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[procreation]

[ The feed turns on, sent without any security and to all channels, the voice already screaming even before the recording starts. ]

-him back, bring him back, bring him back!! I will rip this disgusting world apart if you do not return him to me!

You can't do this, not again, not again, I need him, I need him!

Bring me my brother back or every dirty human settlement I see while looking for him, I will destroy and leave the corpses for the worms!

How dare you. How dare you, I'll get him back, he needs to stay with me, he's only safe with me!

[ Something big crashes in the background and Vash snarls in rage, slamming his hand on the radio. ]

Bring him back!

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[dontdeserve]

He is never safe with you, not even a little. And if you can't see that, you need to look better.

[ He's sorry, Thorns. But that needed to be said. ]

[procreation]

Shut your sick mouth! He was fine with me! He was happy!

[dontdeserve]

He was trapped. He was maneuvered into things someone his age should not have to deal with.

But you don't care, do you. Only who he is, not what he needs.

[procreation]

Why are you lying? He was fine here, I would never hurt him! He was happy to know everything about our Eden and our children. He needed some hope for the future!

I care more about him than you ever did. You abandoned him.

[dontdeserve]

There is one way to prove it. Let him grow up. Give him a few years. Then seek him out. He is not ready for the responsibility of the young ones, or are you too blind to see that?

[procreation]

I'm not asking him to be a father, he's a child. What kind of monster do you think I am?

I need him to stay with me because people like you are teaching him your sick ways.

[dontdeserve]

I'm teaching him nothing. He is spending his days with a brother and a sister his age. And with an older version of himself.

[procreation]

Bullshit. You're all influencing him with giving humans chances and trying to change who he is! He didn't think our Eden was even possible.

You're saying I'll hurt him but who's really hurting him, huh? Invalidating his choices, hoping he'll grow up different than the one you know just so you can have one happy ending, no matter how artificial?

[dontdeserve]

Who is throwing a fit, Vash? Who would be invalidating his choices if he was the one who chose to leave, telling you or not?

[cowgoesmoo]

[ He'd slept through Rem's leaving, but there's no way he'd sleep through that kind of racket coming through the radio! He stumbles out of bed, completely missing Rem's note, and braces himself against the radio table, swallowing hard to try and stop from being sick again. Being sick sucks, but that sounds like a grown Vash, and he has to reply. ]

Hello? Who's this?

[procreation]

[ He's about to snarl again, but that's... a child. Insanity and parental instincts clash and Vash just ends up in a sob. ]

I'm Vash. I... who is this?

[cowgoesmoo]

[ It is one of his older selves, okay. He's never heard of a Vash that calls humans dirty before, though, or talked about hurting them. Aren't they all pacifists? ]

I'm... I'm not supposed to give my name to strangers. [ And certainly not on an open channel! ] What happened to your brother?

[ What happened to you is really what he wants to ask, but he definitely understands being worried about a missing loved one. Maybe this Vash is just saying violent things because he's scared? ]

[procreation]

Ah. Clever boy.

[ Smarter than him, yelling out his pain all over the planet. ]

He disappeared. He couldn't have left the house, so he's just gone.

[cowgoesmoo]

[ Vash is a clever kid! If he was feeling better he'd be more clever, though. As it is... ]

My brother disappeared too! It's been days.

[ First Nai, and now another Vash's brother? Is somebody making all the Kniveses disappear? He'll have to call big brother right away after this call! ]

D'you think they're in the same place?

[procreation]

Yours, too?

[ Oh. Oh. It's his brother's brother, the Vash he was supposed to go collect eventually so they could all live together. It had to be, by the sound of how young he is. ]

I think we're talking about the same one.

[cowgoesmoo]

What?

[ Give him a second please, he's not thinking as quickly as he usually does today. ]

He was with you?

[ But that doesn't make any sense. He's a Vash. Aren't they all nice, and helpful, and always going out of their way to do good things? ]

Why didn't you bring him home then?

[procreation]

He arrived right in my home.

[ A miracle! ]

I needed him to help me with a few things. It's okay, though. I wasn't going to take him away from you forever, we were going to pick you up as well. You should stay with your people.

[nyctinasty]

[One of many responses comes in a sleepy-sounded irritated growl, as if someone just got woken up by some lunatic screaming his head off.

Which. Is exactly what happened.]

If someone disappeared, it wasn't a human that did the disappearing, use your brain. I assume you have one by all the noise you're making. Humans can't do that yet.

[procreation]

I don't care, I don't care, I need him back!

[ It does snap something back into reality for him, though. ]

Why would the sisters do this?!

[nyctinasty]

[The voice's tone is flat.]

Apparently they collectively decided something is more important than what you want. Maybe you should spend some time thinking about that instead of letting the entire planet eavesdrop on every single conversation you're having about it.

[procreation]

That can't be... they should understand, I need him... he's just a boy, what would they need him to do?

[ He doesn't seem to listen or care about the fact that anyone can hear them. ]

[nyctinasty]

Are you capable of holding more than one thought at a time?

[That annoyance is creeping back.]

[procreation]

I can't, I can't think without him. He made me perfect like him but it all falls apart!

[ He sounds more unhinged... something about this man's voice is setting his brain off in a weird way. ]

Little brother is so little, though. He's not Nai but him at the same time and I need him.

[nyctinasty]

You need to stop. Now.

[Knives isn't known for his patience in the best of days, and today, woken up too damn early by a panicking moron is not about to make him more patient and kind. If he's snarly, well. He's snarly.

It sounds almost like a Vash, a bit like the younger one that hadn't actually been aggressive upon meeting, who helped with Tessla. But not.. quite right. Distorted. Almost l--

Oh. Oh. Him.]

If he matters to you so much you'll stop putting him in danger and stop talking about him over the planetary emergency network.

[procreation]

[ That has him frozen for a moment, and only the panicked breaths are heard for a while. Of course he doesn't want his brother in danger. Did he do that? Is he hurting Nai?

...and how did this person make him just stop like that? ]

Who are you?