S-CRY-ed Fan Fiction ❯ Alter Ego ❯ Alter Ego Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )
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By: Shellbullet 
Anime/Manga: S-CRY-ed Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Sci-fi / Post-apocalyptic / Action | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 02.07.2005 | Updated On: 07.11.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 198 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: S-CRY-ed Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Sci-fi / Post-apocalyptic / Action | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 02.07.2005 | Updated On: 07.11.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.0K | Visits: 198 | Status: Completed
Alter Ego Chapter 3
As I drive closer to the city the awful feeling in my stomach just keeps growing. What I’m about to do is completely against everything I believe in. I’m going to join the dickheads that have made things so awful for those of us in the wasteland. But I have realized that I have to join HOLY if I want to be able to keep Megumi safe. I’ll also have access to the huge information gathering abilities of HOLD and HOLY so I stand a better chance of finding the gang that attacked us. Not to mention that I’ll be able to strengthen my abilities there. Despite all the positive aspects that I can think of, I still HATE the fact that I’m doing this. I know something is very wrong with the whole situation but I can’t put my finger on it.
Oh well. I came all this way and I’m not gonna turn back now. I can see the city wall getting closer and closer on the horizon as I speed along in my buggy. I pull my buggy up to a section of the city wall that is close to the ocean and get out. I don’t have an ID or even a fake ID so I’m going to have to sneak into the city. As soon as I’m out of my car I stand in front of the wall and get ready to go. I cross my arms in front of me and tense my muscles in concentration. I notice my alter forms quicker than it usually does for some reason. As soon as it is done, I flex my leg muscles and jump as high as I can up the side of the wall and when I reach maximum height I sink my claws into the wall and begin to climb up. It takes a while since the friggin’ wall is so high (elitist city pricks). Eventually I make the top and stand on the edge and look into the city.
“Wow, This place is unbelievable.” I say to myself as I stare at the shining city skyline in disbelief. After staring at the scenery for a second I take a deep breath and step over the edge and fall rapidly towards the ground. To slow my descent I dig my claws into the wall when I get about half way down. Once I slow down enough I kick off from the wall and land on the ground. “Hmph, that wasn’t so tough.” I say to myself as I hit the ground. All of a sudden I hear a noise that sounds like a whole lot of guns being cocked and I look up to see a ridiculous amount of soldiers surrounding me. “Shit.” I mutter under my breath. It looks like they knew I was coming and had set up an ambush for me. I reflexively extend my claws and slowly back up until I hit the wall. I know I’m in trouble, even I can’t evade that many bullets. I just wonder why they’re waiting to shoot me. I see another armored vehicle roll up behind the ranks of soldiers and slowly pull to a stop. As I look at the vehicle, a hatch on top of it opens and I see someone get out and stand on top. With my alter enhanced eyesight I can see that he is wearing a HOLY uniform, tall and about my height, he has green hair, and red eyes and has the hardest, most emotionless looking face I have ever seen. I can tell that this guy is one seriously tough bastard. I see him get handed a microphone by someone in the vehicle and he raises it to his face to talk. “Attention native alter user, you are under arrest for illegally entering the city and suspicion of murdering class B HOLY officer Kobashi Shinichiro and two HOLD soldiers. You will be detained and, after an investigation, judged accordingly. Any resistance will be met with deadly force.”
I just stare at him blankly for a few seconds and say “Really, now come on mister serious. I didn’t come here to start a fight with you guys.”
He looks at me with the same emotionless face and says “Is that so, native alter. Then why are you here.”
“Well, since you seem like the resident HOLY bigwig, I’ll direct this to you.” I take a breath and say “I came here to join up with HOLY.”
As I said that I heard a slight intake of breath from the surrounding soldiers and a slight rattling of weapons. It seems they didn’t quite know how to respond to that. Even Green-Hair guy paused and I could see his brow furrow ever so slightly as he thought about what was the best way to respond to what I said. After a couple seconds that seemed like an eternity I hear the HOLY officer speaks up. “If that is indeed the truth then you will surrender yourself and come with us under my direct supervision.”
