Tyki carefully lowered himself back into his chair, pretty sure that nothing had come of the glowing light. He figured Rufus must have pulled back on whatever he was preparing to do, and jumping the man definitely wasn't high on his list of things to do right now, especially since Rufus could easily do a lot more than punch him in the nuts right now and there would be nothing Tyki could do to stop him.

His lips pressed together tightly as he listened to Rufus' words. He doubted that anything he could say would help at this point. Asking Rufus for any kind of forgiveness on Zechs' behalf would likely be counterproductive, considering how much of an ass he'd been to Rufus up to now.

Though why Rufus was threatening to kick him off the planet, he didn't know. He hadn't been here, creating evil computer programs and going through Rufus' records instead of doing his job. He'd been in a damned hospital!