Ideal World Endgame

[idolpro]

Who: Beautiful dreamers
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 271, morning

[When you wake, the folding chairs and divans from before have all been cleared away. You're lying asleep on the floor, healed of all injury.]

[You remember the events of the worlds you've visited as though visions seen in a dream -- though for those of you torn from your perfect existence, there is an ache inside you which will not fade for some days... the pain of something precious that has been lost.]

[Out beyond the windows of the tower, the sky is no longer a perfect blue; the vegetation is no longer as lush and inviting.]

[The view is of Tokyo-F, exactly as it's always been.]

[Near the far wall, there is an open book on a pedestal. The pages are empty. It is titled GUEST BOOK, and a pen waits nearby.]

GUEST BOOK | SOUVENIRS | WINNERS

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Well then. Get on my level.

You couldn't even tell me the mission statement or the three year plan of your little slice of Hell.

[420blazeit]

Step1: Kill Lilith
Step2: Redecorate
Step3: ???
Step4: PROFIT!!!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Wasn't that already your Plan A?

[420blazeit]

You said I couldn't give you the three year plan and I'm pretty sure that was it.

I need to come up with something else now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You might consider not pursuing a career in Hell management.

[420blazeit]

[ she leans into him. ] I'm not sure what I want to do anymore, but it's not like I need to figure it out right now.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Right.

Why don't you go home with Heart and just relax? If you get bored, just invite some of those people in your karaoke monstrosity over.

[420blazeit]

Does that mean I can invite you over?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

. . .

That's your choice, isn't it?

[420blazeit]

I'd like it if you dropped by. Maybe we could all have a game night. Nothing perks me up more than schooling you in video games. [ sticks her tongue out at him. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

School me? You sound so sure of yourself.

I don't remember that ever happening.

[420blazeit]

[ she just laughs. ] Suppressing those memories? Understandable~

[ but she mellows out a moment later. ] BTW, thanks for the pep talk back there. You’re not half bad at that sorta thing.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I remember winning the last batch.

[Through cheating FiN powers, but shhhhh.

And he places a hand on D.Va's forehead]

Still feeling under the weather, I see.

[420blazeit]

[ she tips her head back so she can kiss his hand. ]

On the contrary I think I’m finally feeling like myself again.

[ gets up in his face momentarily. ] I’m totally rubbing off on you~ so much love and friendship back there. [ chuckles and sits back. ]

And don’t let this go to your head, Intensity, but I think you were right. I’m not sure queen of the damned is for me. I’m too lively for a position like that~

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Are you saying that because you think that's what I want to hear?

Or being honest that there won't be another crash and burn phase. You don't have to wait until you're in a six foot hole in the ground before applying the breaks.

[420blazeit]

Since when have I ever done that?

And, don't get me wrong, I'm still going to kill Lily, but now I'm just not sure I want to follow through with the second part of that plan. It's not like this would be the first time I didn't stop and think about all of the consequences to a bad decision of mine.

I'd like to be happy and I definitely can't do that if [ rolls her wrist. ] that.

I also don't have to shoulder everything by myself, but that's stuff I need to work on.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

How many people were in your perfect world?

[420blazeit]

I think it might have been about 13.

And I'm very thankful to each and every one of them. [ sets a hand over her heart and gives him a sappy smile. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Then there is the number of people you can distribute weight against.

[420blazeit]

And don't call that my perfect world, because it was far from that. The only thing about it that didn't completely suck was what was hidden behind it. [ and she unfortunately only caught a glimpse of it in between everything else. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Fine. Dismal future.

Is that better?

[420blazeit]

[ thanks for humoring her. ]

[ snorts, ] Marginally.

But we could probably ignore it altogether, because, like, [ pats his chest and gets to her feet. ] I liked your future way better. Except the robot thing. I still think that was weird.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Also gets to his feet]







You realize that was a lackey?




Right?

[420blazeit]

[ i was too busy fucking it to realize. ]

Rude.

How come you didn't come out and say hi then! [ gives him a playful shove. ]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Lightly shoves back.

Since yanno. She was full of holes in her dream]

You didn't have an appointment.