He seems very confident of himself; I think to myself. I think about what he said for a minute and say “Okay, you got it pal.” I say as I let my alter dissolve off of my body. And start walking towards the armored vehicle with a whole lot of heavily armed soldiers and an obviously powerful HOLY alter user giving me their undivided attention. When I get to the armored vehicle a door on the side slides open and I climb in. When I’m inside I see that there are several soldiers pointing their guns at me and two more people in HOLY uniforms. One is a rather cute girl with bluish purple hair and a barrette in her hair, the other is a short kid that doesn’t look like he could be any older than ten or twelve years old. All of them are staring at me waiting for me to make a suspicious move. Suddenly one of the soldiers jabs me in the back with his rifle and says “Sit.” I look behind me and say “Alright, Alright. No need to be so pushy. Just ‘cause you got that snappy uniform doesn’t mean you can be a dick.” I sit down and hear a hatch open up behind me. I look over and see the HOLY officer that I was talking to outside. He looks at me and says “I suggest that you don’t make any stupid moves while here. There are three alter users on this vehicle including myself and you won’t stand a chance against us.” I could tell that this guy was not being arrogant, he was simply stating a fact. I knew that this guy in particular was not someone I wanted to fuck with right now. And I was willing to bet that the other two officers here were no pushovers either. That was probably why they hadn’t bothered to search me for any weapons. “Hey, no problems here pal” I say as I put my arms behind my head and lay back in my seat. “Look, I’m gonna take a nap for a while, wake me up when we get to where we are going.” I say to the green haired officer. I smirk slightly as I see the slightly offended looks the other officers have on their faces as I fall asleep with two soldiers pointing their machine guns at my head.
Several Hours Later
“Hey, wake up you!!” I hear someone say as I get jabbed in the side by a gun barrel. I jerk awake and groggily mumble “Ow, that hurt, you dick.” It takes me a couple seconds to remember where I am as I wipe the line of drool from the corner of my mouth. “We’ve almost arrived at HOLY Headquarters. You might want to be awake for this.” the cute girl HOLY officer says. I can see the guy with the green hair in the corner of my eye, still staring at me suspiciously. Yeesh, what a hard ass. I think to myself. When we arrive at the HOLD building I am immediately escorted by the green haired guy and several soldiers to a holding cell and pushed inside. The green haired Holy officer says “I will be back for you when the commander is ready to speak with you. Don’t try anything stupid, this whole building is full of HOLY officers and soldiers. They will not hesitate to kill you if you escape.”
“Hey, Listen pal.” I say getting kind of pissed. “I came with you guys voluntarily. I could leave here any time I want and you couldn’t stop me. I’m here only because I feel like it.”
The HOLY officer looks over his shoulder at me kind of like he’s saying “Yeah, right.” before the cell door closes behind him. As soon as the door closes I stick my tongue out at him and give him the finger even though he can’t see it. I sigh and move over to the little bed by the wall and lay down to take a nap.
Once I’m asleep I start to dream. But it isn’t the usual nightmares and dreams. I’m in what looks to be a long tunnel that looks like it’s made of alter mist. I look down the tunnel and see something farther down the tunnel. It looks very small in the distance and I can’t quite make out what it is. It does seem to look like a person though. I begin to walk towards it and as I get closer I can make out more details. At first it looks like some kind of alter. It looks humanoid and is covered in black armor, one arm is covered in black armor while the other is white, and black flames seem to be flowing from the arms and the top of the head like hair. But as I get closer the image changes. It begins to look like me in my alter enhanced form, but it looks different than normal. My armor is more extensive and looks even deadlier than it does now. Somehow I know this is what I am supposed to be and I feel compelled to reach out and touch the image in front of me. As I raise my hand to touch it the image imitates me like a mirror. I move my hand closer and so does it. I am about to grab it’s hand when I am woken up.
“Wake up native alter, the commander will see you now.” I hear someone say in a dead serious voice. Without even opening my eyes I know it’s that green haired HOLY officer. “Alright I’m coming, I’m coming.” I say. “What a rude asshole” I think as I follow him down the hallway. We get into an elevator and ride it high up into the building. When it stops we get off on a floor that looks to be close to the top of the building. We walk through what appears to be a lounge area and the luxury of this place is astounding. It has a great view of the city from the windows and there are couches, flatscreen TVs on the walls, tables to eat at, and a full cafeteria. The looks I’m getting from the various personnel, in their nice uniforms, as I walk by in my dirty camouflage trenchcoat are really starting to annoy me and I give them dirty looks right back.
