Ship in a Bottle

What Remains

So I just got caught up on the show yesterday and wow that finale was awesome. Here's a look at what Two might be thinking in the aftermath of everything that went down on the station. I was listening to I Don't Love You by My Chemical Romance while writing this. I hope you like it.

Two let go with another devastating punch on the heavy bag that had been bearing the brunt of her anger for the past hour. She was imagining that it was Four or whatever he was calling himself now that she was punching. She wasn't sure what she was supposed to be feeling right now. She was the only member of the crew to make it back on board after everything that went down on Eo7. Five made it off of the station with Truffault and while that wasn't exactly the best case scenario at least she was safe. She had no idea where Three and Six were. And of course Nyx was dead on the floor thanks to Four.

Four, she wasn't sure what she was supposed to be feeling about him right now either. She was angry, angrier than she had been in a long time. It wasn't even the fact that he killed all of those people like it was nothing, though that was still unsettling. No, her anger came from a place that was far more personal and far harder to just forget. They had all lived and worked with each other long enough that any problem one of them had should have been brought to the attention of everyone else and dealt with together, as a crew, as a family. Instead of going to the rest of them for help though Four let the monster that was Ryo Tetsuda have free purchase back inside his head. She had let it happen because it really wasn't her place to say whether or not someone had access to their own memories. It still hurt that the time they spent together as a crew apparently meant nothing to him in that moment.

Maybe she should have seen this coming. Ryo Tetsuda, after all, was a ruthless man who she had seen in action while in the parallel universe. Was it really that hard to believe that he would resort to something as extreme as this if he thought it would accomplish his goals? She didn't know what the answer to that was, even now, all that she knew was that she had failed her crew in that respect. And now they were God knows where, possibly dead or dying, while what could only be described as a maniacal dictator was off prancing around the galaxy with one of the most powerful technologies in existence. She threw out another hard punch imagining her own face as the target this time. How could she have been so stupid?

"Two," the Android's voice cut through her current state of introspection like a knife.

"Android," she said working to get her breathing under control as she removed the gloves she had been training with. "What can I do for you?"

"You have elevated stress levels," the Android stated matter of factly.

"Just worried," she said. "Can you really blame me?"

"No," the Android said. "I too am worried."

"But," she continued. "You need to be in peak physical condition when we begin to search for the rest of the crew."

"Are you saying I should take a break," Two asked.

"Precisely," the Android said.

"Well alright," she said looking back at the marks she had left on the bag. "Not much getting done in here anyways."

"Don't worry," she said putting her hand on the Android's shoulder. "We'll find them."

"I have the utmost faith in you," she heard the Android say in reply as she turned to make her way to her cabin.

The Android had seemed sincere enough as she said that and Two was glad that at least one of them had faith in her, she wasn't exactly feeling much faith in herself right now. All of those people were dead now and a corporate war that could result in the deaths of millions more was all but inevitable, she was separated from the rest of her crew who could be dead for all she knew, and the blink drive had fallen into what were undoubtedly the wrong hands all because she failed to see the threat of Four's memories for what it really was. His face as he ordered his soldiers to slit the throats of the Seers and his brother and stepmother briefly flashed through her mind, a twisted smile as he completely abandoned his identity as Four.

They had all worked to build the Raza and themselves into something better than what they had been in the past. She thought back to those first moments after the Android told them all about their true identities and what kind of people they really were. Four had said that it didn't matter who they were in the past and she had found herself silently agreeing. It was still a philosophy that went through her mind every day as she tried her best to prove that she was Two and not Portia Lin. She thought that that had set them on a path to make something better of themselves and their situation and for the most part it had. All of that was gone now though. The era of calm, peaceful comradery that they had developed over the time since waking up was now shattered into a million pieces because of Ryo Tetsuda. All that remained in its place was anger and a desire for retribution.

She wasn't sure how or when, but she was going to get Ryo Tetsuda for this. He may be a ruthless ruler with thousands of loyal soldiers under his command, but in the end she was going to find a way to right the wrongs that he had committed; it would most likely end with his head on a pike. She was sure that he was wallowing in his victory right now, maybe even throwing a party to celebrate his tactical brilliance. She hoped that he choked on his wine. It didn't matter if she would have to build an army herself or go against his royal guard as a one woman tornado of violence, she was going to stop him. He was going to rue the day that he ever decided to hurt her and her crew. She may not be Portia Lin, but she was Two, commander of the Raza, and she was pissed off. And pissed off Two was not about to let someone who hurt her family simply get away with it. Thoughts of what she was going to do to him when she finally found him were a strangely comforting feeling as she succumbed to the exhaustion that she had been feeling since she made it back on board.

So on a side note I don't think 2x11, the one where Five got kidnapped, surpassed 1x04 as my favorite episode but it was definitely on that same level for me. I'm not sure what I'm going to do next in this fic. I already have some ideas to continue the "Older Five" storyline as well as the one with doppelganger Portia Lin, but we'll see. So happy we have a Season 3 coming.