The Last Stand

[Danikat]

[Coolpikaaa]

Coolpikaaa was crushed by a stinky man.

He had managed to crawl out before the blood-spewing had reached a climax,but he was still massively grossed out and forgot about the shots for awhile.Coolpikaaa caught Nets question,and asked himself why WASN'T this guy roasted alive?

As he looked him over something stuck him about his face.This guy looked really familiar.

"Has he told anyone his name?"

-coolpikaaa

[Mitsukai]

((I apologize for the late post... >>; As said, I had to leave for a family vacation (aka a family gathering at the lake) and was thus gone for the whole day.))

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Had anyone been watching Nynaeve's face when she received the news, they would have been slightly shocked at her reaction even though it was rather a normal response. Just not for her.

No... it can't be!

As she dropped her head down, her soft auburn hair swept forward slightly to cover her face. The Citadel had been her home since she left the Academy… and for it to be completely gone like that. It was like a slap to the face and it truly felt as if she just lost a bit of herself. And in a way she did.

The items she left behind- many had sentimental values associated to them. The only thing that she has left now was the simple gold necklace around her neck, and in this moment of pain, she held the heart locket in her hand for a bit of reassurance. A solitary tear fell and stained the ground beneath her.

So lost in her thoughts that she managed to ignore all the other things that have been happening, including the questions that have been directed towards her…

It wasn’t until that she looked up again that she seemed aware of the new people. Frowning slightly, she took a deep breath before speaking.

“… who will be going to the remains of the Citadel?” she asked in a calm collected voice.

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((I’m sorry for bypassing all of the questions that might have been directed towards me earlier, but since I’ve missed so much, it’s just easier for me to do it this way.))

[Raven]

The white clad woman walked briskly as her boots crunched the freezing snow below her. Her eyes scanned the white domain for anyone other then herself as she searched for the rebels.

She had recently received news that they were hiding about 100 meters from Little Sister's location - so that made them about 900 meters north from hers. "Bloody lack of transport..." She grumbled - remembering that Fort had taken the EC mobile and she was forbidden to fly as her ebony black wings would be far, far too obvious in this pure white terrain.

So here she was, the queen of the shadows in possibly the brightest place in Hackstar. The bright sun glistened off the snow - making her wince with her sensitive eyes. She muttered some more under her breath and trudged on in her wet boots.

Almost an hour later she arrived near her destination. During that time she'd been tempted to scream, curse, quite frankly go ballistic with annoyance. But, somehow, she'd managed to refrain her usually loud and obnoxious behavior to a large amount of cursing and mumbling under her breath.

"Raven to base - I've reached the rebels headquarters." She reported silently as static crackled in her microphone. No reply from the grunts on break. "Dammit..." She muttered. "No reception - figured much." She hissed quietly while glaring at her radio.

She observed, hidden in the snow about 50 meters away from the rebel's base's entrance as she saw the slave, CoolPikaaa and Danielle. ~Perfect... Little Sister does her job well.~ She thought smugly about little creature.
~What you're doing is wrong!~ Raven heard the annoying, whiny voice inside her head. It was that blasted girl. ~ Shut up...or maybe... don't. Do you want to help me a little bit, darling?~ Raven asked, smiling cruelly.

~NEVER!~ Came the offended shriek of disgust from the girl who's body Raven was resided in. ~You're going to BLOODY WELL HELP ME!~ Raven yelled, hissing, raging at the young girl, more specifically called Aara. Raven sent sharp waves of pain through her mind, causing her to cry out to the Queen of the Shadows, Raven, her master. ~A-alright~ Aara sobbed back. ~I'll help you...~

Her fragile, defeated words made Raven smirk as she replied to the depressed girl. ~Of course you will, my pet.~ Then, she proceeded with care to tell Aara what to do.

[Kazumaru]

Sentinel turned to face Mitsukai "Nobody." he said. "If even one of us leaves, our capabilities are reduced severely."

"... And there's no reason to sacrifice victory for some meatbags."

