#they want to drag him around by the slats of his helmet ok

[remcocoa]

im fine

[goldstonegolem64]

there was some problem with my laptop and it wouldn’t save my drafted so I had to copy pasted so of it and I did a lot of editing but there are something I couldn't fix and I'm sorry about that now have fun reading this chapter it’s a long one  book one chapter 26  Haven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYLLvLneU2k&t=17s

In the Galra command center Empire Zarkon sat on his throne hearing the damage report and the casualty list  from  when votron attacked with Prorok kneeling before him.

“ We have lost over 25 battleship, 32 warships ,19 destroyers, 6 dreadnaughts ,over 6 hundred fights, over 1 thousand sentries “Thace sighed heavily  as he look at the ever growing list of fallen soldier” Three hundred soldiers and counting”

“ it is sad to hear that. But do we know how the princess escaped?” ZArkon asked not really caring about this news

“it seem like one of are sentries were hack. then lead her to a ship that had slipped in to one of our hangers during the battle with the lions ant Valkyrie  sir” Thace said

“Have you found out who lower barrier and let voltron escape ?” Prorok asked hopping that with the culprit found that Zarkon’s wraith will fall upon them instead of him

“  You don’t have to worry about that Prorok I think I'm about to save months of investigating if I remove the one who has been chipping away at my victory. The one who sent his fleet to capture voltron with out my permission“  Zarkon said starring at the kneeling Prorok  as two guards walked up behind him and grabbed him and started to drag him away

“ No my lord your making a mistake. Your making the galra weaker. THIS IS MISTAKE. YOU OLD FOOL YOU HAVE DOOMED US ALL YOU HAVE DOOMED US ALL” Prorok yelled as he was dragged to Haggars lab.

“lieutenant Thace take you place before me” Zarkon said calmly 

“ Yes my lord” thace said

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYLLvLneU2k&t=17s

“You have now been promoted to fleet commander and will now let the investigation do not fail me” Zarkon said

“I will not my lord “ thace said 

“Jay was started to wake up from the crash because of this planets sun  light shining in through vas eyes . this was the second time he had passed out and crashed after he when though a wormhole He thought to himself. His entire body was sore as he was getting up from the floor and sat back down in his chair. “Hey val you alive” He asked there was no response from his partner.Then a loud groaning sound rang through out the mechanical dragon.”good to see your up and running my friend. now where are we ?”  

“ it seem like were currently on a planet made up of nothing but swamp lands from what my scanners say also there seems to be a settlement about three hundred miles from here. An are long range comms are down and we can’t fly for a days ” She replied as she was getting getting up from the bog she was half submerged in

“Alright let head to that settlement and lets hope they let us use their comms tower if they have one and if they don’t then well just wait out your repairs”Jay said as he removed his helmet and lend back in his chair as vals started running towards the settlement

the planet they were on was full of colorful creatures that ran from val as she ran a cross the muddy land scape.some of the beasts that didn’t run from here were huge like the massive birds or the massive spiders that hde under the muddy and tried to fight Val only to loss a leg or any eye or the mountain sized turtles that walked in a hoard they has trunks like any elephant that helped them pull out the spiders from there hole or to drink water.the Flore here was very much like a jungle he saw massive tree that block out the sun or the giant man eating planet that just clamped down on a monkey like creature. This place was beautiful and he couldn’t wait to show the other the pictures he was take.

in the empty streets of the colony as the sun was starting to set  two kids were sneaking around an abandon restaurant looking for food

  “HEY Bastion I found more food” the smaller of the two kids yelled as he waved a can of food from behind a counter to his older brother

“Usamu keep your voice down” Bastion quickly moved from the kitchen to his little brother and grabbed the can from his brother’s hand and placed it in a bag with other cans of food 

Why the monsters are asleep right” Usamu asked in a hushed voiced

“yes but some of them wake up earlier then other or you could tell  bandit where we ar” Bastion freeze and pulled usamu under the counter and put his hand or his little brother mouth. As the sounds of people moving through the kitchen

