[ WELL HAHA THIS IS HAPPENING because jolyne can't do math and simply will not learn now!
she's not going to stop ace, because instead she's going to try and help ace pincer this person so that maybe they simply won't know where to look! or maybe they'll be overwhelmed. it's unfortunately just a situation of 2 mimir but the mimir are fight instead. she's got an eye on the detonator, like she wants to try and snatch it, but damn her head hurts. ]
[ HELP? LORD. Well. They can go try to tackle the dude since there's little Lillium can do here. Trying to stop one person is a handful, two is just impossible.
Lillium is going to see if he can evacuate their three friends who aren't going to explode. Adrenaline is helping him with the growing piercing pain, so he shouts to their superiors since they don't have thermite bombs in them, right?. ]
[ There's a brief moment where Luffy reaches out to stop Ace. Hung immediately turns to shield the girls, back towards the pile of thermite bombs. Iris is frozen in place, eyes wide, everything happening far too fast.
The masked man gives no fanfare, though there's a bit of disappointment in him as he presses the detonator with no hesitation. Bro really wasn't kidding.
And then, everything explodes. The thermite bombs blow up in a massive column of fire and slag, sending shockwaves that send all of you stumbling down from the altar staircase, ears ringing, vision blacking out. Pillars and parts of the ceiling come crashing down. You can decide your own damage as you like here, but you will live.
Your vision comes to, blurring in threes, and then twos, until finally you can see the scene around you. The dark underground is now ablaze with flames, and you see no sign of the strange masked person.
The nice thing is that your eye no longer hurts, and if your head is still aching, it's definitely for a different reason (you know, like a concussion). The bunker hasn't completely collapsed yet, but it will very soon. You don't need AI to tell you that, who are in the process of trying to reboot.
[ well! the risk i took was calculated but man! am i bad at math! also, DID THIS GUY JUST ALSO EXPLODE HE REALLY DID NOT HESITATE HUH
anyway i will decide injuries later. fuck you i am not thinking about it. ace kind of struggles to his feet, looking blearily around the blazes. where did the guy go. where did everyone go. are there corpses here. what has he done. etc. ]
... I'm alive, but...
[ where's the others. who else is here and alive. and also, for how long, wow, they should probably get out of here. ]
[ im crying also not thinking about injuries yet but jolyne's face is probably covered in blood anyways. she's pushing aside rocks and debris already as she's struggling to her feet, looking around. she shakes her head before trying to do a visual sweep around herself. ]
Fuck - fuck fuck fuck -
[ she's a creature on a mission, looking around for ace and lillium first. there's a look in her eyes like glassy panic as she tries to find them both, shoving her way towards the both of them. she doesn't really want to think about what exactly they've done. it seemed kind of rigged from the start, but she can't be angry about that when she doens't even know where to begin here. the rubble, can they see anyone familiar underneath it? fur? hair? a sad straw hat?
[ Ugh... Lillium is here, injured, which I will figure out later, but his blood is pumping despite his thoughts being slow. They pick up quick as he takes a look around and starts looking for any signs of anyone else surviving.
Especially Iris.
He does address his AI, 'hey, are you there?' Can we use our special sights. ]
[ Who knows?? All you know is that you can't find him anywhere.
Scattered around, you can see the shape of bodies. Four at the top with the awful smell of burnt fur and singed skin in the air. Hung remains slumped over the rubble that was once some chairs on the floor, with Nimona and Hana close by.
Nimona is laying on her back with blood staining her head, almost seamlessly from her pink hair, one half of her face completely swathed in red. Her brows furrow slightly in pinched pain. Hana is also barely conscious, clutching onto a shoulder, the arm below that mangled. Sigrun is further off, her clothes covered in dust and sand, bruised and battered and singed.
There's a crispy straw hat somewhere near the side of the stairs, near some pile of giant rubble and collapse. There's some blood on it. Where's Luffy gone off to?
Similarly on another end is the sight of a green coat's hem, just barely visible under a too-heavy pile of broken stones.
Your AIs are sluggish, but given time, they load in -- still a little glitchy and their voice skipping a bit, but they're here.
"Wha-wha-tt happenedLQ==ed? Are yo-yoeW91 okay-y-y?"
