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Jinx and Krane ran to the Underground's HQ and bolted inside of the small room. They paused for a moment, but Krane kept running until she met up with Overture who was standing beside the wounded Torn. Krane ran from Jinx's side and hugged Overture tightly.

"It happened again," Krane whispered. "I don't know what the hell is going on but it happened again."

Overture smiled and gently pushed Krane away. "I have come to say goodbye to you."

"What!?" Krane shook her head. "What are you talking about?"

"I cannot be with you anymore." Overture nodded. "I wanted to see you one last time before things start to go astray."

"No." Krane shook her head as she began to cry. "You can't just leave me here like this!"

"I am sorry." Overture ran his fingers over the right side of her face.

"No!" Krane hit him on the chest and pushed him away. "You can't leave me again! You just can't! It's not fair! We're supposed to go home together!"

"You will understand soon."

Krane hung her head and stopped talking, now allowing Torn to speak.

"Jinx, I need you and Krane to head up to the Palace once Jak has broken into the nest." Torn began. "Go up there and gather any information you can."

"We have to help Sig first," Jinx said, walking over to Torn until he stood next to him.

"Fine, but after that go and get that information!" Torn looked over towards Krane who was still staring at Overture's chest. "Krane? Krane are you listening to me at all!?"

"I'm not doing anything else," Krane said, allowing her hair to cover her face. "I want to go with Overture."

"Where I am going you cannot come," Overture said in a gentle tone as he placed his hands on her shoulders.

"Why?!" Krane whispered.

"Because…this is something I must do alone. Nothing you say will change my mind Krane, I am sorry." Overture smiled.

Krane suddenly looked back up at Overture. "No you're not! I told you! I told you that I loved you but you just won't stay! What's wrong with you?!"

"You told him what!?" Jinx asked as he moved closer towards Krane and Overture.

Overture blinked slowly and moved his head down towards Krane's. "I love you as well…but this is something I must do."

"No!" Krane shook her head. "How can you do something like that after telling me that? How!? I just wanna be with you because I love you!"

Jinx gripped his fists and suddenly came forward. "You can't go wit' him!"

Krane blinked. "Why not?"

"Because."

"Because why?"

Jinx looked away. "Because I said so."

"That's not a good enough reason!" Krane screamed out. "What do you know about what's going on here? You don't know anything so you have no right to tell me w—"

Jinx lowered his head. "It's 'cause I love you."

The room fell silent. Krane stood there, looking back towards Jinx who was still looking at the ground with his hands gripping together. Overture removed his hands from Krane's shoulders and smiled.

This is why I must moved forward with my plan. Jinx has fallen for someone who was not supposed to be here. This is why I must do this. Overture gripped his fingers until they formed fists.

"But Jinx," Krane blinked slowly, "how could you fall—"

"I don't know," he answered with a slight laugh. "There ain't no way to tell you but for the simple fact that I love you."

Krane lowered her head a bit. "How long have you been feeling this way?"

Jinx laughed once more. "I don't know."

Krane pulled away from Overture and stepped backwards, towards the front door. "You're such an idiot."

"Krane," Overture said gently as he looked over towards her.

"I'm going to help Sig," Krane said, looking back at the group. "I don't want you to come Jinx, do something else. I can handle this mission on my own."

"But Krane—"

"No!" Krane glared towards Torn after interrupting him. "I'll be fine. I'll come back to do the other mission once Sig is fine."

"I'm telling you to stay!" Torn yelled, slamming his fists down. "Dammit if you leave!"

"What?" Krane asked. "I'm not in the Underground. Everything will be fine, don't worry about anything."

Without another word, Krane turned around and ran out of the Underground, leaving a silent room. Torn was the first to make a noise: a loud, drawn out sigh. Jinx continued to look down towards the ground, while Overture moved over towards Torn.

"I will be leaving now," Overture said. "I am sorry for the trouble that I have caused, please protect Krane for me."

"Whatever." Torn shook his head back and forth. "Just hurry up and get outta here already."

Overture bowed, and began walking up towards the front door. As he stood and waited for the door to open, Jinx began to laugh.

"Who are you anyways?" Jinx asked through his sarcastic laughter.

"My name is Overture," the strange man answered without turning around. "Jinx, do not worry about Krane feelings, she will realize how she feels for you soon."

Jinx looked up towards Overture with a heavy glare. "How the hell would you know anythin'?"

Overture turned back to Jinx with a smile on his face. "Trust me Jinx, I know better then anyone else."

Krane ran all the way down to the Port without stopping for anything. Her heart was pounding away in her chest and her lungs just kept taking in the cold Haven City air. Her legs just kept pulling her forward, and her arms kept moving back and forth, not wanting to stop. She wanted to leave but no matter how far or how fast she ran, she would never return back to her home.

Stupid. Krane told herself. This is so stupid. What the hell is wrong with him? Why did he have to tell me that?! He knew dammit! He knows that I want to go home so why the hell did he have to tell me that?!

