Episode Six - Out in the Storm

[Fiona Maccafferty]

1050
Exterior
Meropis

Fiona helped to herd some of the Koan towards the base. She was forming a plan; perhaps they could hide them in the labs below the piers, where they'd first encountered them. She'd been good at hiding Jacques so far, but...a hundred random alien beings?! She wasn't so sure. But she liked Michael; he was her friend, and so far, he'd been trustworthy. So she'd go along with it. For now.

In front of her, Lt. de Vos was hit by a large, falling branch. He was out fast, and she yelled for Izzy.

Stevens, the Lt. is down! Michael! Finn! Help... As Michael moved forward to help the man, he slipped on the wet grass and fell head-first into a puddle of mud. He went blank for a moment, looking at her, staring. She, herself, stared back. Her head hurt for a moment.

She was standing there, at the entrance to a church. Or it seemed to be a church. Perhaps a justice hall. Anyway. She was in white. A wedding gown! It was HER wedding gown. What was happening?! Her view was partly hidden by a veil, but she could feel herself moving forward, towards a man. His back was to her-frustratingly. She felt happy, though, and her Da was standing there, holding her arm. She leaned against him, more for support than for hugs. She arrived at the alter, and faced the mystery man. It was Michael! She was marrying Michael Black! She shook her head as she began being pelted by the rain, that fell harder, and reached a hand out to Michael.

Come on! The touch was electric, but neither had time to sit and think about it. There was too much to do!

She moved towards Izzy, who knelt over de Vos, trying to help. She turned to Michael.

Finn! I got Black. What's next?? She knew they needed to get out of there.

Then, a jumper appeared. Damn it.

Tag:@michaelblack, Ethan Collins, Finnbar Kennedy, Gijs de Vos, @jumperrescueteam.

[Michael Black]

1053
Exterior
Meropis

The whole clearing was going to hell in a hand basket, and fast too. The main front of the storm was just now passing over them and Michael quickly realized they'd be dead if they all didn't haul ass and get the hell out of dodge. But he couldn't move...
"Come on!" Fiona said as she'd hauled Michael to his feet with a disproportionate amount of strength for her size. As she did, Michael felt a shock from her skin that jolted up his arm and ran up and down his spine. He felt rooted to the spot, staring at her. He saw her turn to shout at the others,
"Finn! I got Black. What's next?" and then it happened again, another wave of strong radiation penetrated Michael's mind.

Michael Black was just waking up and shaking off the sleep when a heavenly Irish accent drifted into his ears as he opened his eyes,
"'Ere, have some coffee. I've got a one-and-one ready; you're due in in a few hours. I'll get the babby if you get the dog." Get the dog, that sounds easy, he smiled. Michael gazed up at Fiona in her T-shirt, jumper and jeans clutching her coffee. He felt an overwhelming surge of gratefulness that things had worked out the way they are. Michael sighed and his eyes drifted off over toward the window, condensation running down the pane from the cold night.
"Dreams again?" Fee asked him. He bit his lip and nodded.
"I dreamed of the city..." he trailed off.

He snapped to attention again, somebody was shouting at him to help, it was Fee, she needed help freeing Lt. De Vos from the wreckage of another fallen tree. Michael could hear more shouting and glanced over to see a crew emerging from where a Jumper had landed - the cavalry, at last. The radiation visions were getting worse, or better, he couldn't tell. He wasn't totally sure which reality he wanted to be in right now as he glanced over at Fiona. It had all felt so... So magical, so secure and safe... Feelings were emerging the Michael didn't understand, but he didn't have time to explore them and he knew it wasn't real, was it? He glanced over at the Koan, several were now bent over double, others were clutching their heads. He felt a pang of sorrow for them, there was no nice fantasy reality for them, only thousands of years worth of torture to remember at the hands of Dorane. They had to move fast, first free the soldier and then get the Koan out of here somehow, though he knew not a single one of them would fit in the Jumper with the humans. They had to try something, they had to help, and there HAD to be a way to do it.

