A wild Protomen!Light appears!

[father_of_death]

This is what counts as fun these days? Dragging a man from his work, to be subjected to a child's games?

My son is... gone somewhere, and I am going to find him. And I will find his brother...

[He sighs, the weight of the world showing on his face.]

I still can't believe he's alive...

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[onlybuildsawesome]

Tell me about it! I've got a world to dominate and this mundane just drops me into a strange world and expects me to just accept it!

...Jokes on him though, I'll just rule that place instead.

[father_of_death]

[He glares for a minute before it dawns on him who he's talking to.]

...Albert. Hmph. Time has not been kind to you. It seems not even you can dictate how that wheel turns.

[onlybuildsawesome]

...Wait... THOMAS!? Sweet mother of Tesla, you've lost weight!

[father_of_death]

That's what decades of living in the shadows and scavenging scraps just to get by will do to you.

[onlybuildsawesome]

Decades, eh? Hmph, about time you got what you deserve.

[father_of_death]

What I deserve!?

I was not the man who turned men into a broken people, who robbed them of all that made them human. I am not the tyrant that sits atop his ivory tower ruling with fear. I was not the man who took an innocent woman's life just because her lover was a potential thorn in your side.

I will see your empire brought down around you, Albert, one way or another, or dammit I will die trying. I owe them that much.

[onlybuildsawesome]

Yes! What you deserve!

[...Wait, What?]

Have you finally lost it? [This coming from the man who's attempted world domination countless times already.]

You listen here, I have no empire for you bring down, every time I get close to having an empire, you're little blue go-fer bot tears it down before my eyes!

[father_of_death]

I may not be as young as I used to be, Albert, but I'm not senile. Not yet. Your lies ring hollow in my ears. I know the truth, Albert.

[He pulls a picture from the inside of he coat, depicting a massive tower with an over-stylized "W" adorning a massive view-screen on the side of the building.]

I keep this close to my heart so I can never forget my greatest failure. That I sat by and watched as you took over. A reminder of the lives lost in the darkness. A target that will forever burn in my mind.

[onlybuildsawesome]

[Huh. Would you look at that. Is this Thomas from the future? But he looks younger than the one he knows.]

So... What you're saying is, I finally beat you?

[father_of_death]

I ceased to be a threat to you when you killed Emily and pinned the blame on me. You broke me thirty years ago, Albert. I am not the same man I was back then.

[quintuscursor]

They- the muns- tend to do things like this. You get used to it, I suppose...

...Are you all right?

[father_of_death]

Get used to it... that's what they said when Wily's machines took over...

[He shakes his head, looking far older than he really is.]

Depends on your definition of "all right." My former friend uses the technology we pioneered to keep people in a state of perpetual fear, cowed by their own shadows. My son has left The City in search of a reason to fight for humanity, while his brother who I saw die sits at the right hand of the man who keeps his boot on mankind's throat.

...At least he lives... that's something at least.