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[rassera]

"Oi, it's me. Leave something here, would ya?"

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[iamtetsuo]

[He has to hold on. All he can concentrate on is the torturous amount of trauma inflicted on his whole body, and his desperate determination to not fall to it. His throat burns. His chest feels like it's caving in on itself. He can't feel any part of his body if it doesn't actively hurt. No matter how hard he fights, this isn't something he can win. He can't even grab Pan to take that bastard with him! His power just won't cooperate one way or the other like this.

It's almost like the swear in...

Back then, Wanda had called Tetsuo a hurricane. It was an accurate description as any; all force and fury. Tetsuo liked it. It fit.

But all hurricanes share the same weakness. They can't last.

No matter how hard they try.



The darker the forest around him gets, the more his conviction grows, along with the distance between then. While Kaneda sounded like he was right next to him a minute ago, now he sounds like he's drawing farther away, taking his life and energy with him until Tetsuo's left in a rapidly dimming world.]

< Wait! Don't go! KANEDA!! >

[Kaneda's right there! Tetsuo can still feel his presence! He's past thought now, working solely on instinct. He can't remember why he didn't think Kaneda would do anything. He can't remember why ... a lot of things, right now. His head's too full of fog. Only one thing matters now.]

< I don't want to die... >

[If he can just manage to reach him, Tetsuo's dying mind insists, Kaneda would make it okay somehow. Why? Because... because Kaneda was Kaneda...

...and that's what Kaneda does...

The connection breaks just before Tetsuo's body hits the ground.]

[rassera]

[The nausea was dizzying, and it was hard to see through the traffic and pedestrians that seemed to move out of his way as he walked. For as much as Nonah loved to compliment their imPorts, they could see something was very, very wrong with this one, the way he's dashing through the crowds, feet thumping hard on the sidewalk just to make sure he's keeping his balance.

He had to get to the forest. He just had to. Tetsuo needed him.

That's all that matters.

That's all that ever DID back in Neo Tokyo.


But when Tetsuo calls, there's an eerie distance between them now, as if Tetsuo himself was fading away. The thought makes his heart jump, the sickness in his stomach now rising up to his whole body.]

< Tetsuo, hold on...! I'll save you, just h-->


[But it's cut like a lifeline, all thoughts in his head that were Tetsuo's, disappeared only to be filled with emptiness.

And a second later, a sharp pain goes through his whole body, starting in his stomach and surging through his arms, up to his heart and wrapping it in pain. His legs, which could run faster than any military soldier could dream, stop dead as he drops to his knees, only his hands strong enough to keep him from collapsing. He wants to vomit, the nausea too much to bear.


It was like something inside him, quite literally died.]


TETSUOOOOO!!!