<tag all!>

[William Treaty]

1053
Exterior
Meropis

The difficult Anytime, the 'Impossible' by appointment only!

That was flying an alien spaceship through a monstrous hurricane.

Then add in the hallucination inducing radiation and the SARC was fulfilling his mission statement to a 'T'.

Now all he needed was a patient or three, and he'd be doing his job!

Even with the inertial dampeners active, will could feel their descent towards the surface, leaning forward he watched out the front and confirmed his feelings. As the broke tree top level, William rasied his booted feet from the floor ever so slightly, a trick he'd learned his first time in a helicopter. It for some strange reason helped to prevent the common motion-sickness-induced-vomiting-upon-landing-syndrom, how or why he didn't know, all he knew is that it worked. Feeling the craft touch down, William stood and grabbed onto the storage netting to steady himself before pounding down the ramp, as he took his first step towards the rear ramp another wave of radiation hit. 'Go, go, go! The sound of rocket propelled gernades and machine gun fire filled his ears, even over the massive sound of the CH-47's dual rotors spinning meer feet above his head. He was back in Afghanistan. Charging down the rear ramp, William lowered his head as he ran under the rear rotor, its downwash nearly pushing him from his feet. His target, a large pile of rocks deah ahead, it would be his first position of the days comming battle but not the last. Blinking for a second, the dirt and brown of Afghanistan was replaced with the forest, wind and rain of Meropis. William was now standing outside of the jumper, he looked over his shoulder as he heard Captain Colins give them a distance and direction, he stepped forward and started to offer to take point but then remembered that, with the litte gadget in the Captain's hand would walk them right in. So instead William feel in behind the Captain, his weapon at the low ready.

270 meteres was a short distance in the grand scheme of all things, arriving at the location of their people William could tell one thing right of the bat, it was a charlie foxtrot. As he watched, a group of Meropis personnel moved towards a fallen comrade, William broke from the group and headed for them, sprinting across the ground he slid to a stop next to the group, "What a party you guys have here! I'm a medic how or who can I help!?"

<TAG ALL!>

[Jaya Bakshi]

1050-1057
Meropis
Jumper Bay-forest

Jaya Bakshi knew she was the youngest member of the expedition. At just 20 years old, she was eager to prove herself, to show that she could be the best Airman on the Base. Hence why she'd volunteered without thinking. Now, she was rethinking this idea. They were going to fly a friggin jumper through a HURRICANE to rescue the idiot scientists who were doing Brahma knew WHAT out there-measuring the size of water droplets, probs. It was too late to go back now, though.

As they flew, something odd happened. It was close to landing, but her head felt a little heavy, as if she were going to sleep.

and I don't want the world to see me, 'cause I don't think that they'd understand/when everything's made to be broken/I just want you to know who I am[/font]It was the song that was playing on the radio as she caught the bus to the airport when she left for basic. Her father and mother had driven her to San Francisco, and from there, she'd fly to Boise, and then from there, on to San Antonio. She was scared; she'd never been away from her parents for any length of time-even the few times they'd gone to London and Mumbai to visit family, they'd ALL gone. All six of the Bakshis. She looked to her right. Why did Treaty suddenly look like her sister Maya?! He looked good for a girl, but it was weird seeing Maya as a white male. She looked to her left. Daddy! Suddenly, things came back into focus, and Daddy was gone. Treaty was no longer a girl, and Collins wasn't hollering at her to give up the Air Force and make curry liek a proper Indian girl. She sighed.

They landed with a soft thud in a clearing, and without a word, she grabbed her sidearm and exited.

It was raining harder out here than it was closer to Base. Odd. But she couldn't dwell; the redheaded nerdy one-Maccafferty-and the pretty one-Black?-were heading for the clearing. There was a man down-Lt. de Vos. Great. The Treaty guy was already heading for them, while Stevens, who she knew well, was already working to save him. Good. The Kennedy guy was patrolling, so she fell in next to him.

