In the midst of all the fuss, Tokola had suddenly doubled over with a fit of uncontrollable laughter the moment Ryder insisted everyone operate as a group under his leadership. The idea was absolutely hysterical: almost as hysterical as Tokola's expressions must have been, not to mention the laughter echoing in the chambers. It had taken him longer than a minute to gain control of himself, and even then his control was a bit shaky. "Haaaaaaah, that's a good one, letting a kid and his football be the commander," he says, snickering to himself, though he pauses afterward with a disappointed grumble. "Nope, still here. Guess the robot wasn't kidding. But yeah, if we're dealing with disney, you're probably our best weapon, depending on the android's definition of darkness."
And so Tokola started going with the flow, not paying much mind to the crystals or the urge to choose one that was much more dim than the rest. If several thousand people had chosen correctly and perished, he wasn't going to play along with the choices being made for him for very long. One could say that something about the situation didn't feel quite right, but between the machine introducing everyone to the ordeal that lie ahead of them, the glowing crystals, blinding lights that would have been more than enough to awaken him on any other day, and a human(-oid?) being kept in stasis inside the stones, such a statement might win a suckerpunch to the gut for stating the obvious.
When the girl appeared, Tokola let his eye wander elsewhere: around the chamber, toward the computer, past Willow's wicked-looking scythe, then that large portal-thing that didn't quite lead anywhere before, but suddenly sparked to life while the robot started her monologue about the girl being an anomaly that shouldn't exist. Under normal circumstances Tokola probably wouldn't care one way or the other: to the robot, the guide was just a tool to 'assist' the rest of the group, and probably also for surveillance purposes. That said, between Haneul, Ryder, and Justin (okay, maybe Ryder alone would qualify here) he'd never hear the end of it if he took an apathetic stance on this subject or even took the robot's side in the argument. But what could the robot possibly have meant? Was this Mallory a virus? A spy from the dark side, as it were? If she was to lead the group into darkness, then she would have to know darkness very well while being trapped in stasis inside of a mechanical crystal. But that would drive anybody mad, no? And given the constant name-dropping of disney, a number of creations spawned from human minds, up to and including many horrors that would destroy everything in their paths to obtain power, the most likely outcome was that this girl must also be a human.
Tokola opened his mouth to say something, but again, he felt he was missing an important detail. A cue. Something!
~Two dice-rolls later~
Of course, it was easy to miss the glowing portal behind the group while everyone was focused on this new girl and the robot trying to terminate the process that allowed her to continue existing, but Tokola didn't. While a portion of the group looked to plead for the life of this Mallory, the long-haired male took a quick stretch to get his mind off all the tension in the air. Once focused, he cuts the group off.
"Why in blazes would you appeal to a robot's emotional side," Tokola ponders aloud, backing up to the point that he probably bumps shoulders with somebody. You don't debate with robots: you destroy them. Or if they're weird floating hologram-things and you don't know how they maintain their awareness and ability to control things, then you find a place the robot cannot reach you, or you initiate hostile negotiations. To that end, see-three-pee-oh seems awfully worried about the possibility of Mallory finding her way into the portal.
The robot must not be able to control what happens outside this chamber, Tokola estimates.
"But if she means that much to you guys already then we need to scram!" he suddenly shouts while turning about and taking hold of Han's and Ryder's arms, cringing inwardly at the sudden physical human contact. Assuming Ryder still had a grip on Mallory, when Tokola dashes for the portal he's probably dragging half the group behind him, which probably leads to some complications when he dives headfirst into the portal.
