The final battle.

[white_beret]

Who: Open to all
Where: The fortress
When: Wednesday at dusk
Summary: The Reavers attack the fortress again. This time they manage to get in.
Warnings: Death, gore and violence
Rating: R

Dusk is setting in  when the ships first come, their descent hidden at first by the dazzle of the setting sun. It's time for the wounded prisoners to defend themselves

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Part 3: Aftermath

[white_beret]

It was a bloody battle, but the Reavers had been driven out. Night had settled now, hiding some of the destruction.

Inside, the fortress is littered with the corpses of Reavers and bloodstains marking where the facility rats fell. Outside, twisted heaps of hoverbikes lay where they'd been blown from the sky.

The night was filled with cries, both of those too hurt to do anything more, and those trying to comprehend what they'd just lived through.

The hallway above the clinic

[white_beret]

Komui was in shock. He'd been caught up in battle before, but never anything so bloody and visceral. Akuma victims crumbled into themselves. They were never so stinking and wet.

He stood in the doorway of the bedroom he'd named Command Centre, his gun in his hand. The Reaver he'd shot was still lying outside the door, groaning feebly. There was blood bubbling from it's ruin of a chest. The sound was terrible.

He raised his gun and shot once more. Blood spattered as it's skull blew apart.

It was Komui's first kill and it left him shaking so badly he could hardly stand.

The hallway above the clinic

[slug_sannin]

Tsunade staggered more than walked as she moved up the stairs, a gun in one hand and a makeshift club in the other. She was exhausted and covered in blood, some hers and some not. Bodies and dying everywhere, it was just too similar to the war. But she'd deal with it later, right now she had work to do.

Her voice resembled a machine, falling back on old training. "Status."

Re: The hallway above the clinic

[white_beret]

Komui answers, rattling off what he knows in short sentences.

"We've driven out all the ones who could run. Severe casualties in this section, lighter damage across the road. No supplies were taken, but our ammunition won't last another battle."

He drops his gun into his pocket so he could wipe his hair back with both hands.

"We need to find the breach. Casualties need trating. We need to dispose of the bodies before the rot sets in. Or we could burn this house down. We don't need the extra space."

The hallway above the clinic

[slug_sannin]

"They didn't want our supplies. We'll move the wounded and burn this place to the ground."

Because if she never had to see any of these walls again, that was just fine with her. "We had a casualty in the clinic, but we were able to hold for the most part. I have no idea where the breach was from yet, I didn't have time to look."

Re: The hallway above the clinic

[white_beret]

"It was heaviest in the hallways. The roof top defenders came down to drive them out. This raider's the one who got furthest."

He gestures to the blood spatters throughout the hall, pointing to where people fell.

"Did they come from one direction, or both?"

Re: The hallway above the clinic

[slug_sannin]

"You're asking the wrong person. They had to come down a hallway to get to me, so it seemed like one direction."

Re: The hallway above the clinic

[white_beret]

"I'll find out once we've done a head count."

He steps over the body, looking back and forth up the hall.

"This was the wrong choice. We should have scattered and hid. I made this place a target."

Re: The hallway above the clinic

[slug_sannin]

Tsunade steps right in front of him, glaring.

"You think a better solution was to yell for everyone to hide and fend for themselves? Don't be a moron and don't start this. We have jobs to do."

The hallway above the clinic

[white_beret]

Komui nods reluctantly, acknowledging her priorities, if not agreeing with the rest of it.

"You're right. We need to check for survivors. The rooftops should be empty, but just in case..."

He turns away from her and walks up the hallway.

"Come, please. You've got better eyes than me."

Re: The hallway above the clinic

[slug_sannin]

"Sure. I don't have anywhere else to be."

Tsunade staggered after him, forcing herself along through brute will. Survivors would need care, and she still had her medical skills.

[bratxprincess]

"K-Komui!!" the first person she had seen since she had returned. Exhausted and in pain but she was still worried about him, "Komui are you okay?!" she almost shouted in a weak tone, holding her bloodied arm as she made her way over to him carefully as she could without hurting herself more than necessary. She flinched here and there as she approached him. She could probably imagine what had happened but she had to shut it out for now since she was more worried about the living person versus the dead thing on the ground.

[white_beret]

Komui looks at her when she yells, but it takes a second for the light of recognition to come on in his eyes.

"You're injured." His voice is dulled. "You should go..." He was about to order her to the clinic, thoughtlessly.

"Go in here. I'll look at it." He stepped back into the little command room, leaving the door open.

[bratxprincess]

[white_beret]

Komui wiped the hair out of his face and ignored her question. That was one he didn't know the answer to.

"Sit in the chair." He hesitated for a moment, trying to remember what he wanted, before going to the desk an opening a drawer. He'd put a few medical supplies in all of the rooms, just in case. Out came bandages, a bottle of sterile water and a small vial of disinfectant.

"It's filthy here. You might get an infection."

[bratxprincess]