Welcome to Gaia! ::

Everything moved in slow motion for her after the arrow had hit and put her to a scream, to hysterical sobbing in pain, but...

Admittedly, Pisces vaguely knew on a lower level that her sense of time had blutrred, even locked in a hellhole for a week- was it a week? She hadn't kept track - and the others moving as she tried to cease, fearing the lash of an agent to snap her out of a hallucination, if she had begun hallucinating, to wake her, but no, no she wasn't hallucinating, and sobbing tempered to a raspy, stuttered breath as she shook and peered up to Sandrine first, slowly and shaking violently, trying to calm.

It was difficult, but she didn't flinch away.

White bodice. Order. Not Negaverse. Not-

Another deep, jagged breath, and Pisces looked as Ida took her next - though she didn't fight it, instead trying to keep touch to the - friends? Allies? She hoped both - and huddled, moving amiably as she tried to breath slowly.

The look Pisces gave Ida threatened fresh tears, but they came with a small smile as she spoke in a thin, rasping voice much more air and effort than before - wanting to be heard with no voice left; the curse of screaming, she suppose.

"T..Thank you. I...I'm Pisces." She whispered in the crackly voice more akin broken leaves than not.

And then the dark bodiced eternal came close and for a moment Pisces almost squeaked - but the gesture was compassionate and not cruel and as she was pulled, Pisces simultaniously tried to pull Ida and Sandrine along with her, chains or not, ragged gloves or not, attempting to make a poor man's cuddlepile. She wanted nothing more than to be surrounded by warmth and comfort and at current this was what Chariklo, Ida, and Sandrine - as well as the two senshi whom had vanished - offered, even if they didn't know one another.

They were good and kind and she buried her face in the nearest senshi to hide somewhat from sight, finally addressing them, and to answer.

"T..Thank you... I don't... Recall keys... But... They must have them? I don't - know." Pisces licked her lips slowly, shaking briefly again. Human closeness and warmth was helping her calm. combined with Ida. The healing, while not perfect, helped her feel less worn, and far less weakened. Still, she couldn't break free, or similar.

"There are - others. Heard them. Never saw them. Screaming. Everyone screamed, at least once."

Another shiver.

"At least, I think they did..."

Megrez's HP: 18
Glitnir's HP: 35
Sadachbia's HP: 42 - 9 = 33

Aquamarine's plastic sword hit the side of Sadachbia's head with a thunk, giving her a decent cut on her temple and making her yelp. Megrez, meanwhile, was still throwing an expert tantrum when a drop of the youma's liquid landed on her arm, making a wound burn. "NO! No, she is NOT yours!" She swung a leg forward into Glitnir, knocking the air out him and unsettling him enough to make him put her down. "Did you hear the cat? They want her starseed! Grab me like that again and I'll choke you with your own hair!" Shoving him out of the way, she charged back into the fray. "Ostrich Egg Toss!" She ran forward with the egg towards Aquamarine, intending to smash the big egg on him.

Sadachbia, aside from being dazed from the blow to her head, was confused about what to do. Glitnir advocated going to safety, but Megrez and the cat were determined to protect the senshi (it was at this point that Sadachbia realized she had no idea what a starseed was and would have to look it up later). Majority rule won, and Sadachbia jumped up to give Aquamarine a swift kick. He was the mouthy one, so he would get punished for speaking up.

Glitnir, meanwhile, was trying to recover from Megrez's escape. He would hang back for now, waiting to retrieve the senshi if one or both ended up seriously hurt from the fracas. If any of them went for him... well, he'd have to fight back. But the situation was starting to get worrisome.

He probably should have expected the dagger.

....He did not expect the dagger.

Alexandria yelped in pain as yet another gash was torn through his side. Great. Just great. Guess there was no way of getting out of his own well visit to a hospital now was there? "Wouldn't you like to know..." He said, in between pants and a laugh. Ow. It hurt to laugh. Themi was gonna kill him when she saw him.

