(Lemon Demon, man that brings me way back. I'll edit in Nikolai's dream when I have the time.)<br/><br/>Shamus pulled out his knife to block Spartacus's attack, his metallic hand giving him a decent holding against the robot's attack. "Well friends, as you can see my fist pissed the robot fella off, that's not good." Shamus said as he saw the robot attack Zen, followed by Vincent. He would wait to see what Vincent could do, as he had been quite curious from the moment he first met the guy.<br/><br/>"Your a chip....how in the hell did I get a chip in my brain, let alone one that takes the appearance of a flamboyant stranger." Nikolai asked with confusion, suddenly realizing that his surroundings had morphed into that of his old cell at the asylum.<br/><br/>"Well, if you really want to know, your not exactly a normal human being. You where made in a tank to become the perfect cannon fodder, a soldier that is strong, perceptive, and has unwavering determination and loyalty to whatever cause he was given. They put me in you back when you were the 415th attempt at creating such an experiment." Sanguine said with a nostalgic smile, remembering the day he had been activated with pride.<br/><br/>"How could that...what about the.....shit." Nikolai said with complete blankness, as the pieces of his past he had long suppressed reappeared in his mind.<br/><br/>"You were one of the hundreds that received a chip such as I, though they figured a minor artificial intelligence would never have such human objectives as survival. When the experiments that had been done were discovered, they decided to purge all subjects to destroy any evidence. I had watched you grow long enough to understand you, and I became your survival instincts." Sanguine said with anger and pride, something even Nikolai wouldn't expect from an A.I.<br/><br/>"If all of this is true, what is my purpose in life. The only thing I've ever been good at is killing, and before I met this group I would have been fine with that. My squad's death, Rhavir's disappearance, I never knew the opposite side of loss until I met this group, these guys are my friends." Nikolai said with uncertain happiness, his memories of the group's experiences combating the bad memories from his past.<br/><br/>"That would be fine if I hadn't been observing your actions Nikolai, your friendships have brought my plans for your absolute survival to ruin time and time again. I made you break out of your cell, I got you away from the guards. You would have left the asylum fully armed and ready if you hadn't felt loyalty to your fellow inmates. I guided to your orb, which has kept you alive up until this point, but you've thrown it's valuable energy away to help your peers. Even in the easiest situation like the school, where you could have left your group to it's fate, you put yourself in mortal danger to protect your fellows.The last chance you had to prove you were rational emotionally you wasted just to give your allies time to get captured them selves. You could have easily choked your captor, broken his neck, or even punctured his lung if you hadn't been so focused on your "friends". I'm sorry Nikolai, I really am, but I've come to the conclusion that it is necessary to suppress your emotions like I was supposed to many years ago for our continued survival. You will be the unrestrained soldier you were always supposed to be." Sanguine said as he faded away, with Nikolai sitting in his cell as he felt his emotions leave him, leaving only the will to continue on through the abyss know as life.<br/><br/>When Nikolai awoke minutes later, his face lacked any emotion a human would have, only silent determination.