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11 - Action for Azalea / Text

[He jerks awake. Immediately, his hand goes to his chest, to the back of his head, fingers scrambling over his human form.]

[Everything is whole. Everything intact. There's no rust, no gaping wounds from Sentinel's weapon. Even the scars remain. His body is breathing, it's moving. Its systems are functioning as well as can be expected. Even his hip and shoulder feel better.]

[That's not right.]

[He hadn't made it out of DC. He'd felt everything go dark, felt his systems crumble away while he tried to fight to stand up, to shoot, to act and not let the inevitable happen. They'd been betrayed -- he couldn't lie down and let it happen. He'd tried, he'd tried with every failing piece of his strength to stay online. But it hadn't been enough.]

[And now he's here. Alive.]

[It feels like he's been gone for years. And it was -- since the battle in Egypt, it had been three years... His eyes rest on the 'gear.]

[For a while, he just sits in silence, staring at it, while gradually realizing there are people here who may be concerned for him. His team... his friends... they're beyond his grasp now. That realization in particular feels like a physical blow, and he has to bow his head and breathe for a few minutes longer before he can pull himself back together. His allies. His leader. Everything he'd fought for, everything he'd tried so desperately to return to, was gone.]

[There is no more going back.]

[Finally... Ironhide picks up his 'gear, and taps out a brief, halting message.]

How long was I out? Feels like... |

[He leaves the text unfinished, dropping the 'gear in favor of silence and brooding.]

((ooc: Potential spoilers for Dark of the Moon abound in the post and possibly in the comments.))

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All right

_{[She doesn't WANT to leave it there, but...]

[Sob if only they were talking on video.]}

I'm glad the bones are better

That means you don't have to stay in the Center anymore right?

[If they were on video, she'd see someone who looked exhausted, despite being asleep for a week.]

Yeah. Guess so. Have to go... fight the gym, though.

_{[... Poor guy... and after that soulless sleep the other month, too...]}

Don't worry, that guy's a piece of cake.

I beat him without even trying


WHILE running from the police, too!

_{[TRUE STORY.]}

[Oh thank the nonexistent All Spark for this HUGE DISTRACTION.]

What did you do.

_{[IT TOOK HER AWHILE TO THINK OF ONE, BUT HERE IT IS.]}

well it wasn't my fault exactly


about a year ago this fucked-up thing happened and a lot of us otherworlders started hallucinating


and I kinda concussed a nurse with an IV pole and then beat up a bunch of police and ran away into the woods




... so there was a warrant on my head when I showed up in civilization again

_{[... Yep.]}

. . . You attacked a nurse. And law enforcement.

well I kinda


um

thought they were monsters at the time

... That happen often?

No... just that once

it was kinda like what happened the other month... you know, the nightmares...

except then when I woke up, it turned out that it hadn't been a nightmare.

_{[As much as she jokes about it, it still leaves the sour taste of guilt in her mouth.]}

I mean, I wasn't the only one who it happened to.




... I'm pretty sure I was the only one who attacked the police, though.

... Just an accident. Nothing to worry about.

[He's just trying to reassure her. The last thing they need is the two of them freaking out at the same time.]

Did you win?

_{[Fortunately, she's had a year to come to terms with it... and while she still feels bad, she knows it wasn't her fault.]

[Plus, Ironhide's seen some of the monsters from her hometown... it's hard to blame anybody for getting violent when they think they're surrounded by a bunch of Closers.]}

Against the police?

Well, I don't REMEMBER exactly... but according to everybody who saw the broadcast footage, I kind of totally kicked their asses.







apparently it was hilarious

[That's the only reason she's not getting lectured right now.]

...

Then we really must teach you how to fight.

I know how to fight

I'd just like to learn how to fight BETTER.

_{[With WEAPONS.]

[... The Jennies are gonna LOVE Ironhide after this. Heather's not exactly their favorite little foreigner.]}

If you knew how to fight, you would not be 'hilarious'.

I think the hilarity was supposed to come from the part where the cops had their asses beat by a five-foot-something blond chick who was foaming at the mouth and swearing at thin air.

But, a lot of my friends do have a weird sense of humor.

... Doing what with your mouth? Clearly.

[Imagine that statement being punctuated by a grunt.]

... Foaming?

Y'know, like rabid animals?





wait


you do know what rabies is, right?

I do now. Twitchy little human with the owls explained it. Sort of.

_{[A brief pause.]}

 ... Oh! 

You've talked to Henry

_{[.... yeah, she's not surprised about that, actually.]

[Henry has regaled herself and Harry with tales of his Rabid Owl Adventures many a time.]}

Yeah, he mentioned that name. You know him?

Yeah, he's my friend.

_{[... And then, because why the hell not, Ironhide knows.]}

he's from my world.




which should pretty much explain the twitchiness.

... Oh. Yeah. That... explains a lot. Or everything.

yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

_{[Poor Henry. He hadn't even had to go to Silent Hill, either.]

[Silent Hill had COME TO HIS HOUSE.]}

first thing to learn about people who come from where I live is we all tend to have ISSUES.

_{[EVEN THE GOOD GUYS.]}

Someone should have told me where he came from. Would have saved him a lot of trouble.

[No one ever tells Ironhide anything important like that.]

Well, to be fair, it's not like we tell many people about it.

that stuff doesn't exactly make for lighthearted conversation material, y'know


Plus... some of it, you really gotta see to believe.

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