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[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

He awoke slowly, taking in the soft beeps and faint thrum of engines around him. They’d been disconcerting when his team was first stationed on the Minerva, but he’d gotten used to them, just like he’d – no, that couldn’t be right. The Minerva had gone down on the moon. And the moon was gone, so he had to be on another ship. He’d be able to figure it out if his head would stop hurting; he hadn’t felt this groggy since Neo-Genesis, when the Destiny had been shot down –

He’d been shot down.

The fight over Zokoz II came back to him in a flash. He struggled to sit up, but it was hard enough just to open his eyes in the bright medbay, and one of his arms was wrapped in some sort of plaster, making it awkward just to scramble just to angle himself slightly upright against the pillow. “What happened?” he choked, his voice coming out hoarse with disuse.

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[fields-ofhope.livejournal.com]

"You're awake."

Besides stating the obvious, Lacus offers a smile. She didn't know the boy, but Kira seemed to, and he piloted a Gundam. And regardless, there was no reason not to check on him since she inexplicably happened to be here.

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

"You..." He put a hand to his head distractedly, and found that there was a large wad of fabric covering... what kind of injury had he taken out there. "When did you get here?"

[fields-ofhope.livejournal.com]

She just smiles.

"Don't move too much." She approaches with a damp cloth and goes to dab the parts of his face that aren't covered in fabric wad.

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

He tried to brush her off, but, damn, even that hurt. "I don't need that," he insisted. "Tell me what's going on here...!"

[fields-ofhope.livejournal.com]

"You're in the medical bay." She retracts her hand, but is going to try again once she's done not answering Shinn's questions.

[silverduelist]

"Lacus." Yzak hadn't seen her since a while before the hostilities began. He was quite happy to see her.

"You're uninjured, right?"

[fields-ofhope.livejournal.com]

"Yzak." She's relieved too; she'd been concerned about you when the fighting broke out. "I'm quite well. I thought I'd stop by here and cheer everyone a little."

[silverduelist]

He let out a small sigh of relief.

"You got back to Stacy before the attack began? Did she ... take any damage?" He looked around, and wondered what sort of crazy defense systems this ship might possess.

[fieldpromoted]

Trudy had been trying to occupy herself while resting in her own bed like the doctors told her she should - trying by running through snatches of video of the battle through her omnicomm.

When Shinn stirred further down the line of beds, Trudy propped herself up on her elbow to look over at him. It hurt her ribs, but who cared. "Hey, you're up," she said. "About time, some of us were getting a little worried."

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

It was too quiet in here to be mid-battle, and if he'd been out for a while... "What's going on?" he asked blearily.

[fieldpromoted]

"Battle's over," Trudy said. She didn't feel like having a conversation halfway across the room - especially when some of the other patients were sleeping - so she swung her legs off the cot and made her shuffling way over to Shinn's bedside, one hand on her ribs. "The Ohm retreated - not that we routed them or anything, they just all the sudden scampered off like a pack of fucking roaches."

Happy with the results of the battle? Not so much. Too many pilots put in traction and not enough of a decisive victory to salvage morale.

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

"And the planet?" he pressed, trying to lean forward but failing miserably. "All the people down there--?"

[fieldpromoted]

"Some of them got out with the transports. The defenses are back online, and the rest of them are being evacuated. Stacy's already back on course. And don't get up, the doctors are already going to turn blue screaming at me."

She kept her mouth shut on the fact that the transport he had gotten hurt protecting had been lost.

[silverduelist]

"Hey." Yzak had come to initially see Shinn, but there were quite a few other familiar faces in the medbay. "You didn't get hit too hard, did you?"

[fieldpromoted]

Trudy snorted, waving brief hand at her 'injuries.' "Are you kidding? The damn medics won't let me leave and all I've got is a cracked rib." She quirked a smile that was a little sardonic, laughing at herself. "I didn't put my flight suit on before we went out. Didn't think I had time."

[silverduelist]

"Precaution pays off. I'm not quite sure I would have been in the best condition if I didn't have my own on." He brought a hand up to rub the side of his head. "Those bastards knocked me around enough that even with my helmet, I felt it at the end."

"Still. A rib is something best to get healed up as much as possible. Especially considering what we know those things can do, now..."

[fieldpromoted]

"Yeah, yeah," she said, still not happy about it. "I'd rather be in the hangar checking out what happened to my ship. I don't think I got hit too bad but I felt a couple of near-misses, and I'm pretty sure something winged my droid because it was spitting garbage at me here and there."

She paused, glancing at him, subtly looking him over to see if he had any serious injuries. "What about you, you come out of it okay? How's the suit?"

[silverduelist]

"What the-- hey, don't move yet!"

Yzak stood a couple of feet away from him. Upon his return to Stacy and making sure he was fine to move about, he had gone to check up on his fellow ZAFT pilot.

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

"How'd I get in here?" he blurted.

[silverduelist]

"How do you think? You were evacuated from the battle when you or the Destiny couldn't take anymore."

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

He scowled. "I remember the power going low..."

[yubyubcommander.livejournal.com]

"Glad to see you're still in one piece, more or less." Wedge said. He had been waiting, going over the possibility of a debriefing for the squadron. But first he had had to come check up on one of his pilots.

"You had all of us worried for a little while there."

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

Oh wonderful. "I'll be fine," he grumbled, not especially wanting to meet the officer's eyes.

[yubyubcommander.livejournal.com]

Wedge raised an eyebrow and slowly pulled a chair up to sit next to the bed.

"I know. And believe me, I'm relieved to hear that. We got lucky. No one died this time around." Wedge folded his hands together.

"I'm glad that you'll be able to rejoin us once you're well again. We have a lot of intel to go over and training to do."

[on-an-impulse.livejournal.com]

He tried scrambling up a little higher in the bed and failed miserably. "How did no one die this time? Last I saw, we were completely outgunned and then -- what? They just ran away?"