Hi. What're you doing? She felt like she should get caught up.

Tag:William Treaty, Ryan Alexander, Ethan Collins, Gijs de Vos, @me three, Michael Black, Finnbar Kennedy, koan, etc. Also, sorry for turning you guys into girls, but it was the best I could think of for Jaya...

*lyrics are Iris, by the Goo Goo Dolls. In my head, it's Jaya's sister's car.

[Gijs de Vos]

1100
Meropis
Forest

"Waar ga je heen dan? En hoezo, je kunt niet zeggen hoe lang je wegblijft?"* a female voice said. Gijs opened his eyes and saw his fiancée shouting in front of him in the middle of their living room. As far as she knew, the Lieutenant was still a member of the de Ruyter, and for all she knew, he had been deployed to the middle east for two years before he had been recovering from wounds sustained in combat.

"Ik kan het niet zeggen. Direct bevel van van Uhm. Ik beloof dat ik het je laat weten, maar ik kan nu niks zeggen"**, he said but it made no difference. Gijs understood her anger, and just as he was about to say something, the living room turned back into the forest. And he was pinned under a tree. He moved his hand to his stomach, and when he raised it so he could see, it was glistering red. Something must be stuck inside him then. That was the only logical explanation for his bleeding.

"Medic!" he tried to shout, but no sound came out of his mouth. He tried again. Nothing. He would just have to pray that someone found him, and that they could get this tree off of him in time. Not that there was much chance of that. The tree was heavy. They only way he could see it getting moved out here was by using a jumper. But no one would be crazy enough to fly a jumper in this weather. Not even himself.





Translations:
* "Where are you going then? And what do you mean, you can't say how long you'll be gone?"
** "I can't say. A direct order from van Uhm ((Chief of Defence at the time)). I promise that I'll let you know, but right now I can't say anything"

[Izzy Stevens]

1101
Meropis
Forest

Izzy was working as fast as she could; two brothers and a dad who had been in the military had made her a little tough, but she couldn't lift the branch by herself.
She cursed her luck as she gave up and got to work on de Vos's wounds. There was a LOT of blood. Crap. In a hurry, she put on some gloves, and hollered behind her.

Hey, someone try to move the branch. I need water, I don't care how! Get word back to base; he's gonna need a doc! Thank God both West and Kells were on base today. She opened her pack, and extracted a few things-idodine, some ibuprofen, a medical sewing kit, and a bottle of Vodka. She spoke to de Vos, whose eyes were closed. Hopefully, he was blacked out from the pain 'cause this was gonna hurt.

Lt., stay with me! It's Stevens. Gonna give you something for the pain. She worked his mouth open and dumped a few pills down, chasing it with the water that Fee had handed her. She used the Vodka to clean her hands and instruments, and started to cut away his uniform. A few minutes later, Treaty was at her side, and she let him take over as she moved on to vitals.

Sir, I gave him 400 mgs of Ibuprofen, and started to bloodlet. His injuries seem mostly subdural; bruising around the ribs. The blood seems to be from a hit to the head. Vitals are stable. She sighed. Thank God; de Vos would be fine shortly. She saw the jumper, great! Strong men. She hoped that between all of them, they could move the branch.

She started to move the sphygmomanometer*, her head began to buzz. She blinked. Her father stood next to her, in full Dress Blues. She walked across a stage-she was graduating! High school?! NO. College. Everyone looked older. Jason was there, with his boyfriend Mark, and Allen with Dina and a tiny baby. Izzy smiled. She was graduating college. The voice rang out "and the Valedictorian of the Nursing Program, Miss Isobel Stevens!" She smiled as she approached the strange man.

STEVENS! She blinked, and came back to the Forest. What the HELL?!

