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She went straight to the Sensoriums. Her feelings were all over the place, and she had to get away from people right now. She remembered all too well what happened to Alex when he lost Luna: she knew she had to find a way to take her aggression out. There was pain and self loathing and unspeakable things she was sorting through, but right now it was nothing but anger she was feeding on. She closed her eyes when she entered, concentrating on the enemies she;s fought while she'd been on the ship.

The Terminators. The T-Rex. The Nightmare King's monster minions. The traps Hal had laid for them. They came one at a time but Katara was ready, steeling herself to calmly maneuver out of the traps, to find a way to take down the terminator most efficiently, and those alone took more than a few hours. It was when she got to the nightmare King's minions, however, that Katara stopped being cautious. Now she ripped into them, stabbing at them with ice shards and freezing them on the spot before blowing through them, and slowly her determined face gave away to that of rage. As she started to remember their fights, their hugs, their talks, she switched to the Bene Gesserit fighting style, her hits were starting to get more serious, leaving many injured in her wake, though she received a few cuts herself. When she was done an hour later, it faded, all of it, and she was left in water, where she had heard Sokka once talk to Toph about how she'd been like a mother to her, and she couldn't stand it anymore. She let out a scream, primal and pained.

"WHY?! WHY BRING HIM HERE JUST TO TAKE HIM AWAY?! ALL THIS TIME, JUST TO TAKE HIM AND NOT HAVE AANG HERE AND MAKE ZUKO FORGET WHAT WE ALL DID?? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!?"

And she dissolved into tears here, the sun sinking into the clouds and leaving a dark, lonely pond.

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"Well you think people would have better things to think about," Katara said bluntly. "I would really like it if people weren't constantly dismissive about us, like we're not as important as they are. They should be thinking abut how we can help fight the Ohm!"

And she would find a way to make sure they remembered them, she would make sure of that.

"What do you think, being on the ship and seeing all you have so far?"

"About the outsiders?" Vita asked, then crossed her arms.

"You know, it's probably sounding weird, but I trained people in the world I come from that were younger than most in the Outsiders I saw. Caro and Erio still did well when they had to fight. It's silly to not let people help if they are able to and understand what they're getting into."

Of course, she had still been quite protective of them, but that was a completely different matter she wouldn't admit openly, anyway.

"If just half is true about what is said about the Ohm, people'd be nuts not to! The Ohm won't care if whoever they attack is under some arbitrary age limit, I think."

But well, Vita was from a world that focussed more on talent and less on age, anyway.

"It's one thing to see them in a simulation of what they've done, and then to see it all up close," Katara said, a grim look on her face. "In my world, we had a hundred years of war where everyone suffered for it. The idea that kids shouldn't be a part of the war was just stupid: adults had it hard enough just trying to survive. Everyone needed to help, and those that couldn't, we did our best to liberate."

She remembered the Ohm all too well. She still had nightmares, and knowing that they were out there, waiting for their next attack, she knew the Outsiders had to reform again. It was hardly even a choice.

"But if you have any advice for our group I'd appreciate it. I give Beastboy credit for being in an actual superhero group: the gang I was with were either strong benders or brilliant at thinking our way out of a situation."

"Oh, if I see anything to give advice about, I'll mention it! I wasn't in a hero group or anything myself"

...more a (anti-)villain group, for a while...

"but did work quite a bit for the military later on. They thanked me for the training I did for their people, too..."

Suddenly her face darkened, not in a depressed way, more showing annoyance. "Even though they called me the small, red one. At least they didn't do that to my face, stupid jerks."

But that mumbling went over quickly. "I think overall, we mostly relied on people thinking their way out of situations too. Works best, really, if people are clever enough. Nanoha was great at that as a kid, too, and the people in section six that we trained all learned that, too!"

Course, listening had also been important (especially if the command had been a yell of "Defend!" while a certain small knight was incoming with her hammer)...

Katara sighed. "If we had a military like that here, I think I'd might want to join it. But so far it seems to be a mess, and they seem to keep a lot of secrets. With The Outsiders, I don't want to keep anything from you guys. The whole reason this group firmed was because the original members were sick of feeling like we didn't have a voice, and wouldn't so long as the 'you are younger' feeling was around."