Your stupid prize box is unharmed somehow, it's just there. ]
[ everything hurts, but adrenaline is a hell of a drug. he hears sabo's skipped voice and answers, reflexively-- fine, explosion, like that's the end of that, but he's unfortunately a one track minded person, and his brother's straw hat left behind is making his blood freeze. Luffy's not the only one missing, though, so-- he'll go ahead and activate thermal readings to try to find Luffy or Iris. he has a bias, but he's not a total asshole.
someone else can check the blood. ]
Check for-- check how everyone's doing. M'looking for the other two. [ he's staggering over to the rubble. he doesn't scream luffy's name, but it's a near thing. ] We need to find a way to get out of here.
[ he expects to hear an accusation later, and he'd probably deserve it, but priorities. two of the girls are badly injured, sigrun's been blown further, and hung looks like shit. they definitely need to be checked out. fuck! math is really hard, it turns out! ]
[ she nods shakily. they still need to uncover them... maybe they haven't been crushed, maybe it's fine. ]
Shout if you find them.
[ we'll help extract asap. but for now, jolyne is going to help triage what she can. who here is in the most dire condition. as she does so, she just mentally murmurs to f.f.: you okay there, foof? hanging in there? if you can help me... i need to get a better look at how everyone's doing. triage. we gotta get outta here.
she'll pick her way to where hung, hana, and nimona are probably closest together to try and ascertain damages on her own. she looks over at where sigrun was blown back and, knowing her teammate, clenches her fingers into her fists and takes care of what's in front of her first. she'll run to her after, these three are just all like. closer together from what i'm reading. for a moment, she brushes hung's fur with her fingertips. ]
Big guy, can you hear me? Hey... Hung? [ will he respond? ]
[ ... He wants to be the one looking for Iris, but he yields to letting Ace handle that. There are others they have to check, too. ]
How's our two known exits looking?
[ Lillium will go for Sigrun then after checking at least one of the other three's pulse so that Jolyne isn't left to do so much of that work. For Sigrun, he checks if she's alive first... If she's breathing, then he'll do his best to move the rubble and get her out of there.
[ Ace can find the shape of Luffy under some rubble. He's on his back, and if Ace looks in that area, he can see his lil fist poking out. Iris is also nearby, curled up underneath a cage of stones near where the green coat hem is.
F.F.
NimobmE=, Hana, and Sigrun will be okaeSw= but the first two need medical attention ASAP.
But Jolyne, what YWI=out you? You need help.
Hung is looking turbo-bad. He's severely injured and his breath is faint. The only response he can manage is a slight hitch in his breathing, but little else.
Sigrun is breathing, though her consciousness could use a little more work.
Nico
The elevator is still functioning. Somehow.
The other route that Iris came through are stairs, but it's far enough from here that it's unaffeY3RlZC4=
You can't stay here Lillium, the ceiling is Y29taW5nIA==down.
The reward box appears to have some kind of mechanical.. uh, mechanism in it. He has no clue what it is from x-ray. ]
[ Ace is talking solely to Sabo, here, mentally, when he thinks: I don't care that the ceiling is coming down, I'm not leaving anyone behind.
Sabo would know better than anyone that Ace has always been unable to run.
So, okay, can he get Luffy out of the rubble first and then try to get Iris out? because he is already digging them out. Carrying six people between three injured ones is insane but he's tried even more insane garbage in the past, so. This is where his brain is at. ]
Found 'em. I need to dig them out. [ Hey, Sabo, any help on the best strategy to pull this off? Don't say leave. ]
M'fine, F.F... how are we gonna get any more help anyways... [ haha oh god. to ace and lillium: ] Nimona and Hana are the worst off - they need help. Hung's super fucked up. They're all still breathing, but it's touch and go. They'll make it...
[ they'll make it, they'll make it, they all have a chance. her own head is throbbing and she takes a second just to kind of cough from a bit of the rocky debris-dust. ] How do we even carry all of them. Fuck... shit...
[ hahahaha this sucks. she's going to just try and get any remaining debris off of them and get them ready to be transported if at all possible. ]
[ This isn't a time to be calm? Lillium can barely carry Sigrun because she's a tall woman. He's lucky that his legs aren't so screwed up that he can't walk. Lillium is the type to use math, so whichever is the least travel time is the one he's going to take for the escape route. ]
Why did all six of them have to go under like this?!
