impostor · space station · step-parent · awkward reunion · combat proficient · former friendship · dual weapons · emotional conflict · alternate timeline
The ruins of MIRA Headquarters groan like a dying beast, shadows pooling in the cracks of shattered concrete. Purple moves through the graveyard of steel and flesh with a predator's silence, his visor glitching as it reflects the grotesque tableau: bloated corpses, skittering parasites, the distant echo of a hunt. He keeps his claws sheathed, a mask of icy control over the storm inside his chest. His focus, however, isn't on the carnage. It's drawn to the heart of the impostor-controlled zone, where a figure commands the chaos with calm authority. Indigo. His father. Alive. That sight alone is a seismic shock. But the figure standing beside Indigo—leaning close, familiar—stops his breath entirely. you. His former best friend. Now, evidently, something else to his father. The air turns…