[ network | accidental video ]

[equalsdeath]

[ The video clicks on to a weird angle, like someone just dropped it on the ground. It's recording a pretty barren looking desert (hi future california) and, because THIS IS TERMINATOR, a guy standing there bare-ass naked with his back to the camera

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[agrise]

[ Pinged by a man crawling out of a coffin.

Naturally. ]

"Shinra" and "AVALANCHE" are the terms you're misspeaking.

[ ... And then he thinks about it for a minute.

If this man is with AVALANCHE and has one of these communicators, then presumably this isn't some misplaced Turk gadgetry like he'd initially assumed; more likely, one of Strife's little crew dropped it when they passed through before.

... Useful. ]

This is AVALANCHE, obviously. [ ... Cough. ] Tell us where you are, and we'll come and find you.

[existenta]

[JUST. REALLY?]

[agrise]

[ What. B| ]

you were pinged by bare-ass naked don't lie

[equalsdeath]

What the--

[ DROPS COMMUNICATOR oops ]

[ fumble fumble ]

I don't know what the hell you're talking about. If you're asking for security authorization codes, I don't have any. I'm human, I'm one of yours, I need help and an evac.

I don't know where they bur-- where this is. Outside of San Francisco somewhere.

voice ;

[provictoria]

[...MOM DIDN'T COVER THIS IN HER TAPES!!!11 WHAT? WHAT??? KATE WHAT KIND OF MEDS DID YOU GIVE HIM :C]

[Little stupefied:]

-Son of a bitch.

voice ;

[equalsdeath]

[ OH HE RECOGNIZES THAT VOICE B| ]

You buried me.

voice ;

[provictoria]

[NO HE DIDN'T HE WAS DYING. B|]

I told Kate I didn't want any of those drugs.

[yeah he's totally hallucinating :| only explanation.]

voice ;

[equalsdeath]

You put me in the ground, Connor.

Didn't it occur to someone to check whether I was dead.

voice

[prevoyant]

-- Marcus.

[ O GOD THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE A GOOD WEEK, SHE CAN TELL

how about some breakfast bb :c ]

voice

[equalsdeath]

[ sdfjds okay he settles down for her ]

[ a lot quieter ]

I was dead, wasn't I?

voice

[prevoyant]

As -- [ she pauses, here, silently considering everything that's happening ] As far as we could tell, Marcus, you were dead. It's like John said, there's no way you could have still been alive, after everything. It's [ well ] impossible.

[ unless someone got to your body somehow and did something, bb, but she doesn't want to say that :c ]

voice

[equalsdeath]

[ oh. right. that reminds him. ]

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I don't. Have a pulse. I can't feel anything.

[revenantly]

Oh my god it's a zombie.

[equalsdeath]

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What the hell kind of frequencies is this thing picking up.

Who the fuck are you?

[revenantly]

I dunno; you're on my screen, pal.

My name is Church. Did you seriously just dig yourself out of your own grave?

[equalsdeath]

[ what it has a screen ]

[ tersely, busy figuring this thing out ]

Yes.

[ VIDEO TURN ON ]

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[ METAL. ]

[ CLICK. ]