The Captain was moving again, and Alexandria oddly took a step back every time he advanced. Thiiis was definitely not good. ********, okay. This was definitely the last time he was running off from the group.

Lesson learned.

Good job Negaverse. You taught him something. Pat yourself on the back.

At the arrival of the General however, Alexandria would have thought himself a goner for sure if it weren't for the guy.... taking off with the Captain. Huh. Okay. Well that was a thing...

The squire scrambled, more like fell over himself again as he raced over to his friend. "Val?" He called gently, grabbing the man's outfit. "Valhalla, it's me. It's Alexandria. Your okay. The others are coming."







Alexandria HP: 34 -16 = 18

CELSUS


He was nothing if not full of cheesy lines, which he would have said even if he wasn't currently chained to the ground and beaten half into unconsciousness. Celsus twisted where he knelt, trying to ease some of the ache in his back by sitting up straighter, but all it did was make him wince.

"I'm Celsus, by the way," he said, catching the senshi's eye and trying to give her one of his usual reassuring smiles. "Make sure that if we get out of here, I owe you dinner or something."

There was a shout and a face appeared in his line of vision - a very familiar face. A broad smile stretched across Celsus' face, half a wince, though his eyes were filled with a warmth that was very specific to those that he knew well.

"Bifrost, my beautiful lady," he said happily. "I haven't seen you in ages, love, where have you been?"

He could have kissed them both for coming to help him, but that would have to wait, because he was still currently stuck on the floor. Experimentally, Celsus tugged on his wrist, the chains giving a loud clinking noise.

"Don't worry about me, love," he said to the senshi with a smile. "Just do what you need to, I'll be all right."

It seemed that combined attacks from Thraen and the sudden Squire in place of the previous Mars Page was enough to drive the arrow shooting General off, but not before he left them a parting present in the form of more arrows launched in their direction.

Athene dodged, or at least tried to - not particularly keen to experience being shot again - once was more than enough. Effectively having one good arm to rely on and one that was not even his dominant made things difficult and he landed awkwardly in a landing that would have made Mr Green wince (or at least would have if his aikido teacher had been there to see it) and not in sympathy.

Instead for the second time that evening, his breath ended up leaving in a pained oof.

It took him a while to realise that the Captain-level aura and second General-level aura appeared to have disappeared along with the arrow General and each one of those moments were spent where he had landed on the floor.

Eventually however he managed to awkwardly fumble himself up with his left arm.

He thought he'd heard someone mention Valhalla, called back "Is Valhalla the only one there" as he slowly walked over to where he'd seen the Captain come from.

The appearance of a new Lieutenant was unexpected and Athene had had enough, a chill slipping into his normally quiet voice as he eyed the newcomer "Look we are taking back our people" he said frostily. "And I suggest that you don't get in the way."

He might not be up for anything physical, but at this point Athene was perfectly willing to take his chances with his unpredictable magic and try trapping this newcomer with a jump rope to get him out of the way for a bit whilst the others got Val and anyone else by him out.

Themiscyra's HP: 32

She'd misjudged how quickly a Negaverse agent could resummon weapons. Or did they just... made them out of thin air? She still had the broken arrow in her shoulder. And just like that, she had another one grazing her exposed left arm, the burn of sliced flesh ignored as she'd slammed her chain into his throat. Later, she was really going to thank whatever lucky stars were out there for her that night, fully aware of the damage he could have inflicted had his shot been more on target.

At least she wasn't the only one going for the General. The vine covered Eternal broke in easily, and for a moment she felt nothing but relief at the idea of being able to slam her fist into the General's face. Repeatedly. Or just trying to choke every scrap of breath out of him. Either would do.

