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 [It was gone.

It was a quick glance at first, but a quick glance turned into a thorough search.  Going through it back and forth. Mirage didn't have all the time in the world, but he needed that last bit of reassurance before he met up with Sideswipe. And it wasn't there.]

Rung's name is no longer on the Link's roster.

[This was not how this was supposed to go...]

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... What?

[After everything that happened, everything that was going to happen... this is the very last thing he wanted to hear.]

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[Now there's a new voice. Still, he doesn't really want to break the bad news, at least not right now. And he can tell from the tone in his voice...

Best to peel this band-aid off right.]

His name is no longer a choice on the Link's list of names.


Mi dispiace, mio amico.

voice;

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... No.

No, he's not gone. He's just -- it's got to be a glitch!

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It could be.

[His voice is rather droll on the subject. He'd lost both Ratchet and Ironhide to this, after all.]

Perhaps he wandered off?

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It has to be!

Then I'm going to find him!

[You'd think he'd never lost anyone to this place, with how he's reacting.]

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Farfalla, please.

I will have someone look. You are...on the police force, yes? You have other duties at this time.

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He's my friend!

I need to find him! I don't -- he's important!

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I understand. If I were in your position, it would be me out there searching.

[Really, he won't mince words.]

But the police force needs you.

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I --

He's my friend! I can't leave him. I can't do ... I can't do nothing for him.

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What would he want you to do, Farfalla?

Doing what he wants is not nothing. It is everything.

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To... to live.

He wanted me to do a lot of things... that I don't know if I can.

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Mm. I know what that is like. I had a mentor who wanted me to do things that I thought I would never accomplish.

Heh...I still haven't in some aspects. Silly, no?

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A... mentor?

You haven't? But you're like him. You're living... like he is.

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Ahahaha! Farfalla, what does that make you?

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I don't know.

I don't know anymore.

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Is not a hard concept.

If you are not dead, you are alive.



Unless you are rock. Are you a rock?

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No... I'm not a rock.

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Then you are alive.

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...

It's that simple to you?

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I am no scientist. If something has independent thought, they are already above plants. Plants are alive, no?

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They are?

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...Yes.


Plants are alive.

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I didn't know that...

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Mmhmm. There are many definitions of 'alive'.

Why debate it? It's too much thinking.

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Because it always seemed important to others.