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Myriad Reality

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Despite what you say, you clearly have no concern for right and wrong, really. I’m sorry for what you’ve been through, but you’re done now.
*Assumes a low stance*

@Multifarious

*Looks to the side and exhales, my hands slightly shaking*
...Then that’s how it’ll be.
*Large sheets of metal tear out of the ground and surround my hands and legs, the rest of it forming a thick metallic shield that circles around me*

Myriad Reality

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Believe me.
*Looks sternly back to Data*
I have many questions for him when this is over.
*Looks back to you*
But rage-fueled, evidence-less vigilante “justice” is wrong too. You’re no good even if he also happens to be.

@Multifarious

How does that matter to me at this point? All I have left is some semblance of the future to salvage.

Myriad Reality

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If you had the intention of dishing out real justice, sure. But this just sounds like excuses to justify a violent vendetta, and your means are beyond questionable. I’ve heard enough. He may be in the wrong in your time, but I see who’s in the wrong right now.

@Multifarious

It doesn’t have to be this way...
*My face hardens*
Fine. Help the monster.
*An intense magnetic field disrupts both long and short-distance teleportation*

Myriad Reality

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So let me get this straight. You want to execute capital punishment, vigilante-style, on a man for a crime he hasn’t committed yet, and might not even commit now that you’ve travelled back and changed things?

@Multifarious

You don’t understand how much pain he’s caused. How much he’s causing now. If I can’t fix Existence anymore, then I can at least give my mom a second chance at life.

Myriad Reality

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*Glances back and forth between you one more time*
I don’t know what he did to your mother, or how, and maybe it isn’t my fight to fight, but I can’t leave yet regardless. Do you plan to kill him?

@Multifarious

*Shifts my gaze past you*
I’ll do whatever I have to do.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks back and forth between you as you bicker*

@Multifarious

*Balls my fist*
I really don’t want anyone else to get hurt. I’m pleading with you to leave this place.

Myriad Reality

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I can't say I've been here before.

@Etcetera

I don't know why I expected a creature like you to kill his sister someplace meaningful. You chose some random rock!

Myriad Reality

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I’ve got more friends that I trust more than some stranger on the topic of his integrity, sorry.

@Multifarious

*Frowns and looks to the side*
They don't know him either.

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More importantly, how did you access this deprecated lab and defeat my security measures?

@Etcetera

*Anger replaces the concern on my face*
That's not important, Data. Or do you mean to tell me that you don't recognize this place? This is where you left my mother to die in my arms!

Myriad Reality

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I saw this as a harmless adventure for a little benefit to science from the start. It evolved into a lot more than that, and I felt obligated to see it through. Still do.

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I won’t know until I go back to her and check. In the meantime, what’s your beef with Data?

@Multifarious

He's a monster. You don't realize the creature you're helping.
*Punches a button on a remote control and the machine springs to life, casting the image of a barren, moonlike landscape over that of the lab through several reality projectors surrounding the upper half of the control panel*

Myriad Reality

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Of course. I don’t think she’d come here if she were after me or Zoey.

@Multifarious

Is she going to be okay?