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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 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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