Star Trek: Starbase 777

The centre of Helios III's biggest city was near-enough empty, anyone who was still around was holed up in half-collapsed buildings waiting for rescue. The rescue that came in the form of the shuttles, all six of them landing around the area. Overhead was the Eventide, it's lights acting like a guiding star to safety. Spotlights shone down from the ship, illuminating the areas that the away teams were operating in.

LIFO, anyone? One was the first out the shuttle, nearest the door and out of it in seconds... they weren't the type to get motion sick, but the turbulence was kinda rough even on them and their nanoprobes. They looked around, hoping to quickly formulate an evacuation plan.

A good call there. At least now, it would be easier to see the evacuation point. Great. Five stepped out to meet the rest of the away team, waiting for any further instruction.

Kya took a breath as she stepped out and looked at the storm. “All right, everyone form up!”

Kiadras jumped up and out, very appreciative of the spotlights shining down onto the area. Otherwise, if she were to wager a guess, they’d be doing it blind, “We have any idea when the eye is gonna pass over us? Or if there…even is an eye?” (edited)

Teno hopped out of the shuttle and grouped up with the rest of the officers, keeping his eyes peeled for anyone to lead to the shuttle. He pulled out his tricorder and started scanning for the closest life signs. (edited)

Cutting off Vrii’s train of thought was the sound of yelling cutting through the roars of the wind. Several drenched people, led by a poor Starfleet engineering ensign came running out of a subway station, the civilians waving their arms to get the rescuer’s attentions

Bingo. The Trill hit her hand gently against Teno’s shoulder to get his attention away from his tricorder, and quickly started to make her way over, “USS Eventide! How many injured?”

"None near here, so I would like to suggest working quickly to be able to leave soon." The yell caught them off guard, but it was an efficient reminder to start working. "I believe that is our cue. Don't forget to check rubble for survivors."

“Move in.” Kya rushed behind Vrii and quickly began to help the civilians. “And is there anything we can do to assist?”

The Ensign yelled back as they approached, his hand shielding his eyes from the torrential rain pouring down on everyone. "Two! One minor Starfleet injury, one critical civilian! They're both still down in the subway!" The Ensign pointed back the way they came - a tunnel, heading downwards into the city's underground subway network. "Have you found anyone else yet?!"

“We just arrived! Get to the shuttle craft, we’ve got medical personnel on the Eventide!” Kiadras met the ensign, giving him a smile through his helmet, “You did good, ensign! We’ll take it from here.” Pat pat gently on the shoulder.

Kya nodded. “Yes! Get these people clear. Our team can help the other two!” She shouted out over the roar. “Eventide team! Let’s move!”

Quickly pulling the shuttle in formation with the other crafts, he picked out his landing spot and slowly moved to place the ship down as gently as possible in spite of the raging storm. In terms of difficulty, these were probably some of the worst conditions he had ever flown in. Once he had his shuttle safely on the ground, Jake dropped the ramp, leaving the shuttle in a ready state to move at a moment's notice. The man would walk towards the edge of the ramp, grabbing on a nearby wall to stabilize himself from the wind as he watched the others move for the survivors. (edited)

The Ensign nodded, and led the panicked civilians onto the shuttle. The civilians themselves followed behind, giving the Eventide team a flurry of thanks as they went past. A deafening thunder crack blasted through the area as lightning struck the closest skyscraper, sending concrete and glass falling down on the team below.

The instructor watched the ensign and civilians move to the shuttle, nodding toward Jake before instinctually raising her arm to block some of the concrete and glass raining down onto the group, “We gotta move!” She yelled overtop the cacophony, moving into the subway system. (edited)

“Everyone into the subway! Now!” She said as she ushered the rest of the team into the subway. “We’ll find the wounded and not die of glass! A good deal!”

Watching the panicked civilians make their dash towards the shuttle, Jake waved his hands towards them, ushering them into the shuttle as quickly as he could. "Come on! Get in! Sit down in any available seat! Let's go!" The second the lightning struck the skyscraper, the man couldn't help but instinctually flinch at the blinding flash and looking up, seeing the various piece of debris raining down upon them. He would find himself placing his body pressed against the interior shuttle wall as he tried to shield himself from the glass and concrete but his gaze would remain focused on the civilians who may have not made it to an awaiting shuttle yet.

