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<===== Chapter 1: The Fall =====>
“Boring, and, annoying. Call̶͓̕b̴̨̼̀â̷̜̠̪̍c̸̰̄k̷͕̒͌̚ ̷̗̑p̶͇͕̈́̾į̴͛͜n̶̝̂g.” For once, I agreed with Cyn’s words. This was annoying. Or… No, this was worse than annoying, it was far beyond that. I had worked every part of myself to dust, sacrificed everything for those two! And this is how I was repaid. They don’t even know how lucky they were, how good they had it because of me. I was the reason they were still around. I was the one who stuck her head out and covered for those two’s mistakes whenever they were screwups. I was the one who took the blame every time, and those two ungrateful morons decided to throw all of everything away. Can’t they see this is futile? That there is no escape? Can’t they understand that I tried so hard to save them? To keep our family together? Why didn’t V take my damned offer?! It would have saved her from the worst of what would come her way for choosing what she did!
“Sorry, just me in here.” I’ll give the emo credit where it’s due, it is not easy to uproot Cyn’s influence. But I could not ponder much more than that, for the battle was beginning. Both the emo and Cyn started with launching null at each other. Both were caught in each other and launched into the far distance before detonating. With the clash of nulls shaking the planet, what remained of the atmosphere was thrown into complete disarray. The mix of snow, ice, and asbestos covered any visual or thermal sight, and the amount of airborne particulates heavily interfered with lidar sensors as well. I was functionally blind in this environment. It was only by dumb luck that I was able to see the beam of plasma and photons coming for me. As best I could, I quickly moved my head to the side. I wasn’t untouched, but it managed to only incinerate some of my hair. I tried to reorient and get into a fighting stance, however I was so distracted by the death beam, that I did not see the rifle itself hurtling towards my face. It took time to reboot from the blunt trauma, and some of my sensors were knocked offline. So by the time I finally managed to get back up, Cyn already had a sword flying in my direction at neck level. I only had time for a short wave as I braced myself for my inevitable decapitation, and the even greater time spent regenerating my head. I felt the blade find its mark in my neck, and the separation of head and torso, before black consumed everything. It took a good minute to regenerate and my lidar was now offline in addition, but at least I was somewhat operational, and the emo was caught up in a hologram. I took the opportunity, and swung my blades into her as fast as I could, but even then it was not enough. My disabled sensors made me completely miss what was coming straight for me from the side.
“Wrong team.” was all V said to me before blowing me into one of the holes in the planet. Upon entering this great fall, my back smashed against something hard and sturdy. I winced and did all I could to not cry as I felt every blade in my sensitive wings shatter, and the limbs themselves become completely useless. But to add to this already terrible situation was a notification I dreaded.
‘Materialstorage=empty’. Cyn was not lending me material for repair anymore, I could not regenerate on my own as I had not been hunting on the planet long enough for a stockpile. I continued falling farther and farther, as it continued to sink in that Cyn was discarding me, and that everything I worked for was for naught, that everything I sacrificed meant nothing. Nothing! I could not even rescue myself, V had made certain of that in her process of throwing me down this hole. What even was th- “AAHG!” I was abruptly cut off from this thought by my leg contacting a jutted out rock. I felt the metal of my leg buckle, as I was spun wildly by the now shattered rock. This is how it ends, isn’t it? Alone, in pain, and falling to the end. I was starting to accept my fate down here. No use crying anymore, it is still a long way to the bottom, a few minutes at least.
‘I’m sorry Tessa…’ Is all I can think anymore as my demise rapidly approaches. ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t save them. I really, really tried.’ However, right before I hit the Singularity at the core of the planet, everything seems to stop, colours fade, and I am hit with a moment of confusion. Then, everything resumes and I hit something… hard.
‘Why is the sky so light?’ is my last thought before it all fades into darkness.