Tag:Gijs de Vos, William Treaty, @me, Michael Black, Finnbar Kennedy, Ethan Collins, @whomever else

[Michael Black]

1103
Forest
Somewhere near the City?
Meropis

Michael was drenched. Even his socks and boxers were soaked through to his skin, the rain was cold and relentless and thunder loud and intimidating but it didn't stop the team trying to evacuate the Koan as quick as possible. Michael was horrified to see that his efforts of convincing the others to help him save the pack had caused so much damage to human life and base property. He looked over at De Vos, pinned down by a fallen tree and being seen to by the two field medics. The wind continued to howl and the temporal radiation was making him feel confused and unsteady on his feet, but he had to do something to help.

Doctor Black rushed over to the fallen tree and began to push his body weight against it, hoping to shift it off and away from the Dutchman. Of course, nothing happened, the tree was huge and Michael was probably the least strongest man here. It was then that something began to happen which filled Michael's heart with warmth, something he would go on to remember for the rest of his life. An almost barking like noise came from the pack of Koan behind the human group, one of the smaller Koan had ran over to Michael. It was the little one he'd given his power bar too earlier! Michael watched as the little one joined him and feebly began to copy Michael, pushing against the tree with all it's might. He tensed up his muscles and braced for the worst as the larger Koan eldar came stalking over, almost dragging its arms behind it with the pace it walked. The beast let out a ferocious howl which sliced through the noise of the wind and rain before it rammed its clawed hands into the tree... It began to push too.

Slowly more and more of the Koan appeared, all copying Michael and pushing against the ancient oak-like tree. With their collective force something magical had occurred, the tree was slowly lifted and De Vos was finally free. Black looked over to Izzy and Will Treaty, smiling at them as they briefly paused in their work in amazement. He turned back to Fee beaming as the little Koan returned to Michael's side and sheltered behind his leg.

"What shall we call her?" He asked Fee. He wanted to giggle and laugh and play but the weather conditions were serious enough. The next problem now reared its head as Ethan Collins approached, the humans might fit in the jumper, but the Koan would not. Turning to the rescue party as they met Fee and Black he asked the group, "What do we do now? They're all going to die out here!" He gestured toward the pack who were now huddling together underneath another of the ancient trees in a futile effort to shelter from the raging hurricane that was slowly destroying the forest.

<tag Fiona Maccafferty Finnbar Kennedy Gijs de Vos Ethan Collins Izzy Stevens William Treaty Jaya Bakshi and anyone else I forgot?>

[Fiona Maccafferty]

1105
Forest
Meropis

Fiona tried her best to help Michael to move the branch, but it was close to futile. They were both too small to make much difference. It was frustrating; she was used to being able to solve problems at the drop of a hat. But she had no answer for this one. She glanced at Michael; if he had any ideas, NOW would be a good time to share them.

She tossed her canteen of water to Izzy; what was Kennedy DOING? They needed help. Just then, the Jumper appeared. Crap, they were going to be in a whole lot of trouble. She stopped pushing, and stamped her foot in frustration.

Michael. What now? She felt a small amount of fear enter her stomach as the Elder Koan approached them. She moved closer to Michael, her only protection out here. But then, they started to help her and Michael to move the branch! It was working! They were able to move the branch, and then she heard Michael's voice.

What shall we call her? Fiona gave him a LOOK, but for some reason, only two names came to her-Evelyn, and Monica, her mummy's name. She didn't know anyone called Evie, but it was probably not a good time to open the mother wound. She just shrugged.

What's your mum's name? Call her that! Fee suggested. She had a feeling that Evie was a special name, and she'd keep it to herself for now. Also, how did one determine the gender of a Koan? She smiled at Michael, suddenly wanting to give him a hug, and then play with the animal beings. But there wasn't time now.

what do we do now? They're all going to die out here? She could see the pain in his face, and she wanted to fix it. She sighed, and considered a moment before reaching out to touch his face. Her accent was rough with feelings she had no words for as she replied.

