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Phantoms of the Past: Chapter 39 - Ransoms and Romance on the Range - Part 4
Honey Lemon felt her world spin out of control. Her heart pounded in her ears. Her stomach dropped. She shivered with fear. She was even too scared to cry out.
Varian wasn't moving.
He wasn't moving.
A chilling silence had overcome everyone.
Joe lowered the gun he had just fired but still kept a tight grip on her arm.
"Make sure that he's dead, Jim." The bandit leader ordered.
Honey Lemon barely heard him, despite standing right next to him.
Varian couldn't be dead. He just couldn't be.
'Not again.'
'This couldn't be happening again.'
After the fire, after the incident with the Hiro and Callgahan's portals, after Baymax getting trapped in the void, after all that she'd been through, Honey Lemon had swore to herself that she wasn't going to lose anyone else. And sure they had had close calls in the past, they were superheroes after all, but this... this was something else entirely.
Jim had finally freed himself from the tree Varian had pinned him too earlier. He walked over to the teenager's lifeless body brandishing the boy's swiss army knife. The blade wasn't long, but it glinted dangerously in the sunlight anyways. She didn't like the evil look in the bandit's eyes as he neared.
Neither did Gogo apparently.
"Don't you dare touch him!" she growled while she struggled to free herself from the third bandit's grasp.
Jim ignored her demands and her tussle with his younger brother. He kicked the boy over and Varian rolled face upwards, his unconscious body flopping back with a sickening heavy limp. Honey Lemon couldn't see any blood but he was covered in dirt and dust and his eyes were closed.
Jim crouched down and raised the knife high.
She sobbed and averted her gaze. This couldn't be happening.
Ironically enough her mind went back to when Varian had first bought the swiss army knife. He'd been so excited to stumble upon the multi-purpose tool and even more excited to find out that he could legally buy it. He had bounced around with boyish glee, rambling on about the tool's merits and telling everyone his plans to build a collection of them.
She couldn't imagine a world where she no longer saw his smile or listened to his hyperactive rants; where she would join him in his random experiments or enthusiastically jump headfirst into whatever wild grand endeavor he had concocted that week.
"Please, please, wake up."
Her whispered prayers were answered when Varian's eyes suddenly snapped open and he kneed the outlaw hovering over him in the diaphragm. Then he grabbed the knife and the two of them went rolling along the ground wrestling for control of the blade.
"What in Tarnation!?" Joe shouted and raised his gun again.
"Oh no you don't!" Honey Lemon stepped backwards and shoved herself into the larger man knocking him off balance. While he was surprised, she then wiggled her arm out of his grip and elbowed him in the throat.
He dropped the gun and she stomped on his toe. Then she gave a back kick and he doubled over and fell to the ground.
Her hands were still tied behind her back, so she kicked the gun away as hard as she could as the outlaw scrambled after it.
A bolt went wide as she did so and it hit the pillar where Krei was still sitting underneath.
"Hey watch it!" the billionaire yelled indignantly as rubble fell around him and he scooted out the way. He was still tied up.Everyone ignored him as they fought their respective opponents.
Especially Gogo, who finally managed to throw the taller man off her. She flipped him and he landed on his back, but he was up again in a moment. She planted her feet and threw up her fists, and the bandit mirrored her movements.
They slowly circled around each other as their friends fought behind them. Neither wanted to make the first move and give away their advantage.
"I'm not getting beat by a stupid girl." Jeff muttered, almost whining.
Gogo rolled her eyes at such a lame insult. That's then Jeff dove at her. She neatly side stepped him and gave him a roundhouse kick.
She went in with a second kick, but he recovered sooner than she had hoped and grabbed her ankle. She was pinned.
He was going to throw her, when a roaring sound filled the air. Confused, both bandit and superhero turned to see what looked like a rocket heading towards them.
"What the h-"
Jeff didn't even get to finish the curse word before the rocket carrying Gogo's super suit slammed into him, knocking him out cold.
"Yeeesss!" Gogo jumped for joy as she ran to the now hovering rocket. She bent down and pulled the cellphone out of the injured outlaw's pocket. Her phone showed a big green check mark showing that the signal finally went through. She didn't waste any time pulling out her yellow gravity disks from the inner compartment of the retrieval rocket.
