More bedninjaing

[hinooo]

[You know the drill. XD]

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[blueondeck]

Kind of, with a small forced break between it. We nearly have all of the powers, but ...

[Kind of looking away now. This is hard to admit]

The man known as Basco, I've talked to him a lot lately.

[yellowlion]

...

Really.

He went after friends of mine.

[blueondeck]

[I can't even be surprised]

He did? Who ... why?

[Still not exactly surprised, more aggravated that he's still a douchebag.]

[yellowlion]

For their grand powers. Maskman. A couple others.

[shakes head, to bring self back]

So I can see why you're having difficulties. Tell me what's happening?

[blueondeck]

With what's been happening now, We've somehow ended up with Basco's memories only being before he betrayed Marvelous. At first I was watching for safety purposes.

[yellowlion]

Oh. Oh, that's big.

You're trying to reach him?

[blueondeck]

Marvelous would rather he was dead. Point blank. I don't blame him.

[yellowlion]

I can understand that perspective.

You don't agree?

[blueondeck]

In his memories, he hasn't betrayed Marvelous yet. He gets more annoyed at Marvelous' hate of him than anything else.

[yellowlion]

[exhales]

Maybe you can save him.

[blueondeck]

... Do you really think something like that is possible?

[yellowlion]

[lifts a shoulder, lets it drop]

Time theory says no. Basco has to do what he's done to my friends. To other teams. To you.

[pause, because I am quite, quite sure he's hurt you at various times]

But it sounds like where you are tosses time theory out the window. And if there's any chance...

[blueondeck]

In that place you can receive memories of what happens in your future. A way of moving forward or something. Eventually he'll become that person. It wont matter what I do.

[sighs slowly] He will become that person, and I will hate him again.

[yellowlion]

[hand on your shoulder, worried about you]

Sounds like you have a bizarre variation of our problem.

And Joe. What you do always matters.

[blueondeck]

[Looks at your hand and then down again]

I knew you'd say that. [half smiling]

[yellowlion]

[grins, squeezes, lets go]

Well, it's true. Your actions always matter.

Joe... if he's hurt you, you shouldn't trust him, obviously. If he did it in the past or the future. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

[blueondeck]

I don't trust him. I know that he can't be trusted no matter what. I don't know how to try, or what to do for a person like him.

[pulling a knee to his chest and resting an arm on it]

[yellowlion]

[nods, accepting that this is not exactly easy for you, not something I can solve with a few pat words]

I don't know if this is useful at all.

Towards the end, with us, Kemp seemed to change back. He wanted our help. He wanted us to save him from Bias.

We all knew it might be a trick, but we went to help him, and he betrayed us. I won't say it was fun, but that -- that didn't take away from what we did, if that makes sense. It was still the right thing to do, and I'm still glad we did.

[blueondeck]

...

[thinking about it, taking what you've said to heart]

It's weird. You always know what I need to hear.

[yellowlion]

[laughs]

Harder for you, though. With your -- your Marvelous? -- not wanting any part of it.

[blueondeck]

It is, and I wont do anything to endanger him. [sighs a little and then stretches.]

I'll worry about the rest when it comes.

[yellowlion]

Of course you won't.

[rueful] I think sometimes Reds need the most looking after of all the colours.

Joe...

[blueondeck]

They probably do. In my experience ... this is true. [sighs, but looks back at you questioningly]

Yeah? What is it?

Liveman spoilers ahoy

[yellowlion]

[grins, unguarded, open, happy]

Yuusuke'd beg to differ regarding which one of us got in the most trouble.

[sighs]

We got one back. One of our friends. Because we didn't give up.

[blueondeck]

[watching you and then looks away. Hearing it felt heavy.]

I saved Sid's soul when I didn't think I'd be able to. You were the one that helped me do at least that. In a way, you saved him too.