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Floating...

At the bottom of hell even the devils are forgotten.

"Quiet..."

There's nothing here but an empty expanse. An abyss in all directions. Crushing totality, inky blackness. It's cold and lonely at the bottom. Though you tried your hardest to reach this place the whole time, didn't you? Were you expecting this? Is this what you've wanted this whole time?

Nobody to be scared of anymore. Nothing to hurt you.

Nothing at all, everything dyed black.

"I was just a frightened animal, fighting for my life..."

That's what you tell yourself. That's what you told yourself every time you perpetrated some horrible crime, some new atrocity. But we both know that's not true, don't we, Tsubaki?

Dire circumstances, they bring out the measure of a man. They reveal one's true self. That ugliness was born from within you, and the monster you strove to become, to fight back against this world... it was born from you.

You're guilty of everything. Guilty of absolutely everything.

The fact that you're punished only by this purgatory is a testament to the nihilism you'd embraced.

"It's nothing," you'd say with absolute confidence, looking them in their frightened eyes.

Excusing yourself. Absolving your guilt. If everything could only mean so little, life would be free of consequences.

But now you're here, suspended in black. You know it's a consequence of the sins you've accumulated. You can't possibly imagine most find themselves here, amid the cold dark.

"But even so... there's something bigger than I am left for me, a reason I had to survive."

Yes.

And worry not, your heart still beats.

Along with something else.

This isn't the afterlife. It's something separate. Though you might as well consider it similar enough.

Mosaic lights shimmer ever-so-faintly from on high, so distant that you barely noticed them at first. They're spotlights, watching you from on high. Seeing what recourse you shall find here, in a sea where things should remain forgotten.

"... I won't be... I won't be forgotten. I won't."

Your voice echoes out into the void, words lost to everyone but you.

There is no reason you are here, this place where logic and consequence do not apply. You've simply slipped between the cracks in the world and been swallowed up.

There's no reason you're here.

'It's nothing,' you say. But no matter whether that's true, all that remains for you is finding a way out of this.

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With every step on this journey, he loses a bit of himself. Michael Navidson is chipped away. He falls under the weight of his sins and old responsibilities. Michael Navidson the detective can little stomach this world caught between mind and matter. He dives through the sea. He is haunted by the ghosts of his past. A dead brother, looking at him with a bloated body. Dark eyes. A haunted gaze that questions why he couldn’t save Gabriel from his final curtain call.[break][break]
Navy thrives. He dives into the midnight sea. Rides its waves. Understands his dragon. Breaks his flesh against Rockets. Fights. Tears. Wins. Loses. Tossed about through random vignettes of the battle. This place must adore him, for it will not relinquish its hold upon him. Perhaps this deep, dark sea will always be a part of him. It’s a dive into red, blue, and black.[break][break]
A dive down. Down deeper still. He has wandered through these dreams before in his sleeping hours. Rarely does he behold these sights while conscious. Never before this vivid without the help of drugs. It’s another brush with the rift proper. This is what they’re fighting over.[break][break]
Navy doesn’t know how he knows, but he finds the knowledge is there. Rocket and the League always know far more than they let on. Whenever there’s a strange new pie that’s been baked, they’re both fighting for who gets the bigger slice. There’s something here that they want.[break][break]
Maybe it’s Dialga and Palkia, lost in Time and Space after the region was almost destroyed. Maybe it’s ultra beasts. Navy doesn’t know. Navy doesn’t care.[break][break]
All he knows is that he sees Tsubaki. Suspended in the black. Buried in the dark mud. He doesn’t think about any deeper implications. He simply sees a girl he promised he would protect – a girl he has taken into his house. She’s in danger.[break][break]
And so, he acts on instincts. He protects. He pulls her up and close to him.[break][break]
“What the hell are you doing here?! Are you alright?” He asks, knowing she fell through a rift and knowing she’s not.

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The bubble bursts.

