victory_road | 4. Action | 1 locked, 1 ota on ferry ride home from prom nightmare

[A. Locked to Walter]

[Newt is still in the vents. Sure it doesn't sound like there are things being destroyed anymore. But there's still movement. She doesn't trust it. The talking means there could be people or there could be people LEFT until the monsters come back and get them too. And she doesn't want to know how many of her friends died. If she stays in here she doesn't have to know. If she stays in here.....she's safe.]

[B. Ferry Ride Home. Open to all.]

[Good news, someone got the girl out of the vent. She is however more quiet then anyone who knows her, would have ever seen her. She's not....she doesn't understand. Not really. People are alive. and they're not supposed to be. Monsters come and people DIE. That's how it works. That's how it ALWAYS WORKS.....~~that's how it worked for everyone she knew so why is here different?~~

She's curled in on herself, with a notebook in her hands. Casey had stolen a spare notebook for her and she's just kind of drawing in it now.

Newt does not look well, if anyone wants to check up on her. Luckily she's going to be a LOT more coherent then she was when she hid in the vents. Meanwhile, there's a very protective Growlithe at her feet at the moment. Ripley will be keeping an eye on you if you try start anything with her clearly shaken charge..]

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[Honestly Vanitas isn't surprised that she looks as bad as she does. Things had been pretty hellish and when he'd left her in the vents she had been in pretty bad shape. He had to imagine it only got worse as the night went on but she was here and safe and that was a huge relief to him.

He makes his way over with Scrapper trotting on his heels and Flood hanging onto his shoulder, his gaze shifting to Ripley and it's because of her that he stops a couple feet away.

Just for now.]

Hey Newt.

[See? He told you he'd make it.]

[Ripley notices them but they seem okay so she makes no motions of going after them. It seems she's talked to the other pokemon on the team, since the two met at the prom, as she seems to know who he is.

Newt meanwhile looks up from her notebook.]

.....you're alive.

[She sounds.....a mixture of things. Numb confusion? Is that a thing?]

Walter, said no one died. But I didn't think that was possible.

Alive and kicking.

[He moves to sit down near her while Scrapper just takes a seat where she is, back to the pair as she takes up her usual role of protector. Flood settles on Vanitas's shoulder once he's on the seat and waves at Newt with a small smile.]

Not use to people walking away from bad stuff like that, are you?

No.

They just die. The monsters keep coming and killing people until there's no one left.

But me.

And then more people come....soldiers and they all die too.

[She looks at her notebook.]

At the end, only three people who came survived and two were hurt really, really bad. And one only survived because he was an android.

[So yeah. In her experience everyone died. You needed to be someone like Ripley to manage not to get hurt bad and survive AND save people. And Ripley had been one in over one hundred people, including trained soldiers.]

...Sounds a lot like other places I've heard about.

[And the sort of thing that he had done to other people back home. The way he had consumed worlds via his Unversed and let people be drowned in darkness.

He looks out over the water with a small frown as Flood slips off his shoulder and into his lap so she's closer to Newt.]

Things aren't like that here. I mean, people still get hurt sometimes but...no one dies. I promise.

[She looks over at Flood, though she's still lost in her thoughts. However she nods after a moment. Promises, promises are hard to believe for her. She'd heard them so many times but....]

Thank you.

And.....I think I believe that now. ...more then before. It was just....really hard to believe. And when the monsters attacked I thought ....that it was proof people just thought they were safe and were wrong.

I'm glad I'm wrong though. It's just hard to believe there's really a place where people don't all die when really bad things happen.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Sometimes...it's hard to believe a place like this exists. A place where even the bad things turn out alright at the end of the day.

[He looks away from the water and done at Flood as the Phantump uses Will-o-Wisp to create small little firefly-like objects that flicker and float through the air. The Pokemon smiles at Newt before creating a somewhat lizard like shape out of the flames, giggling as she makes it wiggle--sort of.]

I've been here almost a year and it's...I honestly don't want to leave this place if I can help it.

Yeah....

[She looks over at the Phantump and smiles a bit at the objects and Flood as well. Before pausing for a moment before she replied.]

I'd like to stay here.....I'd really, really want to stay here if my friends were here. I don't want to go home but....they were really important to me. They survived too....

....they were like a new family. .....Especially Ripley. She saved my life and came back for me and kept her promises that she wouldn't leave me.

[Unlike her mother. Who had promised and then died. Newt....is very conflicted about this still.]

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