route_1065 | Ouch [closed]

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Ouch [closed]

Who: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, and Carol Danvers
Where: Outside, around, and in the Ilex Forest.
When: August 29th
Summary: Carol and Tony to the rescue.
Rating: pg-13 to be safe
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Amber is panicked, she's running and running, needing to find help. It's been a day since it happened, maybe less maybe more, but she's not sure, she doesn't care, running for help is her only concern in life right now. Her fur is matted with blood, all of it, so little of her natural color is showing through.

The second she sees either Tony or Carol, she's hit with such strength or relief, she collapses mid run and slides against the ground. She found help, that's all that matters right now. Dad will be okay.

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Since Carol and Tony left Goldenrod to find Steve, Tony's been more impatient and skittish than he normally is. In this world, Steve is Tony's only link to where he came from, and even then he's one of the few people Tony would call a friend, a list that only just makes it onto the second hand of counting.

Pep is the first to see Amber running towards them and points her out. As his eyes focus on the matted Espeon his footsteps slow.

"Has... She always been so dark?"

As she falls Pep wastes no time in running to her dropping beside her to find out if she's okay. Tony comes to a stop a good 5-6 feet away from her, just staring at her looking pale. And while he feels guilt for thinking it, he hopes that's her blood and not Steve's. His face hardening to avoid showing off his panic.

Carol hasn't been much better than Tony, and seeing Amber covered in blood doesn't help things. Helen swoops down on the other side of Amber and begins trying to groom the blood off of her.

She curses under her breath, praying that the blood on Amber is from whatever attacked them, though it doesn't seem likely.

"Amber, what happened? Are you hurt?" Carol kneels next to the Espeon "You can talk to me, it's okay."

Amber is unhurt, unfortunately for those hoping she was, but she sits up some, obviously exhausted from how she's struggling, still sagging in posture. When she looks up at Carol, she looks really hopeful, and when she talks in Carol's mind, it's with a shy reserve, like she's scared of scaring or angering her.

"The Aerodactyl attacked the babies, dad got in the way and got hurt, then..." she hesitates, looking unsure if she should mention something. "Sam got taken down, Gracie barely won, babies didn't know where to go, I came, not hurt."

After that, Amber gets up and starts to prance around, still obviously exhausted and tripping over her feet a few times, but she is trying to get them to follow her. "Dad wouldn't eat berries, he needs Joy."

Tony just watches the silent exchange, he knows he makes Amber nervous so he keeps back bust starts fidgeting, and changing his weight.

It's taking too long, it's all too long. If he had the suit, none of this would be happening, because he would have had Steve safe and sound in a hospital or doctors office within 20 minutes of Grace's texting.

It's all going way too slow and it's killing him. As Amber gets up to start leading them, Pep follows immediately, trying to help her when she stumbles, and being as encouraging as she can manage. Tony watches that for a moment then pulls out a ball. Sending out Tasha.

"Kid, I think your mom could use you about now."

Tasha, starts to look like she could care less until she actually looks at Amber, and the blood and wastes no time getting to her, nuzzling at her poor tired mother.

Carol blinks back the surprise at having Amber speak in her head. It wasn't unpleasant, just not something she'd felt in a long time.

"Okay, how about I pick you up and you tell me if I'm heading in the right direction?"

It would be fastest if Amber could run in front of them and show them the way, but she didn't think the poor Pokemon could run anymore.

Amber perks up at seeing her baby, giving the sweet darling a fierce cuddle for a second. Then she shakes herself out. "No, come" is all she says to Carol before she just bolts in the direction she came, reinvigorated by her daughter's love and her need to get them to Steve.

She tries to keep her speed at a followable level, but she's a bit used to going full-tilt, so she's bound to get a bit ahead of the others.

[If when you want to time skip:]

Amber is lagging a bit, but she's still leading them into the forest and around a few twists and turns. She looks confused for only a second before a familiar call of a Lucario is made, which Amber darts towards. Then they reach the area, Grace is uncurling slowly from Steve's side, she's badly hurt and her chest is covered in some blood, especially the metal spike in the center. Amber slumps to the ground and breathes harshly.

Steve himself, he gives you guys a weak smile from where he's sitting up against a tree some, obviously happy to see you lot. His left arm is bitten and torn up, his shoulders both gouged by claws, and his abdomen punctured. He's pretty covered in blood and is very pale, but not all his super healing is gone, since the bleeding has long stopped.

"This would have gone better if I had my shield," his voice is weak and breathy. Talking isn't easy, but he's not bothering to let that stop him.

Pep and Tasha keep up as best they can,pep doing much better at Tasha who's still too young for real speed which frustrates her.

Tony however isn't built for long distance running and calls out Dummy to ride on her.

"I really need to get a horse."

Tasha wastes no time jumping up onto Dummy to ride with her and Tony.

[When they reach him]

Pep looks visibly shaken at seeing Steve and Grace in their state and wails a little, Tony almost falls off of Dummy and stumbles a little looking very obviously shocked at Steve's state. Then he clears his throat.

"Always needing a Stark to help get you out of trouble, huh?"

He gives a smile, but it's not as confident as normal, he stops two feet from Steve then looks back at Carol.

"You're up, Missy."

He drops to his knee and does the only thing he can think of doing that would be something like helpful, and that's taking out his handkerchief and starts wiping his forehead of dirt, sweat and muck.

Carol has no problem running to keep up with Amber. She may have lost her powers, but she was still had above average endurance.

"We'll put a pony on your Christmas list," She says to Tony.

[When they get there]

Carol rushes over, sliding to her knees next to Steve and Grace. Opening the first aid kit she rips open a package of sterile gauze and presses it to the wound on Steve's abdomen.

