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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.

Yee!

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-12-17 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita grins, her eyes widening.

"Let's hear it for slime!"

After that, she started digging in her head a little harder; surely she could remember something even neater!
enthunder: (but not half as impossible)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-12-17 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wouldn't say no. But, spoiling? You think so?" Light's not overly concerned that she's ruining the kid in any serious way, but... She has a reputation.

Well. She had a reputation. Their animal companion appears to be winding down from its meal, tucking itself into a loose ball, utterly unafraid of them. She watches it for a moment, the months of their journey stretching back in her mind's eye. Her relationship with the kid, her relationship with Qing... and everyone, really. She pities the Lightning who stood on that platform in Apple. Her hand stills briefly, enough time for her to huff in amused disbelief. "Can't believe I'm the soft touch here."
happyends: (so it's now or never more)

[personal profile] happyends 2020-12-17 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh-huh."

She nods slightly to accompany that small, affirming sound.

"That's not too strange to ask, is it..? I guess I'm just a little curious." What would Ple Two like to do? Or maybe even more importantly - what could Ple Two see herself doing?
enthunder: (listen ☇ five seconds)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-12-17 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fine, huh. I can work with that."

Been through worse seemed to be the prevailing feeling, and the best she could really hope for, given everything. Thus reassured, she reached down to begin reassembling the Saber, letting herself move by rote.

As she did, she watched the armadillo that had until that point been largely ignoring them start to investigate Rieper's boots.

"How's the rabbit?"
enthunder: (zoom ☇ #sensitive ffxiii problems)

[personal profile] enthunder 2020-12-17 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
She thinks back to her own training, back when AMP tech had been new, and exciting. When she'd been a try-hard kid.

"Adrenaline's a good teacher." She pauses for a moment, looking at Inigo. Is he as bruised? Probably. But she'll cut him a break, and won't nag. "Here's a secret: Back when I was learning, I crashed right into my captain. Kicked off a wall into his back. I'd never been so humiliated in my life. Wasn't until I got into real fights that I got the hang of it."
consider8: (Computing)

[personal profile] consider8 2020-12-18 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Well... there was a little truth in that. "There's no freedom. We can't go to a store or turn the street or go to a park. We can kind of do these things but its all muted versions of the real thing."

She sighed. "It's like the military. Everything is given to you, but it's the version that the higher ups want." It was what she ran away from.
deferences: dns (♪ low-key)

[personal profile] deferences 2020-12-18 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
This is good! While Sizhui likes to think he's usually alright with words, having it be known feels like a huge weight off his shoulders, and particularly when it's someone he's just met. “You are right. Most of us may not know each other, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't look out for one another. Though, Cassie is a friend of yours?”
hotheadwarmheart: (Got it memorized 2)

[personal profile] hotheadwarmheart 2020-12-18 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not that hard as long as you have the stuff on hand," Lea said. "And I'm pretty sure we do."

"And my name's Lea. Got it memorized?"
hotheadwarmheart: (Mocking)

[personal profile] hotheadwarmheart 2020-12-18 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Tell me about it," Lea said. "There's a lot of that going on back home too. Just preparation and training and things, at least when I was taken from." Before Diatu at least. And the train. Who the heck knew now? Especially given the rather temporally flexible place he'd been taken from.

He looked a bit sheepish at her question though. "Not... exactly. But I can go grab something real quick; won't take long."
marriedanidiot: (Default)

Re: TW: implied underage drinking

[personal profile] marriedanidiot 2020-12-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)

"Yes." Nerdanel runs a hand comfortingly through Eva's hair.

"But at the least, we have each other to walk together through this time."

unfavorableinstigation: Nita Callahan rendered in Undertale-style graphics. (Nita.jpg)

[personal profile] unfavorableinstigation 2020-12-18 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Nita snorted.

"'You scratch my back, I scratch yours,' huh?"

But she smiled again, no offense taken.

"Don't worry; this'll keep for that long, I guarantee it."
radishlobbyist: (Default)

[personal profile] radishlobbyist 2020-12-18 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Wen Qing laughs, her voice bright and far softer than most would give her credit. She looks at Lightning with such blatant affection and tenderness, teasing glinting in her eyes.

"I can believe it," she says wryly. "But don't worry. I won't tell anyone that you have a soft heart underneath the brisk attitude and the weapons-wielding." Her lips twitch. "Think how amused Serah will be if she gets to see you like this."
flatteries: (go green when you answer)

[personal profile] flatteries 2020-12-18 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Inigo's eyes go wide, and he near-chokes on whatever food he was eating a moment ago.

