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 Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:09 pm
If anyone asked her what she had just done, Phact would have looked at them and expected them to fill her in on it as well. One moment she was glaring down a General and the next, she was falling to her side as the adrenaline left her body. The wand she had been holding dropped from her laxed hand and clanked on the solid floor before landing just to the side of them. Thankfully, Phact herself landed on a clean spot of wood and avoided landing ontop of Sabine. Wood? Blinking back into focus, Phact gazed down at the floor she was now leaning against. This wasn't the floor of a warehouse. Slowly she began to flicker her eyes up and around the room. From where she was, Phact could see an area of plush pillows. Candles were all around it and she was pretty sure she was watching water flow towards them... No, it was towards a round table in the center of the room. They had landed close to it. "Where are we..." Phact whispered before her eyes flickered. Blood was still running down her back but it had slowed greatly...as long as she didn't move quickly. However, as her eyes quickly dropped to the woman at her ankle, Phact felt her body go cold. "Sabine!" She jerked, trying to ignore the pain as her back reopened. Her hands softly landed towards the middle of the young senshi's back as she looked towards the needles..."Oh Sabine..." Bitting her lip, she gazed towards the others. Kastra...brave Kastra who put herself in the line of the General....seemed hurt but not as badly as the bleeding bite mark Phact saw on Trix. "Oh..." Phact felt her shoulders weaken. "Oh I'm so sorry..." She whispered to the rest. "I should have expected something more. I should have reacted faster..." Picking her head up, she scanned them each again. "I'll make them pay....they won't get away with what they have done..."
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 5:48 am
"OK.... so... am I hallucinating.... or did you summon an actual magic wand and not a pen?" Ginger wobbled, head spinning as her body tried to figure out how it felt about everything, trying to gain back a sense of equilibrium when she was still on edge with adrenaline and pain, and the world had literally changed around them. "Like seriously are we in like... Unicorn Land?" She wouldn't be surprised if they were in Unicorn Land. Unicorn was a funny word. Ha. Oooh maybe she'd better sit down. And see about carefully unlacing that boot. Or getting someone else to unlace the boot. Her sides throbbed from the youma's front claws, her shin throbbed from it's teeth, and her hip ached from that goddamn boot. She felt approximately ninety and a bit drunk as well. And it had eaten. Her. BAT. Pillows... pillows looked good but pillows required moving, and she thought Sabine might need them more. She was a fighter dammit, she was the one who was supposed to be ok with all this. "Phact honey you're bleeding all over." She pointed out, ignoring the fact that there was blood staining her sash and dripping into her footwear. Did she have socks or were they just padded? It felt kinda like some kind of sock now that she thought about it. Sock was an even more hilarious word than Unicorn.
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 1:26 pm
Everything hurt. This was the first, primary, thought as she felt the smooth wood beneath her body. The second thought - more urge, really - was to attempt to empty the contents of her stomach as her body warred with her brain on exactly what was going on and dizziness gripped her. This urge only resulted in a few pitiful dry heaves, before sabine released Phact's ankle and rested her head on the cool wooden floor. "Where?" She managed to croak. She could feel the bruise forming on her neck. The captain had done significant damage, to the point where Sabine didn't dare move now. She no longer felt the needles in her body but... "How bad?" She asked, more out of concern for them than herself. All the same, she did manage to crawl her way toward the water, before she finally just... Stopped moving for a minute and let out a low sigh. "Can someone help me sit up? Everything hurts and I don't want to try and force it..."
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:36 pm
The moment her feet touched solid ground she felt her legs go it from beneath her. The rush of adrenaline from the battle having worn off, and leaving her shaking from the shock and the pain. She pressed her head against the cold, wooden floor. The solidness of it grounding her to the world and making it stop spinning. She was vaguely aware of the sounds of voices nearby. The voices of her friends. They sounded line they were under water, but that couldn't have been right. "I...I'm alright." She said aloud as more of an affirmation to herself rather than to toss around her. Mercy was asking for help, Ginger was lost to pain, and she could not hear phact at all. Her body ached. Her shoulder still full of the needles that had hit her. She made a grab for them, pulling it free and letting out a cry as the blood came anew.
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:27 am
The words coming from everyone was a clear indication to Phact of their state. They got lucky....They got REAL lucky. Those two agents were going to kill them and not lose a wink of sleep over it. Tears forced themselves to Phact's eyes but she didn't allow them to run. This wasn't over. As Trix had mentioned, she was bleeding and she could feel the blood down her back. But she didn't care... Trix was going off the deep in and that worried her. Sabine couldn't sit up. Kastra was at least in a state that, though wounded, she was stable enough. Two down, two who could stand...it was something. But they needed help. "Kastra, if you can, help Sabine...and please, make sure she can still feel everything..." She didn't want to say it but she was worried. Had something hit her spine.... Phact moved over to Trix, placing a hand on the woman's shoulder's and trying to meet her eyes. "Hey. I'm okay. You need to stay with me." That youma had torn her apart. "Keep that boot on until we can get some help okay..." Help... There had been one person who came to mind who offered assistance when they needed help. They needed more than that though. Red eyes glanced back at the wand she left on the floor and she felt herself bite her bottom lip. "Cosmos, if there is ever a time we could use you..." Phact whispered, almost praying that by some miracle, the woman would hear them. The Space Cauldron Cosmos, you are up please!
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:17 pm
While Cosmos seemed to be attuned to Earth, she was even more sensitive to the Moon. She wasn't accustomed to people being there, though--or calling her from there. Usually it took a moment for her form to shimmer into existence; she flew across the universe like a shooting star and landed in front of the group in a matter of only seconds. She was confused and wary, trying to quickly assess the injuries of those she saw in front of her just as much as the room she had been summoned to. It was clear that she must have had some understanding of where they were because she stopped examining the room for danger and instead focused on trying to assess the injuries of the senshi before her. "What is this?" she asked after only a few seconds. "What has happened?"
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:18 pm
It took her a moment to process the words being spoken her direction, but she nodded to herself, forcing down any lingering pain she might have to rise and move toward her fallen friend. She found Sabine fast enough, she looking her over as the other tried to move. She shook her head and carefully looked over the wounds in her back. "You should have moved, Sabine. You all cannot protect me forever." She whispered softly, removing any lingering needles and metal fragments that might exist. "Can you feel your legs? Do you think you can move?" She moved into hand to carefully touch an uninjured spot on Sabine's leg, testing for response. "We can clean you up once we are certain you are alright." Her eyes went to Cosmos tnt moment she appeared. She blinking once before lowering her head. It was out of respect, but also fatigue. Someone stronger and with more skill had come at last. "I will let Phact explain, for she is more diplomatic than i." She returned to helping nurse Sabine.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:29 am
"I'm ok it just bit me...." Trix insisted, trying to shake off the giddy post fight rush. "The boot took part of it, it just sucks... " Technically she wasn't sure she didn't need stitches, but she was at least trying to convince herself the head spinning was adrenaline and nothing else. She was pretty sure her boot would be overflowing if she'd bled enough to feel a bit drunk. Pretty sure. Although not entirely sure what to make of the woman in white who appeared in the middle of things, save to wonder if they'd just appeared in her house or something, like trespassers. "....Phact?" She questioned, her tone, if not her words, adding the rest of the question 'who is this'.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:53 am
Sabine whimpered as Kastra helped her up, she wanted to cry it hurt so much. The pain sparked in her back before burning like a consuming fire all the way down to her toes. "Yes," she hissed at Kastra. "They hurt." Well everything hurt, and it wasn't Kastra's fault it was hers for putting herself there but still. She refused to let her friends get hurt, and she was stronger. It was her job to take hits. "I'm fine, I can move..." She lied, trying to force her feet under her and feeling them strain and wobble beneath her. But, that wasn't what made her cry out and drop to her knees. It was the sharp, electric pain in her back, the wound was deeper than she thought - and she sat there looking down at her hands. She was thankful that the tears welled and broke silently, instead of gross sobbing, which only would have hurt her throat. But, as it was now she'd let them all down. Without taking one of them out of the fight. "Kastra, you're going to have to hold me up until we can get to a hospital." The teen senshi sniffled out and drapped an arm over her shoulder. But before that, we need to find out what just happened." She would fight through this. She would not leave her friends short handed.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:54 am
Kastra's gift was something no one could touch and as she watched her with Sabine, she let herself have a moment to believe everything would work out...that moment was broken though as she watched Sabine try and move from across the room. She would walk again but it would take some time. Before she could address Trix's words and not look like a mother hen, Phact could see the appearance of another in the room. It took her a moment to process that the call she made...the almost prayer...had worked! "Cosmos..." The name came off her lips for them all to hear as she moved back from Trix. For the first time in hours, she seemed to allow her shoulders to drop from her hears. "Sailor Cosmos. The Senshi who protects the Cauldron..." Phact answered to Trix as she watched the woman in white. Phact winced as she stood up, feeling her own back ache though she did her best not to show it. Kastra's comments made her give only a faint smile. "This isn't the UN Kastra. I fear my words will not end hunger or stop a war..." Then she finally looked towards one of the most powerful senshi, her eyes filled with a touch of regret but still, she tried to hold herself with some strength. "I guess, the shortest way to explain it is we ended up out classed. Two young agents took civilian hostages and we went in. What we didn't know was that a Captain and a General were also around....Six on for when you count the two youma did not end well." Slowly, she winced back towards the ground where she had left the wand. In a slow, painful rise back up, she turned to show what she held close to her body. "We were only able to escape because this appeared before me..." She extended the wand out for Cosmos to see it. "And then we...well...we Teleported here...wherever here is." "I have to apologize that we meet again by me calling you for help. The last time I laid eyes on you was after you risked your life to save us all..." Phact bit her lip and sighed. "But it was also the time when it sparked the idea to me about working together being a strength..." "I just don't know what this all is...let alone what this..." She held out the wand. "Even does and I...we...were hoping you might?"
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:07 pm
Cosmos glanced around the room, eyes narrowed and skeptical. "I shouldn't be here," she said after a moment. "This is your room, your headquarters. I came because you called, but this is not a part of the moon I have been welcomed to, before." Her eyes landed on the wand and she tilted her head to the side just slightly. "A wand?" she prompted, and glanced at her own. They were not the same; she could tell that much, but she could understand the importance of such an item appearing. "Truthfully, I cannot tell you what happened. You said," she mused, "that it appeared for you? For all of you?" She wore a contemplative look. "...I have heard of groups, in the past. Brought together by camaraderie. Power strengthened by close bonds. But...it has been quite an age since last I heard of such things." With the decline of Senshi and Knights across the universe though, such was to be expected. "...Their powers were not entirely known to me. At the Cauldron I did not have opportunity to fraternize as much as I might have liked. Regardless, you have uncovered something massive. Something I thought lost to time. But," she eyed their injuries again. "Is now an opportune time to hold such discussions? I haven't the energy to heal you. You should return to Earth for treatment," she said, and while usually impassive, she sounded concerned.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:34 pm
"...OK so... I can't argue the need to hit up urgent care and try and explain what happened... but I am really coming up short on how to explain all this without something like 'we fell into a scrap pile' and oh god, I do not want a tetanus shot."
Imperatrix noted, gingerly massaging around the place she'd been kicked, but it was hard to make anything feel better when she kept hitting claw marks, and shifting her weight made the bite mark throb. Maybe she should get a tetanus booster. Could you catch things from being bitten up by magical dogs?
"But I mean, we're here. Now. Sure we're bleeding but we just apparently conjured a magic wand? And it's a big freaking deal? I think I can count on the magical dry cleaning to repair what's dripping into my sock for the cliffs notes. Is it safe to jump back though? I mean what if we end up where we started? I mean sorry, I'm a little... ow.... And..." She gestured at her friends, trying to counter her potentially abrasive tone with her look of concern. She just didn't know what to say, she didn't know how any of this worked... "I want to get my freinds stitched up but I'll shred the upholstery if I have to, if we land in the middle of those jerks again they're gonna tear us apart even with our new Hogwarts Common Room. Sorry. I'm... I'm really really wired and tired... but this is a big deal huh?"
She just wanted to sit down, but then she wouldn't get back up. Maybe there was something she could shred though, something that could help Sabine.Sabine didn't have leather components to her uniform, the kind letting Ginger try and pretend she wasn't half lamed at the moment.
"Do... what you're doing. Uh. Cosmos. You're Cosmos right? She said you're Cosmos. That's cool. Cosmos is cool. Very... Cosmic."
Oh god. She needed to shut up. This was going badly. HQ needed a first aid box. Note to self. Get a new bat and the biggest first aid kit she could lay hands on at the box store.
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:47 pm
"I'm fine!" Sabine declared - more angrily than she intended to. She limped along with Kastra, ignoring the fact that her fuku was pretty similar to the color it had been when she had first started out. It should not be that red, but she was not going to be the weak link the chain for the team. Not as a Super. Not ever.
Biting her lip, bracing through the pain, she hobbled with Kastra to join Imperatrix and Phact to stand near Cosmos.
"Thank you for coming Cosmos, you're welcome here - anytime." Sabine said, extending the invitation to the Princess without a second thought. "It's fine, we'll heal. Thank you for being here for us." She added with a nod of her head.
"As far as going back - I think we should be okay. If they're still there - well - we'll deal with it. And if anyone asks we went night riding and I fell off my horse and you all got scraped up helping me out." She muttered darkly. "It'd make the most sense for the amount of damage we're all in."
Looking to Phact she smiled. "But Cosmos is right - we need to go home and heal."
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:15 pm
"Comos, Sabine's words come from all of us. You are always welcome here...wherever here is." Phact admitted the last part with a wince as she glanced towards Sabine. The woman was putting on such a face that it broke Phact's heart. Her grip on the wand strained as she looked around. They were all hurt...they were all suffering... She would make sure those agents regretted meeting them... "Yes..." She finally managed out at Cosmos' question. It appeared before me when..." The words stopped being easy. She had to close her eyes a moment to find them again. "When I knew something had to be done or none of us would be standing here any longer. And I wasn't going to let that happen. Not in senseless bloodshed." Truth was they all knew they could be killed in this war. The thought though of going down without at least trying everything though... "Cosmos, I apologize for calling you at this time but in all honesty, in this war, is there ever such an opportune time?" Phact finally admitted though she wished there was. "My comrades, though stubborn, all know we need to seek medical treatment. But." She looked back at their faces and sighed. "Is there at least a way you may be able to assist in the teleportation back to Earth? If they are still there, the four of us will hand it but I would rather hope not to use up what energy we have left in getting us all back home. And while I know we all have questions for you, especially about this" her eyes looked down at the wand in her hands. "But maybe, it is as you said nearly a year ago...a lost power."
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Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 4:56 pm
A look of tenderness crossed her features. "You are all kind. I appreciate the offer. I will help you, this once." It probably wasn't a stern promise; she would help them however they could, whenever she could. "But your Sailor Teleport should return you to Earth when the time calls. You are injured now, and weakened. I would not ask you to strain yourself. Come," she gestured for them to come near to her. "I will feel more at peace when you are taken care of. If they are still there, on Earth, it is wisest to conserve your energy. Perhaps we can chase them away so you can get the help you need. I wish I could answer your questions--and I will, in due time. But no truth that can come of this is worth sacrificing your health. Not when you have done such a powerful thing as come together like this." She nodded to the wand. "I do not think that is a gift earned lightly. I will wish to talk to you of it again, when my mind is more at ease. Come, we shall get you home now, and you will explore here," she glanced around the room, "When you are well." Her form began to glow as she gathered the energy about her; to each senshi that appeared before her, they too were enveloped.
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