All your self-loathing and pity fall onto an unnatural floor like bleached coral, stain the ground beneath you.

And you simply float there. Like a dream where you're falling, you won't wake up til you hit the floor. So you're suspended there. The man that burst your bubble the same as the man that saved you once before, asking if you're alright.

"Does it look like I'm alright?"

You mumble, tired raspy voice of someone who'd just woken up. A mouth that has to remember how to speak, cause it just doesn't come naturally like it does to some others. Maybe it's just remembering itself, having spoken lies for so long that they became more true than the truth itself.

Who the fuck knows.

"Where... am I?"

You ask the question, but you quickly realize it's rhetorical. The dreamlike landscape makes you think he doesn't have a clue either.

A bleached world surrounded by a black void, skies that look like the bottom of the ocean. And something above. Something watching, eyes that stare straight through you. They haven't noticed yet that you're here, but they bore a hole through you all the same. You're afraid to look straight up at them, fear of what you might see if you do.

So, you turn back to face him, away from the nightmare. At the only pair of eyes you feel you can trust.

"And what the hell are YOU doing here? Feels like I'm asleep, but I'd never dream of a guy twice my age!"

The circumstances distill a dangerous venom on your tongue, saying things made to hurt another, things you don't mean. They're meant to keep everyone at a distance, a skill you picked up running in that underground. Honed so well it comes back to you when you're thrown out of your element, like sheer instinct.

You're such a well-trained dog.

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“We’re in the Ultra Deep Sea.” Explaining it to someone else helps Navy’s mind turn the wheels. He spins them. Tries to make sense of this impossible situation. He can’t afford to be confused. He has to act as this girl’s guide, ensure she doesn’t succumb to this place. After all, he made a promise.[break][break]
“How or why we’re here, I don’t really know. Gonna assume you were just chilling up in Dewford until you ended up here out of nowhere. That about right?” Navy knows well his assumption is correct at least in part. She may have wandered off, but he highly doubts she ended up here with any knowledge of where exactly she would be.[break][break]
The world is ever shifting. Ever changing. Navy came down here the old fashioned way. Tumbled down an out of place spiral staircase. He’s seen this place on maps. It was a fun little project back in high school. They showed all the known explored passages of Granite Cave.[break][break]
Frankly put, this place is impossible. It’s too far down. Too deep. They should be crushed by pressure from sheer depth before the seawater ever got in their lungs. Yet they remain. Strange white shapes glow like Christmas lights, humming in the distance. They glow. They recede.[break][break]
“Yeah, stick to guys your own age. Older men are trouble.” He says, while still holding her close, as if his body can protect her from whatever’s here.

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For some reason you feel the need to push back. Maybe it's just a point of pride. He's wounded your ego.

"You think I'm not a fan of trouble!?"

All the things you've done, he doesn't know the half of it. But you realize you're undercutting your own point as you push back on that. It's really a lose-lose scenario he's constructed.

He probably knew you'd answer like that. You can only sigh in defeat.

"A-anyway... this is... weird."

There's no other way to put it, really. It's completely alien. Even gravity doesn't exist here. The world is cold, barren. Devoid of life. All but for the two of you, it seems.

And yet, even in a place like this, you can speak so freely to him.

"The last thing I remember... shut my eyes to take a nap in the sun, yeah."

At least he knows what's going on. Or seems to.

Can you put your trust in him if he knows something you don't? That's always been a point of contention. You could never rely on others, always had to have the upper hand. If someone knew more than you, they were a threat, but...

This guy's different. You think.

"Mh, dizzy..."

The vertigo sets in suddenly, without warning. You've got no sense of which way is up anymore. No horizon to orient yourself, nothing familiar with which to get your bearings. Nothing but this guy in front of you.

A safe haven.

You just focus on his eyes, on his voice. On his arms around you. It fills you with a lot of unexplained feelings, bubbling up to the surface. To keep this moment for only yourself. A pain in your chest, throbbing with every beat of your heart. It hurts.

