Legato Bluesummers (Stampede): Difference between revisions

In the present day, Legato has Livio target Vash aboard a sand steamer on its way to the city of July, knowing Wolfwood will protect Vash from harm. Legato's plan is to see whether Wolfwood will choose to protect Vash by killing Livio or spare Livio by allowing Vash to die. To up the ante, Legato uses telekinesis to break one of the drive shafts within the sand steamer and put it on a crash course with the Hopeland Orphanage - the place Wolfwood grew up.{{Storylink|Once Upon a Time in Hopeland}} Legato's reasoning is that if he can eliminate all emotional ties that Wolfwood has, then he can make Wolfwood into the perfect believer and a perfect instrument of Knives's plans. He is fixated on Wolfwood because Wolfwood has the rare physiological distinction of being highly receptive to the experimental drugs used on subjects of the Eye, with a grade of S+ - Wolfwood cannot simply leave the cult or die because more children would be taken from the orphanage until another like him is found. Legato is ultimately unsuccessful at crashing the sand steamer into the orphanage, nor does he secure Wolfwood's loyalty, but he orders Zazie to retrieve Livio's body, saying that he is still useful. {{Storylink|WOLFWOOD (episode)}}  

Legato resurfaces two years after the destruction of July and resumes stealing Plants alongside some of the other Gung Ho Guns. These new Plants will be used to rehabilitate Lord Knives, who exists solely as a nervous system in a stasis tank in the wake of his last fight with Vash. Legato and Elendira are excited for his eventual awakening, though Midvalley is not. Legato takes Midvalley along with him on another Plant-stealing mission in which he uses his telekinetic powers to turn the targeted town's armed guard into pureé by cramming them all into a parked tanker truck nearby. Knives is eventually physically reconstituted, but one more ingredient is needed to awaken him fully: his brother Vash. Vash is currently residing on Ship 5, or "Home", with Luida, Brad, and the others, and a plan is hatched to break in and get him.

 

Legato and Grey the Ninelives volunteer to procure Vash after Midvalley is sent and ends up defecting. Grey goes after the Plants onboard the ship and is intersected by Wolfwood. Vash meets up with Legato and confronts him, but won't kill him. Legato suspends and immobilizes Vash with his telekinetic powers, and is about to leave when he notices Vash shakily raise his gun in spite of the forces being exerted upon him. This excites Legato, and momentarily forgetting about everything else, he decides to turn up the intensity of his telekinesis to see just how much Vash can handle before he breaks. He pushes Vash to the point at which one of his black wings begins to sprout before he is interrupted and neutralized by Elendira, whose nails bring him back to his senses. He apologizes, and she rebukes him. Vash is taken onboard the Ark and secured in a stasis tube next to Knives.

 

Vash is used to successfully re-awaken Knives, whose first act is to order that Vash be held prisoner on board the ship. Legato proceeds to use his telekinetic powers to suspend Vash for five entire months while Knives unsuccessfully interrogates him. Legato is naturally exhausted by this, which allows Wolfwood to get the drop on him and shoot him multiple times. Wolfwood then flees with Vash. Legato eventually catches up to Vash again and challenges him to one final fight. He has the upper hand for most of it, but in a brief moment of weakness, Vash is able to immobilize him from behind and expose the emblem on his arm, which appears to be the source of his powers. Wolfwood aims at it to destroy it, but both Wolfwood and Vash are immobilized by a burst of telekinetic energy. Legato has them both pinned, and tells Vash that he must kill him if he wants to save Wolfwood from being crushed to death. Vash holds out for as long as he can before resigning himself to fate and pulling the trigger. However, right as the bullet touches Legato's forehead, it is dissolved by none other than Knives himself, who descends to the scene to congratulate his brother for finally overcoming his absolute pacifism. Legato, for his part, is subsequently beheaded by Knives both for overstepping his bounds (yet again) and for no longer being useful to Knives' plans. The cut by Knives' blade is so clean that as he dies, Legato is able to shed a single tear and declare that he can now be reborn.