#fusionfall verse

....Her stomach growled.

...Dot eat it. Don't eat it, don't eat it, don't-

...Addy stuck her hand in and scooped out a glob, shoveling it into her mouth like it was just some honey from a honey pot.

DARN IT.

Curse her cravings...

...But at least it tasted good-

((When you go to him in the "Hello From Camp Kidney" mission to get one of his toilet handles to use to make a Toiletnator nano, he says that he's "ecstatic to be assisting in the fight against Lord Fuse!))

((Hes so darn happy to be helping, even if his gear is needed at the last minute!))

((In Toiletnator's Tomfoolery, he wants the player to send a photo of his lair to Numbuh 4 so the KND know he's serious about fighting Lord Fuse! He wants them to know that he's all in, he's not hiding, and hes not chickening out!))

((In Cleaning up City Hall, when the player goes to him to help with the mayor's plumbing, he gets sad and tries to tell them that he's tired of people coming to him for only plumbing issues while hes a "scary" villain! But he still helps despite being upset! He still helps them!))

((I have no doubt in my mind that if push came to shove, he really would at least try to fight Lord Fuse himself. He'd definitely almost immediately be taken out, but he'd try.))

((Somehow, someway, he finds an intact lemon tree with lemons already ripening))

((He remembers recipes of old, recipes that are no doubt potentially forgotten during Grandfather's rule.))

((He has no sugar to sweeten it, but he has a dream. A dream to boost up his fellow kids with just something that is supposed to represent childhood. Something that represents a warm summer day at the pools, or after riding your bike around.))

((Upon rewatching Operation Zero, it seems like all the trees have been cut down in favor of making room for more factories, so this would definitely make Laurence. extremely protective of his tree. If its discovered, whos to say it wont get chopped down with the rest of them?))

((In secret, he works tirelessly to juice the lemons and find ways to distribute them to the others without being found out.))

((Its during this time that he creates his famous saying, the very same he passes down to his daughter in the future.))

((Decommissioned Goliath (or rather just Blake) in FF))

((I'd imagine in this verse he doesn't end up killing the men sent to take him back to his abusive household and he ends up just staying with his sector until he hits thirteen years old and is decommissioned))

((Decommissioned Goliath is much like Monty in that he cant see the danger around him and goes about business as usual.))

((And oh boy, that would not be good during an alien invasion.))

((Green! Green everywhere! Greens and reds, sometimes with sparse black here and there!))

((She'd be able to set aside her grudge for color for now. If the likes of Stickybeard and Toiletnator can work with the kids, so can she.))

((Tina, other bully, guide it doesn't matter she wont tolerate it on her watch))

Addy stared up at Raimundo, her eyes wide.

"Afraid? Really? But...but you seem like the strongest teen out there."

To be fair, Addy thought everyone else who wasn't her was strong. Especially all the heroes like Raimundo, Bubbles, and Dexter, who were doing their best to put an end to Lord Fuse's reign of terror.

Raimundo seemed as if he were the strongest of all of them. Instead of taking refuge inside the safe zones, he opted to remain beside the infected zone. Day in and day out, he fought and fought and fought without so much as a complaint.

Brave, strong Rai was really afraid?

"... Well...I-I think you're very brave and amazing. You...you don't have to stay here. You can always go to the safe zones, but...you choose not to."

She offered up a smile and reached up to pluck a flower from her hair.

"...I-I'm here now. I'm the hero, and...and I'll work hard until you don't have to be afraid anymore."

Distant, wise words echoed in her head.

You're going to be scared, and you're going to feel small. But it's important to realize that there might be people who feel even more scared and even smaller. It's our job as leaders to make them feel just a little less scared and a little less small.

She offered the flower to Raimundo.

"It's okay to be scared. I-its okay to feel those feelings. And if...if you need a break, that's okay too. Just don't give up hope. One day...one day this will be just another bad dream. And we'll open our eyes to a better d-day. I promise."

Addy at the final battle: