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One New Notification!

[About a day after Cece's message arrives, another small blip! cuts its way through whatever conversations the Airlocked! survivors might be having. But it isn't happening in the space limo this time - it's on the Temerity proper. Some of you are more acquainted with the computer system here, so you should know what that sound means.

You have new Spitter messages!]

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[ FN-21... wait a second-- ]

That's-- Finn-kun! And the rest of them, they're from your game, aren't they?

Y...Yes...! Lightning and Bolton...M-Max was...from Bolton and Jamie's...

[But how is it possible?!]

This... this is a trick. They have to know by now we're planning something even if they don't know what. They're trying to lure us back and keep us quiet.

Of course they are. But...

[But it's Lightning. It's Bolton. Max, and Finn, even if she never met Finn. It's friends and family.]

...If it's the real deal...I can't let it stand as it is. I won't.

[ a shake of the head. ]

No. If there's even the slightest chance of us being able to save them then we need to try. We're not leaving anyone behind.

And... It's a lead if nothing else, isn't it?

It is.

[Thank God she's not alone in this. Thank God.]

Of course it's a trick. But there's no way they don't already know where we are. And this might be the only lead we get.

So... we need to follow it.

[ Is she terrified? Yes. But it's a spark of fire in the dark, an indication of something they can do. They'd be fools to miss this chance. ]

We just have to make sure we're smarter about it than the Network is.

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Or at the very least, that we can hit harder and run faster.

You think they would've learned when we blew up the mansion. Maybe we need to put on a repeat performance to make the message really sink in.

Rii-san...

You know what would probably make one hell of an accelerant?

[He points a thumb towards wherever the Temerity's engines are located.]

Rocket fuel.

Th-that seems ill-advised!

[WHY IS THIS HAPPENING]

Everything we do is ill-advised, Arianna-chan. Has it really taken you this long to realize that?

I would very much prefer not to have to escape an explosion while low on fuel because we used the fuel to create the explosion!

We'd use spare fuel to cause the explosion, of course. Honestly, you make it sound like we're completely reckless.

[ there's good reason for that, Yuuri. ]

I--

Y--

[HOW AND WHEN DID ARIANNA BECOME THE RESPONSIBLE SIBLING]

I did promise him fireworks.

[ She puts on the most innocently scandalized face. ]

You're not telling me to go and break a promise are you?

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misanthropicprinciple - 2017-07-18 18:43 (UTC) - Expand

We'll top off before we get there! Goodness. There's no need to yell, Arianna.

Do you intend to make everything explode?!

[THIS PATTERN IS BEGINNING TO WORRY HER, JUST SAYING]

We have enough trouble without whatever passes for a police force around here to start chasing us.

[THANK YOU]

[They don't even have id if they get arrested.]

...let's call that Plan C for now, yeah? Most of the people at this thing are gonna be innocent, more or less.

[Of course he's been here, what are you talking about.]

[THANK YOU AS WELL]

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