We eventually come to a door and the guy stops in front of it and presses a button next to the door and spoke into a panel next to the door. “Sir, I have the native alter that wanted to speak with you.” after a second, the door opens and we enter the room. Just by the size of the office I can tell this guy is important. I am led over to stand in front of a desk with a grown man in a HOLY uniform with long brown hair and a angled face that looks like it’s seen a lot of things that most people will never see. He is looking at me with his hands folded in front of him an interested look on his face as I stand there before him. After a few seconds of him staring at me he says, “Hello, My name is Commander Martin Jigmar, leader of HOLY. I understand that you are interested in joining our organization. Is that correct, Mister.....” (he looks at a small file in front of him) “...Kelly?” After a second I answer, “You got that right, buddy.” I see the green haired guy raises his eyebrow at me. The commander smiles slightly and resumes speaking. “Well I hope you realize what kind of situation you put me in. My sources have told me that you are the one responsible for the deaths of several of my people, and now you come here to tell me that you want to join us.” I really start to feel very uncomfortable at this point. “So, I ask you, why should I trust you enough to let you join our organization?” There is a long pause as I think about how to answer. “Well, as I see it, if you let me join you you’ll be getting a replacement for the guys you lost that is better by leaps and bounds.” After thinking for a few seconds I add, “And I also have an agenda of my own to complete. I have someone I need to protect and there is someone else that I need to find to get even with. I think joining HOLY will help me accomplish those goals.”
The commander looks at me for a few seconds and says “Everyone here has a reason for joining HOLY. These reasons are what motivate us in our lives. Your obvious dedication to your cause leads me to believe that you will not try to betray us.” He holds his hand out towards me. “Welcome to HOLY.” I stand there for a second, shocked that he would actually recruit me, and then shake his hand to seal the deal.
The Next Day
A small dust cloud flies up as I pull my buggy to a stop in front of the doctors office where I left Megumi. I get out and walk to the door and go inside. “Hey Doc, I’m back!” I yell.
The doctor walks out from the back and says, “Hello, welcome back my friend.”
“How is Megumi?”
“She regained consciousness early this morning. You can go in and talk to her if you want, but she might be a little out of it because of the painkillers I gave her.”
“Thanks a lot Doc.” I say as I walk into the back office. I see Megumi laying back on the bed, awake but looking pretty sleepy. She waves at me and says “Hey Rob, where have you been?” I walk up to the bed, sit down next to her, and hold her hand gently. “I’ve been out taking care of some things for us.” I say to her, not looking her in the eye. “Really? What kinds of things?” I pause, reluctant to tell her what I’ve done. “What’s wrong Rob? What happened?” she says, sounding concerned. I take a deep breath and begin to tell her. “Well, first of all, we have a new place to live.” She gasps in excitement and says “Really! Where?!” After a brief pause I say “The City.” Her face loses some of it’s excitement and she starts to look at me suspiciously. “I know you got paid well for that last job but you couldn’t get even a small place in the city for that much. How did you manage to pull that off?” I turn away before I explain it to her. “I’ve joined HOLY.” She starts laughing and says “Come on, quit joking around. Tell me the truth, you would never join HOLY.” I dig into the pocket of my coat and turn around. “I am telling you the truth. See?” I say as I hold up my brand new, shiny HOLY badge for her to see. There is a long, uncomfortable silence as her gaze shifts between my dead serious face and the badge in my hand. The silence ends when she quietly says “Why did you do that?” I reply, “Because I can’t keep my promise to protect you out here. I can’t be here with you all of the time. You’ll be much safer in the city. Not to mention that while I’m part of HOLY I’ll be able to use their facilities to get information on the gang that attacked you, and find that alter user that we’ve been looking for. I was able to pull some strings and I was able to get you a job in the intelligence and logistics division of HOLD so we can have access to their files on native alter users and monitor troop deployments. And besides, if something happens that I don’t like, we can always leave, whether they like it or not.” There is even more silence until Megumi says “Well, if you think it’s for the best, I’m okay with it.” I smile at her, feeling relieved. “I’m so happy that you understand. As soon as you’re able to get out of bed we’ll go to the city. You won’t be sorry about this Megumi.” Little did she know that I already was sorry about this.
