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Sometimes side au of a side au is something that is so attached to for no reason lmao, a continuation of She's not home bad end for shadow au featuring the lovely @seasidemew Syn having a TIME

What we lose

It's cold palms came to rest on the glowing crystals that jutted and spiked out of the cavern walls, glowing brightly in response to touch they grew brighter light seeping across it's skin resonating with the crystals growing within and out its body, a shimmering spectacles as the naturally occurring crystals were drained of all energy their glow fading gradually sending the cavern into unnatural black.

"Not sharing any with me?" It's head turned towards the sound having not sensed the presence past the aura of energy from the crystals, he stood tall and cocky, shoulder glowing with his own bright shard as he watched it with a level gaze. Light reflected off its blackened eyes as it pondered before lurching forward, energy forming on its hands creating claws to attack. It hungered it hungered it hungered.

Syn managed a vocalize in startlement as he shifted to dodge and quickly dodge again as it adjusted to follow swiping at him, he was thankful for the fact he was still faster before he shot off back down the way he came, with a snarl he heard it follow a body thudding heavily against a wave wall making him look back seeing it move with unnatural sway and reckless abandon slamming it's form into walls as it chased him like a deranged wild animal.

He swerved to avoid a wall as the blinding beams of light came from the cave entrance he squinted as he forced his body to go faster as he flew out the dark into the light of day flying upwards in preparation looking down at the cave entrance readying himself for what would be coming out after him. A cloud of dust and boulders smashed and flew outwards as its body came up through the roof of the entrance, after a second delay it came shooting for him directly through the dust as Syn found his body leaning backwards in surprise but unable to move.

The midsection of a long dark tail slammed down on its middle back stopping its momentum sending it slamming directly down into the ground below, there was a thud and a shockwave of air at the sheer force of the collision and another puff of dirt.

"You said you weren't going to hurt her!" Syn snapped at the dark two who gave him an empty glare.

"I said I wasn't gonna kill her. She's not gonna go down quietly." Darkness moved quickly to the side avoiding a very unstable shadow ball that preemptively exploded though missing them both. She gave him a look of being right before she moved glowing yellow energy covering her hands creating spikes at her knuckles and the back of her hand as she dove fist punching through the ground just missing the moving body, her tail whipping to slam it into a tree as she moved once more to strike.

Syn couldn't make himself move, everything was in slow motion as Darkness wrestled with the puppeted form of her sister. His breathing was shallow but quick and vision blurry for the blown up dirt, he blinked hard and when he opened them he could see May path giving way slipping falling yelling glowing crystals yearning hungering calling for him screaming, she was screaming screaming on the floor red blood bleeding splattered the shard lodged in her body, he couldn't move he couldn't breathe, blinking hard again, he saw his own hand before the corruption purple reaching but not close enough failed failed Anne….

"I COULD USE A HAND SYN." Darkness yelled upwards at him as he blinked back to reality she was being overpowered lying on her back one hand holding her sister away by the chest the other by the throat tilting its chin upwards as it snarled and tried to bite her it's hands grabbing and trying to rip out her chest crystal as Darkness groaned in pain trying to shove with her foot.

Breathing steadier he could only think an apology as he flew down swinging his body to use his momentum kicking it's body in the stomach kicking it upwards enough to spin and slam it with his tail to send it flying back through the trees with crunches and snaps. He flexed his fingers in and out of fists ignoring how his hands trembled before pulling Darkness backup to her feet, she nodded a quick thanks before her eye caught the dark form flying back upwards towards the cave.

"She's heading back to get more crystals!" Urgency panged in her tone as she shot after to stop it from reaching its goal. Syn craned his neck to eye the cave entrance raising his leg and stomping his foot down a tremor shot through the earth, ground cracking splitting into a crack shooting along the ground up the side of the cliff to the cave entrance that cracked and caved in on itself for the instability. He heard a loud screech of fury flying upwards to join Darkness in fighting the dark figure, knowing it knew it was outmatched.

Despite his experience and expertise he found himself surrendering to the back seat of the fight so to speak, it would probably be easy for him to reign down battle hardened skill but he let Darkness dominate the fight giving assistance to prevent escape or an extra hit. He noticed Darkness glance at him but pretended he didn't, there was an odd tightness in his chest and acidic feeling in his throat and lungs as he watched the corruption stricken body struggle to force itself upright the body was giving but the crystal kept pushing and if it carried on he may have thrown the fight.