Have you got any more Power bars? What if we stay behind, and make a trail of power bar to the Piers? At least they'll be safe until we can convince the General to relocate them to the labs or something. Had she just said "we?"

Tag: @michaelblack, et al. Please ignore the bad coding; typing this on my tablet.

[Ethan Collins]

1050-1105
Forest near Meropis City
Meropis

As they moved toward the group it was clear even in his hallucination he'd been 'aware' at some level of where to put down, that was both good and bad in his mind, it also probably meant something he might do in the 'dream' as he was going to call it, could directly translate to something, probably terrible here, it was a a bad enough the feeling of it on his mind, the feeling did fade while he was in the dream, but it seemed the more he concentrated on it the worse it was going get, so he decided to focus on helping the others. 

As they mad ea light run through the pouring rain and increasingly muddy surface of this planet he was seeing things that both seemed to fit in here and those they didn't, he was doing what he could to avoid looking at the koan, but he couldn't help it, there wasn't much he could do, but as they moved closer they all began to to struggle at the tree pinning De Vos, it wasn't going to move, he looked up right into the eyes of what was supposed to be a Koan, however to him it was a very powerful looking Wraith.

This wasn't making sense to him, he'd never been in the the Pegasus Galaxy, he'd even been offworld when the Superhive had attacked Earth. He looked to down the scene was mostly the same they were helping someone, from under a tree however they all were wearing very different clothing, that which suggested they were Ancients. He turend behind him there was another... wraith. Ethan stared as it walked closer slowly morphing back into the shape of an only looking Koan. "Stevens!" He called out as he moved passed the others, she seemed to be starring, he pulled her slightly just out of the way, soon the Koan had freed the Dutch Lieutenant. he loooked around as the Koan seemed together under the other trees before he heard the voice of Dr Black. 

"What do we do now? They're all going to die out here!" He wasn't sure, they would never fit in the Jumper and they couldn't lower the shield the city was damaged enough from sitting on this planets surface for a few thousand years. Then the redhead spoke up as well. Have you got any more Power bars? What if we stay behind, and make a trail of power bar to the Piers? At least they'll be safe until we can convince the General to relocate them to the labs or something.
 "We Can't Lower the City Shield." He paused. "In all Likelihood, that would cause massive structural damage to the city," He looked towards some of the others, in fact they hadn't a jumper systems expert with them. "But maybe we can convert the Cloak into shield of some kind, since the jumper has that EM field..." He trailed off, this time he felt overwhelmed by the sensations of the vision. He couldn't separate the two 'realities' again. He abruptly cut himself off and turn around running at full speed, for him , he was a Lieutenant again, in his first year or so at the SGC, and he was evading a force of Ori Soldiers, he'd volunteered to go on a mission as a replacement for someone injured on another team. It hadn't been his most proudest moment as a person but from the mixed feelings he was getting he had both experienced and not experienced this before. 

Ducking under a Branch as a few around him exploded with Ori staff weapon hits, he was running for his life. He happened over a small raving, it wasn't too steep or deep. and besides he could take the bruises and breaks if it meant the team he'd come with could evade capture or at least get through the resistance at the gate, If he survived Major Williams was sure to be displeased but as he came under fire as the Ori soldiers fired and kept moving he was left with no other choice. He jumped down and slide down down the slope, however if one thing wasn't consistent between realities it was the large tree root that stuck out of the ground, quicker than before he'd been shunted back into the 'real world' (Raining and on the Meropis planet) just before he'd flipped over and hit his head on the other side, he had knocked himself out, however lucky for him, when running at full speed in the wet ground he'd left quite a trail.