END CHAPTER 3
TO BE CONTINUED......
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As I drive closer to the city the awful feeling in my stomach just keeps growing. What I’m about to do is completely against everything I believe in. I’m going to join the dickheads that have made things so awful for those of us in the wasteland. But I have realized that I have to join HOLY if I want to be able to keep Megumi safe. I’ll also have access to the huge information gathering abilities of HOLD and HOLY so I stand a better chance of finding the gang that attacked us. Not to mention that I’ll be able to strengthen my abilities there. Despite all the positive aspects that I can think of, I still HATE the fact that I’m doing this. I know something is very wrong with the whole situation but I can’t put my finger on it.
Oh well. I came all this way and I’m not gonna turn back now. I can see the city wall getting closer and closer on the horizon as I speed along in my buggy. I pull my buggy up to a section of the city wall that is close to the ocean and get out. I don’t have an ID or even a fake ID so I’m going to have to sneak into the city. As soon as I’m out of my car I stand in front of the wall and get ready to go. I cross my arms in front of me and tense my muscles in concentration. I notice my alter forms quicker than it usually does for some reason. As soon as it is done, I flex my leg muscles and jump as high as I can up the side of the wall and when I reach maximum height I sink my claws into the wall and begin to climb up. It takes a while since the friggin’ wall is so high (elitist city pricks). Eventually I make the top and stand on the edge and look into the city.
“Wow, This place is unbelievable.” I say to myself as I stare at the shining city skyline in disbelief. After staring at the scenery for a second I take a deep breath and step over the edge and fall rapidly towards the ground. To slow my descent I dig my claws into the wall when I get about half way down. Once I slow down enough I kick off from the wall and land on the ground. “Hmph, that wasn’t so tough.” I say to myself as I hit the ground. All of a sudden I hear a noise that sounds like a whole lot of guns being cocked and I look up to see a ridiculous amount of soldiers surrounding me. “Shit.” I mutter under my breath. It looks like they knew I was coming and had set up an ambush for me. I reflexively extend my claws and slowly back up until I hit the wall. I know I’m in trouble, even I can’t evade that many bullets. I just wonder why they’re waiting to shoot me. I see another armored vehicle roll up behind the ranks of soldiers and slowly pull to a stop. As I look at the vehicle, a hatch on top of it opens and I see someone get out and stand on top. With my alter enhanced eyesight I can see that he is wearing a HOLY uniform, tall and about my height, he has green hair, and red eyes and has the hardest, most emotionless looking face I have ever seen. I can tell that this guy is one seriously tough bastard. I see him get handed a microphone by someone in the vehicle and he raises it to his face to talk. “Attention native alter user, you are under arrest for illegally entering the city and suspicion of murdering class B HOLY officer Kobashi Shinichiro and two HOLD soldiers. You will be detained and, after an investigation, judged accordingly. Any resistance will be met with deadly force.”
I just stare at him blankly for a few seconds and say “Really, now come on mister serious. I didn’t come here to start a fight with you guys.”
He looks at me with the same emotionless face and says “Is that so, native alter. Then why are you here.”
“Well, since you seem like the resident HOLY bigwig, I’ll direct this to you.” I take a breath and say “I came here to join up with HOLY.”
As I said that I heard a slight intake of breath from the surrounding soldiers and a slight rattling of weapons. It seems they didn’t quite know how to respond to that. Even Green-Hair guy paused and I could see his brow furrow ever so slightly as he thought about what was the best way to respond to what I said. After a couple seconds that seemed like an eternity I hear the HOLY officer speaks up. “If that is indeed the truth then you will surrender yourself and come with us under my direct supervision.”