"You crashed into your captain?!" Sweet Naga, Inigo can already imagine what kind of embarrassment that must bring. He's thinking about what would happen if it had been back in his world, if he had crashed into Frederick that way.. He seriously wouldn't have survived that. Not physically, nor emotionally.

But it's also one of those little things that puts Lightning in a new - pun unintended - light. Even she can do that sort of stuff, even if it's in a long gone past.

"Oh, by Naga-- I'm so sorry! It must have been terrible!" Inigo would have changed his name and moved to a different country instantly.. "And here I thought I felt embarrassed enough just letting Tidus watch me fall on my butt over and over.."
light_of_willpower: (long-hair looking down blush)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2020-12-18 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"She is. We met here on the train, on the platform." Trunks might be blushing slightly too. Cassie was clearly an important friend.
light_of_willpower: (long hair profile talking)

[personal profile] light_of_willpower 2020-12-18 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Lea's not hard to memorize." Trunks replied with a grin. "What should I be pulling out of the stores?"
pleple: (The street desire)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-12-19 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Rarely a need for a wild animal to risk too much." Only in protecting young - and only some species.
pleple: (Doesn't make side to)

[personal profile] pleple 2020-12-19 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm still... I suppose, thinking about it." And trying to get used to living a life that she actually enjoys. "For now, I'm happy to help people... alongside everyone else here, though."
mtsilver_conquor: (Thinking it over)

Wanna start to wrap this?

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-19 07:36 am (UTC)(link)
"True," Eva says as she makes herself comfortable against the woman.

"Stay for a bit? Please?"
mtsilver_conquor: (Default)

We can start to move towards wrapping yeah.

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-19 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
"Umbrion..?" Here, she frowns a bit before shaking her head in confusion and wry mirth. "I never did get Nita-chan to show me what that was. Does your screen show pictures?"
mtsilver_conquor: (On top of the world!)

Wrap!

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-19 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
"That's just the start," Eva says excitedly.

... And then for at least the next hour, longer even, Nita will learn all about slime, fungi and other plants, and even things she didn't need to know.

Though, At least medical use wise re: plants, Eva really only knows the basics, if that.
mtsilver_conquor: (Thinking it over)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-19 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
"I suppose, though I can't say I have much experience with the military."

Never mind the fact she's been called up to help defend her home in times of crisis emergency.

"But you're right; there's no freedom here. It sucks and we all want to go home yet... we can't.... And even if we get another 'relaxation world', it's still going to be 'on the clock' so to speak."
iamnotgod: Webmind projecting a smile. The robot is wearing an orange hoodie. (A smile!)

mmhmm! And Webmind does not have Sylveon pictures, alas. xD

[personal profile] iamnotgod 2020-12-19 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"Actually, yes."

Without further adieu, Webmind began displaying a short montage of all the Eeveelutions as he was aware of them...

"The rings are very distinctive."
mtsilver_conquor: (Demi_Lovato_006)

[personal profile] mtsilver_conquor 2020-12-19 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"Be thankful you didn't arrive in the first month or so, then. You would have been running on the ceiling then. We had nothing like this."

And she never, ever want to experience that level of boredom again.

"Do I want to know or are some of them surprises?"
mynameisallen: (Happy ★ You cannot escape the truth)

[personal profile] mynameisallen 2020-12-19 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Even Allen had to sometimes acknowledge the fact that he can have his dumb moments. He still makes the,m but it's at least something that he knows they are stupid.

"If shrapnel and getting shot is considered doing well I will take it"
10billionpercent: (I Sense A Plot)

[personal profile] 10billionpercent 2020-12-19 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
He waved his hand a little. "You assume I use anything but the kitchen." That was kind of a bold assumption.

"I don't watch anything because I don't particularly care to watch fiction and there's nothing of interest in the library either." That was disappointing.

He leaned back a bit, trying to remember everything.

"Ah...I got some passion fruits I have to pick and process and put in the kitchen. We got some konjac roots to make a vegan substitute for food items, then I also picked up a lot of cocoa pods, to make chocolate. Aside from that I have a whole bunch of things in my arms band right now. Inigo killed a lot of bears so I've got some bear parts. I'm thinking of making some coats and blankets with the pelts, and some knives with the bones among other things."

Senku had a very long list of things he wanted to do, he could come up with more.

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