2.14 - Voice

[breakingmyheart]

[Posted about two hours after Megamind's post.]

[Seconds before transmission, almost everything is reset. The lost areas and items reappear, the above-decks areas are restored in their entirety, and the 'space' and sunlight around the ship come back. Zero is returned to normal and anyone teleported down there is automatically released. Anyone who has had their powers or weapons temporarily removed will get them back. Auto-demoted Wardens regain their previous status and everything associated with it.

The loose panels are still around. For some reason, it's raining lightly on deck. A few random bits of furniture in the common rooms have changed colour.

The voice of the 'Admiral' comes from Toshiko's network signature, quiet and tired.]

I don't stand by everything I said, but I don't hold myself above any of it. Anyone who wants to call me a hypocrite, a coward, a sadist, a weakling…

[The feed shifts. Tosh's voice. Hi, Barge.]

I know. I just - I know.

I need…time. To end this without doing any more damage. Tomorrow I'm going to come out. I'm not - I'm not going to fight. I'm not going to defend myself in any way.

[There is a background interjection from Megamind: But I will!

Tosh is quiet for a moment, probably pulling a face at him.]

...Whatever's decided, I'll....go along with it.

Comments

[ Private + Megamind ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean's pissed. He's beyond pissed. And he's absolutely a proponent of an eye for an eye, and there's a lot of weight on Tosh's side of the scale.

However.]

I know you don't agree - [Okay, yeah, he's still pissed.] - but I'm still here to do a job and I still don't want people just randomly murdering other people or being murdered because they made stupid, shitty decisions. You get into a tight spot, I'm not on the lynch side.

[ Private to Dean ]

[megamind]

...thanks.

Soon as we can get her unhooked I'll explain everything I can-- including why she wasn't in control for... a great deal of this nonsense.

Later.

[ After the mob's passed. ]

[ Private to Dean ]

[surfaceshine]

I won't understand it. [This is just straight up fact; Dean expects there's some technobabble involved, and a lot of things he can't forgive because he's just not built that way. He remembers twelve hours of hearing Sam scream for him and having to convince himself over and over that it isn't real, and he remembers the faces of his friends, of people he's supposed to be protecting, and there are some things he just can't forgive.

But luckily, he understands something else.] Lucky for you and her, I don't have to. I have a job.

[ Private to Dean ]

[megamind]

I'm a genius and I don't understand it entirely. [ Stupid barge. ] But-- thank you.

[ Private + Megamind ]

[breakingmyheart]

...

Thank you.