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two-sides-halved · 2 months ago

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Jail Break | @blackstardiopside

The sound of a melody lingering in the darkness, a voice unfamiliar to the young fusion before he woke with a start. He looked around the room he was now in. He groaned as he got to his feet, feeling the pulsing pain in his right eye from the blackeye that he was given from being headbutt by Jasper. He looked around seeing that he was in a cold, green cell. There was no toilet, no sink, no bed…. it seemed more barbaric than any cartoon jail that either of the Stevens had ever witnessed, but of course, this was a jail made for a Gem… they don't eat, they don't need to go to the bathroom, they don't need to sleep. "Where are we?" He had muttered to himself, themselves. He was still sort of new to the whole fusion thing, and this was the first time since he's seen action was being eaten by a corrupted fusion of gems that he had deemed a giant bird.

As the fusions pink colored eyes with their differently shaped and colored pupils, a white star in his semi swollen right eye and a black diamond in his left. They scanned around the room for more information of their settings, their eyes landed on the piss yellow colored forcefield keeping them contained in this jail cell. A subtle air of hopelessness filled the air. His eyes squinted as the fusion had thought.

"Wait, this holding sell was built to hold gems… that's why Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl haven't come to bust us out… so that means it's up to us." The pupils of their eyes changed to white as the fusion following Human's logic pushed their finger tips against the barrier, he jolted backward the pupils turning black. "Ah!! That feels weird… I don't like it…"

"Just like I thought, it was made to keep a gem contained… but we're not just a gem… just bare with me… I think we can get through this just… let's push it a little further ok? Ok…" The fusion took a deep breath, their pupils turned turned to their respective colors of white star in their right eye and a black diamond in their left, as the fusion pushed through the forcefield with some resistance. The yellow destabilization field started trailing up their arm lighting up just beneath the skin in the pattern of something similar to a circuit board. "Ewww… Cool!" The fusion replied with a tone of discomfort before shifting to a tone of interest, then pushed through the barrier fully, a shiver trailed down their shared spine, frizzing out their fluffy dual toned hair.

"Uh… hello… are you ok?" The fusion asked, startling the gem in the cell. The gem in question was a Ruby... not that the fusion would know that. She had long red fluffy hair that went down to just below her shoulders. She had a dark red pair of shoulder pads, a matching belt and thigh high boots. She had a maroon vest with matching shorts with a sort of pinkish or really light red v neck type shirt underneath where the points of the v had met where her gemstone was. The gemstone in question looked almost familiar to the fusion cause it sported a 5 facets with a square at the center and was the same placement as Garnet's own.

"We're out… Wooo!" Steven Squared pumped their fist as if they scored a goal, before shaking his head reminding themselves they need to get back on task. "Gotta find the gems." He headed down the hallway, almost passing another gem before it sounded like she was going through literal torture despite her just being alone in the cell.

"Is that another gem? She looks frustrated…"

"Steven, we don't know this gem… we need to find Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl…"

"Yea but she could help us find the others."

"Or she could be dangerous like the other homeworld gems… do you really wanna risk that?"

"Steven, she needs our help… I'm sure if we show a little kindness we'll get home sooner than us having to deal with this ourselves… please just trust me on this."

"Fine."

She slammed her fist into the wall beside her. The fusion stood back on guard from the sound, checking the hallways wanting to make sure that Jasper or Peridot wouldn't find them.

"Great, this is just perfect!" The red gem said aggravated, raking her fingers through her long fluffy red hair.

The fusions left eye twitched a bit, indicating that Gem Steven was getting irritated with the confusing mixed signals, while Human Steven was focused on the gem wanting to help in any way they could. The gem then paused turning to look at Steven Squared. "Wait… how did you get out of the forcefields?" She asked seemingly more confused than frustrated at this point.

"Do you need any help?" The fusion asked.

"No!! I mean… ugh… don't look at me, just go away." The other huffed with an irritated grumble, turning away from the fusion.

"Oh… well, I just sort of walked through it like this." He replied, demonstrating by pushing his hand through. The gem behind the barrier went to warn them but seeing as they could just pass through confused her even more. She attempted to do the same and yelped as the barrier had made her form glitch out. "What's going on here?"

Before the fusion could answer the question about how he was half human, the melody from before could be heard once more. The pupils on the fusion turned from their black and white colors respectively turned to completely black pupils in both eyes as his tone of voice seemed confused. "Is someone singing?"

"Sapphire." The red gem replied.

Steven Squared holding the forcefield open, breathing heavily as the weird feeling and the tingling spread showing more of these circuitry lines under neath his skin. His voice sounding like he was talking into a fan. "And we'll do this together." She slide out form underneath the arch that Steven had created and already started running down the hallway.

"Sapphire... is she your friend? We- er I'm looking for my friends too.... well they are more of my family, but either way..."

"Let me outta here, please! I need to find Sapphire!" The gem spoke with desperation in her voice, almost to the point where she was pulling at her hair again. "She's all alone, I need to find her!"

"Right. We'll find our friends." He replied holding the forcefield open.

Steven Squared followed the hyper focused red gem, "Hey. My name's Steven... what's yours?" He asked attempting to get some sort of name to go with their face, only to be met with a harsh. "Quiet..." She held her head again, before muttering about being unable to see. Steven Squared seemed confused since the gem could clearly see him before, was the panic over this Sapphire causing her some sort of blindness. He paused, before the unnamed red gem headed down the corridor, while Steven Squared did his best to keep up.

Eventually coming across another gem. The outline of the dress excited the red gem before her expression soured seeing that it was Lapis. "Oh... it's just you..." She racked her fingers through her hair as she passed around. Steven Squared looked at Lapis through the piss yellow barrier that shielded the colors from him other then the various shades of yellow that the force field had tinted her gems light formed body. "Lapis?"

"How many other gems are trapped here?"

"Don't know, don't care." Before she skidded to a stop, in front of the window. Steven Squared pausing to admire the beauty of out space despite the current situation they were in. Before his attention was brought back from the pretty look of the Earth viewed from the Homeworld ship they were on, hearing the red gem note that Sapphire had stopped singing, and ran down the hall way again.

The fusion was so glad to see a familiar face but seeing her new form implied to them that she was hurt when she had left to return to homeworld. Gem Steven's thoughts swirling into a frenzy.

"This bitch."

"Steven, be nice."

"Steven, be serious here... how the hell would the other gems know where we lived? Homeworld hadn't bothered Earth for thousands of years then suddenly this bitch heads home and we have gems knocking at our front door like the FBI... she told homeworld where we lived... I mean look at her."

"Yea, she looks like she was hurt badly like Pearl was when I was first learning how to sword fight."

"Or, she was just given a fancy new set of clothing and status and this is just a fucken front to make us sympathize with the enemy!"

"Steven! She was trapped in a mirror for thousands of years."

"Yea, and you ever think to why she'd be trapped in a mirror if it weren't for being a double crossing backstabbing two sided bitch? Even she told the gems off for not knowing who she was like they had a clue in the first place... bitch."

"Steven, she was upset for being trapped for thousands of years... look at her... she looks so scared and lost."

"Yea, she's so lost and scared, and she totally knows who I am in every way, shape and form, because I'm totally a liar and she knows me better than I know myself... oh wait she doesn't know jackshit about me and then claimed that I wasn't who I said I was... then went back to the same people who put her into the fucking mirror in the first place. I don't trust her."

"Steven, I know that you and her got off on the wrong foot, but clearly she needs our help... please."

"UGH, fine, we will offer our help... if she does anything to piss me off I say we bounce... I'm not gonna waste my time to help someone who doesn't appreciate the help I've already given her."

"Steven, you healed her gem because you thought she was a tool..."

"Well, maybe she should have told Pearl in the 1000s of fucking years that she was in a mirror that she was actually a gem who was nice and trapped in a bad situation, but nah, fuck that idea, I guess."

"Steven, be nice... you don't know how it was to actually be in the mirror and forced to work all the time... maybe she never thought to ask for help because she didn't think it was an option to ask for help."

"Bull fucking shit, how the fuck are you able to capture and replay moments you've witnessed while in a mirror during a fucking war yet never witnessed someone yelling for back up or that they're trapped?? Cause she was talking to you but she was using moments she had watched and she replayed them in all sorts of orders to create cohesive sentences when she was talking with you, so I don't wanna hear that 'oh maybe she never thought to ask for help.' You are the perfect kind of person to be manipulated because you are so wonderful and kind and trusting and she's a bitch, who played you like a fucking fiddle."