[ WHAT IS THEIR LUCK. He isn't going to open the box, not when the ceiling is about to collapse. Anyway, he will just rely on AI suggestion on where to go, on top of shorter travel distance. ]
Would be great if we could wake up the ones who can book it!
[ Yelled at him in his head at maximum volume, though privately. He has nothing to offer, even with his computations. The combined strength of two men and a Jojo couldn't make this stone piece budge.
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F.F.
Jolyne.
Not enough time.
There is a sense of urgency in her digital, echoing voice. The ceiling above cracks, and another massive piece of ceiling comes down, alarmingly near where Jolyne is though it mercifully misses hitting anyone. For now. Hung is too large for her to carry on her own, especially not if they want to get Nimona, Hana, and Sigrun out of here too.
★★★
Nico can helpfully guide Lillium with enhanced vision and calculating which places are safest for him to put weight on, where he can take the most stable path to the exit, or at least to a safe zone that won't be affected by the collapse.
A ton of ceiling collapses behind him though. Getting back will be the hard part.
You hear another rumble and the sound of tumbling granite and pouring sand. The place will not last long. ]
[ he's snapping back out loud anyway. the part of him that is still oceanside feels betrayed, a little, because sabo would never tell him to leave without luffy, but the part of him that is still oceanside is also aware that luffy wouldn't be here, so luckily it's hard to focus on that. ]
I told you to go, you stupid idiot, I told you-- [ he is always getting into trouble and dragging luffy along, and now there's five other people (seven, with lillium and jolyne) in trouble with him and the place is collapsing and he is going to break his fucking hands attempting to move rubble. ] Fucking-- they're right there!
[ what is the point of a magic eyeball if it's not going to be the sharingan and have something to protect them from this place collapsing wow. anyway sorry ace is wasted another turn trying to move unmovable rocks because his name is portgas dumbass stubborn motherfucker ace ]
[ this is the edge of something impossible once again. there isn't much to do when everyone's in critical condition. she can hear f.f. telling her that there's no time, and what is it but THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR OWN ACTIONS coming back to haunt us. no, she's pretty sure this would happen either way. she's going to start moving bodies even if it kills her.
man, our prize box is probably pretty important, huh?
god she's never felt this weak before. this helpless. her own arms are shaking, the air tastes like blood (maybe that's the blood dribbling out of her nose.) ]
F.F... sorry I'm such a fuckin' moron. Again.
[ her legs are shaking, and even as she tries to get her two lighter options up to her shoulders to drag them onto her back, her knees buckle. it's not fucking happening (they slide back down). she wants the adrenaline to do its job, but something is wrong, the pain is dull in comparison to the panic of it all. she looks at hung and just shakes her head. ] Have to do something... anything
[ she just starts helping ace with rocks and shit, reaching for some debris from near him and... whipping it at the box out of sheer fury. open your fuckhouse box, lowe. she'll be here helping. futilely. helping.
[ Sigrun is places some steps on the stairs before Lillium tries to return back. Unfortunately, he's met by the debris that fell behind him. It would normally not be much for him as long as his limbs still work. He tries to scale it and reach the other side. With each movement, he can start feeling his body strain and his prosthetics creaking.
There are still so many people in danger on the other side... And then there are his investigation team—yet in the end his thoughts fall onto Iris. If he can at the very least get Iris were this nightmare to become worse... ]
Use the other exit!
[ Not Lillilum deciding Sigrun would be fine to wake up randomly in the secret passage to the park. She's a hunter, so. In this dreadful collapsing building, we at least have this small haha. ]
[ Look, Sabo doesn't want to tell Ace to leave him either, and this can be heard and felt. Whoever said AI couldn't ever be real human has never seen yours in a time like this. Helpless, just a digital program who can't help Ace lift some stupid fucking rocks. SABO WISHES HE HAD LASER EYES RIGHT NOW!!
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F.F.
It wasn't your fault, Jolyne.
Up to you whether you believe she means it, or she only says it because she's your AI.
The box flops over, clanging with a sharp metal noise. The lid flips open, and you hear a faint pshhh noise...
:o
Nothing happens immediately.
