Mid-Mission Downtime

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

1. [Dita's crying in the hangar, curled up in her dread. Come bother her?]


2. [Much later]

[Dita's working on cooking. She has a tear-stained cheeks but she's making food. Each bento is labeled for her friends. Is... she making a goodbye gift for everyone?]

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Re: 2

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've made a lunch for everyone. Go ahead and pick one.

Re: 2

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

[Masaki was about to take one, till he finally saw Dita's face. He may have been an idiot around women, but...]

Were you crying earlier?

Re: 2

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

[Dita nodded, tear-stained even if she was still sad.] Yes, yes I was. It's... been a trying day.

Re: 2

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

What happened to cause that?

Re: 2

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

The Harvesters came back, and declared their intent to harvest Earth for body parts. And we didn't tell anyone about this until it was too late.

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

Wait, what!? Why would info like be kept away from us?

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Because we only recently found out, and for your people's sake, we were planning on leaving, and finding a way to intercept them before this happened.

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

Why didn't your people just ask for help then? I know I haven't been here very long, but if we just abandoned friends and left them to face something like those, that would be pretty dickish!

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Because we were hiding the truth of where they came from! They're not aliens... It's an attack from planet Earth in the future! Humanity is preying on itself!

... We wanted to spare you all from that truth...

1/2

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

[Well, before Masaki can even yell, his two cats step in.]

That can't be real! It's impossible, meow!

2/2

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

The future isn't set in stone! We'll just change it, meow!

Re: 2/2

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

But what if the future refuses to change?

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

The future is what WE make it out to be! We have the power to do that!

Shu, Adventus, Harvesters, they all don't matter! Cybuster and I will fight to the very end, and change the future for the better!

And I know I won't be alone. Everyone here has a purpose, a mission of their own. We won't allow the future to consume the present!

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

[THUD. That knife went into the cutting board as Dita looked up at them in tears.]

It might be your present, but it's OUR present too! If you change it so recklessly, I might fade from existence, this whole thing might never have happened and I would never meet any one of you!

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

[She had made a good point, and maybe he had gone a bit overboard. But even so...]

The future isn't set in stone. No one ever knows what's gonna happen...

[Like how Zeoroot and Ricardo dying, or Shu orchestrating all of the attacks against La Gias. The future was unpredictable.]

But it's your future too. Nobody ever said you don't have the ability to save that, right?

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

Yeah... yeah you're right.

[Dita sighed.] We'll have to see what happens tomorrow.

1/3

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

You can hit Masaki to make you feel better.

2/3

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

Or we can tell on him! Someone's bound to hit him for ya, meow.

3/3

[cosmo-nova.livejournal.com]

Quit making me look like the bad guy!

Re: 3/3

[chases-aliens.livejournal.com]

[Dita giggled at that.] Thank you, you three.