thevoidsdarkhorse | Heart Game (Continued)

The power of BELIEF?!

[Oh, wow, the wall slammed up then.]

How do you think we GOT here?

Believe it'll work out, believe there's a way to win, believe...believe shit will CHANGE, but it doesn't! It never changes! In the end, I still have jack squat because of her, and I still have to bend to HER will because in the end, I'm a good fucking person who can't kill off an entire race!

[puts her hands up, placating]

That isn't what I meant...

Do you think I would BE here if I could just leave?

I can walk through fucking WALLS! Literally, I'm not caught because I'm in a cell, I'm caught because I can be dragged back in by the Spacey girl who will fucking torture me if she has to to make me make a stupid fucking spikeball and gog, wouldn't that be a trip when I do want to make it, because, yeah, sure, fun challenge, but because ENTIRE RACE.

Because the Batterwitch knows what she's doing, and I'm a stupid fucking kid.

[So.....much bitterness going on here.]

...I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend you. But - you aren't stupid.

Of course I am.

[She sighs and just....collapses.]

If I wasn't stupid, then I could figure a way out of this. I could figure out a way to save the race without that bitch gettin' 'em and makin' 'em slaves.

I'd have figure out a way to keep her from takin' Jane and Jade and....and avoid this whole mess. I KNEW she was gonna pull something, but I had nothin' ready.

...Sometimes it's not about not being smart or brave or strong enough. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do. You don't have as much power as she does, do you? You can't blame yourself for that.

I didn't do ANYTHING.

I...all I did was realize that I would die heroically if I charged forward, everything else-

It's good that you realized that. Now you can live to fight another day.

[She laughs bitterly.]

Yeah.

That's suuuuper helpful.

It's certainly more helpful than the other alternative, isn't it?

Alternative?

WHAT alternative?

That's what it has always been.

No, I meant... You choosing not to die heroically and instead not acting is a better option than charging forward and dying heroically. I think that was wise in itself. I apologize for the misunderstanding.

....like I said.

I'm good at it.

Picking your battles is a good thing.

[but okay, looking around. is there anything that looks like it could help an escape attempt?]

Says the girl whose pursuing a battle she can't win.

You mean getting out of this place? If so, that's different.

No, it's not.

It's a battle you can't win, just going 'how do i leave this cell?' Leaving the cell is easy. That's NOT THE PROBLEM.

But I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Peeps dun like to listen to me anyway.

...No, I am listening. What is the problem?

The problem is HER.

The problem is always her. Everything wrong and will go wrong in my life is because of HER. Because she manipulates and controls everything that decides every major event that makes my life a living hell. Even when it comes to the fact I can walk through walls, she gets a dog girl who will port me RIGHT BACK HERE before I can get away.

She makes even saving an entire race leave a horrible taste in my mouth because doing so means she's gonna ENSLAVE 'em.

...I'm sorry. I know what it feels like, to be that powerless. It's maddening.

Do you?

Not to the same extent. I won't pretend that's the case. But I've been trapped against my will before, in a situation where escape seemed impossible. My only company was my abductor.

...and what happened?

...As I said, I don't understand it to the same extent. I killed her. But I want you to know that I can at least sympathize with what you are going through.

....

[She stares at Lace for a long time.] I see.

[And then suddenly, YOU ARE BACK IN THE FIRE FIGHT. Though you seem to be hunkered down in a new building, but there are still three robots after you.]

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