Fourth Trial

[bathymetric]

[ After the evidence (and what a large batch of evidence it is, this time) has been gathered up, after actually patiently waiting a longer time than usual to make sure everything's been grabbed, the speakers over New Rapture crackle to life. ]

Time's up, everyone. You know where to go.

[ The lower number of bathyspheres, as you descend, is starting to become really notable, isn't it? The descent is the same as ever, lower and lower into the sea. The bioluminescence of those slugs on the ocean floor is almost brighter today, somehow, and some of them have even crawled up the cliff face around you as you pass them.

The dome approaches, slowly as ever, gleaming red in the darkness. The bathyspheres land in a row, doors opening one by one to reveal the familiar sight of the trial room, three more podiums now darkened. ]

Take your places, ladies and gentlemen. You've got a doozy of a situation to discuss. Ass Man and Silver Fox are dead. You know what happens if you can't figure out whodunnit.

[ Welcome to your fourth trial. ]

Comments

[asymptotes]

[ He laughs. ]

I didn't tell you what happened when I fixed the multiverse, did I? I didn't tell you that I won?

[ He grips his podium. ]

I created one perfect world. And it destroyed itself. The universe wants to work the way it does. There's not nothing out there, Joy. That's the worst part. And there's no fixing that.

[specialyellthing]

… Yeah. That sounds about right. [sighing…

remember when zero hour literally made a new big bang

this was BEFORE flash went so fast that he erased zinda from continuity]

[allatonce]

Oh, I know. But that's where you and I are different. You're a hero, aren't you? So even if you can't fix the whole multiverse, you could maybe fix something. And that's enough.

[asymptotes]

No. It'd never be enough.

[ THAT'S HIS CHARACTER FLAW AND HE'S STICKING TO IT ]

[allatonce]

[She laughs, just a little.]

That's why you ever even tried to fix it, huh?

[asymptotes]

I'm not going to fight symptoms while the sickness rages on.

[ truly why are they the same except in the one way that makes them this different ]

[allatonce]

[sometimes your mom is earth asian instead of space asian and it gives you ever so slightly different trauma!!]

I personally thought it would just be easier to wipe the slate clean and just start over.