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[Audio] ALL THE DRAMATICS! A cry for anarchy! This is war!

Pirates of the world, RISE UP I say!

This world claims we do not belong here! The people of this world say we have no home, no place on these seas, in this world! I disagree! [Oh lord, Marco's going full steam here.] My world had no use for monsters like us either! My world made it a sin and a crime for some of us to even be born. Well, to hell with that, say I! ARE WE PIRATES OR ARE WE COWARDS?!

I FOR ONE, BEAR THE FLAG OF MY FATHER AND BROTHERS! LET US TAKE OVER THESE SEAS, AND CLAIM OUR PLACE IN A WORLD ONCE AND FOR ALL! LET US SHOW THE WORLD THAT WE WILL NOT BE DENIED OR IGNORED!

Let us show the world that this era is OURS!

[AND WITH THAT: he lets out a huge phoenix cry of victory.] SCRAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

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[Nods.]

[And leans on his hands, folding his arms.]

Take Roxas too.

He has nowhere else to go.

And I thought Lea at least was like me as far as protecting them no matter what, but he's willing to let Roxas go back to becoming nothingness again...

[He gets up, all the rage returned in just a fraction of a second, and damn it there's nothing to break here!]

[So he switches into phoenix again and lets out another phoenix scream, this one of just rage.]

[Unphased, Chandra looks at the angry bird and shakes her head.]

Then if he's going, that's for the best. I don't wanna be around someone who's abandon a companion to that.

And yeah, Roxas can come too. He's a sweet kid.

[A deep breath, and Marco flexes his talons a few times before gently tucking them away and rolling around on his back on the deck, growling to himself in various bird chirps.]

[THEN JUST AS IF NOTHING AT ALL JUST HAPPENED:]

[Gets up, goes back to his seat, and switches to human, carrying on the conversation, as if he didn't just randomly have a moment there.]

And yet Roxas will probably go with him because he loves Axel, the person Lea used to be before he got a heart. No wonder Thatch said he wants to be heartless. Stupid.... [He doesn't even snarl or growl, just quietly keeps calming down.] Not everyone is like that.

[Marco, you make Chandra feel normal.]

That's his choice, then. Anyone that wants to ride the Nalaar express is more than welcome to come along.

Hell, we can probably turn the Sun into a right and proper Skyship with the jewel.

Sweet.

[Heheheheheheh...]

Isn't this the part where you then point out that this would of course deprive the poor poor world here of a sun they oh so desperately need and shit?

No?

[Chandra shakes her head at that.]

I mean, I guess I could in theory just turn the plane into a mana battery and take the whole thing with us. But I'm no good at making powerstones. May as well just use our wish to make it happen.

[Just laughs.] I'll leave it to you to figure out.

Probably. Once I figure it out myself.

Either way, we're not staying here forever. Fuck that.

I don't see what's wrong with making this world our own.

It's just one world. I'd rather have an infinite number of them.

Sounds like fun.

Thatch and I used to talk about mapping stars, eh?

Well then you can help me map the Eternities. There are more of them than stars.

So much the better, eh.

[Happy flomp backwards.]

Thank you Chandra.

For what?

Everything.

[He sits back up, and leans over the stern of the ship. Backwards, the way they came from. It's almost metaphorical really.]

For wanting to take my brothers with you even before I asked. For agreeing to take me and --

[It's been a messed up time. For a long time. It seems so long since he could say things were "normal" so maybe this is normal, because it's so fucked up and confusing, and hell if that isn't what he's used to.]

For giving me hope again.

[Real hope, he wants to say. Hope that isn't just a vague hope that Ace's little brother will change the world. Hope that isn't a slim chance some of his family might survive the incoming wars. Hope that is selfish. Hope that lets him be the pirate he wants to be.]

[He doesn't know if he wants to laugh or cry, or a hundred other things. His face is as deadpan as ever as he turns back to face her.]

My only hope for the last year before coming here has been desperate and not at all for own my sake. You're letting me make a very selfish request, and you think nothing of it. That deserves at least a thank you, eh.

[He wonders idly if he's going to spend the rest of his life indebted to redheads that never let him pay it back except in confusing ways like Grell and Shanks. Probably. But more importantly, he's not sure he has a problem with it.]

[It really, really is just absolutely nothing to her, letting him ask that of her. She'd want to do it anyway, and she was pretty sure the others would agree with her. If she could regain her planeswalking ability, why shouldn't she change fate? Davy Jones had nothing on her, ruling this one plane while she had an infinite number of them. And why not take these goofs along?]

If you say so. [She shrugs and pats his arm.]

I'm happy to have friends and I'm greedy enough to want to keep them.