Couldn't Stand Another Minute

[in4apounding]

Who: Penny Polendina in4apounding, Ruby Rose rosetotheoccasion, Weiss Schnee usedglaciate, and Yang Xiao Long yanginthere
Where: Violet City
When: Sunday 2/7, Evening
and Tuesday 2/9, Afternoon
Summary: A reunion of canonmates and discussion of some terrible things to come.
Rating: PG
Log:

[Penny bounced up and down on the balls of her feet, waiting outside the Violet City Pokémon Center, her Vulpix anxiously threading his way around her ankles. She hadn't realized quite how long three months without seeing anyone from home could be, but now Ruby and Weiss had both arrived at once. She almost felt guilty being as happy as she was, it sounded like they had been taken from some serious trouble.]

[But, they were both here now. And as long as no one knew how to get back, there was no harm in trying to make the best of things, right?]

Comments

[in4apounding]

No, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have- sorry.

[The general couldn't have known EVERYTHING, could he?]

He never would have allowed the tournament to go forward if he knew it was so- that it was being manipulated so much.

[usedglaciate]

Don't apologize. You don't need to.

[She nods.]

Ozpin wouldn't have let it go forward, either, if he knew what was going on behind the scenes. It makes me wonder -

[Weiss stops herself, shaking her head.]

- but wondering isn't going to solve it. We know what's going on now, and we can stop it from going further once we go back.

Once we all go back.

[rosetotheoccasion]

[That... geez. That feels conflicting. There's nothing Ruby would love more than to bring Penny back with them, alive and whole, but... would it be as easy as that?]

... Do you think that would work? I mean, would it... um...

[Would it just kill Penny all over again?]

[in4apounding]

[Could that work? Everyone she's talked to has said when you leave, you just kind of go back to where or whenever you were with no memories of Johto.]

[Maybe there was a way around it. To get back with their memories, change things. But if so many people had been here for years and not found a way...]

...We can find a way to make it work.

[Hic.]

I believe in you.

[usedglaciate]

Where there's a will, there's a way.

[It's hopelessly naive, and Weiss knows that. Maybe it's an impossible dream. Maybe it won't happen, despite best efforts.

But they can try, at least. That's the only way to know for sure.]

Right?

[rosetotheoccasion]

[The others might not have picked up on the significance of Penny's hiccups by now, but Ruby has and that one... that's heartbreaking.]

... Right. We've never let anything stop us before. Why start now?

[But just in case... maybe she should start picking up some engineering books in addition to the pokemon books she's been buying. Just in case something happens on the trip back home...]

[in4apounding]

I'll do whatever I can to help.

[Whatever that might be. This isn't the kind of thing she can just attack and make go away.]

It's wonderful here, but if there's any chance to help stop the damage my- the match sparked, I have to take it.

[usedglaciate]

[It won't just magically go away, no, but anything to make all of this better - even a little - is a good thing.]

We'll do this together.

[She nods. Even if she's not entirely sure how, it's the only way forward.]