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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-11-26 08:45 pm

Not with a Bang: Conclusion

The base camp is a mess by the time the fight is over. The heavy rain alone would have been enough, but the battle has churned up the earth itself. The previously peaceful clearing is pockmarked with craters and dark puddles where ash has mixed into rainwater, along with oil and blood that swirl unpleasantly through the shallow pools. The trees are bowed outwards with the force of the powers that waged through the area, trunks shattered and torn, boughs hanging haphazardly or draped with the remnants of tents and equipment.

Perhaps all that can be said is that it gives the Voidtrecker Express a decidedly clear landing spot. The train snakes its way through the jungle, coming to a stop in a familiar, though now lopsided, coil around the clearing, and opening its doors to allow injured to be carried on, or anyone from the train to disembark.

It’s clear that there are indeed people aboard - as the doors hiss open, activity is already visible inside, as well as voices audibly going back and forth over the tinny speakers of the ICP.

Now that the saboteurs are dealt with, the final repairs can be made to the damaged stations and the shields locked into place. By the time they are done, nothing and no one will be able to enter the planet - from space, anyway.

The train will remain in the clearing through the night of Imagination 12 and the morning of Imagination 13, until all the stations are prepared, the pandas returned to their rightful place and everyone has rejoined the train.

By midday of Imagination 13, the train is ready to leave. Everyone gets a message on their SCA to return to the train, if they haven’t already. Once all are onboard the doors shut and the train begins to snake through the jungle.

“Re-entering Voidspace in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.”

The train rattles and shakes as the greenery around them (and the purple of a few farewell pandas) fade into the colours of the void.
flatteries: (there's no logic in your sadness)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-12-06 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ah.."

Those words completely stop Inigo in his tracks for a moment. Because they're so familiar. It's something he has said before in the past. I don't want to waste anyone's resources on something so minor. The exact reason behind the scars that litter his own body underneath his hoodie.

"That's admirable. Being willing to bear the pain, I mean." He won't at least start this out with a compliment. It's how Inigo is, after all, unable to ever stop himself from spreading those all over the place. But.. "Please don't worry though. Potions may be limited, but there are quite some people with healing powers. I don't even think it would take them much to heal those. And it would be quite uncomfortable to even sleep this way, right?"

That in turn is Inigo speaking from personal experience. Ugh, rolling over onto a sore spot. The worst.
happyends: (better than the rest)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-12-06 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"W-Well," she starts, looking a bit nervous, "that's why I started practicing archery a few months ago! Because I wanted to be able to contribute.. And I seemed to be better at it than using anything else."

Like other weapons. Especially since she had no magical ability to fall back on - as far as Madoka actively knows, anyway.

"And it has helped on missions before, so I felt really glad about that. But.. it's just.."

Her voice trails off, and it's quickly followed by her gaze sliding off to the side too as she thinks.

"The fact that the enemies were robots made it really hard. Arrows can't do much against those.. Maybe if I still had my magical arrows from when Maru was around, but since he disappeared, I can't use that power anymore." And it's been a bummer. Not that Madoka hasn't done her best to try and make do with what she has - she's the type for it, after all - but it's hard to go from a position where you felt like you could do more than you could before back to square one.
mtsilver_conquor: (Default)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-06 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"... Sure..." She manages out.

It's for the best that she's so numb to everything. It makes it easier to stay still and that is largely what she focuses on. Not the stabs of pain as metal's carefully removed, not the warmth of the light, no matter how much she wants to. Warmth means sleepier than she is.

It's the fact she has to stay still.

".... least we don't 'ave ghos'typ's here... they'd want m'soul."

Eva please.
hisblueskies: Blond-haired boy leaning on windowsill, hands apart. (What Gives?)

[personal profile] hisblueskies 2020-12-06 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Alfredo's first thought was to try and figure out another way to get those arrows - but then it ties back to Maru, and he doesn't want to devalue her friend but casting the issue in that light!

So for the moment, he goes for another hug instead.

"And you still miss him," he says softly.

"I think that's normal, though. And it doesn't mean we can't figure out some other way, either."
blitzcheer: (hiya hiya waaaaheyyyy)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-12-06 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...ohhh boy. Tidus rubs the back of his head.

"Right, right." Uh. "Okay. You heading back there? I'll come with and drop them off. Just one of the bags." So there isn't so much space being taken up. Those rooms aren't big!

