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re_alignment2012-09-06 09:11 pm
thxforthememories) wrote in re_alignment2012-09-06 09:11 pm
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video; | backdated to mid-morning on the 6th
[Tadaaa. It's the resident ninja robot. Who's sitting up on the roof of the medbay's temple thing, studying his hand.]
I think I've recovered by now...
[A beat, and he regards the video feed, calmly.]
... I'm tired of sitting here, being useless. It's time I started living. And so... I want to try it. The fuel everyone here uses. "Energon".
Is there somewhere you all go to find it?
[PRIVATE | flagged to BRAVE POLICE and TOMONAGA YUUTA]
I've been offered... recently... the chance to join your team. By two of your number. When I was asked, I wasn't sure what I wanted. Or if your offer was sincere.
[He falls silent. This isn't easy to say.]
If... so. If you will still have me...
I accept.
I think I've recovered by now...
[A beat, and he regards the video feed, calmly.]
... I'm tired of sitting here, being useless. It's time I started living. And so... I want to try it. The fuel everyone here uses. "Energon".
Is there somewhere you all go to find it?
[PRIVATE | flagged to BRAVE POLICE and TOMONAGA YUUTA]
I've been offered... recently... the chance to join your team. By two of your number. When I was asked, I wasn't sure what I wanted. Or if your offer was sincere.
[He falls silent. This isn't easy to say.]
If... so. If you will still have me...
I accept.
[Private]
I... see. We have that in common too... then.
[He misses him too. Had missed him. Since the moment he'd left. But there hadn't been a choice.]
What do you mean? They -- used me? Against... the rest of you?
[Kagerou, you have no idea how accurate a statement that is.]
Do you know any others?
[Private]
[With...some of them. He's still not sure how the time difference works.] So he can see you, again. [And so you can see him.]
Excellent Corporation did that, yes. It is not a pleasant tale. [It was hard to go through, too, though not as hard for him as it was for others. He wants to make sure you're ready for it, though.]
Wing has been very helpful to me in the past. [And with a name like Wing, he had to be a flyer.] Drill Boy also has an alternate mode that can fly. [Since it would also be good for two earth bots to share something in common, he thinks.]
[Private]
[There's no hesitation. Not this time. This time... he knows exactly what he wants.]
[A step forward.]
... My design was meant to be shared with Shadowmaru. No one else. Not... those humans.
[--because he's under the impression it was only his basic design they used. Not his actual frame. No one's mentioned that part.]
Wing. I know him. We've spoken before. [His head tilts.] Does he?
[Private]
[McCrane is glad to hear the assertion. You sound a bit more collected than you did last time, which is why he'll go into more detail, now.]
I know. The two of you were a secret project, weren't you?
I think that Shinjo of Excellent Company knew about it, either way. When he stole you...he used everything he got. [And then Victim had taken it, and used even more.]
Wing is a very level-headed and kind individual. I think he'd love to fly with you...
And Drill Boy likes to show off, so I am certain he'd take you up on an offer, also. It could be fun. [And fun seems like something you need. Badly.]
[Private]
[Just a little. But even this is a delicate thing.]
Yes. We were. We were never even let out. When I left -- it was the first time I'd... ever seen the world.
[And then he died. His life. What is it.]
I... what? Everything...?
[And just like that, the hesitation is back. Nice work there, McCrane.]
I'm going to do it. With him. He's already asked me to... so... I won't have to bother Drill Boy.
[Private]
[Because he's sure they will, when they return.]
Yes. It was everything. He put a destructive processor into your body, and took your SUPER AI to power his submarine.
[He's not trying, he promises! He just doesn't want to disguise the truth from you, either.]
I'm glad. [That you get to fly with Wing, not that you won't be bothering Drill Boy.]
[Private]
What... do you mean... destructive processor...?
[He's going to regret asking this.]
[Private]
It seemed to goad your body into attacking. Specifically, into attacking members of the Brave Police.
[Private]
[Let him process this for a second.]
You -- it was only you four.
Wasn't it?
[It would be so much easier, somehow, if that were true.]
[Private]
[He shakes his head.]
Kagerou, do you want me to continue?
[Because you really, really won't like what he has to say next.]
[Private]
[He doesn't. Say anything. He can't say anything. He wants to scream, he wants to apologize. If it were possible, he would be sick.]
[... all he'd wanted was to live.]
[Why did everything have to go so wrong?]
No...
[Private]
[Because ignoring things totally makes them go away. Right?]
[Private]
[His words are soft. He doesn't know...really...what else to say.]
[Private]
[Something about that phrase apparently sets him off. Because...]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry -- I'm sorry...
I never wanted -- I'm sorry!