Pokémon: Wings of Beginnings
Chapter 6: Erase
April 30th, 2020
10:00 a.m.
WINGS HQ: Research Department
The Research Department. Pokémon who are in the field of studies and analysing new effects like anomalies or new Dulled species which they delve deeply into their abilities. Usually, they aren't sent out for outdoor missions and are usually talked by new recruits that members part of those aren't physically able for outdoors missions.
Several researchers while working on materials, writing up reports, heard the opening of the doors and turned to greet the one who entered.
Pentaster breathed steadily as he entered the more chilly environment present from the air conditioning in the room. After being administered medicine a few days ago, he is gradually recovering from his fever. His condition is well enough to be moving, but another stern warning was to be reminded not to overwork himself.
He looked over to the side, spotted a researcher working on a computer, and went over to help her out. He rapidly typed on the keyboard while uttering words out to her.
"That's how you access the database." He ended. "Got it?"
"Oh, I understand, Professor...!" The researcher replies. "Are you feeling alright? You've fallen ill a few days ago and you're recovering..."
"I did." He answered. "Nifil provided the concoction needed for my recovery. I would be getting back to work just fine."
"That's good news... Well, I'd better resume work!" She turned her attention back to the computer.
He nodded before flying about to supervise the department. While he may be the second-in-command to the Commander, he was the head of the research department and it was his responsibility that they continue and make progress to the research going on. To know about the Dynacrystals' origins and ways to stop the continuing effect of losing memories. He looked over to the door at the far end, it was...
...well, not been used for about four years or so.
It used to house a researcher who was part of them... but contact was lost with her. However, everyone whom she had met knows and remembers her, so that means she isn't deceased.
But... Why isn't she returning? What has kept her held up for such a long time? Or is she trapped there and surviving? Too many questions, but always led to them knowing she is alive.
...It's really terrible. To rely on one's memories from the Dynacrystal to confirm someone's status.
"Neuron..." He muttered and looked at another door. "...It's been a while since he'd taken a mission."
Silence came from there, obviously no respondent from that untouched office.
...To be exact, the owner of that room he looked at... hadn't taken a mission since that time...
"...The Strike Squad 13 hadn't returned yet." He murmured. "I think I had to consult them about it."
He knocks on the door.
"Come in." A voice replies.
Pentaster opens the door and floats over to look at the inhabitant. From his view, he could see two ears sticking out from a chair. The right was white and the left was red. By the view of an armrest, a front white arm with red furred ends taps onto the keyboard rapidly with those two long black claws part of it. The backrest had a spacing at the base of the seat, allowing a white furred fluffy tail with two split ends to hang down from it.
"Good morning, Stor."
The Pokémon stops typing and turns to greet Pentaster. He is mostly white-furred. He had a pink right eye and his body is marked by red scar-like markings on his chest and left ear, though there are actual scars on his skin in that area. He was dressed in a long open light blue jacket and black pants. Though... he wasn't normal... in a sense.
His right arm... wasn't like his left one. Midway, the arm is instead a mechanical arm that is identical to his left arm by exact proportions. And his left eye, not a pink eye but instead mechanized.
"Aquarius, good to see you doing out of bed." He greets Pentaster.
"I am...I promised Nifil that it won't happen ever again." Pentaster replied. "I want to ask about the team who went on to extract and destroy a Dulled nest. Did they sent any messages or signals that the mission was complete?"
"...No, I'm not getting anything at all since yesterday." Stor answers. "But... there are several names I'm not familiar with. That could mean that they are in-"
He was interrupted with a surprised shout. By a serpent.
She chuckles slightly as she pressed herself onto his uncovered body. Her scales are deep black with some gold hexagon-shaped patterns running down from her head to her tail, small yellow bumps on each side of her base. Purple scar-like markings are below her head, around the side of her left eye and around her blade-like tail, which is half-red. Her red eyes had a flirtatious glint to it with red elongated fangs from her upper jaw.
"...There you are, Necrome." Pentaster sighed as he floated near the monitor.
