Chapter 68- A Pulse of new Life on the verge of Death
“Why?” The captain asks.
“Because I need to disappear. Not for my sake, no; but for theirs.” I say, turning to Fade, Silver and Cloud with a gentle smile. “I-I’m done with this.” The flames die down, leaving just smoke hanging low in the air around me, my wings follow suit. “I-I can’t do this anymore, I-I’m finished.” I collapse, my back sliding against the wall as I fall to the floor. “I can’t k-keep going on like this; I-I can’t take it anymore.” The good Doc rushes to my side, the phantom daggers sticking in me dissolve into nothingness. “T-Tend to them first, Doc. I-I’m fine.” I lie like rug, I lie like german rug.
“You’re far from fine!” He retorts, but I just push him away when he tries to help.
“M-Make sure they’re alright first, got it?”
“I can’t just ignore thes-.”
“You can and you will.” I snapback.
“Give me something to help you first!”
“F-Fine... Draw a large ice bath, the colder the better. That will invigorate the virus, stabilizing me until you can get some blood in me.” The Doctor nods before rushing to the captain’s aid, he brushes him off and points to Steel who still unconscious from the backhand. “Captain, w-what’s your name?” He looks at me with a prideful grin.
“Ironhide.” I extend my bloody claw out, he takes one look at it and without hesitation shakes it. “You have my word that I’ll do my best to make sure you stay ‘dead’.” He takes another look at the bloody mare in a messy heap. “She was just a junior knight... She didn’t deserve to die.”
“She’s alive.” Ironhide and Doctor Helping Helping Hoof both stare at me. “Critical, but stable.” Ironhide’s face lights up. “Nyuel.” I called out, she steps out of the crowd of ponies and gryphons.
“Yes Demon?”
“T-There’s a parchment of recipes in Silver’s room, in the top dresser door. A-” I’m tired, so very tired.
“Demon?” I slowly open my eyes to see Nyuel standing in front of me.
“A-At the bottom is a recipe for a vaccine. C-Can you make it for h-her?”
“Certainly Demon.” My eyes lids feel so heavy, like there’s lead weights tied to them.
“T-Thank Nyuel, you’re a good fr-..” I fight to stay awake, its a losing battle, but I must. “Cloud... Fade... Silver... L-Listen to me very--. carefully.” Cloud and Silver fly over to me with haste, but Fade hangs back, holding herself with the most hurtful expression I’ve ever seen. “I-I’m going--.” My eyes just want to stay shut, but I can’t sleep until I say goodbye. “B-Be asleep--. for a v-very long time--.” The door is closing, I can feel the Abyss’ power slipping away. “I-It may--. be for t-two days--. o-or a few months--.” I just need to hang in there for a little bit longer, that’s all I’m asking for. “A-All I ask--. is for y-you girls--. get along...” I can’t hold back it any longer, the great sleep is upon me.
“Nononono! You can’t go to sleep Horror, I won’t allow it!” Silver cries, grabbing hold and shaking me vigorously. “Wake up Horror! Wake up!” So very tired, so very--. “Horror! I need to tell you something...” The great sleep beckons me, I don’t ignore its call. “I’m--.” I pass out before I can hear her finish.
- - -
“Oh Lad, Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.” Friend waves his finger back and forth at me from the comfort of his throne. “You could’ve had it all. All you had to do is kill that meager fleshbag.” I look behind him and off in the distance I see the ethereal gargoyles still hard at work on the gothic church. “But noooOOOooo, you had to be the hero and spare all of their lives! I’m not mad at you. Oh wait, yes I am! I’m also very disappointed in you, Lad.” He leans forward, his disappointed frown twists into a sinister grin.“Ohhh, I know that look! You want something, don’tcha Lad?”
“Bring him back.” Friend leans back into his throne, his grin growing ear to ear.
“Tail? Now why would I do that?”
“Because I’m ordering you to. I’m done asking, I’m demanding!” I’m done playing around, I’m getting what I want for a change.
“But I don’t like him, he’s anti-fun!”
“I don’t give a flying fuck what you want!”
“And what if I decline?”
“I saw how nervous you got when I went to the Abyss. I have the power to destroy you. I am no longer your puppet. I am ordering you t-.”
