Having searched through every universe they had shared, gathering bits and pieces of karma along the way, Zero stood before Maddy Base in silence for a long while after circling all the way back.
"Why aren't you going inside?" Jean-Bot sighed, his gentle voice sounding just as the base's gates slid open.
"Little Zero, getting homesick?" Glen bounded over with a grin and threw an arm around the captain's shoulders. But when he instinctively looked around and failed to spot the other familiar figure that was always by Zero's side, he realized something was wrong.
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