video | IM GONNA WRECK IT

[witheringlotus]

Who: Kanda and yu you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Marsiva only.
When: Early Tuesday morning.

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[There's a cranky nineteen-year-old staring down through the feed. The feed is upside down. Someone should probably tell him.]

Where is it?

[It's not a question, it's a demand.]

My sword. Where is it?

[He leans in, blue eyes taking over the feed.] Who are you supposed to be? Some other division? [It's not the first time he's been locked up in a lab. If this is supposed to terrify him, it's not working.] You're testing me, then.

Hope you don't have anything important in here. There won't be anything left when I'm done.

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video;

[witheringlotus]

Oh, shut up!

[... Somehow he didn't prepare for this eventuality. It's only the Order who does this crazy shit to him, usually. To hear they're not on Earth at all is--

-- well, it's crazy. Fucking crazy. Allen may recognize this expression as the "Kanda is trying to process this and his hamster wheel is stuck upside down" expression.]

Wait, was it an actual dragon? Not some kind of Akuma?

[uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

... How hard did they hit me?

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[save_the_souls]

No, it was an Akuma dragon. I wouldn't get involved in a regular dragon fight, I'm not insane.

[THAT'D JUST BE SILLY KANDA!!!]

You haven't hit your head. Your concussed brain wouldn't come up with anything this creative.

video;

[witheringlotus]

[Wow. Thanks, Allen.]

Where are you.

I need to punch you in the face. Just to be sure.

VOICE FOREVER BECAUSE I KEEP FORGETTING

[save_the_souls]

[Yeah whatever Kanda you don't scare him!!]

On another ship!

You're on the Marsiva. You won't be able to get to where I am until this weekend. [...] It's Tuesday morning.

THAT IS FINE

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda groans.]

None of this makes any sense. People don't go to space, Beansprout. [he says to the guy dating an astronaut] And I'm not waiting four days.

What about the Order? They're gonna put a hit out on me or something I bet.

[save_the_souls]

It's Allen, and look outside the window if you don't believe me!

[hahahaha...right...the Order....right...]

And I doubt the Order can reach out here.

[witheringlotus]

How can I be sure it's not some trick like the-- THIS thing? It shows pictures, too!

[Even Kanda knows when he's being unreasonable, though. There is some strange information in his head that wasn't there before, and it tells him he is, in fact, in space. And it's Real space, as in, he will Really Die if he punches through the window.]

... Fine. So maybe you're right.

What about everything? The Order, the Noah, the others. What happens to them?

[save_the_souls]

Please, so does Timcanpy! Don't pretend you have no idea how communicators work!

[Yeah your healing effect probably wouldn't do much against the vaccuum of space, probably]

Nothing, as far as I can tell. We think when a person leaves, they get sent back to the exact moment in time they left. That's how you never noticed that I was gone.

[witheringlotus]

Timcanpy? But it's...

[Hold the phone. Time travel is bullshit, but he can kinda see where it plays in with Miranda's Innocence.

But--]

Did you get a new one?

[save_the_souls]

What? What are you talking about? A new what?

[witheringlotus]

[Oh, fuck. He never told Allen... he never got the chance. This is the part where, if Kanda were a normal person, he'd be sweating. As it is, he just makes a stupid face.]

...

That guy... [Kanda is being really helpful, here.] The golem attacked him, so he did something to it.

[save_the_souls]

What?

[No no no that can't be right.]

...What guy? What are you talking about? Tim's right here with me.

[witheringlotus]

[He sucks in a breath like a wince, hardly conscious of it. This is pretty par for the course for Apocryphos trauma.]

Tall. Some kind of priest. He has...

[Wings, wings, fingers crushing into his skull, I had a good chat with Allen and went back to the Order-- no, no, he never got any of that, he never--

Kanda covers his eyes with his hand.]

... No, he is Innocence. He was hunting you, he must have been.

[When did breathing get so hard?]

I couldn't...

[save_the_souls]

...What? That doesn't make any...