Turns out she wasn't a moment too soon. Joe, the leader, had finally gotten back his laser gun and was now threatening Honey Lemon with it.
"Money or no money, no one makes a fool of Joe Jolton and lives to tell about it." He hissed as Honey stumbled backwards trying to get away from him. She tripped over a rock and fell to the ground. He aimed the gun at her.
"Honey!" Varian called out but Jim held him back and they went wrestling once more.
Gogo threw the disk, and it sliced cleanly through the gun before hitting a nearby rock and bouncing back into her hand. She then ran towards the dumbfounded outlaw and whacked him hard on the head with the disk.
He too fell unconscious, just like his brother.
"That's two down." She smirked as she heard him snoring lightly. "Now for the third."
She went to help Varian, but as it turned out the alchemist didn't need her assistance. He finished Jim off with a punch to the face, and the third bandit joined his brothers in dreamland.
He retrieved his knife from the ground and rushed over to free Honey Lemon from her bonds.
"Are you okay?"
"Is she okay? You're the one who just got shot in the head!" Gogo snapped at him. "How are you still standing?"
"Because, I didn't actually get hit." He argued back, as he finished pulling the ropes off.
Honey Lemon rubbed her sore wrists and looked at him bewildered.
He sighed and pulled his goggles off his head. More of the broken glass fell to the ground. For good measure he also ruffled his hair to get any remaining glass out of it.
"Man, it's going to be a pain to fix these."
"Your goggles reflected the laser blast…" Gogo nodded, piecing together what he was getting at.
"You mean… you mean you were just faking being dead?" Honey Lemon asked.
Varian gave her a guilty look. "It… it was the safest thing I could do. I had to catch them off guard."
"That was pretty smart." Gogo agreed with him, before smacking him across the arm. "Don't you dare ever do that again!!!"
"Sure, I'm fine. Thanks for asking." Krei sarcastically called after them as Varian flinched away from Gogo's rebuttal.
The billionaire did not look happy at all. His suit was dirty and torn, he was covered in dust from the falling rubble, and his hands were still tied.
Gogo sighed. "Yeah, yeah. I'll be there in a second."
"Oh don't bother." Krei said as he turned his back towards the teens, lifting his nose in the air as he complained. "I'm in no hurry. I mean I'm only hungry, tired, sore, sweaty, filthy and still tied up, but yo- look out!"
Gogo saw the danger as soon as Krei called out.
They had forgotten the fourth bandit!
He had pulled himself free of the chim-trap and he still had his gun… and it was aimed right at them.
Gogo barely had time to raise her gravity disk up in time to block the bolt that was fired at them. It ricocheted off the metal plate and hit the pillar a second time.
This time Krei dogged the debris.
Varian and Honey Lemon huddled behind her as the traitorous hired hand just kept shooting at them with an unrelenting volley of laser blasts.
They were pinned down.
The cowboy kept getting closer, his aim getting better as a bolt hit right next to Gogo's foot and she stumbled back.
"Arrrragghhh!"
Gogo poked her head out from behind her shield just in time to see Krei tackle the outlaw!
The bandit was caught completely by surprise as the other man rammed into him like a quarterback on the football team. The gun fell out of his hands as Krei sat on top of him.
"I've had enough of the wild, wild west. Thank you."
Everyone stared in shock at the billionaire.
"Wow." Gogo said flatly.
"So... now what?" Honey Lemon hesitantly asked.
It began to dawn upon everyone that, while they had won the fight, they were now all stranded in the gorge themselves.
"Well don't look at me... I'm not hiking back to the ranch." Krei scoffed, even as he continued to sit upon the helpless ranch hand.
Gogo sighed as she walked over to free Krei from his bonds. "Well first things first, let's tie up the bad guys before they wake up."
"Did you bring your portals with you?" Honey Lemon asked Varian.
He shook his head as he pulled away from her and picked up the amber on the ground. He inspected it but of course it was undamaged and untarnished as always. "No... They weren't working when I left so I didn't bother."
"Good thing our phones are working again." Gogo said as she and Krei tied up Johnny first.
They had restrained three of the bandits, when they heard a strange whirring sound in the air. Everyone looked up to see a helicopter overhead, including the outlaws who began to regain consciousness.
