(This is a snippet I wrote between my two twins from my last story)
(Tech and Marco are both cyborgs but they used to be normal human children in a different reality)
(Also, SHOUT OUT TO MY ONLINE SISTERS!! LOVE YA LUCKY AND JIJI!!!)
The day that Tech found her twin brother was a unexpected but important moment in their lives. Both her brother and her were filled with immense joy the moment their eyes met again. They may have talked about what happened to Marco while he was captured, but they never spoke about what caused them both to their current paths.
At least not in front of the others.
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That night, while the two siblings shared Tech's bed, neither were unable to sleep due to the adrenaline coursing through them due to the other being with them.
It was Marco who spoke first.
"Hey Tech?" "Yeah Mar?" "I'm sorry."
That caused Techno to sit up and face her twin. "But why? If anything, I should be sorry for not even trying to look for you or rescue you! I failed as your big sister! Wh-?" Marco interrupted her. "You didn't know, nor could you have even thought, that I was still alive. I've already accepted that. It was Drake's fault, not yours." Tech looked in confusion at her brother. "Then... what are you sorry for?" she asked.
Marco sighed as he spoke very quietly. "For not going to jump on the moon with you." he said depressingly. Tech's face jolted in shock as she remembered the last time she ever moved freely back on their Earth when they were still little. A memory of the moment she first reality jumped played in her head.
~~~
It was the twins 8th birthday and they had ended the day with their friends and family by going to the beach together. When night fell, their mother Cruz kissed their brown and unusually high-lighted heads individually while their fun loving father Arcade tucked them in. "Good night my little engineers. May all your days be as happy and perfect as today." Cruz whispered to the sleepy twins before leaving their room.
However, as soon as the door shut, Techno jumped out of her bed to run to the bedroom window, looking up at the night sky. Her brother from his own bed watched confused. "Tech, aren't you tired?" He asked grogily. Facing his brown eyes with her own excited ones, she shook her head. "How can I be when all the stars are shining?! Its like a million suns just telling you to play and join them!" Tech cried out with childlike joy. Marco looked out the window with his sister, dazzled by all the twinkling dots high above them. "They're so incredible..." he whispered in awe, his eyes immediately drawn to Mars, shining as red as his own hair. Tech was gazing at the glowing moon in the sky.
"You know, tonight's a blue moon." Tech pointed out, leaning against the glass frame. "And?" "It means there's magic tonight!" she explained. "And on our birthday no less." Marco noticed. Tech began to let her imagination wander before coming up with a fun idea.
"Why don't we go outside and jump on the moon?" she asked her twin as he looked back in curiosity. "How can we do that Tea?" he questioned. "Why it's elementary my dear brother! We go on the trampoline and jump all the way to the moon!!" Tech explained. "I bet we'd be able to find a whole other world up there too!!" she added, excited at the thought.
Marco, however, didn't have the energy like his older sister had. He was too tired to go jumping, plus, he wasn't quite sure but something about the trampoline's dark shadow tonight seemed..... off. To him, it looked like the same blue as Tech's hair, even though their trampoline was black. Marco shared some of his thoughts with his twin. "I dunno Tech, it's pretty late and what if something bad happens? Like you fall off and hurt yourself? Tonight just doesn't seem good..." he conveyed to her.
Tech quietly laughed at her brothers worries. "It'll be okay!! Nothing bad is going to happen! And if something does happen, Mum and Dad will never know!!! Besides Mar, what could go wrong?" She asked with childish innocence.
'What could go wrong indeed...?' Marco thought and couldnt come up with anything. He just had a gut feeling and he knew his sister prefered rock-hard evidence. "Well, I'm staying here." he finally said to his smirking twin. "I'm too tired to go to the moon." he added as he hopped back in his bed, still being able to look out the window. Tech playfully stuck her tongue out at him before putting some warmer clothes on as it was a cold night. "I'll let you know if you're right and if people up on the moon never wear clothes!" Tech promised, chuckling at her brother's victory pose before sneaking out the door.
Marco watched from the window as his sister climbed onto the dark-blueish trampoline outside. He saw her starting off with little jumps before she was soaring through the air, reaching the top of the net. He noticed her preparing to do a flip as she did even bigger jumps.
One.
Two.
Three.
Marco watched in shock as Tech started glowing as blue as her hair before she reached the springy mat.
And then she was gone....
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Techno remembered that night as well as her brother, who was currently gripping his sister's shoulders. "If I went out with you that night or if I even stopped you from going out at all, we'd be home right now or we'd have grown up together. We would have never met Carlton Drake or lose everyone. I'm so sorry Tech, I failed as your brother." Marco was quietly crying while he hugged his long lost sister, aching for a future that he and her would never be apart of.
Feeling a hand stroke his hair, he looked up into the compelling brown eyes of his twin. Tech tried to ease his guilt. "I may regret losing our family, for hurting you," She paused to touch the scar on his back from her own shot. "and for never being able to be your twin growing up. But I will never regret the new life I've made here. We may have lost our blood family, but we have another one right here." Tech pointed out. Marco wondered when his older twin became so wise. "These people are my family, they can be your's too." She said, hugging her brother as he cried once more.
And for once, the lost twins felt found.
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