31_days | November 27th Original- "Scar"

Title: Scar
Prompt: November 27th the slash of the silver blade
Series: Original
Words: 277
Rating: PG violence
Summary: In which the young robot, here called a Persona, regrets his actions as he waits for his friend to recover.
Note: Linka is humanoid a game system, so that's where the video game logic comes in.

Scar

Vega glanced at the long chip that ran across his arm. If he had been made of flesh, it would be a scar, but what did they call it when you were made of metal?

It was the slash of the silver blade that did it to him. The blade Linka pulled from her vast inventory. She used it to block his attacks as he fired indiscriminately into a broken city.

He remembered hearing her voice. How she pleaded with him to snap out of it, but still he tried to shoot her. She was surprisingly quick for a Persona not built for any kind of real combat. She was able to dodge his shots by scaling the large building and jumping to any available space. It was a tactic she often used in platformers.

He couldn’t stop himself. He fired again and again until he had no charge left in his cannon. She slashed him then, scaring his arm and disabling the weapon.

His outburst had done nothing to change the state of the city. All he had done was make her battery run down to critical. Their fight had been meaningless and he had the scar to prove it.

And he was supposed to be a hero.

She was plugged into the wall now. The long white cord was stored in her belly button. When she was charging, she looked very much like a human baby might as she lay propped up against him. As she slept, he watched her battery level rise from the small indicator that was tattooed on her wrist. Five percent and climbing.

All he could do now was wait.