Not that she got much of a chance as the coward fled. Damn teleporting ability. The... warning received less than a dismissive snort from the Squire before bowing her head quick to the Eternal whom had assisted her (Thraen). "Thanks for the help." Her lips twitched upward into a quick smile before she began to move to were Alex had vanished to. And trying immensely to ignore the throbbing, bleeding arrow shaft in her shoulder.

And once again, she found herself dealing with a surprising crowd.

The presence of yet another agent had her hackles up, but before she could meet his challenge of a rope with her chain... he dropped it. Themiscyra paused, rounding the second Eternal (Athene) and the agent (Wofly) to focus on Alexandria and Valhalla and really? She went tunnel vision as she approached Alexandria and Valhalla. He... he looked like s**t. At least the chains seemed to be off but he looked like s**t. The pressure in her chest welled, and she had to bite her tongue to keep it from overflowing. Her eyes stung, her pulse raced... and though she moved over to try and help Alexandria with the big Knight, the guy who'd put up with a silly newbie's million questions and had such silly idealist views but views she wished would come true, her voice cracked as she hissed out, "You jackass. I finally start to remember s**t and this is what you get yourself into? Shitty way to get out of a rematch, Serge." She really hoped he had some fragment of understanding what she was talking about. Did he see the golden chain at her hip? Even get what it was? Things she was going to need to ask him some other time.

Her tunnel vision began to slip away and the fact there was a living light in the room caught her attention. Transcended, too. How many people had they captured?

And where--

Themiscyra shoved herself back towards the agent (Wolfy). Though she didn't have a weapon in her hand, the nearly six-foot Squire wasn't against bringing her weighted chain back out. "Mars Knight. Blond. Bull on his pauldron. Goes by the name Kairatos. Cosmos Knight. Light hair. Dress with golden stars. Goes by Hvergelmir. Do you know where they are?" He said they were going to kill people. She wasn't sure if her blood was running cold or trying to boil over. Where were they? Where the ******** was Xanthus?

What have you bastards done to my brother?

More arrows flew, and the General vanished. Of course. Either we find a way to block teleporting, or we just have to get that much faster at killing our enemies.

Athene and the knight were already on the move again, and lacking anything particularly better to do, Thraen followed. He didn't expect the mass of people to be found therein. A mass of people all huddled around Valhalla and talking more than anything else. Talking and not actually gettign anyone out. Talking to-

Wolframite.

But in the dim it was light that caught his eyes next, and Thraen moved to the fallen form of Penthesilea. A quick check revealed both pulse and no obvious spinal or neck injuries. He gathered her carefully up, biting tongue of directing others. Best to be an example, and hope that moving would convince others to get moving with Valhalla. Thraen drew her up closer, so that her head pillowed more at his shoulder than his pectoral. We have to stop meeting like this Jeanne, over arrows and injuries. But if we still do, over and over, may I always be there to carry you to safety.

Toned softly with lips to her brow, "What hath night to do with sleep?...you'll wake. Let's get going."

[Exiting with Penthesilea]

Getting squished in the middle of a pile of women was not really what Ida had been expecting, but whatever... Pisces seemed to want the comfort and after everything that had happened, she was not going to protest. At least she had gotten off an energy sharing, which should help keep the girl on her feet if they could get her up on them.

"Its okay, don't worry about the keys... we'll get you free." She said as the new senshi, Sandrine, pulled out a magical sword. The eternal threw her arm around Pisces to shield her while Sandrine swung, prepared for sparks or chunks of wall or metal. Her own magic might have been enough to break the chains, but there wasn't enough room for it here. Hitting the captive with edge of the explosion was less than ideal.

When Sandrine had finished her swing, Ida reached for the other side, gripping it tightly as she put a white boot to the wall and pulled. It took her full senshi strength and a grunt of effort to do it, but the wall cracked with a satisfying sound and the bolts came free, dumping her onto her backside.

"Chari..." Ida gasped out as she tossed the chain aside, brushing her hands off her thighs. "Can you play vanguard while Sandrine helps me with Pisces?"