Apollo shut his eyes for a moment and then opened them. The activation was still going on, but the output had gone from the combat mode to a lower one.
This was the version of the system that ran when the person using it was busy with something other than fighting. And Rex could already see that Apollo had a lot of weaknesses from his mental state.
Rex thought. "I fucking knew it... main characters who act like this really need to die fast."
"What a fucking joke."
"Kaelira," Apollo said. "Why would you do such a thing to her?"
"That was a Mordecai operation," Rex said, which was true in the most useful sense available to him. "My role was information, and the execution was not mine."
"You provided them with information about her position."
Rex said nothing.
"You knew what they were going to do with it."
Rex still didn't say anything, which in Xavier's mind was a certain kind of answer: yes, and I'm not going to make up a delightful story about it for you.
