Bender 12 - Back With A Side Of Extra Failure (Phone Call)

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[[Location: 1447 Mitchell Road]]

[The Captain would wake up in his own bed. Gasping for breath over and over again. Blinking until his vision cleared. A ceiling. Looking around he recognized this room. He muttered.]

You have to be ☠☠☠☠ kidding me.

[Rolling slowly out of bed, he forced his body to move. None of the pain from his time there

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[followyouthere]

[Margot's relocated herself inside, just in time to catch her favourite drunk on the phone!]

...Captain?

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Margot?

[That was reassuring. He had left her... She was asleep in the shelter when he had shot out into the air looking for a fight.]

Glad you got back...

☠☠☠☠... I'm sorry.

[followyouthere]

Sorry for what?

[She sniffles, gripping the phone tighter.]

I don't know why or how we came back.

[heartstar_blues]

[He wasn't entirely sure everyone came back like he did so he avoided those details.]

Sorry for not sticking around. I should have tried helping people...

[Anything would have been better than what he did.]

[passes_out]

Captain!

[He's not only shocked, but he doesn't know what happened other than Captain's return.]

What in blazes happened?

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[He was happy to hear this man's voice. Though he couldn't shake that town.]

Glad to hear you're okay. You didn't get trapped in there too did you?

[In The Captain's defense, he didn't look very hard for people he knew.]

A lot of bad. I fa...

I died there. Now I'm here.

[He spent several days suffering from wounds, mostly accidents. He was starving nearly to death and dehydrated badly. He spent one full day awake while his insides were burned away until he passed. It was the worse thing he had ever been through... he would leave it at just "I died".

[passes_out]

No, I was not trapped. I returned home as I said I would.

[He took note of Captain's admission to his death and paused slightly.]

I am relieved you are alive. What of the others? I have not heard a word from Olivier or anyone else for that matter. Just you.

[He gave another pause, the gears turning in his head.]

Did you see any similarities to Mayfield and Westport?

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[Oh god... questions. Things he could have done to help anyone. If he had just tried to figure it out he might have brought something useful back. Instead... Instead he had no answers for the man that could possibly do the the most with them.]

I think the lay out was the same. I didn't see too many others there.

... I'm sorry.

[crunchitize_me]

[He's not exactly sure what to say--So he's going with silence, save for a small, curious grunt.]

[heartstar_blues]

Captain?

[Why was it everyone that called was a simple reminder that he could have done something while there. Instead...]

Did you get out before everyone got trapped?

[crunchitize_me]

[A sound of confirmation. He's only heard what the radio had to say, and that was it. He's actually been a little concerned over Horohoro.]

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Good... that place was nothing but death. I wonder if anyone managed to...

[He cut off moving on.]

Did everyone else get back?

[freakinblur]

[Jesus Christ, Westport just had everyone in a broken mess and Scout had no idea how to deal with it. He last saw the Captain three days ago over there and he was fine; but then again, so was Scout at that point.]

Rummy. Rummy! Pick up tha goddamn phone! A bunch of us are back....

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[Oh yeah, he was fine. That was back when he hid his spiraling depression easier. Where he got to convince everyone he was doing okay while he planned his suicide run.

He would answer the phone though hearing "Doc".]

... Hey Doc?

You're back? Thank ☠☠☠☠.

[freakinblur]

....yeah man. Fer what it's worth. [Coming back to Mayfield wasn't great, but it was sure as hell better than Westport.]

I never managed ta catch back up wit' ya. I hope ya found out somethin' useful. I didn't make out too well.

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[How to tell Doc that he had taken the advice about flying and instead of doing anything useful he had used it to end up in a car accident and then later to die to hazmat teams.

Not only was he unable to avenge Nextwave. Incapable of even dieing to join him. He managed to accomplish absolutely nothing while there.]

....Didn't really find anything useful, sorry.

Doc... I think I am going to go lay down for a bit.

[bustydefense]

Not everyone is back.

[heartstar_blues]

But some are?

[bustydefense]

You make seven, that have checked in with us, at least.

[heartstar_blues]

Seven...

[There were more. He had seen a lot of people.]