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[pale_night]

It seemed to be one thing after another recently; too many strange events and not enough time to think them over. V2 had taken him to the seashore, which he'd never seen; he'd thought he may have found one possibly way out of this living corpse, if only he could remember

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[not_a_shadow]

Enzan knocked on his door a short time later, his PET in hand. "Blues? I need to talk to you."

[pale_night]

Blues blinked, set the cable down and got up to head towards the door.

"Certainly, Master ..."

[not_a_shadow]

Enzan took a deep breath when the door opened. "Blues, we've... got a problem. V2 is gone, and I know who took him."

[pale_night]

"Took ...?"

Already looking unsteady at this bit of news, Blues shivered violently and his eyes slid closed for a moment as he turned away.

".. How?"

[not_a_shadow]

"This is not your fault and no one is blaming you," Enzan said firmly. "What's happened happened. What we need now is a plan to get him back."

[pale_night]

"He --"

Blues' hands tightened convulsively into fists, and he shook again.

"... He will want to take him apart, rebuild him into something else. That's what Master Blaze does -- tears away everything he doesn't want in a navi. Like his daemons ..."

"He calls it 'building the perfect beast'."

[not_a_shadow]

Enzan hissed under his breath. "Then we'll stop him. I don't understand, though - why did he take V2? He did... That's what he did to you?"

[pale_night]

"It -- it was easier, to take me away ..."

"But, yes. It was the same."

"I don't know why -- because we're the same, maybe. I wasn't the first ..."

Blues crushed Enzan closer instinctively.

"... I failed him. He would want another --"

[not_a_shadow]

"I thought I was h-helping them," Enzan whispered, his forehead pressed against Blues' armor. "E-ever single one who appeared. I t-tried to help. So m-many I couldn't d-do it all, but I still tried."

He choked, coughing, he stopped holding back and allowed himself to sob. "But all this time he was hurting them, hurting you! As this time he was killing them in the worst ways. What good was all of that, if he hurt so much more?"

[pale_night]

"... Why would you not be helping them ...?"

Blues glanced about the room, decided on heading towards the bed. One of the few advantages of the copyloid, it had no strain at all carrying Enzan --

"I would have been gone if you didn't bring me here, Master."

"How do you know he's done more than you?"

Carefully and in some ways painfully slowly, wary of overguessing his own ability to handle Enzan without harming him, Blues set him down on the bed, head on or at least near the pillows.

"... If you didn't try, what would happen then --?"

[not_a_shadow]

Enzan closed his eyes, trying to let the overwhelming emotion fade.

Isamu's earlier words came back to him, suddenly. 'You really think running around crying is gonna help any? And don't say you're not crying, cause you so will when you're by yourself.'

With the words came the sudden desire to punch Isamu again for saying them, and he managed to hold onto that until he could sit up and breathe again.

"I can't do this." His words were a whisper; he tried again. "We have to save V2, and I'm wasting precious time."

[pale_night]

".. Master Blaze can project himself, crossfused, into the network. He can force the fusion --"

Blues watched Enzan, eyes still bright but at least a little less crazed.

"You need a navi, Master."

[not_a_shadow]

He noticed, all right. "Blues, your body!" Then he noticed his own armor, and stared at it. "You're... Will you be safe with me?"

[pale_night]

:: Not my body, Master; my prison. ::

:: Why wouldn't I be safe with you? ::

[not_a_shadow]

"You're free then? What about a PET?"

Then he took a moment to look at himself, really look at himself. "Blues, you're beautiful."

And he was. His colors seem to shine with a light of their own.

[pale_night]

There was a sudden pang of dismay, shared over the fusion.

:: I ... don't know about a PET -- ::

Any further possible commentary was buried under a wave of flustered discomfort. Apparently Blues would argue the 'beautiful' comment, if he weren't floored by it.

[not_a_shadow]

Enzan nodded. "We'll investigate later. Right now..."

Right now he had to go talk to his father. It seemed a little silly to walk through the house in cross fusion, but he couldn't help that.

He left the room and went to find him. "Father?"

[not_a_shadow]

"Not yet, but I have to hold this form for awhile," Enzan replied, his voice a little flat. His emotional rollercoaster hadn't settled yet, and he wanted to be as clear as possible. "Blues knows where to go, and who took V2. And... why. I'll need help with this, Father."