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theboywhowaits ([personal profile] theboywhowaits) wrote in [community profile] trans_92012-01-01 03:14 pm

Down Time [Closed]

"I never thought I'd be glad to see one of these." The words were wry, one hand tugging a bit on the plant suit as he got used to it against his skin. "Last time, it was easier to focus on being naked."

This time had been a mass of chaos and trusting that Sakura knew who he should be shooting at. He kept the gun in reach, not quiet able to trust that things were safe just yet. Wars weren't something that ended cleanly, and any of those little robots could be hiding around here.

"Are you alright?" He kept his back to her, arranging the plant suit and figuring out how to holster the weapon.

Unlike some on the ship, he didn't have any powers, but he was a good shot. Better to not let go of something that could save his life.
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-01 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Sakura had managed to do some healing of her foot, if she was pointedly ignoring her ribs, the ear she couldn't quite hear out of, and all the rest. "I'm fine," she said honestly, since she wasn't incapacitated or unable to keep on as she was. If she was stiff, it was a matter of having fought for over a -- who knew how many days may have passed -- without respite or means to proper rest.

Or healing.

Or...

"SHODAN started her attack when the ship was undergoing repairs. The Daligig are still here, locked in another section. She started executing people in the pods a few... might have been days, but I can't tell you. Time and all around here," she said by means of explanation, waving her hand around (despite the motion going unseen).

"You okay?"
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-02 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
Sakura shook her head. "The Daligig sealed themselves as far as I've heard. SHODAN's got to have some kind of operating point. Finding that and taking it out of commission is what anyone with the know how needs to do, and engineering is the least of all who's working on that."

Which meant a lot of capable people, and pointed toward part of her role here. Sakura wasn't technologically gifted. She didn't try to fit in there, if with some prompting, she wouldn't be half bad.

"I'm not entirely sure, but I think they're in one of the safe points. People started defending the defensible fairly fast, shutting off areas from SHODAN's control. Amy's smart. She has to have Molly somewhere safe before she'd be getting into anything."

Sakura hopes.

"The Doctor is around. Howard was down in Medical, then he's been doing what he does best. Keeping himself as out of the way as he can. I don't know about Conner."

She ran a hand through her hair, twitching instead of wincing. Aah, those ribs of hers...

"You can call them up on omnicomm if you'd like." Digging for hers on hr hip, she offered the battered device to Rory.
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-02 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know, and we haven't had contact with them to hear anything official either way. Or if we have, I managed to miss it." Not unheard of around here. The Daligig weren't especially fond of keeping everyone in the know of what they were doing.

"The caverns was a set-up. SHODAN moved in robots as soon as she had control and had them hidden and on standby. We'd been defending the main platform for days, or who knows how long. Enough time. When the robots broke through us there, we found far more of them waiting down here. That's when SHODAN started the pod killings. She was accessing the listings the ship has for who's in here," another point Sakura wasn't all right with, if her mind wasn't holding on to that thought so well, "And killing them on display. Broadcasting live is the phrase I want, I think."

Rory had been intended to be one of those live sacrifices, if that much went unsaid.

Sakura frowned, tempted for a moment to say nothing. Instead she spoke. "Cracked ribs I've already rapped, second degree burns on my arm I've been treating, broken toes I've wrapped and set best I could before the nodes started being deactivated. My foot's fine now," she said, shifting to her better one and lifting the appendage that had been broken. "Temporary hearing loss in one ear, probably a mild concussion due to collateral damage from the fighting before nodes went down."
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-04 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
"If they are, I want some. Also the opportunity to do the same to them," she said, shifting weight to her good foot again and looking back over her shoulder.

She didn't want to answer his next question, but she did. With an exact count. "Possibly more, with how chaotic things just went. As far as public shows... just what I told you."

Just. Just showing people murdered and keeping records perhaps perpetually. Sakura doesn't doubt these will be backed up and stored on Stacy's normal drives like every other last thing was.

"Don't ask me to shake my head too fast, but things are fine otherwise. No blurriness, no more ache than you'd expect. Normal kind of tired given the amount of sleep we've all stolen lately." Still looking away, body tensing. "We have to finish holding those things off while the guys tracing SHODAN to her source get there and take her down."
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-04 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
"I couldn't, but I've never been good at playing that kind of game. It pisses me off." It also made her sad.

He'd have his work cut out for him getting her to sleep. It'd be a while yet before she crashed, if when she inevitably did, she'd crash hard.

Her hand jerks, then stills again, part of a greater reaction to anything she doesn't expect. Sakura hadn't expected contact. Right now she expected it from nothing less than what she fought, or what was needed in order for someone else needing to stand or be taken out of immediate danger.

Support's new to her. Way too new. "People I grew up with." It sounds hollow, not enough of an owning of who they were, and so she clarifies. "My parents. It was fast."

Not fast enough for them to fail to recognize her, but fast enough they hadn't... exactly... suffered. Sakura knew the advantage of that sort of death.
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-05 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Her agreeance this time led to her saying little else on the matter: she'd done watching, waiting, and hoping for years. Nowhere near as long as many on ship, but very much as long as the generally active young woman could stand.

No less tense than earlier, for the reasons he guessed, and for her own general lack of touch-therapy at this age, Sakura nodded. Didn't say anything, because she didn't know what there was to say. Rory's offer was generous. One day she might take him up on it, but the possibility was so far removed from the reality she currently operated in, with any of the goals that stayed strongly in the foreground, that she didn't think on that potential for long.

"We should get moving. Are you going to head to the City, or elsewhere?" Pod Caverns were her goal still, until the presence here was eradicated. She had faith in the abilities of the others elsewhere to keep the rest intact.

This was her waking nightmare. She wouldn't run away from it.
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[personal profile] encourage 2012-01-09 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
She nodded to him, already focused on what she could do, what needed to be done. "Clear out the pod caverns entirely. After that, we'll help out where they need us most. Probably spread into the city."

She had an inkling things had gone poorly there.

With that basic plan in mind, Sakura started off again, at a reasonable speed to both be on watch and keep where Rory could keep up with her. Even if at times she disappeared to stealth forward and check on anything that might be coming.