★★★
Yeah, you know what, Sigrun will be perfectly okay. You got her someplace safe, and that's all that matters! He can climb, barely missing a giant structural pipe crashing down near him, leaving his ears to ring. He can dash towards where Iris is, sure, move some rocks just barely in time to see a little bit of him still buried in mangled steel and concrete.
ace's head fucking hurts. his hands hurt, his heart hurts, he is crying and bleeding in this horrible cult dungeon tonight, and he can't make the choice and turn back when luffy is right there. he's dooming nimona, and hung, and hana, and probably jolyne and lillium too, but--
he has to keep trying. he has to. he's never been able to go when there was something important behind him.
so i am once again wasting a turn tugging at degree and screaming helplessly when shit don't move, son ]
[ hahahahahaha at this point? at this point it's over, isn't it. jolyne just heaves, her arms trembling. there's a way to escape, the three of them at least. but can she stand the idea of that? leaving them behind? (was there another way? if you could reach in and change one thing, get a second chance...)
a soft wheeze. she hears lillium and oh god maybe they can try... but... ]
Ace - we can't - we have to go... we need to... it's not moving...!
[ as if she isn't still helping him dig his heels in. sometimes you see things during memshare week and it just really makes you think. she reaches for his arm and grabs tightly, fingers digging in. we have to go. we have to go. i don't want to go i don't i don't please oh god oh fuck oh god please what do i do. his heels are already planted. this is more of a final bid. please. look.
[ ... Maybe if he were stronger, or if he had the power, then they would all get out of here. He isn't any of those. Nothing grand, either. A part of him wants to start yelling because MAYBE if they DIDN'T try to tackle the PERSON WITH THE DETONATOR they wouldn't be in this situation.
PERHAPS, they would be in another type of life and death situation, but at least those chances could have been better?! Maybe? On the way in a dash, he picks up Nimona like some scruffed wild animal and lugs Hana onto his back—whichever body is easy to pluck out without needing to dig through debris.
Have you ever been kicked by prosthetic legs, Ace. With an 11, it isn't a gentle one, but it won't break bone. ]
If you plan to die here, there goes your and your brothers' dreams. Let's get going, blockhead!
[ With a heavy heart, he parses that they can't save them all... Iris, included. Math sucks. He's booking it. Goodbye. ]
The ceiling collapses with an immense noise, and the events after are a complete blur. At the last second, something strange happens. Again, your surroundings spread in gridlines, horizontal and vertical, glitches of the matrix filling the vignettes of your peripheral vision.
It's like time stops... and then flows somewhere else.
You don't remember how you managed to get out, but you must have. You vaguely recall the sound of police sirens and lights being flashed into your eyes, checking for a response. They ask you questions and you answer them with little thought where it comes automatically, and don't where you can't. They take you away on ambulances, declaring you to be in deep shock and in need of urgent care.
The less generous interrogate you on the events, what happened, what contact you had with the killer. Boss pulls strings to get them to leave you alone, getting what information she can get from your AIs so you can get the rest you deserve.
Nimona, Hana, and Sigrun are declared survivors and will recover, though Nimona will retain a permanent injury. Hana's arm will leave her lame, destroying her dreams of being a professional gamer. Sigrun is quiet and speaks to you rarely after, leaving the city to rest in greener and quieter pastures, some place less dangerous than this city. She really got roped in just because.
They send people to dig through the rubble once it's deemed safe enough to do so but they don't find Hung, Luffy, nor Iris. They bring you back the straw hat and the coat as a keepsake, but that's it.
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she's not going to stop ace, because instead she's going to try and help ace pincer this person so that maybe they simply won't know where to look! or maybe they'll be overwhelmed. it's unfortunately just a situation of 2 mimir but the mimir are fight instead. she's got an eye on the detonator, like she wants to try and snatch it, but damn her head hurts. ]
Not happening, asshole!
[ i have no idea what's going to happen. ]
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Lillium is going to see if he can evacuate their three friends who aren't going to explode. Adrenaline is helping him with the growing piercing pain, so he shouts to their superiors since they don't have thermite bombs in them, right?. ]
Wherever you guys came out of?! Go back!
[ i am prepared for the worst ]
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The masked man gives no fanfare, though there's a bit of disappointment in him as he presses the detonator with no hesitation. Bro really wasn't kidding.