It was a charged sleeping powder that finally stopped the body from moving, he watched it slump and fall, Darkness' hand on his chest stopping him from moving to catch as it lay there. He was only permitted close once she was sure the entity was fully unconscious and he was in charge of carrying her back. Her body was too light in his arms even for the weight of the crystals, he hated how she slumped completely lifeless even if she was just unconscious it was much too real.

She was strapped down to a sanitized operating table back at Darkness' chosen base, her fingers had started to twitch again as Darkness hooked her body up to different machines, a needle carefully connected into her arm to give her anesthetics "to keep her asleep and stop it hurting," Darkness explained as she prepared everything for the long tedious surgery to follow. Machines scanned over the unconscious form as flames sterilized different blades and instruments, Syn carefully took the cracked damaged glasses off of her horn and face before being forced to just step back and watch.

After a moment of analyzing the data and the best approach scalpel met skin, with a delicate and slow touch she started on the second neck hearing Syn grimace in disgust his own hand coming to touch his neck, "if you need to leave then do, I don't need a soundtrack." A cloth carefully cleaned the blood from skin and a suction returned her vision inside the incision as she worked to remove the shards with as little damage to her sister as possible. Thankfully the crystal was only connected to skin and hadn't bound to her nerves within her second neck and Darkness could only exhale in relief as the shards clinked in the metal tray she dropped them in, still faintly glistening with blood.

The work was slow and tedious, while it had not grown into her second neck, another crystal had grown through the bone of her horn forcing Darkness' hand if she wanted all the corruption out as she apologized as psychic energy broke open the horn around the crystal allowing her to remove every last glisten of corruption. She realigned the horn filling the splintered cracked hole where the crystal had grown with bone cement (also known as Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA)). Floating sterilized needles threaded with dissolving medical thread worked to efficiently stitch closed the cuts that Darkness made as she monitored the amount of blood she had suctioned from wounds, if May lost too much she'd have to stop until she recovered but without all the shards out she could get worse all over.

Methodically she worked, breaking open bone where she had to pulling out splinters that tried to hide, she had to fight herself not to gag as she was forced to cut through arm muscles to free another wretched crystal, she could only apologize as she used what she had to undo the damage she and the crystal did hoping praying that it could be undone fully. The crystals were piling up in the metal tray now giving Syn a headache as Darkness reached the original offending crystal. It had grown significantly within her body since it first tore through her. With a shuddered breath she moved to get the smaller crystals lower down before facing the last one less it try to release its stored energy and make the remaining crystals grow like some malicious crime leader.

She noticed the difference in texture immediately as her scalpel cut through skin, the flesh here was less resistant and almost seemed to fall away with her blade before the smell made her gag and step back, it was foul and rotting, black oozed out of the cut as Darkness moved to quickly cover the cut with a clean cloth as Syn stood bewildered unsure if he should approach or withdraw. Darkness slowly brought her hand to touch her sisters leg, it squished unpleasantly. Her hand trembled. She took the time to compare the untouched leg to the one with the crystal, it was more bloated now she look the skin stretched and slightly cracked, her foot rested at a more awkward slumped angle not held up properly at all, her leg was even a bit twisted and upon hesitantly touching once more the skin tore away like nothing as Darkness could only look in disgust and horror.

"Syn you should step out." He looked at her, the smell was wretched and he could see pure disgust and anguish on her face.

"Why what's the matter? I could help?"

"I've got to remove the leg. I don't want to have to fight you over it either so please get out." He stared at her in disbelief as he looked back at May lying still restrained down to the table body half covered in stitches.

"can you not save it? You can't just cut it off? She needs her legs to walk she can't fly -"

"I KNOW," Darkness' voice raised to shout over him as she lifted herself to be over him, "I know," she sighed slumping down to her true size, "and I don't want to but the flesh and muscle is dead, that stench is rot and it could climb and cause infection in her whole body and kill her, it's already gone it needs removing now." He parted his lips to try to offer a solution but none came, she was right he would've tried to fight her so he stepped back and left. He didn't want to let it happen but if he stopped her the death would spread. He sat in the hall, his body too big and awkward for the human seats placing the glasses down besides him, his fingers knitted together and mouth pressed to his knuckles as his leg bounced anxiously.

Darkness redirected the machines to scan the leg to find the extend and severity of the rot to determine what could be saved, she could see blood vessels and nerves knotted tangled horrifically into the crystal feeding it blood and life directly, it had severed the flow and infection had set in taking what the crystal didn't care to maintain. She was just thankful it was only below the crystal and hadn't spread. Putting on a mask to help with breathing and adjusting Mays body she began the unpleasant process of removing the rotting limb.

