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Chapter Four: Fork In The Road
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Jack awoke from whatever deep slumber he was in, only remembering the events back at the base. He awoke suddenly, blinking and seeing Faye sleeping in the passenger’s seat of Betty next to him, looking back to see Geralt resting. He realized the last day he’s been unconscious, somehow walking, talking, and flying, judging by how he had been piloting this ship towards what looked like Midzog’s base for the children. He realized his mental trauma had began to deeply affect him, sometimes making him simply disappear within himself.
“Hey, wake up.” Jack said, prodding her in the shoulder.
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“Ok?”, she said stairing confused at Parpara (what does she look like?)
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“Yup~” Malice says letting Parapara continue biting and breaking her bones.
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*Pandora watched totoaly flabbergasted, she flinched at each crack as she bones Brock*”Um”, she said nervously, her wings twitched.
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Faye squirms a bit, her eyes fluttering open, “Mmrrggnn…” Faye looks at Jack, then to the course they were headed to… “Jack…I just had the worst dream…the OGA had killed about 1.2 trillion people or something…and my home planet was stuck in the mix of it…crazy, huh?”
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Malice looked at her curiously “What’s wrong?”
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“Sorry but that happened. Right now Apollo’s on it. We’re far out right now, looks like the new base they’re using for the kids to experiment on is pretty deep in the middle of fucking nowhere, so I don’t have any comms that are working currently that we can use to talk to them with. It’s just you, me and Geralt. Judging by the last time we went on this mission, you betrayed me, and since Geralt doesn’t like me too much either, I’ll be taking this since my chances are kinda low.” Jack pulled her pistol out of her belt, holding one hand on the steering wheel and disassembling the gun with only one hand.
“Nice weapon, but I’m not gonna let you shoot me again. We need to rescue these kids. So I’m gonna park Betty on the planet once we get there, and then we’ll come up with a plan.” Jack said.
“By the way, have I been acting…any…different, lately?” Jack asked, still wondering about the massive amount of time he’s been unconscious.
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Faye’s eyes widen, looking at Jack, “Y-You mean that actually happened?! T-The OGA got rid of…” Her eyes started to water as she looked back at the course they were headed to…Was her family okay? Was her dream a warning or a fluke?
Faye looks and sees the pistol get disassembled, but she was in a bit of shock at the moment, still questioning if her family was alive…
Faye then calms down after a bit, “Wait, were you there when Mizdog gave his little speech on excommunicating me?” She looks back at him, a curious look on her face. Was that another reason why he still didn’t trust her? Did he hear the message?
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Geralt wakes up in the back of the cockpit. As he lifts his head he sees Faye and Jack. Where am I? He can’t remember anything, his mind seeming to… leave him. His memories are lost to him, he can’t remember how long it’s been since he last saw Faye… Or was that Katherine? Maybe I can ask Rose and Jack here what’s going on. As far as Geralt is concerned, it’s been a year… Hell, it could’ve been just five hours, who is he to remember? Geralt rises from his spot and walks towards Jack and Faye, still thinking that Faye is Rose and Rose is Faye. He notices Jack has taken Faye’s pistol and decides to keep his weapons close by. He decides to sling them onto his back… And finds them missing. He is unarmed. Shit, my babies… Why do I have this overwhelming urge to claw Jack’s face off? I don’t even know why I have this urge. He then sees Faye start to tear up and puts a hand on her shoulder whilst rubbing her cheek with his tail. There there, Rose.
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“I know you were on the OGA. You know, it’s fuckin’ rough to lose your family, but it’s kinda what you get. I mean, your precious organization you blindly followed, almost killed me for, just blew up your fuckin’ planet. I know it’s hard to realize, Faye, but you’re one of the bad guys. As soon as you realize that, jobs like this get easier. You betrayed me, cost the well-being of around three-hundred, maybe four-hundred kids that are currently getting tortured. You’re pretty fucked up as a person, and that’s coming from me! Your family’s gone, and that’s why I should trust you. Because yeah, you did totally just cost some kids back there, but I doubt after what just happened, you’re not gonna do it again.” Jack looked at Geralt, waking.
“Morning, Sunshine.” Jack smiled at him, putting a hand on Faye’s shoulder.
“I’m sorry. I know I’m acting like a cock, but sometimes I need to be rough. You’re a bad guy. Geralt’s a bad guy. Ody’s a bad guy. I’m a bad guy. Bad people need to do good sometimes to make the world a little better off than when they started.” Jack reassembled the gun, holding it out for her to grab, looking her in the eyes.
“At this point, no more jokes. No more fights. I’m sick of fighting my teammates. From this point on, we trust each other. I will do my best to keep you both from dying as your teammate. From this point on, we need to trust each other.”
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Faye glares at Jack as he gives his reasoning, trying to control herself. A tear falls down her cheek, wanting to claw Jack for what he said… She had made a mistake, but what does her family have to do with this!? No, we were all wrong in this… There is no good or evil, only law and chaos… And here she was with the wielder of Chaos… She had another dream that came to mind, but she needed more people…
For now, she’d have to deal with Jack. Weather he died or not, it didn’t matter anymore… She takes the pistol, holstering it as she looked at Geralt, “Huh? Oh, hey Geralt…”
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“Um, it’s just…Ima just guess that its Ok”, she said fast walking away awkwardly, then her stumek growled, Pandora moved to the kitchen part of the ship and searched the pantry all she found was space food in little packets, Pandora shrugged and eight a pouch of the dryer food then went to the cockpit, she waved at everyone*”So when can we kick more OGA ass?”, she asked smiling.
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(Gold, Raven, Natalie and I are in a completely different place than you are.)
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Geralt continues to comfort Faye. With a confused voice he asks Jack Jack, why do I feel like I want to claw your face off right now? And also, how long has it been since we saw Faye and Katherine and Malice last? I can’t remember much except the ship, being in some sort of hologram, and hundreds of millions of deaths. What has happened? Geralt looks around and notices it’s only him, Jack, and Faye. And where is everyone else?
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“Faye’s home planet’s been blown to hell, we’re on our way to get those kids back to Chiron-5, apprehend Midzog and finally get him to tell us what the fuck he’s planning. The random attacks, the ballsier moves, lately…I know he’s planning something.”