”I swore that I heard someone in here” man1 said in a hushed tone

“Yeah sure you did are you sure the stress isn’t getting to you Ban “man 2 said  

“Shut up your going to wake that thing up” Ban said still in his hushed tone and pointed toward a red mound that was rhythmical breathing 

“why are you so worried it’s just a drone . They’re easy to kill and are heavy sleepers” man 2 said as he fired his blaster into the air once to prove a point and looked to the still sleeping drone 

Bastion held onto his little brother who was breathing rapidly  after the shots were fired. this wasn’t good  and bastion know that .He had noticed  his little brother eye were going from a calm kind blue to a dark purple meaning Usamu was starting to lose control  

“what the hell are you doing do you want to die”  Ban yelled completely forgetting about the red mound  

“see ban  nothing to worry abogghhgghh.” the second man looked down at his chest and saw a sickle like claw jutting out covered in his own green blood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiWV2KseKeo

He turned his head to see a humanoid insectoid being with . It towered over the one man shaking to raise his rifle . it was about seven feet tall with a lanky and smooth body with a dark red color carapace that within the dark kitchen made it even more intimidating then it already was. with its lack of eyes and it’s hand still imbedded into the other mans. a line appeared going down it’s face where the jaw would be as it let out a loud vicious buzzing screech causing the jaw to spilt in to four pieces each having rows of teeth. it throw the body of the man it impaled and charged the other man with it’s four sickled arms.Bastion and usamu listened to blaster fire and a louder screech and a body hitting the metal floor.

”goddess be dammed Reve you had one job and you blow it. You big moron. it’s almost sundown better get back to the hide out” Ban said 

“ Us are you ok?” Bastion Asked in calm voice .trying to keep his brother from losing control and lobotomizing everything in a two mile radius

“ I’m scarred”  he said .Holding onto his brother trying to keep his cool as the darkness started to takeover his visons 

“ I know I know.” Bastion said trying to keep it together himself  “ok lets move quickly and quietly “

“Alright” Usamu said grabbing the bag of food they had collected  

the door to the restaurant opened letting out chime. Causing the brothers to freeze up. A Silence fell upon the restaurant only being broken by heavy foot falls and a low deep buzzing. Followed by two smaller sets of foot step.  the Ban looked into the dinning room and  saw two more bugs accompanied by a hulking beast. it was taller then the two next to it .the only thing it had in common with them was it’s dark red carapace,the number of arms and it’s lack of eye. what made it differenced was instead of bladed it’s four arms were much thicker arms that ended in polydactyl claws. it’s body was covered in small spikes and a single horn jutting out of it’s head. Ban starred at three beasts just standing there just moving their heads around listening  for the source of the noise. Ban starred to move backwards slowly going to the back door he and Reve had come in from. Bastion and Usamu were still hiding under the counter when the sound of pots hitting the ground followed by a loud screeching  the sound of people running , things being crushed and a door being opened then it being smashed opened . The two brothers sat there for a few minutes then they heard a screech from out side then the sound of a blaster being fired. a few more minutes passed, 

“ Ok I think the coast is clear let me check” Bastion said as he moved from their hiding place from under the counter. As he peeked over the counter he saw that the dinning room was empty”  ok the coast is cle-” Bastion froze when a drone that had stayed behind to collected the bodies that  had walked out of the kitchen with the two bodies hooked on it’s claws.

“ Hey Bastion what is wro-” Usamu said as he peeked out from under the counter.Then he froze up as well when he saw the drone stand there looking at him with it’s blank slat of a face

the drone started walking toward the noise with the bodies still hooked to it. Usamu tried to leave the small space he was hiding in only to be face to face with the Bug’s open razor tooth maw .His heart was beating fast his breathing was becoming more an more  sporadic as the bug got closer to him. He felt his horns start to grow again. This was bad he didn’t want to lost control again he didn’t want to hurt people again he didn’t want to go back to the dark place. He closed his eyes and put his hands on his head trying to keep control. Then he heard the bug let out a screech of pain then heard a screech of pain from bastion and a table being knocked to the ground.