Gem Steven's rage made the fusions left fist clench into a ball, wanting to punch this gem in the face for calling them disgusting. It was one thing for her to be upset about being trapped, he could understand being falsely accursed for crimes that he didn't commit since not even half an hour ago, he was confronted with Jasper calling him by his mothers name... hell, he even recalled Lars telling them off about how their 'weird' mom had ruined his chances with the cool kids, because NO ONE IN THAT GROUP HAD THE COMMON SENSE TO STAY OUT OF A TAPED OFF AREA THAT SAID "KEEP OUT" ALL OVER IT.

The fusion rolled their eyes before the pupils went from black to white as he went to talk to Lapis. Lapis seemed joyed to hear the familiar voice, until she turned around and saw the two of them fused together. It was already unheard of for two gems to fuse of different rankings to fuse, but a gem and a human, it was even more disgusting than two gems fusing. The look of disgust clear on her face, shot a small pang through the fusion's chest.

"Lapis... I can get you free." The fusion had stated despite Lapis' clear disgust in seeing them.

"Stop!"

"It's ok, Lapis, the barrier doesn't hurt me..."

"No, I don't want your help! Things were bad enough on Homeworld." She held herself. "I've already made too much trouble."

"See I told you she ratted us out."

"Steven, shhh."

"Once we get to homeworld, they are gonna decide what they are going to do with us... and it'd be best if you got out of that disgusting form you're using." Lapis remarked.

But this was not just some jerky teenager, or some dumbass from Steven's school, or a battle hardened gem who didn't know or bother to learn his name... this was someone his brother cared about openly calling them disgusting for just showcasing their close bond as brothers. It made his cheeks burn red with rage, but Human Steven's calming presence and gentle touch on his arm caused the fusion to mimic the motions of trying to hold back his arm from raising a hand against another person.

"Lapis... do you really wanna stay trapped in this prison instead of letting me help?"

"UGH, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS." Ruby yelled in the middle of their conversation as she sped off. The fusion turned, Gem Steven shared the sentiment but Human Steven was determined to convince Lapis. He was her beach summer fun buddy after all.

"Steven... or whatever you call this thing, I don't know what you're trying to do, just stop. If we do everything they say they might go easy on us."

His pupils went from both being white to having the usual white and black with his left eye twitching from the sheer irritation that this gem is putting him through. "But they're mean... they hurt my friends, they hurt my face... they put you in a jail cell... and you're just gonna sit there and take it?? Because they might go easy on us??"

"That's why we can't fight them."

Steven Squared's eyes shifting colors to having black pupils again, the rage evident in his voice.

"That's why we should! This is not the kinda thing that my mom had stood for, she stood against the tyranny of homeworld, that's why this big war was fought for Earth and you're telling me to forget all that my mom fought for and to sit back and just let it happen?!"

Steven Squared looking Lapis in the eyes with his pure black pupils, while his right arm holds his left arm back, before it relaxes as he turns away so only the black diamond eye is looking back.

"Ugh, I don't expect you to understand a thing, you're just some freak. If you really valued your brother like you claim, you'd stop this nonsense and just go back to your cell and just let them decide what's best."

Steven Squared clenched his teeth shut, Gem Steven was this close to fighting this so called scared, lost, defenseless gem while she was in her cell, but Human Steven held him back.

"Steven, we don't have to keep trying to convince her... we should find the gems... we can try and help her later."

"No... I told you already that I am not going to waste my time with anyone who doesn't appreciate my help... if she'd rather have Homeworld punish her for crimes she didn't do, so be it."

"Steven..."

"No, don't 'steven' me with that tone of voice... er... internal echoey voice thing... I told you we'd offer she told us to fuck off, end of discussion... Like the other gem, we don't have time for this. We need to get the gems, and get back home."

"Fine.. you don't want our help.. enjoy your punishment while we get off this ship and leave you here since you clearly made your bed, I'll let you lie in it." Lapis held herself, and the fusion went to go find where the red gem had rushed off too.

