Cave Story 21: Operation Saving-Balrog

"Balrog! Balrog?" Curly stared, wide eyed, at the motionless grey soap bar. She banged on the iron bars, her mind clouded with so much desperation she could not think straight.
Quote felt himself getting colder for some reason, and he took out the Spur and prepared to charge up to shoot at the cage. The strange thing is, he seemed to be aiming straight at Balrog.
"WAIT!" Curly pushed the gun down. Quote stared at her. "you're aiming the wrong way!"

Curly then thought she heard a bit of thumping coming from one of the cupboards, but she dismissed it as one of her malfunctioning hearing sensors.
Quote ignored her warnings, and charged up his spur, before he released the trigger at his friend...

"QUOTE!!" Curly screamed, and the lazer broke the iron bars, and straight at the unconscious Balrog. Curly watched in horror as the lazer shot Balrog, and he exploded into pieces.

Curly felt her head getting more heated up, as she glared at Quote. "YOU... YOU TRAITOR!" she wanted to pick her machine gun up and shoot him dead, but she controlled herself, and dropped the weapon. The android then gave him a killer look, and prepared to crawl into the cage.
However, Quote held her back, gripping her arms tightly.

"What are you doing--!?" Curly screamed at him. Quote did not reply, but he pointed at the remains of the giant creature on the iron bars. There was nothing but screws, burnt wires, damaged metal coverings and a few destroyed devices.

"... Balrog was made up of... ... metal?" Curly covered her mouth. "He's a robot... just like us...?"

Quote gave her an amusing look, and started to smile.
"W-what's so funny!?" Curly cried. Just then, she heard the thumping sounds again, this time loud and clear. She recognised the arrogant knocking of the cupboards, just like...

"Balrog!" she rushed over, and opened every cupboard she could see, whether gigantic or tiny. There were merely minor experiments and documents, but she knew Balrog was in here somewhere... where is he?

She then pulled one of the large cupboards, but it was locked tight. Deep within, she knew that he was in there, waiting for his friends to save him. "Balrog, are you there!?" she cried.

A faint muffled voice came from the very cupboard she was trying to yank open right now.

Quote heard it, then raised his gun again, shot at the lock, and it shattered into a million pieces.
Out came Balrog, wide eyed, wrapped in chains and in a giant clear plastic bag, as his face slammed onto the floor.