trans_9 | Survivalist End [Open]

|| Medical personnel, please report to the Observation Deck. ||

The shuttle from 'Eden' returns to Stacy, carrying the rescue crew and the original crew members that went down to answer the first distress signal. The returning people are bloodied, battered, some grievously injured. Maxine, Diana and Clef are dehydrated and haven't eaten in days. Karis is missing her entire lower half.

But at least she's better off than the corpse and the wand hastily wrapped in sheets and clothing and lying in the back of the return shuttle. Howard Bassem and Cedric Diggory, one laid cold and still by death and the other not even in enough pieces to be scraped up and taken back, never made it home alive. The official causes of death will be respiratory failure and spontaneous combustion, respectively, as if to to provide a clinical, accurate excuse in lieu of questioning a ship that sends children on dangerous missions.

Stacy quickly determines that she is the most qualified to deal with Karis' case and whisks her away to a secluded section of the Medical Bay. The rest of the survivors and the tragedy are left for the crew to deal with.

[OOC: Bendytimed to right before the tournament plot.]

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"Yes, although I'm more healer than medic, I still know the ins and outs."

She already had her bag in hand, loading a needle up for a shot. "Stacy just told us we had to take care of you guys. What happened, were you fighting some epidemics or something like that?"

Diana obediently held out her arm. It was one of the few time she was compliant, when she was being attend to by a medic. "Some bright spark had the idea that since they didn't want the town to be there anymore they were going to put superpowered monsters in it to kill everyone." She scowled. "Of course, we didn't know this until we crashed and found no water or food or people. Just lots of monsters, bodies, wrecked homes and lovely infections."

"I don't know the details about the whole monster thing. We were more concerned about getting out alive." Her gaze darkened. "Not that all of us did."

"Another one of these pointless missions," Kaya said, shaking her head. "No wonder Ronnae is freaking out all the time when Billy gets sent to these types of places. Why would they even send you there, to get killed? I thought Stacy wanted us ali..."

She trailed off. "What do you mean not all of you survived? Did we lose some of our own?"

Diana nods. "Two." She notices she is subconsciously rubbing her arm where her drip goes in as she thinks about it, she forces herself to stop by putting her hand in her pocket.

"That Cedric guy and Howard." It's strange, having to name them, already the words seem unfamiliar on her tongue. "Cedric went as we were getting picked up, blew up himself and the monsters during the scramble. But before all that Howard was hurt badly and then got sick. Very sick." She left that to hang in the air.

"Two." That hung in the air. Two more people, not podded, taken from them. No wonder her stomach had felt so full of butterflies. How did this happen, that they kept losing...

Her brain focused on the names, and Kaya went white, her eyes widening. Howard. Cedric. Cedric. Howard. Howard, who she saw not soon after the Daligig were stopped punishing them. Cedric, who she just played Quidditch with and laughed with.

She choked, putting the med kit down a moment. She felt sick. The world was spinning, the ship was still going on without a care in the world as if nothing had changed. The boy with the yellow and black gone. The guy who just wanted to be out of this war was out, for good.

Kaya held onto the floor a moment. Focus. Just focus. Treat the patient. That was what she had to do. That was all she could do, and then treat more. They saw them go. They were suffering too.

"Howard was hurt?" She said, barely audible. "What happened to him?"

"I don't know. Cedric was the one with him when it happened." So, there wasn't much chance of finding out now, not after the tall boy had run off to have some kind of big hero moment. It might have been his way of grieving and Diana was certainly thankful for the chance it'd given them all, but she'd still thought it idiotic.

"All I know is that when all met at the radio tower Howard's shoulder and side looked terrible and he just kept getting worse."

"And no one could do anything for him," she said. "He suffered at the end, the way he hadn't at the Punishment. Oh Howard..."

She trailed off. She was sorry, and angry, so ANGRY that it had to happen to him, who had never wanted to play hero, who had never asked to be a part of this! He was just living, trying to help people but stay out of things, and he couldn't even get to die quick, like some of the others!

It made her hate the Daligig, hate everything.

"And Cedric? What happened to him?"

"He was fighting while the shuttle was coming to get us. He was using his magic but we were getting swarmed, he did something to make an explosion but he blew up himself as well as the creatures."

She decided that Kaya didn't want to know about how Cedric had gone into battle with a suicidal mindset anyway, openly blaming himself for Howard's death. Which Diana had partially she agreed with it, Howard had been useful and fun, and now he was gone because of one mistake. Plus the explosion had allowed her to get back safely, something Diana felt slight guilt for, but time would amend that.

Kaya lowered her face a little here, checking Diana out, but she was shaking a little bit. The hardest thing to do would be acting like everything was ok, and not fall apart in front of Diana. No, she had to make sure she would be all right.

"Cedric is the type of person that would do that. Really, I don't know how he and Howard were friends, they were polar opposites. But...they'll both be missed. Howard was from your world, wasn't he? Were you two close?"

"Not really no." No point in lying, but she saw the sadness written all over Kaya's face and reminded herself she was trying to be a better person, so she pushed herself into telling another truth. "But we sort of understood each other, in a damaged sort of way."

A major part of Diana instantly regretted telling Kaya that, but she'd just have to work with it, too late to take it back.

Was she surprised? Not really- Howard mostly kept to himself, and the only person she knew from his world that he was close to was Orc.

Poor Orc. Would he be ok?

"The FAYZ," she said. "You both understood that well enough, that you would do whatever you had to to survive. If there's anything I understood about Howard, he was someone who wasn't resigned to fail. I think I'm starting to get that now, after all the times he tried to tell me."

It just made this all the more unfair.

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