"I don't know how- and the suits- nevermind," One tried, knowing that the glass wouldn't harm them with the EV suits on, and herding their entire team into one place could be detrimental. They tried for a different approach instead. "I will stay here to provide aid, please spread out to have as wide a search area as possible. But stay in pairs..." they trailed off.

Luckily, One's assessment was correct - as the falling glass shards scratched the suits at most, leaving the admittedly small chunks of concrete to bounce off the team's helmets and onto the floor. In all fairness, it did look significantly worse than it was, combined with the biblical lightning. Moving down into the subway station, Vrii didn't have to go far before they found the injured people in question. Leaned up against a ticket machine was a Science Ensign clutching her shoulder in pain, across from a Civilian who was also lying on the ground. The Science Ensign saw Vrii and her face lit up slightly. "I'm okay! But Joe took a hit to the spine, he can't feel his legs."

Alright, that didn’t take too long. Hopefully, things would keep moving at least slightly smoother than he thought it would, “Can you stand?” He asked the ensign, pointing Kya toward the civilian.

Kya moved towards the civilian. Joe, hello. I’m Kya, is there anything I should know about your status before we try getting you out of here?”

Five darted over to check on the civilian, checking if they were conscious. "Hey, we're gonna get you out here, okay?" He made no move to pick them up, instead turning back to the group. "Who's got the— uh, flat board thing?"

“Yes, we’re going to need a stretcher please!” She turned to look at Joe. “Your going to be okay Joe, we promise.”

"Shit- Yeah, got it! One sec," Kiadras fumbled a bit with the folded-up stretcher in her hands, handing it over to Five. (edited)

The science ensign nodded, standing up but still clutching her shoulder. "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I only dislocated my shoulder - Joe managed to pop it back into place, but it's sore. Are the others alright?" Meanwhile, Joe was still leaning on the ticket machine, breathing heavy from the adrenaline. "I trust you all, do what you need to."

"Another ensign made it out with a couple more civilians. Friend of yours, I presume? Heh," The Trill replied to the ensign, offering a hand to help her up, "Let's get you up to the shuttle. Joe's gonna be a-okay."

Receiving the stretcher (thank you, he'd completely forgotten the word for it), he set it down, preparing to move Joe onto it with some help from Kya. "We're taking you back to the shuttle, and then up to Eventide. You're in good hands. Stay calm for me, alright?" It was hard to sound reassuring when yelling over roaring storm, but he did his best. To the shuttle!

Kya moved to help Five, the older woman trying to be as comforting as possible, summoning images of her father. “Don’t worry Joe, you’ll be safe. Think of your happy place, and by the time your done medical will have fixed you up.”

"Let's move." Kiadras made sure the Science ensign was moving alright before she started her way back up and out, "Lieutenant One! Dislocated shoulder and a spinal injury!"

"Take a seat inside," One instructed the ensign as soon as she was in his vicinity, "Allow me to locate a sling to keep your arm from moving too much. How are you moving the spinal injury?" Please don't say fireman carry, please don't say fireman carry, please don't say fireman carry-

“Five and Kya have ‘em on a stretcher,” Kiadras replied, taking a short break in the ramp of the shuttle, “Seen anyone else up here?”

"Alright, I will make sure the stretcher is secured. I am unsure of anything specific, but if you have a tricorder, you can scan for life signs. If not, you can borrow mine." One was being kept quite busy with wounded and also questions from civilians they didn't know how to answer politely, so they settled for truthfully. "I will fetch that sling now."

"Have a little faith, One, I know better than to carry them around like a child's toy," Five joked, counting down from three so he and Kya could boost up the stretcher at the same time to get them into the shuttle. Mission accomplished. Rad. (edited)

The Ensign nodded and smiled as Joe was carried into the shuttle. "Thank you, we thought we were done for." She stayed quiet for a second while the sling was put on. "We were part of a bigger group, but we got separated in the subway tunnels."

