[day 191] "It's very unfortunate I have to say this, But the world is going to end today" [closed]

[headphoneactor]

Who: Haruka, Takane, Colin, Ryu (4)
Open: Closed
When: Day 191
Where: Skyway -> Bastion
What:

It was an extremely average day,
Without a single obstacle in my path
Until I was bored, listening to the radio,
And I heard this voice that said:
"It's very unfortunate I have to say this,
But the world is going to end today"

Format: action
Warnings: STUPID SICK TEENAGERS

[ She stood there, frozen, eyes wide and breathing heavy.

Takane didn't know what had happened. One moment, she was turning around to make her way out of the school. The next ... she was here.

In a place she didn't recognize.

In a place that was ...

She didn't even know how to describe it.

Takane slowly turned around, eyes scanning the area she now found herself in. Did she fall asleep again? Was she dreaming?

No, she had to wake up. Haruka was at the hospital. She needed to go see him! She had to find him and tell him-- ]

AUGH! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UUUUUUP!

[ ... But clearly, that wasn't working. Takane frowned. Okay. She started walking, looking around. Maybe if she walked around long enough, she'd wake up.

Or figure out what was going on.

No way this wasn't a dream or something, though. She'd have to wake up sometime.

Takane walked for a while, keeping an eye out for anything that might clue her in as to what was going on. She didn't find one.

But she did find something else.

The moment she saw him, her eyes widened again and she could have sworn her heart stopped. She rushed over to the limp, unmoving form of her love friend, placing a hand on his arm and shaking him a little.

He couldn't be here. Not really. This was just a dream, right? Haruka was in the hospital.

Still, her emotions at seeing him like this were very real. ]

H-Hey ... Hey, Haruka ... Haruka, wake up ...

[ Tears welled up in her eyes again, and she roughly took him into her arms, shaking him a little more. ]

Haruka ... Haruka! Hey! Wake up, Haruka!

[ Those tears rolled down her cheeks. No, nonono. He wasn't waking up. This was a dream, and she still couldn't do anything. She was totally useless. ]

HELP!

[ She screamed out the word, looking around to see if maybe anyone was around to hear it. ]

HELP! WE NEED HELP! SOMEONE, ANYONE, PLEASE! P-Please ...

Comments

[bedheadstyle]

... blew up... ?

[Wow okay you guys didn't bother to tell him that part earlier, did you?]

[doctor_dragoon]

[No, Ryu. That was very not correct of you.]

... That's one way of putting it...

[headphoneactor]

[ THAT is what gets Takane sitting up in bed suddenly. Though once she sits up like that, she's hit with a wave of dizziness that nearly has her laying back down. She brings a hand up to rest against her forehead, and closes her eyes. ]

Blew up?! It exploded?!

[freedom_engineer]

[Colin sighs at that, and he reaches up to give Ryu a thwap to the back of the head.]

We weren't telling them that because they aren't well. They don't need stress on top of it.

[He nods then.]

Some maniacs in this world made a weapon that split the multiverse like an overripe watermelon. There was a lot of damage, and this world is pulling in survivors.

[amnesiadragon]

Ow! But wouldn't it be worse to hide it?

[Colin you're stronger than you look. Ryu just rubs the back of his head gingerly.]

[bedheadstyle]

[Colin pls.]

Ah-h! Y-you don't have to hurt him for that! He's right, you know... hiding it probably would have been worse.

[doctor_dragoon]

No violence in the hospital, please. [Sigh.]

It can be a lot to take in for some people. [It sure was for Yukio.] The stress of it could have very negative effects for people with certain medical conditions.

[Like Haruka's, obviously. Yukio smiles apologetically.]

Sorry.

[headphoneactor]

[ Takane's not going to be responsive. Her eyes are wide, and she's staring down at her lap, trembling a little.

No. No, that's not right. That can't be right. Their world wasn't completely gone, this ... this was just some weird, whacked-out nightmare that felt incredibly lifelike. She'd wake up from this eventually, and everything would be back to normal. She'd go to school, and she'd see Haruka, and the two of them would do their usual thing and see their friends and everything would be normal and her Grandma would be around to welcome her home when she got there and everything would be normal.

The world didn't blow up. This was just a nightmare.

This.

Wasn't real.

At all.

It couldn't be. ]

[freedom_engineer]

This is why I wasn't saying anything, Ryu.

[He gestures to Takane.]

And as Yukio says, a heart condition should not be aggravated by a sudden shock.

[He frowns at Haruka. Yeah, Stepford smiler? This is familiar to him, thank you Doctor Parker...]

We're here to do whatever we can for you.

[amnesiadragon]

S... sorry.

[He looks down a bit. He doesn't know these things. And hiding things is pretty bad...]

But we all work together here to help each other. It's bad, but... it's not as bad as it could be.

[bedheadstyle]

[Totally one.

But he is worried about Takane, which is enough to make that smile go away.]

... Takane... ?

[doctor_dragoon]

[Crap, they broke her.

Yukio lays a hand on Takane's shoulder, concern obvious on his face.]

Takane-san?

[headphoneactor]

[ Yep, she's broken. She flinches a little as Yukio places a hand on her shoulder, and she shakes her head. ]

N-No, that's ... this is just a nightmare.

[ She refuses to believe this is true. ]

[freedom_engineer]

Sadly, it's not. I wish that I could tell you it was. There's a little over fifty of us here, and not one of us doesn't want to go home.

But we're here for each other.

[He reaches up to put a hand on Ryu's shoulder while Yukio tends to Takane.]

I would have warned you, but there was no opportunity. Sorry, Ryu.

[amnesiadragon]

... It's okay.

[He just feels kind of dumb.]

I've been here half my life. It's not a dream. I've had dreams that I could decide what to do in before, but this is way too long to be a dream.