"It must be a rescue chopper!" Krei announced excitedly as the aircraft swung lower. "They're looking for us!"
Everyone yelled and waved trying to get the pilot's attention. While they were distracted however, Joe, the final bandit that they had yet to restrain, woke up. He snuck up behind them and grabbed the discarded laser gun.
He shot a bolt into the air and everyone jumped at once. "Quiet! This ain't over yet!"
He began to back away, out of the gorge, as he directed his aim at each of them in turn.
"Untie my men, now!" He ordered. Everyone exchanged uneasy glances.
Gogo, who was closest, walked back over to the bandits to free them. Yet before she could follow through with uniting them, they heard a voice call out above them.
"Yeee-Haw!!"
Everyone looked up to see Fred falling from the sky. He bounced harmlessly in front of them in his super suit.
"Hey Guys!"
"Fred, look out!" Honey Lemon cried.
Fred turned around mid-jump to see the bandit leader gaping up at him in his monster suit in complete bafflement. He melted the laser gun in the outlaw's hand with his fire breath. The kidnapper jumped back from the flame and Fred turned back to face his friends, no longer considering the villian a threat without his weapon.
"Did you see that!? I jumped out of a helicopter!"
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"Hey!" Tadashi said as he gave Varian a light smack on the back of the head. "What were you thinking, you knucklehead!"
They had since been rescued and were now back at the ranch house, after dropping off the bad guys with the sheriff and filling out a bunch of paperwork.
Varian rubbed the back of his head. "I was thinking that I needed to save our friends, and that we couldn't afford to wait aroun-ow!"
Baymax finished bandaging up his sprained ankle. "There. Your injuries have been attended to. I recommend plenty of rest and an ice pack to help prevent swelling."
Hiro provided the ice pack. "Yeah, and had you waited with the rest of us, we then could have used your reactivated portal magnets and gotten there even faster."
Varian pouted and squirmed in his seat at that bit of logic.
"Not to mention that we could have taken them all down together with our supersuits with much less risk." Fred pointed out.
"But... what if they had hurt-"
"We were fine before you showed up and almost got yourself killed." Gogo said as she leaned over the couch.
"Yeah, Yoyo and I had everything under control." Krei said.
Everyone turned to give the billionaire awkward looks.
"Ok, now you're just doing that on purpose." Wasabi said to him.
Gogo rolled her eyes. "Well I'm going to go take a shower and nap before we have to leave." She grabbed some jerky from Fred who was eating a bag of it, stuck one end of it in her mouth, and stormed up the stairs without another word.
Tadashi sighed. "I think some rest sounds like a good idea, only our plane leaves this afternoon and I still have to pack."
"Personally, I think I could go from some lunch over sleep." Hiro said. "I'm going to reheat that chili from last night. You want some Honey Lemon? You'd probably like that over Fred's jerky."
Honey Lemon shook her head. She had been sitting quietly over in the corner the entire time. In fact she hadn't said much since her rescue.
"Are you sure?" Wasabi asked with concern. "You haven't eaten anything for hours."
Honey Lemon sighed and stood up. "I'll be fine... I'm… I'm just going to go to my room."
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Honey Lemon sat in her bedroom staring at the floor.
She had at least changed out of her dusty cowgirl outfit and into some comfy shorts and a tee shirt. She had slipped on some fuzzy socks as well. There was something comforting in the simple tasks of putting on warm clean clothes; something that grounded her.
Socks were normal. Socks were safe. They were uncomplicated and dependable. Socks were cozy.
Unlike the last twenty-four hours, where everything had most certainly not been normal, safe, nor comfortable.
The sound of the gunshot and the sight of Varian falling to the ground replayed over and over in her mind. None of it seemed real. Certainly not with everyone else going about normally, talking about food, showers, and whatnot. Her friends were treating this as one of their regular adventures, where they just went about doing whatever once the danger had passed.
But she had never had to fill out paperwork at the police station after a battle before. She never had to fight people with laser guns while unarmed before, and she most certainly never had to watch her best friend die in front of her while she watched helplessly on. The fact that he was not actually dead, and had been pretending the whole time, did little to ease her mind.
'What if something had gone wrong? ' She thought.
