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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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Knuckles is wandering about, trying to punch any enemy that moves. He's boiling mad, hasn't discovered the fire secret yet, and sees Reeve trying to stumble along. Concerned, he hurries over.

"Hey, what are you doing over here?! You should be back in the normal world!"

It had been weird enough. But it was certainly normal compared to this place.

Angeal had been outside and kept an eye on Reeve. For some reason he had the sneaking suspicion that the guy was going looking for trouble and if one did that at Shinra, one would definitely find it.

So he trailed the man down the hallway and soon enough he heard a shout. "Director!" Angeal called, now hurrying his steps.

Damn it.

He then found Mini and stopped the little cat. "You were just with him. What happened to Reeve?"

Edited 2023-10-15 10:00 (UTC)

Of course the man would hover and fuss. It was not something Reeve had been expecting. Perhaps he should have been. Perhaps he should have known he would have a protector out there.

Mini, meanwhile, looked to Angeal with relief.

"Kidnapped!"

"Kidnapped by who or what I wonder?" Angeal asked, looking away from Mini. He then sighed. Reeve was the only person Angeal knew from home and even if he wasn't the Director of Soldier like Lazard, the former First still considered Reeve to be someone to be kept safe.

It was the only sense of 'normalcy' he had here.

Looking back at Mini, Angeal took in the small cat. He hadn't had any reason to interact with this one before, but that wasn't going to stop him now.

"Did you see who took him?"

Mini nods and he looks frustrated.

"Aye! Like ah large tentacle, but plant. Maybe a wee bit like a dark, slimey, Malboro vine."

HE looks around and then reaches for Angeal's hand.

"Ah can show ya where!"

Yes, he's well aware. Reeve sighs and shakes his head.

"I assure you that I did not choose to come here. I was dragged through."

Knuckles growls.

"That figures. I need to get you back to the other side." He looks around for the way out.

"No," Reeve says, his voice hard and annoyed. "I am here to help. Maybe I got hauled in, but I find that my magic is useful here!"

And he's not a coward. He's tired of running.

Knuckles regards him in disbelief. "But you're still hurt! How will you fight, even with your powers?!"

Really? Reeve gestures off to the side, thrusting his hand out and a fireball goes flying through the air to strike a wall. With that he raises an eyebrow at Knuckles as if to say 'like that'.

Knuckles scowls. "Okay, wiseguy. But don't tell me you think the monster will just stand still and let you blast it! It'll come after you, and you're in no condition to run!"

Yes, he had picked up on that part.

"And yet, there is a need. And from what I have seen here, I do not believe that a single person can master the thing. So I believe it would be wise to consider something together."

Knuckles grunts. He is definitely not the biggest fan of teamwork, but he's learned that sometimes it's necessary.

"... Yeah, you're probably right."

He doesn't want to admit he hasn't had any luck bringing down any of those monstrosities on his own, but yeah.

Well then, they have the beginnings of a plan.

"Do you know what monsters we're supposed to kill?"

"All of them! ... But probably especially the huge ones hanging around specific areas. I think there's supposed to be one around here." Knuckles looks around.

Huh, was there? Interesting.

"I admit I have not gone outside very often," he admits. It had seemed unwise to him. "How big are the big ones?"

"Real big! ... Like that." Knuckles sees the huge thing and points at it. Luckily, it hasn't noticed them yet.

If truth be told, Ash didn't really want to go through the gate but this really felt like one of those times the balance of things was at stake which meant he couldn't just sit it out. Pikachu didn't like it, he could tell by the fact he hadn't exactly been encouraging but they'd been partners long enough that he didn't question it.

Immediately upon stepping through the gate he feels different. Things don't feel quite as alive as the real world. If he had to compare them, he'd say it felt more along the lines of the reverse world that Giratina protects. Not dis-similar from the real world but notably different. He wonders if this world is also connected to the real world in someway.

