The universe is sometimes capricious

[runmakitarun]

Makita leads her team through the door and there is an audible click as the latch catches. Then something odd happens: the door swings open again and there is a pull and then the door stands closed once more.

Four people find themselves in an apartment building. The wind howls in through the window, and judging by the snow and debris scattered across the floor the glass holding the elements at bay shattered months ago. It's clear that no one has lived in this room in quite a while, but it appears that has at least been here recently.

In one corner, on top of the bed where it won't get wet from melting snow, there sits a neatly ordered stack of equipment. Rifles, pistols, grenades, boxes of ammunition, an unopened case of ration bars, boots and heavy winter coats in various sizes and styles, and stylized fur hats with gleaming red enameled stars in the center.

A look out the window would reveal six figures moving quickly through the snow.

Welcome to Bahamut.

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[cf1.livejournal.com]

Cait frowns. "I did not 'leave'. I told you to stay back, and was trying to move the fight away from you." She sighs and looks away from them group.

[runmakitarun.livejournal.com]

Since the only person doing any firing was Makita, she's pretty sure she knows who put that slug through Alex's leg. She'll apologize later, after they get out of the combat zone. For now she just swipes a hand across her face to smear away some of the blood. Silently listening.

There's no more sound of gunfire, and with the storm fallen still it's eerily quiet. "Sounds like we're done. I'll double check in a minute." She eyes Knox critically, "You good to walk? It's about six blocks to where we came in. It's the nearest place I know of that might have a door." And with luck that door will still be there.

[gotham-knocking.livejournal.com]

Alex takes the pipe in left hand and takes Rapuznel's hands with his right, and vey carefully makes his way off the ground. He winces as he rises, but once he's relatively stable on both feet, he seems better.

"I think we can manage it. Allie did a pretty good job." Nothing broken or still bleeding, still alive? Yeah, pretty good.

[grandsuccess.livejournal.com]

Allie nodded a little at the compliment from Rapunzel, but she actually brightened a little at Alex's words, wandering toward them and slipping her hand in Alex's on his other side from Rapunzel.

She wasn't sure why it was necessary for them to come if this was all that it was, but she knew, knew because of Johnny, that the smallest ripples changed things.

The shot might have hit someone else, or someone might have died, or things could have changed and gone entirely a different way. She could be grateful it was this small.

And just squeezed Alex's hand lightly as they walked, offering him a nervous small smile.

[longlonghair]

She takes as much of Alex's weight as he will allow. She'll damn well carry him the six blocks if she has to.

"No one's blaming you, Cait. We just didn't know where you'd gone, or why, until it was obvious that the danger was following you away. We're not fighters. Thank you, by the way."

She can accept that, or not.

"Now. Do we have to wait for the others, or will they meet us where the door's supposed to be?"

Thank God that the door to Milliways couldn't just be destroyed, like the portals from the homelands to the mundane world.

[cf1.livejournal.com]

Cait does not have really much to say; even as her bruises are fading very quickly, she is starting to feel very tired and a bit sick. Heck, she will carry knox herself. "Lets go then Makita? If its over, at least for now?"

[runmakitarun.livejournal.com]

"I'll get the others moving to meet up with us at the door we came in at," she nods to Cait and holds up one finger to indicate that everyone should wait for a moment, then reaches up to touch the comm-link in her ear.

"Makita here, everybody check in (http://runmakitarun.livejournal.com/7766.html)."