Marie Has A Reunion
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Meganekko
- Location
- Out There
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Plan: Celebrating recent victory!!!
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-[X] (Voice 4) "And the witch is gone ladies and gentlemen! Our current undefeated champion continues to be... Marie the Combat Maid! How do you like the name? Pretty cool eh? We can workshop it later if you want."
-[X] (Voice 1)"Awww, you made a new friend Marie! That's great!!! Well done back there."
-[X] (Voice 2) "Hopefully we'll have a few moments of peace before Double or someone else comes for us Madam."
-[X] (Voice 1) "Oh yeah Marie, don't forget to tell Mister Ben about the nurses, see what you should do with them."
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View: https://youtu.be/rgUksX6eM0Y
-[X] (Voice 4) "And the witch is gone ladies and gentlemen! Our current undefeated champion continues to be... Marie the Combat Maid! How do you like the name? Pretty cool eh? We can workshop it later if you want."
-[X] (Voice 1)"Awww, you made a new friend Marie! That's great!!! Well done back there."
-[X] (Voice 2) "Hopefully we'll have a few moments of peace before Double or someone else comes for us Madam."
-[X] (Voice 1) "Oh yeah Marie, don't forget to tell Mister Ben about the nurses, see what you should do with them."
It takes a lot of time and questions before Marie gets to see Patricia again. The people of the Anti-Skullgirl Lab are more than a little wary of a Skullgirl who says she doesn't want to kill anyone, which Marie can't really blame them for. It's going to take a lot for most people to believe they're safe around Marie. Eventually, though, after a lot of explaining what she's been up to, including the nurses in the Time Out Box (somehow she was able to avoid mentioning that Myriad gave her the ability to do that), the Lab's scientists are done asking Marie questions, at least until they can get some sleep. The head of Lab 8, Doctor Avian, does ask Marie to put the nurses back near Canopolis where she first met them, since that's apparently where they live, but once that's done, Marie can finally visit her friend.
What happened to her? Marie can't help but ask herself. Patricia's eyes and teeth have been replaced. Her arms and legs are missing too, but they haven't been replaced only because the prosthetics for them aren't ready yet, as Ileum, the woman made of intestines, explained to her on the trip to Lab 8. Even with the advance notice, though, Marie wasn't really prepared to see just how bad of a shape Patricia's in.
Opening the door must have woken her up, because Patricia looks at Marie as soon as she's in the room, despite the strange hour. Patricia looks at Marie for a long moment, not saying a word. Neither of them can. It's been too long since they last saw each other, there are too many things both of them need to say.
Finally, Patricia asks, "Marie? Is it really you?" Are you still my friend? Will I need to kill you eventually?
There's only way Marie can answer.
"It's me."
"Oh, good," Patricia says, her eyes brimming with tears not yet shed. "I can't get up, so get over here and hug me."
Marie's never been so happy to do something Patricia asked of her.
Eventually, the two of them finish sobbing and apologizing to each other, just in time for Squigly to come into the room, a slightly sheepish look on her face.
"I'm sorry, Marie," she says. "The doctors have some new questions they need to ask you. They asked me to get you."
"Who's this?" Patricia asks. "Friend a yers, Marie?"
"I'm Squigly," the girl in question says. "I used to be a zombie."
Patricia raises an eyebrow at that, looking at Squigly's clearly alive body.
"I got better," Squigly says. "Marie found a magic gem that made me alive again."
Patricia nods and says, "That's Marie for ya, always tryin' t'help whether ya want it or not. She ain't usually doin' the sorta stuff ya hear about in Annie stories, tho."
"You'd be surprised how many of those stories have some truth in them," Leviathan says after turning to face Patricia. "Leviathan. I'm an old friend of Squigly's family and made sure the Skull Heart didn't control her when she was a zombie."
"That's neat," Patricia tells him. "Do ya think ya could do that on Marie too? Once the Doc's through with me, I'm s'posed ta have special anti-Skullgirl beams, and I wanna be sure Marie holds still when I blast the Skull Heart outta her."
"I'll see what I can do," Leviathan says. "I do owe Marie for helping me and Squigly. She wasn't the only zombie Marie turned back to life with that magic gem."
"You were a zombie?!?" Patricia shouts. "That's so cool! Damn, I wish I coulda seen it."
Patricia is very lucky Marie doesn't have a bar of soap on her right now.
"...Thank you," Leviathan says after a pause. "But we really ought to get going. The scientists here need to know everything they can if we're going to get Marie out from under the Skull Heart's thumb."
Patricia opens her mouth, only for Leviathan to say "Metaphorical thumb," which prompts Patricia to close her mouth.
Leviathan's right, Marie really shouldn't keep Lab 8's scientists waiting much longer. They're doing her a big favor by not killing her on sight, and she does owe them for that. If their price is the answers to some questions, it's a price Marie's happy to pay. She might even get a chance to warn them about Double. If Lab 8 has special anti-Skullgirl weapons, they might work as anti-Double weapons too, and Marie really wants the monster gone. It's time to go.
"I'll be back," she tells Patricia as she heads out the door.
A good-natured "Ya better be!" follows Marie as she goes with Squigly to the scientists waiting for her. It feels good to see Patricia for herself and know that she really is recovering. Soon, she'll be up and walking around, and then she and Marie can have some fun. Beowulf's having a comeback tour soon, and neither Marie nor Patricia would miss that for the world.
A/N: In-game, it seems that Peacock doesn't actually have eyes in her skull anymore and uses the artificial eyes attached to her arms to see. For the purposes of the quest, Peacock currently has a pair of artificial eyes in her eye sockets to get her used to seeing with them, and they'll be taken out and attached to her prosthetic arms once she has those grafted on. Also, this will be the last story post for today. Will Double show up to take the Skull Heart from Marie's dead body? Will Annie somehow hear about all this and beat Lab 8's door down to kill Marie? Will Marie get to see Beowulf in the ring? Find out next time, on Voices From Beyond!