Usamu jetted out from under the counter and saw that the bug had a dagger in it's back. He also saw bastion slumped against a table and a bleeding shoulder

“ Run!!!” Bastion yelled as the drone started to wake toward him. this was it.This is how it all ended .But at least his little brother got away safely. He watched as the bug walked towards him. Then a wave of purple aura expanded throughout the restaurant and caused the bug to freeze . he looked passed the bug to see his brother floating there. His eye’s were no longer the light kind blue they were now a dark purple

“ Stop breathing” 

An hour Earlier  

Jay and Val had made to the settlements .

“ So Val have you been able to contacted anyone in there ?” Jay asked starring at the gate

“No one seem to beat the control at the time. But something doesn't fell right about this place if I being honest” She said looking for a new way into the settlement

“ Why is that?” He asked

“ there seems to be a low number of  life signs for a settlement this big”

“ So maybe there was a plague or a purge or there is a monster that is killing poelpe or the galra showed up and killed a lot of people here” Jay said as he was knocking on the door trying to find a weakpoint” Hey Val can you pry the door open for me please “

“ Alright then” Val stabbed her wings into the door and pried the door open. giving Jay an opening to he could slip though 

The door slammed behind with a loud echoing boom .Jay looked around  the area for a control panel for the door only to find that it was smashed.” Sorry Val I can’t get you in right now sorry” 

“alright I will find another way in. Just stay safe in there your my only pilot” She said as she started waking towards a huge number of life sign she just detected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlGeT6N6Xs&t=53s

“ Alright then” jay said as he found himself in a residential district which looked similar to the one he grow up but this one was completely empty . It was weird this place should be brimming with life but no. So Jay turned on his helmet’s scanner to see if anyone was in here that he couldn’t see and Started walking around the distract for a few minutes only to find that this district  was truly void of life.He found this unnerved by this fact. So he turned  his comms to a open channel so if anyone was still out there could reveal themselves to him and then he started looking for away out of here

A few minutes after he opened his comms it let out a huge crackle of static before a voice of an elderly women came out yelling “Hello Hello can you hear me”

“ Yes I can hear you . uh who are?” he asked

“Sorry how rude of me. I’m  Isara leader of Queen slayers and the new lead of haven. Now who are you newcomer?” She asked with a imitating tone to her voice.  .

Jay felt imitated by this women “ I’m Joseph I'm a paladin of voltron.”

“ Voltron Ay So where’s your lion then Joseph ?” She asked 

“ Well I don’t pilot one of the lions I pilot a metal dragon called the Valkyrie. Also I prefer to be called Jay if you don’t mind” he said as he made it to a door that was blocking his way

“ Alright Jay what bring you here to this Hell hole of ours and where is your huge metal dragon then?” 

“ Well She is looking for away in and were here to help. Also Val need a place that wasn’t a swamp or crawling with giant trap door spider monsters . Also again what seems to be the problem here and can you open this door?”

“ Well it started about a four mouth ago. When they were expanding are boarders because of a population boom When they stumbled upon a nest of a sleep  red queen causing Seventy eight percent of this colony member to either be eaten or flee the planet. leaving a small few to there fate.Then me and my husband showed up to kill the queen before it woke up” She said 

“ Ok What is a red queen and why haven't the empire or the rebels come to help yet “ He asked

“ well a Red Queen is a invasion species that launch their young into space on a meteor. So they can made a hive for themselves on some other world. They also adapt to there surrounding after they go through a hibernation like state for a few month then when it wakes up there ready to start making there hive and using any life on the planet their on  to strengthen there hives. the reason no one has come to back this place up is because me and my crew were the back up.”  She hit a few buttons in the control room she was in and the door in front of Jay.

“Ok if your the back up why haven’t you  killed it yet” Jay asked as he walked into the next districted which was a industrial area which was yet again unnervingly quiet 

“Well  this one seemly kill one of those mountain turtle things when it impacted with the planet and it was eating it for a few years before going to sleep in it’s shell.  Causing it to Grow twice the size a normal one would. “ She said 

“Twice the normal size. How big do these thing normal get may I ask?” Jay asked now dual wielding  revolver and Bayard just a little panic by what she just said 

“Normally Queens grow to be about thirty to forty feet . But this one is about a hundred fe-” Jay was concerned when suddenly she stopped taking. But then he hear the voice of a very distort man with what sounded like a deep Russian like Accented. Jay couldn’t quite heard what he was saying but three words he did  heard were Huge Metal Dragon.

