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

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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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Chaos had been tracking Newt's movements, staying under the vents where-ever she was. She growled as footsteps approached, static charging in her fur in case it was a threat (meaning, anyone who wasn't her trainer).

But her growls stopped. And she purred. "Where is she." Walter spoke to Chaos calmly and the Luxray looked up directly at Newt's location in the vents. Walter followed her gaze, moving to the vent and speaking to her. "Newt. The monsters are gone."

Newt goes stiller, if that's possible. However she move slowly....enough that she can look out the vent. Her voice is still ....numb. Dead sounding and so very, very certain.

"They'll be back. And kill the people left. Or maybe they'll do something worse."

Walter is ....alive. She didn't think he would be. But the aliens hadn't killed everyone at once at home. That just means he'll die later when they come back.

"They have been forced back through the portal. It is shut now." He couldn't say that they wouldn't be back. They didn't know how the portals had opened and he knew that the creatures being out of sight did not mean they were gone.

But there was little to be done by staying here and hiding. For now, they were gone. They could continue to live for the moment. He saw her peek out at him and just spoke calmly to her. "There was no bloodshed."

"It is?...."

That's...not...what? She's ....confused.

"No blood?.....did they take people with them? There were...."

No bloodshed doesn't mean no deaths though. She pauses.

"Did a lot of people die?"

"They did not take anyone with them. There were no deaths. Some Pokemon were hurt, but none died." Seeing that she wasn't coming out, he moved closer and lowered himself to sit by the vent.

"There are people in white who appeared. It seemed they are familiar with interdimensional travel... and they were curious about what we saw." Walter hadn't really spoken to the Aether members. He sought the people he cared about and resolved to look after his own. And, he'd had enough trouble calming a newly evolved Locane to worry about giving them any details of the event.

"No one....but that's.....how?"

Not possible.

"There were monsters. .....people .....always die ...."

She trails off because she doesn't understand.

However when Walter sits down and mentions the people in white. She goes, very...very still.

"People came....after the things?......were they a company? They...they....did they act friendly and seem nice and want to know about the monsters?...and ....you didn't tell them anything did you?"

She sounds ....scared.

"They said they were from the 'Aether Foundation'." But this line of questioning seemed oddly specific. "They did both of those things... but I did not speak to them. they asked if my Pokemon needed aid and I refused their offers. They have been giving medical attention to some of the injured Pokemon."

Chaos sat by the vent too, seeing that Newt wasn't leaving. Seeing Newt's state and the look in her eyes, she began to purr. To offer comfort to this frightened human 'cub'.

......

"You shouldn't......tell them things about the monsters. They might be like....."

She pauses. This world wasn't like hers. People lived ...so maybe. But then she remembers Burke and how he had smiled and was nice at first and how much the school had always told them that they had Wayland-Yuatani to thank for everything.....then .....then....

Her voice is numb still. Even more than before.

"The aliens back home. ....we only found them because the company that built my colony sent my dad to look at something. .....and then the person who came with the marines....he was nice at first but he didn't want to let us blow them all up when everyone else was dead. And he....left Ripley and me in a room with the things from the eggs....they get on your face and ...lay things in you and he wanted to keep us frozen on the way home... so they'd...get them back to earth...before they burst out of us...."

She trails off, hands moving to her chest, without thinking. She's had so many nightmares where she wakes up screaming because of those things....sometimes she thinks there might be one in there and she'd never know until it was too late.

"They only cared about the aliens....the xenomorphs....they didn't care about any of us. Even if they acted like they were looking out for us. They wanted the aliens and didn't care how many people died to get them."

Edited 2018-04-18 20:24 (UTC)

[Of course he's going to check up on everyone. All "his" people. From his boyfriend, to the team from home, to the people important to him here. Everyone he can. It's not going to be like last time.]

[He spies the Growlithe before he does Newt. That is not a comfortable animal. So, he makes himself approach slowly, carefully -- never mind he might waver a little and have to lean on his Incineroar (who is also on her best behavior). Apparently Mega Evolution doesn't just drain your pokemon's stamina.]

[He doesn't walk all the way up to her, stopping a few feet off to kneel down, in order to catch her eye.]

Hey, Newt. How are you guys holding up?

[Ripley notices them first, but she knows Shiro at least from seeing Newt talk to him on the gear, so she's a little less on guard then if it had been a stranger. She won't stop them from coming over anyway.]

[Newt looks up from over the notebook she's been drawing in. She looks....tired. Emotionally and physically tired. Or just numb.]

We're alive.

[It's a short answer but that's all that matters to her. But then again. She's always the one left alive. She should be happy that Shiro is alive. And part of her is, but she ....doesn't really feel anything. So her next sentence comes with no real emotion to it.]

......I thought everyone would die. And I'd be alone.

[With monsters. Again.]

[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.

Walter listened patiently. At no point did he look like he was disbelieving or not paying attention to her. It was difficult for him to fully take in. These were creatures completely unlike the monsters he'd known. But he remembered Newt's fears about the Pokemon eggs and it made sense now, why she had only wanted to deal with the Pokemon after they had hatched.