“Ordering? Me? HA! That’s a good one, Lad!” I ball my fists in anger, the door to the church swings open and I can feel the Abyss’ power washing over me. “Look at you, so pleased with your little bit of grubby power.” He raises from his throne with cane in hand.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg, Friend. The Abyss is limitless and so is it’s power.” Friend takes one step off his soul throne, and everything changes: the church becomes ruined with spirits and geists swarming around it, the black floor becomes mirrored; I look down at my reflection and see a twisted figure of my own soul.
“Fact is, when it comes to pure, naked power, you’re just an amateur!” He takes one step off his throne, revealing his true self: large, leathery, demonic wings branching far out, his horns burning with sickly green flames, large jagged spikes jut off the back of his slowly wagging tail, and the scars seem to protruded from beneath his scales in the same sickly green as the flames.
“Are you challenging me? I own you! You wor-”
“Wrong! I own you! I’m the one thing that’s keeping you alive. You’d be dead a thousand times over if it wasn't for me!” The scars on his wings begin to glow as they flare up. “I want you to know that you’ve wandered off the path. This is where the wild things are and I’ve got your scent!” He roars, taking a step closer to me.
“You’ll give me what I want, or I’ll take it by force!” My ethereal wings come out, Friend merely laughs at me. “Either you make yourself useful or get out! I don’t need your power anymore! You’re obsolete, worthless now!” Friend’s banter comes to an abrupt end, his grin churns into the foulest scoul I’ve ever seen.
“This is all because of that whore! If she never came into the goddamn picture, everything would’ve gone so much smoother! But noooo! You had to change! You had to be the hero! And look what it got you: a couple of whores, pain, suffering, and a broken body!” Friend slandering the ones I hold dearest to my heart, my friends, my loved ones, only fuels the unbridled anger that I have right now. “You will always need me, Lad!”
I’ve had it with him, this is the last straw and I plan on taking everything from Friend, even if it kills him. “Not anymore!” I lunged at him, my wings flap furiously, propelling me towards Friend who just stood there.
He raises his left hand into the air, and with a simple snap of his fingers, the door the Abyss closes, snuffing out my power. In one fluid motion, he takes his cane, hooking it on my horn and sends me crashing to the ground. “I can find you at the edge of the earth, and create unimaginable tortures!” He says, pointing the end of his cane in my face. “And now I’m going to tell you the very worst thing in the universe, something only the dead will know.” He steps on my chest, baring his full weight on it. “You’re nothing more than a catalyst. You may think you have power, but you don’t. Without me, you will never be able to harvest the Abyss’ power to its fullest potential!” Friend raises his cane high into the air with a grin on his face. “You will always need me, the ‘old’ you knew this!” And with that, he swings his cane down, hitting me on the side of the head with full force.
- - -
The non-existent sounds of an empty battlefield covered in a fresh blanket of snow; hiding frozen bodies, empty shells of ruined vehicles, and vacant buildings. I can’t help be feel oddly at peace with myself. Laying here in my perch as snow quietly falls down on the once chaotic hell around me, with my Gauss rifle resting in front of me. I cast my gaze over the ironic scene before me; a gruesome war zone once filled with death now turned beautiful with a simple layer of snow. All is quiet, all is still, enemies hiding from each other while others mend their wounds; not wanting to squander this unspoken armistice that the snow brought with it.
I breath it all in, the cold, crisp air, the scent of diesel fuel and oil pooling together, the smell of smoke from bullets fired not too long ago. I wish that this tranquil scene before me would last forever. It’s a foolhardy wish, I know, but is it too much for one man to hope for? I look up into the dark sky above, clouds are scattered across it as snowflakes fall from them. The moon dips behind passing clouds, casting its shadow down onto the dead land below. My breath hangs in the air like smoke from a cigarette.
A far away scream spoils this quiet night, I quickly take aim and spot a child, a girl no older than nine running out from behind a building, screaming in anguish and terror. Shortly after a man comes running after her, screaming incoherently. “You see him? Three thousand, twenty two meters out.” My spotter calls out.
“Yeah, I see him.”
“Think you can make it?” Roughly two miles away, wind is dead, clear path to the target; I’ve made tougher shots before. “Hold it.” I ease up off the trigger. “Your civilian is in the way.”
“I see her.” Not very much longer, the man is dragging her by the hair back into the building.
