castaside | [Heart Game] From the ashes we can build

In the supply area, there is a variety of things:

> Weapons of all kinds (mundane only, sorry), including all Wash's fancy advanced stuff that Macaque observed in Choco's heart game
> First aid supplies
> Note taking and art supplies
> Snacks of varying kinds
> Extra clothes in everyone's size and for a variety of weather conditions
> Miscellaneous items that might be useful (you'll have to look around for something specific if you want to check those things out, here's a lot of stuff in here)

Macaque was clearly trying to be as helpful as possible.

MK's eyes lit up seeing all the stuff. Okay. First thing was first. The important stuff. MK grabbed the paper and any crayons. You know him so well, Macaque! With these and the candy, he can handle anything you throw at him! Maybe.

Probably not but hell, he's gonna try.

Any memories?

There are no memories in here! Feel free to touch and take all the things, they're just things.

Awesome! Everything but not everything. MK grabbed a First Aid Kit too, just in case. Then he saw it. The glowing scissor sword thing! MK's grin turned feral as he grabbed it and held the sword up. He made the most happy gremlin noises you ever done heard.

"Hehehehehehe~"

The shadow laughs soundlessly. He approves of your foolishness MK. Have fun with your new toy.

MK grinned and nodded to the shadow.

"Alright. I got what I need. Thanks. For everything. We won't let you down. I won't let you down."

MK returned to his items. He had two now he was sure he needed to decide what to use. Did he use the sun plush or the grass? His mind stared at the two of them. One was where they were, the other where Mk wanted to go back to. One a block and sickness and regret, the other peace, happiness, and acceptance. MK didn't want to choose. It felt horrible as he didn't know what this would do. Would it lock this one in for Macaque? Would it take them down in his soul to where these memories came from? Would it make things easier or harder going down?

MK was at a loss.

That was until a crazy idea came to mind. He took the grass weave and put it around the sun. He weaved the grass a little tighter together and tried to put both in at the same time.

"Hope this works..."

You input the Combo Memory into the void, and it makes a little buzzing "error" sound. Both the grass and the plush sun flop out onto the floor.

Sorry, Smartie Kid, you must choose one. But you can save the other one for other voids.

"Dammit," MK pouted as he heard that buzzer noise. He picked up both memories. Okay. Time to choose. Had to choose one. Block or love? MK held both memories and just felt the conflicting emotions. Nothingness and love. Disgust and acceptance. It was a clash in his heart and in his head. He shook and whimpered. It was just hard. What if he made the wrong choice? What if he wrecked something?

It was either try and do something or do nothing and leave everything as it was. That couldn't happen. He wasn't sure if things would be better than now but it had to be different. Either way.

"Hey. ...I don't know what's gonna happen when I do this. I just...whatever happens. Whatever...I guess you feel about me and us when this is over...just I hope you remember how important you are to me. I care about you and I always will. I just want you to be happy. If you're happy then whatever way that is...I'll be happy for you."

MK took the grass and the plush. He slipped the sun plush into his pocket and held onto that grass. He brought it up to his lips and whispered softly as he could.

"I might not know how but I do love you too. I know that." MK took a deep breath and pushed the grass into the marked void.

After inputting the proper number of items this time, the void vanishes and there's a little power-up noise that's slightly louder than Korone's was.

One left.

"Be careful. That thing is a real son of a bitch to be stabbed by," Wash said. A pause. "Bright side, now you're the only one who can use it. If that can be baked in now."

That shit is DNA locked.

MK looked at Wash as he held up the sword.

"You mean the sword chose me?! AWESOME! HEHEHEHEHE!" He giggled and ran around with it. He moved fast enough to vanish almost as he just jetting around the lobby and came back.

"This thing is so light. If I can't keep this, I'm asking for one from the shops for a reward!"

"Eeeeeeeeh," Wash said with a bit of an UNSURE look. "The Sangheili consider it a pretty sacred weapon, so usually if humans are wielding them, its either going to piss them off, or they're going to think you're part of some kind of holy prophecy."

He kind of does a hand waggle. "On one hand, there is a lot of bad blood with them. On the other hand, they're some of the first who actually gave peace a chance when they learned how fucked up the situation was. So like, if you want it, you can go for it, but also there is definitely a level of 'fuck you' to an entire species."

