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Ineffective. Weak.
Powerless.[break][break]
Shadow and chaos do little to affect the earthen titan whose gaze does not turn to them even as dark, violent winds burst through the chamber. As quickly as the tornado had appeared, it dissipates; Lugia's cry is one of pure frustration.[break][break]
He recalls the furious legendary—[break][break]
—and stumbles to find footing on a darkened dock, the air scented with brine and blood. His stomach churns with vertigo. This time, it takes him but a moment to collect himself, surveying a bygone battleground. He is invisible, here.[break][break]
Many of the Rockets whose combined force overwhelms the League are strangers to him. Silas Blackwell is an exception to the rule. Gavin has never met the man — through all his career in Rocket, he had strived to avoid that very thing. Yet he knows him by sight, of course, and by a reputation of malice,
violence, a reflection of his character present in the carnage here. Gavin has not returned to Kanto since the conclusion of Rocket's war, but he is given a glimpse of what it must have looked like in the end: fire and blood, with one man at its epicenter. For a fleeting moment, Gavin forgets that this reality is twisted: fear infiltrates reason, his demeanor of stoic steel.[break][break]
How long has he spent jumping at the shadows of Blackwell? Of Cadis?
No longer.[break][break]
Blackwell is dead. Old Rocket is dead.[break][break]
Except it wasn't, not really; Walsh led them, now, and several of 'old' Rocket remained: Gavin among them, as well as—[break][break]
"Marcel?"[break][break]
It's genuine surprise in his voice as he forcibly turns his gaze from the ghost of Rocket's history to a familiar face in the crowd of strangers.
marcel maeda carries the same ethereal quality that suggests he, too, is
somewhere else in time. Yet even as Gavin opens his mouth to speak, to ask questions, something shifts in this not-quite-reality. The heat from some fiery attack sears the air... and with it, Gavin's skin. A League operative stares not through him, but
at him. The man's mouth opens in preparation to shout a warning.[break][break]
He knows, is a wild, frantic thought.
He knows I'm with Rocket.[break][break]
Gavin's decision is swift and brutal. Gunfire cracks over the din of battle, but Gavin's arm is once more translucent as he lowers the pistol to his side. Bile rises in the back of his throat and he forcibly swallows it down. (He will never learn the name of the man whose life he's taken in the interest of his own safety. He'll never be able to decide whether it's for the best.)[break][break]
Gavin's breath comes sharp as his head swings back toward Marcel.
"What's going on? How the hell are you here?"[break][break]
How the hell was
he here?[break][break][break]
Rockets are free to recognize/interact with Gavin.[break]
Gavin finds himself on the
DOCKS and has a mild crisis over seeing Silas and the devastation Rocket caused.[break]
He spots
marcel maeda (consent obtained) and calls out to him, but is forced to kill a league operative who intends to out him (or both of them, depending on Marcel's visibility status at that moment) before demanding if his buddy knows wtf is going on.[break]
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