But you gain your bearings through that pain.

"I think I really am dreaming... this is too unreal."

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“I wish this was just a dream.” He admits. White jellyfish glow in the distance. They hum the song of a hidden sea. A red Gyarados floats amidst their number. It looks at Navy with disappointment. It keeps swimming. There’s no point in dwelling on the past when he’s got someone to protect. [break][break]

“You can walk, right? I’ll get Ironsides out. He’ll fly us out of here.” She can’t, with how dizzy she clearly is. Navy scoops her up, like a knight might scoop up a princess. If she can’t carry herself, he’ll carry her. Protecting women is just who he is. [break][break]
“Hahaha, you know, Navy, you’re never gonna get a girlfriend that way. Girls don’t like protective guys.” Navy freezes. It’s Gabe’s voice. He sees his brother floating through the air, neck twisted at an impossible angle. [break][break]
“You’re dead.” Navy says as he keeps carrying Tsubaki.
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He's speaking but his words are muted. You can't understand them. For whatever reason, it's like the whole world's had a damper placed over it.

But you read that last thing he said on his lips...

"I'm dead...?"

You can hear it, rushing in your ears. The sound of blood. A throbbing sensation in your head. It's painful, but it's undoubtedly there. Your heart is still beating, pushing that stuff through your veins. It's running through you, ice-cold. Making you shiver.

"No... no, you're wrong..."

This isn't that man. This is someone or something else. Steel eyes, they look at you with that tender, handsome smile, telling you everything's alright one moment. But then, that hardened look, betraying a defiant beast...

Whatever this is, it's not Navy. He couldn't ever bear to bring himself to look at you like that.

You blink, and the shape of something else is revealed. You can hardly make its composition out through a translucent pearlescent membrane, mass of arms and legs with no discernible shape, wreathed its many appendages around you. Holding you so close. Skin that feels like jelly, cold to the touch.

It looms over you, growing closer all the while.

"Wh-what're... w-wait, no... no, don't... no, please... o-oww... owwwww, it huuurts...!"

That image is seared into your brain, though it's gone in an instant.

It's gone, but the damage remains. You're gasping like a fish out of water, opening your jaw to scream but nothing comes out. Your entire body's on fire, and your skin... your skin is covered in slime, you've got to get it off.

Clawing at your arms, hysterics, a cold fever. You're left in a state of panic. You have to get it off you before it does something worse. There's something bad coming if you don't get it off. But it's not coming off. Even as you scratch so hard you start to bleed. With every heartbeat echoing around in your hollow head, it keeps coming back.

It keeps leaking, out of your skin...

Why... why... why why why why whywhywhywhy...

You almost don't recognize that man as you look back up at him.

Ten years gone, a lifetime wasted. He's just like you remember, and instantly, you lose your voice. You're a child again, being judged by his strict gaze.

A good girl doesn't talk back. A good girl does as she's told. A good girl behaves well, carries herself with pride. A good girl helps others in need. A good girl always keeps to her manners. A good girl--

He'll never acknowledge you as more than a transaction. He weighs the cost and benefits in his head. And then, he just turns away, as your heart breaks.

But you need his help! You need it!

"D-daddy...!!"

It's not an investment he's willing to make. This is a man who would sell the world, let alone one daughter of his by some one-night stand. He's got other ventures.

You're just red on the ledger, a loss.

That's all you've ever been to him.

