No...
They are gonna nuke Enzi...
LEO- 5.
What am I gonna do...
I wanna save him, but I might get in the Executives...
LEO- 4.
But I can't let him die like that, too...
There has to be a way to save him...
LEO- 3.
Think Baizhi... Think...
"Forgotten One..."
Uh... the voices...? Again...?
"Are you not going to save him?"
I... I want to... but I could get in trouble for interrupting their plans-
"Is it worth losing your teammate?"
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LEO- 2.
"Are you going to repeat the past, which got you ended uphere???"
My... past...? What past...
"Time's running, Forgotten One. Don't come back regretting again, like last time."
Uh...
Hmm.
BAIZHI- Mini.
MINI- Hmm?
BAIZHI- (turns around, pointing his index finger from both arms towards the road at an inclination) Convey my apology to Trakktor for this. (eyes and the nerve in his arms glow orange)
POTATO- Uh?
MILLER- What?
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LEO- 1.
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BAIZHI- (shoots at the ground, launching him away from them towards the storm)
MINI- BAIZHI.
POTATO- What the-
MILLER- Huh??
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BONES- Who's that in the air?
JIMMI- Uh?
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RATZ- What the hell...?
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NXEN- Huh? Who's that idiot?
JOE- Oh god.
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TRAKKTOR- LEO- Stop the shoot, now!
LEO- Uh- Bye, pause.
BYE- Huh? What now?
LEO- Someone entered the storm.
H4DALS- Huh?
CO1N- Who the hell-
LEO- Looks like an... SP?
BYE- Who in the SP Forces has suicidal intentions, huh?
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TRAKKTOR- (slams the table) Baizhi. You're getting on my nerves now.
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RAMOS- (smiles)
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(lands inside the storm)
Dang it- the storm is a little too turbulent-
I need to keep moving towards the core-
Ugh... can't even see the core in this storm-
I wish I had Data Vision skill with me...
Wait...
Lemme just...
BAIZHI- (nerves turn cyan, shoots a wave in all directions)
I hope this works...
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BONES- Did anyone see who entered the storm?
RATZ- It looked familiar.
JOE- It's Baizhi.
BONES- Huh?
RATZ- That SP who nuked the street in Waleed's incident?
JOE- Yeah.
NXEN- Oh my god, don't tell me he thinks he's gonna nuke the core by himself, too.
BONES- I'll head inside the storm to get him out.
RATZ- No. The walls would collapse if you left.
JIMMI- Yeah... I can't keep the wall standing all by myself...
BONES- Dammit.
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POTATO- What was that?
MILLER- Why does he want to be involved with the most dangerous steps, huh?
MINI- No clue...
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(one of the sound waves hits back)
Aha!!! Can't doubt the ultrasound technique.
Now I just- have to keep moving-
(entities summoned in the storm running towards him)
Are you kidding me?
BAIZHI- Let me save my friend.(eyes turn cyan, punches the ground hard, producing shockwaves to push all the entities away)
Wait...
My arm is perfect-
How did I do it without hurting myself??
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Did I just get an adrenaline rush?
(looks at his arm)
My nerves' still glowing cyan...
It used to dim out after I use a move...
(more entities spawn out)
Maybe it's the adrenaline rush-
"Keep moving, Forgotten One."
Uh...
The voices again...?
(entities rushing towards him)
Not the right time to think about it.
BAIZHI- (dashes towards them, does a back-to-back echo punch on every entity approaching him)
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(an entity falls in front of the people)
NXEN- WHOA- An entity-
BONES- It's... already dead?
(another one falls)
RATZ- Uh? Is that SP dealing with all of them?
JOE- Wow.
JIMMI- Whoa...
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LEO- The heck?
CO1N- What's wrong?
LEO- Uh, I got messages from other Data Vision users about... falling entities from the storm?
H4DALS- Like, attacking them?
LEO- Not even attacking, they crash land and fade away.
CO1N- Could it be... that SP?
BYE- Interesting.
MONOXIDE- Hmm.
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BAIZHI- (punches the entity away) No. (punches another one away) One. (punches another one away) Is. (punches another one away) Coming. (punches another one away) Between. Him. (punches another one away) And. (punches another one away) I.
Uh... do I see the core?
I think it is!!! Lemme just-
(huge arms come out of the core)
Oh c'mon-
(grabs him and slams him to the road)
(the road breaks)
BAIZHI- Ack... (spits out blood)
Seems like- my backbone- snapped in half-
Ugh...
BAIZHI- Get- off me- (holds the arm, tries to disintegrate them using vibrations)
C'mon- make it work-
(the arm breaks and disintegrates)
Nice!!! Thanks, Kyo...
(more arms appear out of the core)
Sigh...
BAIZHI- (dodges on the arms, hops on one of them, running towards the core)
(the arms do a charge attack at him)
BAIZHI- (jumps high to dodge them, eyes and nerves turn orange, shoots a rendered beam out of his finger, perishing the hands)
Alright, I'm close now-
(hops on the core)
(more hands appear out of the core at him)
Fu-
BAIZHI- (nerves and eyes turn cyan, forming a shield out of vibrations in the air, blocking the arms from reaching him)
Okay- Should stop them for a while now-
I see Enzi inside the core...
Now, how do I wake him up...
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His eyes...
(his eyes were all black, no sense of life, radiations coming out of him)
Same thing Waleed was going through.
But the case is different here...
Is it because Waleed accepted the Liminality and Enzi didn't...?
This has to be the case-
(the shield starts to break)
Dang it- I need to save him first-
But how- The core seems way too rigid to be broken by me-
Maybe that's why they were going to nuke it with the cannon-
But what now-
(punches the core)
Ouch- yea this won't work-
What if I try to disintegrate the core...
But that might not work... It's way too rigid and solid.
(the shield breaks even more)
Ugh...
This has to be the only way...
(places a hand on the core)
(eyes and nerves turn cyan)
(proceeds to disintegrate the core)
C'mon- make it work-
Ugh...
(the shield becomes more fragile to break)
Dammit-
Wait...
I can hear him...
He's murmuring about... the people he lost...?
What...
"Believe me, man. I don't want to lose more people after whatever happened in RIA..."
Right... Now I see how he became the victim...
BAIZHI- Enzi... I know something happened in the past which you're unable to forget... something you were unable to achieve or save someone... But hear me out, man... You tried your best... You can't save everyone, no one's capable of that... you're not the person to be blamed for their deaths... Wake up, Enzi... Don't let it affect you...
(the shield is on the verge of shattering)
BAIZHI- Ugh... Enzi... Hear me, man... don't lose like this...
(the storm gets even more violent, making it hard to open his eyes)
BAIZHI- Ugh... (his eyes glow more brighter)DON'T LOSE.
(the core shatters)
Whoa-
(he gets pushed away, rolls away on the shattered ground)
Agh- My shoulder-
(looks at the shattered core, leaking all the liminal energy outside)
Did I... save him...?
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