Much to her discomfort she had to cut higher than she wanted into her sisters body, the crystal having grown upward through the bone thankfully it hadn't growth through the hip bones, the muscles glimmered unnaturally yellow and she was forced to remove it knowing it was full of synergy energy that'd only crystallizer starting the process anew. Carefully she took the skin that was still alive and reconnected it over what was left stitching it closed and tight hoping it would meld to itself. The machines scanned her again, no further rot, crystal energy stoll detected. Darkness felt sick as she checked the screen, there was only one cluster left but...

Scalpel met skin one last time cutting into her sisters lower abdomen.

Darkness' hands trembled once her work was done, she cleaned over her sisters body treating the stitches with antiseptic sprays and bandaging them up before moved her body carefully delicately terrified she would shatter onto a recovery bed hooking her up onto painkillers and carefully taking her off the anesthetic though it would be a whole before she woke. The machines quietly beeped with brainwaves and heartbeat.

Darkness removed the remaining crystals from the limb before securing it in a bio waste disposal bag taking it to be incinerated. She wasn't sure what to do with the crystals or how to safely dispose of them. When she returned to check her sister Syn was already sitting by her bed. Her skin was still dark but Darkness was sure she'd paled slightly since the surgery finished.

"Don't recall summoning you." Syn didn't respond to her remark, instead he just took Mays hand where she wasn't injured, gently holding it in his. She could see his eyes roaming her body over the many bandages she had his brows falling as his eyes fell to her amputated limb.

"How is she going to be happy now...?" His voice was surprisingly soft, "she loved to bounce and skip and climb and-"

"She can still do that? She'll still be able to do that," his eyes met her in a flat glare, "I'll work on making her a prosthetic so she can bounce and frolic as she likes, she'll be okay. May bounces back with these things she'll still be able to be happy." his eyes fell back to her as he held up the glasses he'd been guarding.

"Can you fix these too?" he paused, "she'll need them when she wakes up, I don't want her to struggle." He almost didn't release them as Darkness took them into her hands.

"I will, she'll be alright. Don't worry."

Syn sighed as Darkness left the room, there was a sick lump in his throat, would she be alright?

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"Why isn't she waking up yet it has been days!? You said the anesthetic would wear off within a few hours!" Syns voice was more of a furious snarl as he unleashed his temper onto Darkness raising his voice snarling at her bearing his teeth his eyes flashing with fury as she met him with a level cold gaze.

"Don't raise your voice at me." He growled at her, "I told you she was fully corrupted and that we might not get her back. She just, she might be gone." Syns tail slammed into the floor cracking the tiles.

"You're wrong! She isn't gone," his voice was a roar.

"Then what do you think it is then, medical expert?!" She snapped back stepping forward threateningly as he stepped forward in time his forehead pressing down onto hers to the point she could feel the vibrations of his growling. Slowly his growling quietened as he exhaled his held breath.

" I don't know..but..she can't just be gone, you can't be okay with this?" His voice was gentle and carried his sadness as Darkness' eyes softened looking away from him.

"I'm not..trust me I'm not okay with the idea of her being fully gone, but I've tried all I can I fixed her wounds I've healed her up I've tried different methods of waking her up I've even tried finding her psychic signature and consciousness in her mind, but, I just," Darkness quietly held herself squeezing her arm to remain composed," I can't sense her..I can't feel or sense anything it's like being in a big black room..her body is fixed but, I don't think anyones home anymore. The only thing keeping her breathing keeping her heart going is those machines and faint brainwaves, but there's nothing to suggest a person or soul…" Darkness exhaled slowly to calm herself as she looked over through the small door window.

Her sister lay there hooked up to machines still, the sight was painfully familiar to her lifeless husk bodies suspended in growing fluids breathing through machine awaiting life to find them, and yet this disturbed her so much more than those bodies ever did, her stomach tied in knots with each mechanical exhale despite the horrors she'd committed.

"If, she is gone, I'll have to unplug her eventually Syn we can't you know keep her alive like this forever.." She felt his eyes on her.

"So this was for nothing…we cut her open, we took off her leg just for her to never wake up?" Syn felt an odd sick sensation at the thought, if she had any life energy left maybe he could…keep her alive inside him…

He heard Darkness shudder a sigh, "I just hope I'm wrong…" He heard her walk down the hall and head outside as he moved to slowly enter Mays room taking his post by her bedside. Her skin wasn't the same tone it had been. She was still a bit pale off gray but she wasn't the same dark gray she was before, she just looked vaguely sickly now. He glanced around spotting her glasses fixed up by Darkness placed neatly on the side, he delicately picked them up moving them in his hands.

