{REQUEST} + (PRESSURES SCRAPPED ENDING!!)

So this was it? You, for some reason, had been given an order to find this Z-13, from the guy over PA. Fitted with a weapon of sorts—nothing like you'd seen before—and sent off through the guided pathways. It was a few hours before you even found anything connected to Z-13, a vent popped open and a voice had rung out into silent room.

You assumed it was him, after all, what beast down here had the ability to speak apart from this thing? You didn't rush into it all, starting off with a few attacks until he chased you off. But you kept coming back.

Soon enough, he began retreating, hiding away, but you found him. you remained determined, harsh. Your life depended on this. You had a chance

You could tell he was getting weaker, every time you came back he seemed bloodier. And now, here you were, Z-13 shrivelled in the corner of his 'shop' before you. You'd managed to catch him by surprise, and gotten him down. He was bloodied, battered, and bleeding out. Scarlet staining his clothing and his pale blue scales. His eyes were distant, almost scared.

"Mom..?" He whispered, shivering.

"Mom- Mom.. Are you there..?" His smaller, third arm reached blindly as you watched him call out, broken voice and all. His eyes looked half closed, either from the amount of times you'd hit him near the head or from the tears welling up in his blue eyes.

"Mom- Please Mom.." So this was it.