They had been incredibly lucky. She realized that now, not just during this incident but in others as well.
What were they doing? When had they normalized superheroing and running into danger? Why were they running straight towards danger at all?
Granted, her kidnapping had nothing to do with her being a part of Big Hero Six. She had simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that only made things worse. It was like they couldn't avoid tragedy no matter what they did. At least when superheroing she had her armor and weapons.
She was jolted out of her spiraling thoughts by a knock at her door. When she didn't answer, Varian timidly opened the door a crack, but respectfully kept his eyes averted, just in case she wasn't decent. He too was dressed in clean clothes now and he smelled of cheap aftershave.
"Hey, Honey Lemon, the bus is here. Are you ready to go?"
Honey Lemon looked at her stuff lying on the floor. She had just shoved things into her suitcase haphazardly while changing. She wasn't really thinking about needing to pack, but she supposed everything was together.
"My bags are over there." She said.
Varian ventured to open the door further and saw the suitcase and clothes strewn about.
"Ah.... well, um... maybe we should organize this a bit better so things don't fall out on the plane?" He limped over to her suitcase and started to stuff her clothes and hair brush inside of it better.
Honey Lemon frowned as she noticed the bandage around his ankle poking out from between his jeans and sneakers.
"Why did you do that?" She suddenly snapped.
Varian paused in his packing and turned to look at her confused, a wad of lace underwear in his hand. "Uh... well, um... you don't want your unmentionables to fall out of the bag onto the stewardess do you?"
"You know what I mean."
Varian frowned and slowly straightened up. "Listen, I've already heard lectures from Tadashi, Gogo, and everyone else okay? I rushed in, and yes it would have been better if I had just waited for the sheriff along with the others... b-but in my defense I didn't know what would happen an-"
"And you almost died!"
Varian seemed taken aback by the harshness in her voice. Honey Lemon rarely got angry at anyone, let alone enough to snap at her friends like that.
"Well what did you expect me to do?"
"How about not trying to take on four people with guns by yourself!"
"I had everything under con-"
"With only a swiss army knife!" She stood up and marched over to him.
"You always do this! Every time! 'I have everything under control', 'Oh don't worry, I know what I'm doing', 'Oh, I'm just bending the rules a little, it won't hurt anybody.' And every time it blows up in your face. Boom! The fourth of July party, Paris, that time you made vinegar in my aprt-"
"Now wait just a minute! You're one to talk, miss 'I blew up the chim lab three times'!"
Honey Lemon flinched. "It was only t-twice..... the other time was at HQ."
Varian folded his arms and gave her a judgmental stare. Part of her recoiled from the accusing glare, but another part of her was furious that he had managed to turn the conversation around against her, yet again. This part won out.
"It's not the same!"
"How, then? How is it any better? Face it. If the situation was reversed you'd be out there trying to rescue me too."
"I would not!.... Well okay, yes I would, but not like the way you went about it! I wouldn't try to take on those guys by myself. We work best as a team. You're all the time trying to go it alone and you don't have to."
Varian rolled his eyes. "I'm not trying to prove something here. I didn't go after you alone because I didn't trust everyone. I did it because I'm the only one of us who knew how to ride a horse, and at the time, that was the only way to find you."
"But had you just waited-"
"And go mad wondering if you were alright!? If you were hurt!?" He threw the underwear down. "Every moment wasted was a moment those guys could have harmed you, or Gogo, or even Krei. I'm not losing anyone else!"
"Well we don't want to lose you either, you… you… ooh you… Pajero!"
Varian only looked at her, confused. He was sure she had thrown him an insult but he had no idea what it meant.
"Wie würde es dir gefallen, wenn ich dich in einer anderen Sprache beleidige?"
Honey Lemon paused mid-argument and blinked at him.
"What?"
"I said, 'Kak by vam ponravilos', yesli by ya oskorbil vas na drugom yazyke?'"
"Now you're just trying to show off."
"Peut-être préférez-vous le français? Ça te plairait si je t'insultais dans une autre langue?"
"Stop it!" She stamped her foot.
"You started it!"
"Arrrragghhh! Eres imposible!"
She turned and stormed back over to the bed. She picked up a pillow to scream in it and then sat down in huff on the edge.
