youre_smashing | Any room for a timed out character?

"And you haven't changed." Though he'd been gone for nearly a year, Cyrus was more than willing to guess at it.

"Well, why improve on perfection?" he asked, absolutely seriously.

"By definition there cannot be an improvement on perfection," Cyrus chided. "Your attempts to affix the term to yourself, however, show simply how very flawed you are."

"Not if it's true," Eggman replied. "Can you prove to me I'm NOT?"

"No warmonger can ever be considered perfect. That much is obvious to all but the most useless in society." Cyrus's tone was more openly hostile than his usual harsh monotone. Sonething had changed about him. He wasn't keeping the tight control he usually did.

"That's an over-generalization," Eggman retorted with a smirk. "Logical fallacies in your arguments? You've slipped!" If Cyrus had a harder time controlling his self-righteous front, Eggman was more than happy to goad him on.

"I present to you basic fact and you dismiss it. Those who wage war, who seek dominance and control...power is only temporary, and all empires fall. Your foundation is mere sand, and will crumble under what is right and just."

This was a bit more controlled, but not by much. The anger in Cyrus's voice was more than evident, and his hands were starting to tremble.

"You mean, unlike YOUR intentions for the world?" Eggman retorted smugly. "Trying to remake all of reality until some punk kid stepped up and stopped you? "I know the truth. I know you're jealous of me, because I've come closer to achieving YOUR goals than you EVER have."

"You could never comprehend my goals, as you embody the antithesis of them. You and what you stand for are why I must act, and what I will undo." He wasn't going to fall into that anger, no matter how much it shoved at his mind, no matter how justified it would be to act in violence. He had to be more stable than that, to reclaim what he had lost in the past year. "You could never understand justice."

"You want to remake the world in your image. What about that is hard to understand? Convince yourself anything you want, but there's nothing complicated about your goals," Eggman taunted. "You're just like me. You just don't want to admit it."

"In my image...how worthless. What i seek is the ultimate, that which we must ALL aspire to. There will be nothing so meaningless as self-centeredness, no egotism, no conceit. There will be only the perfection of a world without spirit. Only then," he snapped, "can we be free of our bonds and live unburdened."

With a quick glare, a subtle move that barely altered his usual expression, he added "You delight in that burden. Though I will rule, it will not be for myself. I will serve that perfection. You would do so for your own gratitude."

Eggman waved his hand dismissively. "All I'm hearing is that you think you're perfect and that everyone should be like you," he scoffed. "How PATHETIC! At least I have the RESOURCES to make my vision real! You just have your words!"

Cyrus waved his hand. "No human is perfect. We are inherently flawed, and that is why I do this. I will become perfect, and bring about the creation of that once thought impossible."

Only his words? How naïve. Though his followers were isolated to the Sinnoh region and had greatly reduced in number, they were, to Cyrus, adequate for the time being.

"I could make you perfect," Eggman told him. "Just a quick zap of my Robotisizer..."

That was a memory Cyrus wanted rid of. He had no emotions, but he had no control over himself, and could only watch as his body was controlled like a puppet.

"I refuse. Perfection cannot come from one like you, I repeat again. It is meaningless besides, to achieve that ascendance without a greater goal."

"How is serving my every whim NOT achieving a greater goal?"

He was entirely serious about that.

From an extremely literal standpoint it was a true statement. But Cyrus wasn't about to fall into that trap. "Linguistically you may be correct, provided one uses 'greater' to simply mean larger. However, you are full aware that I speak of greater as something beyond this, some ultimate freedom from our shackles."

"I know what YOU meant, I just don't care. My purposes are INFINITELY greater than YOURS."

"Selfish pursuits can never be considered great, in any sense of the word."

It was just like old times.

"Not to YOU at least."

Some things never changed.

"This will accomplish nothing," Cyrus muttered. "In time..."

"Yes, whatever you say. Looking forward to seeing you crash and burn."

And he was gone.

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