Treehouse! (Open in case anyone wanders across it ;) )

[hacker_twins]

Somewhere in the Nexus is a patch of random forest, mostly pine but with a few other trees interspersed

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[terrabrat]

OMG, a house in a tree? He's heard of these!

As usual, he's got the backpack on. It can wait at the bottom of the tree, while he climbs up to invade and conquer.

[terrabrat]

"The roots are in other continents." He's a bit surprised (and pleased) that anyone would think that's weird. :D

"Yeah. But I'd need lots of stuff... I can keep adding on!"

[hacker_twins]

They justs tare and blink at that for a moment.

"Other continents?" Middy says after a moment.

"That doesn't sound natural," comments Techno.

[terrabrat]

"It's not. Someone put it there. And then we killed him!"

[hacker_twins]

Matching O.O faces now. Congrats, Kuja, you've broken them.

[terrabrat]

What'd he say? D:

He just blinks back at them, puzzled.

[hacker_twins]

((Resorting to color coding for clarity here: Red is Techno, Blue is Middy.))

"Y-you.. uh... that... um..."

"We'd be in a lot of trouble if we... uh..."

"Did that..."

"Killed someone."

"Yeah, that."

[terrabrat]

Blinkblink. "...even if they wanted to kill you?"

[hacker_twins]

"Well... yes," Middy admits.

"If they were human, it wouldn't matter why we hurt them. We'd be scrapped for it. Even if they weren't dead."

[terrabrat]

"Oh. He wasn't human." A hint of annoyance here, that these kids only think it's wrong to kill humans.

"He was a... weird robot thing. And he wanted to kill the whole world."

[hacker_twins]

Oh, it's not something they think. More of an irritating legal matter in their world. If anything, Techno sounded a bit annoyed about it himself. But then, he sounds annoyed about such a lot of things.

"They'd still send us to Doppler and have us reprogrammed, just in case we'd attack a human next." Techno rolls his eyes at this and takes another drink of soda.

"It's not allowed," Middy says. "Robots and Reploids aren't supposed to ever hurt humans."

[terrabrat]

Well, Kuja has no way of knowing that~.

"Yeah, but that's what Garland was for! The person we killed." Who is this 'we'? He wasn't even there. :D

More annoyance at that. "That's stupid. Humans aren't better than other people." :|

[hacker_twins]

Snerk! "Try telling that to our world's humans," Techno replies.

"Techno, please... You should be careful what you say." Middy goes to get himself a soda as well.

[terrabrat]

"I'm telling it to you." More :|.

[hacker_twins]

Ok, that's all Techno can take. It doesn't do any good to tell us. We already know.We just can't do anything about it if we don't want reprogrammed or scrapped. Legally, we're property, and we have about as much rights as a toaster. If we get out of line, we're dead. End of story.

"Techno, please..." a now scared Middy tries to calm his angry twin. "You shouldn't say such things.

"Why not, Middy? Doppler and Weil aren't here to overhear."

[terrabrat]

"Then you're stupid for staying!" No, he does not like the way Techno is acting at all. Fuzzy tail is lashing around~. "You don't even need food! You can go anywhere!"