And then, everything explodes. The thermite bombs blow up in a massive column of fire and slag, sending shockwaves that send all of you stumbling down from the altar staircase, ears ringing, vision blacking out. Pillars and parts of the ceiling come crashing down. You can decide your own damage as you like here, but you will live.
Your vision comes to, blurring in threes, and then twos, until finally you can see the scene around you. The dark underground is now ablaze with flames, and you see no sign of the strange masked person.
The nice thing is that your eye no longer hurts, and if your head is still aching, it's definitely for a different reason (you know, like a concussion). The bunker hasn't completely collapsed yet, but it will very soon. You don't need AI to tell you that, who are in the process of trying to reboot.
What now? ]
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anyway i will decide injuries later. fuck you i am not thinking about it. ace kind of struggles to his feet, looking blearily around the blazes. where did the guy go. where did everyone go. are there corpses here. what has he done. etc. ]
... I'm alive, but...
[ where's the others. who else is here and alive. and also, for how long, wow, they should probably get out of here. ]
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Fuck - fuck fuck fuck -
[ she's a creature on a mission, looking around for ace and lillium first. there's a look in her eyes like glassy panic as she tries to find them both, shoving her way towards the both of them. she doesn't really want to think about what exactly they've done. it seemed kind of rigged from the start, but she can't be angry about that when she doens't even know where to begin here. the rubble, can they see anyone familiar underneath it? fur? hair? a sad straw hat?
blood? ]
S-sound off...
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[ Ugh... Lillium is here, injured, which I will figure out later, but his blood is pumping despite his thoughts being slow. They pick up quick as he takes a look around and starts looking for any signs of anyone else surviving.
Especially Iris.
He does address his AI, 'hey, are you there?' Can we use our special sights. ]
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Scattered around, you can see the shape of bodies. Four at the top with the awful smell of burnt fur and singed skin in the air. Hung remains slumped over the rubble that was once some chairs on the floor, with Nimona and Hana close by.
Nimona is laying on her back with blood staining her head, almost seamlessly from her pink hair, one half of her face completely swathed in red. Her brows furrow slightly in pinched pain. Hana is also barely conscious, clutching onto a shoulder, the arm below that mangled. Sigrun is further off, her clothes covered in dust and sand, bruised and battered and singed.
There's a crispy straw hat somewhere near the side of the stairs, near some pile of giant rubble and collapse. There's some blood on it. Where's Luffy gone off to?
Similarly on another end is the sight of a green coat's hem, just barely visible under a too-heavy pile of broken stones.
Your AIs are sluggish, but given time, they load in -- still a little glitchy and their voice skipping a bit, but they're here.
"Wha-wha-tt happenedLQ==ed? Are yo-yoeW91 okay-y-y?"
Your stupid prize box is unharmed somehow, it's just there. ]
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someone else can check the blood. ]
Check for-- check how everyone's doing. M'looking for the other two. [ he's staggering over to the rubble. he doesn't scream luffy's name, but it's a near thing. ] We need to find a way to get out of here.
[ he expects to hear an accusation later, and he'd probably deserve it, but priorities. two of the girls are badly injured, sigrun's been blown further, and hung looks like shit. they definitely need to be checked out. fuck! math is really hard, it turns out! ]
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Shout if you find them.
[ we'll help extract asap. but for now, jolyne is going to help triage what she can. who here is in the most dire condition. as she does so, she just mentally murmurs to f.f.: you okay there, foof? hanging in there? if you can help me... i need to get a better look at how everyone's doing. triage. we gotta get outta here.
she'll pick her way to where hung, hana, and nimona are probably closest together to try and ascertain damages on her own. she looks over at where sigrun was blown back and, knowing her teammate, clenches her fingers into her fists and takes care of what's in front of her first. she'll run to her after, these three are just all like. closer together from what i'm reading. for a moment, she brushes hung's fur with her fingertips. ]
Big guy, can you hear me? Hey... Hung? [ will he respond? ]
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How's our two known exits looking?
[ Lillium will go for Sigrun then after checking at least one of the other three's pulse so that Jolyne isn't left to do so much of that work. For Sigrun, he checks if she's alive first... If she's breathing, then he'll do his best to move the rubble and get her out of there.