"H-Hey! What're you doing, Safka!?" Stor demands. His face was rather flushed despite his apparent agitation.
"Hm, just wanted to feel these." She answered, feeling his stomach gently. "So did you work out a lot? You didn't lose them despite not going out to missions for four years."
"H-Hey!" He jolts uncomfortably. One thing that most easily knows about Seviper and Zangoose is their ongoing species' feud against each other, usually tearing into each other's throats and the like.
For these two... it's an entirely different story.
"Hm...Don't you know how handsome you are despite that eye?" She cooed.
"S-Shut it! What do you care about my looks!? Or life!?"
"Cause we've been partners for a while now."
"Can you get off m-ah!?"
"Nice furry abs you got there."
"S-Sto-!"
"...Send in a team." Pentaster declared.
"...A-Alright!"
"Sure~" Safka sang, feeling his pecs now.
"Let me just-! Stop it! Sending it to avai-get that tongue off there!" Stor screeches.
"Come on, Zakh~"
"Aah! Just-!"
April 30th, 2020
10:16 a.m.
WINGS HQ: Ranch
"Let me test you two again..." Lusiane begins, looking at the twin brothers. "What do we all call the food that we use to feed these creatures which they like the best?"
"Eh, ahh, eeeh..." Gray puts a finger on his head. "Some veggie?"
"Gysahl Greens~" Guy sang.
"That is correct, Guy. At least from what we call them..." Lusiane nods to Guy. She then looked at Gray with a sigh. "Honestly... All of us would like it if you studied."
"I do, too! I can name all of the eight regions, ya'ow!" Gray counters.
"...In your last attempt on that... you only gave four answers. And what were they again?"
"Go, bro~" Guy cheered.
"Ah... eh..." Gray scratched his head. He ponders before he gives his answer. "Kented! Jotted! Holland! Sinnle! Youow! And... and..."
Lusiane sighed deeply, shaking her head. "A new record...You already got all of them wrong..."
"Yo!?" Gray exclaims in shock.
"Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar~" Guy cheered out.
"That's correct again, Guy." Lusiane nodded towards him.
"Huh!?" Gray still looked stunned at this 'revelation'.
"It's easy, bro~"
"Yes." Lusiane agrees.
"W-what!? Huh!? What do ya call these chickens, anyway?" Gray looked at the birds.
"We don't have a term to call them yet, and they're not obviously chickens." Lusiane sighs.
"Chocobo, bro~" Guy corrected. "Lightspeed's Chocobo not here~"
"Chocobro?" Gray asks.
"...Chocobo?" Lusiane asked. "Is that what you want to name their species?"
"Yes~"
"That sounds like a... creative name." Lusiane comments. Guy laughs at her comment. "Right, Luski~?"
"Ye-"
Gray and Lusiane's badges vibrate, alerting them. All of them know of the reason. "Mission?"
"Yes." Lusiane said to Guy before turning to Gray. "You too, let's prepare and head out."
"Yo, ya got that, ah!" Gray nods.
They looked at the Beartic for a few seconds before they headed out of the ranch.
"Let's go~" Guy exclaimed before joining the two.
April 30th, 2020
11:20 a.m.
Wings HQ: Hangar
"Everyone's here." Luigi muttered. "We should get going too."
"Yeah." Iggy nods. "While the Dulled nest destruction is our objective, we have to prioritize getting to Strike Squad 13 and rescue survivors."
"Yes and...It even includes the Dragapult we used to hang out with in the ranch." Luigi muttered.
"We'd better get to it, ya'ow!" Gray exclaims loudly.
They all nodded and boarded the aircraft. As they did, Iggy looked at a picture.
"..."
There is an image of a young Monferno looking at somewhere with another member with the overcoat's hood drawn over their head, shadowing most details of their face. Now, he doesn't even know who that was before... but he feels like he has inherited something... but what?
"That person again?" Luigi asked.
Iggy turned to Luigi in surprise, having been too drawn to the image that he was looking at. "...Y...Yeah."
"Was that person Lightspeed?"
