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Gale ([personal profile] northwind_gale) wrote2012-04-18 12:35 pm

[FIC] There's No Good in It

Series: Megaman Star Force/Ryuusei no Rockman
Rating: PG-13/T
Characters: Hoshikawa Subaru, War-Rock, Gonta, Ox, Luna, Kizamaro.
Warnings: Dark. Pretty dark. Actually, it's Bad End dark. I BLAME GABE. IT WAS HIS IDEA.
Notes: Bad End AU. oops what are emotions
Summary: He couldn't save them. Why did he keep trying?








Subaru actually felt somewhat hopeful as he entered the truck’s Comp Space. He was slightly worried about having to fight an actual FM-ian this time around as opposed to just viruses, but he and War-Rock actually seemed to have something going. Nothing too bad had happened yet. The truck wasn’t moving anymore, and it looked like those other two kids had survived the crash thanks to the safety mechanisms, so nothing else could go wrong once he got in and took care of the problem, right?

Ox Fire was bigger than he thought. War-Rock said not to worry, that he only kept charging in straight lines, but…it was still nerve wracking. Oh, he could dodge every single attack with ease, but getting in an attack before the hulking beast could hit him was still a pain.  He had to get the timing exactly right…

But he was taking too long, being too hesitant.  He remembered punching Gonta out the last time they meant. That meant what was happening now was his fault, right? Gonta was doing this because he didn’t feel secure in his strength, because of him. (Granted, War-Rock was the one who made his arm move, but still…) Could he really do this again?

Ox Fire’s stray attacks kept damaging the Comp Space when they couldn’t hit Rockman. One of the attacks hit the control panel. It started malfunctioning, going out of control.

“Kid! That’s enough playing around! You gotta end this now! Get the strongest card you have, finish him off in one shot! I don’t care if it’s overkill, just end it before the Comp Space gets any more unstable!”

“G-got it!” But what could he use, when could he hit him at the right time? Rockman froze for the briefest of moments, shaking. During that moment of indecision, Ox Fire dashed up close, ready to hit him with an anger-fueled punch that would drive him into the ground.

“I don’t care if it’s overkill, just end it…”

The strongest card he had for close combat was…

“Battle Card, Predation! Widesword!

Rockman darted underneath Ox Fire’s extended arm, ramming his transformed left arm into the FM-ian’s chest right where a human heart would have been. He didn’t stop, the adrenaline pushing through his body, making him pull his arm out of the chest in a vicious backhanded slice. The chest armor was cut in two, the beast let out a loud, pained bellow, and a red light engulfed the two of them. When it was gone, Gonta lay there, unconscious.

“War-Rock…you said that the person shouldn’t have been hurt, right?”

“Something like that. You should get out of here now, kid. Those attacks you let by you damaged this Comp Space. It’s practically set to blow.”

“What?! W-what about-?!”

“Ah, don’t worry. They’ll be forced out of the space in time, since the FM-ian who brought them here is gone.”

“R-right.”

And Subaru pulsed out as told. He never saw Luna wake up, never saw her scream out Gonta’s name in fear and worry, never saw her crying as she tried to wake up both Gonta and Kizamaro, scared, ignorant, and alone.

-0-0-0-0-0-

Subaru made his way from the park, still tired from that fight with Ox. He was about to cross the street to make his way home, when…

“Kid, wait!”

“W-what?!”

“It’s not safe to cross yet. Look over there! Use your Visualizer!” Subaru did as he was told, and looked down to the end of the street. He saw the truck sparking, emitting strange waves as Luna and Kizamaro struggled with something still in the truck, trying to pull it out.

“W-War-Rock! What’s happening?!”

“It’s the Comp Space! It’s collapsing, but one of Ox Fire’s attacks hit the control panel. It might have been just enough to turn the controls back on before the Comp Space shuts down completely!”

