[b][u]Never Go Dull, Never Go Soft[/u][/b]
[b]Cyprus Cruiser-Shooting Range[/b]
Python stands there, watching Dean take shots at the targets with his shotgun. They were engaged in a conversation. Python speaks.
"Bullshit, Metallica is better than Pink Floyd."
"Dude, Gilmour would smash Hammett in a dual."
"No, he wouldn't."
Dean fires. The target disappears in a cloud of dust, paint and water. He looks down, 'breaking' the barrel and starting to reload the weapon. Python changes the subject.
"Before Nova, how'd you know Jupiter?"
"Don't go there with me, man."
"I'm just looking to officially say I'm sorry."
Dean stays silent, taking aim again, am down the range.
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[b]Nova was listening, stowed away in the countless streams of data that was the systems of the cruiser She wanted to hear of Jupiter, to know of what she was like, from Deans perspective, but that clearly wasn't going to happen[/b]
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"She was my uh....girlfriend, but not a girlfriend." "Hehe, she either was or wasn't." "It was complicated." He shakes his head as the gunshot goes off. It rips through the target, destroyed and worthless, the system automatically sets up a new one. "What was she like?" "You really wanna know, don't you?" "Can't blame me for being curious." Dean chuckles sadly as he reloads the weapon. "She was probably the nicest person you'd ever meet.....well, not you because of obvious reasons." Python nods. "She wasn't exactly planning to be on this team. I was gonna join up and kinda dragged her along." Dean starts to tear up as he finishes with the weapon.
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[b]Nova remains quiet The conscious in her head now, was riddled with grief, and anger She couldn't beleive a person like that became what she is now[/b]
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"Hey man, she's not dead....well, completely." Python speaks carefully, not to set of the man. Dean nods. "Yeah....yeah." He takes aim and fires at the next target, the tears making him miss.
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[b]Nova moves to appear, but doesn't, she didn't want to ruin the moment...[/b]
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"Was it serious? Was it gonna be serious?" He shrugs. "I wanted it to be, but some woman practically shoved her rack in my face after I woke up from unconsciousness." Python nods, adjusting the sights of his own pistol.
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[b]Nova gets curious, the woman he spoke of, she then searched through the systems for any files on her Finding her, she cringed at the mere though of the alien female[/b]
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"I've broken a lot of hearts, but that one....." Dean sighes. "Hit you hard?" "Yeah..." "I've had the same, dude. I had a girl before...well, this." He motions to himself. "She didn't take it well, ended up in suicide but here I am." Python shrugs, holstering his pistol. "What's the new girl like?" "Happy as a drunk on 1 dollar beer night." He chuckles. "I had a girl like that....two years ago. I uh....don't know where she is, but I need to find her." Dean looks back. "You goin soft on me?" He chuckles again. "Nah, just looking to marry her and well, she got sent off an exploding ship in a Cryo stasis pod." Dean shakes his head, smiling. "I was probably watching loony toons and cooking for my little brother when you started fighting." Python shrugs. "Probably."
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[b]Nova chuckles to herself, Dean was funny, she had to admit Jupiter was getting to her Nova wouldn't be Nova, and Jupiter would take over She needed to fix this, or else the AI would be gone[/b]
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Python looks around the room, changing the subject. "Nova, you here?"
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[spoiler]Lel, that's creepy[/spoiler] [b]It takes a bit, but she does appear, her body was glitching still, flashing and changing abruptly from her advanced stage of rampancy[/b]
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[spoiler]Lul Python has teh senses of a motha-blam!-a[/spoiler] "You alright?" Dean and Python speak at the exact same time. They look at each other quizzically.
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[b]Her voice was fragmented severely, changing between Jupiter's and Nova's[/b] [i]"I'm fine, mostly"[/i]
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Python nods. "If this keeps up, you have me to talk to. Don't forget, you need to merge with her. The more times you let her in, the better chance she'll finally relax one of these times."
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[i]"She isn't That's the problem"[/i] [b]Her voice fractures again, abruptly changing from Nova's to Jupiter's, and back again She glitches a swell, bits of her flashing ang spasming from red to her usual blue[/b] [i]"If I let her in, she attacks my mind"[/i]
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Dean looks at Nova with fearful and a careful look. "Jupiter....why?" Python remains silent, crossing his arms.
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[i]"Jupiter wants to remain as she is, either that or she fears what will happen if our minds merge She refuses to listen to reason"[/i]
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Dean hands the shotgun to Python, starting to hug her. "Listen Jupiter, let them merge. Why aren't you letting it happen?"
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[b]He sees a change, Jupiter wrestling control from Nova[/b] [i]"I don't want to be some kind of damned AI! I'm stuck here, refusing to merge with her because of that!"[/i] [b]Her voice was dilated, inhuman, Jupiter didn't know how to control Nova[/b]
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Python sighes. "This isn't good. If she rejects the body, she'll be gone. Forever. No way back." He began thinking, not liking the idea. [i]If we get Phantom, she could become a Genesis....[/i] [i]That wouldn't end well, at all.[/i] [i]It's that, or an innocent dies.[/i] He shakes his head, not sure if he was going to regret saying this. "What if....when we get Phantom back, we were to give you a new body? One like mine, except more human looking?"
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[i]"You can do that? Can't we make a clone though??"[/i] [b]Jupiter sounded lost, the rampancy from Nova might be effecting her[/b]
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"A clone.....I hadn't thought of that." He shrugs. "Ginger turned out alright, a little unstable though. It's up to you."
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[i]"What do you mean, unstable?"[/i]
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"Unpredictable. A few went crazy, rebelling. But most were alright."
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[i]"I don't want to take those chances..."[/i]