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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-10-09 01:05 am

Get you Gone

The meeting is over, the teams have been assigned, the plans have been laid out. It's time to get weapons.

It's time to wish each other luck, and say goodbyes--with the hope that they're only "good bye for now"s.

It's about to get very hairy from here on out.

[identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com 2009-10-15 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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Eventually, it's time to go. Before they do, Jaime hops up on the ledge one more time, and whistles to get everyone's attention again, one last time.

"Team leaders, you have your assignments." Certain people are in charge of their areas in the basilica. "I'm leaving you in Kirk and Leon's more-than-capable hands. You'll have some last minute work to do, to secure the place, but our team won't move until we get the go ahead. The rest of you, get ready to move out."

But is that all?

"And...and it feels like I should say more than that, so I will."

He causes the armor to recede from his face so everyone can see it.

"Some of you are friends and team-mates and colleages I know from back home, and others of you I've only gotten to know here. But some others--I don't you very well, and some of you I've only even just met. That's how it is for a lot of us--we're all strangers, kind of cast adrift here."

He shakes his head. "I also can't promise we'll be able to pull this off, or that we can pull it off right."

Okay, this is sounding kind of depressing.

"Sorry, I'm not trying to be a downer, I swear--the point I'm getting to is that these are not the best circumstances for us. They're not made any easier by the fact that we're all so different. We're from different worlds, different times--we believe different things, hold different ideals to be sacred."

He raises his head.

"But one thing I think we have to remember, that we all have in common is that whatever our own reasons for it, whoever it is we want to protect most, we're still all people that don't want to see the other people here get hurt."

He's something of a pragmatist. He knows a few of them might be in it for their own survival, but the group's survival is conducive to their own survival. And otherwise, most of them...most of them would rather not see anyone else hurt if it can be helped.

"I just have to say, of all the people to get stuck in a spaceship with for what's probably been months and months--just like the rest of you, I've lost track, too--I'm kind of glad it was all of you." A pause. "I'm not going to do the big rallying cheer thing, because, uh, I can't think of one, so go meatship? And to the people we're leaving behind here in the city: take care of each other like I know you all will, and above all else, good luck."

You have been listening to Jaime Reyes, folks: Number One Super-Awesome Public Speaker of the Year. (That was kinda better than usual, at least).

It's the last time in a long time they hear him talk like this, remotely hopeful, largely because of the group going with him, one of them isn't coming back.


[identity profile] ranger-jo.livejournal.com 2009-10-15 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Jo of course had been right there in line to get all her toys. There was no way she was going to go anywhere without them this time. She'd grabbed a vest (no getting shot in the back this time either), her Beretta 92, various throwing knives AND of course her big@ยงยง Global Dynamic experimental gun and various types of ammo.

She was now ready to roll.