[A. 335 Brady Lane, the kitchen.]
[Accelerator is eating cereal mechanically and staring off into space. It's the 4th of July and he's thinking back to Independence Days past. Remembering things like watching fireworks with his goofy--if annoying--brother Takeshi and their parents...
...Wait, since when did he have a brother? Or...parents? He had
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Fuck off brat, I'm not in the mood.
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( brief pause. wait... and then he just shakes his head. )
Come on, at least enjoy the day, idiot.
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[...Yes he is.]
Shouldn't you be with your mom or Mrs. Laufeyjarson?
[She's your babysitter, right? She used to be his, too!...Wait, how can he have had a babysitter if he spent his childhood either being chased by the army or being experimented on?]
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So maybe that version was the real one?]
Thinking.
...Not that it's any of your business.
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But why would you want to?
[Wait. Wasn't he...kind of friendly with this girl?
...No. No. He killed her--well, copies of her--over 10,000 times. That was it. That was why it was weird for her to be talking to him...]
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[Her little baby, she'd taken care of him when he was barely months old. He'd loved her apple pie when she'd grown up.
...Does she even know how to cook apple pie?]
Are you okay, dearest?
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[He kind of wants to ignore this weird plant lady but--wait isn't that his old babysitter?]
I mean...just fine, Mrs. Laufeyjarson.
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...Didn't I get experimented on as a child?
[Memories of scientists and memories of his kind, plant-obsessed babysitter were both floating around in his mind. Why the fuck couldn't he figure out which were real? This shouldn't be that hard.]
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What do you want this time?
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[ She leaps off of the streetlight once again only to land before him and stare at him. Something is off with this event, she just can't calculate what... ]
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It's a pretty shitty day. Even back in Academy City I--wait...what? I just thought I was born in Japan! How stupid of me, I've always been a proud American citizen...
...Haven't...I...?
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Hello again mister!
Anything I can help you with?
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No.
[Wait...that was one of his classmates, wasn't it?]
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Really are you su--
[ It was suddenly that he had a flashback. They were classmates in the school--no that wasn't right. Hayate shook his head. ]
I-I'm sorry, I mean are you really alright?
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I haven't gone to a normal school, since...since...
[...Since what?]
Since about a month ago...no, I haven't been to a normal class in years and then I dropped out so those scientist fuckers couldn't...
But...I don't know any scientists...!
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