[And you don't know how long it's been, and you can't remember ever being this scared in your entire life.
"No!! Isn't there some way we can escape?" Lan's voice, close, sounding just as scared as you're feeling, and that's when you know you need to pull yourself together...at least a little bit. At least for him.
"There's only one way..." Your voice comes out so calm you almost startle yourself, really. "I'll need to build up all my remaining power, and overload. --I think that should create a hole in Alpha for a time. You can use that hole to escape..."
It's a terrifying thought, though. And after you'd both been so close, too--just reaching the end of the area, and ready to jack out, before that barely-alive piece of Alpha had just leaped up and swallowed up the both of you. You can still feel Alpha creeping in even now, too, eating into your code with whatever mindless motivation it has left, a sickly kind of trickling-in. It would be painfully slow, but in a few hours...no, but that doesn't matter now. Nothing else does. All that matters is getting Lan out of here okay.
"And what will you do after that?!" He already knows where this is going, of course, and you can feel the surge of dismay through the Full Synchro link still barely intact between the both of you. "I can't do that! I can't be separated from you!! We promised!! That we'll always be together!"
And in a way that hurts even more than Alpha ever could, because it's true--you both had promised. And you want always be together with Lan, to take care of him and watch over him, and that's what's driving the overwhelming fear through every corner of your processing right now--the thought that you won't be able to do that anymore. But it's too late now...]
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"No!! Isn't there some way we can escape?" Lan's voice, close, sounding just as scared as you're feeling, and that's when you know you need to pull yourself together...at least a little bit. At least for him.
"There's only one way..." Your voice comes out so calm you almost startle yourself, really. "I'll need to build up all my remaining power, and overload. --I think that should create a hole in Alpha for a time. You can use that hole to escape..."
It's a terrifying thought, though. And after you'd both been so close, too--just reaching the end of the area, and ready to jack out, before that barely-alive piece of Alpha had just leaped up and swallowed up the both of you. You can still feel Alpha creeping in even now, too, eating into your code with whatever mindless motivation it has left, a sickly kind of trickling-in. It would be painfully slow, but in a few hours...no, but that doesn't matter now. Nothing else does. All that matters is getting Lan out of here okay.
"And what will you do after that?!" He already knows where this is going, of course, and you can feel the surge of dismay through the Full Synchro link still barely intact between the both of you. "I can't do that! I can't be separated from you!! We promised!! That we'll always be together!"
And in a way that hurts even more than Alpha ever could, because it's true--you both had promised. And you want always be together with Lan, to take care of him and watch over him, and that's what's driving the overwhelming fear through every corner of your processing right now--the thought that you won't be able to do that anymore. But it's too late now...]