So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

Comments

[light_of_willpower]

"I'm just wondering where it'd put us? I'd suggest our cabins, but then we couldn't get people out if they're injured." Trunks wasn't opposed to putting in a request for better space in case of an evac. He just wondered whether adding another car would do it, or if there was a better solution.

[nutkrusher]

"I think another car would be warranted," Cassie says. "Given the nature of our missions, it's important for us to have the ability to embark and disembark quickly. This is, for all intents and purposes, a military landing vehicle. It has to figure into the design."

[light_of_willpower]

"Except we're not military Cass." Trunks pointed out. "And I think a lot of us would object to being treated like military too." Reaching up he brushed his bangs back. "I'm not even sure what another car specifically for this would be like."

[nutkrusher]

"I mean, we can say we're not, but we're a group of people specifically selected to complete missions that are almost always combat-based," Cassie says. "We're organized into units, however loosely, which each have their own set tasks to complete. The most distant thing you could possibly say we are is a militia."

She pauses, considering the features for a moment.

"To be honest, I don't think it'd have to be that complicated. It could just be a boxcar with a big door."

[light_of_willpower]

"There are people who will resist the idea of being called military, or even a militia, Cass." But Trunks wasn't disagreeing with her about what they were, essentially. "Keeping the boxcar from being filled with other things would be the tricky part."

[nutkrusher]

"Like I said, they can say they're not."

She pauses, thinking it over for a moment.

"If they can teleport all of us into this car, they can teleport stuff out of it."

[light_of_willpower]

Trunks just sort of snort-grunted in amusement, half of his mouth quirking in a smile. "Feel free to suggest it Cass. It's starting to thin some now. We should probably leave, even if it is more roomy here on the ceiling still."

[nutkrusher]

"Yeah," Cassie says, bringing her hand closer to his.

"I'd like to get somewhere quiet."