*
He stared at the unmoving man, nothing but shock pulsed through his system. Something in him screamed that this was his reason to exist, that he had fulfilled his purpose. But the other side of him...
With a trembling hand he reached down and poked the soldier. He didn't move. He tried again. Nothing.
"Come on," he grabbed his opponents shoulder and shook him. "Don't just lay there, the fights not done I won too easy. Come on, move."
He felt something wet and pulled his hand back, and saw red. His eyes widened as he became totally transfixed by the substance. Blood. It was blood. Warm and sticky and- no, no, no! He shook the soldier again, come on, move, move ! This was why he was created, to do this. His brothers too, He knew this they knew this. Before it was joke. He never thought about it, fights never seemed to go this far and it was like a game. They never went so far. Was this dead? You just didn't move? He did this, he did this. No, wake up. Why did he care? Why did he hurt? No, no, no... Move... please.
*
The place was going to crumble down on then, they needed to get out now.
Helio and Red had already confirmed they were on the way back to the ship, but Frenzy had yet to answer. And so Indigo was rushing through hallways and sparing glances into rooms looking for the idiot, fully prepared to knock either him or his opponent unconscious. Whichever seemed more appropriate.
When he finally did find him, kneeling next to a body poking and shaking it, he felt fury flash through him. He'd been playing with a corpse?!
He stomped over to him and shouted, "THIS IS WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING?! WE'VE BEEN WORKING OUR SHELLS OFF AND YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING SOME TWISTED LITTLE GAME?!"
When his brother didn't respond he snarled and grabbed his shoulder. "Look at me! We were supposed to be collecting..." He trailed off when he saw the other's face. His eyes were wide, and while he was looking at him Indigo wasn't sure if he was really seeing him. The light reflected off them strangly, and the streams that ran down his face. It was like staring at shattered glass.
For the briefest moment, he forgot the peril they were in, and knelt down to meet the haunted gaze. "What happened?"
Frenzy stared at him, unblinking. For a minute Indigo wondered if he'd even heard him; But then the other held out his hand. "It's still warm."
Confused, Indigo looked at the appendage, he didn't see anything other than blood... Wait. His own eyes widened as he made the connection, he looked from the fallen soldier to his brother's hand. Bizarre as it was, it occurred to him that none of them had ever fatally wounded anyone. It was bound to happen sooner or later, it was the reality of their lives. He never-
"Where the shell are you morons?!" Helio's voice yelling through the communicator snapped the leader back to the present. "We need to go now
He pressed the button on his band. "I know Helio, we're coming. Is Red with you?"
"Yes, and you two better hurry up or else none of us are getting out of here."
"Get ready to go, will be there in a few minutes."
"We don't have minutes." There was a pause. "Indigo, is something wron-" He cut the connection.
Reaching out he gently shook the other clone's shoulder. "Frenzy, we need to go."
No response.
"Frenzy, if we stay here we'll die, we need to go now."
Still nothing.
The other had turned back to the body. Indigo was at a loss, logic was screaming at him to just grab him and run; but that look on his face, that pain...
He could feel it.
Suddenly, his prosthetic eye caught movement, and his head snapped to face the soldier. There, his fingers. He grabbed the soldier and flung him across his shoulders, the sudden action must have brought Frenzy back to reality as he was staring at him with total confusion. Indigo didn't give him a chance to ask any questions; grabbing his forearm and pulling him to his feet.
"Let's go."
*
When they finally reached the ship, Red slammed the door open and bellowed, "WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU GUYS BEEN?!"
The second they were inside Indigo shouted, "Helio, get us out of here"
"Like I need to be told!"
The ship jercked and began to raise, bits of ceiling and stone raining down on them, the craft would shake whenever a large piece hit.
It was easy to forget everything, while watching the chaos Helio was steering them through, the deafening sounds of screeching metal and the base caving in on itself drowned out almost every thought except the plea for survival.
But, when they finally escaped, and the moon shown it's cool light though the windows, it all came crashing back.
He needed to check on-
"Hey Fearless, why're you carrying that guy around?"
Almost startled by Red's question, Indigo looked at the man he had on his shoulder. He forgot he still had him.
The man was light.
He wondered... No, surely they would feed soldiers properly.
Then again, Darius was not a practical man. Why should any other crime lord be different?
He slid the soldier off and handed him to Red. "Take him to the med bay."
Red looked at him skeptically. "Why?"
"He's alive. " Feeling no need to say anything else on that matter, the blue leader turned his attention to his yellow sibling.
It didn't look like the situation had improved much.
He was in one of the seats, staring at the hand that was still marked with blood.
He approached him quietly. Once he was right beside him, he actually hesitated. He... Wasn't sure how to handle this.
"Hey, " he spoke gently, and placed his hands on Frenzy's shoulders. "You alright?"
The other didn't speak, but shook his head. At least he was responding. Indigo took that as a good sign and continued.
"He's not dead, you know. "
That got a reaction.
Frenzy's eyes snapped up and locked with his, an unfamiliar glint of hope. "Really? I didn't...? "
"No, you didn't."
The relief that washed over his brother's face was contagious, and Indigo almost felt himself smile. But it only lasted a moment.
Frenzy's expression crashed back into despair and to Indigo's horror he saw the awful streams begin to form again. "Indigo, he wasn't... Moving at all... "
His form began to shudder and without thinking Indigo wrapped an arm around him. He didn't know where these impulses came from; he didn't care. He could feel it, the pain radiating from his brother.
"You didn't kill him. "
"But I almost did... "
It hurt him too.
Months ago, he would have mocked him, if he hadn't the others or Darius would have. But now...
He squeezed tighter as the shudders became stronger; they weren't in danger any more. he could allow this.
Through the chokes and sniffles, Frenzy lifted his hand again, now trembling, and whispered. "Indigo, it was warm."
Indigo said nothing, they could talk later. Now he would just let Frenzy pour himself out.
He could feel two pairs of eyes observing them, but he kept his focus on one in his embrace. He wrapped his other arm around his younger brother, and did his best to provide some kind of comfort.
It was then he made an oath.
This would never happen again.