Company Tomfoolery
Another boring day at the company. This time, however, there will only be a trio for today's scavenger team.
Mel, unsatisfied as usual decides to voice out their opinion. "Geez, why do i have to go with the WEIRDOS."
Pemantau turns to look at Mel, responding, "You call everyone a weirdo, Mel. Can it already, you're in this crew for a month already, you should be accustomed to everyone's behaviours."
"She's got a point, you know. You should chill a bit. It's not like RISIKO will be here to ruin your fun.", B says, not looking up from its boombox.
Pemantau adds, "But just because RISIKO isn't here, doesn't mean you CAN resume your 'comedic schemes' with us, got it?"
Mel sighs, as much as they want to, Pemantau and B are the only members of the ISAW crew that tolerates them. They don't want to be insufferable to the only people that tolerates them.
The trio lands on the moon titled as '85-Rend', which catches Pemantau's attention. Mel and B noticed that and asked "What's up with Rend?" Pemantau responds, "Oh, my friend Pekan lives here, or well, at least guards this facility." Mel, eventually remembering who Pekan is, sighed in disappointment. "Oh great. It's that chatty Nutcracker. Just what I needed." "You'll live, Mel." Pemantau responds. B, who's only here to vibe decided to rush off to start scavenging. Witnessing that, Pemantau and Mel decided to push it aside and get to the job. Mel and Pemantau both head to follw B
The mansion door swings open as B enters the building. He already sees Pekan guarding the place, but paid no mind and started wandering around to find scraps to sell. Meanwhile, pekan seems oblivious to B, despite B blasting music on his boombox. Later on, Mel and Pemantau enters the mansion. "I thought you were going to remain at the shuttle as per usual." Mel points out. Pemantau deflects, saying "i'll only be out here for a while.. It's an obligation to visit friends!"
"No one says that."
"Well, I did! So it counts!""
"Hmph."
"Oh, also, you better not try anything funny for this scavenge.."
Mel tilts their head before Pemantau eventually approaches Pekan to chat with. "Right. And they both are gonna end up chatting until day's over." Mel watched the interaction between Pemantau and Pekan, before they decided to eventually dip and plot a simple scheme, despite being forbidden to do so by Pemantau.
They started walking deeper into the mansion before they heard echos of music being played. "Oh great, it's that bug weirdo. How wonderful. His stupid music is so...irritating.." Mel turned back to look around the other parts of the mansion. When they got back to the main entrance, they saw how Pemantau is still talking to Pekan. They rolled their eyes before heading to the other room, looking for something for their schemes.
Eventually, they found a stop sign. Heavy, but good enough to replace the shovel RISIKO threw away during their failed attempts at "pranking" RISIKO. "Heh, seems like the bug will be today's target." They giggled, before looking around to grab some scraps as a guise so that Pemantau doesn't get suspicious.
They head back to the main entrance, heading back to the shuttle to save time, then came back to commence their comedic schemes. They saw how Pemantau, like every other scavenges get carried away by chatting with Pekan. "And she said that SHE was going to do the ship operator duty." Mel grumbled, before heading where B went.
B, the entire time have been scavenging for scraps then sending them to the shuttle without a care in the world. Oblivious to the stalker lurking in the dark, he resumes his work.
Seeing this as an opportunity, Mel decides to get his stop sign ready, to "prank" B. As they get ready to hit, they fail to realise that Pekan is patrolling, which leads to Pekan unintentionally kicking them to their death. B and Pekan, not realising this stopped and looked at each other.
"What was that, Pekan?"
"I have no Idea. All I know is that I kicked someone."
"Maybe it's Pemantau?"
"Not possible, she makes metal clinking noises whenever she moves an inch."
"True.."
Pekan followed the blood trail, only to realise that it accidentally killed Mel. "Seems like your trickster friend was caught attempting to kill you."
"Figures. They never were truthful with their words, haha."
"It's getting late. You should return."
"Yeah, guess I'll have to drag them along"
B grabs Mel's corpse and bid goodbye to Pekan.