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Nick Stokes ([personal profile] charlie05stokes) wrote2010-08-13 01:30 pm

[Seventeenth Note]: [Locked from Hostiles, filtered to DATS, Hyperion, Family, Friends] [Aug 17th]

[Audio clicks on to a short silence before Nick lets out a drawn out sigh and starts speaking.]

Yesterday, Eikichi Onizuka and Duo Maxwell were attacked by the Bloodclan. According to Duo, Scourge the cat had every intent of murdering Onizuka, and very nearly succeeded. They were rescued by Lance, Dist and Jade, but not before dealing severe damage to both of them.

Both are currently in the hospital, Duo is stable and recovering, but Onizuka is...

[Nick trails off in to an uncertain, worried pause]

Onizuka had an undiagnosed aneurysm. It ruptured during the fight. He went through surgery but is still in critical condition.

He's not awake. The doctors... don't know if he's even going to wake up again.

All of this took place just minutes before him and Haku Yowane were supposed to be wed at the Hyperion. At the moment, it's probably best if people don't try to contact her. She's... well, 'in shock' is probably the best way to describe it. She's been mostly verbally unresponsive since it happened.

I know to a lot of you this is upsetting. I know the Bloodclan has been causing trouble for tamers in Neon and Junk City. Onizuka was trying to stop them, and what happened last night was very obviously revenge. Whatever happens... do not take this as incentive to go after them. We do not need any more casualties after what happened.

When the time comes we'll find a way to deal with them.

Right now... we're facing a very dark point in our short history as a family here. There are now two of our own in uncertain conditions. If anything needs to happen, its supporting one another through this. And hope that some how we'll all come out alright on the other side.

[Another pause, as if he's wanting to say more, but eventually the comm just shuts off]

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
*Lori takes the hit - amazingly, still standing. Then again, you've seen her kick a ton-plus bike into the air before...*

... So you're going to try and stop me, then? Is that it?

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[ Sabine stands there with her arms outstretched. ]

And whatever you throw at me won't make me stop.

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
*Lori stands there, facing Sabine. Her entire body exudes nothing but anger.*

They deserve nothing less, Sabine. You KNOW it! So why the hell are you trying to stop what they deserve?!

forever!

[identity profile] punkass_drgnrdr.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Lance's eyes flicker open when he hears Nick over him, but his fever's spiked again and his thoughts are sluggish. Being hauled up makes him sway dizzily, clinging to Nick, and it's not until he's back in the bed and Draca's gleefully straightening the covers that he manages to answer.]

Needa help Haku ...

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
Because, you dumbass, if we go out there now, we'll just be joining Onizuka and Duo in the hospital! The Bloodclan fucking knows we want to get revenge -- they're not stupid, but now is not the time! Now is the time we band together and actually, oh I know, support Haku as her fiancee is laying in a hospital bed for I-don't-know-how-long!

Besides, would you really want to give her more heartache than necessary when one of her friends, much less a family member, gets hurt because of this nonsensical shit?!

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Giving them time is just as bad if not worse, Sabine!

Letting them continue their rampage as if we're not going to react... We're not that weak, WHY THE HELL SHOULD WE LOOK LIKE IT?!

[identity profile] ponchotexas.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Hear that sigh, Lance? That's the sigh of a man who is at the end of his damn rope with people refusing to listen to him.]

N.O. Haku isn't going anywhere and neither are you.

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Because we need a plan, maggot! We don't plan, guess what -- more causalities! And, with what's happening at Tetha as well as every little thing that's going on, do you really want to add on to the body count?!

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:34 am (UTC)(link)
Plans? Eddie Riggs' entire life, the entire saving of the humans of my world, was half seat-of-his-pants reactions. Planning would only have given the Coil time to fortify - hell, he probably would never have faced even General Lionwhyte!

I have to be as strong as he was. I have to stop those who would bring us harm, damn it!

[identity profile] punkass_drgnrdr.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Mnh ... [He curls up, his face half-buried in his pillow, wrapping his arms around himself, his brow drawing together half at the headache and half in genuine distress.]

It's not fair. [He barely realised he'd said it, barely registering the lump in his throat. Right then, he looked like a vulnerable little boy.]

Should be able to help. S'not fair that should happen to them. [Even though he knew that life wasn't fair, right then he still couldn't shake the sensation that it shouldn't be.]

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ Eyup-- ]

[identity profile] ponchotexas.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
[looks like he's gonna be here a while, but hell, it's better than dealing with Lori. Which is undoubtedly what Sabine is doing since he basically told the younger girl to do whatever the hell she wanted.]

I know...

[another sigh, and he pulls a chair up next to the bed.]

The whole damn thing sucks.

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think I am that stupid, Sabine?!

I don't fight melee. I shoot things and they suffer. I deny them the mercy of even knowing who blasted them!

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
--you know what? If you want to go after them like a stupid idiot, then fine. Go for it.

Me yelling, screaming, and hitting you won't work, so then, what will work? You getting irreversibly harmed to the point of no repair?

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
... Why have I even wasted time speaking.

I should have just finished my god damn oath and not let that man interrupt me.

My heart must be as the strings of my bass. I shouldn't be letting things in the way of what they deserve.

I... I can't hesitate. I have the power, I have the means to face them... So why the hell am I not doing so already?!

I'm...

*Lori stops. After a few seconds, she starts towards her bike.*

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sabine's about to give up. Really, she is, but something tells her not to do it. She then takes out a pin she has and pops not one of Lori's tires, but both of them. ]

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
*Lori reacts to the damage as if Sabine just stuck those pins in her hands.*

Y... You... You...

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
Stopped you from doing something stupid.

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
... You popped my... EYAH!

*And that's her cannon swinging, two boar tusks first, right at you Sabine!*

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sabine wasn't expecting the cannon, but she raises her arm and the boar tusks dig into her arm -- the one that still has flesh on it. She winces, but stands strong. ]

See? You only react in anger.

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:35 am (UTC)(link)
WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE?!?!?

This was supposed to be the happiest day in Haku's life! Instead, those things that already are the enemy...

[identity profile] bondingalchemy.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Common sense? Rationality?

Look, the Digital World's gonna fuck us over no matter what. We just have to either accept it and go about our lives as normal, or let it affect us. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd rather just go about my normal life.

[identity profile] fireybrush.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
I can't.

I can't just sit back and let things like this happen!

They have to pay, and... And...

*Lori's grip on her gun is loosening.*

[identity profile] imma-boi-yarly.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Soot...

...this is her fault. My stupid, stupid sister!

[identity profile] readmyback.livejournal.com 2010-08-14 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Cowards. And bastards for makin' a girl sad on her weddin' day.

...How many were there?

((OOC: I'm assuming he got added to "Hyperion" sometime after he moved in a week ago? If not let me know.))

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