“  Hey Val Where you at ?” Asked With a smile on his face

“  I’m at the north west gate where the biggest sign of life is. But the man I was talking to yelled at me to leave. Then he went somewhere to talk to someone named Isara” She said a little insulted by how rube the man was to her 

 “ Hey I think your friend is here and I need to leave you to calm the civilian down before a mass panic attack hit them. But I will give you a way point to Haven then we can talk and get here quickly before sunset”  Isara said as she left a new way point appear on his heads up display

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKvqLZg3IQQ

Jay started picking up the pace as it would take him sometime to run seven before sunset. As he was running through the empty streets when a blip appear on his motion tracker. Then the sound of something being ripped a part followed by a weird honking could be heard from a building he was running pass.Then several more blips appear causing Jay to stop in place as a cacophony of the weird honking erupted around jay  

{what the hell is that} Jay though to himself as the sound of something being torn apart coming from a near by ally. Jay went to investigated the sound. As he turned to look in the ally what he was scared him. it was a ten foot tall hulking pink skinned humanoid bugs with four thick clawed arms was emerging from a red cocoon. it’  s head was jerking around unnaturally causing cracking sounds as a red spikey carapace was growing out of the pink shin then  long sharp horn started jutting out of it’s forehead. Jay started to move back slowly from the allay and bumped into something. Jay turned to see another bug but this one was smaller then the one in the allay but it still towered  over him by about a foot.

It turned to face jay it let out a huge screech into jay’s face and brought it’s four bladed arms up about to attack this foe. Jay put he’s Bayard into it mouth and fire it causing the bugs head to explode sending chunks of meat and blueish yellow blood flying everywhere. then the body hit the ground  with a wet slapping sound . He starred at the body for a few second before a loud screech came from the allay Then the sound of heavy foot fall . Jay turned to see the hulking beast charging towards him with it’s arms covering most of it’s unarmored stomach and chested . Jay turned both his guns toward the creature and fired several time most of the shoots went into it’s arms but a few of his shots hit its shoulder, underbelly and one shot took off the horn. But it kept on changing toward him. Jay had to jump to the side to avoid being trampled. He hit the grounded and watch as the bug slammed into an abandon vehicles casing the alarm to go off

The loud alarm caused the a huge scream to erupted from the hulking beast. It placed it’ s hands onto it’s head and it started violently lashing out at the air swinging it’s massive arms in random derations as it tried to locate the sound. Jay watched this display as I was just swing then some of the smaller one started to come out of building ,allay do the the car alarm blasting and the screams big one was letting out . But the moment they walked out of there hiding places they started to scream in pain as well. Jay found this really useful because he started getting back to his feet and start to run but stopped in his tracks when the sound of metal being crashed, the alarm and the screaming stopped. Jay turned to see what was going on and a fear creeped up his spine. me out of building                                                        

Jay had three real fears in life the first was the empire finding his home, the second was losing his other arm. his third and finally fear was bugs. He hated bug there weird body the odd numbers of legs the way they fly and their eye. This thing  had wings, the lower body of a hornet the upper body of a mantis with  scythe hands and unlike the drones which had no horns or the soldier which had one this thing had two horn pultruding from the back of it’s head they curved around his head and stopped near it’s mouth making it look like tusk and unlike the other this one had eyes. it then eye meet jays and let out a low hiss then the other bugs turned to look at him and all the bugs started to walk toward him ready to rip him apart. Jay holstered his revolver ,closed his helmet and ready himself to fight with both guns drawn. But then they stopped and started to fall back . Then Jay hear a clacking sound then a voice 

“ What are you you you” A raspy emotionless said from behind him” You aren't like the others others others.” Click  clack click clack.

