Homesick

Chapter 22 - Back Home At Last

Hello there.

I am back again.

Crazy timeline stuff is over and now the team can finally go back to normality.

Let's get started.

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IF was pacing around the hang out room in Neptune's Basilicom.

She was growing increasingly worried about Connor.
She hadn't been sleeping too well the last few days. Constantly worried about if Connor was dead or now.

Penny was the only one keeping her sane.

Linda was more confident he'd be fine, but not by a whole lot.

"I'm sure he's fine. Nothing can kill that guy." B-Sha said, trying to lighten things up.

"He's not invincible." IF said as she kept pacing.

Histoire spoke up next.

"If what Crostie said is true, he's fine. They found him, we know that, we just need to wait for them to return."

"She said he was hurt. What if he's dead now?"

IF was not letting this go.

"Got'em. They're on their way now." Crostie said as she opened another portal.

After waiting for what felt like hours, Neptune and the others that went to find Connor stepped out and they looked like they were in a serious fight.

"Woo! Glad to be home." Neptune said as she took in a deep breath of fresh air.

Noire had a bandaged up shoulder and Blanc looked like she took a hit to her stomach.

The CPU's stepped out and were now standing in the room with everyone else. It felt like it's been years since they saw them.

Uzume and Kurome followed after them.

After that. Connor stepped out with Compa.

He shielded his eyes from the light coming through the window.

"Jesus! Fuckin hell! Not used to it bein that bright anymore. Fuck."

He was happy that he could look outside and see everything not destroyed.

He stepped forward only for his foot to hit something. He looked down and saw a familiar robots head.

"Hah! The head of that Furnace cunt! How'd it get here?"

He noticed a note on it.

"Think of this as a trophy of sorts."

The bottom of the note was signed with a H.

"Cheers Smarts."

"I knew you'd survive! You're fuckin invincible man!"

Connor looked up only to see a certain Underling tackle him to the ground.

"Christ!"

"Be careful! It wasn't that long ago that he had a hole in his chest! You could hurt him!" Compa complained, kneeling down to make sure he was ok.

"Don't ever leave us again! Got it?" IF ordered.

"Not like it was me choice!" He argued. Sitting up, he let out a shaky sigh. "When I was brought there, I was scared it happened again. That I was pulled away from here and I'd never see any of yas again."

Linda got off of him.

"Well, you're back now. We're not gonna let you go that easily." Linda told him with a grin.