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

[charlie05stokes]

[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]

Comments

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

*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?!

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

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?!

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

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?!

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

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?!

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

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!

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

[ Eyup-- ]

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

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!

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

--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?

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

... 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.*

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

[ 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. ]

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

*Lori reacts to the damage as if Sabine just stuck those pins in her hands.*

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

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

Stopped you from doing something stupid.

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

... You popped my... EYAH!

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

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

[ 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.

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

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...

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

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.

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

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.*

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

And they will -- when we can think of a plan that's good enough to make them pay. We can't do it right now when emotions and tensions are so high.

Listen to yourself speak. Is this how you want to be perceived -- as someone whose blood runs hot and doesn't think of the consequences later?

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

That... That's what won the war back home... Riggs never hesitated. When a fight was approaching, he never fled unless demons were literally dropping from the sky in burning meteors. The orders always started the same. "Build the stage."

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

... Is anything I'm saying going through you, Lori?

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

... I know what worked for my world. That... That's what I should do, but...

... Am I too cowardly?

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

Newsflash, Lori. This isn't your world where you can go in with the dogs of hell.

Not cowardly. But, no offense, you're really stupid sometimes.

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

*After a few seconds, Lori just flat-out dropped her gun - if Sabine weren't quick, this would probably cut into her arm more.*

... I have to be better, but... but...

[bondingalchemy.livejournal.com]

[ Her reflexes are a little slow, but she does manage to get out of more than enough injury to her arm. ]

But you need to listen to others when they tell you stuff. We can only do so much before we get fed up and leave people to do whatever they want. It's happened before in our family, and that person up and left.

[ She rips off the sleeve to her lab coat and doctors her wound in the meantime. ]

[fireybrush.livejournal.com]

... God.... Damn it... I'm not that weak... I can be better... Have to be...

*Lori finally simply collapses to her knees.*

It feels wrong to let them be, even if it's for a plan... It feels like we should be striking them in any way we can right now...