Teno was still there, doing whatever was asked of him - whether it was carrying the stretcher or helping someone back to the shuttle. He had farmboy strength, so he would be useful in helping wounded get back to the shuttle.

"I didn't know you were there, Five, or I would have adjusted my expectations," One said as they put the sling on the Ensign. "We can send a search team down, to find them. Though they should be safe down there for now, so we should focus on people left on the surface. They are in more danger currently." It was a suggestion, but one worded firmly. It wasn't intended to come across as forceful, but One had done the risk assessment in their head, and spoke what they believed to be the absolute truth.

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Kya huffed as she placed them onto the shuttle. “I agree with Lt One. Moving into the tunnels after them when there are more to helped would be a well minded but foolhardy choice.”

As more civilians loaded onto the shuttle including a stretcher carrying a critically wounded patient, Jake would move out of the way of the ramp to give room to the others entering and exiting the spacecraft. He would make himself useful as he moved back to his conn console and pulled up the most up to date sensor information in an attempt to pre-plan his route back and understand the conditions when they took off again. "Does our patient need to return to the Eventide or are we good to sit here a little longer? I'll keep monitoring the storm's condition in case something changes drastically..."

“Let’s start scoping things out around here and the city proper, then,” Kiadras grabbed another stretcher just in case, though turned to Jake when he asked about the civ with the spinal injury. Fair point… “I…think he should be alright, but that’s your call, Lieutenant. We’ll have five down here still while you’re up. Just contact us over comms when you make your way back down.”

"Lieutenant Commander," One called out, tossing their tricorder at Kiadras once they turned around to look at them, "I will stay with the shuttle regardless of what is decided. If you think you can get us up and back down in a timely manner, Lieutenant, I would say treating a spinal injury quickly has our preference, but if it's going to take a long time, I would rather maximalise the amount of people we take up in a single trip." One could immobilise a dislocated shoulder with a sling, but they weren't qualified to be messing around with nerve damage. So getting Joe to the physicians quickly would be preferable, but not to the detriment of the other people in need of evacuation. In the end, they would defer to Jake's assessment of the situation.

The Trill caught the tricorder with one hand. Damn, she was good, she thought to herself, “Keep us posted. I owe you guys a drink,” A grin, and she turned to Kya and Five, “Up ‘n at ‘em!” Back out into the storm! She clicked the tricorder on and starts sweeping back and forth.

"Good luck, stay safe." Five nodded vaguely in One's direction (couldn't be sure, that was their blind eye) and headed off to look out for more injured folks.

The beeps of the tricorder were barely audible over the wind and rain, but the visual cues detected a lifesign - in the direction of a pile of rubble. Oh no.

Team Kyonedras go! Kya shoved with them quickly. “Stay safe! Watch over the wounded!” She said before looking to the rubble. “Damn it, help me dig.” She said, getting to it. It reminded her too much of the graves she dug for the crew of the USS Takei.

Wow, what is he, chopped liver? "Steady, now. Make sure you move all the debris off from the rubble, you don't want to toss more weight on there." Was it in danger of caving in on itself at all, or stable enough to move?

Looking over the various civilians and the wounded patient, an expression of sympathy flashed over Jake's face, especially looking over the man with the spinal injury. Double checking the conditions for flight and knowing the other shuttles were still on the ground in case the away team needed more equipment and/or assistance, he would look towards Lt. One and nod. "Buckle up then. I'll start take off procedures. We will be home before we know it!" Once the cabin was secure, Jake would pull the shuttle back up into the turbulent weather, obviously taking some risks in his route home to the Eventide. Opening up the shuttle's communication, he would hail the ship. [COMMS] "Shuttle to Eventide. We are on the way back early! Got a number of survivors and one critically wounded patient. Alert Sickbay to prepare for our arrival!"

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“On it,” The Trill holstered the tricorder and set the stretcher aside, cracked his neck, and started hefting debris up and away on Five’s advice. The guy was strong, after all! “If anyone can hear us in there, call out!”

