AU!Tadashi voice-test. | Rough info in journal | Spoilers everywhere.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

Let me get this straight. You take me out of jail and want to send me to a "game." You say the only purpose you have in all of this is for your amusement. And you want nothing in return?

I don't really buy it. Nothing is free and I have no idea what you would even constitute as entertaining. No offense but I'm not so sure about taking this deal. Sure, being out of prison is nice but there's still the issue of Hiro and the others coming to find me when they realize I'm gone.

Or me running into these "other" versions of them you're telling me about. Not so sure how that would go over. Let me think about it. Run some calculations.

It might help sweeten the deal if you could get some of Hiro's microbots for me. My little brother is definitely onto something with those. Would be useful if whatever "game" you send me too I'd be able to replicate them somehow.

Let me know what you think and we'll keep talking.

Comments

[battlebotboy]

I'm fine with you getting sent where ever...so long as you're still locked up.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

That's not very nice, Hiro.

[Tadashi looks sad. He gets why Hiro is mad at him. He understands. It still hurts, through.]

[battlebotboy]

You could have killed people! What about your friends!?

[tarnishedheartofgold]

I tried to protect all of you. I wasn't going to hurt you or them. Just Krei. It was all his fault. He deserved to pay, Hiro. He deserved to be thrown through that portal and have it shut behind him.

[battlebotboy]

I thought you were dead...I thought...

[Looks up at his brother.]

After mom and dad, how could you?

[tarnishedheartofgold]

[Tadashi looks away. He knows what he did was wrong. That part of it. Keeping his brother in the dark until they were on the island.]

...I didn't want you to be in danger. I figured if you thought it was an accident and the professor and I were dead, he'd leave you alone.

I was going to come home when I was done. I wasn't going to leave you alone.

[hawkingisabastard]

Stealing your little brother's work. That's a special kind of jerk.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

I didn't steal his work. I just used it. Borrowed it. I wasn't claiming it for my own. Not like what he wanted to do.

[hawkingisabastard]

Using work he intended to help people with as part of a plan to kill someone isn't exactly any better.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

It would have been justice. It's what he deserved.

[fistbumper]

[This is. Just a look of disappointment. Little brother is really, really disappointed in you, big bro.]

[tarnishedheartofgold]

...Come on, Hiro. Don't look at me like that. Please.

[He might have gone on an attempted murder revenge plot spree but that doesn't mean he's completely evil. And that look from his little brother does hurt.]

[fistbumper]

You were going to kill someone. Even if he did something terrible, that doesn't mean you have to be as bad! That doesn't mean that you have to make someone else hurt like... like we did after Mom and Dad died. Like Aunt Cass and I did when we thought you were gone!

[tarnishedheartofgold]

...I admit I made mistakes. I didn't think things through. But I had to make him pay. He had to pay. After everything he did to Professor Callaghan. After he tried to steal what was yours. He deserved it, Hiro.

You did what you thought was right. I can't fault you for that. I just wish you could see why I did what I did.

[fistbumper]

[He reaches out to shove Tadashi, narrowing his eyes.]

Is this what you tried to teach me? To just hurt people who hurt you? Is this what you really want?

[tarnishedheartofgold]

[Tadashi takes a step back before he's shoved.]

I just want you to do what you think is right, Hiro. That's all I ever wanted.

[fistbumper]

But what about you?

[tarnishedheartofgold]

I did what I thought was right.

What do you want me to say, Hiro?

[fistbumper]

But it was wrong.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

Is that what you want me to say? That I was wrong?

[fistbumper]

Because you were!

[tarnishedheartofgold]

Will that make you feel better?

[fistbumper]

No. I don't... I don't know what will, because - this isn't like you! You were... you shouldn't have...

[tarnishedheartofgold]

I changed, Hiro. I'm sorry but it's the truth.

[fistbumper]

Yeah. You did. You changed into something that doesn't sound a whole lot like my brother.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

...

[Tadashi doesn't know what to say. He can't think of anything. That hurt to hear. Something comes to mind after what feels like a long moment.]

I'm sorry Hiro.

[fistbumper]

Are you sure? Because a minute ago you didn't sound very sorry.

[tarnishedheartofgold]

I hurt you. I never wanted to do that. And I'm sorry, little brother.

[fistbumper]

... Prove it.

[nerdschoolgirl]

[Have another version of an uncertain Honey.]

Tadashi... maybe a game would be good for you. No version of you belongs in a prison.