Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

Comments

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan shoots the other one with a handgun as he darts behind a bit of rubble using his grappler to avoid the shockwave.]

Yeah. Almost there.

[Aidan is breathing significantly heavier than Billy... but that's understandable all things considered.]

[oncearanger]

[Finally. Billy senses safety and sighs.]

Sorry about the burden, by the way.

[cowardwithoutfear]

You're sorry about the burden?

This was your show remember? You saved a lot of people. I'm just the getaway car.

[oncearanger]

And you've been working hard.

[They're touching down, right? When they do, Billy hurriedly jumps off. It's a bit of a drop.]

You got your lamps out, right? They were gone by the time I got up to clear my things.

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan nods.]

Took them first thing after the announcement about the evacuation. Took everything I had actually.

[oncearanger]

I guess it's good that you hadn't acquired much yet?

[He sighs and looks back over his shoulder]

I salvaged what I could, but I've lost my garage.

[cowardwithoutfear]

I'm a nomad. Having more stuff than I can carry feels wrong.

It's replaceable right?

[oncearanger]

I suppose...I tried to save everything priceless to me, but that didn't leave much room for more practical items.

I'm too sentimental.

[cowardwithoutfear]

Fortunate that your roommate is a living space heater than right?

[oncearanger]

In that respect, I'm a living ice box.

[Once they're safely inside, he deactivates the morph, revealing his inappropriate clothing]

I can't retain that power indefinitely. It's better for me to conserve.

[cowardwithoutfear]

I do have sunlamps remember? I figure more people than just you are gonna want to use them for warmth.

[oncearanger]

You need them to live. The rest of us will survive.

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan shakes his head.]

Suit yourself. But if I see you freezing to death well... don't say I didn't warn you.

[oncearanger]

I consider myself warned.

[Of course, Aidan will find later that Billy didn't take this seriously.]