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I've got a few questions if anyone's willing to answer them considering the circumstances. Call it professional curiosity if you'd like a reason.

How long has everyone been here?

How much does anyone know about what happened to the universe?

Is there anyone who's taken charge other than those involved with the Tower itself?

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I think people are being distracted by that damn maze thing they've got going on too much to answer.

I've been here since the first people woke up sir. It was a really really long time ago. The bad people said they ended but they are probably lying because they are bad.

Are you new sir?

I'm just offering something else to focus on.

Also, we need to talk.

New to here, yes though I was somewhere similar enough before.

Bad people can tell the truth too, especially when it suits them or there's no reason to lie about it.

Yeah, I know.

I'm just

[This is him being distracted and not finishing what he was saying- he fell asleep at the terminal. Abort, retry, ignore, action?]

[Really. Really? Reno will... take a bit to find himself.]

You're a piece of work, you know that?

[Sitting up with a start, he looked around, a touch jumpy. It was that dream of the other turks killing him again. Why it was always that dream?]

You're not the one plagued with nightmares.

[Just. Sigh.]

No, and if given the choice I'd avoid doing whatever it is that's been done to cause them. Don't poke the malboro, so to speak.

By the time I figured out what caused it, kinda late. Stop sighin' at me. I couldn't let the kids go without food in that damn maze.

I'll stop sighing when you stop making me need to.

[You could have, but you didn't which means a lot.]

That's neither here nor there really though.

What are you, my dad?

[Giving him the eye now. Totally thinking about it.]

Actually you're kinda remindin' me of him.

Where were you before sir? Were there bad people there too?

[He frowns] Once they told us we could go home, and they sent us to really nasty worlds were no one wanted us, or everyone was dead, or bad things had happened. People said that they weren't real but that means the bad people definitely lied, either the worlds ended or those were our worlds or something else but either way the bad people told us lies so I don't know what is right.

With all this space-time bullshit who knows. I might be.

[Have a very weirded out look now.]

Yeah, don't think so. What'd you need to talk about?

What are you up to with Ganendorf? He's one of the things that killed me.

[Better than him being your grandfather anyway.]

[Whoops. Sparks goes a little pale.]

I'm keeping an eye on some things for him.

[Glancing around to make sure there's no one around.]

And keeping an eye on him, too. There's some serious shit going down here. Some pretty seriously powerful people are here and not exactly out for peace, love and sunshine. They've started this alliance of sorts.

Lemme guess? Princess named Zelda and some mute kid?

[This is when Rusty really wishes he had the communicator from the boat.

Also: have a sigh.]

Sunshine and bunnies is bullshit, but don't piss any of them off. Ganondorf's bad enough on his own but if there's others... I'm not getting in the middle of a good versus evil fight. Shiva knows we'd be kicked to the dark side for what Turks do.

[Rolling his eyes now.]

Who do you think you're talking to, here? Just watch your back- why are you even asking?

[Sigh right back.] And it isn't quite that... I just think if something seriously bad is going to go down, I should know about it. I got full membership in this alliance thing, and they know pretty much nothing about me.

[Sparks hesitates at this point.]

It's what we do, remember?

The worlds are gone, but... there's bound to be more that The End didn't eat. The people I was with before were taking people to one of them, and it wasn't safe so the people running the tower brought me here.

[He's trying so hard here.]

I helped kill the thing that was eating worlds, so it'll only be a matter of time before the people here find one thats good and ready for us.

I'm not arguing with you, but it's also pretty stupid to walk in to a room of big-bads without either some serious backup firepower or some serious intel.

[That they're not checking for evil membership cards is stupid though.]

You can get yourself killed faster than Heidigger can eat a twinkie.

I thought it was Palmer.

[Joking aside, he gave another glance around.]

It can't really be helped. There was this rumor going around of something happening and gave a place and a time. I went down there and before I realized what was going on it was too late. They killed two people who interrupted and I thought it was better fitting in than being the next sacrifice. 'Sides, I've got backup. I think.

[Serious, serious look.]

But in case anything happens to me, I got everything written down in the report book. I'm sure you can probably figure out where I put it.

You've got me anyway. Who else?

[Because Reno is going to hunt them down.]

You'll come back. It's how these places work.

Oh no you don't. I know you. Don't approach 'em yet.

[It's just a feeling, but he didn't want Rusty to go bothering Gandalf and his friends, not when things were still up in the air.]

Not if they slam me up against a wall and make me part of it. Kinda hard coming back from that.

[There's a difference between bothering and making himself known.]

Trust me. You'll come back.

[he'd come back from being blown up and ground to bits by that ball of blades. monster. Thing.]

I'd rather not find out for myself. By the way, you never answered why you were asking about it.

He tried to get a report out of me.

[Facepalm]

Oh, yeah. I got to get that to him. Thank Shiva those kids are boring.

Eating worlds? [The idea that there were other worlds out there made him think, because that was good and he was mad that if there were nicer worlds out there that the bad people kept them here.

But... they were gone? Really really gone? Milano? His family? The rest of the black brothers? Unless they had been rescued by someone else...

Sonogno and the mountains and the blue skies of Milano, all gone.

He wasn't crying, of course he wasn't. He was brave and not a little kid any more, he would be twelve soon after all, he had been here almost a year.

He had wanted to believe everyone who told him the bad people were lying. But... His voice was a whisper when he spoke again.]

They really are gone sir?

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