[Okay that definitely makes NO SENSE. How could someone BE Innocence? Why would they be hunting him? Kanda had to be from the past- he was wearing the uniform and talked about Mugen. Allen definitely didn't remember any of this transpiring]

Kanda! What's the date?

[Maybe this is some kind of weird alternate universe thing. That might explain it]

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda is just as confused as you, bro.]

Tuesday? October... uh... 1899?

[FUCK he has no idea.]

Why the hell are you asking me?

[save_the_souls]

...It was July 1899 when I left.

[...The hell...]

We were at the North America branch. During the...attack. [NOT SURE HOW ELSE TO PUT IT ON PUBLIC FEEDS] You'd just left.

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda sits back a little. Ah, yes, he remembers.]

Yeah.

[... That's all he has to say about that!]

[save_the_souls]

[Wait he remembers that? The fuck? He waits for Kanda to say more.



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Um-

SO NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO START EXPLAINING WHAT I MISSED?!

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda regards the camera calmly.]

... Did you say something? I wasn't paying attention.

[oh my fucking god]

Everything's the same as you left it. Mostly.

[save_the_souls]

[$%#@&$#!!!]

BULLSHIT!!

[witheringlotus]

[... okay, so there's a couple things.]

Johnny left the Order because you ran off alone. Lavi's still missing, but Lenalee and Marie are safe. Howard Link faked his death to get out of the Order, supposedly.

[as an afterthought]

And I came back, I guess.

[save_the_souls]

[WOW KANDA THAT IS QUITE THE INFO DUMP. Allen is stunned for a minute as he tries to wrap his mind around. Johnny....that was someone from the Science Division right? They played chess since Suman left- he hasn't seen him in 9 years. He ran off- because of Allen? Who's somehow still alive after all that and ran off? That's- okay he could understand him running off somewhat but-

Lavi]

What?

What...what do you mean Lavi's missing?

[The last time he saw him was at Paradisa. He stayed at Gut's house with the rest of them, always being his usual friendly self. He never said anything about...this. They'd spend hours talking, laughing, goofing around- not once did he mention something like that. Allen had always assumed he'd be safe back at the Order, with Lenalee and Marie-]

[witheringlotus]

[Lavi's missing and Timcanpy's dead. Allen's life is a mess.]

Noah. [He feels like he has to back up his memories a bit.] The Noah attacked all over the world in order to distract us from the Earl's move. Apparently Lavi and Bookman got captured, too. Marie and Chaozii were with them.

... I doubt Lavi's dead. [Bookman, though, who knows.]

[save_the_souls]

Bookman and Lavi...?

[Allen tries to wrap his mind around it. Noahs weren't well known for capturing people. Only Road really did it, but she had been with Allen. But if it was Bookman, was it for information? To interrogate him? About what he knew about the 14th that the Earl was so obsessed about? But...]

Why would the Earl need Bookman? He already knows more than the rest of us...

[It didn't make any sense. And it made him extremely worried. That was two comrades in the hands on the enemy. And yet the worst part is, he's not sure if it's a relief or not to hear they were captured by the Noah and not Central.

But there's not much he can do about it. So he moves through the rest of the news. Lenalee and Marie being safe was definitely good. Link faking his death was....really weird, but maybe it was some kind of Crow mission. It wasn't like he'd be needed to supervise Allen anymore if he ran off. And that came to...]

You're...really back with the Order? Did they find you? [Shit shit shit. It was a bad idea to pick Mater. They had gone there on a mission after all, it was in the Order's records] God, I'm sorry. We should've picked somewhere else.

[witheringlotus]

Information, probably. There are a lot of things in this war we don't know about...

[A lot of things that should be buried and left alone, but when have humans ever been good at that?

Then Allen starts to apologize, and Kanda visibly winces.]

Don't-- [He breathes through his teeth. Has to force himself to calm down. When he says it again, it's softer.] -- don't.

It wasn't anything you did. It was me.

... I came back on my own.