“No shot, n-.” I pull the trigger, my Gauss rifle kicks like a mule and the shot soars through the air towards its new home. The man steps foot into the doorway as the bullet rips through its frame and into his chest. “Nice.” What was once a man is now a lifeless corpse, slumping over in a bloody heap in the door. “Girl looks unharmed.” She doesn’t flee, nor does she move, the only thing she does is stare at me. There’s no way she knows where we’re at, but she’s staring right at me, dead in the eyes; it’s the damndest thing.
“Arkis...” A voice, from thin air, so far away but so familiar. “Wake up.” It calls out again, forcing me to listen. “Arkis! Wake up!”
- - -
“Thought we lost you there for a second, bro.” I awake to a dull, crippling pain plaguing my body; like some bad joke that doesn’t have the decency to just die in the room filled with false laughter. “Looked like you were having some kind of dream, here’s a penny.”
“It.. was an old memory from a past long forgotten.”
“How long ago? And about what?”
“Back when I used to smoke. I was still wet behind the ears in the marines, nineteen years old.” It seems like a lifetime ago. “I was given orders to field test a Gauss rifle; saved a girl’s life... That stare she gave me, there was something about it that I will never forget.”
“Sounds pretty hot.” Ice blows out a smoke ring, I could never figure out how to do that myself. “You look like shit.”
“China will do that to a man.” We both share a laugh, Tiny just stands there not knowing what’s going on. “Looks like you didn’t have any trouble getting here.”
“Nope, only a few hot little assistants stood in my way, that’s about it.” Well lucky you. “You fit for duty, soldier boy?” Ice says sarcastically.
“Fit enough to kick your ass.” Tiny helps me to my feet. I brush myself off and we made our way down the hallway towards a fairly large metal door.
“So, how do you plan on making this girl spread her legs wide open for us?”
“You’re the ladies man, wouldn’t this be more your expertise?”
“Maybe we should knock first?” Tiny suggests, already reaching out to the door.
“And what would that accomplish?” Tiny shrugs before banging his large fists against the metal door. “I don’t have time for this!” A phrase I’ve said one too many times in the past hour. “Warwick! Open this damn door! I know you’re watching us!” I bang my fists furiously against the door, only to be answered by the dull thud. “I. Said. Open. Up!” I hear the the metal locks disengage, the metal door cracks open with the sound of hydraulics hissing.
“Please, come on in. We’ve been waiting.”
- - -
Heavy? No. Heavy isn't a strong enough word to explain how my body feels right now; eyes welded shut, unable to open. Body weighed down, joints stiff, I fell petrified. Aches and pains in places that I’ve forgotten could hurt. Searing, yet familiar, agony in my lower back; the kind of pain I felt back in Unyasi. Every breath I take hurts; each one causes pain to flare up in my chest. The sting of an IV being stuck into one of my forearms is bliss compared to what I’m feeling right now. Even the tube shoved down my trachea feels better compared to how much I hurt right now. It feels like I’ve been hit by a truck, put through the wringer, then into a grinder. After that’s all said and done, it still doesn’t even come close to how much pain I’m in.
“Can... May...” Silver... sounds so distorted, at a loss for words.
“Yeah... Come on everypony.” Cloud... so many things I want to say, but I can’t. “Fade... come, leaving his side for a few minutes won’t kill him.” My heart sinks into my stomach when I hear her name. I don’t know if I should rejoice that she hasn’t left yet or if I should be scared that she’s only staying because I asked her to. “Call me if you need anything, okay?”
“Thanks...” Silver sounds so distant, so far away it’s hard to hear her at all. “I... don’t know if you can hear me... I like to think that you can...” She takes my hand into her talons, firmly holding it. “I don’t know what to say... I-.” A tear, a single tear runs down her cheek and lands on my chest. “I’m all twisted up inside, happy, angry, crestfallen...” Another one lands right next to it. “I wish I looked away... when you... killed my father.” She squeezes my hand with her claws. “I didn’t even know who you were during that fight... you... were a different person entirely.” She squeezes even tighter now as the tears begin to flow. “I-I hate seeing you like this!” She cries. “I-I never w-wanted this...” Silver breaks down into tears, her head buried in my chest as she weeps. “W-Why did you do it?! Why!” She screams into my chest. Time creeps along at a snail’s pace while Silver cries. I try to move my arm, but my body refuses to obey. I force what little power I can scrounge from the slightly opened door to the Abyss, but I fall short. I wish I could comfort Silver, or the very least open my eyes. But alas, I’m a prisoner in my own body. “I-I...I...I love you, 27.” Silver raises her head off my chest, eyes red and puffy, cheeks stained with tears. “I-I’m glad we did the ritual, we’ll always have each other with the union we’ve created.” The gears in my head grind together as they come to a screeching halt.
