EPILOGUE: WARRIORS OF JUSTICE

[strangerpeople]

WARRIORS OF JUSTICE


Conversion is complete...but the virus-

Probably just it's shell. Quick! Reverse the polarity and turn everyone back to normal size! We need to ask them how they did it - and try and stabilize the girl genius!

[Another bright light, but this time, also, the feeling of being squished by gravity as your ears pop. Soon enough, the forms become much clearer - and smaller. Soon enough, the sensation stops - and shouting from vaarious doctors and soldiers can be heard outside of the EPCOT and Diatron-15.]

The virus--!!

Look at the size of that thing!

Stand back, stand back! Let the micronauts have air!

[The shorter of the two men steps forward, and begins to wave their arm.]

Diatron-15! Welcome back! It appears you brought that nasty illness with you, but it can't harm anyone else now, at least! However, we need to find another way to stabilize the girl genius - you took so long her organs began to fail!

Don't worry, though, we will compensate you as promised! Please, please come out so we can put you through a check-up and decontamination! Then we can take this virus in for study!

[Ha. Ha. Hahahaha...

Well, congratulations. You are alive and back to normal size.

Also, those who have powers from before this journey will find they are back.

...

So, what now?]

Comments

[theserpentsmiles]

...he said he doesn't have an heir to set the whip looming over other than me, so....if he uses it, I will too.

So he'd better not.

[crouching_sin]

It’s not as if I haven’t taken care of annoyingly difficult supernatural creatures before.

[theserpentsmiles]

I'd rather no one use it.... Dracula can't be that impossible to kill.

[He doesn't know about souls but why do his brother's keep reminding him of the damn tentacles....]

[crouching_sin]

Heh. No, probably not. He can't possibly be more annoying than Kresnik.

[Fuck that guy.]

[theserpentsmiles]

Dracula... Vlad the Impaler, right?

[Hm.]

I bet I could do it.

[crouching_sin]

Well, I'll be there for backup. I don't think any of us intend to let Jonathan go off by himself. He's too much of an idiot.

[But he's smiling a little.]

[theserpentsmiles]

He's a little like Terasaka-kun in that way. Maybe not the brightest, but he's ours.

[Let's not mention the time Terasaka got Nagisa to tie a grenade around his neck, though.]

[illusionarymelody]

Well, he is still quite young.

[And Vita is just going to hide her face in Jonathan's chest right now so no one sees her blushing a bit.]

[theserpentsmiles]

That...wasn't my point...

[illusionarymelody]

Well, I don't want anything happening to you either.

[theserpentsmiles]

....I think you're more worried about it than I am....

[Nagisa, that's because you're a nightmare and incapable of feeling fear.]

[illusionarymelody]

Perhaps. I spent far too much time worrying about all of you while we were at the temple.

[theserpentsmiles]

...I'm an assassin, Clotilde-san. Trained by the best in my world.

Commander-san never really stood a chance.

[illusionarymelody]

Strangely, I'm not surprised. The way you are acting right now reminds me a bit of someone who was also a very skilled assassin. He's a bit older than you now, but he was about your age when he left us.

Oh wait, that's right you wouldn't know I'm not exactly an average opera singer. That was my public role. I belong to a group called the Society of Ouroboros and some of our members are assassins.

[theserpentsmiles]

So that's it... You were taking the whole...trapped in a weird base thing pretty well. [Nagisa so were you.] I thought it was a little odd for an opera singer, but didn't make much of it at the time.

Probably would've if I'd known what I was looking at, but I have Commander-san to blame for that.

[illusionarymelody]

It was also easier to take being kidnapped well compared to the things I recently went through. The end of the war was indeed truly unpleasant.

[theserpentsmiles]

....it just wasn't the first time I've been kidnapped.

THIS IS AND ISN'T A GAGTAG, SOMEHOW....

[backuphero]

[GUYS CAN YOU MAYBE LIGHTEN UP A LITTLE HE'S RIGHT HERE HOLDING ONTO VITA FOR DEAR LIFE Y'KNOW]

...it. It wasn't?

[ACTUALLY NO, FORGET LIGHTENING UP, A SMILE PAIRED WITH THAT IS WORSE]

[illusionarymelody]

[She's fine with this, Jonathan needs to hear about some of the things she's done.]

You did seem rather calm as well, Nagisa. I admit, I attributed it to denial since our situation seemed reasonably safe.

[theserpentsmiles]

[SORRY YOUR LITTLE BROTHER IS SO BLASE ABOUT THIS KIND OF THING....]

No. It was the second. ...Maybe third, technically?

[He's trying for a reassuring smile, it might only make things worse.]

[illusionarymelody]

I definitely didn't think you actually used those techniques in that guidebook.

[theserpentsmiles]

No- Well, I did, but that was for when Kayano-chan and Kanzaki-chan got kidnapped. That was a different incident.

...It's been a long year.

[backuphero]

I - I'm beginning to see that...

[HE IS NOT REASSURED AT ALL, NAGISA.]

[theserpentsmiles]

...I...guess I owe you the whole story.... Yurick, too.

[And Akira. And Naoya?]

[illusionarymelody]

[Vita would totally give them time to talk about this alone, but she's quite comfy here in Jonathan's arms. It is becoming obvious that the three of them grew very close.]

Did something happen between the three of you while I was... away?

[She almost said something else there, but considering they've been alive the whole time, it doesn't feel right to say she was dead even if she remembers all the horrible details of it. That and it may be better to just get used to avoiding mentioning that from now on because no one outside this group will understand.]