He seems very confident of himself; I think to myself. I think about what he said for a minute and say “Okay, you got it pal.” I say as I let my alter dissolve off of my body. And start walking towards the armored vehicle with a whole lot of heavily armed soldiers and an obviously powerful HOLY alter user giving me their undivided attention. When I get to the armored vehicle a door on the side slides open and I climb in. When I’m inside I see that there are several soldiers pointing their guns at me and two more people in HOLY uniforms. One is a rather cute girl with bluish purple hair and a barrette in her hair, the other is a short kid that doesn’t look like he could be any older than ten or twelve years old. All of them are staring at me waiting for me to make a suspicious move. Suddenly one of the soldiers jabs me in the back with his rifle and says “Sit.” I look behind me and say “Alright, Alright. No need to be so pushy. Just ‘cause you got that snappy uniform doesn’t mean you can be a dick.” I sit down and hear a hatch open up behind me. I look over and see the HOLY officer that I was talking to outside. He looks at me and says “I suggest that you don’t make any stupid moves while here. There are three alter users on this vehicle including myself and you won’t stand a chance against us.” I could tell that this guy was not being arrogant, he was simply stating a fact. I knew that this guy in particular was not someone I wanted to fuck with right now. And I was willing to bet that the other two officers here were no pushovers either. That was probably why they hadn’t bothered to search me for any weapons. “Hey, no problems here pal” I say as I put my arms behind my head and lay back in my seat. “Look, I’m gonna take a nap for a while, wake me up when we get to where we are going.” I say to the green haired officer. I smirk slightly as I see the slightly offended looks the other officers have on their faces as I fall asleep with two soldiers pointing their machine guns at my head.
Several Hours Later
“Hey, wake up you!!” I hear someone say as I get jabbed in the side by a gun barrel. I jerk awake and groggily mumble “Ow, that hurt, you dick.” It takes me a couple seconds to remember where I am as I wipe the line of drool from the corner of my mouth. “We’ve almost arrived at HOLY Headquarters. You might want to be awake for this.” the cute girl HOLY officer says. I can see the guy with the green hair in the corner of my eye, still staring at me suspiciously. Yeesh, what a hard ass. I think to myself. When we arrive at the HOLD building I am immediately escorted by the green haired guy and several soldiers to a holding cell and pushed inside. The green haired Holy officer says “I will be back for you when the commander is ready to speak with you. Don’t try anything stupid, this whole building is full of HOLY officers and soldiers. They will not hesitate to kill you if you escape.”
“Hey, Listen pal.” I say getting kind of pissed. “I came with you guys voluntarily. I could leave here any time I want and you couldn’t stop me. I’m here only because I feel like it.”
The HOLY officer looks over his shoulder at me kind of like he’s saying “Yeah, right.” before the cell door closes behind him. As soon as the door closes I stick my tongue out at him and give him the finger even though he can’t see it. I sigh and move over to the little bed by the wall and lay down to take a nap.
Once I’m asleep I start to dream. But it isn’t the usual nightmares and dreams. I’m in what looks to be a long tunnel that looks like it’s made of alter mist. I look down the tunnel and see something farther down the tunnel. It looks very small in the distance and I can’t quite make out what it is. It does seem to look like a person though. I begin to walk towards it and as I get closer I can make out more details. At first it looks like some kind of alter. It looks humanoid and is covered in black armor, one arm is covered in black armor while the other is white, and black flames seem to be flowing from the arms and the top of the head like hair. But as I get closer the image changes. It begins to look like me in my alter enhanced form, but it looks different than normal. My armor is more extensive and looks even deadlier than it does now. Somehow I know this is what I am supposed to be and I feel compelled to reach out and touch the image in front of me. As I raise my hand to touch it the image imitates me like a mirror. I move my hand closer and so does it. I am about to grab it’s hand when I am woken up.
“Wake up native alter, the commander will see you now.” I hear someone say in a dead serious voice. Without even opening my eyes I know it’s that green haired HOLY officer. “Alright I’m coming, I’m coming.” I say. “What a rude asshole” I think as I follow him down the hallway. We get into an elevator and ride it high up into the building. When it stops we get off on a floor that looks to be close to the top of the building. We walk through what appears to be a lounge area and the luxury of this place is astounding. It has a great view of the city from the windows and there are couches, flatscreen TVs on the walls, tables to eat at, and a full cafeteria. The looks I’m getting from the various personnel, in their nice uniforms, as I walk by in my dirty camouflage trenchcoat are really starting to annoy me and I give them dirty looks right back.