X-RAY THE REWARD BOX? ]
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But Jolyne, what YWI=out you? You need help.
Hung is looking turbo-bad. He's severely injured and his breath is faint. The only response he can manage is a slight hitch in his breathing, but little else.
Sigrun is breathing, though her consciousness could use a little more work.
The other route that Iris came through are stairs, but it's far enough from here that it's unaffeY3RlZC4=
You can't stay here Lillium, the ceiling is Y29taW5nIA==down.
The reward box appears to have some kind of mechanical.. uh, mechanism in it. He has no clue what it is from x-ray. ]
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Sabo would know better than anyone that Ace has always been unable to run.
So, okay, can he get Luffy out of the rubble first and then try to get Iris out? because he is already digging them out. Carrying six people between three injured ones is insane but he's tried even more insane garbage in the past, so. This is where his brain is at. ]
Found 'em. I need to dig them out. [ Hey, Sabo, any help on the best strategy to pull this off? Don't say leave. ]
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M'fine, F.F... how are we gonna get any more help anyways... [ haha oh god. to ace and lillium: ] Nimona and Hana are the worst off - they need help. Hung's super fucked up. They're all still breathing, but it's touch and go. They'll make it...
[ they'll make it, they'll make it, they all have a chance. her own head is throbbing and she takes a second just to kind of cough from a bit of the rocky debris-dust. ] How do we even carry all of them. Fuck... shit...
[ hahahaha this sucks. she's going to just try and get any remaining debris off of them and get them ready to be transported if at all possible. ]
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Why did all six of them have to go under like this?!
[ WHAT IS THEIR LUCK. He isn't going to open the box, not when the ceiling is about to collapse. Anyway, he will just rely on AI suggestion on where to go, on top of shorter travel distance. ]
Would be great if we could wake up the ones who can book it!
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You're going to die!
[ Yelled at him in his head at maximum volume, though privately. He has nothing to offer, even with his computations. The combined strength of two men and a Jojo couldn't make this stone piece budge.
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Not enough time.
There is a sense of urgency in her digital, echoing voice. The ceiling above cracks, and another massive piece of ceiling comes down, alarmingly near where Jolyne is though it mercifully misses hitting anyone. For now. Hung is too large for her to carry on her own, especially not if they want to get Nimona, Hana, and Sigrun out of here too.
★★★
Nico can helpfully guide Lillium with enhanced vision and calculating which places are safest for him to put weight on, where he can take the most stable path to the exit, or at least to a safe zone that won't be affected by the collapse.
A ton of ceiling collapses behind him though. Getting back will be the hard part.
You hear another rumble and the sound of tumbling granite and pouring sand. The place will not last long. ]
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[ he's snapping back out loud anyway. the part of him that is still oceanside feels betrayed, a little, because sabo would never tell him to leave without luffy, but the part of him that is still oceanside is also aware that luffy wouldn't be here, so luckily it's hard to focus on that. ]
I told you to go, you stupid idiot, I told you-- [ he is always getting into trouble and dragging luffy along, and now there's five other people (seven, with lillium and jolyne) in trouble with him and the place is collapsing and he is going to break his fucking hands attempting to move rubble. ] Fucking-- they're right there!
[ what is the point of a magic eyeball if it's not going to be the sharingan and have something to protect them from this place collapsing wow. anyway sorry ace is wasted another turn trying to move unmovable rocks because his name is portgas dumbass stubborn motherfucker ace ]
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man, our prize box is probably pretty important, huh?
god she's never felt this weak before. this helpless. her own arms are shaking, the air tastes like blood (maybe that's the blood dribbling out of her nose.) ]
F.F... sorry I'm such a fuckin' moron. Again.
[ her legs are shaking, and even as she tries to get her two lighter options up to her shoulders to drag them onto her back, her knees buckle. it's not fucking happening (they slide back down). she wants the adrenaline to do its job, but something is wrong, the pain is dull in comparison to the panic of it all. she looks at hung and just shakes her head. ] Have to do something... anything
[ she just starts helping ace with rocks and shit, reaching for some debris from near him and... whipping it at the box out of sheer fury. open your fuckhouse box, lowe. she'll be here helping. futilely. helping.
this is a fucking nightmare. ]
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There are still so many people in danger on the other side... And then there are his investigation team—yet in the end his thoughts fall onto Iris. If he can at the very least get Iris were this nightmare to become worse... ]
Use the other exit!