“What does that mean, War-Rock?” Subaru felt dread welling up inside of him as he watched the other two kids, finally realizing that Gonta was still unconscious (how strong had that close up attack been, anyway?) and that the large object that Kizamaro and Luna were struggling to pull out was Gonta himself.

“It means that the car might start up again, do the same thing as it was before for a few more moments before completely breaking down.”

“W-wait! But wasn’t it charging around at full speed before?! That means-I have to get back in there!!!” If it kept going forward, at that speed…it would demolish the crashed car in front of it and into the school wall! And the safety mechanisms…they had already been activated to save Luna and Kizamaro! They wouldn’t activate a second time because the car shouldn’t have been started up again so soon…Subaru tensed, before turning back to the park’s wavehole.

“You can’t. It’s too late.” And with that ominous proclamation, Subaru heard the dreaded sound of the engine revving itself, the screams of Luna and Kizamaro as the truck started moving…and the loud crash as the truck hit the wall.

“I don’t think that killed the large human. It didn’t have enough time to accelerate and build up enough impact force. But with all that heavy metal…I dunno, kid. It might be pretty ugly over there.”

Subaru didn’t even respond, instead looking dumbly at the mangled wreck of metal in the distance. He had wanted to help them. But it looked like things had only gotten worse. True, the FM-ian was gone, but…he really shouldn’t have agreed to do this, if he wasn’t strong enough to make sure that everyone got out of there safely. Why did he bother to get involved with them…?

“Don’t worry about it, kid. You did what you could, and the FM-ian isn’t around to cause more trouble.”

“Hm…” Subaru turned away from the grisly scene, walking home with a dull look in his eyes. The emotion of guilt came from not being able to live up to a person’s expectations…from getting involved with someone enough to know what they wanted from you, what they hoped you could give them. If people didn’t have to get to know each other…if they didn’t have to have those kinds of feelings…they wouldn’t have had to feel that pain…

Subaru gripped the front of his shirt, over where his heart was. He didn’t want to feel that kind of pain again. Not guilt, loss, worry, anything like that. He didn’t want to get involved with other people again. That was why he had been so determined to not associate with other people. But then those three came. And he let himself interact with them, enough that he affected their lives. Enough that he felt obligated to apologize to them, enough that the grief he caused opened one of them up to an FM-ian and caused all this.

What good was it to associate with others? None, if it led to this kind of grief. No good at all…


[A/N]: THERE WILL PROBABLY BE MORE. GABE CAME UP WITH A WHOLE STORYLINE. AND IT'S ALL TERRIBLE.

[identity profile] immicolia.livejournal.com 2012-04-19 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
BOLGER, DID YOU JUST TURN INTO A 11 YEAR OLD KID WITH AN ALIEN FRIEND? YOU LITTLE GUILT MACHINE YOU. XD

Ahahaha. Not My Fandom (someday, someday I swear I will play one of these games) but I can't resist reading things where EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE FOREVER. And this is a beautiful train wreck.

[identity profile] northwind-gale.livejournal.com 2012-04-19 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
SHOOT WHY DID I KNOW YOU WOULD BRING BOLGER INTO THIS

but yeah, Gabe and I are just having way too much fun just doing slight alterations to the storylines to produce big results and also observing how well the video game music fits the Bad End AU just as well as the Good End Canon and going "welp LOOK AT ALL THE SUBTLETY THEY'RE HIDING UNDER THAT E RATING" and yeah.

YOU SHOULD PLAY THOSE GAMES SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE TRAIN WRECK OKAY

[identity profile] immicolia.livejournal.com 2012-04-19 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
BECAUSE I'M NOTHING IF NOT PREDICTABLE AND BRINGING THE OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTER I HAVE TOO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT INTO IT WOULDN'T WORK SINCE HE'S AWFUL AND DOESN'T FEEL HUMAN EMOTIONS LIKE GUILT?


BUT SOMEDAY. SOMEDAY I'LL DO IT. I just have to remember which folder I stuffed my DS emulator into.