He could just tell the guy to go back to bed anyway, but considering how often Senku likes something to do... having the distraction there might help keep him put. Near a bed. And fall asleep.

(We can only hope.)

Also heading towards wrap here?

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-12-06 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"We could start a club for it," Nita suggests, with just a hint of a tease in her voice.

"Not sure if we could do a full two-team game in here, though."

Nooot exactly the right width!

"But it'd be good stress-relief."
mtsilver_conquor: (Behind these eyes)

I think so unless there's anything from a mission thread you want to follow up on?

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-06 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
And Eva is more than happy to lean into the hug. It's a good enough distraction from, well, everything and if Nita's not careful, she'll end up trapped for a while.
blitzcheer: (tfw yuna tbh)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-12-06 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"My bed won't complain," he grins. A joke!! But he quickly shakes his head. "Nah, I'm gonna be out, and no one's gonna be coming in and out." He's pretty sure of that.

Tidus walks back the steps to come outside its door, three names on the plaque beside it if Yoite looks (S'reee, Tidus, Xue Yang). At his side, his ticket appears in his left hand from his arms band, and he holds it out.

"If you need to use the bathroom. Wait, here-" He can at least open the door with it first, right? Open it up, then hold it out again.

"My bed's the bottom one, so you're fine. I can give you some snacks if you wake up hungry, but--I'll come back and check on you. 'Kay? Don't worry about sticking around. Rest up."

He'll let a few people know where Yoite is too, just in case.
mtsilver_conquor: (Shatter me)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-06 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"What problems? I'm fine."

Really... she's not and she knows it. Knows she should talk or at least verbalise it a bit, but at the same time-

No. Nerdanel's right. "I almost died."
unfavorableinstigation: It is dark, but Nita is inside reading a book. (Dark)

;)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-12-06 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
There'd be silence for a time, but then-

"Hey, Eva? Want to show me Roro's video again?"

Assuming she, y'know, had them within reach.
ourtomorrow: ([kenzuna] neutral)

works for me!

[personal profile] ourtomorrow 2020-12-06 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
This certainly seems to have worked for Ken, so he grins. "It could be."

Depending on the number of players, they'd have to modify the positions to account for population and, yes, dimensions of the field. A shorter width would affect gameplay, too....

Leafmon just grins. He can tell Ken-chan is thinking about something other than feeling bad.

Soccer is great!
Edited 2020-12-06 15:15 (UTC)
mtsilver_conquor: (Default)

lets pretends I have live action images for these

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-06 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Again?" There's a slow blink of confusion- she didn't think she'd shown- "Ah, that one I promised to show you?"

And not the one of Princess meeting a female clefairy (much cute, much Cute Charm. Much balls of fluff.). "Sure - Roro."

The Rotomi zips into Eva's hand as she straightens, and, after a few seconds, Eva brings up a video- and hits play.

It opens to a rock, sticks and fur nest of several rocky-grey eggs. It then pans out to reveal it's in a den of some kind; clearly artificial.

And then a head comes into view. Compared to the eggs, it's massive, yet the care shown as the creature -the hydreigon- shifts and rearranges the nest to better protect the eggs is delicate with precision care.

The clip then cuts away to the same nest, but this time with very young deino that tumble and play and gnaw toothlessly on each other) until the mother comes into the view - and regurgitates meat and bone for the young before carefully breaking the side of the nest with what looks like another head? Smaller but rather head-shaped- so the seven tiny dragons can stumble towards the food.

They near faceplant in it in the Quest For Food and the video cuts out.

"Don't get me wrong; these are one of the most dangerous pokemon known to humankind, but at the same time... they care for their young. This one was filmed by the dragon's tamer. It's how she was able to get to so close to a mother and her nest."
Edited 2020-12-06 15:40 (UTC)
flatteries: (somehow it's never enough)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-12-06 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"You saying you dodge stuff that can explode doesn't exactly inspire a whole lot of confidence in me.."

Because why is stuff exploding in the first place, Senku! Okay, he'll grant him that the explosion during the mission wasn't Senku's own fault, but please don't cause explosions yourself at any other time.. Please..

"But I'm sure there are enough people concerned about you right now that nothing bad could happen while you're still recovering." Because everyone will make sure he doesn't do anything too dangerous.
happyends: (so it's now or never more)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-12-06 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Good, that's phase one done. The next step is to find a good spot for them to rest. Things should be relatively peaceful enough now the enemies have been taken care of that most spots should be fine for a rest, but Madoka would rather be sure and cautious after everything they've already been through.