<TAG:Michael Black, Fiona Maccafferty, Gijs de Vos, Izzy Stevens, William Treaty, Finnbar Kennedy, Jaya Bakshi>

(Figured it would be kewl to give a possible solution then have the rescuer become the rescuee, also have someone freak out of their mind like in the Atlantis: Phantoms episode)

[Michael Black]

1108
Forest
Meropis

Fee's cool, soft hand on his face was like a light house in the storm, bringing Michael Black back down to reality and helping him focus on the moment. The storm raged around them all, vegetation was now being torn from the ground and caught up in the strong gales and the situation was beginning to get a little more than dangerous. Michael was clearly upset, to have come all this way only to watch the Koan die was not an option in his book.
"Have you got any more Power bars? What if we stay behind, and make a trail of power bar to the Piers? At least they'll be safe until we can convince the General to relocate them to the labs or something." Maccafferty suggested, Michael's brain lit up and the cogs began to spin - there might just be a way to do this after all, he smiled and began to rummage in his flack jacket.

Captain Collins confidently approached the group, the cavalry had arrived,
"We Can't Lower the City Shield. In all Likelihood, that would cause massive structural damage to the city, but maybe we can convert the Cloak into a shield of some kind, since the jumper has that EM field..."
"Yes! Absolutely, a good idea, two good ideas even! This might just work..." Black replied but stopped abruptly, something was up with Captain Collins. Fee and Michael stared wide eyed as the rescue party leader set off at a run away from the group, and into the forest. They exchanged a glance before scanning the clearing, checking the others had seen that.
"It must be the radiation." Michael said what they were all thinking. It was then he noticed the Koan moving. They were huddling together in a large flock and had begun to shuffle their way through the thickening mud into the trees in a determined fashion, clearly target driven and heading toward some common ground. Michael had to think fast.
"Fee, the Koan are up to something." He paused, realization dawning over him, raising his voice over the sound of the weather he explained to Fee, "Of course, it stands to reason if they were compos mentis enough to build a camp in a suitable clearing like this, that they might also know somewhere they could shelter... But, nowhere out here will be safe enough from this, they'll need the Jumper's shield to survive." Finally finding a power bar, he produced it triumphantly, "If they can take us to a cave of some sort, we can ALL survive there, but somebody needs to rescue Captain Collins, and fast!"
That was the beginnings of the plan at least, Black looked to Fee with hope in his eyes, perhaps together the two of them could get this team to get a hustle on and maybe, just maybe, they might not all have to die out here in the rain.

<tag Fiona Maccafferty Ethan Collins Gijs de Vos Izzy Stevens William Treaty Finnbar Kennedy Jaya Bakshi>
OOC: Sorry its short, lots of distractions going on at the moment!

[Jaya Bakshi]

1110
Forest
Meropis

Jaya followed behind Collins; her job mostly being the tech buff of the outfit. And the girl. Collins spoke to the male nerd; he was Dr. Black or something, she thought.

We Can't Lower the City Shield. In all Likelihood, that would cause massive structural damage to the city, but maybe we can convert the Cloak into a shield of some kind, since the jumper has that EM field... That would work, actually, and with her codes, and Maccafferty's, they could do it quickly. She spoke up.

Yes, that's a great... She trailed off as the man headed deep into the forest. The other man replied, but seemingly more to Fiona than to her.

It must be the radiation...If they can take us to a cave of some sort, we can ALL survive there, but somebody needs to rescue Captain Collins, and fast! She nodded, already sprinting after Collins. She was FAST; a childhood, up until last year when she joined the AIr Force, of playing sports, had left her fit and able to run. She stopped near the Koan encampment, though, as she crumpled in pain. The radiation was getting to HER, too. Damn. She tried to fight it, and stumbled forward.

Mom! Baba?! I need to talk to you! Jaya pushed through the front door. She had some NEWS. From the kitchen, her mother's voice rang out to scold her, as it USUALLY did. Jaya, proper ladies do not yell. Manorama Bakshi was born in Bangalore, India but grew up in Europe, so her accent and English was an odd mix of Hindu slang, Queen's English, and motherly guilt. Jaya rolled her eyes, but dropped her tone. Mom, is Baba here? I need to talk to you both... Jaya was feeling sad, scared, and resolute. It was time to tell her parents her secret. She dropped into the dewy grass, and, unable to do much else, curled into a ball, and let the radiation take her.