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She panics in Navy’s arms. She panics and sees ghosts of her own, ghosts of a past from before he knew her. Tsubaki is in her own head, like every girl her age. She’s chained by her past. She recoils from blows, just as he did when he was young. They’re not so different. They stood at the same crossroads. They went down different paths.[break][break]
And why is that?[break][break]
The ghost of the dead trainer serves as answer enough. Navy read about Tsubaki’s life. Asked her father plenty of questions. No siblings. No one to love her. No life to live outside of running the streets. He hopes she’ll find herself a nice boy and get out of this life, but there is no such thing as peace here in Hoenn.[break][break]
No, peace is anathema to this place. Hoenn is a forge that turns even normal people into something extraordinary. A seventeen year old girl being here, crying in Navy’s arms is proof enough of that.[break][break]
The trainer doesn’t even have to order Ironsides out of his pokeball. The Skarmory screeches. He hates being put to work, but he and his trainer are birds of a feather. Neither one can stand to see a woman in pain. Navy climbs on. The bird swims up through the midnight sea. They just have to find a way out. He’s holding her close, knowing that if she freaks out atop his back, all is lost.[break][break]
And the white fish swim ever closer, even with all the speed under Ironsides’s wings.[break][break]
“Hold on, Tsubaki. I’ve got you. We’ll get you out of here. Back up top. We’ll get you something good to seat, catch a movie. Finish your entrance papers. Just hold on…”

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You fall upward.

Frantic movements trying to get it out of your skin. Something's inside you and you don't know how to get it out. Your skin's crumbling. Revealing that same luster, skin as translucent as diamond. The more you scratch at it, the more it peels away.

"M-my... my hand..."

You hold up your hand and gaze through it, watching it catch the light. You see Navy's concerned face through it.

You're disappearing. Becoming invisible.

Just like how Father always saw you, isn't it, Tsubaki?

You wince, hearing a voice speak. It's yours, but at the same time, it's not.

It gives you such a headache.

"No, I... I..."

You can't resist the truth. No matter how much you want to deny that, you know it's true. Because you're the one speaking it. They're your own feelings turned back on you.

You stutter, trying to take a breath. Try to keep hold of what's real and what's not. Everything's spiraling. Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.

That's when you hear his voice. A voice that's keen to remind you of that future he won for your sake. The voice of your savior, isn't it...?

"Navy, what're you-- y-yeah... all that... keep my mind on... all that."

Just hold on.

You swallow, shutting your eyes tight. Everything's gonna be fine. Navy's here. It's just like that cabin in the cruise ship, four walls closing in on you. Until he arrived you didn't have any hope, but as long as you've got the one person you can rely on...

You open your eyes and turn up to the sky, at the mosaic of eyes overhead.

None of them notice you at first, but as you rise higher, as you get closer, you can see one turn its attention on you. You gaze straight into it, see glimpses of what's reflected in it, as it stares with all its judgement. It's something larger than you could possibly imagine, a glance that contains an entire world.

You're headed straight for it.

You realize, as you get close enough to make out the details.

It's no eye at all, but a hole suspended in midair.

A wormhole.

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“Yeah.” He caresses her cheek thoughtlessly. Just trying to keep her calmed down. A gesture he sees as brotherly. “You know, I haven’t even had the chance to ask you.” The rift looms above. If she needs his voice to stay calm, he’ll talk. He’ll keep the conversation going. That’s all he’s doing.[break][break]
“What’s your favorite kind of movie? I know plenty of good theaters around Hoenn. There’s some real hidden gems. There’s this big time Unova director, he owns a theater in Slateport. He shows all kinds of old movies. The kinds I like with cowboys, heroes, and bandits. Warrior flicks, too. You’d love it. Come on, we’ll go there together.”[break][break]
It seems like he saves this girl every time he meets her. That’s just his nature. Saving people.[break][break]
He tries not to think about the dead boy hanging from his back.[break][break]
“You’re gonna give her the wrong idea.” Gabe whispers.

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You're taken aback by the question.

It comes out of nowhere. It's so... normal.

Enough that your odd surroundings, your nightmares, your hallucinations... they all just fade away. You're just being held by someone, being asked about your preference in films.

How do you even answer that...?

"The best show's a free one. First of all."

You start out practical. That shit costs money, you're not about to pay what you don't have. But he's not talking about that, is he? He's talking about the genre, the art itself.

"And... anything's great, if it can take you somewhere that's not here. Better or worse, as long as you can lose yourself in it."