Eventually, heading down just the right hallway with a branching hallway that the fusion hid in. As Peridot and Jasper had walked by. "We can't leave yet! The whole point of this mission was to check on the cluster!"

Jasper huffed irritated before slamming her fist on the wall by one of the sealed up cells. "STOP SINGING!"

"Go to Earth, they said... it'll be easy, they said." Peridot walking down the hallway not seeing the short fusion in the hallway adjacent before heading out as soon as the coast was clear, then walked to the gem who was in her cell, and singing again.

Peridot shrunk down a bit at the noise, before Jasper turned, "Rose Quartz take's priority." Peridot looked a bit irritated, as Jasper continued. "Go back to the bridge and set a course for Homeworld."

Peridot lingering behind before Jasper walks away.

"Thank you, Steven." She replied ducking under the others self made archway. The Sapphire in question was about Steven's height. She had a light blue short bob cut with an almost off white bluish tiara accessory, with a strapless dress that had a heart shaped top with blue shall that went over the darker blue dress that covered her legs, and she sported a pair of nearly full arm length gloves.

"Hey... I like your song." The fusion smiled, "You must be Sapphire... the other one said that was your voice."

"You escaped?"

He pushed through the barrier, letting her through the forcefield.

"Of course..." Much like before the fusion sounded like they were talking into a fan as the ushered her out the opening they made. "Come on it's safe."

Steven Squared paused, confused on how the other already knew his name, but before he was given time to respond with a thanks or ask how she knew his name. They heard the gem from before yell out Sapphire's name, and without so much as another word, the blue gem, held the fusion's hand and zoomed down the hall before they were at the other end of the hallway.

The two gems start smooching and hold each other close, Ruby scooping up Sapphire into her arms, and spinning around with the other as they giggled. Steven Squared paused, questioning if he should be watching this but couldn't look move to look away or cover his eyes, only to be met with the sight of the two of their forms merging into one another, revealing Garnet.

"Ruby!" She let go of Steven as the other two embarrassed each other.

"Did they hurt you?"

"No, no, I'm ok... Did they hurt you?"

"Who cares?"

"I do!"

"Garnet, you're a fusion?!"

"So are you!" She smiled and held his cheeks.

"We are??" He looked down at himself. "Oh right, I am... so uhh... did we make a good first impression?"

"Aww, Steven, we already love every part of you rather you're together or not." She holds the other close in a hug. Thought it was short lived with Jasper let out a bloodcurdling scream wondering where she was.

Steven Squared nodded, and headed out of the room that would be home to Garnet and Jasper's fight, eventually finding Amethyst and Pearl, freeing them, then heading to the control bridge catching Peridot off guard, she attempted to use a destabilizer on Steven Squared, but he held it despite the weird tingling it had given him, he snapped it in two, while Amethyst tied her up in a whip, while Pearl took over the controls. Steven Squared watching on the screen seeing Garnet and Jasper fighting, while Peridot then used the escape pod to leave and she was flung somewhere into the great North.

"It's Jasper. You need to find the others and get to the control bridge."

"We don't know where they are."

Garnet smiled and give them a kiss on the forehead passing their future vision to him briefly. "Haha, fusion vision... wait are you gonna be able to take her on all alone?"

"Don't worry Steven... I'm never alone." She replied with a wink.

Human Steven had a pang of worry about Lapis, and debated with his brother while still in the fusion on rather or not they could go back for her, only for Garnet to return and tell them that the ship was going to crash and to brace for impact.

"What about Lapis?!" Human Steven's worry evident in the fusion's voice. "There's no time!" Garnet replied. Before she huddled everyone into the corner as the ship had finally crashed into the side of the temple, making a massive explosion, spreading shrapnel everywhere.

It was calm only briefly until Jasper had crawled out of the debris of the destroyed handship. She huffed and puffed. It was surprising she didn't poof with the amount of energy she was hit with when she was knocked into the the ship's power source. She snarled upset, "Don't think you've won, you only beat me because you're a fusion...if I had someone to fuse with I'd.--" Jasper was interrupted mid sentence by Lapis pushing off other shrapnel. She huffed, seeing Jasper coming she tried to fly away only to but pulled back by Jasper.