Tag:Michael Black, @me, Ethan Collins, @me again, @finn, Gijs de Vos 

[Gijs de Vos]

Gijs could feel someone touching him. He couldn't see them, though. His eyes were shut and he was too tired to open them. And he wasn't sure if he WANTED to open them. His mind was playing the first time he and Mieke had met. They were both fifteen, and it had been an afternoon. They were at school, and Gijs had a gap hour because one of his teachers had been ill that week. He had been sitting outside for a few minutes when she approached him. Gijs had looked up as she asked him if she could bum a cigarette. Such a common thing. They entered a relationship a few months later, and had been together for eight years before Gijs went to Meropis. Gijs opened his eyes once more, and saw someone bending over him. He couldn't say anything, though, and passed out a few seconds later.

==I'm leaving whatever is done up to you guys... Just. Don't kill him ==

[Ethan Collins]

1115
Forest(In a ditch)
Meropis

Captain Collins' unconscious movements and a general lack of friction and the force of gravity had landed him upside down in the ditch. groggily awakening his head pounded and he knew the coppery taste of blood when he tasted it. Glamorously he pushed himself over until he was on his back in the ditch, he was soaked through from the hard rain and creek he now lay in.

He slowly overcame the cloud and remembered what had happened, most at least, he remembered meeting the group, running and now waking up. He also surmised something to do with this radiation had caused him to run off alone, or was Ori soldiers chasing him. he recited his name and rank out loud.

"Ethan Collins, C-captain US Air Force." He confirmed, he was now fairly certain it wasn't Ori Soldiers that had made him run off alone. He slowly sat up and grabbed at his head, it was pounding even more. A few moments later when he took ti away his hand was covered in a mix of blood and dirt.

He wiped his face with the sleeve of his Black BDU shirt it was again covered in the same mix of blood and soil. Getting himself up he searched around for his P90 after finding it he picked it up and checked the sling, he'd managed via some miracle broken the clip that would attach it to the webbing of his vest. taking it into hand he looked up the side of the remarkably steep ditch, it reminded him of a similar situation he had found himself in only a few months ago.

All too quickly that situation appeared he was sort of stuck inside what had been an underground tunnel, well he hadn't begun in the tunnel, on top of the ground it was dug through. as he looked up the face of Doctor James Campbell appeared over the edge. "I told you there was an escape tunnel from the pyramid." Ethan shook his head.

"Well I never doubted you, just that it was in that 'particular' wall." Campbell stomped near the edge it held and he then knelt down and offered a hand to Collins. Ethan freed his feet and took a step and pushed off he grabbed the archaeologist forearm and he helped Ethan up. As they stood up Ethan gave the doctor friendly pat on the back.

The 'vision' faded as he half stared into the rain, he missed the company of the Dr Campbell, the two had saved each other and the team a few times, however only he could get himself out of this. He tossed the p90 up and over the edge. before drawing his knife out, he probably only had a few minutes of non vision left, but that depended on how badly he'd injured his brain(he guessed) he took a step or two back and breathed in and out holding his breath out as he ran and leapt up the edge digging the knife in sideways it proved just enough resistance for him to haul himself partly sideways out of the ditch. stopping as he took in a few breaths before slowly getting up onto his feet, picking up his P90 as he did.

He looked around. He found boot prints fairly obvious, he began following them back, but a speed not much faster than a quick walk.

<TAG: Michael Black, Jaya Bakshi(Pm inbound), Fiona Maccafferty, William Treaty, Gijs de Vos, Finnbar Kennedy, any else, koan, visions ect >

[Izzy Stevens]

1120
Forest
Meropis

Izzy worked with Treaty; both were fast, and silent, passing instruments, supplies, and silent assesments back and forth. She was keeping the Lt. stable as best she could, and they were going to need an operating room. Fu*k. This was not supposed to happen on what was SUPPOSED to be her day off. But of course, she could never say no when it came to her job. Not only did the Navy basically own her, but she just...cared too much.