"Darkness fixed these up special for you, she even gave them a special new frame color, it'd be really rude if you didn't wake up to try them on you know…" His heart wasn't really in the tease as he placed the glasses back down burying his face in his hands as he quietly groaned. He'd sat by her quietly for days and it didn't get easier, if he took her life energy into himself it'd sever his relationship to Darkness but with the situation at hand he didn't think he minded never having to see her again never having to meet her eye knowing they did this together.

He pulled his head back sitting up and sighed, reaching out a hand to put May out her mercy before he paused watching the lines of brainwaves, they were purely subconscious body working ones but it gave him pause for thought. He gently placed his fingertips on her forehead.

"I'm, gonna try to reach you one last time okay? Please pick up, show me you're still here…" His tone was soft and steady but it was a plea a beg that she'd hear him and respond, he would try once more before sending her to rest, at least checking her mind would clear his conscious a bit more of it was truly empty. He synchronized his energy with hers and was plummeted into blackness in his minds eye.

He turned in the bleakness lighting the area around him with his faint purple glow, he sighed to himself, it was even worse than he imagined black just stretching out for as far as he could imagine and see… there wasn't anything here…

A faint glittery fuzz of white passed his vision just before he thought of leaving, he watched it float and dance and fizzle to nothing. He furrowed his brow, lifting his hand and moving it around to see if it came from him. His aura sparkled purple. He spun in a circle slowly once more eyes trained for even a flicker. He squinted past the dark but he saw it, flecks, like tiny pieces of glitter floating through the nothingness. He leant forward gliding through the barren mindscape following the flecks. They were incredibly weak and he struggled to follow them but he needed some hope to cling onto and it was all he had!

Finally he stopped looking around, he couldn't find the source but they just kept appearing, they had to be May it had to be!

"May!" His voice screamed out stretching around inside her mind desperate to reach anything before he tired. The glittering shimmers danced under him as he looked down before he slowly lowered himself finding his feet landing on the blackness.. He slowly moved before plunging his hands downwards through the black and starting to rip it away as the sight of a small glowing white orb rewarded his eyes. He continued to rip away the black until he could reach the orb carefully cradling it in his hands.

"May? Is that you? I've got you I can feel you," despite the fact it floated he could feel warmth radiating from it the orb gently touching at his palms in a way that could've tickled.

Syns body jolted in the real world as pain shot through him searing burning in his side as he groaned in agony from his throat and mind, he saw flashes, memories that weren't his he could see himself he was falling, feelings of pain of betrayal of sadness. Tears leaked from his eyes.

The orb pulled away from him but he moved to frantically catch hold pulling them close to his body within her mind.

"No no please please no May don't I'm so sorry, I should've caught you I shouldn't have let you fall, I couldn't think properly for the crystal and I let you down, but I swear I didn't do it on purpose or because I didn't care, we've been doing so much to bring you back, Darkness took all the crystals out of you you're here with us recovering."

Waves of anxiety crashed through him, he could see bodies mangled torn apart bitten into and drained, screaming ringed in his ears along with many other distressed sounds. He felt fear.

"It wasn't your fault, anything that happened was out of your control, and I know you're scared I can feel it you're so terrified but you're not going to be dealing with this alone, I'm here May, I'm here so please wake up for me." He kept the flickering consciousness held close to his body in her mind, before the environment started to burn white and he was removed, waking up conscious in his own body sitting upright with shallow gasping breaths from the sheer mental strain.

He registered a beep glancing at the monitors as he wiped his forehead. There was a spike in the brainwave screen, he sighed assuming it was just from him. Another beep. Higher consciousness brain waves were starting to be registered in growing frequency and rhythm. He looked down at May as her eyes flickered under her eyelids until she managed a squint. He practically threw psychic energy at the light switch to lower the brightness of the lights.

"Hey…" his voice was soft as it wobbled as he stared at her, he watched her close her eyes shut wrinkling her nose and assumed the worst before she half opened her eye to look at him her brow furrowed a bit for not wearing her glasses before a weak smile found her face.

"..hey..?" her voice was hoarse and she coughed for speaking, he moved to get her a paper cup of water holding the cup to her lips as he helped her drink.

"easy…there, drink up.." his tone gently encouraged as she drank. He lowered the paper cup only for hearing Darkness hit a wall before bursting into the room and zooming towards May, her hands immediately finding her face and checking her over as May looked rather confused and startled.

