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The knock on the door was an odd mix of timid but urgent. Usually, the Resistance would leave the hybrids to their days, and there was a notable lack of interactions from a certain rabbit since the day he had unfortunately taken up the lead in the team. So it being Johnny there, on the other side of the door, could only mean a handful of things.

But those icy blue eyes were serious, teeming with something that was hard to make out as he spoke four simple words.

"We have a lead." // Forces Verse

Normally, it was Harmony who answered the door. She was quicker and usually didn't want whoever was on the other end to incur her father's ire. That wasn't the case that day as Johnny came to knock.

The door opened, and dull violet eyes regarded the rabbit silently. His claws gripped the doorknob so tightly they could be heard scratching the material, yet he still said nothing.

Just stood there and waited.

Part of him had been tempted to just close the door in the other's face, but the teen's footsteps stopped him. She appeared with a towel still tangled in her quills and looked up hopefully.

Those four words had been something both hybrids had been wishing to hear. Especially Volt, when he had given them all the information he had from his own time in a similar war. Harmony's eyes shimmered as she reached for her father's free hand to give it a squeeze.

Headcanons Part 1 for Otto (Accepting)

The Betrayal

That one, singular day. The worst in his life. The one where the most precious thing that Otto valued was ripped away from him and crushed before his very eyes. The one that left a void in his heart and an emotional scar that he was able to disguise quite well, but never truly got over completely.

Mandarin

That TRAITOR! He turned on them! He was supposed to lead them against the Skeleton King, but he had become so power hungry and corrupted that he posed a threat to the rest of the team. Otto tried to reason with Mandarin at first, begging him to listen to reason; to see what he was proposing and doing was wrong. He wouldn't listen...

He took their friendship, best friends and their future to potentially be more than just friends, and torched it in an instant.

The hardest part wasn't bringing him down and hauling Mandarin off to an isolated space prison... Otto told himself that he could bring Mandarin back to their side.

But after that day... The only thing that remained between them in Otto's heart was a deep, seated HATRED. He broke his heart! Broke their bond! Only to later on join with the one they had all sworn to destroy.

A Random Unfiltered Thought from Lil' (Accepting)

"I need to do better...I can't keep relying on Arrow forever. If something like the No Zone happens again, I need to be able to fend for myself. I don't understand where I lost my edge..."

Clearly he had been attempting to train with his powers...But clearly he was exhausted. He was pushing himself way too hard, partly out of desperation and partly out of frustration. Yet, he was no closer. It felt like it was a losing battle, like he wasn't really in it to begin with.

"Come on, Lil', what if he needs you again?! He's family, dammit."

His thoughts on his brother seemed to spark something inside him, even if brief. His stripes on his quills glowed and he felt the fire inside him building. There was a bit of the usual pain, sure, but it wasn't intense as usual. There was a bit of spark, however fleeting it ended up being. The moment came and went without Lil' truly grasping what had happened, as his mind bounced between thoughts. But there was a bit of something there.

Passion.

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As always, the hero hadn't wanted to worry the others. In this case, the term referred mostly to the two toddlers inside the house as he stepped onto the porch with Light. A moment passed before the hedgehog just went for it.

"Any news on what's causing the weird headaches? The latest ones, I mean. " There was an attempt to put a little humor in there, but he was curious all the same.

The former soldier had no issue with following their friend when he offered a chat outside. A small part of him had an idea of why, seeing how the two toddler's were preoccupied with the coloring book and crayons on the floor to notice them step out.

Just as he rested both arms on the railing, the hero chose to spoke.

"According to Knothole's physician, my own immune system wasn't thrilled with my cybernetics. I had a few choices on how to deal with it...

"I could start taking immunosuppressants and have to be carefully monitored, or I could replace the parts with something that wouldn't cause my body to reject them. I went with the latter option from an acquaintance." He carefully shifted his arm into a cannon and back, looking back out at the forest.

Just because they couldn't meet in person all the time didn't mean Arrow couldn't shoot a text Otto's way.

@emeraldtied

[Sparx will have a field day with it, I'm sure. I give him a lot of grief about him and Nova, so he'll take the opportunity to stick it to me. But it's all harmless, I assure you. Gibson and Chiro might also tease us a little bit. I think Antauri and Nova are going to be a bit more protective over me if I had to guess, but they both like you well enough, I think. I can't blame them for it though, after all we have been through.]

The briefest of moments, he almost started to rant about himself and Mandarin back in the day, but he quickly thought better of it. That was a wound that never truly healed and he didn't think he could bring himself to say anything to Arrow about it, not now anyways. Maybe in time...

Time...Why did this all have to take time. Why couldn't he just skip ahead to the part where they both were living happily ever after? Otto wanted to speed through this, almost as quickly as the hedgehog could run, but that wasn't right. Things like this needed time to properly develop. That's what Antauri would tell him. It seemed to stick to him, perhaps because Arrow reminded the green simian of several of his teammates put together. His family, rather... Was that why he fell so hard for the blue hedgehog? He didn't really know...

For the love of Shuggazoom, Otto felt like he was really bad at this relationship thing. Wanting everything now and not wanting to wait. There was some impatience, yes...But there was also fear.

Fear he would lose it all again...

[Is it good or bad that I already miss you? Because I really do miss you already.]

{{ L }} Arrow had offered to wrestle, Infinite, being more of a swordsman than a hand-to-hand kind of jackel, had refused the offer but if Arrow was anything it was persistent as he tackled the jackal and the duo spent a good couple of minutes wiggling around in the soft grass.

Sonic graciously took the gift. And went straight to chowing down. ❝ You too, ❞ he responded in kind. He had also gotten the other hedgehog a chili dog, though it wasn't wrapped in a bow.