nines separated

That, of course, had been his plan: by splitting Zeroes and Nines, he'd forced the enemy to divide their attention, and that had given him the opening he needed to reach Slip. The downside was that Zeroes and Nines were now isolated, pinned down with no way to escape.
[...]
Another cloud of smoke billowed across his vision, and cutting through it were the red and blue bolts of blaster fire - Zeroes's and Nines's and the enemy's, too.

Before the Awakening, pg. 10