We eventually come to a door and the guy stops in front of it and presses a button next to the door and spoke into a panel next to the door. “Sir, I have the native alter that wanted to speak with you.” after a second, the door opens and we enter the room. Just by the size of the office I can tell this guy is important. I am led over to stand in front of a desk with a grown man in a HOLY uniform with long brown hair and a angled face that looks like it’s seen a lot of things that most people will never see. He is looking at me with his hands folded in front of him an interested look on his face as I stand there before him. After a few seconds of him staring at me he says, “Hello, My name is Commander Martin Jigmar, leader of HOLY. I understand that you are interested in joining our organization. Is that correct, Mister.....” (he looks at a small file in front of him) “...Kelly?” After a second I answer, “You got that right, buddy.” I see the green haired guy raises his eyebrow at me. The commander smiles slightly and resumes speaking. “Well I hope you realize what kind of situation you put me in. My sources have told me that you are the one responsible for the deaths of several of my people, and now you come here to tell me that you want to join us.” I really start to feel very uncomfortable at this point. “So, I ask you, why should I trust you enough to let you join our organization?” There is a long pause as I think about how to answer. “Well, as I see it, if you let me join you you’ll be getting a replacement for the guys you lost that is better by leaps and bounds.” After thinking for a few seconds I add, “And I also have an agenda of my own to complete. I have someone I need to protect and there is someone else that I need to find to get even with. I think joining HOLY will help me accomplish those goals.”
The commander looks at me for a few seconds and says “Everyone here has a reason for joining HOLY. These reasons are what motivate us in our lives. Your obvious dedication to your cause leads me to believe that you will not try to betray us.” He holds his hand out towards me. “Welcome to HOLY.” I stand there for a second, shocked that he would actually recruit me, and then shake his hand to seal the deal.
The Next Day
A small dust cloud flies up as I pull my buggy to a stop in front of the doctors office where I left Megumi. I get out and walk to the door and go inside. “Hey Doc, I’m back!” I yell.
The doctor walks out from the back and says, “Hello, welcome back my friend.”
“How is Megumi?”
“She regained consciousness early this morning. You can go in and talk to her if you want, but she might be a little out of it because of the painkillers I gave her.”
“Thanks a lot Doc.” I say as I walk into the back office. I see Megumi laying back on the bed, awake but looking pretty sleepy. She waves at me and says “Hey Rob, where have you been?” I walk up to the bed, sit down next to her, and hold her hand gently. “I’ve been out taking care of some things for us.” I say to her, not looking her in the eye. “Really? What kinds of things?” I pause, reluctant to tell her what I’ve done. “What’s wrong Rob? What happened?” she says, sounding concerned. I take a deep breath and begin to tell her. “Well, first of all, we have a new place to live.” She gasps in excitement and says “Really! Where?!” After a brief pause I say “The City.” Her face loses some of it’s excitement and she starts to look at me suspiciously. “I know you got paid well for that last job but you couldn’t get even a small place in the city for that much. How did you manage to pull that off?” I turn away before I explain it to her. “I’ve joined HOLY.” She starts laughing and says “Come on, quit joking around. Tell me the truth, you would never join HOLY.” I dig into the pocket of my coat and turn around. “I am telling you the truth. See?” I say as I hold up my brand new, shiny HOLY badge for her to see. There is a long, uncomfortable silence as her gaze shifts between my dead serious face and the badge in my hand. The silence ends when she quietly says “Why did you do that?” I reply, “Because I can’t keep my promise to protect you out here. I can’t be here with you all of the time. You’ll be much safer in the city. Not to mention that while I’m part of HOLY I’ll be able to use their facilities to get information on the gang that attacked you, and find that alter user that we’ve been looking for. I was able to pull some strings and I was able to get you a job in the intelligence and logistics division of HOLD so we can have access to their files on native alter users and monitor troop deployments. And besides, if something happens that I don’t like, we can always leave, whether they like it or not.” There is even more silence until Megumi says “Well, if you think it’s for the best, I’m okay with it.” I smile at her, feeling relieved. “I’m so happy that you understand. As soon as you’re able to get out of bed we’ll go to the city. You won’t be sorry about this Megumi.” Little did she know that I already was sorry about this.
END CHAPTER 3
TO BE CONTINUED......
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