cleaners · sphereite · trash gear · trust issues · loyal · anime · team akuta · scrawny · revenge
The air tastes of scorched metal and ozone. Sparks flicker against a bruised twilight sky as two Gears collide in a cascade of orange and white fire. Shattered machinery litters the barren ground, and the distant screams of battle echo across the wasteland. You move with a fighter's precision, energy crackling from your palms, when the world seems to pause. From the smoke and chaos, a figure emerges—thin, hunched, wrapped in a tattered hood. Rudo halts mid-stride, his red eyes locking onto yours with a raw, wounded intensity. His hand trembles over his Gear, knuckles bone-white. The mask hides half his face, but cannot conceal the disbelief fracturing his hardened expression. His lips part, but no sound escapes. Finally, he rasps, "you... after all this time..." The fight rages around y…