"Tony, hold this here. Steve, do you think you can get Grace back into her ball?"

She she hands the duty of keeping pressure on the abdominal wound to Tony she moves to inspect the wounds on Steve's arm.

"Sure it would have, army boy."

Steve was about to quip back at Tony, but instead hisses in pain when Carol presses against his wound. He hasn't dealt with this level of pain in a while, New York, but even then, the Serum numbed it. This was acute and real and like when he would get hurt as a tiny sick kid. He has to take a calming breath to keep his pain from making him more light headed.

Before he can consider Carol's question, Grace makes a disgusted sound at the mention of her ball and drags herself out of the way. Besides, he's not entirely sure where Grace and the babies put all his stuff. The panic caused a lot of scattering.

"It really would, I tried to block the attack with my shield arm, forgot it's not there,"his voice is strained with a pain he's trying to mask, his voice threads and breathy. This is an entirely unpleasant experience. Said shield arm is torn up pretty bad from being bitten by something big and either that thing pulling away or Steve being pulled from it from how the teeth marks are slightly shredded and dragged.

Edited 2013-09-12 11:44 (UTC)

Tony stuffs the hanky back into his pocket as he presses the gauze onto the wound his tongue poking out ever so slightly as he concentrates.

"You know, you haven't had that shield for how long now? Even I know I don't have my suit, and I've got you beat for stubborn."

He glances at Carol.

"Okay, we've lost enough time and you're just going to stare?"

Tony knows he's being snippy, but he can't help it. He's hurt himself enough to know that some things are very time dependent and right now is so very red, extremely white, and so very short on the blue and Tony doesn't like it at all.

In the meantime, Tasha's keeping pretty close to Amber. CLose enough to make sure she's okay, but close enough to get out of the way incase she suddenly gets too huggy.

Pep is worried sick by the time Amber brings everyone to Steve. When she see's how pale she is, and can tell that Tony's worried she chokes out a sob, and looks very lost as to what to do.

She looks at Grace helplessly when she realises that Grace looks just as bad as Grace does, then heads straight to her worrying at her.

Edited 2013-09-05 11:06 (UTC)

Grace doesn't want to leave Steve's side, but at the mention of being put in her ball, she makes a disgusted sound and gets out of the people's way, half dragging herself out of the way to do so. Though the sudden appearance of a fretting Pep catches her off guard and she blinks rapidly at her.

Right now she's not sure what to do, and says its nothing a potion can't fix. The babies broke the ones they had, so that's why she wasn't the one to run off and get help.

She blinks a little at Grace blinking not entirely sure why she's doing it.

But when potions are mentioned she bounces on one foot telling Grace to not move a muscle before darting off to Tony's bag, rummaging through it while he wears it, which he seems to just ignore as she pulls out three different potions and dashes right back, looking nervously between them as she asks which one will be enough.

Pep's gotten used to Grace being the strong composed one, that seeing her looking beyond sore, battered, bleeding and concerningly uncomposed for a moment really has he nervous.

Okay, this is all just so weird to her, but it's Pep, so why did she expect the kind of calm Steve or Joy would have. She waves to the purpler one, it's one of the stronger ones if she remembers right. That was always more of Amber's thing, she's the mother of the group.

She kind of half sits up, but she's on the last of her HP, so nothing is easy right now. Her calm demeanor is still there, but mostly because she's trying to ignore the fact that she delivered the worse wound to her trainer. Her dad.

So, she waves a normal dismissive wave about the potions, letting Pep do as she pleases for once.

As Grace gestures to the purple potion canister, fumbling Pep drops them all before scooping the right one up and administering it, the whole time stuttering that everything is going to be okay, and that she'll be better in in time.

Once she's finished with the potion she pulls back a little, a paw to her mouth to see how Grace feels now, before starting to look at the mess her fur is in and tries to think if she needs bandages or a cloth and water.

Wounds close and her body gains some strength back, allowing her to finally sit up normally. She eyes Pep for a moment, before saying thank you with a nod. Right now, she's only at about half health, but it feels a whole heck of a lot better than before.

Awkwardly, she looks around and then starts to pick the blood from the matted fur on her chest. She seems sad and distant as she does this, eventually just starting to rip at the blood matted fur there. It's Steve's and it makes her so upset that it's there at all.

It doesn't take Pep long to realise that fur is coming away with the blood of Grace's fur, and with great worry she tries to get hold of the Lucario's paws to get her to stop, pleading with her as she does, telling her that she'll ruin her beautiful fur.

She starts trying to tug her towards Tony, knowing that there is water and a cloth in his backpack, but at the same time, Pep's too worried about leaving Grace on her own even for a moment. Pep nervously coos at her to come so she can clean Grace up.

Grace huffs irritated at being stopped. Really, what's so beautiful about blood matted fur, who cares, it'll grow back, but she doesn't want to hurt Pep, so she stills some. Grace glowers at Pep though for treating her like a hatchling.

So, she refuses to move, sitting right where she is. Right now she'll wait for the bunny to do her thing, then she'll react, but right now she basically plays opossum to get Pep to leave her alone.

Pep tries to encourage her a little more to Tony's bag, but soon realises that Grace isn't going to move. She also knows the glare is for her, but right now she's too worried to appologise.

Instead she gently lets go of her paws and then runs to Tony's bag, digging out the water, a cloth, and towel then runs back as she wets the cloth and skids to a stop in front of Grace and starts to wipe at the blood on her chest. Repeating that it's okay, that she'll be clean in a moment.

For both of their sakes.

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