knocked a brick down on his head.
voices at the top of the well:
“boss is stuck down there so i’m rescuing him.”
“don’t you dare put him back in charge of the world!”
“and then i’m putting him back in charge of the —“
“don’t you dare!”
zombie government worker and a medical team descend down the well with the aid of a powersuit acting like a big spider carrying them
the powersuit-spider then forcefully leaves, leaving everybody at the bottom of the well
“okay we have to have a meeting about this”
“we have been trying for years to kill traffick boss despite his huge bio-slavery-ai keeping him alive, and you not only let a zombie government worker see him but also sent a treatment team?”
“i’ve never k (here the client force-quit interrupting: —illed anybody before, i was in, what you say, a hippie business?
isn’t the hyperprison enough?”
“the hyperprison was the _best we were able to pull off at the time_ with everybody mind controlled for him still”
a brief interlude to remember the sequence where he was overcome with empathy and killed himself. was that in hybrid mcboss?
of course, alternate timelines don’t fix this one either.
“i’ve honestly, truly never killed anybody before, and was raised to assume it was always bad to do so, and that basically the purpose of life was to stop it from ever happening ever, but this whole situatiom is certainly beyond anything i ever expected to encounter, and if you know from your experiences trying to protect the world from a military AI or whatnot that you need to run down there and kill him i’m not going to stop you”
at the bottom of the well, traffick boss is shivering like mad zombie government worker: “you have to give him his business empire back so he’ll let you save his life!” doctor: