What's Another Word for Friend?

[airlockedmods]

[This is all very touching. Found family is important and all.

But through the thick walls of the warehouse, the sweet moment is shattered by a crash so heavy that the floor shakes and the lights in the storage room flicker.

>Investigate?]

((OOC: This is part two of Red Team's investigation!))

Comments

[induality]

Y--

[She'll come to her then. Touko's shaking-- not from the fight, although her chest still hurts and she's bruised badly. Moving hurts and yet-- you wouldn't know much of that for the next five seconds.]

You idiot. I told you to trust me! You could have been seriously hurt!! I... you... really scared me.

[daughterofthemark]

I trust you but--

[ow]

I could not simply watch and--

[ow]

Allow him to--

[OW OW OW ACTUALLY HER ARM REALLY INSISTS ON BEING HER TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW SORRY]

[induality]

J-just... stay still. I have medical supplies we're... going to take care of you.

...I'm stronger than I look. I just didn't want... to see anyone else get hurt. Idiot...

[She can't even hug her right now even though she wants to. It's so frustrating. But it's probably for the best. That likely would have been painful for her as well.]

[daughterofthemark]

I'm sorry...

[And here come the tears again. When did crying become her specialty? Answer: 2-1.]

I was afraid.

[induality]

...it's alright. As... as long as you're safe, that's-- that's what's important. We're all... we're all still alive.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna nods, and reaches for Touko's hand.]

You?

[induality]

I'm... I'm okay.

[She's not moving the best but she's more than good enough to reach out for Arianna's hand and give it a squeeze. Her fingers are scratched up from clinging to metal. But it's nothing too bad.]

Th-this is nothing.

[kingshaming]

[Xander approaches them both, pulling off the regeneration belt ]

Touko, put this on, it's supposed to help in healing. And let's see if we can split that arm, Arianna.

[induality]

[Oh. Touko blinks, but takes it.]

...thanks. I have some medical supplies in my bag over there from the infirmary. We should... probably hurry.

[kingshaming]

Agreed. Once they see PAL offline there will be fall out.

[induality]

I also... want to see... if there's anything we can do to repair PAL. If we could run some kind of restore or... well. That's for later. But it's worth considering.

...sorry. I could have stopped all of this if I'd just focused on breaking him sooner...

[kingshaming]

No, no... None of us wanted to fight him. You did wonderfully.

[induality]

All that blinking... I don't know what it means but-- I don't think he wanted to fight us either. That's why I wanted to save him...

[kingshaming]

From what Church said he didn't want to, no. By getting his... Brain? His chip... You may have just saved his life.

[daughterofthemark]

[Arianna nods rather than keep trying to converse through the pain, and carefully starts removing the armor on her right arm.]

[kingshaming]

[between him and Touko that arm is probably at least not flopping around anymore??]

[daughterofthemark]

[The whole process is probably going very smoothly now that she's sitting still and letting people tend to her.]

[cyan_maid]

[Jane doesn't have a lot of medical supplies in her bag (stupidly) but she did bring an athletic wrap, which she produces and offers.]

Here, this...we can use this for your arm. Geez, Arianna...

[induality]

My bag has some other stuff too, if you need anything. I'd do it but--

[She's uh. Sore.]

[cyan_maid]

Y-Yeah, put the belt down and take a breather, you've done so much...

[Do we have a magazine or something to make a makeshift something to keep Arianna's arm set? Let's make sure this is done.]

[induality]

...thanks. Use whatever you need.

[Well-- not a magazine per se but Fukawa's book is in her bad, if you need paper.]

[cyan_maid]

[That'll work, it just needs to be something stable we can curve around Arianna's arm and then wrap up.]

Geez...what do we do now? You got...his thingie out, right? Whatever makes PAL PAL, so...

[Shit, they have like. Fucking Price to deal with, don't they, even if he just lurks around and unlocks doors for them. But then who else?]

...Would we be able to explore more, or should we go back?

[daughterofthemark]

Perhaps a prop.

[She would love to mention a specific one she's seen here, but it's a little hard for her to concentrate on small details like that right now.]

[daughterofthemark]

Thank you. I'm sorry.

[cyan_maid]

It's okay. I know you were just trying to help, but we can't let this get any worse...