The shuttlebay overseer crackled over the comms. "Copy that Eventide, we'll get medical on standby and get you back out there in no time." There was no response from the rubble.

“Cmon now, cmon…” No casualties, please. She didn’t need this right now. She’d been staying so positive. She kept moving, “USS Eventide! Call out!”

TW: Injury description: After much, much digging the lifesign was uncovered. An Andorian, their arm crushed beneath a pile of concrete and a jagged, wrought steel beam piercing through their stomach. Unconscious, but very confidently alive.

Oh thank the stars, “We got a live one!” Kiadras sets a chunk of concrete aside, unveiling more of the Andorian. Alright, it’s a start, “We’re gonna need some more equipment.”

The moment the shuttle doors opened up, Maya's immediate reaction was a combination of a in internal yelling of 'HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK?!' and 'What the fuck?! Holy shit!' as she stepped out and done all she could to help the others thus far. She joined up with Kiadras to help with the Andorian, absolutely shocked to see the steel beam. "Commander, I think we have to try using the transporter for them... moving them ourselves would be too risky for their condition" Maya suggested as she helped move the chunk of concrete away. "We can try transporting them directly in to one of the shuttles. They're much closer to us than the ship, so maybe there would be less effect from the interference. "

The Trill let out a huff and a small ‘Thank you’ after Maya helped him with the concrete. Now, to the other task at hand. That beam was not moving, and it was already risking this civilian’s life, “That’d be about the same as pulling it out, wouldn’t it? Unless we transport the beam with the patient. We’ll have to send another shuttle up early…”

As if on cue, Jake's shuttle came back down to land nearby - dropping off another rescue team who began walking off in another direction, presumably to other civilians.

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"That's what I meant, sir. Transport both the beam and the patient." Maya clarified clarified calmly as she pulled out her tricorder to scan for any other nearby lifesigns "We cant physically lift them ourselves, that would be worse than pulling ot out."

With another expert touchdown, Jake would let out a breath as the tension of flight was soon replaced with the stress of hearing the howling winds and rain the moment the ramp opened up behind him. He would tap the console to open a comm channel for the away team. [COMM] "Kellan to Lt. Cdr. Vrii. I'm back on the deck. Ready for more work."

Kiadras nodded to Maya, giving her a small smile which only widened when her comms came to life with Jake’s voice, [COMMS] “Vrii to Kellan. Man am I glad to hear from you. Lt. Umali and I have a patient here who we’ll need to beam aboard your shuttle. Sorry for the round trip, but I’m guessing you’re still up for a flight?” She gave Maya a thumbs-up.

Maya returned the thumbs up with a nod as she continued to scan for more nearby lifesigns. [COMMS] "Umali to Kellan. We have a patient with a steel beam pierced through their stomach. Please make haste." (edited)

Upon hearing that they would need another patient transported up to the Eventide, Jake's face steeled and he quickly began to pull up the transporter controls for his craft. His focus was temporarily disrupted when Maya explained the severity of the situation. "Oh fuck..." he would say to nobody in particular and he quickened his work. [COMMS] "I'll do as many round trips as it takes to get these people to safety. Send them my way! I'll try to lock onto your coordinates."

Kiadras patted Maya on the shoulder, “Good cool, Lieutenant.” He grinned. Alright, that’s a bridge that they’ve crossed. Kneeling down beside the Andorian, the instructor rescanned their life signs just to be safe, “Stick with us, friend…we’re gonna help out.”

The Andorian's lifesigns were stable enough to be transported, thankfully.

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Good, good. Alright. Keep positive, [COMMS] “Vrii to Kellan. Life signs are stable over here. One to beam up.”

Watching the shuttle give an affirmative lock onto the injured patient, Jake waited for the call. The moment he heard exactly what he wanted, he began energizing the transporter. The officer knew the difficulties that they were having transporting through the storm so he watched the systems very closely, ready to jump at a moment's notice to do any corrections. [COMMS] "Understood! Energizing!" (edited)

The Andorian dematerialised with the steel beam still embedded in their gut, and after a few incredibly tense seconds, rematerialised in the shuttle with the steel beam, in the right place too. They needed immediate medical attention.