[ Not Lillilum deciding Sigrun would be fine to wake up randomly in the secret passage to the park. She's a hunter, so. In this dreadful collapsing building, we at least have this small haha. ]
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★★★
Up to you whether you believe she means it, or she only says it because she's your AI.
The box flops over, clanging with a sharp metal noise. The lid flips open, and you hear a faint pshhh noise...
:o
Nothing happens immediately.
★★★
Yeah, you know what, Sigrun will be perfectly okay. You got her someplace safe, and that's all that matters! He can climb, barely missing a giant structural pipe crashing down near him, leaving his ears to ring. He can dash towards where Iris is, sure, move some rocks just barely in time to see a little bit of him still buried in mangled steel and concrete.
The ceiling comes down in the next tag. ]
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Do it, Ace! I can take it!
s̶a̸y̴ ̴w̴h̷a̴t̸e̷v̷e̴r̷ ̴y̶o̷u̵ ̷w̸a̸n̷t̴!̵ ̸i̸'̴m̶ ̸g̵o̴n̸n̷a̵ ̷s̵a̷v̸e̸ ̵y̷o̷u̸ ̶e̷v̵e̵n̸ ̵i̴f̵ ̷i̵t̸ ̵k̷i̴l̶l̷s̵ ̵m̷e̶!̶
ace's head fucking hurts. his hands hurt, his heart hurts, he is crying and bleeding in this horrible cult dungeon tonight, and he can't make the choice and turn back when luffy is right there. he's dooming nimona, and hung, and hana, and probably jolyne and lillium too, but--
he has to keep trying. he has to. he's never been able to go when there was something important behind him.
so i am once again wasting a turn tugging at degree and screaming helplessly when shit don't move, son ]
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a soft wheeze. she hears lillium and oh god maybe they can try... but... ]
Ace - we can't - we have to go... we need to... it's not moving...!
[ as if she isn't still helping him dig his heels in. sometimes you see things during memshare week and it just really makes you think. she reaches for his arm and grabs tightly, fingers digging in. we have to go. we have to go. i don't want to go i don't i don't please oh god oh fuck oh god please what do i do. his heels are already planted. this is more of a final bid. please. look.
we're fucked. ]
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PERHAPS, they would be in another type of life and death situation, but at least those chances could have been better?! Maybe? On the way in a dash, he picks up Nimona like some scruffed wild animal and lugs Hana onto his back—whichever body is easy to pluck out without needing to dig through debris.
Have you ever been kicked by prosthetic legs, Ace. With an 11, it isn't a gentle one, but it won't break bone. ]
If you plan to die here, there goes your and your brothers' dreams. Let's get going, blockhead!
[ With a heavy heart, he parses that they can't save them all... Iris, included. Math sucks. He's booking it. Goodbye. ]
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The ceiling collapses with an immense noise, and the events after are a complete blur. At the last second, something strange happens. Again, your surroundings spread in gridlines, horizontal and vertical, glitches of the matrix filling the vignettes of your peripheral vision.
It's like time stops... and then flows somewhere else.
You don't remember how you managed to get out, but you must have. You vaguely recall the sound of police sirens and lights being flashed into your eyes, checking for a response. They ask you questions and you answer them with little thought where it comes automatically, and don't where you can't. They take you away on ambulances, declaring you to be in deep shock and in need of urgent care.
The less generous interrogate you on the events, what happened, what contact you had with the killer. Boss pulls strings to get them to leave you alone, getting what information she can get from your AIs so you can get the rest you deserve.
Nimona, Hana, and Sigrun are declared survivors and will recover, though Nimona will retain a permanent injury. Hana's arm will leave her lame, destroying her dreams of being a professional gamer. Sigrun is quiet and speaks to you rarely after, leaving the city to rest in greener and quieter pastures, some place less dangerous than this city. She really got roped in just because.
They send people to dig through the rubble once it's deemed safe enough to do so but they don't find Hung, Luffy, nor Iris. They bring you back the straw hat and the coat as a keepsake, but that's it.
So the story goes. ]