[Another deep breath, like he's breathing in the starlight of the all the universe, and burning with it, like he'll explode with all the life in the air, all the life and death and burning and explosions and peace and war in his lungs, in his veins, in every fiber of his being.]
[She is a child.]
[But Ikki still cares.]
[Marco knows it.]
[He wouldn't be mad and hurting if he didn't care.]
[And that's why it bothers him.]
[He wished he knew how to help it.]
[Wished he could explode.]
[Ace explodes sometimes, but Marco never has before.]
[Marco doesn't explode, he just burns. When something has to be destroyed, he gets rid of it.]
[No mercy.]
We will.
We'll hunt down every last marine that touched this crew, that hurt Kairi, and we'll kill them so they'll know to never ever touch this family again.
[Family. Are they family? It hasn't been as long as Marco's used to calling his family members such. And he doesn't count Kairi on the same level as Leanne or Haruta, even though Kairi has been with them longer than Leanne. So isn't that unfair?]
[It doesn't matter. She doesn't have to be a little sister to be family. She's nakama. It's enough.]
[And vengeance is something he gets.]
[Ikki's violence had scared Selphie, wasn't it? And he was mad with himself for how he could still wind up hurting her in other ways.]
[So he hurt himself to try to keep her from being hurt more.]
[All messed up.]
Together. You and me.
No kids allowed.
[Because Marco wasn't going to just break necks.]
[He was going to send a very violent and very gruesome message.]
[And worse? He was going to enjoy it.]
Aggressive birds...
That what's Chandra said.
Phoenixes are really aggressive birds.
We don't like this.
[Such an understatement. He hated it. Hate it so much. Couldn't let Ikki go though, because he needed him. And he didn't care that it was selfish, because it wasn't a selfishness he afforded himself, that the world afforded him, but it was part of being a phoenix. And that meant that the other phoenix had to understand. Had to. And so Marco could stay strong for Ikki but he'd demand Ikki stay just as strong for his sake too.]
We'll take all this. And we won't forget. And when hunt down those marines, we'll use every second of this to make them hate it too.
[Revenge. He can handle that. A lot. That's his peace. It's not peace or order by way others might recognize it, but it was its own existence and he'd make it happen.]
[Action]
[She is a child.]
[But Ikki still cares.]
[Marco knows it.]
[He wouldn't be mad and hurting if he didn't care.]
[And that's why it bothers him.]
[He wished he knew how to help it.]
[Wished he could explode.]
[Ace explodes sometimes, but Marco never has before.]
[Marco doesn't explode, he just burns. When something has to be destroyed, he gets rid of it.]
[No mercy.]
We will.
We'll hunt down every last marine that touched this crew, that hurt Kairi, and we'll kill them so they'll know to never ever touch this family again.
[Family. Are they family? It hasn't been as long as Marco's used to calling his family members such. And he doesn't count Kairi on the same level as Leanne or Haruta, even though Kairi has been with them longer than Leanne. So isn't that unfair?]
[It doesn't matter. She doesn't have to be a little sister to be family. She's nakama. It's enough.]
[And vengeance is something he gets.]
[Ikki's violence had scared Selphie, wasn't it? And he was mad with himself for how he could still wind up hurting her in other ways.]
[So he hurt himself to try to keep her from being hurt more.]
[All messed up.]
Together. You and me.
No kids allowed.
[Because Marco wasn't going to just break necks.]
[He was going to send a very violent and very gruesome message.]
[And worse? He was going to enjoy it.]
Aggressive birds...
That what's Chandra said.
Phoenixes are really aggressive birds.
We don't like this.
[Such an understatement. He hated it. Hate it so much. Couldn't let Ikki go though, because he needed him. And he didn't care that it was selfish, because it wasn't a selfishness he afforded himself, that the world afforded him, but it was part of being a phoenix. And that meant that the other phoenix had to understand. Had to. And so Marco could stay strong for Ikki but he'd demand Ikki stay just as strong for his sake too.]
We'll take all this. And we won't forget. And when hunt down those marines, we'll use every second of this to make them hate it too.
[Revenge. He can handle that. A lot. That's his peace. It's not peace or order by way others might recognize it, but it was its own existence and he'd make it happen.]