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“Alright, that’s just one. We gotta keep moving,” Kiadras opens her tricorder once more and hopped down from the pile of debris, grabbing the folded-up stretcher she’d set aside, “Cmon, cmon…” How’s the storm looking? She gave a hesitant glance toward the sky…

Another Andorian, this time a woman - a bit deeper than the other one, but this time she was reading as barely conscious with several crushed ribs and a collapsed lung.

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Unfortunately, the storm showed no sign of stopping.

“Shit- Lt. Umali, we might have to do the same song and dance!” Kiadras started to gently moving debris out of the way, as fast as he safely could, “I’ve got a stretcher too, but we’re gonna have to move fast!”

Jake let out a heavy sigh as the transporter completed, the patient materializing in the shuttle bay but his breath caught in his throat again upon seeing the beam in the Andorian's body. Already closing the ramp, he ran over to the patient as he knelt over him, whispering to him, "We got you. It's going to be alright." Jake would proceed to secure the patient in preparation for the bumpy ride ahead of them before running back to the controls. Plopping his butt down into the chair firmly, another couple taps of his keys would send the shuttle soaring back into the stormy skies. [COMMS] "Kellan to Eventide, got another critical patient coming up! Andorian with an impaled beam through the body. See you soon!"

"On it!" Maya promptly said with a nod as she helped along with quickly moving the debris away to better free the woman to move to the stretcher

With some careful manoeuvring, the team was able to slowly lift the debris off of the Andorian woman. Her legs were obscured before, but now it was clear they had been shattered too. The shift in weight made the woman stir a bit - it was a miracle she was still conscious.

Kya gasped out as she looked at the woman, this was awful, she could tell she was beginning to stir. “Ma’am, stay calm and don’t open your eyes. We’re going to help you.” She said in a soothing tone.

“Kya, help me get her on the stretcher,” Kiadrias unfolded it and set it down beside the woman, “You’re in good hands, miss. Promise.”

Kya did as asked, and moved the woman carefully onto the stretcher. “Let’s get her to the shuttle.”

“One, two, three, up!” Kiadras hefted his end of the stretcher upward and began to move with Kya. Moving as fast as he safely could (with both a patient in hand and slippery conditions beneath his boots), the Trill arrived once more at the ramp to Jake’s shuttle, “Crushed ribs, collapsed lung. How’s the storm looking, Jake…cuz it’s not feeling great,” He gently set the woman down.

“No it is not.” She said with a breath. “We need to hurry.” She said, leaning on the shuttle for a rest. (edited)

After having dropped off his second critical patient of the day, Jake found himself landing back on the surface not long before the away team returned to him. Setting the ship on standby for the third time, he stood from his chair to meet them and help them bring the patient aboard. "It's not letting up," he said in reply, his face etched with concern as he secured the patient to a nearby seat. "How many more are we expecting?"

“I wish I could tell you,” She gave Jake a warm, but very apologetic smile, “Commander Pok and I are gonna head back out. You’re probably gonna have to take her up. If she wakes up, keep her talking,” She patted Jake on the shoulder, “You’re doing great, Lieutenant.”

Jake smiled as he felt the Commander's pat on his shoulder. Giving her a nod, the officer would add, "I'll do the best I can. Remember, you guys need to make it back here too. I'm not leaving anybody behind on this rock. That's a promise." The man would flash a determined but ultimately motivated look towards the higher ranking officers before reaching up, grabbing a nearby first aid medical kit, then taking the tricorder to begin scanning the patient to continue to monitor their vitals in case something changed drastically and he had to take another flight up.

Kiadras grinned to Jake, extending a pinkie out to him, “Pinkie promise. You’re stuck with us,” He let out a laugh, before turning back to Kya, “TAC squad! Let’s hit it!” And he was once again out, tricorder in hand, looking for life signs, “You’ve ever been on something this bad before, Kya?” If only to keep himself sane, he was gonna make some small talk while they rushed around.