The door to the Abyss swings wide open, flooding me with it’s power. “What?!” My eyelids rip open, I yank the tube out of my throat, nearly throwing up in the process. Silver freezes when she sees me set up. “We’re married?! Why didn’t you tell me this!?” I yelled, standing up in her bed. My legs feel like they’re filled with lead, it takes everything I have just to take one baby step. “Answer me!” Honestly? I’ve never felt so betrayed before. I would’ve been fine with it if she told be prior to it, instead of tricking me into it.
“I-I...” Silver staggers backwards, away from the bed as I take another step. I rip out the IVs sticking in my arms, my stitched wounds tear open and blood spills out onto the floor. “H-H-H-.”
“T-T-T-Today Junior!” I yelled again and the door to Silver’s room slides open, both Cloud and Fade run into the room with haste. “You! Did she tell you this?!” I screamed, pointing at the both of them.
“27, calm d-.”
“NO! Don’t you dare tell me to calm down!” I snarled at Cloud who doesn’t hide from my attack.
“You need to rest 27, y-.”
“Fuck my well being! What else are you hiding from me?!” Overwhelming power fills my right arm, it violently shakes and I struggle to keep hold of it.
“That’s it, Lad! Do it! Take all you can take, then take some more!” It feels as if every fiber in my arm is being shredded like string cheese. Each scale rises, not to vent off flames or smog, but instead to vent of pure, physical power; it shimmers in the air around my arm like heated air on a long stretch of road during a hot summer’s day in the desert. “Come on Lad! You’re almost there!”
“Subject 27.” Fade whispers as she walks towards me.
“S-Stay back!” This is just too much power for even me to control; I’m afraid I’ll lose it at any second.
“I need to tell you something.” Fade is in arm’s reach now.
- - -
“Yes... YES! Do it! Lash out! Murder her! Destroy her and become a demon, Lad! DO IT!” His mad laugher booms in my head. “Let’s count down together! Ten! Nine! Eight!”
- - -
“S-Stay back! I-I’m warning you!” I pleaded, but Fade doesn’t falter.
“27.” She reaches out for my trembling arm, not worried at the sight of power radiating from it.
- - -
“Seven! Six! Five!” Friend continues to count down to my demise. I can see him jumping up in the air, kicking his heels together while simultaneously doing a backflip. “Four! Three!”
- - -
“I am with child.” She places my trembling hand on her swollen stomach. Everything comes crashing down around me when I feel that first tiny pulse of energy inside of her.
“W-What?” Another small pulse causes my brain to overload.
“Yes, we’re going to have a baby!”
- - -
“Overload?! WHAT?! Stop!” Everything turns blue, and I faint. “A problem has been detected and Subject 27 has been shutdown to prevent any damage to your host. - Drivier_Dmg_Not_Less_Or_Equal - If this is the first time you’ve seen this error screen, restart your host, if this screen appears again, follow these steps: Check to make sure any new hardware or software is properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer. - If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press F8 or Delete to select advanced startup options, and then select safe mode. - Beginning dump of physical memory - Physical memory dump complete - Have a nice day!” Friend sits back in his chair, staring at a blue screened monitor. “What does this even mean?!”
- - -
“Welcome Arkis and friends!” Warwick greets us with open arms, standing high up on a plateau, flanked by horrors of all flavors; there’s the beef castle that’s been giving us so much trouble, the one with the long tail with teeth hidden away, and one hiding behind the beef castle with her head peeking up over his shoulder. “Let me introduce you to my friends! This monstrosity here to my left is Rex; Obliterator. You already know Bob, he’s a Shredder, and this frightened one on Rex’s back is Katie; Nourisher.” I’ve haven’t been this close in many years, and this will be the last time I’ll ever need to, I’ll make sure of it. “Oh! There’s one more, but she’s quite ill, you can meet her later.”
“Where is she!” I barked.
“Who?”
“You damn well know who!”
“Alex? Well you’re two minutes too late. So the short of it-.” Quicker than greased lightning, I grab one of my vorpal blades and hurl it at him. The ‘Obliterator’ sees this and intercepts it, but the blade slices right through his massive shoulder and lands true.
- - -
“Alex? Well you’re two minutes too late. So the short of it-.” I don’t even see it coming, but Rex does. He steps in front of me, I don’t have the slightest clue why but the next thing I see is a fountain of blood spraying from his shoulder and a foreign pain in my chest. I look down to see a blood soaked blade protruding from my chest; its blade pointing at a downward angle and its handle rests next to my cheek. “I-It seems that I’ve been s-stabbed.” Is the only thing I say before collapsing to the ground. Grey seeps into the corner of my eyes as blood begins to pool around me.
Everyone stands there in shock and horror, not knowing what to do. Rex slowly stands up, brushing off the attack like it was nothing. Katie rushes to his aid, he only gives her the cold shoulder and she then shifts her attention onto me. “F-Father?!” It still bothers me greatly when they call me by that name, this time is no exception. Katie freezes on the spot, Bob knows exactly what to do, he rushes over and grabs a vile of S-729.
“Click click, click click, click!” He dashes back over, filling a syringe and shows it to me, I give him a weak nod; knowing what consequences are in store for me for using too much S-729. “Click...” Bob plunges it into my heart, injecting it straight into the bloodstream. “Click, click click click, click.” He orders Rex to watch over me while he leaves to warm up the Hydra for our departure.
“Rex, help me get Father to his feet.” Katie frantically says, struggling to do so by herself. Rex, as gently as he could, lifts me up with one arm and grabs the sword, waiting for my approval before pulling it out. “Hold still Father, going to apply pressure to stop the bleeding.” My vision envelopes with grey, I’ve lost too much blood. Fearful for my chances of survival I look Katie dead in the face.
“K-Katie, inject me with your needles.” She’s reluctant, unsure to obey or not. “D-Do it!”
“Okay...” Katie whispers, three needles shoot off, they fly into my wound and a few seconds later the bleeding slows down to a trickle. I lean on Katie, making my way over railing I see the grimace look upon Arkis’ face.
- - -
My heart drops and stomach contorts into knots when I see Warwick still alive. He’s pale white, lab coat covered in blood, and gash on the right side of his upper chest. “Why won’t you just die!?” My own words tasted bitter to me, might as well since they’re filled with venom.
“You know the answer-.”
“Don’t you dare utter another word!”
“We Freeman’s are stubborn ones when it comes to death, isn’t that right? Big brother?” Something inside of me snaps, I throw my other vorpal blade at him, it swiftly flies through the air but the Obliterator shoves Warwick out of the way.
“You haven’t been my brother since we were kids, not after what you did!” I snarled. “All I want, all I ever wanted is to see you dead!”
“Not now, no. Not when there’s so much work to be done big brother! Now, if you look to your left you’ll notice six primed and armed missiles.” He gestures with a wave of his hand. “One each aimed at the United Kingdom, Australia, Greenland, Canada, South America, and two for North America.” My worst nightmare came true, he hacked my PDA and found the Missile Defense Codes. “You’ve been quite the busy assassin to obtain these, haven’t you?”
- - -
“You’re going to start World War Three!’ Arkis yells.
“On the contrary big brother, China is going to start World War Three, not I.” One minor detail that I’m going to leave out. Oh who am I kidding? I can’t keep this juicy secret secret any longer. “What do these missiles look like to you?”
“Nuclear bombs that you stole from China!” There’s this odd sensation surging through my body, dizziness from the blood loss mixed with this comforting warmth brought from Katie’s needles.
“Oh no, these are no ordinary nuclear bombs. I’ve repurposed them into hive cluster missiles, each one housing one hundred smaller missiles that hold the Horror virus in them. And no, President Hu Jintao gave me these missiles along with everything else you see!”
“And what does he get in return for backing you? World domination? Your little creations as super soldiers?”
“Hu Jintao saw the true potential in the Horror virus, so did my other clients before you assassinated them. They want to remove the cancerous growth that is known as the Black Death; your employers. It’s embedded in the core of our world’s politics, economics, world affairs, religion, everything. A tyrant amongst us all, dictating almost everything!”
