Hospital Wing

[Bullet Ringer]

*I smile and put a hand on her good shoulder* Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you. I promise, now let's go meet the others so we can finish this war. You ready?

[Incendiary Aftermath]

Yea... yea yea... *I walk out to the garage with Bullet and Blackout. My head is swimming with relics of the past now. I can't seem to shake the fact that everyone who knew about the AFL was going to die today. Everyone but me. It would be up to me to keep the legacy going... the war that no one knew.* Are you two alright? No severe injuries?

[Bullet Ringer]

*I quickly check myself over, the gash in my side is causing no problems and has stopped bleeding.* I can run and I can shoot. I'm ready. *We make our way to the garage, reciving some wierd looks from passing dracs* You'd think they've never seen a Killjoy before...

[Blackout]

*i smile back* always. *I still feel a bit of a nagging presence in the back of my head, but i try to shut it out as I walk back with Bullet. my arm and leg are holding up alright and there's a slight pain in my chest, but its bearable*

[Incendiary Aftermath]

((Anyone not in the hospital, head back to Vindicta))

[rileywilson]

*I split with Orwell to go look for the rest of the team. I find Max wandering the halls and order him to follow me. I stop at a terminal and search for Red. She's in a room a few doors over, watched over by a pale-looking Sylvia Main. The fact that Main has not tried to leave yet for her previous killjoy lifestyle is promising. The middle of the room is taken up by a monitoring equipment surrounding a small figure and I know Red won't be going out any time soon. I pick up Red's chart from the foot of the bed and cooly examine it*

*Amazing. Red should be dead. The drugs and training must have worked better than we anticipated. I'll have to recalculate the tolerance curves... I glance at Main as I walk out of the room to meet up with Orwell* Well, are you coming or not?

[Rachel Mahoney]

*i wake up and I immediately want to get out of the hospital wing. I stand up and find my laser rifle propped against my bed. I pick it up and go to find anyone else from my patrol. I see Wilson talking with Orwell and I walk over, hoping that I might be able to join them if they end up going back out*

[Aerith Lin]

*I glance around the halls simply following Riley for now... a group of wounded dracs get rolled by and i stop their nurses*
You there. What happened here?

[Nurse]
There was an incident upstairs Ma'am. A group of killjoys disguised as draculoids I presume.

[Aerith]
Yes. The killjoys were working with us to defeat those vipers... I'm not exactly pleased about it.

[Nurse] No ma'am this was different. They fired on our own squad. Here.

[Aerith] Interesting.. As you were. *the nurse leaves and I glance to riley who is standing in the doorway.
Riley, I'll be back. I'm going to have a look upstairs.

[Sylvia Main]

*Soon I'm left alone with Red and lean my head on the wall, trying not to fall asleep. I'm exhausted but Wilson walks in the room and I immediately straighten. I watch him, feeling slightly angry that he's the reason Red is like this but also filled with respect. The man can fight. I watch him read the file and scowl. He seems too satisfied, I might try to fix that later. When he leaves he asks if I want to join. I raise an eyebrow and smirk, jumping down from the counter and do my best to ignore the sharp pain in my side. I pat his head, amused, on the way out before joining the small crowd gathering in the center of the busy hospital. I steal a pill bottle of pain killers off the desk, sure that too many are floating around that they won't even be missed.*

[Jonathon Orwell]

*I usher for Pacis to follow me then meet back up with the group. I see that Mahoney and Miss Main have rejoined us, making with a few others. I smile slightly and do a quick headcount, less than satisfied with our numbers but they are all we have and not many will volunteer to be disposed. I look from Wilson to Aftermath.* Ready to leave. Everyone in the helicopters- we do not have much time.*

[Max Griffiths]

*I stand at the back of the group, eager to leave the hospital. I'd pulled out my IV and pocketed a bottle of painkillers before heading out to the garage, and looked over the team while I waited for my turn to board a helicopter - overall we look terrible. There's almost no one without some sort of serious injury. Oh well; nothing we can do about it now.*

(Waiting for posting to start on Vindicta and then I'll switch)

[Volume Virus]

*Everyone else leaves. I seethe in anger. I want to go, to help, to fight, to make sure that none of my friends die. I NEED this. For my fragile sanity. The medics continue to work, but now, instead of simply smiling at them, I'm watching them work and occasionally asking if they can work any faster.*

[rileywilson]

[So is everyone except for Vol and Red on 'Vindicta' now?]

[Volume Virus]

((Yes, I do believe so. And you have medics here, technically, but I'm sure that I can handle them just fine...))

[Aerith Lin]

(I'm not D: I've still got work in the hospital. I'll transfer over soon)

*The door to the room is bashed open, scorch marks line the walls. A bookcase is in shambles infront of the door, tables with scorch marks on them*

*I say to myself* There was a fight here. A pretty big one it would seem
Now then... you were stuck here... In this room. Who were you, and how did you get out....
*I study the room some more. Walking over the evidence marks, not that they're doing much good. What are they going to do? Arrest them? ha. I walk over to the balcony where the doors are smashed open. The city is still a mess, as I look down I see the great distance down*

Now how did you do that?

*I sit on the edge and look into the room again, collecting all the details. Playing it all back in my mind. Then it comes to me. The shields, the tactics, where they fired. I notice the glass on the floor and the darkness of the room. They shot the lights. I continue to look around. I sigh and look straight up from the balcony and see the edge of the balcony above me*

The railing has deep scratches on it. They tried to rappel down the building... but the guards came. Their only other option at that point.. would be to jump. Nobody's that crazy.
*I smile*
Except for him.

*I run out to the hallway and demand for a list of missing patients/prisoners and their known accomplices. The list returns and I laugh as i search halfway through her history and find his photo*

*rb* Riley, I'm done here. I'm heading your way.

*I take my helmet off and go on my way back to Riley*

[Off to Vindicta]