Mk blinked and his gremlin grin disappeared. Oh. Wash ended up bringing in some context that rained on his parade. He looked down at the weapon and back at Wash.

"Are any Sangheili here? So I could ask?"

"Not as far as I've seen and they do stick out. Kind of like....a cross between a gator, a raptor, a humanoid, and a bit of bug," he said. "They're absolutely will say no unless they think there could be a prophecy, and then you'd have to do the prophecy."

There is a pause. "You should absolutely take advantage of getting to use it in a heart, because they are really cool swords. Tucker has done some pretty awesome stuff with his."

MK nodded. He'd ask if they showed up then. The word prophecy made his eyebrow twitch. It brought back terrible memories. Not a full flashback but enough to hear her words in his mind.

Destiny will find you soon enough.

"They are super cool. I'll use it. And think about it outside. You know. Don't want anyone thinking I'm part of a prophecy or something."

"It does actually suck a lot to be part of a prophecy," Wash said. "Tucker ended up having to have a half Sangheili kid. Who he loves a lot, but also, he did not expect that outcome at all."

"Wait. He was destined to have an alien baby? ...I'm glad he loves his kiddo. What about his alien...partner? And why is destiny so fucking weird?!"

"Apparently. Its a little confused because the alien was captured for a Scenario 3 training simulation for Project Freelancer, and the translator told them about the fake prophecy, but apparently there had actually been a prophecy that alien was involved with about making a savior or a bridge between races or something like thaat," Wash said, tilting his head, as he tried to sort out the details of the frankly very confusing scenario.

"But Tucker had a sword, he actually had the baby despite all biological questions, and the Sangheili do treat Junior with a lot of respect and reverence," he said. "As for the original Sangheili, I dunno. He may have just left. The Reds and Blues may have accidentally killed him. Trying to get a proper explanation out of them about any of what happened before I met them is always pretty confusing."

Mk stared and listened. This was crazy. So destiny was real in Wash's world. And it said there was gonna be a baby and there was one. How? Why? The kid was being treated well. That's good. The parent being killed or just gone? Why?

"Why do people keep leaving children of destiny just...like that? Huh? Why? That...I don't...my brain hurts. This all just makes my brain hurt and I hate it. Destiny sucks and I hate it."

Destiny gets real weird in Red Vs Blue world. Some of it is just real strong propaganda. But other times its like...actually real????

"To be fair, I don't actually know how the traditional Sangheili family structure works. There is something about those who get swords don't get to get married, but they can still have kids for the genes, so there is definitely some differences going on there," he said with a shrug. "But yes, destiny sucks. Tucker is happy with Junior and Junior HAS done some good work for helping maintain peace talks. But any other time we get into some prophecy bullshit, its a headache." A pause. "Literally in my case."

Seriously, Destiny sucked. It was the worst thing ever. MK sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Okay. Are you going to tell me there was a prophecy about you getting a headache or was it about Epsilon or something else?"

"Oh no, if only it was THAT simple. No, there was an evil AI god thing who gave the guys the ability to time travel because Shisno could be like the great destroyers or something. I wasn't there for that part. Because I was suffering extreme brain damage at the time after getting shot in the neck. The evil god thing finally got the guys to break time and space because Carolina and Tucker decided that they were going to save me and caused a time paradox," he said.

Please understand his bullshit meter is HIGH for reasons like this.

"We had to fix time ourselves by reliving stuff and fixing what got broken. Brain damage included. But that was around the time the interdimensional kidnapping was happening so luckily Choco was able to get me somewhere to actually get healed. The beauty of magic."

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MK listened and felt anxiety from just the story. Time broke? They had to fix it, relive it, then got taken to another world. What in the Great Sage was going on in Wash's world? Sure, his world was falling apart recently but at time TIME didn't break.

"Your world is insane. You do know that, right?"

"Honestly? I think its just the Reds and Blues. Sure, there was an integalatic war, but at least stuff largely made sense, until my life finally collided with Church's and then things just got weirder and weirder," he said. "They literally break so many rules of how things just...work."

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