[Danikat]

Danikat scowled at Sentinel's choice of words. "Meatbags is a little harsh, but I have to say I agree. The EC are due to be here any minute and splitting out forces is just going to leave us all open to attack. We're short on numbers as it is."

"Still," Danielle countered, "We can't just leave them there. If there are others as badly injured as this one we'd just be condemming them to death."

"True..." Danikat hesitated for a moment, considering their options. "Does anyone have any friends or allies who aren't going to be able to help with the battle who could be sent to the Citadel? I'd send my own forces but I need them all to keep track of the EC."

[Mitsukai]

Nynaeve frowned at Sentinel's reply... but he had a point, as did Danikat.

There was someone... but she didn't know how she would be able to get in contact with her.

"I know of a very close friend who has extremely strnog healing abilities... but she remained as an EC slave since she wouldn't be much good fighting..."

Turning to face Danikat, she directed her next question at her. "Could you send a message perhaps?"

[Chronos]

Ensichrys licked his beak meaningfully. "Mortracta. Vado superna a terra glacialis. Nos volo obviam tu illi." ((Mortracta. Go Northeast by the North wind to the land covered in ice. We will meet you there.))

A smart salute preceded an upheaval of sod as the Lonely Flower burrowed with frightening speed to the Arctic Tundra, where she would wait underground and undetected until she was called there.

Ensichrys looked back to the Guivre and the immense serpent spoke his very first English word.

"Ready?"

"Etiam," ((Yes.)) he replied. The two made their way back to the Cave and awaited their hour of destiny.

[KC11]

A tan colored rat with blue eyes sat in the middle of the ice covered land. It shivered. It began thinking that it should have made itself into a warmer form for this.

Ever since she, KC11, got the message from Demetris that Blackstar had been taken over, she had been in a constant panic. How would her home town be once she got back.

As usual, when the old government had been overthrown, she had been off exploring in distant lands. Normally she would spend months away from home. But she had only been gone a few weeks when the message from Demetris came.

At first, she had thought that it was a prank Demetris was playing on her. But she had to check, just in case. When she found "Hackstar" sitting there, she had flown into a rage and dived into the town, oblivious to the new government that would most likely kill her.

And then she found out about the rebel group. And she intended to join them.

Now though, she was lost in the frozen ice.

She shivered. She knew she would need a warmer form. She transformed into a fat penguin with blue eyes and began to waddle around the frozen wasteland.

[3kul]

Genkaku coughed weakly, his eyes opening again. He looked down to see that somebody was doing something to him. He didn't recognize them and he didn't know what they were doing, but he was feeling a little better than before so he felt confident that this was a good person and that they were doing something to help him.

"Where... Am I?"

He managed, before submitting to a coughing fit. He tried to cover his mouth with his hand only to find that his arms wouldn't move, and neither would his legs. Thankfully this person had fixed whatever major damage had been done to Genkaku's lungs, as the coughing did not produce blood and soon subsided. His throat was horribly dry, and he wondered when he'd last had a drink. Not for a while, he thought, he couldn't remember doing that for at least three days...

Actually, he couldn't remember doing very much at all over the last three days, had he hit his head on something? He wasn't too surprised at this - he remembered the last time he'd gotten amnesia, he wandered about through that jungle for days believing that he was some kind of poisonous frog before a local native informed him that none of the frogs there were poisonous. He coughed a bit of laughter, then realized that laughing was actually quite painful and stopped.

The pain felt deserved though, he shouldn't be laughing at a time like this. The woman, her child, the old man who had been like a father to him along with all of the other slaves whom he'd led out to the Citadel needed his help! How could he just lie here whilst they were still out there?

"Please... My friends... You have to help them..."

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Beneath the burning red lava snake the terrain changed from dead forest to open white fields of snow.

HollowEyes and Caton had just entered the frosty regions of the north, though sitting on top of a pile of lava didn't allow them to feel much in the way of a change in temperature. "How are you holding up Caton?" HollowEyes asked his minion, wanting to make sure that they didn't suddenly drop out of the sky anytime soon. "No problems, boss." Caton replied, seeming relatively calm. "If we don't get trouble, we get there just fine."

