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D.S. al Coda
Chapter Thirteen: Gone
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She hated him. Hated him to the very core of her body. She hated the way he helped her. She hated every single thing about him. He was a better leader than she was. Everyone liked him more than her. She ignored him. She tried to cast him out of her mind. She even tried to give him away. Then she sold her heart. She wanted to be rid of him.
But he wouldn't leave. He was breaking her heart.
Emotion raged inside her. She was trying not to tell him anything except what need she needed to. And then she betrayed him. It was the only other thing she could think of to get rid of him. But it didn't work. And it tore at her. Every single time he walked by her, he drove her insane.
Project Meteor came up and died down. They had destroyed it. And then she saw fit to get the emotion out. Even before she could, she saw it.
And he broke her heart for good. Took it, stepped on it, and gave it back. The worst part about it, she knew that she didn't hate him. But he hated her. And he loved another.
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0043 sat at the controls, piloting back down through the glass caves back to Earth. A lifeless 0016 sat next to her, all but frozen. Her chest barely rose and fell with her breath.
"Jet! Stop it!" 0014 said, the door opening in her wake. 002 chased after her, arms outstretched and fingers wiggling. 0016 stood up and darted for the door. 0043 walked out behind her, leaving the giggling set in the control room.
"Hey, 0016! Are you bored?" 0021 asked, swinging down from the ceiling.
"I don't care." 0016 said coldly, stalking off. 0021 continued hanging and saw 009 walking out of a door. She swung back up.
"BOO!" She screamed. Unfortunately, it had been Fate. She shrieked and ran away. "Well…it looks like my job here is done!"
0016 was standing in the kitchen. She sank down into a chair and a giggle came from the fridge.
"I'm watching you…" A would-be mysterious voice said, had it not been laughing.
"Panthos, shut the fuck up and get your ass out of here." 0016 snapped. The second fridge became a scowling Panthos.
"Someone isn't PMSing." He retorted, leaving. 0016 rocked back in her chair, right before 002 walked in.
"Oh, sorry." He said, opening the real fridge.
"IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?" 0016 demanded. She grabbed him and turned him around to face her.
"Don't kill me. God, I never knew girls got this violent…" 002 said, trying to slip the death grip. The two hands giving it to him suddenly lit up with a red glow. "OKAY! OKAY! FORGIVE ME!"
"What the hell is up with all the damn screaming?" 0017 asked. "I am trying to convince…want, never mind."
"0017! GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!" 0016 roared. 0017 left, muttering something about being overprotective.
"What did I do?" 002 asked, still trying to play dumb.
"YOU BROKE MY DAMN HEART!" 0016 screamed, tears falling from her dark blue eyes. 002 dropped the half of a sandwich he was holding. "YOU RAN AWAY AND LEFT ME BEHIND! DAMN YOU!"
She let him go and stormed away. 002 picked his food up and sighed.
"Somehow, I knew this was going to happen…" He said, leaving to go back to the control room.
"What was all that screaming about?" 0014 asked, leaning over for a kiss.
"Kimmy. You remember her, don't you?" 002 explained. 0014 returned her attention to piloting.
"Yeah, I do. You were always picking on her, weren't you?" 0014 replied. "But she got you back, nearly killing you a couple weeks ago. I'm sure it's nothing for you to run and laugh at, is it?"
002 could tell that they were back in Earth's atmosphere. Rain was pattering gently on the Dolphin as they flew, and he knew who was controlling it. Sighing, he took a monstrous bite from the sandwich. Then he continued to pilot, all while getting the cold shoulder from 0014.
"Okay, fine. I'm sorry." 002 said after twenty minutes and the entire sandwich. 0014's purple eyes turned to look at him.
"Well then. I'm not the one you need to tell, am I? I'm already your girlfriend, and I don't need your pity for that." 0014 said. "Go. And get me some Coke."
"As long as you don't turn into 0021." 002 agreed, leaving the control room.
"WHAT ABOUT 0021?" 0021 demanded, falling from the ceiling. 002 screamed and ran past her. "Jeez, I didn't know I was that scary. Oh well! Time to go bug the hell out of someone else."
002 stopped running once he was a reasonable distance from 0021. Unleashing a breath, he turned around to get back to the kitchen. As soon as he did, he found himself suspended in mid-air by a pair of hands. He looked into a set of brilliant blue eyes.
"002, WHERE THE HELL DID YOU PUT MY PENDANT?" Artemis demanded.
"Oh…it's only you…" 002 said, sighing. "It should be in the kitchen. Have you seen 0016 around?"
"No, I haven't. We've been transporting people home." Artemis replied, releasing him from her grip. "I needed my pendant for the next one.
"Who's leaving?" 002 asked, piqued by curiosity.
"Oh, we're sending all of Generation Zero to their old homes." Artemis explained calmly, now walking to the kitchen. "Since their magic is also very strong, we have to reinforce our own. When would you like to leave?"
She seized her pendant and left him. 002 sighed and took a Coke from the fridge for 0014, then set out to find 0016. He was keen on doing such, but as he was sulking about it, he ran into 0016.
"Look, I'm sorry." 002 said. "For everything."
0016 blinked. "Thank…thank you."
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The mood was subdued on the Dolphin the entire day. Only 0021 managed to be energetic about the whole thing, and even volunteered to keep the Dolphin after the whole affair was over.
"Besides," She explained, "Can anyone else pull up great masses of dirt from underground?"
"I hate to tell you this, 0021…but eleven of us can, including you." 0015 remarked, causing 0021's face to fall slightly.
"Don't be mean, 0015!" 0021 replied, smiling happily once again. "I only meant who can fix up an entire lighting system and flooring in about seven seconds?"
0015 just sighed. Within ten minutes, she, 0021, 002, 0014 and 009 were the only ones left on board.
"Well, it's been fun, bastard." 0021 said, slapping 002. "It was great meeting you, too, 0014. Here's my phone number in case you wanna call me."
In seconds, they were in an apartment in Manhattan. 0015 looked to her near-twin.
"My name is Ra. 0021, 009, I bid you farewell. It's been fun and all that jazz, but we all have things to get back to. For me, it's Riku-chan." 0015 said. 0021 nodded, and 0015 vanished.
"I guess it's just us now," 009 said. 0021 nodded. "Take care of yourself."
0021 hugged him one final time. "I'll never forget you, Joe."
They parted and he vanished. 0021 closed her eyes and appeared in an underground cavern, still inside the Dolphin. Checking the maps, she was home once again in California.
"Funny…time seems to take forever and now it seems like we all just met." 0021 said, ridding herself of the blue and gold uniform. "And they told us how it happened once before…how strange. It's like a D.S. al coda."
She left the Dolphin in her normal clothes, and turned off all the lights as she went along. It was over, they had won the big prize. But was it really over, for good?
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NOW FOR THE EPILOGUE! And it'll all be over. Sorry for the very short chapter…