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>[You]: "Alright everyone, temporary truce time! I'm going to attempt to communicate with the mech captain, don't attack them anymore unless they do it to you first!"
While you say that, you send out text messages to Sarah, telling her to climb up the tall hill next to her and attack the giant robotic spider if it shows any sign of aggression. She sends out a long line of laughter and devil emojis and complies.
>[You]: "Ahem ahem, testing! Can you hear me? I'm calling a temporary truce, let's try to talk this out."
The rough voice of an older man comes out from the other side of the radio.
>[Captain]: "Sure, got all the time in the world anyways... Excuse me but, how old are ya exactly?"
>[You]: "Fifteen years old. I'm Maria, the commander of our squad. Could I please get your name, sir?"
>[Captain]: "Jesus Christ, so it really is true... Those Empire fuckers are really bringing out little girls to war... Crazy bastards..."
He just completely ignores your question and starts talking to himself.
>[You]: "A-Ahem, anyways, maybe we can reach some sort of compromise and avoid all this fighting, sir? What exactly do you want with that vehicle?"
>[Captain]: "Eh? We want to destroy the super-computer you're transporting, obviously! Well, our original orders were to steal it, but this here machine ain't exactly made to collect anything, and they said we could destroy it if necessary."
You float upwards into the sky, trying to look more intimidating and in control as you look straight into the mech's side ports, where you assume they have a camera placed since it's blinking red.
>[You]: "Perfect! Now, if you could exit your machine, maybe we can discuss ways to-"
>[Captain]: "Exit?! Hehe, no way girlie! After those outta nowhere bombs dropping outta the sky, I ain't leaving this seat even if ya threatened my family. I don't know what kinda brand of super-soldier-future-terminator bullshit y'all are, but I ain't taking any chances!"
>[You]: "V-Very well, but if you've agreed to our truce then that means you want to talk as well, correct? What are your demands?"
>[Captain]: "Smart kid. Mm, well... Probably shouldn't be sharing this with the enemy, but some shady science folks from command were offering big bucks for anyone that brought back one of those goofy suits y'all are wearing intact. With a bonus if it had someone alive inside, who knows what for, don't care either. So here's the deal, y'all give me someone to bring back home, and I pretend those hacking attempts y'all are spamming at me miraculosly worked and shut down our robot enough for the car to get away. Deal?"