Jay turned to see a Tall lanky being the long razor sharp clawed hands. it walked om six spider like legs on a scorpion’s body with a tail swing back a forth and on it’s head it had three bug eye’s and three horn in the form of a crown.

“ What the fuck are you” jay replied 

’What the fuck are you you you” it mimicked in his voice while it’s head was turn

“I’m jay” he replied

“Jay Jay Jay” it mimicked him again “Are you alone lone lone? “ it mimicked in a different voice

Jay could guess what would happen if he said yes or no so “here a better question can you die?” he asked as he fired his Bayard twice times at it. then started to run after he shot another vehicle causing all the drones and the lone soldier to start screaming in pain again  

The first shot was blocked by it’s tail. But the second one hit the beasts in the side blasting a huge chunk of causing a loud scream of pain. the king fell to the floor holding it’s side the it yelled in Isara voice” Kill it before it gets away “

Jay was following the way point to Haven which lead him into a new distract . As he was running he hear a buzzing  coming from behind him. he looked over his shoulder to see the mantis hornet thing was flying toward him at break neck speeds . Jay looked back to see what was in front of him and saw a restaurant that had two drones and a soldier going inside of it . the bug came down to tackled jay to the ground. But as it was coming down jay fire his Bayard blindly. it tried to dodge bolts but  one of the hit it’s right wing causing it  to hit the ground .

Jay kept on running to the way point only to stop when the way point stopped at a sewer grate. Jay started to pull the grate up only to be knock away by a scythe like hand. his head hit curb and his helmet flow off after that. The world was spinning around as his ears were ringing. Then the bug got right on top of him and tried to stink it’s mandibles into jays neck only to be met by a metal hand punching it in the eye it recoil from the punch and stumbled backward a few feet it blinked a few time before it turned back to it’s pray only to see a  helmet on the ground. it walked over to the helmet on the ground it looked at it curiously .it pick up the helmet in it’s claw it moved it around before a burning sensation in it’s chest then it’s sight started to blur it then when dark .

The bug hit the ground with a smoking hole in it’s chest. jay stood there breathing heavily for a few seconds before slumping onto a near by car holding is head in his metal hand. As he held his head the sound of march and buzzing start to be heard in the distains . Jay looked to the sky and saw dozen of the bugs in the sky and dozens of them crawling and running toward this location and then he saw the big one the front no longer holding it’s side and when it saw him it started to charge toward him with the hoard following behind it . Jay got up on his feet then stumbled an felt to his knee has the world started spinning again

.” yeah that a concussion.” Jay said then got back on his feet and started walking  to the grate and started to pull at the grate and lifted the grate up.But Then he heard a child scream coming from a restaurant to his left followed by a  screeching then jay turned to see  the biggest one charging toward him with it’s tail ready to strike and jay dropped the grate and pulled out his Bayard .But before either one could strike the other a purple wave erupted from the restaurant causing both of them to freeze up and in the back of jay’s mind he hear a Childs voice say { stop breathing}

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr16jZsBEjQ

Jay felt the air leave his lungs  then he unfreeze to grabbed his throat . His lungs were on fire everything was on fire.jay looked a round the aera for his helmet through blur eyes  and found it by the vehicle he sat on earlier . Jay tried to walk towards his helmet only to fall to the ground everthing was starting to fade into darkness and he started to crawl toward his helmet with his metal hand but then his body stop working as it start to go numb so as a last resort. He stretched what was left of his left arm as far as it could using his nature ability to shape shift and the energy chair he stole from sendak .Pushing both to there limits and grabbed his helmet an pulled back towards only for a clawed hand to grab it .

Jay turned to see the biggest bug trying to pull the helmet toward it’s self as it was also chocking as well along with every other bug in the area. How he didn’t noticed that before didn’t matter this was his helmet his only chance to survivor maybe and no bug is going to stop him so he yanked the helmet from the bug and watched as it struggled to grabbed the helmet again. the moment the helmet got to him he tried to put it on but that was hard to do with one hand and the fact that everything was going dark and his body was fully numb .But with his last ounces of strength  slammed his head into his helmet.