"...No, at least... I don't think so." Iggy replies. "I think it was a few years ago..."
"I see..." Luigi muttered. "We can't lose another Chocobuddy, right?"
"...Yeah... I'll get seated."
They nodded as the aircraft they rode on took off.
April 30th, 2020
11:45 a.m.
Jungle
A Dragapult looked around the area he was sent in. He looked afraid, what happened that this mission went for the worst? It went too well until their entire unit was destroyed. He looked at his bowgun.
It had been broken amid his escape, completely useless now.
'I didn't let our daughters come here.' He thought, looking at his Dreepy-less ports. 'I promised Portia that I'll come back, I can't break it.'
He flew about before spotting a fellow member of WINGS hiding. He went near her.
"Are you alright?"
"!" She flinched but when she looked at him, she calmed down. "L... Lightspeed... That's... you, isn't it?"
"Yes, it's me." He told her. "...we're the only ones left and...I don't remember anyone else."
"...Me... neither..."
He looked around. "We need to find a way to HQ."
"...Y...Yes..."
They looked about as Lightspeed took out a pistol. He looked about as he tried some moves.
"...I'm out of juice, how about you?" He asked.
"...Me... too..." she groaned.
He readied his pistol as they snuck out.
"All's clear, come on." He signalled.
She nodded and they continued on quietly... As they left their hiding spot, they didn't realize that there was a Blaster Sentry watching them go out. It aimed at them and fired projectiles to the unsuspecting duo. It hit them from behind, sending them flying forward.
Lightspeed fell to the ground with a groan, his gun rolled away from him as he heard his companion scream in fear. He looked back and saw her crawling away from a Spine Golem. It's sounding stomps grew louder as it lumbers over to her in large steps.
He gritted his teeth as he crawled to get his pistol. Taking it, he held it with both hands, loaded the chamber, aimed, and fired it at the Spine Golem.
The bullets struck the surface of the golem, and that was only what they did. They didn't sink any deeper into its body.
"Come on!" He growls frustratingly as he continues to fire until the magazine runs out before reloading another magazine.
The Spine Golem continues to walk to his companion without any pause in its steps.
Once it was above her, it raised its arm, casting its shadow over her. She no longer had any energy left to move. As it swung down, the arm suddenly released spikes around it.
"No!" He exclaimed as she was impaled by the spikes...Who was she?
He... doesn't even remember any details, looking at the dead female with the Spike Golem's arm covered with blood.
"Ah...Ah..." He knew that if doesn't escape, he would meet the same fate. He tried to get up.
The hulking Dulled turned to his direction as he tried to escape. The Blaster Sentry soon follows as they closed in towards him slowly.
He heard something cry out. He turned to see a Chocobo fly down and scoop him up. It ran off from the two as the Blaster Sentry fired at them. The Chocobo moved about, evading the projectiles while he held close.
He needed... to get back... and return...
April 30th, 2020
11:53 a.m.
Jungle
"...Okay, move out!"
Iggy was grouped with Gray and Lusiane after they managed a landing through the trees and began to search for the members they could remember.
"So, who've we got for their last known spots?" Gray questions.
"...Lightspeed... and-" Lusiane pauses as an explosion sounds loudly. "...Only Lightspeed's rather far from here..."
Lusiane charged forward as she threw her chakrams around, slicing Dulled around.
"...Right, ah!" Gray summons a staff in one hand and bashes a Dulled and sends it away to a tree with a great swing.
He turns to a direction... and he hurls his staff towards there. The staff whizzes through the direction in a blurring spin ahead...
Gray looked at Iggy. He wanted to know about who this Lightspeed was.
"Who was this Lighspeed again?" He asks. Iggy stops momentarily as a Dulled got in front of him, swinging an arm down at him... Then he suddenly maneuvered beside it just before it could touch him before he slammed his elbow at it's underbelly, and followed with a fiery punch.
"Lightspeed from Strike Squad 13 is an efficient member, a Dragapult." He said, ducking as Gray's staff returns with dissipating mist. "I know him well..."
