Prologue
"What are you... NO!"
He grabbed the cable connecting his best friend's mind to his body, and yanked it loose.
"Do you realize what you've done? You killed him!"
The accusation was thrown at him from the other side of the chair where the body of his friend suddenly turned lifeless.
"No. You did. He was dead the very moment he went in to save me."
The older man stared at him in frustrated anger, shaking with the emotion as he tried to decide what to do. His entire planning, all the years of research and training he'd spent on this ungrateful and treacherous young man, it all made him feel ready to explode.
A single tear was tracing its way down the younger man's cheek as he bent down over his friend's dead body in the chair and gently put his lips on his forehead.
"I'm sorry," he whispered softly, voice shaking. "I never meant for this to happen... and I can't do this. Forgive me."
In a single movement he then straightened himself out and grabbed a hold of one of the other cables attached to the chair.
"You ungrateful son of a-" the older man called out as he realised what his opponent was doing, reached out to stop him, but was too late.
The cable was ripped off at the base, the electrical wires inside it facing the air with sparks in a hot blue color.
"Forgive me..." he said silently.
With his tear filled eyes locked on his friend's unmoving face, the young man quickly moved the hand holding the dangerous object and put it to his chest.
The last word he uttered before his consciousness gave in to the darkness; was a name.
" ...Sora..."
