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The door behind them hissed as it opened, a figure in Atlesian uniform standing there. "No distractions," the doctor yelled, "I can shut the droids down… perhaps even reprogram them right here!"

The small figure tilted its head, teeth flashing. Jaune's eyes widened. "DOCTOR, MOVE!" He screamed, throwing himself against the man's leg.

It was all for nothing.

Doctor Polendina looked down at him. Unable to hear his warning and wondering what he was doing. Those eyes looked up a second later, widening in shock before the elderly man gasped and fell back, transfixed through his chest by a thin blade.

Sharp eyes, pink and brown smiled down on him as the doctor's back struck the computer screen, shattering it and coating the internals with blood.

"Doctor Polendina!" Jaune screamed, throwing himself at the girl.

Her blade flicked, catching him on the edge as she pinned him to the wall. The old man's blood mixed with his fur, doing no damage but letting the doctor slump to the floor, dead. They'd killed him… just like that. Just like the robots were doing down below.

"You monster," Jaune seethed. The girl didn't hear him. In fact, she tilted her head, regarding him with a wary expression before she jerked at the sound of a scroll beeping.

"Neo," a masculine voice called through it, "Is the old man dealt with? Cinder will have our heads if he's able to stop this."

The girl panned the scroll around, showing the slumped and bleeding form of the man who had tried so hard to help them.