Finally, de Vos's breathing normalized, and she let out a sigh.

Treaty, he's breathing regularly. The bleeding on his leg has stopped, as well. I think it's broken; certainly sprained. We need to get him to the clinic. Any ideas how to get him there?! She looked at the man who outranked her, glad to not be in charge for once. Seeing that Treaty had de Vos covered, she turned, and started back towards the direction that the rescue party had come. She knew she needed to get out of here-she'd joined the Navy to see the world, not die alone on in a storm on a strange planet. 




Tag: William Treaty, Gijs de Vos, Ethan Collins, Michael Black, @me, Plot Twist.

[Michael Black]

1108-1123
Forest
Meropis

The excitement had been building for Michael as soon as he realized that the Koan were up to something, a desperate bid to survive the harsh weather this storm presented. He was startled as Jaya showed unexpected athleticism in setting off at a run after the seemingly crazed Captain Collins. Much to his dismay he saw Jaya succumb to the raw and unshielded effects of the radiation not too far from their clearing. Out here in the wilderness the storm was really getting to them, Michael started to feel a crushing pain against the sides of his head as he stood with Fee. They were just being blasted by raw radiation and with Gijs as well as the two who had run off, a total of three of their team mates were down already!

Grabbing Fee's hand, he dragged her over to where Treaty and Izzy were working on De Vos in the partial shelter of a fallen tree. Michael ducked down next to Izzy and just hoped they could think of something fast. Bits of debris were bouncing off the tree and flinging themselves into the air, making horrific noises as it did so. Michael was certain that any number of things out here now could kill them. Violent thunder rolled overheard again followed right after by a lightning strike less than half a mile to their left. The Koan were still in some sort of controlled panic around the clearing but all seemed to be drawing together into a larger group that had crouched and huddled in, their youngest in the middle.
"Treaty, he's breathing regularly." Michael heard Izzy yell over the noise of the wind, "The bleeding on his leg has stopped, as well. I think it's broken; certainly sprained. We need to get him to the clinic. Any ideas how to get him there?!"

Treaty couldn't reply over the noise, or rather the sudden lack of it. In the space of a few seconds the furious wind seemed to subside down to a manageable volume, calming even more by the moment. Michael's head suddenly felt much clearer than it had previously and he felt as fresh as a morning daisy. He looked to Fee and smiled, behind her a ray of sunshine glittered through.
"The eye of the storm!" He said, expressing a wave of relief. He scanned the clearing and the sky as an obvious circular break in the clouds was moving over them. It was now that Michael noticed the Koan were moving again.
"Err.. Doctors, I have an idea!" He pointed at the aliens, they were marching off all at once in their large group just as Michael had predicted. Sure enough, now that the blinding rain had temporarily cleared, he could see where they were headed - a tunnel! A small opening between two tree around a quarter of a mile away from them was responsible for several Koan disappearing one by one, at a much quicker pace now that the eye had arrived. "It must be where they shelter from the storm! Now that the eye is here, they have a chance to properly hide. Although..." Michael cast a glance behind them toward the city which was just now being enveloped in an angry looking broiling cloud that stretched from land to sky, "The worst is yet to come, none of us are going to survive that, not even the Jumper will. We have to move, now!" He stood and slowly paced into the center of the clearing, taking in the somewhat magnificent sight of the other side of the storm, it was unlike anything you would ever see on Earth and yet here it was. Michael spied yellow crackles of energy among the cloud, "The radiation is so strong on the other side that it visibly manifests itself there..." he trailed off and gulped, "come on!" He grabbed Fee and began to lead her to the Koan's tunnel urgently, shouting as he went, "CAPTAIN COLLINS? JAYA?"

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