"I'm so glad you're awake," Darkness pressed a kiss hard onto Mays forehead before wrapping her arms around her upper half in a squeeze as Syn watched holding the paper cup in mild frustration.

"uh…yea.? Me too?" Mays voice was clear in its confusion as Darkness pulled away and pulled up a seat to sit down also. May slowly pushed herself up into a sit letting out a quiet hiss as she looked at her bandaged arm.

"careful don't overwork yourself." Darkness pressed a button to lift the back half of the bed to sit May up without her needing to rest on her hands, though her eyes were unfocused.

"May?" Syn asked quietly following her gaze to glance at her missing limb space, "oh.." he glanced at Darkness uncertainly as Mays heartrate increased in panic.

Darkness moves to administer some light sedatives, "it's okay don't panic don't panic I've been working on a prosethic for you," Mays eyes shifted looking at Darkness frantically wide and lost.

"You got hurt, do you remember the synergy crystal that got you?" Darkness' tone took on a very gentle tone as Mays eyes remained wide but she nodded, "well, it damaged your leg real bad and you had lots of other injuries that I patched up but, I'm sorry your leg wasn't saveable in any way." May swallowed as the words sunk in. She made a dry laugh.

"That's uh, just the May luck I guess… universe thought I had it too good too long.." she laughed again but her heart and joy weren't in it, "least I wasn't pregnant I guess, just a leg," Syn saw discomfort spread on Darkness' face.

"Syn, could you go fetch some fresh supplies so I can do Mays bandages?"

Syn looked between her and Darkness, "aren't, there some in here?" Darkness gave him a meaningful scowl nodding her head towards the door as he slowly stood and went outside. He leant on a wall in the hallway extending his aura to listen.

"I wasn't, I couldn't have been pregnant Darkness I've, I can't self replicate and me and Syn havent-"

"You weren't pregnant."

"oh thank arceus that would've been bad,"

"..."

"Whats..the matter then?"

"Some of the crystal had started growing on one of your ovary and against and into your womb, I took the infected ovary out and the crystal on your womb but it caused damage. I stitched it up but.. I don't think it's safe for you to have kids anymore May, the damage to your womb, you might not be able to sustain anything, or safely carry to term… I'm so sorry.."

It was quiet and Syn felt a twist in his gut that he couldn't explain.

"eh, it's fine… I'm not mom material anyways… but thank you for getting all the crystal out of me I'm grateful." He heard May yawn loudly, "gosh I am soooo tired, being like, what corrupt is so exhausting."

"You've been in a coma too, I don't, know if its safe for you to sleep."

"Being in a coma is soooo exhausting, and, I don't think my body ever stopped…so can I just get 10 minutes? A little nappy nap? Promise I won't die."

Darkness scoffed a laugh and the bed creaked as it lowered. "okay, no falling back into a coma, Syn will blow up. We can, look into starting physical therapy for you when you feel ready" May hummed softly in response as he registered the sound of Darkness approaching. She stepped out the room quietly and looked at Syn cold and meaningfully.

"you better not have been listening in." He faked a convincing sound of confusion.

"Of course not? I couldn't find any bandages so I just waited here." He heard Darkness vocalize at him in distrust before she sighed.

"Mays getting a power nap in, we should let her rest despite it all her body is probably still exhausted, we should, go forage her something to eat." Syn made a sound somewhere between reluctance to forage and to leave Mays side, but a quick glare had him following Darkness with a" I was only joking."

Inside the room May held what was left of her leg, tears streaming down her face as her lungs rattled with shaking inhales as she exhaled a quiet but uncontrolled sob into her pillow.

#My writing #Darkness the mewtwo #May the mewtwo #@seasidemew Syn #@seasidemew oc #Tw blood #Tw fighting #Tw rotten limbs #Tw removal of limb #Tw rotted flesh #Tw surgery #Tw needles #Tw anesthetic #Tw incisions #Tw muscle surgery #Tw removing foreign objects #Syn and his fomo but also Syn having a TIME #The little consciousness orb isn't intentionally making Syn feel her feelings he's just not got proper mental boundaries up #So he's susceptible to what she's going through rn as her consciousness struggles #Syn is very soft in this au which makes me think they were actually quite close when she got got #He lub his little weirdo may very much and like :c at her state #Also don't be weird it's sibling affection from Darkness to May sometimes u gotta mwa ur sibs forehead #Also yes when the crystal is controlling May I use it pronouns because the crystal is an it a puppeteer it's not may anymore just a thing

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