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Is Your Love Strong Enough? Part 6 - The Final Scratch

Such a strange occurrence needed, finally a conclusion. Thanks for the Time Lord's trinket gift, there was suddenly an old, fearsome creature made of gears, it's old features squeaking (although not as bad as before, since a certain someone had given him a good oil job). Analog,the fearsome creature known by some as a the crankiest Time Dragon, walked in the city to find out o where Eleven was. She could smell him even in here, you see (wow that's creepy). Flanked by her three handmaidens, the women giggling like schoolgirls at everything, memorized at the ship. The city could hold her well, for all her large size.

First step - Find the Doctor, ask him what he wants. Step two - Do that. Step three - Get out of here.

She still was a Time Dragon, after all. Proud....and cranky. These boring old puny humanoids were nothing as the greatness of HERSELF so the sooner they were our of her mind, the better.

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Oh man. Things were going to get worse now.

Mindy was already there with Ruffnut in tow. Mindy looked more relaxed than she had in days: her hair was up in pigtails, she was actually wearing jeans and a T, and she was even eating a little bit of halloween candy.

When she saw the scene, she very audibly snickered. "Let me guess: its not working for them even a little bit, huh?"

Yeap just keep ignoring the guy in the back, still furiously writing. This was going to make the best book, he just knew it.

"...There isn't any such place," Zetta said, ignoring the sudden stab of what a demon slightly more in tune with himself would describe as heartache, because clearly it was not the point. "I'm Zetta! The whole freaking COSMOS is mine to do whatever I want with! Seriously, I didn't get to level 2000 just to let Lash wander off to hide."

Then the book glared at Mindy. "See, I TOLD you demon mana power shouldn't mix with human mana power!"

A heartache intensified, perhaps, by Lash's own mixed feelings. Unlike Zetta, she didn't have an excuse to run into about what she would do if the Overlord was repodded...rebooked, or simply stopped moving. In fact he might have felt that. That ping of worry every time she saw his figure on the floor and the whole song and dance that repeated itself when that happened - from shaking to make sure he was alive to his memory losses. It...wasn't a worry that Zetta's powers weren't powerful, on the contrary.

It was a worry she was powerless to do anything. Science could only do so much, after all.

Where did Ruffnut get that box of popcorn?

Either way she was munching away and not sharing as she watched the emotional back and forth unfold breaking the silence only to say, "I kinda think she's took good for him." She was joking really. Totally.

"I can't believe you can be this dumb," Mindy said, sighing. "God, if I'm this stupid when I'm an Overlord, I'm having my doubts. Look at the evidence man, and do me a favor and get off the human/demon bullshit. It's kinda tired already."

She was NOT going to get in his face like Sakura: she wasn't his freaking mother for Christ's sake. If she could figure out Ruffnut was someone she couldn't bear to lose, HE could put two and two together and realize how empty he would feel if Lash was podded.

"Uh, so far the evidence is that we did what we were supposed to, but it didn't work. What's your explanation other than 'something went wrong'?"

The thought of Lash being repodded had faded beneath the idea of Lash going somewhere he allegedly couldn't get to, which was of course impossible! Someone might want to drag him back to that.

PLease hold, Lash was still trying to figure out her feelings at this point. There might have been a storm inside Zetta's mind from it.

"If she's repodded, no amount of power you have in your control can get her out of the pods alive. Not unless the ship lets her out. You can't follow her there. You couldn't bring her back."

"She WON'T be repodded!" Zetta snarled. "Lash isn't someone who could just have her soul fall out!"

Zetta, of course, knew better than to think that being repodded actually had anything to do with strength of personality and character. His voice had, consequently, taken on that particular angry note that signaled the Overlord was denying a possibility he didn't like out of irrational anger.

Progress!

"Based on what?" Hit Girl said, looking skeptical. "If repodding was something we could control, don't you think we would have figured it out by now? Why don't you just admit you're not being totally honest?"

Sheesh, these people were so damn dramatic.

Lash, meanwhile, was still thinking. And Zetta probably saw all those thoughts firsthand...and...well...

...shit.

Edited 2011-12-20 12:26 (UTC)

The book suddenly went very quiet and very still.

"Lash....?"

You knew what you just saw, Zetta. Just give her a few minutes to get out of it.

No. No he doesn't. It's impossible.

Nope.

It's real. Granted now there's an even BIGGER amount of confusion attached to it.

NO IT ISN'T.

"Lash, what the hell are you thinking? And what's with the Prinny Mes?"

Nothing. Or everything. Maybe the answer they had been looking for, but with it came things she didn't want to have. Like a heart ache if... She suddenly felt weak and sick despite still being in Zetta and the feeling of helplessness wasn't something she wanted to feel in her life. At least not again, and for entirely different reasons. This could be worst than death by Oozium.

Didn't you see it in the castle? I got it at Videoland Theme Park.

Why was it in your thoughts, I mean?! Seriously, what's up with that?

And at that feeling of helplessness... he couldn't help but want to protect her. To reassure her, to make her safe and confident again.

But he was TERRIBLE at doing that sort of things, so he was dodging the topic like crazy, assuming that status quo would abruptly reassert itself and they'd laugh and go blow something up and nothing would change and all would be well.

Well uh....It's just that I was thinking...

Goddammit, you got her revisiting all those images again...

Now it was even louder.

Edited 2011-12-21 03:49 (UTC)

"...Lash...?"

Oh Magog, she's THINKING THINGS AGAIN.

He shot a quick glance around, hoping for a rescue. HELP

Lash was being helpful! You could feel her heartbeat increasing, despite the fact she was still in his body. I bet even the status screen said things differently. You can't ignore it forever, Zetta. Also the song was still playing. Who knew if she could hear it herself.

Edited 2011-12-21 04:20 (UTC)

"Ok even I think is getting pathetic." Ruffnut sighed and grabbed both cheeks pinching and pulling on their collective face forcing their mouth to open and close like a horribly deformed muppet.

"I love you Zetta!" she squeaked in a poor excuse for a Lash impression and then in an even worse impression "I love you too Lash!"

Then she uncerimonially released the victim and waited looking disappointed in all parties involved (though she wasn't any better really)

The book flopped limply on the floor before jerking back upright.

"What the hell, Ruffnut!? It's not like that! I don't..."

He paused, then began again.

"...don't..."

Another pause.

"Shut up!"

She was so glad that Ruffnut had done it: hell, it looked like her viking was getting ballsier by the day. Of course, the two of them had been in the same body: it was bound to happen, since they, in a sense, fed off each other.

"It's not the worse thing in the world," Mindy said, shrugging. "Hell, if anything, that makes you stronger: once you give a damn about somebody, focus gets more direct, strength can come where you never thought. I learned my finishing move because I thought of...the person I cared about most."

Ok, so maybe SHE even felt just a little weird about saying it aloud. Not shame, just weird.

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