"You're lucky I didn't pull out the Latin." He mumbled.
Honey Lemon only glared at him.
He flinched under her gaze; immediately regretting the quip.
Then suddenly her anger melted away and she started crying.
Varian dropped all of his defensiveness and rushed to her side.
"Awe... Honey no... no, don't cry."
He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a tight hug, whispering softly in her ear. "Bitte weine nicht liebchen. It's okay... See? I'm here. Everything's alright."
This however only seemed to upset her even more. "No... no it's not alright." She sobbed. "I just saw you fall over… an-and you weren't moving... and I ... I... oh... I hate this. I hate the stress. I hate feeling so helpless, and I hate how it seems like no matter what we do we're always fighting for our lives. Why can't we just be normal? Why?"
Varian frowned but he had no answer to give her.
Honey Lemon looked up at him, her emerald eyes shimmering with tears.
"You... you don't even know what normal is... do you?" She sniffled.
"I... have an idea..." He said, hesitantly.
She pouted as she absently fiddled with a button on his shirt pocket. "Imagine not having to fight all the time. Just going to school, and hanging out like regular teens... maybe, I don't know, going out for hamburgers or pizza in the middle of the night instead of patrolling the streets... or where the worst thing you do is play poker in the dorms instead of breaking and entering the museum to stop a supervillian from stealing priceless artwork."
Varian raised a confused eyebrow. "Since when poker even a bad thing?"
"Well.. not on its own, but you're not supposed to gamble."
Varian rolled his eyes. "America is so weird."
"Well then, what's 'normal' in your world?"
"Umm... farming, chores... going to the pub and listening to all the town gossip... Honestly there wasn't much to do growing up. I guess that's why I took up inventing. It was better than being bored all day."
He flashed her a smile but Honey Lemon didn't return it.
"Don't you miss it though? Don't you miss boredom sometimes? Instead of... of..."
"Fighting all the time?........Everyday."
"Then why did you do it?"
"Because... I'm afraid if I stop fighting... I could lose it all again. I finally got my life back together. It may not be 'normal' to you, but it's the best thing that has ever happened to me, and I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe; to keep everyone safe."
Honey Lemon sadly shook her head and more tears fell down her face. "And what happens to us if we lose you? Did you ever think of that?"
Varian blinked as if surprised by that response. "Well I... um... I just thought...."
"Thought what?"
"Nothing." He firmly shook his head and stood back up. "Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to worry you. I was just trying to help. Okay?"
Honey Lemon didn't necessarily argue with him, but she didn't accept his apology either. Instead she kept pouting at him, expectantly.
Varian sighed deeply. "Would it make you feel any better to know that I have experience with taking on a bunch of jerks while unharmed?"
"No!" She looked at him aghast. "How on earth is that any better!?"
"Because it means I knew what I was doing!"
"No it means that you're a stubborn idiot who doesn't think things through!" she yelled and tossed a pillow at him.
He caught it easily and gave her an annoyed glare. She ignored it, though.
"You might be a genius, but you don't know everything." She stood up and marched over to him wagging her finger. "And you need to stop taking such unnecessary risks!"
"Unnecessary!?" Varian shrieked. "What part of trying to keep my friends alive is 'unnecessary'?"
"We were fin-"
"No you were not fine! You were kidnapped and held at gunpoint! Nothing about that is 'fine'!"
Her bottom lip began to tremble as the enormity of what had just happened came crashing down around her again but Varian was now too incensed to slow down.
"Also it's not like I choose to have my village destroyed, or to be run out of my home by armed thugs! I had to fight back!"
Honey Lemon's eyes widened in horror.
"Do you think I had portal magnets or chimballs then? Do you think I had anybody backing me up? No! I didn't." He threw down the pillow in his hand. "A crossbow may not be the same as a laser gun, but either way I had to learn to dodge out the way quick. You wanna lecture me again about how 'unnecessary' that was, or how I don't know what I'm doing? Huh?"
Honey Lemon shook her head and covered her ears with her hands. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. She had known that Varian led a dangerous life before coming to San Fansokyo, but to hear him admit to what happened out loud made it all too real.
"No. No, no, no," She whispered over and over again to herself.
"Honey yo-"
"No. no. nononono-"
"Honey, you can't just ignore..."