Iggy stood by the Chocobo ranch and beside him was a large dragon holding his Chocobo with affection. He nuzzled the Chocobo when it went down to meet him.
"You're treating them awfully well." Iggy says to the dragon. "We don't even know what they really are..."
"Yeah, they are." He agreed. "Though I wonder, didn't we have someone else we used to talk to everyday here?"
"I don't know..."
"Oh..."
The two were silent for a while and the Dragapult took some Gysahl Greens and fed them to the bird. Just as he fed him, he remembered something.
"Hey, do you know about that Drakloak girl I was talking about before?"
"You mean... Uh? Portia?"
"Guess what, we're about to have twins!"
"Really? That's good news! I mean, great!"
"Yeah and... By the way, is it alright to talk to you like this?"
"What do you mean?"
"I am just a lowly footsoldier while you're part of a special unit of WINGS. Taken care by legends Commander Galecita, Head Researcher Aquarius, and Wandering Swordsmon Lainuiki. Supervised by the Commander and completed the training and trials of Lainuiki-sensei. I can't even pass his training while you and your friends did. I'm afraid that I can't compete with the skills your team had. Yet here we are, talking like old friends. Pretty strange, right?"
"I don't think it is... We're both WINGS, after all. We should be talking to each other as comrades, right?"
"Oh...Um...You must be right."
The dragon patted the Chocobo again before looking back.
"Maybe when we're done, I could introduce you to our twin children. If that's alright?"
"I don't mind, it's alright."
"Thanks and...Portia makes nice curry."
"So, we could try her food?"
"Sure!"
"...Better hope he's still there..." he mumbles.
"...Heads up!" Gray hurls his staff and it smashes against the head of one Dulled. As he catches it, one that is coming from the sides was sliced by thrown chakrams.
"These are starting to become a menace..." Lusiane remarks.
"We'd better hurry up, ya'ow!" Gray shouts.
They rushed out of the forest, trying to find any survivors.
"See anything yet, ah?" Gray asks them.
"Nothing yet..." Lusiane answers. Iggy looks around more...
He heard a scream.
"! Over there!" He rushes to the direction of the scream. He spotted a Dulled towering over a human girl. "Huph!"
"Yo!" Gray exclaims.
Iggy appeared suddenly and saved the girl before the slash struck him. He twirled about before firing a blast of fire at the Dulled. He let the girl down gently on the ground.
"Run!" He shouts.
Instead, a cry came from his mouth when he spoke.
The girl wondered what he meant but just shrieked and ran off in a direction. Iggy sighed, a sense of deja vu was present.
"Alright..." he looks back at the Dulled. 'A new one...'
He readied himself as it charged, dragging the steel blade it had with it.
Lusiane jumped and threw chakrams at it. The two bladed projectiles spun in the air and one cut it by its face. As she lands, she quickly turns and brings a hand out, sending the other chakram spinning and cutting it by its back. She looked and gasped. It was still standing as it glared at her. This wasn't right, she knew the anatomy of the Dulled meant she hit an artery or vital parts but it didn't even fall. Some blood burst out of it.
'It's... still alive!?'
Gray charged in.
He spins his staff, leaping with a battle shout before swinging it down.
It didn't flinch as it took his staff with a glare.
"Huh-?"
It threw him out, causing him to impact against several trees and they all crashed on top of him. The other two stared.
'Why didn't he let go earlier...? He could've just released and called out his staff from it...'
They quickly refocused after that mental jab at Gray.
"I'll need time to charge." Iggy said. "Keep him busy!"
Lusiane nodded and called out her chakrams.
She holds them in front and channels energy from them. "...Hiyah!" She generates spheres in front of her and fires them against that Dulled. The Dulled continued to charge despite the strikes...
She gasped as she flipped over the swing of that massive blade and did a backward axe-kick to the head. Lusiane swerved to the side as her chakrams returned and threw them out before firing Aura Spheres at it.
She lands and quickly sees a fist coming in at her and realizes she couldn't evade it. She manages a minor Protect before the impact shot her away.
