Not with a Bang: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

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.

Comments

One Closed, One OTA; CW injuries.

[mtsilver_conquor]

Imagination 12 - Closed to Ichigo, Willow, Senku.
Evac to the luggage car means all her pokemon have been forcibly returned to the stasis of their pokeballs. For the best given their mental states, to say nothing of their own injuries.

Eva herself is stable enough, but barely awake at this point -Senku's exhaustion through their bond not helping at all nor does the fact she's instinctively seeking the bond out, but look, she's scared (terrified, really), in shock, and he's there at least via the bond.

About the only thing keeping her semi-conscious is the fact she knows passing out would be Bad, possibly for them both. At least she can't feel her injuries any more and that's probably more than a little alarming, but she'll take relative numbness over pain. Still, that is an alarming amount of blood she's lost due to the shrapnel damage she's taken to her side, torso, and arms and there's likely some still in her.

At least there's bandages and the bloodloss has been slowed or even halted in some places. She'll live, but it's not pretty by any means.


Imagination 12 (night) onwards - Medical Cabin. OTA
By now it's probably known Eva was one of those who very nearly died during the mission, and for all Willow's healed her, and she's had her donated blood transfused back into her thanks to Ichigo's skills, she still needs to rest.

And that means enforced bedrest is enforced, given Eva's been locked into a medical cabin. Or well, she can't leave, but she can certainly have visitors, who'll notice right away that none of her pokemon are out. They haven't been out, either. Also noticeable is that her SCA and pokebelt (and the attached 'balls) are on the table (as is her scratched but still working rotom phone) next to the bed Eva herself's sitting on.

"Hey." She sounds hoarse. "Please tell me I can get out here?"

No. Not until at least the 14th, Eva. You need to rest.

Re: One Closed, One OTA; CW injuries.

[strawberryprotector]

As soon as they were back on the train in the luggage car, Ichigo was scooping her up and running. She needed the medical car, and since it was pretty empty, he could move very quickly. His mask was gone, at least. "Hang on, Eva-san. I'm going to use shunpo." He let Zangetsu manifest and move ahead of him, getting the doors open so he didn't have to stop.

Re: One Closed, One OTA; CW injuries.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"...'k."

Shunpo? that's fast-. She barely has time to finish the though and it's lucky she's so out of it, but even then, it's not enough to keep her from mild whiplash as they move towards the medical car.

She'll ask about the figure opening doors later- for all she knows, it's part of what he's doing.

12th, night

[blue_ice]

Kaiba has just been released from his own medical exam---his clothes are still torn in places, but he has a silk blanket clutched around him to keep warm. He's a mess, but his injuries were superficial enough to be treated. Now he just needs rest...and that's the tricky part.

But there aren't enough beds for everyone, just the worst cases, so he's out. He's carefully working his way through the car when he sees a familiar name on a cabin---his stomach drops. If she's been given one of the beds, that means she's pretty bad off.

"Eva," he answers, his eyes wider than usual with concern when he first sees her. "What happened."

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Explosion with shrapnel when the base camp was attacked," Comes the reply, Eva offering a wry grin and a (weak) wave. "I'm fine. Really."

Very tellingly, though, she does not try and get up. "Check me out?"

Night

[pleple]

"I'm no doctor, you know." She's never been injured to nearly this degree before - at least she hadn't seen one of the people she really likes here so seriously hurt. Despite that, she's obviously still recovering.

Ple Two leans against the side of her cabin. "But you look better than it... sounds like you were. I'm glad."

Re: Night

[mtsilver_conquor]

"True, but I think anyone can sign a person out." It's worth a try in her mind, at least, and she beams with a small laugh. "Thanks. I feel better, too."

Really, she does. Just ignore that she's not at all inclined to more than sit/lean against the wall her bed's against.

Medical Cabin

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin limps into the Medical Carriage, knowing he ought to go and sit down and wait for one of the doctors to tend to his injuries. But he never likes admitting he's injured, and he's already tied a bandana around his left upper arm and his right thigh. These makeshift bandages keep the blood from dripping on the floor. He doesn't consider himself badly injured, and anyway, Elves heal more quickly than mortals do.

Right now, he's looking for Eva. He was aware that she was hurt during the last fight, and that Ichigo had evacuated her back to the train. He is feeling a bit guilty that he wasn't there for her during the battle, that he had committed himself to other parts of the fight.

He finds someone who can tell him what medical cabin Eva is in, and gets them to let him in. He steps through the door and there she is, sitting up in bed. Well, that is a good sign.

"Eva!" he says. "How are you doing?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"I'm fine. Really," comes the reply, Eva offering a wry grin and a (weak) wave.

Very tellingly, though, she does not try and get up. Nor does she scoot over. For all she claims she's fine, her body knows it's Very Obviously Not. "Check me out?"

By now it's become a rote question; she knows he won't. But she has to ask.

ota

[ourtomorrow]

One visitor doesn't make it all the way in to see Eva, not yet - there's a shadow beneath the door, so there's clearly someone there, but he has to work his way up into getting inside. A voice drifts lightly, squeakily, through the air.

