To Thaw a Lost Heart

Warm Tears, Frozen Heart

The blizzard trapped everyone else in a large area, so they couldn't react quick enough to flee the area. It's as if they're in a new world of ice and snow without anything else. All kansens are unable to move normally within the blizzard due to barely seeing anything ten meters ahead and their riggings jamming.

"Tir.....pitz?"

Victorious worries about herself and surroundings for nearly a minute before completely switching her priority to Tirpitz. Rather than her safety, she's both worried and afraid after seeing Tirpitz with brightly glowing icy blue eyes and blue cracks stretching from her neck to her cheek.

"........!"

As soon as Victorious gets within Tirpitz's range and reluctantly reaches out her hand to hand, Tirpitz's response is immediately grabbing by the neck. The shocked aircraft carrier is soon lifted off the ground until she could only struggle by flailing her legs and grabbing Tirpitz's forearm.

"If only you just died a long time ago....." Tirpitz's eyes dilated
"T-Tirpitz......I can't breathe....." Victorious tries to pull herself away
"Both you and that wretched META share the same fate. I entrusted you with my life, so you abused it and took it from me!" Tirpitz tightens her grip
"That anger......!"

Even if it's still Tirpitz, the instant Victorious hear the deep and furiously shaking voice, what flashes in her thought is "the other one" who once possessed her Tirpitz. It's the other Tirpitz who bears a deep grudge on her more guilt ridden and solemn META version.

"I'm not your Victorious......so give me back my Tirpitz!" Victorious tightly grips Tirpitz META's wrist
"I don't care. You will end up just like her!" Tirpitz META tightens her grip a bit
"Nggh! You just won't stop until you get your revenge. That's not how my Tirpitz is.....because she doesn't wallow in petty grudges!"
"Petty?! You murdered me twice and broke my wisdom cube into pieces. It's because of you I'm trapped as a fragment and lost my original body forever!"

Tirpitz META pulls the arm holding Victorious only for her to violently tosses forward and sends her rolling at the nearly freezing surface. Victorious quickly raises her head before the prickling coldness of the water reddens and numbs her skin. The battlefield has been transformed into a desolate area that no organic being could thrive, but Victorious is barely harmed by the extreme temperature despite the grudge of its source.

"You're hurting others because of this undying obsession. More importantly, you're hurting yourself" Victorious angrily points at her face
"You got a lot of nerve to scold me when it's all your fault!"
"Why are you blaming someone who hasn't done anything? I may be Victorious too, but I'm not the same one who made you that way. It's like killing someone the moment they're born because of something they will do in the future!"

Unfortunately for the META, Victorious couldn't restrain scolding and berating her the same way she does with the regular Tirpitz. She subconsciously views them the same, rendering Tirpitz META herself actually stunned that she takes a step back.

"Dead or not, you're still an icy blockhead stuck on one thought because you're too uninterested to find another way. What you're doing is hurting everyone here and justifying it how they're as guilty as the other me!" Victorious doesn't stop yelling at her
"What makes you think-" Tirpitz META gets cut off
"The same way I could tell you're angry that you clung to life but also tired and wishes for an eternal rest"
"Shut up! Don't talk like you ever understood me"

Frustrated at how the regular Victorious is genuinely pitying her because she already memorizes Tirpitz's consistent thinking, so she angrily grabs Victorious's left arm and lifts pulls her forward.

"You're right. I don't fully understand Tirpitz, but I know when she's suffering. Seeing you, I know when she's in pain or upset. My Tirpitz chose to trust me enough to stop bottling her emotions" Victorious stares at her right in the eyes