The moment his helmet was place onto his head the weird purple wave effect stopped. he could breath again he looked toward the hoard and saw them all laying on the ground dead or dying. Jay lay there unable to move for a few minutes do to his body start to regain feeling. {thank god my half altea that could have ended badly for me} he thought to himself as he got to his feet As the  wave disappeared. He started walking to the restaurant the door opened automatic.

The first thing he saw was a drone on the dead on the floor with a dagger in it’s back and two body hook on to it’s bottom two bladed arms. one body  was another drone and the second body was of a golden scaled fish man with a beck for a mouth. Then he saw a Boy with red skin gray hair and goat like horns growing out of his scalp. He ran to the kid and lifted the kid . Jay’s helmet scanned the kid an showed his vital signs. He was alive but had a fever of a hundred and five. This was bad he need medical attention state. Jay was about to get up when he hear the sound a blaster charging behind him. then he turned to see another kid with gray skin blue hair,amber eye and with a gashes in his shoulder  holding a blaster he guess belong to the dead man

“ Get away from him” the boy say while shacking there 

“ He needs to go to a hospital he has a fever of a hundred and five he needs help” Jay said slowly trying to calm the boy down

Bastion looked at the masked man who was hold his brother. He starred at usamu who was breathing heavily and sweating profusely. Then his eye’s opened and had returned to normal. Then he spoke

“ Bastion your ok “ Usamu said with a faint smile on his face before his eye closed again.

Bastion dropped the blasters and  started to cry ” Please save him. Please make my little brother better”  he said through the tears 

“I will I promise now get ready to move because more of those thing are coming” Jay said has he looked a his motion trackers and saw several blips running around the area.

The two moved quickly and quietly to the grate. Jay handed Usamu to the bastion to start pulling the grate .Bastion looked around an saw all the dead bugs on the ground then to his brother still unconscious and wonder how this stranger survived this but he would ask that when they were safe.

Jay had finally removed the grate fully and saw a latter “ ok Bastion hand me your brother and start climbing down then” he said. 

Bastion handed usamu back to the stranger and started to climb down the latter. Then he watched the stranger  with Usamu under his arm climbed down. then he handed back Usamu and climb back up the latter to grab the grate and pulled it back into place then climb back down Bastion hand his brother back to the stranger then hoped on to his back because he couldn’t run with how bad his shoulder was.

“  uh mister Where are going and who are you?” Bastion asked as he

“ oh sorry I forgot I’m jay by the way and were going to a place called Haven a safe place for the people here. wait your not from there?”Jay asked as he started running towards the way point 

“No me and Usamu were living in an abandoned radio tower a few block from the restaurant you found us in. I guess that where that lady , the huge winged man and all those other people who were killing the bugs came from” Bastion said

“ ok but why were you two live in a tower don’  t you have pera-” Jay stopped mid sentients realizing that they both might have lost there family when the queen wake up

“ I never had them. I was raised in the orphanage here. But Usamu’s dead when he was small do to his power” Bastion said as he looked a his brother still breath heavily

“ Let me guess his power is to stop people from breathing”   Jay said now just a little scared of the kid he was hold

“Yes he has something called psycokin something another. Some big word I don’t understand”

“Wait this kid has psychokinesis so strong that it can kill dozens of bug at once and he was in a normal orphanage with normal kids.” Jay said now worried about his own safety.

“ No they were going to give him to the Galra empire when they found out about his power. But I ran away with him the moment I heard that”  Bastion said 

“WHY?!?!”

“Because I was scared of being alone..because No one ever picked me and all my friend were gone and I was lifted alone for years.Then Usamu came along and he became the family I never had. Then when they were going to take him away I didn’t want to be alone again so I took him before the empire could and we’ve been on are own for the passed two years”  Bastion said

“ How old are you two?”  