"....-chan?"

Yeah, guess who.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Wormmon? One click-"

It sounds like him, at least.

She's exhausted. Drained and tired number (the aftermath of shock, magic healing and blood transfusions is fun. Not) but she'll manage enough to get up and open the door.

And you know, lean on it even as she manages a grin. "Come to check me out?"

She has to hope, even if she knows the answer is No.

D=

[marriedanidiot]

"Eva..." Nerdanel's voice is chiding, but more than anything, it is hurt.

"You nearly died."

;_;

[mtsilver_conquor]

Eva holds out a hand, inviting the woman to join her on the bed.

"I'm fine, see?"

She's whole; she's healed. She's Fine. Only she's not; she's barely scooted over and she's been asleep as much as she is awake. Magical healing can only do so much and her body knows that. "... I should be out there. Helping."

She's a Leader. She should be seen, not stuck here when it can be better used for more urgent cases.

Night prompt - the 13th at night?

[iamnotgod]

Eva can tell by the way Webmind's frowning what the answer is.

"No. But I'm not going to make you do anything, seeing as you are here to rest."

And, quite thankfully, not dead.

"... Have your pokemon been seen to? I can fetch ingredients for them or you, if you wish."

So he's at least offering something.

works for me!

[mtsilver_conquor]

There's a childish pout as she huffs. It was worth a try at least.

Eva bites her lip, then shakes her head. "I'll deal with them later when I have the energy. They went straight to stasis when we evac'd."

And dealing with that right now? is going to take far more energy than she can deal with.

Night~

[consider8]

Despite her own injuries, Eight had decided to push through and help the ones that had taken on more than their fair share. To that end, Eight had been taking to working overtime on Purple's usual food prep, and had also put it upon herself to cart some food to the bedridden and fatigued.

So it was that Eva would find an Octogirl giving a soft rap on her door, a tray of honey-glazed chicken, hot tea, and a fruit parfait of her own creation in her hands. "No, not yet. Feeling hungry?" She smiled, having not had a chance to formally meet the Pokemon trainer.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Birds," Eva mutters, though the curse has far less bite to it than it should. She's starting to come to accept she's stuck here.

The food looks and smells divine and it earns a smile, rather than the typical pout she's given to everyone else who's told her no'.

"I don't feel it, but I have a feeling once I start eating I won't stop."

Coming to visit, bringing berries

[laurefindil]

The glow approaching the door likely gives him away, but Glorfindel knocked anyway. "May I come in?" he asked.

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Sure," Eva calls from where she's curled up on the bed.

Imagination 13, Afternoon

[namethattune]

Siebren is a bit later to this conversation than he honestly should be. He spent the previous night recovering from the battle and this morning hard at work double-checking repairs and tying up loose ends. It was necessary work, he tells himself, and not simply avoidance of a conversation he did not want to have.

But the train has departed with everyone aboard, and there is no avoiding it now.

"Apologies," he says as he enters, "but I have been specifically instructed not to let you out." The medics on the train take their jobs very seriously, it seems. He places the mug of tea he is carrying on the table next to her - an offering of sorts. "How are you feeling?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"You and everyone else," the woman says with a pout, though that soon vanishes because tea. "Though you brought tea, so..."

There's a grin as she takes it up, hands wrapping around the mug like it's liquid gold. It very well could be.

The question earns a sigh. "Bored. Tired and exhausted. Otherwise fine. What about you?"

Imagination 12, night

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita just plain doesn't respond, this time.

There's a look on her face, instead; anger, yes, but not at Eva - or not 'just' at Eva.

I should have been there to help you, get you out of there, she thinks, but doesn't say.

It's a good thing Fluffy isn't around to translate, huh?

Nita holds her sitting pose by the side of the bed, looking at Eva and at the same time, not exactly seeing her.

[mtsilver_conquor]

It is, but she's also seen that look in the past. Not on Nita, but back home in the aftermath of a supercell turned into a living nightmare due to wild pokemon.

She offers a smile to the younger as she reaches out in an offer for a hug.
"Don't beat yourself up over it. We lived; we survived. We had no way of knowing what would happen."

Right after the closed thread

[10billionpercent]

In the end, Senku felt it when Eva arrived, of course he did. He'd been trying to settle down into sleep, probably to Gen's annoyance. Suddenly he felt such pain and agony that there was no way he could sleep.

He would've charged in and helped if he were clearheaded. He wasn't, he'd be a liability at the moment. He was confused, but he knew that.

Gen hadn't talked him into changing or showering, not yet, so when he did come in to see Eva, he smelled of smoke and fire, he had dried blood dripped down his orange shirt on his right side, and it was a bit singed.

Senku moved into her field of view, but he knew she'd know he was there anyway. "What the hell happened to you?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Shrapnel blast. Wasn't fast enough. 'M skills are rusty..." Eva whispers tiredly and if she had the strength, she would have reached for him, to make sure he was actually there, not just a figment of her imagination.

Instead, she settles around the bond yet again, relief mixed with worry because he doesn't look good, even though she's trying to avoid looking at the blood. "More importantly, you?"