"Good to hear." The Parasitian Second-in-Command replied, not expecting any less of the nekomata. There would not be any aerial interferance now that they'd reached the skies of this frozen wasteland, without all of this lava they'd have been frozen quite easily by the abundant amount of hail and snow up here.

Instead they now found themselves getting quite wet, and a large amount of steam had begun to rise up from the snake's body as the melting hail continued to pelt down at it. It wasn't as though this was too much of a problem though - as HollowEyes couldn't see the ground through the clouds he believed that it was fair to assume that those on the ground wouldn't be able to see the lava beast through the clouds either.

[TheBlackSoul]

((Err, sorry for the very late reply, I haven't had the time to get on the comp recently...))

Ravana looked very unsympathetic when Genkaku ran in, looking all beat up. Like Net, he suspected foul play going on here.

The enigma looked around the dome, realizing that he must have been very ignorant over the past few hours.

Moving towards the door and around the frozen-in-time Maraha and her companion, he said "I'm going to stand gaurd outside. I'm sick of not being to fully stand up in here without freezing my upper half off."

Then he squeezed through the door and exited the dome.

Getting up to his full height, he sighed with relief as he stretched. Then he pointed the blades of the Shredick downwards and folded both hands over the other end of the staff.

None shall pass. At least, none of the EC. he thought.
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As Elisah drew nearer to the dome, she noticed a very large, grendel-like creature standing right in front of what looked like a door.

Looks like I'm going to have to find another way in...

[KC11]

(Eh, wh at does the ou tside o f the head quar ters lo ok like ex ac tly ? I'm ju st g o in g b y g en eral h e r e, bu t if it's dif fere nt, ple ase te ll m e and I'll ed it m y p ost)

K C sa w a sh ape in t he di sta nce. C o u ld i t b e ?.. . b ut y es! I t wa s!

A t a l l bui ldi ng loo m ed over in the dis ta nce. KC f el l dow n to her b e lly an d b egan to be lly sk a te to th e b uilding.

Wh en s he got th ere, she saw a ta ll, men ecing lo ok ing gre ndel stan ding gu ard. She dec ided to a pp e ar in a mo re re co niz ed form th at wa sn't as bi g as h er dr ag on form and s he be came th e sm all, tan m ouse aga in. She shive red in th e c old.

"Requ esting ente ry..... that is, if y ou are n't EC..... bu rr.... really co ld out h ere..... please..."

Sh e tr ied to make her self in to a ver y flu ffy mouse, but fo und that s he was to o fro zen u p to do it. Som etimes, wh en she was very co ld, she cou ldn't trans form ve ry w ell. So s he ju st st ood th ere shiv ering.

[Coolpikaaa]

"I am sure Tetsu and BP could probably be of some help."coolpikaaa said.It looked like no one knew this guys name,even though coolpikaaa knew he had seen him somewhere.

"Senti,you are the only way i can get ahold of them,so you have to come with me outside.The ice will most likely block the signal."he stated dreading having to go out in the open again.At least maybe they could see the source of the shots.

-coolpikaaa

[Kazumaru]

Sentinel played a sighing sound effect. "Feel free to leave if you want, furbag. The ice won't impede the signal at all. But if you get shot, don't come crying back to me."

Upon finishing that statement, Sentinel began sending out a signal to Tetsu-ko and Clonepikaaa, simply saying "We're in the arctic, and the yellow rodent needs your help. Also, you'll probably get shot."

[Coolpikaaa]

"OK then..we won't go outside."

Coolpikaaa stared at the beat up man again.He asked where he was and started a scary coughing spree.Coolpikaaa,thinking he would cough up blood again,searched around the dome.There was a small piece of ice that had a shallow dip in it,and coolpikaaa zapped it,making the dip deeper and melting enough of the ice to fill the still small hole.The man said something about his friends needing help.

"We are sending someone for your friends.Do you want some water?It isn't much but it might help that cough of yours."Coolpikaaa said as he neared the man and held up the ice-cup.

-coolpikaaa