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[Voice, locked to residents] --EMERGENCY--EMERGENCY--EMERGENCY--EMERGENCY--
[At 2:15AM, the journals suddenly blare out an alarm, followed by this message.]
EMERGENCY. EMERGENCY. This is an emergency.
The following occupants of the Luceti enclosure must report to the teleporters in twenty minutes. You are required as reinforcements in Region 13. Bring all necessary armaments with you. You will be teleported directly into combat.
Anyone who fails to comply will be forcibly escorted to the teleporters by droids.
This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill. You have twenty minutes.
[The message repeats twice more, the alarm continuing until the twenty minutes has elapsed. No questions will be answered.]
EMERGENCY. EMERGENCY. This is an emergency.
The following occupants of the Luceti enclosure must report to the teleporters in twenty minutes. You are required as reinforcements in Region 13. Bring all necessary armaments with you. You will be teleported directly into combat.
Anyone who fails to comply will be forcibly escorted to the teleporters by droids.
This is not a drill. I repeat: this is not a drill. You have twenty minutes.
[The message repeats twice more, the alarm continuing until the twenty minutes has elapsed. No questions will be answered.]
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He takes a little time pulling together the things he figures he'll want -- of course they want him for this, of course they do, but he's okay with it. It's been too long since he saw any real action, after all.
But then he's out the door too, and makes it to the teleporters only shortly after Lee does.]
Save your energy. I imagine we'll want it on the other side.
[Harsh as always, but he's glad that Lee will be there too -- glad to have his teammate at his side.]
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Please don't worry about me, Neji! I have energy to spare! [And Gates to fall back on... as unhealthy as that may be.] I'm just getting warmed up for battle!
[But he has felt some amount of fear since seeing Neji's name on the list. He can't wipe his memory of the last time he saw him on the battlefield at home.]
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[But he wouldn't be Lee if he weren't buoyant and overconfident. He'll settle when they actually get there, Neji knows.]
Be careful out there. [He can't help saying it; neither of them are beginners when it comes to this world or its technology, but it still isn't what they've really been trained for. And neither of them is terribly good at a distance.]
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But, please, Neji... I'd like you to do the same as well.
[Don't leave me again.]
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[The look in Lee's eyes is far more sober than Neji's accustomed to, and he can hear the seriousness in his teammate's tone.
He can't meet that with a scoff or with arrogance. Instead, he nods seriously, meeting that gaze with sobriety of his own, a promise.]
I will. We'll both make it out of this all right.
[Resurrection or no, he has no interest in experiencing death before he has to.]
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We should make this promise official. [He extends his hand, palm facing down, halfway towards Neji. And he does his best impersonation of a certain someone.]
Gai-han...!
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[Is he really...?]
Don't you start.
[Making it official in his own way -- the same resistance and attitude he always gives Gai. It's practically a part of the ritual at this point.]
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[He will assume the role of Gai as much as he can. Of course, as he's grown older in Luceti, he's been emulated Gai moreso both consciously and unconsciously.
So now. It's time for The Stare.]
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[The Staredown begins!
...
...
...
...
Can you feel the heat of his maturity, Lee? Can you feel it?]
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And so he stares.
And stares.
...
...
And stares.]
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[That made absolutely no sense! Maturity is the opposite of youth! As Neji has tried so hard to demonstrate.
By resisting things like the Team Gai Staredown.
Still resisting.
Still...
At least Lee isn't making hideous grunting noises (yet)?]
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And Lee ties his best to press his stare into Neji's soul. And...
Oh, there they are. The grunts begin emanating from Lee.]
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That was all he needed.
He holds out his stare for a few minutes longer, just to make it absolutely clear what he thinks of his idiocy, then with a sigh that says he is bestowing the greatest favor upon a clearly undeserving world that has somehow lucked into his presence...
He lays his hand atop Lee's.]
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And then, the time comes. Lee's smile twinkles as their hands are placed together, and now it's time to chant.]
Youth full power! [And then he hovers his hand up and down as he does his best imitation of Gai's cry.] Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! And one more fight!