Here she suppressed a smirk. Vita WAS small, she just knew enough not to go making fun of her there.

"That doesn't surprise me," she said brightly. "I always thought Nanoha was a shoe in at her job,m and I can honestly say she;s one of the people on the ship I completely trust. For smarts though, the smartest guy I know is Billy Cranston. He's an engineer on the ship, and really like a brother to me."

"Well I get that feeling, since people say that to mee sometimes too, and I'm usually older than those who say the 'younger' thing!"

Well, not many people are centuries old, after all. She didn't quite spot the smirk, luckily.

"I haven't met this Billy yet, I admit, but if he's anything like the engineers of my world, I'll take your word for it. They were pretty clever, even managed to repair Eisen quickly when he needed it after him and I were almost shattered!"

"Well I'm not going to say that," Katara said, shaking her head. "If anything, anyone who comes to us and want to be stronger or be a part of us, they can. We can't just stay here being useless."

And despite all of the balls and things, she still felt like she should be preparing for something.

"He's definitely useful, and starting to learn to to become stronger himself: he wants to go above and beyond to help his friends. I just hope he can gain faith in what he can do, same as the rest of us. I'm still trying to improve my fighting skills."

Vita just nodded emphatically. She agreed. "And thats why I think you guys are handling that a lot better than some other people. Don't think the ship can affort wasting the help of people who want to help. And I guess you could say Stacy woke people for a reason, standing around isn't a good one"

Vita still wasn't really sure how the whole ohm battle was going to play out, but she was going to do her best, that was for sure.

"Well, I can't help with the engineering part, but I really get the training part. We all should. Even Nanoha's probably training again..."

You couldn't really stop Nanoha from training herself, after all.

"When I got here on the ship, I noticed that so many people were fixated on their displacement they wanted nothing to do with helping others. We're all from so many different works and have seen so many different things. Now we're here trying to stop one of our biggest nightmares: the elimination of every world in existence. I just patience with people's selfishness in some ways. We're all in this together; we have to help each other."

She nodded. "In all the time I've been on the ship, the lesson I learned best was training can definitely help. It isn't enough to just have the skills you learned in one place, but to apply it to the new things you discover to make you stronger."

Which is why she wasn't surprised to hear that about Nanoha.

"Well, thats kinda stupid of them. I mean I get there's situations where you don't want outside help and just want to do your thing, but this looks to be bigger than that, to me."

Not that she actually had seen these 'Ohm'.

Come to think of it... "Say, that Billy, was he the one with the mouse?"

"Everything's bigger," Katara said, "And that's why I think its better, for now, to try and work things out with each other. We all have stupid differences, but fighting about them is just going to make things worse."

Katara wrinkled her nose. "Mouse? I don't know what that-oh wait. Was this 'mouse' blue?'

"Thats all good, when people listen. When they don't they do need a stern talking!" Vita added. "I guess I'm generally fine, though, I doubt anyone in the magic department would doubt me being there. Not for long."

Why? Well, she'd show them why that would be a silly argument.

Vita blinked. "Uhm...could be. He was also stammering a bit, so I wondered if you meant him - he was at the outsider meeting"

"I won't argue with that!" She said, smiling. "The magical department is actually the department that I trust the most. They have people there least likely to keep a secret from the rest of the crew anyway. I like them. I'm sure they'd love you."

Katara snickered. "Yes, I think I know who you mean. It's Renne...and he's actually pretty special. Not a mouse."

"Can only agree with that, but then I've kinda known some of them for years. Good they appear that way to everyone else, though!"

The other thing took some more thought "Er, really? The...not-mouse... doesn't happen to actually be a shapeshifting mage?"
Curious question. She herself noticed it came across as odd. "Just asking, I know one like that, turns into a ferret. That'd explain the special-ness..."

That was a pretty good thing. To the other departments on the ship who felt like they had to constantly keep secrets, she wondered what exactly their worlds were like, that mistrust of people was something that was fairly common.

Katara snickered. "Um, I think its possible for him to shapeshift, but Renne is just...Renne, really. But who do you know that can turn into a ferret?"

And for that matter, what the heck was a ferret?

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Her mun forgot what color it had o.o;

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