Extinguish your ego, fall into it completely.

You come out the other side someone else, for having seen it. It's like obsessively reading a book, or listening to an album. But there's something about the way it all comes together, as a greater whole, that makes it seem bigger than any of those things in a way...

"... Something with a message. Something subversive. Something that pushes the boundaries, that makes you uncomfortable. Touches the deepest part of the psyche, the edges of society. Says what everyone's afraid to say.

"And... something with romance, of course."

That's a lot. And yet it seems like it says so little at the same time. How do you encapsulate all that into a single genre? How do you explain that in fewer words?

"Pretentious shit, I guess."

Yeah, that's how.

You're not even thinking about your nightmare anymore, as you rise up through the hole in the sky. It's humming with energy that feels dangerous, but you're thinking of what it'd be like to visit that theater now. Watching something new that you've never seen before. Whether it's amazing, whether it's terrible. It's the experience that's elevates it, almost a sacred ritual. A pilgrimage to see a part of yourself you never knew existed, broadcast for everyone to see, but intimate at the same time.

It's both yours and it's everyone's. A shared transformation.

"Mostly... I wanna watch something that makes me feel like I'm somebody."

Not some invisible girl, or a beast without an ego.

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“Uhuh.” He feels like he’s talking to Gabe again after he’s had a nightmare. Nevermind how Gabe’s ghost clings to him even now. He pushes it aside, pushes forward. That’s the only way for him to keep going. One foot in front of the other. One problem after another. Bury yourself in old problems so that the new ones don’t swallow you whole like a snake devouring its own tail.[break][break]
“There’s some good zombie movies like that, by that one famous director. George Hearse, I think his name was. Talks about how the zombies only win ‘cause mankind can’t band together. The zombies can. We can watch those sometime.” His voice is oh so gentle. He’s smiling, despite everything. Playing the part of a good big brother.[break][break]
“The westerns from Paldea are good, too. Most of the Unova ones are empty schlock. Pale heroes fighting the dark good guys. Black and white. Life back in those days wasn’t so clear cut. There was lots of fighting between the native peoples of the world and the settlers. I like those a lot. Hell, I have some good books I could lend you about that stuff.”[break][break]
They crest the rift and they’re back up top. Who knows how this will all play out? He just keeps talking because he wished someone would have kept talking to him when all the voices of doubt in his head wouldn’t shut up.

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You talk big, but you're an outsider when it comes down to it.

You don't know half of what he's saying. But you wanna.

Clinging onto this is keeping you distracted, cause you need to be a part of something bigger than yourself. It's a compulsion of yours. A legacy, a story that's constantly unfolding. A timeline of film, going back several generations of inspiration, weaving through that web and understanding.

You realize just how much of a kid you really are, putting it in perspective.

He's got a decade of films on you, and you'll have to breach that gap if you ever want to get it like he does.

It's frustrating. But now you're motivated.

That's also part of the future he gave you, isn't it?

The freedom to do more than stalk the streets after dark like a predator, to keep one eye out for everyone who's out to get you.

Maybe you can indulge in the world of film a little more, with that extra free time...

"You owe me a night out to the movies after all this is over," you say, not considering the implications of that. You're so dead set on catching up, you can't let him get ahead of you by watching them alone, now can you?

It's only after you say that that you realize you're on solid land again. Where gravity makes sense, and where your nightmares don't come true. You planet your feet on stone. Hold up your hand, and inspect it closely.

"Looks like it was just a dream after all," you marvel.

But it felt so real in the moment, it felt like you really were losing yourself. Becoming the same sort of thing as that tentacled beast, that thing that got inside your head. There aren't even scratch marks on your skin. It's like it never even happened.

You shake it off.

Confronting this right now is just asking for trouble now, isn't it?

"Just a dream... yeah..."

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Michael Navidson

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In the warrior's code, there's no surrender. Though his body says stop, his spirit cries, "NEVER!"

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