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[spiritgun_punk]

[Yusuke's lain the communicator on his bathroom sink, and he's carefully applying a bandage to the nasty-looking cut on his jaw. He's scowling, first at the mirror, then at the communicator.]

They fucking firebombed a whole city. A whole fucking city. How didn't we...

[He trails off with a muttered curse in Japanese. There's a pause while he jabs

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Voice, immensely shocked

[ctu_savior]

This shouldn't have happened. It couldn't have been necessary, not on that scale. I-

I can't believe this. How could it have come to this?

voice; baw that icon.

[spiritgun_punk]

I wish I fucking knew. We had things covered. I know I say crap like that all the time, but we really did.

HIS HOMETOWN IS ON FIREEEEEE

[ctu_savior]

Yeah, we did. Judging by what we ran into, there's no way a conventional assault wouldn't have been able to retake the city without this level of destruction.

Yusuke... you did good in there. Real good.

GODDAMN TERRORISTS.

[spiritgun_punk]

So you mean they didn't need to do that? There's not some connection in here I'm not making?

[A beat.]

Thanks, Jack. You weren't so bad yourself.

[ctu_savior]

Nothing we encountered would have been able to stand up to a full offensive by the United States military, Yusuke. It could be that there were worse things than what we faced off against, though, things that made an ordinary attack impossible. I'm really hoping that's the case, because otherwise...

[spiritgun_punk]

Otherwise they did all that for no fucking reason.