At the pile of trees, Gray bursts out with several trees sent flying to the sides. "Hey! Did anyone tell you not to hit girls, ah!?" He shouts.
He saw just in time to see Lusiane's back flying toward him. His face registered shock as her rear bumped into his face.
"Agh!" He was thrown back by the force as she landed on him. Lusiane groans, the force still taking some energy off of them.
Iggy looked onward before vines appeared and trapped the Dulled in place. He looked to the side and spotted that the sword was inches away from chopping his neck off his shoulders. He looked to the newcomers.
"Lenna!" He sees her there as she steadied with a stance.
"Go!" She cried as Guy jumped down and swung his bardiche sideways. He looked onward. "Wow, rock hard ore steeling the spotlight~" he sang.
The Dulled frees one hand and swings its' colossal blade down towards him, which he evades by the side. "Iron not to be cut~" Guy sang as he fired spikes of ice at the Dulled.
Its' body started to exert more force while it's struck by the ice. With one burst of energy, it tears through the vines keeping it in place.
Lenna quickly retreated a bit. "Natural Blessing!" She exclaimed, firing a blast of nature energy into the ground. Vines sprung out and attacked the Dulled.
It took a few steps back and did a massive swing to cleave several vines before some returned and it repeated the swings again.
Lenna and Guy see a swing readying in front of them.
"Oh no~" Guy gasped.
"Out of the way!"
They leap away from the swing directed at them. After that miss, the Dulled was immediately struck by the head again by an energy-coated staff.
"How didja like that, huh?" Gray taunted, catching the staff. The Dulled remains still before it raises a foot and stomps onto the ground.
A quake erupted and caused everyone to lose balance as it darted toward Iggy and slashed his left arm off his shoulder. Everyone gasped when this happened as Iggy looked at them. His eyes look wide after the sudden slash.
"...Sorry... everyone..." he begins to fall forward.
Gray tightened the grip on his staff. "You..." he stomps onto the ground, ready to charge. "You son of a bitch!"
Lusiane grabbed his arm, stopping him before he did anything reckless.
"Gray, don't!" She shouts.
Gray snapped back at her. "Asshole got Iggs good! How can I-"
Then... Iggy suddenly faded off from where he was slashed and he reappears right behind the Dulled. "Sorry for the wait: here it is!"
His arms were filed with flames before he sent a flaming tornado around the Dulled, trapping it in place.
"He dodged just at the last moment!" Lusiane realized.
"Time to make barbeque~" Guy cheered, charging in.
"Got it!" Gray quickly recovers from the surprise and charges in too.
They went in and attacked the Dulled with their weapons. It instantly disintegrated when their attacks connected, disappearing into nothing.
The searing tornado dissipated along with the strikes, with the work done.
"Iggy!" Lenna called.
Iggy dusts himself as the other four go over to him. Gray jabbed his arms into the air. "Ya had us worried there!"
"Are you crying, bro~?" Guy asked, seeing some tears falling down Gray's face.
"What!?" Gray rubs his eyes. "Of course not, ya'ow!"
"Okay~"
Lusiane sighed at this before looking at Lenna, she gave her a smile. "Lenna, thank you for your help. And you too, Guy." Lusiane tells them.
"You're welcome." Lenna replied with a curt nod.
"No problem~" Guy sang.
The two began to head out.
"We're going to check the other area, we'll be back once the Dulled nest is closed." Lenna informed. "Please, take care out there."
"Alright." Lusiane nods, watching Guy apparently sluggishly following Lenna.
Once they were gone, Lusiane turned back at Iggy.
"That took some time than we expected with a new one..." she said. "We'd better..."
At that moment, Iggy heard a familiar voice. But from afar.
"Iggy..."
He stood there in silence, Lusiane was worried about her friend's silence. What happened to him that he couldn't even move?
"...Iggy? Is something wrong?" Lusiane questions. Iggy stared off in the direction of where his name was called. "...Lightspeed..." he mutters.
