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[Z]enith: pt 2. Epilogue; Closed
Topic Started: Feb 13 2011, 11:52 AM (156 Views)
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The WDA members were sent home for the night.. Well, By this time the day. Jameson was exhausted, beaten, bloodied, and generally not in the mood to deal with the fallout until he’d slept and visited a hospital. But for now he was going to rest.

Jameson sat outside the smoking remains of the WDA with a cigarette held between his finger tips. His shirt was long abandoned. Bloodstained cloth hung shredded along his waist. His pants were ripped and bloodied. His whole body felt pushed to it’s absolute limit.

"In the end.." Jameson said exhaling a long slow breath.."It was a man just like me." He rose to his feet with a wince. "If Oliver died.. I wonder what madness I'd go through to get him back..?"

~~~~

Shiko stepped forward and grabbed a rock moving it with a groan. “I can’t believe my powers are almost entirely gone.. It feels strange.”

“You should have died from those drugs.. Consider loosing most of your powers getting off easy.”

“I regret a lot of things.. I’m just glad that boy was saved.” Shiko said glancing to the small boy sitting not far away.

Jameson reached into the rubble and retrieved a fedora. he dusted it off and planted it on his head. “I can’t forgive your crimes entirely. But all we can do from here is accept what’s been done.”

“And then...?”

Jameson flashed him a smile. “That’s the beauty. I have no idea. But I know what happened today will change everything. As painful as it was, when you pass through the fire you’re cleansed.”

“..You’re full of shit, ya’ know that?”

“Look at this building.” Jameson said motioning to the wreckage. “You see destruction. Loss.. And maybe pain.” He planted his hands on his sides and smiled. “I see potential.” He turned to face the city. “It won’t be exactly like it was. Some things were lost.. But it might be even better, eventually. We just can’t see it yet. We’re blinded by the ‘present’. We need to look at the future.”

Shiko exhaled a long slow breath. “I think I finally understand..”

“eh?”

“Why your kids risked their neck for you.. And why Cypriss spoke so highly of you.”

“Heh Y-”

“They’re all idiots.”

“..Tch!”

~~~~~

A clone will never be the original.

That was the sentence that i said to Shiko at the start of all this and I stand by it. If we learned anything from all of this it’s this fact: A clone will never be the original. Comparing them to the original puts pressure on them that they can’t meet. Even if they have the memories eventually they will realize there are incongruities. Scars not where they should be. People whom don’t react as they should. Small things that add up day by day.

This was the flaw in Johnson’s ‘immortality’. In truth he was a father that didn’t know how to grieve. I can empathize. If I lost my brother or my teammates I might change as well. I only hope the people around me could prevent what happened to Johnson...


~~~~

“We’re going back to America.” Shiko said resolutely.

“What?!”

“We decided.” Sirus said folding his arms over his chest. “I’m going to take the kid to my.. Cypriss’ parents and let them raise him. We’ll forge papers and explain things. We’ll try and make them understand.. And then Me and Shiko are taking over Bel-Forest.”

“America needs a place that’s like Hyakuji. Not some government recruiting center. A real school for super kids. And we need to make sure what happened in this.. debacle.. never happens again.”

“..I see..” Jameson said looking at Sirus. "I hope somewhere along the way you can find happiness."

Sirus sighed a bit. "It's hard.. my memories feel so real but they aren't. It's hard not being able to trust even my own memories."

Jameson's eyes widened before he snapped into a big smile. "I think I have just the thing for you." He went over to the filing cabinet. The only thing from his office that had survived. He rummaged through it until he found what he was looking for. An old-school film loaded camera. It was a high end model used by pros. Jameson had used it for crime scene photos. "Snap pictures with this.. No one can alter the reality stored within this lens except you." He said handing it over.

"Thanks, Jameson." Sirus said with a weak smile. He clutched the camera to his chest. "I think I know what picture I want to take most.."

“I'll be there to help as well.. since.. I’m going too.” Beamont said with his bags over his shoulder, emerging from another room in the building.

“WHAT?!”

“I already talked it over with Shiko and Sirus. I’m resolute on this.”

“WHY?!”

“They need help with Bel-Forest. Listen. I may be too old for it but I want to experience high school But if I do it here I’ll be stuck following at your heels my whole life. This is important to me. I want to make sure the school is handled right. I want to write my own story..”

“You realize that it won’t be easy. They’ll be seen as criminals! There won’t be anyone that accepts them..”

“I know. That’s why they need me. I can help them. I’m the only one whom can. I don’t want to just sit around. If I can be of real use I should go..”

“...Haah..” Jameson groaned rubbing his forehead. “This stinks. You went and grew up when I wasn’t looking and now you’re already this mature?!”

~~~~

No. I’ve surrounded myself with good people. I know they’d never let that happen to me. My kids are strong and if I ever strayed they would set me back on the right path. Whatever that may be.

And so this case drew to a close. With the building destroyed there was nothing I could do but call off business for a while. It gave me time to say my farewells and see my brother off properly. He, Sirus, and Shiko will make a school that is truly amazing. I hope that they can help a new group of kids to get a new life that they can truly enjoy. That they can save kids from darkness, or prevent others from using them. But most of all I hope those three can finally know some peace.

As for ‘the kid’. He has a name now. Siruius. Sirus was embarrassed by it but Cypriss’ parents felt it was the best choice. They’ve agreed to raise him. A ten year old boy whom looks like the one that was taken from them ten years ago. It’s amazing how life works some times. I only hope they can raise him not as a replacement for Cypriss but as his own unique person. But then again these ARE Cypriss’ parents. So the chances are good.

Meanwhile I've moved myself and the others to a nearby building I'd been in the process of fixing up. It's a real piece of junk but it's better than nothing. It's a dusty old office with a bunch of space for annoying or troublesome kids to call home. In the end it's not much but it's home. The WDA.. is not a place that can be destroyed, after all. It's something inside us.

And I hope that in the future it continues be a place.. where crime meets punishment!


Jameson smiled broadly taking the last sheet of paper off the typewriter and placing it in his filing cabinet inside an old abandoned building across town. He turned and looked around, folding his arms across his chest. "And with that.. it's case closed."

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Edited by Cypriss, Feb 13 2011, 12:15 PM.
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