Thread by @memoryiskey_au

1. March 2552, about one month after escaping Project KRATOS

E’s comm / Don’s comm

2. Law’s comm

3. Law’s comm

4. E’s comm

"𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒷𝓁𝑒𝓂𝓈 𝒶𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒, 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝐼 𝓉𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁."

5. Richie’s comm

6. E’s comm

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8. (cw: nsfw)

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James’ comm / Richie’s comm

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12. Mike’s comm

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14. Ed’s comm

15. Richie’s comm

16. (cw: suicidal ideation)

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19. Law’s comm

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21. A week or so later.

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23. Richie’s comm

24. Eddie’s comm

25. E’s comm

26. Richie’s comm

One choice, this time - but it’s important. Pick one:

You chose: 💣.

Buckle up.

27. Richie’s comm

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29. Kay’s comm

30. Richie’s comm

31. (cw: emeto)

Richie’s comm

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36. (cw: injury, blood)

Because you chose 💣...

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44. Law’s comm

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53. Richie’s comm / The next morning.

54. "Oh, wow."

"Do you...like it?"

"Do you?"

"...yeah. A lot."

"Then yeah. I love it. Shaved, too, huh?"

"Yeah sorry, I fucking hate the beard."

"Hahahaha, that's okay, babe."

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61. Richie and Eddie do some...relaxing.
archiveofourown.org/works/29551821

62. E’s comm

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69(nice). James’ comm

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78. Law’s comm

79. Audra’s comm

80. Richie’s comm

81. E’s comm

82. (cw: nsfw lol)

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Richie’s comm

84. Audra’s comm / Later that morning, after some sleep.

85. Richie’s comm

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91. E’s comm

92. (cw: nsfw lol)

93. (cw: one guess...yeah nsfw again)

Richie’s comm

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95. The next day.

Eddie’s comm

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113. (cw: implied past substance abuse)

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118. Later.

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END CHAPTER ONE
open.spotify.com/track/77hI6DJ1…

123. Ed's dreams aren't usually like this. Even when he had prophetic dreams in Sonia's custody, they were clearer than this.

There is a military aircraft. It is lifting off, the force of it popping his eardrums and whipping around his hair. He runs, lungs screaming, after it.

124. He sees someone being carried inside, unconscious, but he can't decipher their face. He screams, but he can't determine the name that he calls. As he watches the craft rise into the air, carrying Someone away, he falls to his knees.

Who was it?

125. Ed Gray wakes alone, leans over to grab a notebook on the bedside table, and begins to furiously write.

(YOU CHOSE: The Protector.)

126. Audra’s comm / Richie’s comm

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132. Eddie’s comm

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135. Back at the apartment.

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146. The next evening.

Richie’s comm

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150. The retrieval team lands about a mile and a half from the EARD bunker.

Law’s comm

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Ed’s comm

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159. Ed’s comm / Mike’s comm

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165. From Richie's camera.

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167. Under Eddie’s watchful eye, the family gets to work.

168. Don’s comm

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172. Ed’s comm

173. (Because you chose 🛡️ THE PROTECTOR.)

174. Eddie’s comm

175. Law’s comm

176. Ed’s comm

177. Ed’s comm / Eddie’s comm

178. Eddie’s comm

179. Law’s comm

180. Ed’s comm

181. Law’s comm

182. Ed’s comm

183. Eddie’s comm

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185. The caravan drives for a couple hours, almost in complete silence, away from the base.

Ed’s comm

186. Sonia’s comm

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189. Eddie’s comm

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199. Sonia’s comm

200. (warning for volume!)

ＧＯＯＤ ＥＶＥＮＩＮＧ，ＤＩＲＥＣＴＯＲ ＧＲＡＹ．

ＢＥＧＩＮＮＩＮＧ ＳＩＭＵＬＡＴＩＯＮ

END CHAPTER TWO
open.spotify.com/track/2XiozuoJ…

201. Richie’s comm

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205. Sonia’s comm

206. Eddie’s comm

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208. Audra’s comm

209. Kay’s comm

210. Ben’s comm / James’ comm

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212. Don‘s comm

213. Some time later.

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215. Law’s comm

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223. Mike stops in the doorway of the tiny medical wing, staring at the man with bright blue eyes. Bill, he corrects himself, it's Bill. After a long, silent moment, Bill crosses the space between them and throws his arms around him, the hug so tight it steals Mike's breath.

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228. (cw: alcohol)

Eddie’s comm

229. Eddie’s comm

230. Kay’s comm

231. "Ugh, being a person fucking sucks. Does everything always hurt like this?!"

"It'll pass soon."

"What are you staring at, huh, McCall?"

"Hm? Oh. Nothing. Um. Nice to finally meet you."

"Ha! You, too."

232. (cw: emeto)

Eddie’s comm

233. James’ comm

234. "What were they doing??"