“You’ve killed thousands, no, millions of people with your experiment! Innocent people have died because of you!”
“Thats what people do!” I struggle to speak, the side effects of S-729 are clouding my mind. “I’m afraid I must cut this short, brother. I’ve got a Hydra to catch. Before I do, let me give you a little present. It’s behind the door in front of you. And I think I’m going to hold onto your PDA. Since Alex trashed my laptop, I’m going to need a new storage device.” I turn around, typing in the launch codes and the alarms blare as the missile silo doors open up. “I’ll see you in the states, brother!” Rex carries me out to the Hydra, we board and Bob closes the bay door and we take off.
- - -
When I wake up, I’m still worse for wear. It’s a sense of relief when I open my eyes. It’s dark in the room, I can see fine though, there’s medical equipment around me. I’m not in some hospital, no, I’m in Silver’s bed. I feel a small pulse in the palm of my hand, I look over to see Fade, holding my right hand to her as she slept. I don’t know how long I’ve been out, or how long she’s been by my side; a part of me hopes that she never left me, another part knows that it isn’t true. The fog is lifted from my mind when another pulse hits, and the sudden realization dawns on me that I’m going to be a dad. I look back up to Fade, her hair draped down around her, sitting perfectly still as he slept; she looked so peaceful, I don’t dare remove my hand in fear of waking her.
I feel a tap on my other shoulder, I jerk over just to see an empty room, another tap on my right shoulder, I look over to see a sleeping Fade. A third tap on the top of my head and I look up to see Tail, of all people happily wagging above me. A thousand things I wanted to say, to do, but I couldn’t open my mouth to speak. Tail pantomimes looking over me. After he finishes, I grab hold of him with my one free arm and hug him; Tail returns the hug with one of his own. He points to Fade’s stomach, then making himself into a question mark; I don’t know how to answer his question because I don’t really know myself.
Tail gently brushes against Fade’s cheek, slowly Fade opens her eyes and I pretend to be asleep. “Don’t wake him Tail, 27 need his rest.” Fade whispers in a hushed tone. Tail gives her a suggestive push towards the bed. “I’m fine right here Tail.” Tail shakes his tip and gives her another push. “Tail I--!” He’s persistent, I’ll give him that. Tail gingerly coils around Fade, picking her up and laying her next to me. “Fine...” She murmurs. Tail pushes Fade closer to me, she quickly warms up and lays her head on my chest. I can feel her stomach pressed up against my side, the tiny pulses flickr sporadically at times. Slowly, I fell back asleep, lulled by the pulses of my unborn child.
- - -
Warwick locked down the command console, I was unable to cancel the launch. Helplessly, we stood there, watching the beginning of War World Three; no one spoke, all we could hear were the missiles’ engines roar through the building. It was an almost deafening sound. I felt many things as I watched, helplessness was one of them. The missiles’ exhaust shook the foundation as the roared through the open silos and into the opens skies. The alarms die down, everything seems to just stop altogether.
The sound of the metal doors hissing open intrudes on this gut churning moment. Quickly, we all turned to see a room with Alex laying on the floor. “Alex?!” I bolted towards her, my mind told me she was dead, but I didn’t heed its call. “Alex!” I come to a sliding stop, already on my knees checking to see if she’s alive. My breath catches in my throat when I place my finger on her pulse, I pray to whomever is listening that she’s alive. Then I feel it, her pulse. “Oh thank God!” I sighed in relief. “She’s alive!” Ice places his hand on my shoulder, I look up to see a cigarette in his smug smile.
“Want us to leave you alone?” He says with his smug smile growing ever larger. “Or you know, I could stand here and watch, up to you.”
“I hate China..” I say, gripping Alex tight to my chest.
“Hey buddy... Hmm what do you make of these?” Ice Cube points and I follow. My eyes fall on six alien-looking suits in these tubes. “Are these the ‘gifts’ that Warwick left us?”
“I don’t know. Take them, we’ll have Mouse check them out.”
“What about the big guy?”
“Who, Tiny?”
“Wha-? Sorry, wasn't paying attention.” Tiny says, poking at the tubes.
“Care to join us? You’d be reunited with Mouse again.”
“Okay.” That was easy.
“Let’s get the hell out of here.” I take Alex in my arms, Ice and Tiny both secure the suits and we take our leave.
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frieD195 - Tsujin Rilauco