The Andorian lady could be temporarily stabilised on a shuttle's life support but it wasn't going to hold for long. There were yells from around the corner as more Civilians rounded the corner towards Jake's shuttle - a lot of them. More than the carrying capacity of the shuttle, for sure. Some were limping, others were shivering ever so slightly.

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Uh oh! “Hey- USS Eventide!” Kiadras quickly went to meet the group, holstering his tricorder once more, “How many injured? We can only send up some of you on this shuttle right now!”

Kya gasped as she looked towards the group, and she knew they wouldn’t be able to carry them all, nor would they be able to leave and return so quickly, “The uh, transporter buffer trick. Would we be able to put some of them into the buffers?”

Grinning towards Lt. Cdr. Vrii, he would wink at her as she held up her pinkie. "I'm going to hold you to that, Commander!" Turning his attention back to the Andorian woman, Jake would be happy to see that she was ultimately stable for now but what limited medical knowledge he had told him that she would not stay that way for long. She needed to go up sooner than later. That is...until the massive group of civilians suddenly appeared and began to run to his shuttle. Quickly slamming the tricorder shut, the man went to the ramp to meet them all, quickly putting himself in front so he could try to maintain some kind of order while the Commanders came up with a plan. "Okay! Let's all just stay calm!" he would call out to the civilians.

One, after having helped secure the stretcher the Andorian woman was on, rushed out to help as well, realising any space they took up on the shuttle wasn't going to be filled by injured people. "We are not going to be experimenting with transporters during a severe storm while there are lives on the line. Hypothermics and currently open wounds have priority, anyone else will wait here while shuttles are moving."

The comms informing the group that help from the other ships was on the way helped to soothe Kiadras’s nerves, “Other ships are on the way! Please, anyone injured or hypothermic, go with Lieutenant One! Everyone will be leaving, I promise!”

What seemed to be reluctantly, the small mob of civilians stopped and formed a sort of semi-circle around the shuttle - when the precedent was set by One there was some minor outrage from them - particularly from the back of the crowd - but overall, people looked like they were complying. There were some heartfelt 'see you soon's' and 'I'll find you again's, and one by one the specified people stepped forward to get on the shuttle.

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Jake would let out a small sigh of relief to see that despite the raging storm, there was still some level of order that they were able to achieve. Knowing that Lt. One was better qualified at medical than he was, he would turn towards them and say, "Pick out who you want to go up on this trip then please give me a head count. I need to do a weight check to make sure we can actually make it up with the conditions. I'll be at the conn." Smiling at all the officers for a brief moment, Jake would turn back to his console and move to sit down, preparing the ship for startup before pulling out his PADD and inputting numbers to calculate his shuttlecraft's performance.

Kya stood guard over the shuttle as she made sure everybody was able to get on. “Please be orderly everyone, more Starfleet is on the way to assist. You will be getting out of here.”

Complaining... about not being rescued immediately over the people who needed medical attention. One couldn't say they understood the sentiment, the equation having a clear answer in their mind. "Keep an eye on the shuttle weight and tell me to stop, Lieutenant. I will be staying down here for the time being, so I can keep loading people on." While saying this, One pointed at the first set of people, a family with young children who were clearly incredibly cold. They handed them emergency blankets, and motioned for them to get on board.

Sadhbh, who had totally been here this whole time because her player didn't have an hours long fight with a piece of code. Was beginning to scout the current landing area to see if there was enough space for shuttles from the two incoming ships to land safely, the last thing they needed right now was shuttles crashing into eachother because of too small a landing area.

As the shuttle filled up, Sadhbh's search proved positive, nearby was the city's central plaza - which had more than enough space to fit as many shuttle as possible. Once the shuttle had been filled through weight limit, not physical space, the ramp closed and the shuttle was ready to take off.

“Alright everybody, let’s step back! We gotta let this shuttle take off!” Kiadras started to try and corral the group of civilians still on the ground away from the shuttle, “We’re gonna be safe and sound!”

Kya moved to help Kiadras. “Everyone please move back!”