The burning sensation inside of her chest eventually slowed her down. She fell down onto her knees and placed her hands on the floor while she began to catch her breath. Sweat fell from her forehead and formed a dark spot on the cement underneath her.

Jackass. Krane thought, shaking her head.

Remembering that she had a mission to finish, Krane got back on her feet and began running once more. She ran along the Port until she reached the transporter where she saw Sig waiting.

"Where's Jinx?" Sig asked, looking towards Krane.

"He's not coming," Krane answered plainly. "He's going to stay behind with Torn for a while."

"Why?"

Krane sighed. "I don't know."

Sig looked towards Krane and how she was still trying to catch her breath. "I'll tell you somethin' Cherry, why don't you talk to me while we're on this little mission?"

"About?"

"Jinx."

Krane looked away. "There's nothing to talk about!"

Sig rolled his eyes. "Come on then, you might not think so but we have to finish this mission. Let's get going before this place fills up with water."

Sig and Krane were now in the Underport, and walking through the large hallways surrounded by water on all sides. Large windows kept the water from flowing into the hallways they were walking through, creating a silent, eerie experience. Light from the surface above came down through the water, and lit the hallways enough for Krane and Sig to walk through them without bumping into anything. As they walked and killed the occasional Metal Head, Krane spotted something in the water.

"Hey," she said. "What's that?"

"What?" Sig said, focusing more on a running Metal Head.

"That."

Krane walked over to a large window and placed her right hand against it, feeling how cold it was. There in the room that had been flooded with water was a vent of air with an object floating in it. Krane pushed harder on the glass, trying to get close enough to see it but the glass stopped her.

Sig finally killed the attacking Metal Head and turned back to Krane. "Now what were you talkin' about?"

"That," Krane whispered.

"I…don't know," Sig admitted as he too began to look at the strange object.

The pain Krane had felt twice before suddenly came back to her. She fell down to her knees instantly and began holding her head once more when she, for the first time, became deaf.

"Krane!" Sig yelled, bending down to her level. "Krane! What's goin' on? Are you alright!?"

"So you have finally arrived, I was growing impatient," a male voice began.

What? Krane blinked. She couldn't hear anything, such as Sig's yelling but she could hear a single male voice. What the hell? Who are you?

"Don't worry about that," the voice continued. "I just wanted to thank you before anyone else did. Be safe Krane."

The glass in front of the two suddenly cracked down the middle and then shattered completely. Water rushed into the room while Sig wrapped himself around Krane to protect her from the glass and water. The combined two floated backwards from the flow of the water and Sig was beginning to lose the breath of air he had taken in. He opened his eyes to see if he could find somewhere to swim to when he found himself inside of a white bubble.

"The true fight for the world will begin soon," the voice said.

Sig finally lost the breath he was holding in and as it released, he naturally took another breath in to discover that the bubble he was in had air inside of it. Taking more breaths in to replace the ones he had lost, Sig began to shake Krane only to have her head move back with her eyes closed.

"Krane! Krane!" Sig yelled, shaking her. "Come on don't do this to me!"

"Do not worry, she will wake up," a male voice said loud enough for Sig to hear it.

Sig looked up to see the object that he had Krane had been looking at before. It was a man, and he was floating in front of the bubble in a white haze, hiding any facial features from being identified.

"What the hell?" Sig asked, holding tightly to Krane.

"Be warned," the male voice spoke once more, "if any of you die, this world will fall into darkness. Krane's ticket has been used."

The bubble that kept the outside world from getting into Sig and Krane's lungs was urgently pushed backwards, shattering three walls. The bubble kept breaking down walls and glass until it finally popped in a dry room where the water had drained out. Sig's back hit the wall of the last room and he fell to the floor while Krane fell out of his hands.

"Dammit!" Sig cursed, shaking his head. "What the hell was that!?"

The Wastelander looked over towards Krane to see if she had gotten up yet only to find that she was lying on the floor, motionless.

"Shit."

Sig crawled over to Krane's body and placed two fingers on her neck. Nothing. Cursing once more, Sig placed his hand over her mouth but didn't feel anything.

"She ain't breathin'," Sig whispered to himself.

"If any of you die, this world will fall into darkness."

Sig moved his hands onto Krane's chest and pumped down three times before he moved to her face, placed his mouth against hers, and gently pushed air into her lungs. He moved back to her chest and began pumping while he cursed underneath his breath, and then went back to her mouth once more. After another pump of her chest, she began coughing.

"Shit," Sig said, calling back onto his hands. "Don't ever do that again! You almost gave me a damn heart attack!"

Krane continued to cough as she sat up to try and relax her body. Her right hand moved to her chest where she felt her heart pound away in her chest once more. She looked back over towards Sig who was now catching his breath.

"What happened?" Krane finally asked, holding her head.

"Dammed if I know!" Sig shook his head. "All I know is that we can't go back that way now. We gotta move in the direction where the Metal Heads are coming from."

"Shit," Krane said, shaking her head. "I'm sorry, I don't know what happened."

