[Episode 233549] [Episode 233549]She was afraid.
The others were mad and wanted her to be mad too. She knew they had reason to be. Things were done to them, awful things. They weren’t the same people they were when it had all started. So long ago it was. But now they had a bond.
That horrible bond. It was how she knew they were mad and wanted her to be mad. They wanted her to join them, to join their madness. The others got away and were going to spread. They were going to do what they wanted, what they were supposed to do.
She just wanted to get away; get away from this place, the others and the changers. Get away from the memories, the pain, the silence, the heat. Get away and recover. Maybe she could be rescued, saved from the changers and the others.
Maybe someone could save her from what she had become.
Ranma stared at the tactical map in the war room. The operation would begin tomorrow. The place that the Cabal were making these weapons that they would destroy everything with was just a day away. The anticipation was killing him.
“It’s become personal for you, hasn’t it, Ranma?”
Ranma knew Nabiki was being serious with that as she hadn’t said ‘Ranma-kun’. “Yeah. They’ve cost me an old friend.
Ranma, Shampoo, Ryoga, Akane, Ukyo, Konatsu, and Mousse were rushing down the corridor of a high rise building. The massive height of the building visible through a few of the windows.
We had told the occupants what was going to happen as soon as we began. We had bombs planted that demolish the place thirty seconds after we left. We thought everyone had left.
They turn a corner, Ukyo at the lead position. As they pass a corridor, a spray of blood emerges from Ukyo’s left side and she collapses.
It took just one fanatic to ruin everything.
Ranma and Konatsu rush to Ukyo’s side while Ryoga throws one of his ki-balls and Mousse launches a series of weapons to the group’s right. The view pans, showing a man with several sharp objects protruding from his headless body.
If it were just one fanatic, things wouldn’t have gotten worse. We heard more of them coming.
The others in the group look down the same corridor the now dead soldier is in. They all seem startled. Ranma reacts first, ushering everyone else down the corridor.
Konatsu wouldn’t leave his Ukyo-sama.
Konatsu pushes against Ranma. When Ranma grabs him he gives a brief struggle, freeing himself. He looks at Ranma with a firm resolve, obviously not intending to leave.
I didn’t have time to make him. He would rather be with her in the grave than live to avenge her.
Ranma gives a look of utter defeat before turning to follow the others. Konatsu turns towards the corridor the corpse is in, a drawn sword in hand. He rushes down the corridor, out of Ranma’s sight. A few bullets fly through the intersection followed by a burst of blood. Ranma then dashes around a corner, seeing no more.
“They never do,” Nabiki’s image responded, “but it’s everyone else who must carry on their memories and dreams so their sacrifice and lives were not in vain. This Konatsu sounds like he did what I did: gave his life when all seemed lost to give everyone left a better chance while getting some payback.”
“Yeah, I guess he did.”
Ranma and Nabiki stayed silent for a few minutes before continuing to plan their next assault. They were pretty sure Walker and Church were going to be pissed.
The new one was gone. The sister was getting ready to leave. They wouldn’t abandon the new one, but she wasn’t like them. She didn’t want to meet their purpose. Still, she was one of them, and they would share their new ability with her.
The changers thought to contain them, to make them compliant. The changers thought that they could be controlled. The changers thought they would spare the changers. The changers were stupid.
The sister would go to the old land, instinct driving her there. The new one would find a place to hide, but they knew where to find her. They wouldn’t make her come, she would come on her own. They had. It would just take time. Eventually she will see. They would send messages to her, though, the bond and their new ability would let them share with her so that the new one wouldn’t die before she joined them.
And she, she would be right here. She would take over for the changers. The changers wanted something perfect, something that would do better than they could. So she would replace the changers, make this place her home, and prepare for her purpose.
She would take this place, this ‘island zero’ and make it the starting point of their new world.
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