revivalproject | Brings Himself To Trouble

WHO: Reeve Tuesti, Open (Power Plant Gate Team too)
WHERE: Power Plant, Power Plant Gate
WHAT: Attempted Repairs, Upside-Down Trauma, Mindflayer Fight?
WHEN: October 13/14th
WARNINGS: Potential for all event TWs: blood, mouth related body horror, sentient vines/tentacles, choking, 'animal' attacks.

I. Heading To The Power Plant

The power was being irregular. Clearly it wasn't entirely the storm, because Reeve could feel his magic flickering in and out during the day.

Really, he should be wiser than to move across the city at a time like this. But here he was, moving on heavy metal crutches, with Mini moving next to him with a heavy piece of rebar. At least they are going to fight their way forward. Reeve was going to see they had power, because with power people would have a chance to be safer.

Which was of course why he was moving up toward the power plant as he heard a screech in the air. A bat. Reeve turns, reaching for his magic and feeling it surge back in answer. The man raises a hand, thrusts it out, and the fireball takes the thing right out of the sky.

"Annoying things aren't you?"

II. Unwilling Explorer and Gate Attack CW: sentient vines/tentacles, choking

This was a mistake. Of course Reeve had made it. There he was, limping through a hallway to try and figure out just what had broken the power system. Had followed some red light thinking it was an alarm. And instead... Instead something had grabbed his ankle. The injured one, of course. Because that's just what Reeve was going to deal with, wasn't it?

He shouts in distress as he's pulled away from Mini, as he looses his crutch and his bag and his tools. As he loses everything while he's hauled through the crimson hole in the wall. Hauled out through into a place of cold. His back slams against another wall in a room just like the one he'd been hauled into.

Immediately he was slammed up against the wall, another vine or whatever moving to press against his wrists, to pin him, to choke him. Reeve couldn't breathe. Fuck. Fuck.

And his head was screaming in pain from the distance to Mini, whose voice he could hear shouting from somewhere distant. He reaches for his magic, hoping to do something to save himself. In the end he manages to spark enough fire to get the things to let him go, to release him. The gate was too high for Reeve to get back through on his own. So he did the only thing he could.

Gasping in pain and desperate for breath, Reeve falls to the floor, trying to find his balance again.

III. The Gate Battle TW: Potential for blood and mouth related body horror

A day in hiding, unable to get home. With the communicator in his pocket he couldn't get back in touch with anyone on the other side other than Mini, linked as their minds still were. But there needs to be a solution to this, and Mini had explained it.

Find the monster that anchors this gate. Destroy it. Seems simple enough. Which was why Reeve was trying, despite his pain, to limp out of the Power Plant.

"How am I supposed to do this alone?" he asks himself as he moves. He's got to find a solution, with or without help.

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Safety seems so impossible. But of all of the Soldier Firsts, it would either be Angeal or Zack he would trust the most. And this would be useful to leave. Really good to leave.

"That would be appreciated. I can't climb back through easily."

He nodded.

"Give me another minute or two and I'll have this open."

And that's when he began to really use his strength to make the ice come crashing down.

Well, Reeve has plenty of mana to play with, so he throws another fireball. Which makes the ice far thinner, and one last strike to the ice will bring Reeve's wall down.

"Angeal. Hello. And thank you."

Angeal moved when the fireball came, but it helped and he was able to cleave through the rest of the ice.

Blue mako eyes looked at reeve and he nodded as he finished poking through the ice. "Glad to see you're alright."

"Glad to be alright," he says, but he doesn't fully look it. HIs pants are ripped and there is a horrid looking bruise wrapped around one leg. "This place is a true danger."

The former First nodded and broke through the rest of the way. His eyes did a quick visual inspection of the Director and saw the bruise, but then looked at the man himself.

"Are you able to walk?"

"Not even as well as I could before this," he says with a sigh. "And my crutch is gone. Can you find me something to take it's place?"

The former First shook his head. "I don't have anything at the minute. But I can carry you if I need to."

Reeve really wished that wasn't something he had to consider. If he was in Angeal's arms, then the man would not be able to defend them.

"I fear that might be a poor choice. There is danger here. I can feel it."

"There's danger all around." Angeal pointed out solemnly. "But that still leaves you being unable to walk. And we need to get you out of here."

"You are not wrong, but I can more or less move on my own."

Which is only 'more or less'. He's better on the more. Because he needs to believe in it.

"We'll see then." Angeal replied. He understood pride and doing things on one's own, but at the cost of their safety was where he would draw the line.

"Then let's get moving."

"Agreed," he says with a nod before standing again. Time to get moving. Slowly.

Angeal took the brunt of Reeve's weight and started off on one foot.

"Tell me if it gets to be too much."

Of course he will. But for now he lets Angeal guide him.

"Are you always this much of a hero?

Mako blue eyes slid over to Reeve after the question was asked.

"I'm just here to help."

After all that he's done in his past, he's not a hero and would never say that he was one.

"So yes," he says with a smile to himself. "You really are."

But he doesn't mind that. In this moment, he needs that heroism.

Angeal sighed quietly as he continued to help Reeve and keep an eye out for danger. In case of emergency, he'd have to set the Director down and stand in front of him. The man's safety was priority. Even though they weren't back home, this was familiar.

"Let's just get you back in one piece."

Reeve's safety really wasn't htat important, but he can't bother to argue that right now.

"Alright then. One piece is preferable."

Brings Himself To Trouble

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you willing to handwave this one closed soon?