The OTHER Brave New World app I'm working on

[flying_chains]

-1-

[Your enemy has sent one of his slaves to stop you from chasing him down. You'd be unimpressed with the tiny slave girl as an opponent, were it not for the cracks in the ground radiating outwards from where she just stepped.]

I'm sorry but I'm afraid I can't let you go any further.

-2-

[Remember that enormous, herculean task you asked Morgiana to get started on while you ran some errands? You got back just in time to watch her finishing up.]

Oh, you're back. I don't think I'll need any help at this point.

-3-

[You've got problems. They're kind of problems you don't want to have spread to your friends, so you thought it might be best for a clean break. Leave them all behind. It sucks, but you can apologize later if you manage to solve this, right?

Morgiana apparently disagreed, which is why she's in your room at 11pm and looking annoyed.]

You are better at running away from your problems then you are at running away from your friends.

-4-

[Everyone else has pokemon as their friends and comrades, so Morgiana decided to try and bond with one herself. In this case, a Sewaddle. She carefully held out her hand to try and make friends.]

Hello.

[At which point it bit her finger. She winces.]

Ow.

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[wont_become]

[Hey, it's the guy who must stop transforming into a big metal monster or else bad things happen to him, and he has no intention of stopping.]

Leave me alone. You can't fix it, so just... forget that anything is happening.

[Danny shifts on his bed to face away from you.]

[flying_chains]

[Morgiana squeezes one hand into a fist, though Danny can't see that as her arms are politely folded behind her back.]

I don't know what's going on with you, but if we can't fix it working together then you DEFINITELY can't fix it on your own.

[wont_become]

Who said anything about me even needs fixing?

[flying_chains]

Then why did you run?

[wont_become]

...

[The response you get is a wordless gasp of surprise.]

[flying_chains]

So are you going to come back and act like an adult, or do I have to drag you back myself?

[wont_become]

Come back, and then what?

[Danny raises to a sitting position. He sighs.]

Explain to others what the deal with me is? Is that gonna change anything?

[flying_chains]

It might. Trying to do everything by yourself when you have friends you can rely on is pointless, though.

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[wont_become]

Relying on others? I've been doing that too much for all my life!

Do you know how that feels, to be no good at anything? Just try to exist day by day, because that's all you can do?!

But now it's different. When I turn into that... big thing, I feel like I can do anything! Change the world for the better, for humans, and for 'Mons too! So even if it kills me, I don't care. At least I can do something good for a change!

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[wont_become]

[Danny notices that he is suddenly standing and shouting in the middle of the room.]

...

Sorry.

[He turns around.]

I'll tell this to others too. Just... I don't think it's going to change anything.

[flying_chains]

I know what it's like to feel helpless. To have no hope for a better future.

[Morgiana stared directly into Danny's eyes with almost electric intensity.]

It's all an illusion. The only limits on you are the ones you put there yourself.

[wont_become]

Easy thing to say.

[His gaze drifts to the side.]

But yeah, there's a way out. Out of helplessness - that's what I'm doing, right now.

[flying_chains]

[She's still tempted to physically drag you back...]

If you must go on your own way for a while, I will respect that, but leaving without giving us an explanation reeks of foolish pride.

[wont_become]

You'll get an explanation, don't worry. You and everyone else.

Just... give me a minute for myself. You can wait that much, right?

[flying_chains]

Very well.