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Dakota grabbed the offered hand from the saint of the hunters.

From the angel that is known as Wilson from above.

"Thanks bro." Dakota reached up and pulled himself up as Wilson did so.

"I think my a** crack almost widened more." He nodded..."Thanks so much again bro."

and just like that, Dakota stepped again in the wrong area....and right into something soft and squishy. He looked down at the large eyeball before eye's widening.

"I hope you got a good eye doctor dude." Dakota took the tentacle's beatings well considering, he dug his shoe in as he jumped from the eye and back up to the surface. ******** man, that was gross.

"Augh, shower when I get back man, shower...Nice steamy shower...with Clerise or something." He grinned as he clambered up.

Dakota breathed in as he took a step next to Wilson.

There was no cracking, no breaking of ice. No water and no whale. He was safe.

Safer then what was behind him at least as he stared at the thing called the Titan. He let a moment of odd sadness for the loss of Dr. H.

You were a good mentor H, it was too bad you and your pupil could not learn more together. He saluted the Titan wreckage a fond adieu and looked at Wilson.

"thanks for the assist Wilson, I don't think I could've gotten out of there alive...." He sighed before looking around. It was so white...So very white.

"Hold on, gotta see if I can text Clerise..."

Dakota pulled out his phone and started typing.

While Before's body was being jostled about on Robert's sled, his unconscious brain had formulated a vague meta-riffic notion.

Clarice stared down at her phone for several moments, faced scrunched up. She turned to stare at the man beside her in silent confusion. Noticing her attention, he lifted his eyebrows in curiosity. "I'll tell you in a moment," she muttered, typing her response with a small frown.






She turned to look at the man, expression scrunched slightly in perplexed disbelief, "It said...Dr. H got pulled inside the titan."

"Well I guess that makes you the Life leader now."

Clarice snorted softly, "That's not even funny. You just got back to base, and you look pretty beat. I'll go pick up the kids, kay?"

"b***h, when I joke you will see me laughing. Do you see me laughing?" Killzone turned to give her a narrow stare, "Man gets eaten by something that huge and freakish? Even if he didn't get ground into a doctor burger, I bet there's all sorts of acid and s**t eating him down to the bone as we speak. And if not? This is ******** Antarctica, b***h. Boss is...was tough, but there are mother ******** limits."

Taking a deep breathy, the blonde jabbed a finger into the larger hunter's chest, "Now you listen to me, Francis. H doesn't die. You know the only reason I say with him? For so long? Dealing with him and his a*****e ******** whims? Because I know, that no matter what happens, he'll walk away from it. Everyone else dies, Killzone, but he doesn't."

Killzone gave her a look of disbelief, "b***h, what even the ******** are you talking about?"

With a frustrated sound, Clarice started to walk toward the base's remaining supplies, "Never ******** mind, I'm gonna go get the trainees and see where H got to."

The other Life hunter was right behind her and grabbing her arm, "No. Like I said. You. Are. The ******** Life Leader. This is the 2012 saving the whole ******** world mission. You need to make sure everything is sure as s**t ready to go to the next location, not playing Timmy-fell-down-the-well in ******** Antarctica."

"What I need, is to get my trainees, and then find my boss."

"Look Clarice I know you have issues with grieving, but now is not the time for-"

"I do not have issues with grieving!" Clarice's cheeks were flushed and she was starting to breath heavily. The wrist bearing Raeg's cuff twitched slightly.

"You ********. Don't even play me like that, b***h, you think I don't know about that ******** USB you have with Ben's-"

"Fine!" The blonde had gone pale, her blue eyes were bright with an almost manic sheen while her throat worked to continue. Her voice was soft as she repeated, "Fine. I'll oversee the last of it, you go get them. We'll see what happens after."

Rep was disconsolately staring out at the snowy hopelessness in a moment of complete bafflement, not sure entirely how to proceed. His Arctic exploration abilities were non existent, it wasn't something he'd ever expected to have to cope with, given his experience of inner cities versus tundra.

Thankfully though, for the time being, it seemed he didn't have to, as a familiar voice drifted over. Good. Orders meant he didn't have to think about how to deal with this s**t.

He meandered carefully across the ice to where Jordan was gathering people up, giving him a nod as he stood back to see what other people showed up, still nervous. It had been ******** risky and he was worried there'd be missing trainees.

While it was a good idea in theory, the jarring forward locomotion had Sasha whimpering. The whimpers soon turned to whines; they were on a makeshift ice-boat, and it was a wibbly-wobbly journey back to solid ground. She could only close her eyes, draw her knees further up to her chest, wrap her arms around her shins and hope that they made it to shore safely.

A weak, thready hum wheedled forth from the young woman as Jerry moved them towards the shore. She was cold, tired and miserable; her chest ached, her eyes burned, and Sasha was ready to wake up - this was all just a bad, bad dream.

Jerry and Roar both were drained and exhausted by the time their make-shift boat crunched against solid ice, the soaking wet weapon vanishing and he could wobble forward. The berg rocked, but he stiffly managed to help pull Sasha to her feet.

He couldn't feel his fingers. He couldn't quite feel his toes either... or anything below the knees, come to think of it. His face was a soft shade of blue and the faint smile was locked on his face as he held her against his side with an arm around her for warmth. "Th-th-this way... I... I s-see them..." More or less. He couldn't quite concentrate through his ruined glasses, but he was sure he saw a cluster of people up ahead. "C-can you walk?"