( open ) i'll fly you to the moon and back

[initiates]

Date & Time: September 21st - September 30th, 11:59 PM
Location: The Hold, the Moon Base
Characters: Any/all.
Summary: The Transports are evacuating to the Moon Base. Those on the Moon Base try to settle in and figure out their next move. Setting info can be found here.
Warnings: Talk of nuclear warheads and reference to immense loss of life. Please contact the mods should any individual thread get graphically violent or anything else of the sort.
Note: Use date and location tags in your subject headlines! Such as "On the moon, 23rd onward" or "On the spaceship, 25th" or "down at the Hold, 29th."

The Hold is a flurry of activity, grim faced members of the Initiative group directing supplies and people with the subdued air of people facing their own doom, and wondering at how to process the knowledge. None of the Initiative appears unaware of what will happen; their eyes linger on the Transports, expressions pleading, hopeful, doubtful, or immeasurably sad in turn.

Every eight hours, the space ship is sent back up with a load of people and supplies. The pilots are worked until they can't; the AI stolen ages ago by the Initiative greets and corrals people and supplies at both ends, and in the middle step between.

The network continues to broadcast on narrow channels between the Moon Base and Exsilium, up until the time that all connections are lost, with the carrier located en route to Exsilium. The first airship will pass by without dropping anything, but it's too early to celebrate. At a six hour delay from behind, the second airship arrives, and with it, the dark promise of the Black Code's nuclear weaponry.

The six hour window allows for time for those left behind, either by choice or circumstance, to be pulled to the Moon Base with the successful activation of the Transport Pad. New characters will ultimately arrive with the remainder of those not yet on the Moon Base, all in time to witness the explosive contact of the nuclear warhead with the ground of Exsilium live on satellite.

But until then, there's only the hurry, the silence, and the potential for full out rioting should the Transports spread word to the Exiles inevitably left behind to face this fate.

Comments

C is for cookie but I don't have any

[celestial_wizard]

Blaine!

[ She hadn't heard that comment, but she's still a few feet away, having been looking for her friends in hopes that they made it out. What happened on Earth still makes her sick to her stomach, and she knew she should stay close to Natsu and the others, but.. she had to make sure her friends here were okay. ]

WAT travesty! Give me cookies!

[strategic_guile]

[Blaine reacted a bit slow to her call, but as she approached her gave her a small smile.]

Good to see you, Lucy.

BUT I HAS NONE

[celestial_wizard]

[ Lucy slowed her own pace when she drew near, feeling almost guilty over being glad he was okay. It didn't seem right that they all survived by abandoning those people. Even if the Initiative... ]

... are you alright? ... i mean... I know you're probably not alright, but... are you?

/eats you instead

[strategic_guile]

[Blaine felt no guilt over being relieved to see her.]

I'm fine. Did you managed to get your idiot on board?

[Yes, he's talking about Natsu.]

Lucys are not for eating!

[celestial_wizard]

Eh? ... You mean Natsu?

[ He's not hers! ]

Yes but... Erza had to knock him unconscious to do it.

[strategic_guile]

Yeah, Natsu.

[Totally is.]

Figures. Does he think he's nuke proof?

[celestial_wizard]

We don't have nukes where we're from. We didn't know what it even was - he was hoping that if it was something that created fire... he could deal with it.

[strategic_guile]

[He watches her.] I'm glad you brought him with you, because it's not fire. Not exactly.

[celestial_wizard]

Of course...! We would never leave him behind. No one would be left behind. We stand together or not at all.

[strategic_guile]

The Fairy Tail motto?

[Not that they would leave Natsu behind. More like Natsu would run the hell away and they couldn't catch him to bring him back.]

[celestial_wizard]

Something like that, yes.

[ Even if he did run off, they would search for him until they found him. ]

[strategic_guile]

Is everyone else in your guild here, too? I haven't seen them yet.

[Then you can all explode together \o/?]

[celestial_wizard]

Not everyone, no. There's Juvia and Erza here too - and there's Zeref, but he's not from our guild.

[ She'd rather die with him than live without him! D: ]

[strategic_guile]

I meant everyone who was in Exsilium is in the moonbase. If everyone in your guild was here I'd think they were picking on you.

[Stick together o7 for better or worse! Wait, does that mean you guys are married?]

[celestial_wizard]

[ In spite of herself, Lucy laughs at that. ]

It -would- be a little strange .. [ But Lucy wouldn't mind it! She's missed her bestie, and Gray and Wendy - even Happy and Charle. ]

But yes, they're all here. What about your friends?

[ ... c.. can I plead the fifth? ]

[strategic_guile]

Some people get lucky. [He smiles at her, but it isn't as bright as normal.]

I get to be the lone warrior. I haven't met anyone from home that I know.

[Nope. You're maaaaarried.]

[celestial_wizard]

[ Lucy absently touches the necklace Natsu gave her, shaking her head. ]

I'm sorry... but what about your friends here? They made it to the moonbase didn't they?

[ N-Nuh uh!! They're just friends! ]

[strategic_guile]

I had to threaten them, but yeah they made it. Suicidal idiots.

[He scoffs lightly, but affectionately even as he curses them.]

[Maaaarried. They'll have cute, dangerous babies.]

[celestial_wizard]

At least they made it. I think I can understand them wanting to stay.

[ She and her friends would have stayed, after all. ]

[ Don't go rushing things on them! GOSH. ]

[strategic_guile]

Thinking your invincible and dying uselessly I can't understand.

[He says this quietly as he crosses his arms and looks outside at the stars.]