video | IM GONNA WRECK IT

[witheringlotus]

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

[video;]

[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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[witheringlotus]

Did I stutter?

[save_the_souls]

I- But- What- How-

WHY!?!

[witheringlotus]

[He gives a long-suffering sigh.]

I'll tell you when I see you. I don't like talking over this thing.

[save_the_souls]

[BUT HE WANT TO KNOW NOOOOOW. Except okay- he can see the logic. Who knows who else is watching this. Even encrypted channels can't be trusted fully, not with nosy communications officers about.

Not that the logic will stop Allen from making an annoyed sound. ]

Tch, fine.

But I'll be expecting an explanation!

[witheringlotus]

[He can't help a smirk at the way Allen huffs about it.]

You sound like a demanding parent.

[save_the_souls]

Whatever. Maybe it's because it's been a long time for me. I grew up.

[Not that it's been AT ALL apparent in this conversation Allen.]

[witheringlotus]

[A derisive snort.]

Sure you did.

[And Kanda went blond.]

[save_the_souls]

I did!

I'm twenty-four now.

[witheringlotus]

[PFFFFFFFFFFFT]

What!?

[save_the_souls]

[Ah yes. Kanda's outrage gives him life]

What? I told you it's been years!

[witheringlotus]

How... how many years is that?

[Like. Almost as long as Kanda's been alive?]

What the hell kind of place is this?!

[save_the_souls]

[Wow Kanda. Your math skills suck]

It'll be nine in a couple months.

[So. Yeah. As long as you've been alive bro]

Well technically I got stuck in another place for the first seven years. Then I got dragged here. This place is supposed to some kind of...entertainment show for people to watch. Apparently in the future, entertainment is kidnapping people and watching them run a fleet of spaceships.

[witheringlotus]

[he was created to be a super soldier, not a super genius]

Nine years since this whole thing started for you. [He mutters something that sounds suspiciously like 'shit' under his breath.] Have you gone back at all?

[save_the_souls]

Every few years, I'd get sent back home for a couple weeks or months. Usually I wouldn't remember anything about these places while I was there, but I'd get to see home again.

[...]

The last time that happened was a few years ago. And honestly considering everything that was going on, and someone told me I'd been missing for three months back home, I...

Well, it seemed safe to assume there likely wouldn't be another visit home.

[The 14th was awake, he had gone against the Order, the Noah clan were after him....Allen was tough, a survivor... but even he knew impossible odds.]

[witheringlotus]

... Ah.

[A fair assumption to make. With the awakening and all of that... and how Allen had been on the run. Yes, he has every right to assume he's basically dead.

But this-- this is a tiny smile, if Allen's looking for it.]

Don't give up yet. You're still you.

[Even if Allen isn't using video function for some reason, it's definitely Allen.]

-- Anyway, there are bigger things to worry about. Everyone is scrambling around, trying to capture that priest guy... Tiedoll said I can help you out as long as I'm with the Order.

[There's a few implications with that, the most forward of which being: Kanda won't let Allen get locked up again.]

[save_the_souls]

[Did Kanda just..? Allen did catch it, and it's enough to make him turn a little pink on his end. He knows the last time he saw Kanda they had left on better terms than they ever had been before, but...it was still humbling to see it in action.

"You're still you"...that alone lets him exhale a breath he didn't know he was holding. It had been a fear, that someone would come and tell him that Nea had won. He's not at all sure what to make of the new information that he is still alive, especially when he's built a life here, but...it's good to know it's not the worst yet.

But it's Allen and this is Kanda, so he can't help but be a little tsun]

Who...Who said anything about giving up? I wouldn't have made it nine years if I'd given up!

[But right, anyway- subject change. He clears his throat.]

...General Tiedoll probably just said that because he misses you. [What a sentimental and doting master you have, so weird. But Allen doesn't need the reassurance that Kanda wouldn't hand him over. There was no doubt about that]

But right...some priest that's...Innocence?

[witheringlotus]

I guess not. [He sounds a little fond. But then he's clearing his throat and trying to be tsun, too. HE DOESN'T CARE HE HAS NO EMOTIONS ET CETERA.]

Sounds like him, yeah. [Tiedoll has always treated his apprentices like his own children. He's soft and artistic, just like he looks. Also kicks a LOT of ass.]

I guess you haven't met him yet. He looks like a normal guy, but just being around him makes Innocence go out of control... especially for you. [It's causing Allen a lot of pain. A lot of pain. It's difficult to watch.] I don't know his name, but...

[It's okay, the priest can't hurt him. He takes a breath.]

You can't let him touch you. He can change your memories or he can kill you from inside. With one hand. Even with my regeneration, it... it was bad.

[save_the_souls]

[Yeah that? Sounds extremely worrying. While he's encountered things that he was weak to because of being a Noah, he never encountered something that made his Innocence go out of control. Much less change your memories or kill you from the inside...

Shit...was this some new experiment from Central? Or something else? He's really not sure what to think]

Okay...stay away from the Innocence priest. Got it.

[The chances of him showing up here are very low, he reminds himself as he subconsciously grabs onto his left arm. And so, he tries to push that aside. He can think about it another time. So he'll try to think of another topic, a more relevant topic.

...]

As for your sword, Atroma probably confiscated Mugen.

[Yeah, that'll distract Kanda]

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda would love to know more, but apparently Allen was the one who knew the most. Kanda heard he broke out of HQ but they never really had a chance to talk about it.

Christ, what a mess.

The mention of Mugen makes his face scrunch up in a fairly unattractive way.]

Confiscated it, huh.

[He rolls up his sleeve and glances at his arm. The stigmata is still clearly there. He considers slashing his arm open on camera, but that seems like a great way to get his sword confiscated again-- not to mention, you know, Allen would flip his shit entirely.]

I have some ideas.

[save_the_souls]

[Allen meanwhile, being oblivious and not seeing the stigmata on his inner forearm, thinks Kanda has the idea of just wrecking shit]

Wrecking the Marsiva doesn't do much good. A lot of people have tried.

[Lots and lots of people]

But yes, when a person arrive they take their weapons. It's stupid. It's not like they block people's powers or stop us from buying weapons elsewhere. They didn't even confiscate Crowned Clown, but that's probably because it's part of my body. I can't imagine it's the same for Equipment-Type though.

[witheringlotus]

So? It'd make me feel better.

[At least he's honest.]

-- They don't keep you from getting new weapons? That's stupid. What's the point of...

[He shakes his head once, closes his eyes.]

I guess there was one other thing I forgot to mention.

[Aaaand he holds out his forearms for Allen to see. Two little crosses burrowed into the skin-- at least until he rolls his sleeves down.]

[save_the_souls]

Eh?!

[Yeah. It's been awhile, but he recognizes those markings. Hard not too when Lenalee had them]

Crystal-Type...?!

[DA FUQ]

[witheringlotus]

Mugen liquefied when I came to take it.

[He... decides not to mention he was in the process of possibly Falling when Tiedoll came to get him. Then again, could've been the priest. Who knows.]

... So, how many Akuma are here?

[save_the_souls]

[Allen didn't see Lenalee becoming a crystal-type, so that explanation is weird. What does it becoming a liquid have to do with it being in the bloodstream-]

...You drank it, didn't you.

[Kanda that's seems like an unsafe thing to do, and that's coming from someone who occasionally rips off his own arm to use his weapon]

Currently? None.

[witheringlotus]

Well, yeah. [He says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world.]

None? None at all? [wtf] So the dragon just came out of nowhere?