Lion eventually seeing the explosion from where he was taking a nap, then went to go find the crystal gems, smelling out for the sent of Gem Steven's gemstone, eventually finding them. Lion had freed them from the rubble with a powerful destructive roar, then the bubble that the fusion of Stevens had created to keep them safe, had dropped the three of them giving him props for his quick thinking and faster actions.

"hey buddy." Steven Squared replied as Lion joined in on the cuddle pile, before Steven Squared gasped. "I can't believe you're a fusion all the time!"

"You met Ruby and Sapphire?"

"Oh no.... we were going to introduce you... Garnet, your plan."

"We were waiting for your birthday."

"We can still do it... we'll just pretend we didn't know. Honestly I kinda forgot that I was even a fusion myself... but something feels kinda right about being like this... kinda comforting." He replied, as they got up.

Jasper holding her by the wrist. "Aw, don't fly off so soon."

"Lapis!" Human Steven's worry for Lapis being justified in the moment when she was being held by the very same gem who hurt Garnet, who hurt him, who ruined his future birthday surprise, the gems as well as his own left arm had to hold the fusion back from trying to run to intercept Jasper and Lapis' interaction as Jasper continued to talk to Lapis.

"Lapis, listen, fuse with me."

"What??"

"How long did they keep you trapped her on this miserable hunk of rock?" She dropped her to where she landed on her knees on the dirty ground. "These gems... they are traitors to their homeworld. They kept you prisoner, they used you, this is your chance to take revenge!"

Lapis looked over at the gems, her gaze solely on Steven Squared, seeing the white pupils looking at her, begging, pleading silently with her. "Come on... just say yes."

"Lapis, don't do it. Please..." He was being held back by the gems, by his own left arm, but Human Steven's personality shining through, while Gem Steven's nagging thoughts were put on the back burner, as he held his tongue hoping hoping maybe Lapis could see the right decsion.

Lapis look shifted into anger, how dare this abomination order her around. Then she turned to Jasper and held out her hand, in which Jasper took it. they danced. "Lapis No!"

Their gems glowing before the two of them fused into a massive fusion sporting 6 arms, featuring traits from both the Lapis Lazuli and the Jasper, before the fusion laughed raising the ocean to form some sort of shaky wave before the fusion itself was surprised by the water taking form of ice chains. It was clear that Lapis was was in control of that moment, Jasper trying to separate the fusion but the ice chains held them together the fusion in Lapis' voice telling them, "I'm sick and tired of everyone always using me for some sort of gain... I was their prisoner, I was your prisoner, and now your my prisoner and we're staying on this miserable planet, TOGETHER." Then they were dragged out of sight by the Earth's ocean that Lapis had control over.

Steven Squared looked out on the water, before the two of them unfused. Both of them sporting a black eye over their right eyes. Gem Steven's was more of a pink rose patterned bruise while Human Steven's looked more like a traditional bruise. Lion went over to comfort them while placing cookie on the ground between the two of them, laying down in a protective manor over the three of them, while Pearl double checked over both of their bruises worried about how the Steven's were handling having black eyes.

#a delicate balancing act ~ [ steven squared rps ]#whats my mission ~ [ gem steven rps ]#cheeseburger backpack ~ [ human steven rps ]#i think we made something ~ [ tsh ruby rps ]#entirely new ~ [ tsh sapphire rps ]#here comes a thought ~ [ tsh garnet rps ]#super tough in a small package ~ [ tsh amethyst rps ]#terrifying renegade ~ [ tsh pearl rps ]#ice cream kitten ~ [ cookie cat rps ]#trusty pink floof ~ [ tsh lion rps ]#skinny bitch liar fuck face ~ [ tsh lapis rps ]#a little angry slice of pie ~ [ tsh peridot rps ]#dedicated to her diamond ~ [ tsh jasper rps ]#blackstardiopside

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akhenaten-imhotep · 2 years ago

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Far away from the compound Akhenaten was enjoying a cup of coffee in her own pocket dimension. From what Achilles and Noel had told her, Alethea was no different from the typical imperial who was kept ignorant. So, the sorceress’ package must have shook her world. She knew the inquisitor would have questions, and would look for proof. Akhenaten’s eyes went to the shelves full with evidence she’d collected over the years. Part of it came from communing with the dead. An old tradition from her homeworld. Heavens knew how much effort it took to collect whatever knowledge she could get during the Thousand Son’s crushing of Gaznir’s rebellion.