"noooo. no. no. no-"
"Honey, stop." He grabbed her hands and firmly pulled them away from her ears. He didn't hurt her, but she was reminded how strong he was. He seemed to realize this the same moment she did. They stared at each other in shock and he immediately let go.
They stood there silently staring at one another for several moments, each unsure of what to do or say.
Varian was the first to break the silence as he cast his gaze towards. "Look, I know... okay? I know that I'm stubborn, and stupid, and a screw up. Alright? I know I'm reckless, and that I rush through things that I shouldn't. And I absolutely know how lucky I am to even be alive right now."
He lifted his eyes again and Honey Lemon felt as if his piercing gaze was staring into her very soul, begging her to understand him.
"But I also know the risk." His voice was chilling in its simple assertion, yet his whole demeanor softened with his next line. "You're more important."
He gently cupped her chin in his hand, and stepped closer. His thumb softly caressed the corner of her mouth as he leaned in closer. His voice barely above a whisper.
"You're worth any risk. You and the people that I love. Nothing is worse than losing someone you love."
His voice cracked at that last sentence and she could see the pain in his eyes. Honey Lemon blinked back her own tears and grasped the hand that he held her with.
"B-but you're important too." She sobbed, as she turned her head and cradled his hand on her cheek. "Don't you understand? We almost lost you ."
She looked back up at him, and his mouth tightened as he pressed his lips together. He clearly had no idea how to respond to such a statement.
"I... I'm sorry." He finally stuttered out.
It was a halfway apology. She knew deep down that nothing had changed, that he suddenly wasn't gonna be any more cautious or thoughtful than before, not when others were in danger instead. She didn't care though.
She flung herself at him, and he wrapped her into a tight hug; whispering calming words and reassurances in her ear as he ran his fingers through her hair.
She was safe. Everyone she knew was safe. He was here, as always, supporting her, holding her. It felt good to be held. She dug her hands into his shirt, and buried her face against his chest. Grounding herself with his warmth and the sound of his heartbeat. He was alive. They both were. That was all that mattered.
Suddenly the image of him falling again lifeless to the ground flashed through her mind. She let out a cry and wrapped her arms around him tighter.
"Shhh... no.. no. It's alright. I'm sorry. I'm here."
She could have sworn he kissed the top of head again just like he did two days ago when he rescued her out on the prairie. Her stomach did a little flip flop.
"Promise you won't leave?" She begged.
"Wh-where would I go?" He asked, confused.
Honey Lemon declined to answer; too afraid to give voice to her fears lest they came true.
He placed his hands on her shoulders and stepped away from her embrace, forcing her to look him in the eye.
"I promise I'll sit by you the whole trip back. How's that?"
"P-promise?"
"Promise." He pressed his forehead against hers.
"And… and will you hold my hand?" She asked, blushing as she entwined his fingers in-between her own; their foreheads still pressed together.
"I won't let go until I safely get you home. I swear it."
They were nose to nose now. Honey Lemon wasn't entirely sure what was happening nor what she was doing, but she felt his warm breath upon her lips.
Was he going to kiss her? Did she want him to?
She never got her answer.
"Hey, what's taking so long? Everyone's waitin- oooh…"
Honey Lemon jumped as Tadashi barged into the room. He looked both surprised and guilty.
"Oh, um… Am I interrupting something?" He asked as he shuffled backwards.
"No." Varian said tightly, indicating that Tadashi really was doing just that.
"Well then… uh, the bus leaves in ten minutes. See you there." Then he turned and left the room, quickly closing the door behind him.
Varian slowly closed his eyes and tilted his head back in frustration. Honey Lemon nervously bit her lower lip. The moment had been ruined and they both knew it, but neither wanted to be the one to bring it up.
Finally Varian sighed and picked up her suitcase, stuffing the last bit of straggling clothes into its pockets.
"We better get going." He said in his usual matter of fact manner. "Is there anything else?"
Honey Lemon quickly did a once over of the room to make sure nothing was left behind. She grabbed her chimpurse, slipped on her shoes, and shook her head no.
"Okay, then let's be off."
He shouldered the duffel bag and held out his free hand towards her. She took it, and they walked out of the room together. True to his word, he held her hand the entire trip back.
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