He rushed on ahead, shocking Lusiane as she followed him. Gray stared with confusion.
"Huh? Where're ya goin'!?" He exclaims. As the two members' figures got smaller with the distance, he breathed out. "Seriously... what's his deal...?"
Iggy hoped that he wasn't too late but...
April 30th, 2020
11:58 a.m.
Jungle
The cry of the Chocobo resounds with a blast. Lightspeed grunts, blood running down his face as he pulls himself up weakly.
He looks ahead and sees the gravely wounded Chocobo there, struck down by one of the attacks.
"I was so close... Portia..." He whispered, he spotted someone walking toward him.
Unfortunately, it was a Blaster Sentry... and having two more come over to him.
His throat shook as he could hear the charging. "...Iggy... Iggy..." The energies are ready to be released from the arms. He willed his throat to scream. "IGGY!!!"
Streaks of fire flew above him and struck all of the Blaster Sentries, burning their bodies in quick seconds until they completely melted away.
"Huh?" He gasped, looking about as Iggy landed.
"I'm here! I'm right here!" He shouts to Lightspeed.
"You're...That Infernape of that unit..." Lightspeed muttered, coughing out blood. A lung was shot and collapsed, he couldn't breathe properly now.
Iggy ran over to him. He looks around his body...
It was filled with wounds and some pierced through his chest and ruptured the lung. His breathing was heavy, he couldn't take much oxygen now. His eyelids were getting heavy as he began to lose too much blood. Iggy tried to use some healing magic on him but... Lusiane landed beside him.
"It's too late..." She tells him.
Iggy looks down at Lightspeed again. He grimaces. "...I know..."
Lightspeed looked down. He shot a glance at his Chocobo. "Well, I'm sorry...But...I am glad that you're here..." He whispered.
The Chocobo grunts weakly, trying to rub against him.
He tried to be brave but...It hurts so much. Then, he imagined two Dreepy and another Dragapult. His beloved and beautiful wife. The promise of returning back to her...to them.
He shook, gasping before the next words came out in a breaking sob.
"I...I don't want to die." He choked out.
Hs sobs out, the thoughts haunting him as he becomes more aware he won't see his family ever again. And... he will be forgotten by them... His sobs grew more as the last grains of life in him began to pile like an hourglass.
The Chocobo lifts its head out and cries into the skies combined with his crying.
The other two that were present grimly looked at him breaking down... until he stopped crying. And for a good reason.
Iggy presses onto the badge that this unknown Dragapult had on and hears a beep before he places it onto the unmoving body.
"...Let's go on with our mission." He tells Lusiane. She nods and they headed off, leaving who was once a member of WINGS, now erased from their minds.
April 30th, 2020
12:00 p.m.
Galar, A Small House by Lake Outrage
A female Drakloak was finishing the curry she made before looking back at the table. She looked around then paused. Why was she preparing for a meal for four? There wasn't anyone there. She looked down at her daughters who flew into the kitchen, they looked at the table with four sets. They looked confused as to why there was a fourth set.
"Mommy?" They both said in unison.
"Was there...supposed to be someone else?" She asked. "Why did I make a meal for four?"
"Mommy?" One of her daughters wondered. "Isn't it... just us...?"
"..." She remained silent as a tear slid down. "I...I...don't...know..."
In the living room, there was a portrait of them together. They were with a Dragapult.
"Mommy, who's that?" The other one asked, younger than the first one who had spoken.
"Don't...know..."
The hat she wore tilted a bit. She wondered who gave this hat to her...She will never know.
April 30th, 2020
12:05 p.m.
Jungle
Luigi nodded after they made certain that the nest they were tasked to destroy as an objective had been done. But, he knows something like many of the others should have known.
He walked about before holding his head. There were more silhouettes now. He couldn't remember who they were.
He looks at a direction, hearing one rather loud call from there, seeing a familiar group of three.
"Yo! We're here, ah!" Gray runs over and looked at the remains of the nest. "Ya got them done already, ah!?"
"Yes..." Luigi muttered. "We won but...Why was the other mission?"
