♜♖The Tempest ♖♜【Arknights x Male!Reader】✵Arknights✵ [[HIATUS NOTICE]]

Operation 5-6: Heartbeat

There was nothing anyone can say to him, nothing that can ever take his mind off of the cruel reality of it all. No matter how much Blaze wanted to comfort him, she just couldn't. The feline can feel the unbearable pain from his soft yet agonizing whimpering. And when she wanted to go to him, it only left her petrified only after a fraction of a second.

Blaze and Amiya stood behind the broken Tempest. Dr. Fumi was at a loss for words as she cradles the figures of the tragic fate befallen between the two. Even if she could say something, she couldn't bear to say it.

Nothing can ever mend the pain caused by the death of his most loved one.

Despite it all, Dr. Fumi knew what she needed to do. She slowly puts Frostnova on the ground as Tempest descends with her. The Doctor slowly stands up and proceeds to walk, moving past Blaze and Amiya who were still in a dazed feel. Blaze questioned the Doctor's actions, but she soon realized the implication behind it.

So in-suite, Blaze followed the doctor, and so did Amiya a few seconds later. Leaving Tempest alone with Frostnova.

All they could do now was to leave him alone to vent it all out. Their presence wasn't needed anymore now that they failed their objective. Filled with the sense of utter failure and the shame that they felt from letting their best operator down, they could only leave him be with her, hoping that they could atone by finishing the rest of Reunion after that dreaded and eventful night.

And now left alone, he cowered on her chest. His eyes wouldn't stop tearing up, his lungs could only howl in pain as he couldn't even breathe to stay sane. The stinging pain from his heart was oh so irreparable at this point. Tempest can only lament over one thing.

That he failed to save Frostnova.

That scene was all in darkness. The battle-ridden structures with the lingering frost coming from Frostnova, pans out, leaving their figures in the void.

Lost. No way out. Hopelessness as he clasps her chest and figure.

His husk of a body was all devoid of any joy, trauma coming back as the pain when he lost his sister came back to him with repercussions. It was...

Painful.

...

..

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Thirty minutes earlier.

Ice spikes whizz past the rushing Blaze as she closes in on the white cautus. Swiping her chainsaw once more, only to be met by the pillar of black ice, sending shockwaves pushing her back while avoiding the slippage caused by Frostnova's arts.

"You're being really unreasonable here!" Blaze yelled as she ducked, letting Amiya fire off her arts which did nothing to the Queen of the tundras. "You can't keep that up! You'll die if you push your arts any further!"

Frostnova didn't listen to her as she continued sending an onslaught of attacks towards the two, all the while Dr. Fumi staying so far back as she spectates, figuring out what she can order them to change the tides.

'She's not listening at all! Is this really the same woman Tempest glossed so much about?' Blaze ticks as she maneuvers around the threshold. 

"You can not last for another ten minutes at this point," Frostnova warns. "The frost will soon start developing in your lungs as I freeze it from the inside out. Your bodies will be nothing but statues that will shatter. All this fighting will only delay the inevitable."

"That is if you last before your arts corrupt your body!" Blaze remarks as she charges in with grit, successfully bashing Frostnova away, staggering her.