Disclaimer: Shotaro Ishinomori's, not mine.

Notes: Spoilers for 'Black Ghost Lives!'. Set pre-series.

It was starting to come back to him.

He had been in darkness for what felt like forever, but now slowly, painfully, he was beginning to pull together the fragmented pieces of his memory. They were very vague, and very strange. The heady sensation of flight, the terror of falling... and faces.

EKG, normal. Blood pressure, normal. Doctor, I think he's about to come to.

He could hear voices, faint and far way, but he couldn't care less about that, because now he remembered them. The girl he saved, the man writhing in agony, the voice in his head... the battle they fought and lost, and what those bastards had done to them.

Can you hear me, 002?

002, who now remembered that he used to be Jet Link, opened his eyes a slit. The operating room lights made it difficult to see, but he could make out the face of the man looming over him. The face was older, and the hair was gray now, but he recognized him immediately. There were some things he would never forget.

002?

His voice was barely recognizable due to decades of disuse, but what he said was perfectly clear. "Go... to hell."

As he slipped back into oblivion, he thought he was looking at him almost sadly and muttered something that sounded a little like "You mean this isn't?" But he was gone again before he could know for sure.