(open) crash into me

[whatsupcroc]

Date & Time: Mid-afternoon Sunday, May 5th
Location: The Hold and Housing Complex
Characters: All who wish to be in the vicinity!
Summary: The Initiative asked for the Housing Complex to be evacuated starting early morning on 5/5, in preparation for the expected landing of the spaceship stolen from the United Earth. The landing goes horribly wrong when an undiscovered bomb detonates onboard the ship, causing partial engine failure. The ship proceeds to be crash landed into the Housing Complex; no lives, however, are lost.

Warnings: Spaceship crash landings it's all horrible!
Notes: Respond in action tags or prose, as you please!

The ship breaks cloud-cover as a spot of light in the dreary skies, leaving behind the beauty of sunlight above the broken cloud layer as it continues to descend. With the Initiative having instigated an evacuation of the area ahead of time, just in case, those watching in the light drizzle may find it an interesting sight to behold.

Doubtlessly, the United Earth, from its great distance, may have also found it interesting.

The first sign of something going wrong is an explosion visible from the ground. People who hear it might startle; the ship itself goes from a smooth, controlled flight path to one wobbly and filled with dark, flaming smoke. The whine of its remaining engine is slower to reach the ground, though the ship itself seems to pick up a spiraling speed, still controlled to those familiar with watching things that fly come crashing down to the ground.

The Initiative members on the ground are calling for people to get back and take cover. Inside the main Hold, one man at the transport pads hears his radio blast to life and swallows past his own fear, glancing at the active pad waiting to pull in another unlucky soul.

When the ship hits the Housing Complex, it demolishes the upper levels, though the force with which it hits doesn't seem to be the same as what it should be. Combined telekinetic buffering and excellent piloting from a former Guardian of the Universe Galaxy keeps damage to a catastrophic minimum.

Welcome to the fallout. What will you do from here?

Comments

[fraternize]

...so it seems. [good boy, oz was always a good 'boy' in a sense. he never stepped on toes, never got angry or cried (until he came back and cried his heart out on oswald, i'm sorry and i didn't mean to over and over again), so oswald always got along fairly well with him.

he reminded him of jack sharply and grossly. exactly that. and yet—

he still bought him cake for his birthday and let him scratch a thank you into his dreamberry's inactive state. he still let oz flutter around their temporary home between the two of them, safe under the guise of raven's power - he still let oz sneak into his room in the worst nights and curl close. still. he accepted everything he was and is every going to be—

oswald was soft.

is still, staring.] Really? I thought there was another here—

[velveteened]

— Leo.

( absurdly, he'd forgotten. all the more ridiculous since the first time he'd seen jabberwock in this city he hadn't thought of oswald at all, hadn't remembered that heart-stopping moment in sablier. instead, he'd flashed to the fight in reveil, to leo - correctly - and hadn't discounted the possibility for weeks that more baskervilles may be hidden away at his beck and call until the worst possible moment; and now, he's forgot. leo is his friend, and glen baskerville in all of his ominous horror is the man before him now.

this is not the same as sablier.

he's all tensed up and ready - not ready at all - for a confrontation except this man doesn't seem like he's about to give one.

(had he, in sablier? he'd called off jabberwock then, too.

but no, he must have, he certainly had to do with the horrible aura and undefined dread of the past, sablier sablier sablier that haunts oz even though it was a hundred years before his time so why does he keep having to watch - )

this is polite conversation. yura hadn't been polite, had been all subtle and not-so-subtle jabs amidst the pretense of pleasantness, and it all seems terribly obvious in retrospect. it occurs to him that if glen baskerville hadn't already known about leo being here already, oz had just handed him that knowledge on a silver platter. )