So after making sure the surroundings are quiet enough, she leads Ple Two over to a big tree under which they can sit in the shade. Madoka sits down first, back against the tree trunk, but still holding onto the other girl's hand to let her join her down there.

"There, it should be quiet here."
happyends: (better than the rest)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-12-06 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"Then.. should I help?"

It comes natural to Madoka, after all. Offering to help. Even though she's not always sure how to, but wanting to find a way, not wanting people to just be sad or have a hard time all by themselves.

But at least she does have an idea of what could help in this case.

"I.. I also didn't do as much as I should have, I think. I took up archery to help out with fighting, but it's not like that can do much against robots.." Which had been the main enemy during the last mission. "Maybe we could think up ways to do better next time together..? It's always better to think about those kinds of things together. Two people-- or, um, three can think of more than two!"
enthunder: (smile ☇ soft)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-12-06 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
He'd really been thinking about it, huh. She shouldn't be surprised.

"Not bad. Think we could use another of those movie nights of yours, too. If you're up for it."
unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan rendered in Undertale-style graphics. (Nita.jpg)

Wrap it is! Also: imagine a train playing soccer.

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-12-06 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
And given how this conversation had gone, that was probably a really good sign.

"Now come on, it's your turn to pass!"
unfavorableinstigation: Nita working with a Kernel (Wizardry Is Kid Stuff)

mood. And I'd figured Eva would have shown it during camp, but that's all right. ^^

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-12-06 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
(The power of fluff was NEVER to be underestimated!)

Nita whispers a soft /Thank you,/ to both Eva and the Rotomi, as the video starts playing.

Watching - they sort of look like dinosaurs, but the fossil versions, and she's admittedly not sure what to make of the ones with multiple heads - Nita finds herself smiling.

"That sounds like it would take a lot of trust." To tame such a dragon...
fun_thementalist: (that's my line usually)

[personal profile] fun_thementalist 2020-12-06 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
“That’s true. We have a lot of stuff,” Gen said, even more fond now, but he tried not to sound too amused. He’s not making fun of Senku. “I gathered tons of spare parts from robots, you’re going to have a lot to sort through.”
dreamtamer: (do you remember)

[personal profile] dreamtamer 2020-12-06 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that really was a familiar look. Although it was strange recognizing that same look even when Ken was so much older.

"I guess so," he offers. "It seems like a lot of things happened on the mission towards the end."
myblueskies: (Default)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2020-12-06 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh that's a really good idea!" He nodded.

"I bet we can find a really good film to watch! Something funny and nice that will make people smile!"

They could get more popcorn too!
happyends: (lies in the palm)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-12-06 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course Romeo is a good roommate, Madoka doesn't even doubt it. He's so sweet, there's just no way he'd ever bother anyone.

"How about your other roommates, Yoite-san?" He seems fine enough to talk about this, at least, so she is hoping it'll distract him. "Do you like them? Have you talked to them yet?"

Considering how Yoite is, she wouldn't.. be too surprised if he hadn't said a word to them yet..
happyends: (so it's now or never more)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-12-06 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"Of course. The things you do.. they always mean something."

She can't help but think of back home a little. Mami, fighting all by herself. Without family or friends. Just fighting to protect all those innocent people, even though they'd never know she saved their lives. Even though no one would know if she died.

"Please help me if there's anything that will make the next mission better! We can think of things together, if you'd like.."
enthunder: (listen ☇ five seconds)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-12-06 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Light supposes, in the end, that she's been sitting here to hear something like that. Second-guessing yourself is no good, but it's nice to think that if even one person isn't expecting her to be omnipotent, she can cut herself a little slack. She exhales, her slight smile still skewed.

"Give yourself some credit, that sounded good." She gives him a light punch on the shoulder, then turns to give herself a moment to stretch. There are times for eye contact, and trying to awkwardly thank your friend for his unexpectedly wise words doesn't feel like one of them. "I'll take it on board. As long as you take your own advice."
enthunder: (listen ☇ five seconds)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-12-06 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It was as close to a joke as she was going to get, and given the way their feelings both seemed to be stagnating in morbidity, it came none too soon. It was a distraction, regardless.

"Guess you'd know best. Clones don't share memories, though. Right?" She hoped not. "Else I'd start to worry they had tanks of us somewhere."

A pause, and she shook her head sharply. "Never mind. We... can't think like that."

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