"Nothing! Just...talking. Sitting on the same bed. Really close. Like, their legs were all tangled up and everything. I just felt like maybe we should let them...meet."

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238. Kay’s comm

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240. Stan’s comm

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244. Audra’s comm

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246. Mike’s comm

247. Law’s comm

248. “Epsilon’s” comm

249. Law’s comm

250. A hulking figure awaits them at the landing site - one of the People of Maturin, they realize, clad in heavy armor and wielding a weathered shotgun.

"Well. He looks friendly," Ed says dryly as the shuttle's autopilot takes them down to the planet surface.

251. Law’s comm

252. Law’s translator

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254. “Epsilon’s” comm

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257. As he steps outside the leader’s tent, collecting Eddie before they are led to where they’ll be staying for the night, Ed gets another vision. It is as frustrating at all the others - brief and vague.

(What does he see?)

258. “Ed? You okay?”

“Yeah,” Ed frowns, rubbing his forehead with the heel of his palm. “Saw something.”

“What was it?”

“Fuck if I know. But it’s...I just feel like we’re being watched.”

(You chose: 💪. Consequences will be made apparent soon.)

259. Eddie’s comm

260. “Epsilon’s” comm

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262. “Epsilon’s” comm

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264. Ed’s comm

265. (cw: guns)

266. (Because you chose 💪, Richie knocked Eddie out and took him somewhere unknown.)

Ed’s comm

267. Law’s comm

268. Eddie wakes up, and tries to get through to his Richie.
archiveofourown.org/works/29982225 (repost, figured y'all might want a link maybe)

269. Law’s comm

270. Mike’s comm

271. Law’s translator

272. Law’s comm

273. Eddie’s comm

274. Eddie’s comm

275. Ed’s comm

276. Eddie’s comm

277. James’ comm

278. Mike’s comm

279. Eddie’s comm

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282. Eddie’s / Mike’s

END CHAPTER 3
open.spotify.com/track/5aozioXE…

283. Ed’s comm

284. Mike’s comm

285. 🧠

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299. Mike’ comm (last for tonight)

300(🥳). Mike’s comm

(cw: seizures)

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309. (cw: discussion of seizures)

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312. On the road.

313. Law’s comm / Ed’s comm

314. Ed’s comm

315. Eddie’s comm

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318. Eddie’s comm

319. (cw: minor nsfw, difficulty breathing)

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324. Ed’s comm

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327. (cw: slight nsfw)

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329. Eddie remembers an old trick to put Richie to sleep.
archiveofourown.org/works/30140511

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341. Mike’s comm

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358. Later.

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360. The four of them land, splitting into teams and leaving the ship behind with camouflage activated.

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364. "Did you fucking see that?! Did you see that?! What the fuck was that?!"

"That was the reason we're RUNNING, Richie!!"

365. "Oh my fucking god, why is it fucking chasing us?!"

"Because we're the only other living thing on this goddamn planet!!"

"Besides Ed's batshit mom!!"

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367. "Alright, everyone buckled in?"

"Yes, yes, go, already!"

"Alright, I'm-HOLY FUCK!"

"GO FASTER, ED, MAKE IT LET GO!"

"LAURENCE ROLAND KASPBRAK, THE YELLING IS NOT HELPFUL!!"

"WE'RE ALL YELLING!!"

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369. Mike’s comm

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371. Richie’s comm

372. As the ship touches down planetside, Ed blinks as a vision flashes before him. The room is dark around him. To his left there is himself. Or is it Eddie? Hard to tell. Too dark.

373. Before him is a woman, one who strikes such a potent, juxtaposed mix of fear and anger into his chest that it steals his breath. Her expression is unreadable, her hands empty and at her sides.

(Choose.)

374. There is something cold in his hand, but he can’t see what it is. There is a pop, his ears begin to ring, and there is a flash of fuchsia, bright and blinding.

(You chose 🧠. Consequences will be made apparent soon.)

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386. Richie’s comm

387. Eddie’s comm

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389. That night.

390. Mike’s comm

391. "Well," says a voice, low and lilting through Mike's translator. "It's about damn time. I thought you'd never arrive."

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394. Inside the underground bunker.

Richie’s comm

395. Ed’s comm

396. Richie’s comm

397. Mike’s comm

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399. (Theme for the rest of Book 2)
open.spotify.com/track/59XaLwuc…

400. "We've been here so long. Still, I remember that rainy September."

401. "Am I still willing to foot all this billing?"

402. "Am I transmitting? Is anyone listening?"

403. "When I think of you, your name's in the sky, ninety feet high."

404. (cw: death, guns)

405. Eddie’s comm

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407. Mike’s comm

408. Dr. Robert Wiser’s comm

END OF BOOK TWO
open.spotify.com/track/67wereoD…