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Shane/Swerve Strickland

FSW Mecca X - Benefit For Bey

(To everyone unfamiliar, the fic takes place in an AU where Aspheera trapped Zane in her staff instead of banishing him to the Never Realm, but the ninja continue to think he's dead until season 15)

Excerpt:

It takes longer than Skylor would like to admit for her to recognize the woman. But in her defense, it’s been a while since she's seen Pixal's human disguise.

Cole sheepishly waves at her from behind, gingerly stepping around a toolbox left abandoned on the floor. “Hey Pi—”

“I assume you are here because of the vengestone smugglers?” interrupts the woman, and through voice alone dismisses any doubts they may have had that this is actually Pixal.

“We could use your help,” Skylor offers. “Whatever these guys are planning, vengestone always spells trouble. We’re trying to get the team back together, and we can’t do it without you.”

“You could,” she says. “You’ve fought plenty of battles without me before.” There’s a lofty, dismissive air in her voice that says she’s already run this conversation through her simulators a thousand times and is quickly growing bored of it. 

Skylor knows better than to take her dismissiveness too personally. The only reason Pixal would ever run a conversation through her simulators to the point of monotony is if it’s an interaction she deeply, deeply cares about. So in an odd twist of irony, Pixal sounding like she doesn’t care is a surefire indicator that she actually cares a bit too much. 

Cole sighs. “Yeah, well, maybe we want you here.”

Когда Бог твой ложный "

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