Oh. Right. [ guess who forgot suigetsu was on a cyoa already!! it was me, lisa, and therefore by proxy also rex! whoops. ] Well, at least you've got enough common sense to not make things worse for yourself.
[ Rex goes to sit down on the edge of the canal, in the process brushing up against a shard of Special Glass, sending them both into a memory. (from 9:48 to 11:30)
And then--as soon as Rex picks up the phone, the words go all gooey like the music they've been hearing all day in the city. There's a sense that it's instructions on how to get out, but the details fail to stick.
As they make their way out of the grates towards their escape, they wade through a lakelike section of the enclosure. The blond haired boy, Noah, breaks the silence.
"I wanted to tell you, before. But there was never a good time. Not--not that this is a good time, but--"
Rex shoves him. "Get away from me." He doesn't want to hear anything this--this liar has to say.
Noah stumbles and nearly gets his hand eaten by a carnivorous chunk of tree. "I wouldn't last ten minutes down here on my own!"
"Good." Rex is preoccupied with trying to reactivate his powers, but no luck. Despite the electrical sparks he conjures, his fists stay firmly human flesh. Great. Not only did Noah betray him, but now he's shorted out Rex's powers in the process.
"Look," Noah perseveres, "White hiring me, that's just how I met you. It doesn't mean I didn't really become your friend!"
"Stop," Rex whispers.
"No! I want to explain--" but then Rex clamps a hand over Noah's mouth to shush him. A gigantic mutated bird, like a cross between a turkey and an ostrich, creeps out from beyond some trees. It's massive and bulbous, and as Noah trips and splashes in the water, it immediately hones in on them and attacks. Rex, pinned, nearly gets his head bitten off, but the turkey is deterred by a wood plank to its head, courtesy of Noah. He offers Rex a hand to help him up, but Rex pulls himself up to his feet. Just because he saved Rex's life there doesn't mean anything. After all, he's still a spy. He's only here because White wants someone monitoring him.
They manage to make it to the equipment room whole, and there they arm themselves with tranq guns and taser spears.
"Just listen to me for a moment, okay?" Noah tries again, after Rex has given him the worse of the weapons. "You don't even know the whole story."
"Alright, what?" Rex shoots back. "Did White kidnap your family? Threaten to torture you?"
"It wasn't like that! He offered me a chance to help win the war! And, well, some money--"
Rex doesn't let Noah finish. His vision fills with red and before he knows it, he's decked Noah in the face. And then, the anger drains out of him, replaced by a kind of despair. Not only is Rex's first and only friend just doing it to spy on him for his boss, but all it took was some cash. Like Rex is worth nothing but a paycheck to him. Just a means to an end--like he is to White, to Providence, to everybody else around here.
He should've known better. Things were looking up...but why should they? Rex doesn't get to have these things. ]
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[ Rex goes to sit down on the edge of the canal, in the process brushing up against a shard of Special Glass, sending them both into a memory. (from 9:48 to 11:30)
And then--as soon as Rex picks up the phone, the words go all gooey like the music they've been hearing all day in the city. There's a sense that it's instructions on how to get out, but the details fail to stick.
As they make their way out of the grates towards their escape, they wade through a lakelike section of the enclosure. The blond haired boy, Noah, breaks the silence.
"I wanted to tell you, before. But there was never a good time. Not--not that this is a good time, but--"
Rex shoves him. "Get away from me." He doesn't want to hear anything this--this liar has to say.
Noah stumbles and nearly gets his hand eaten by a carnivorous chunk of tree. "I wouldn't last ten minutes down here on my own!"
"Good." Rex is preoccupied with trying to reactivate his powers, but no luck. Despite the electrical sparks he conjures, his fists stay firmly human flesh. Great. Not only did Noah betray him, but now he's shorted out Rex's powers in the process.
"Look," Noah perseveres, "White hiring me, that's just how I met you. It doesn't mean I didn't really become your friend!"
"Stop," Rex whispers.
"No! I want to explain--" but then Rex clamps a hand over Noah's mouth to shush him. A gigantic mutated bird, like a cross between a turkey and an ostrich, creeps out from beyond some trees. It's massive and bulbous, and as Noah trips and splashes in the water, it immediately hones in on them and attacks. Rex, pinned, nearly gets his head bitten off, but the turkey is deterred by a wood plank to its head, courtesy of Noah. He offers Rex a hand to help him up, but Rex pulls himself up to his feet. Just because he saved Rex's life there doesn't mean anything. After all, he's still a spy. He's only here because White wants someone monitoring him.
They manage to make it to the equipment room whole, and there they arm themselves with tranq guns and taser spears.
"Just listen to me for a moment, okay?" Noah tries again, after Rex has given him the worse of the weapons. "You don't even know the whole story."
"Alright, what?" Rex shoots back. "Did White kidnap your family? Threaten to torture you?"
"It wasn't like that! He offered me a chance to help win the war! And, well, some money--"
Rex doesn't let Noah finish. His vision fills with red and before he knows it, he's decked Noah in the face. And then, the anger drains out of him, replaced by a kind of despair. Not only is Rex's first and only friend just doing it to spy on him for his boss, but all it took was some cash. Like Rex is worth nothing but a paycheck to him. Just a means to an end--like he is to White, to Providence, to everybody else around here.
He should've known better. Things were looking up...but why should they? Rex doesn't get to have these things. ]