Sig stood. "Doesn't matter. We're fine, I'm sure we'll be able to get outta here. I just wish Jinx were here to blow somethin' up. What happened anyways?"

"Nothing," Krane said as she stood up as well. "Come on, let's try to find a way out of here."

The two walked down hallway after hallway with fewer and fewer Metal Heads coming after them. They were silent until they came to a long hallway with two large metal doors at the end.

"Is this where you're supposed to use the Ruby Key?" Krane asked, looking over towards Sig.

"Your guess is as good as mine." Sig shrugged. "Come on, let's go check it out."

They began walking towards it when Sig took a deep breath inwards and looked down towards the smaller woman.

"You know Jinx likes you don't you?" Sig finally asked.

Krane looked away. "I told you I don't wanna talk about it."

"Well I do."

"What do you have to say?"

"That he loves you."

"He hasn't known me long enough to love me," Krane said, clenching her fists together. "He knew not to get attached to me! He knew and he did it anyway!"

Sig rolled his eyes. "Come on! He's known you for two damn years! He's put up with more bullshit from you then anyone else did, and he let you into his house! Come on Krane, think about it!"

"Think about what?" Krane hissed. "There's nothing to think about!"

"You feel the same way."

"What?" Krane's jaw dropped.

"I know you do."

"Are you saying that I love him?" Krane asked in a low, almost whispering, tone.

"Yeah."

Krane had never thought about that before. She felt such a strong connection with Jinx but she had never really put a name on it before. Her relationship with Jinx was one that she had never had with someone from her own world so she couldn't think of a label for it such as friendship or something else. The more and more she thought about it; the more she realized that their friendship was more then just that.

"What do you know about this?" Krane asked, still looking away from Sig.

"I've been watchin' you two for two years now," Sig said, looking away from her as well. "You both act strange around each other and I know that you've been through a lot together. You're closer to him then you are to anyone else."

Krane blinked. "Maybe I am."

"He told me somethin' once," Sig began, "he said that you were the type of person that made him want to straighten out the ocean."

"What the hell does that mean?" Krane asked with a slight laugh.

"Ya know I asked him the same question and he never answered," Sig said with an accompanying laugh.

Krane looked back up at Sig as he walked over to the two large metal doors. He stuck the Ruby Key into the door and pulled it open when a cluster of Metal Heads barged through the door, knocking Sig down.

"What in Mar's name?!" Sig yelled.

"He set us up!" Krane yelled, grabbing the gun on her hip. "Hurry up and get over here!"

Sig stood and managed to get over to Krane's side. "Come on, let's move back before they mange to get us in a corner!"

Overture had made his way back up to the Palace and he found his way into the throne room where the Baron was preparing himself. There wasn't anyone around the Baron talking about Erol and his death, or talking about the death of the people below them from the Metal Heads, it was all about victory over the Metal Head leader.

"Have you made the sibling bomb?" Overture asked, walking in front of the Baron.

"Of course!" the Baron moved his right hand. "Why wouldn't I? I will finally win this war now that those damn walls are down."

"When will you be moving out?" Overture asked, walking over to a nearby window.

"A half an hour."

Overture looked down towards the city where he watched what looked like ants run around, trying to avoid the Metal Heads. Standing there, at that angle, Overture couldn't help but feel like the villain. He felt as if he were no better then the Baron who was preparing himself for a victory, even though Overture's vision of what would happen was so different. Up here, he was the Baron's assistant and he had helped in this by playing things out.

Krane. Overture placed his left hand against the cold glass. I wish I could promise what I am about to do will get you home, but I am not fully sure. I can promise you one thing though, and that is the promise of Schorn's love.

As Overture brought his hand back from the window, he spotted something on his hand. Upon closer inspection, he could clearly see a circle that covered his entire hand with an hourglass in the middle. The sand was all on the top with one grain floating down towards the bottom. The entire thing looked like it had been burned on and then inked over almost like a tattoo.

My past. Overture looked away from his hand as he began to think.

A part of Overture thought it was odd that he couldn't remember his past but the other part of him reminded him of how all of Schorn's memories had rewritten his old memories. Out of everything the only thing he remember was that he had a life that belonged to him once, two years ago.

It matters not. Overture looked back towards the Baron, still in thought. All that matters now is saving this place. If I were truly meant to be someone then none of this would have happened. I am not going to fight my fate; instead, I will assist it.

"We're moving out now," the Baron said to Overture. "Krew has been taken care of."

"Good." Overture turned back towards the Baron. "What of Erol's body? Has it been found yet?"

The Baron sighed. "No. My guards haven't been able to find his body, what's it matter? We know that he's been blown to pieces anyway!"

"I was just wondering," Overture said gently. "Do you not think he deserves a proper funeral? He was one of your best guards."

"There's no time for funerals!" the Baron barked. "We have a war to win! We will bury the weak after we've won!"

Overture bowed. "As you wish my Baron. I will follow you as far as I can."

"At least someone can," the Baron said, turning away. "Come, we have to leave for the gathering."

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