Comic 991 - Take Fuse to the error room
Posted on 4th May 2018, 4:12 PM
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Author Notes:
You're... still a bit torn on what to do about the crack in the wall. On the one hand, worrying about it without fixing it is probably how it got there. On the other hand... you're real worried about what'll happen when you try to fix it.
For now, you pull back out to the lab. Caius is still working on getting pizzas, so you ask Fuse if he wants to try the error room.
"Yeah," he says. He takes a deep breath, then breathes out slowly... then nods. "Yeah, let's do it."
You and Fuse head to the Mars base. Michelle helps you flip the doors around so you can enter the error room. As you suggested earlier, you enter the room with Fuse.
You almost trip, having to physically stop yourself to keep from stepping in
Fuse.
You can't recognize any features from the... flattened... gore pile on the floor, but you do spot Fuse's cracked visor and blood soaked over-shirt. Instinctively, you throw a hand back, almost trying to stop Fuse from wandering in after you--
"Hoooly shit."
Fuse pales. He stares at the alternate him, then at you... then at the alternate you... then back at himself.
"Wh..." Fuse can barely manage the words. "What the fuck...?!"
The error room version of you has blood on her face, but it looks splattered--like it's not her own wound, but fresh from someone else's. She also looks... a lot more confused than you were expecting from an error room version of yourself. Confused, and sad. She looks like she hardly knows where she is.
You level Fuse, and quickly--he looks like he's about to have a nervous breakdown, still focused wide-eyed on his own brutalized remains.
...You up the dosage further as you hear the pile of gore begin to wheeze. One of the almost intact ribs visibly moves.
Despite the... unsalvageable condition of error-Fuse, he's still breathing. It may be the nature of the error room, presenting someone that should by all rights have died in a timeline that didn't happen.
Error
so ah, kinda... leave? Or, like... maybe we can help or something.
Let's... okay. Let's be ready to bolt at any second, but for the moment, ask what the fuck.
Just.. Knock Fuse out with The Blood, ask her how Fuse died and why she's in a prison outfit, then leave on our
merryway.We should leave this place, I don't think there is much to learn here.. or maybe I just don't want to.
I'm guessing there aren't that many time lines where fuse has survived meeting us.
So let fuse go in alone next time, and we can follow him with the blood.
That said, it would be nice to get a little more info before we leave. This might be a little lesson about what happens if we try to salvage an... unsalvageable injury on one of our friends. I'm going to go out on a limb that not!Fuse there is only, "alive," because of not!Jane.
Really think Fuse is going to need a hug after this (unless it turns out this makes Fuse terrorfied of us in which case we should hold off).
It might be worth the risk to learn what the "bad end" is, but keep safe. And if the error was caused by poking in your brain (mirror-Jane may have made it past that point before diverging...), you may not want to know.
Have we established what happens if we bring someone from the error room back with us?
We've never brought back one of the not!Janes with us, and none of them have been eager to join us either.
I think we're going to break Fuse pretty bad at this rate.
Re: externalising Red, it would be totally rad if Jane also went blood-haired when she does so. Hair changing colours is totally superhero stuff, after all.