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As the mercenary made her way to the capital she hoped her wards would work. Her in-between state made the psyker the perfect snack for warp predators and warp-plagues. Plus, she’d rather avoid fighting a greater deamon. Could she do it? Yes. Was it like pulling teeth? Yes. Did it make her feel like she was standing on the edge of a knife? Yes. Would she rather do it after having the chance to prepare herself? Yes, yes, and yes.

There was no way of knowing if she would have access in this god-forsaken world to whatever she’d need to increase her chances of success. So she stuck to those roads that went through areas with low spiritual corruption. It didn’t matter that it would take her longer getting to the capital. She’d rather arrive in one piece, please and thank you.

As she travelled the long and winding road she meditated on what she was. She knew the Architect of Fate had sunk its claws on the Thousand Sons since the beggining. Hence the Flesh Change being its creation.

Funny, all those years fearing it would take her; only for it to become a reality. And it didn’t happen spontaneusly. Ahriman’s rubric had forever erased all chances of that. The only two ways it could currently strike a thousand son was either through magical misshaps, or by submitting oneself voluntarily to it.

And Akhenaten got it through the first one. The rubric of Ahriman had been the straw that broke the camel’s back.

And I didn’t have the passion anymore. And so it is, it is better to burn out than to fade away.

So overcome was she with grief that when she learned the chaos spawn who had been Horemheb was wandering the dunes of a crone-world she went there. To take them both out of their misery. She threw every warning she’d gotten agaisnt pushing herself too hard to the wind. What were the chances she would survive this?

But she did. And was she was catching her breath after the hard battle something stirred beneath her flesh. The psyker was well on the way to becoming a chaos spawn when something halted the change. Could it have been the relic she found in some ruins a long time ago?

It took her a long time to figure out what she was. An ascended being. Someone who had trascended their post-human state. Existing in an in-between state, because there were only two paths they could take.

Something similar to her gene-sibling Asthortas the inscontant. A constantly mutating critter whose armor was the only constant part of him. He believed himself to be on the edge of his final mutation, one that would finally decide if he would arise as a Daemon Prince or turned into a Mutalith Vortex Beast like the ill-fated Hasophet.

And none of the paths semt apetitizing to her.

Lady Forlorn (for that was the alias with which the mercenary identified herself), kept her rant about the Imperium.

How could the Emperor demand to not be worshipped, when he cloaked himself in the trappings of one? No wonder Lorgar Aurelian, the Urizen, had said that only a true god would deny his divinity. Yes, that Lorgar, the man who wrote the Lectitio Divinitatus, which kickstarted the Imperial Cult.

The Emperor had thought he could teach Lorgar a lesson by hummiliating him and his Legion in front of the Ultramarines after the destruction of Monarchia. The only thing that achieved was his son, Lady Forlorn’s uncle, running to the arms of Chaos. Erebus and Kor Phaeron took advantage of him in his moment of weakness. And what followed was 45 years of treason and plots, culminating in the Istvaan III massacre.

She swore she would submit Kor Phaeron and Erebus to all sorts of torments before they begged her to let them die.

The more Lady Forlorn spoke about Lorgar, the more obvious it became she loved him and was hurt by his betrayal. He was one of the uncles she was close to. All thanks to his friendship with the Crimson King.

This could only mean one thing. Lady Forlorn was the gene-child of Magnus the Red.

The next part of Lady Forlorn’s narration was chronicling how she managed to get off the planet.

Once she was healed, the psyker tried looking for her rag tag band of mercs. They had become separated during the cultist’s attack on the ill-fated nobles’ manor. Hopefully they would still be alive and their vehicle still intact.

Unfortunately, when she arrived to the next town she found signs of their demise. But at least some of them survived and went to the planet’s capital, which gave her an idea to where she would have to go. She only hoped a Greater Daemon wouldn’t kill her. Heavens knew those were becoming more common in the world.

#alethea #rp: the package

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