"I knew people like that. Who didn't care about others, even if they acted like they did or said that they did." The guards. The priests... but he shook his head, lifting his eyes to Newt again. "I do not intend to talk to the Aether Foundation at all. And you will not need to talk to them either."

He didn't move to offer her his hand or coax her out of the vent. Not yet. There was a pause before he added. "I hope those people suffered. The ones who hurt and killed the people you cared about."

"I won't. ...I don't trust companies when they want to know about monsters. They probably want to make them into weapons."

She shakes her head.

"They didn't. Burke died I think. I don't know how. Maybe in the explosion or an alien got him. But he was only one person. The company was in charge. They didn't listen to Ripley when she told them about the planet being dangerous, they didn't warn us, they sent us to go and find the thing they wanted. They didn't care, they built the colony and had workers there but they didn't care. They weren't there, they just sent orders.

She remains where she is, staring at her hands now.

"The aliens were the ones who killed everyone and we killed them all. But they were like ....smart animals. Really smart ones, but they just killed everyone and used people to make more of them."

She pauses for a moment. She really hated them, but they hadn't been the ones who had sent them to wake them up. Maybe Ripley was right, maybe humans were worse.

"It doesn't matter if they suffered. They just had to die. So we could survive. I don't know what's going to happen when we get to earth though. The company will probably cover it up. But I guess I don't have to worry about that now....."

[...It's that kid. She doesn't look like she's doing super great. And here he'd told her not to worry, it's probably not a trap this year.

...Well to be fair, it hadn't been a trap. Probably. Those... whatevers didn't seem like they'd expected to show up here either.

Doesn't make it any less of a pain though.

He doesn't come too close, just close enough that it's a reasonable distance for a conversation and so he's not shouting or anything. Honestly he's being quiet, if anything.

But something something Rose wants him to be more social, something something gym leaders have a responsibility to the community, something something he's a little worried about the kid... He has to at least ask after her, since she's right here.]

Hey. You doing okay?

That's good. I'm really glad you're okay.

[And he is. He's speaking slowly and carefully, but there's nothing in his face or voice to suggest this is anything but honest. Like before, when he'd promised her things would be okay.]

[He shifts forward again, closer to her. But offers his left hand out for the Growlithe to sniff, first. Before making any actual motions to contact Newt.]

Can I ask you some things, Newt? About what happened to you? [He looks at her again, to make the honesty clear again.] It's okay if you say no. I won't be mad.

I'm glad you're not dead.

[Ripley does and moves slightly to make room for him. You're good.]

[Newt meanwhile thinks for a moment then nods.]

.....I don't mind.

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.]

[Newt looks over, and as many times as she's been seeing people. It's still hard to believe. She looks....tired and numb. And she doesn't answer his question because-]

....you're alive too....

[That's....how did everyone survive so many monsters? That wasn't how things went.]

I'm tougher than I look.

[There's a slight smile as he says it. Going for reassuring. Behind him, his Incineroar hunkers down in a patch of sunlight.]

Okay. If you can't answer, just tell me. I won't make you.

[Just because he forces himself to talk about the things he's gone through doesn't mean he's going to do that to a little girl.]

Was it something like this that happened to you? Back where you're from?

Yeah, sorry to disappoint you.

[don't be morbid with her, Ryner--]

People don't actually die in this world, anyway. From what I hear, you just wake up in a Pokemon Center like nothing happened. I imagine it's still gotta suck, but...

[It's a really bad tone to take, mostly because she takes it seriously and looks....hurt.]

I didn't want you to die!

[She curls up in on herself more and Ripley is now watching you closer.]

I just....thought ......people would....

[Monsters come and everyone dies. That's her experience with monsters. Especially alien like monsters]

[She thinks for a moment. Looking down at the things she'd been drawing.]

Kind of.

The ones at home....they had different stages. They started as eggs and if you get too close, the small things inside, jump out and grab your face and stay there. Only then you think you're better because they'll drop off but you're not. Because later, whatever those things put inside you will burst out of your chest and then grow up into the real monsters.

[She bites her lip.]

Aliens, xenomorphs.....I called them monsters. They killed or took people to make more of them. And .....then they got everyone but me. Because I managed to get in the vents and hide in the small places they couldn't reach. But...the colony had over one hundred people and they all died. Then weeks later marines showed up and almost all of them died too.

So....I thought it was happening again and everyone was going to die.

[Holy &%#$.]

[It's very, very difficult not to react like he wants to, to her story. That might alarm her too much. Or upset her. It literally sounds like something out of a horror movie. She's so young.]

[Just a little girl and the universe put her through that.]

[... Space was supposed to be something incredible. It was supposed to be something fantastic and awe-inspiring. A place to learn about, to explore. Like they'd dreamed of.]

[But it just keeps throwing this out there. Just keeps showing more and more horrors. It's not fair. Not to anyone. Not to Newt, not to the people she's lost, not to Matt or Commander Holt or anyone who just wanted to see what else was out there, just wanted to experience something beyond their world.]

[Like you?]

I can't imagine how awful that must have been, Newt. I'm... I'm sorry what happened back there put you through it all over again. You've got every right to be afraid and upset.

But, no one's dead. Everyone made it out okay.

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this kind of got long and introspective im sorry