Jake would watch closely as each person boarded. With each body, he ticked up the estimated weight until eventually, his calculations told him he was at his very limit. "That's enough!" he called out before ensuring the ramp was clear so he could close it. As the shuttle's ramp was close, Jake stood up from his chair to do one final scan of the cabin, making sure the most seriously wounded had seats and were secure while those who could stand knew where they could brace themselves for the flight ahead. "Okay, everybody. This might get a little bumpy but I promise, we are going to be okay." Returning to his seat, Jake looked out of his window, making sure his immediate front was clear before checking his systems to ensure his rear was also as clear as it was going to get before starting to take off. Knowing the airspace was about to get very busy with more shuttles, the Lieutenant would pull up on a secondary display a view of the air traffic so he could avoid them on the way back.

After finding the central plaza Sadhbh tapped on her commbadge to inform the Eventide to send the next rounds of shuttles to the larger landing area.

As the shuttle began to lift off, a bolt of lightning once again struck the skyscraper towering above the crowd - and once again sending debris flying down to the ground.

“Everyone down!” Kya said as she moved in front of some of the injured, using her own body to shield them from harm.

It just doesn’t let up! Kiadras does much of the same as Kya, quickly positioning himself in the way of the debris.

The lightning strike sent Sadhbh running for the nearest bit of shelter, unfortunately as she was standing in the middle of the plaza there wasent too much to choose from.

The crowd of Civilians, startled by the loud crack of thunder, first ducked then practically scattered, with most running towards the subway station that was nearby. Unfortunately for Sadhbh, who was caught more outside than others, was hit on the head by a tennis-ball sized piece of debris.

Down like a sack of potatoes Sadhbh went! The force from the impact knocked her to the ground causing her to loose consciousness for few moments, a red patch of blood began to appear on the top of her head where she had smacked her head against the EV helmet. (edited)

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Five darted over to Sadhbh. Shit. Okay. He moved over to support her, pulling her arm over his shoulder to try to get her to a shuttle. Here we go.

Sadhbh's body began to move with Five, her legs began to walk in a semi coordinated fashion which steadily became more regular as she began to come back to her senses. She had definitely taken a big enough bang to the head but classic symptoms of a bad concussion seemed to have stayed clear. "Ow!" Sadhbh finally managed to blurt out as she shaked her head to whisk away the last bits of unconciousness. (edited)

It’s a sudden mixture of emotions upon both noticing the commander having to be supported after getting hit with debris and also the rescue ships lighting up the sky. The moment she has a guarantee that Sadhbh is okay, she’d turn her head toward the sky and watch all the ships descending downward, “Everybody lives!!”

Teno had been in the background, doing as instructed, carrying people, digging, whatever was useful in the moment including helping Lt. Five to support the Commander! He looked up in awe as the large ships hovered overhead and made their way to the clearning. He couldn't help but let out a gasp, though probably inaudible to the rest of the people around him through the EV suit and over the noise of the landing ships. "Wow!" He exclaimed breathlessly.

She let out a breathless gasp as she looked up towards the ships began to descend. “Clear room for the shuttles to land!” She said, musing sure to hold her body in front of any glass if they were to come near the civilians. “Help is here, everyone!”

With the additional ships joining into the rescue effort, Jake couldn't help but hold an excited smile as he stared at the ships for a moment as the shuttle ascended back up to the Eventide. The man would never get over admiring a good starship. However, refocusing himself back on task, he would soon return to the Eventide's shuttlebay to drop off the people he had before turning back around and returning with the other shuttles. With more ships in the air, that meant he had to be a lot more careful and coordinated with his fellow pilots but a sense of order would soon be established as air traffic worked itself out with coordination of all the ships involved. Finding a landing spot, Jake would set his craft down and drop the ramp, hoping that maybe, this might be the last trip they needed to finish the evacuation.

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Around Jake's shuttle, more craft began to land and take the mob of civilians to safety. One of them, presumably the commanding officer of the team walked over - the rain still pouring down around all of them. "Thank you for giving us the head start on this, we can tag you out now." He said, in a warm and friendly tone.

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