"...I think... we were supposed to save someone, but we failed." Iggy answers grimly.
"...I see..." Luigi muttered, staying silent as he passed Sunai. "...Mission complete or...Anything, maybe we should be grateful?"
"...With all our tasks done here, we should return to HQ as soon as possible." Sunai states.
"I've already worked on the signal to pick up... whoever they were." Iggy said.
"..." Luigi was still not moving. He was forgetting more people again and...it scared him a lot. Why? Was Sunai right about it or not? He didn't know...
"...Weeg?"
He looked up to see Iggy looking back at him with concern. He must've noticed his childhood friend's unease.
"...Will you be alright? I mean... Anything, I'll do my best to help out."
"I'll be fine." Luigi lied, not wanting to make them worry about it. "Let's just go back to HQ and meet up with...Who were we with at the Chocobo Ranch?"
"...I don't know..."
"Oh..." Luigi looked down. "...Let's go."
"...Sure."
April 30th, 2020
4:00 p.m.
WINGS HQ
Luigi looked around the Training Grounds, noting that he didn't see the older Golisopod anywhere ever since they returned from that mission. Right, he could have went out to do outdoors training, as he had mentioned before.
After their return, several teams had went to the site of their mission, recovering badges from there and if possible, bodies as well. Their place will be at the cemetery, where their bodies will be buried there. Many reasons for there, but for the same reason... for their deaths.
The badges that each member of WINGS wore, it's not only just a sign of their affiliation to this defence force, but also bearing their own identity. Collecting these badges are still a sign that everyone knows that they were there. It stood as their living proof.
But to forget them...Of who they were...
He looks down quietly... "...I can't remember..."
Nothing else but at least the ones whom he has met in his memories... while they're still alive... An-
"Weegee~"
"Huh?" Luigi looked back to see Guy looking at him.
"Are you totally okay~? Fran-ran's super worried about you~..." Guy tells him.
"Oh, Guy..." Luigi muttered. "It's just that what Sunai told me is that I should be grateful for the Dynacrystal's 'gift' of forgetting the dead but the longer I fight...It feels...much more painful than remembering them. I can't seem to move on about it. My head hurts thinking about it."
"Weegee~... You need to brighten up~..." Guy pats his shoulder. "Sunu really thinks differently, you don't have to really follow his thinking~..."
That joyful, happy and rather silly personality this polar bear always had...
"Okay, Guy and...Thanks." Luigi smiled. "I don't know what would happen if you're not there to cheer us up."
"Aw no, you're making me blush~..." Guy laughs. "Okay... what else did I want to tell you next~? Oh~ Right, Glitch-itch is coming over~..." At the sound of... that name, Luigi froze.
"Gl-Glitch!?" He exclaimed in horror. "Not that du-"
Something caught his leg, causing his eyes to widen.
"Ah?"
A sharp tug and he is pulled backwards, grunting with a slam from his fall. He heard that all too familiar laugh of that duck made of data.
"Hey, Glitch-itch~!" Guy waves. "You two have fun in there~"
"Wait, Guy, he-!"
He was interrupted with another hard pull, reeling him away from the bystander of this 'incident'.
Guy watched as Luigi disappeared into the portal that opened, like a zombie getting hold of their victim and dragging them down. But instead of a zombie, it was a duck. "See you two later~..."
April 30th, 2020
4:02 p.m.
Datascape
Luigi opened his eyes. What had happened before this?
...His leg felt stuck. It wasn't just the one which had got him... dragged away...
...All of his limbs... are restrained.
"Argh..." He groaned.
"Oho~ Happy to have found you~" A head came from above his vision.
"G-Glitch!?" Luigi exclaimed.
"So happy you're here~" Glitch sings.
Luigi looked down. He groaned as Glitch took his clothes and sent them flying away. Their session is about to start.
"Oho~"
He wondered...How long will this last?
He felt cold hand-like appendages run across his bare body, fingers running across his scaly abs expertly.
He jolted, this will be a long night.
Chapter 6 Concluded (Really!)