Time to head home, people

[runmakitarun]

Makita was really glad that Goldy suggested handing out comm gear. Now she can check up on the scattered ambush team and get everyone heading back to the Bar.

"Makita here, everybody check in," gets broadcast across the radio system.

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[slayer_fray]

Mel disengages from Goldy as the two of them catch up with the others, jerking her head to shoo the Fable up the stairs. Face set to control any display of pain, she deliberately stands on both feet and turns back, pulling out one of her remaining grenades.

"Get up."

Hero syndrome. She won't save her own life until everyone else is safe.

[3rdtimelucky.livejournal.com]

Goldy ignores the shooing. She stays at the bottom of the fire escape, now brandishing the Red issue handgun at the end of her good arm.

"Non-fighters and children first," she replies.

She doesn't have as much hero in her as some of the others. But, if there's a stand to be made, she feels qualified to be part of it.

Also? She has smoke bombs.

[runmakitarun.livejournal.com]

Makita stands at the top of the stairs as the civilians make their way up. "Second door on the right. The closet should open to Milliways," her voice is hard and a bit distant as her eyes scan back toward the plaza looking for both their stragglers and for the Reds she know will be headed their way soon.

[gotham-knocking.livejournal.com]

"You heard the lady, Cait. Let's get the hell out of here." There is fatigue in Alex's voice. Worry. Utter confusion - did time really just go bonkers? Did Allie do that? But there is also a sense that they might just make it. That he and Allie and Raps will get home, in part thanks to having a overly strong, somewhat impetuous redheaded teen carry them.

He decides that as soon as he can, he's going to get all three of them something special. Cait and Allie - wasn't that a TV show, he thinks muzzily - for saving him. Raps for just being Raps.

And he totally doesn't think about how scary Makita is right now.

[grandsuccess.livejournal.com]

Allie looked up slowly at Rapunzel's words, blue eyes and pupil all but black, but somehow their tiredness showed regardless.

She nodded, barely, and hurried with Rapunzel after the group.

Home, and safe. That was all that mattered.

[longlonghair]

Thank God! However, they weren't out of the woods yet. She runs with Allie, prepared to scoop her up and carry her at the first sign of the girl being to tired.

"We're going to make, honey. We're going to make it!"

[cf1.livejournal.com]

Cait will just haul the three up herself! That's what super-strong, super-agile super-heroines are good at, getting innocents out of trouble.

After she makes sure Knox, Raz and Allie are into the room into the closet, and into Milliways, she comes to the window shout to the others. "Non-fighters clear!!" Now its tome to retreat... or kick ass.

[song_tra_bong]

Speaking of ass-kickers...

Mary Anne skids to a halt at the bottom of the stairs.

She'd put her sword away as the krawl drop started, the better to run like a bat out of hell. Between trying to maintain cover, flying debris and that weird time slowing thing, it's been an interesting time.

"Better late than never," she says, grinning at Mel and Goldy.

"Everybody here?"

[slayer_fray]

"Yeah," Mel answers as Miho catches up.

The thief nods to both of them, and jerks her head-up the stairs.

"Get in. I'll be behind."

She doesn't move to follow, though, idly saying to Goldy, "y'know. We're running, leaving this situation. So what happens when 'Keet opens the door again?"

[3rdtimelucky.livejournal.com]

Goldy looks over her shoulder as she mounts the first flight of steps, and rolls her eyes at Mel.

"Enough with the heroics already!" she chides over the nearby rattle of hailer fire and richochets. Now that Allie is through the door, time around them has resumed its normal rate, with the consequence that gated infantry troops are closing in on their position at much greater speed.

Goldy ducks down and raises her voice even more.

"There's not a lot you can do to change the 'situation' given that you can barely walk. We need to get back, heal and then figure out if we need to return to clear Skeeter's way."

"SO GET YOUR FINE ASS UP THESE STAIRS!"

[slayer_fray]

"Toy," Mel says.

And to prove that the accusation of her being unable to walk is toy, she launches herself off her good foot, grabs the railing of the fire escape with her free hand, and lands again on the good foot.

Of course, as she hurries Goldy down the corridor, she's force to limp painfully. There's only so much bravado she can manage at once.

[runmakitarun.livejournal.com]

Makita watches Krauser move smoothly through the door back to the bar and then turns to Mary Anne and Miho as they make it into the room. "Let's get home people," she grins, "I'll buy you a drink or something on the other side."

As the two women move through, Makita sticks her head out into the hallway as Goldy and Mel reach the door, "Come on, people. We don't have all day to wait on you." She's grinning: they made it, they're home.

Then her hand snaps up, pistol aiming back toward the window at the end of the hallway, and she rips off a burst at a Red trooper who sticks his head up. "Come on, move!" she snaps at the two stragglers.

And then the trooper ducking down on the fire escape responds. With a grenade. The metal sphere sails down the hallway and skids to a stop at Makita's feet just as Goldy and Mel reach her. Her eyes widen in horror.

They were so close.

[3rdtimelucky.livejournal.com]

As the grenade trundles innocuously up to Makita, Goldy remembers the information about the shorter fuses from the briefing. Three seconds.

—3—

Even if the soldier didn't cook the grenade, that doesn't give her enough time to kick or throw the thing clear. And, upon quick analysis, she's the only immortal here, and doesn't stand to take any permanent damage from this situation—or at least, she hopes she's immortal here.

—2—

With her good arm she gives Mel a hard shove sideways, then launches at Makita and barges her through the open doorway. Unfortunately her momentum isn't enough to take her across the threshold as well. She falls short, landing on her stomach a few feet past the grenade

—1—

Time's up. She reaches out and slams the door shut to protect those beyond it.

[slayer_fray]

Mel stumbles on her broken foot -

ow, goddamn it, OW

- and falls to the floor, rolling when she hits. That roll takes her to nearly all the way to the fire escape, and she clings to her scythe -

BOOOOM!

- as the grenade explodes, showering her in debris