"Pi?" Pikachu stops in his tracks and then makes a mad dash towards something. Two somethings and a large creature. He rushes forward, building up his electricity and firing a large thunderbolt at the creature getting a little too close to the others while Ash moves over to Knuckles and Reeve.

"What are you guys doin' here?" He asks like he's not a ten year old in a world run by monsters.

Don't judge him too harshly Knuckles. He had only finally come outside today. It was safer in the building down here than outside of it. And the big thing hadn't been challenged, so it wasn't like Reeve had cause to see it. He'd just thought... Well, that it was an immobile fixture. Apparently he was wrong.

He was even about to open his mouth to explain this when he heard a heartbreakingly familiar voice behind him. And then there is a charge in the air that makes him curse. Pikachu. Which invariably meant Ash.

"And now they're aware we're here," Reeve sighed forlornly. Bothering one creature tended to bring down more of them.

"Ash, please go back to the other side of the gate. This is something that, for a change, an adult can handle. Please."

Sorry Knuckles, Reeve's just not aware you're also relatively young and need protected.

"Oh no!" Knuckles snarls when Pikachu decides to blast the creature and make it aware of them. "And people say I'm impulsive!"

He also thinks of himself as an adult, so he doesn't make any move to say he's actually a minor. That, and he's too worried now about Ash.

"That's right, Ash," he says. "Go now while there's still time!"

He tries to put himself in front of Ash as the angry thing lumbers towards them.

Pikachu wanted to launch the first attack rather than be taken by surprise incase the thing was biding its time. He remains on the the offensive, eyeing the monster and sparking ominously before letting out another, stronger thunderbolt as a warning.

Ash frowns at them both as they try to get him to go back. "I can't just leave like that." He insists. There's always something he has to do and he can't just ignore it.

"Besides, how're you guys gonna get back? It looks like Reeve's ankle's still out."

"You can. It's simple. Walk back to the gate, call Pikachu, and go through," Reeve says, his voice stern. "For once in your life let the adults take care of you."

As for Reeve's ankle, he's less concerned than Ash is. He shifts his weight gingerly, raises his arm again, and regards the approaching monster. Light catches in one of the green stones set into the metal bracelet he wore, and a fireball pelted the monster.

While it had flinched a bit from Pikachu, it screamed in pain and frustration when Reeve's attack hit. Fire, then, seemed for the best.

"Knuckles is quite mobile and I can hobble back as needed."

Knuckles starts a bit to see the effectiveness of fire. Yes, this is good! They know a weakness!

"Reeve did way more damage to that thing than Pikachu did," he points out. He wonders how effective his punches would be. They didn't do much against lesser monsters.

Ash isn't always the quickest to catch onto things but he's also a far cry from dumb and he knows being mobile can be difference between safety and disaster. And he doesn't think that anyone that has to 'hobble' would be moving quick enough.

"Man, it's too bad there's not a Chansey or an Audino that could use Heal Pulse." That way they could help Reeve and get out of here. At Knuckles statement Ash frowns.

"That's because Pikachu is just telling it to stay back. We came into its territory, you know." he points out as though it's perfectly reasonable for it to attack them for that.

Back to the issue of Reeve's ankle though. Then an Idea hits him and he looks down curiously at his hands. He once helped Mew - maybe he could do it again?

"I might not have Heal Pulse but.. I think I can help a little." He offers.

"Pika?" Pikachu turns sharply, beady little eyes narrowed. "Pikapi! Pikachu. Pika."

Ash gives him a slightly sad look. "Not much of a choice, buddy. Keep it distracted, okay?" Pikachu frowns a moment and then turns back to the creature. He darts off like a bolt of lightening to draw its attention.

Ash and Pikachu really had brought things down onto them before they were ready for them. And there was nothing to be done for it but to fight. Only there was an important distraction now.

Ash. Looking at his hands.

"No," he says, his voice firm, before looking to Knuckles. "You take him, and you throw him back through that gate."

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