“ I’m Nine and He’s Seven” Bastion replied 

Jay started having thoughts about taking them to matt and the rebel to keep them safe. But then he thought about Keep them with him so Fitz had brother to play with Along side the gain Shiro and Adam were having. He really need to tell them about that before it was born so they didn’t kill him maybe. But then he remember about the Gain he had panted before the mission to save Allura and though about how Allura would start telling him off on how bring kids on the castle would be stupid an dangerous. But leaving these  two here would leave a bad tasted in his mouth. He would bring it up with her when they came to get him. “Wow your quite brave for two kid your age” 

“Thank you” Usamu said weakly 

“Sorry for waking you brother” Bastion said 

“ No problem I've been awake the whole time. I'm just lazy and tired “ He said sheepishly 

“Good to know” Jay said as he follow the way point to a corner and saw two armed men guarding a latter 

“You there holt. State your names and purpose here ?“ A tall lizard man with bronze skin asked 

“ this two are bastion an Usamu And i’m Jay. Isara sent me a way point here and I need to get Unamu to a hospital quickly he’s running a high fever and it’s getting high” Jay said trying to convince the two men to let him into 

the two men looked at each then back to the three of them”So your the man the boss told use about be on your way then” the other man said pointing to the latter

“Thank you both “ Bastion said smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSjBh71Im-M

Jay climbed up the latter and found himself in a bustling town made out of the shop district . the three looked in aw a the scene rounded them it was a nice change of pace compared to the empty bug infested streets they were just in  it did take them a while to find the hospital  but when Jay did he check in immediately giving the boys to the doctors there and follow into a room where they stitched up Bastions shoulder and gave Usamu medicine to lower his fever and they gave him a few meds to help with the concussion . Jay sat down in the chair that was in room and stayed the night to keep watch over them. He told Val he was here and not worry about the concussion he would be fine and asked about her repair. She was able to fly again but her long range comms were still down  and there was a lot of mud in her system .But the people here were help her and she was using there long range comms to contacted the other with no real luck at the but she would keep him post if she found them. So decide to get some rest. He sleep for a few hours until the door to their room was slammed open and a galra women wearing what Jay could only  describe as Ana default skin from overwatch with pointed back ear and a blue bandana on her head said

“ My name is isara and your going to help me kill a queen Joseph”  with a huge smile across her face

[runningwhump]

Spent gladiator 2

little drabbles from some of the characters mentioned in the song spent gladiator two - its not necessary to listen before reading but i suggest you do because its a really good song lmao. 

please welcome Saro, Oscar, Tabasi, and Aasim to the whump stage!

1) Crawling in the coliseum dust

Saro thrust his sword up once more, and felt the beast release its hold on his shoulder. It collapsed, and he threw it sideways with his blade to the sound of the crowd’s cheers. He shoved it’s hind legs off of himself, and dragged himself sideways in the red-stained sand in the ring, each grain grinding agonisingly in his wounds. Rolling onto his side, he cast his gaze onto the creatures corpse.

It looked smaller now it was dead. He had the time to really look it over, and he could see it’s ribs sticking out from behind it’s fur, past thin and more towards emaciated. Poor thing must’ve been starved so it would actually attack him - he’d come across beasts like this when he was free, and they were usually peaceful. He sighed, and rolled onto his front to try and sit up.

He could still hear the crowd, who were cheering impossibly louder now he was trying to stand. The were more wild than the beast they had forced him to fight.  He pushed himself onto his hands and knees, arm shaking with the effort. He still refused to count the magical approximation that counted for a left arm than Antonia had given him, along with the leg, as his.

It was all Antonia’s fault he was here, afterall. She had promised him gold, money to send home to his family so they would have a better chance, so his Maree and little Ina could have a better chance.

He had thought he could trust her; He had thought wrong.

Five years he had been in this hell, five years forced to fight anyone or anything they through his way with only a short, curved sword and small square shield. His only armour was a helmet, greaves, a single wrist guard and belt connected to a rough cloth. Not that any of it had done any good, not at all surprisingly.

He still remembered the delight Antonia had taken in grafting the metal prosthesis to his ruined stumps with her slimy magic, the sharp bolts of pain that shuddered through him for months afterwards every time he moved them. They still felt wrong, foreign, owned.

Saro also remembered that with a single incantation, she could entirely paralyse them.

With a single incantation he was effectively at her mercy, two heavy metal lumps weighing him down.

He remembered when she threatened to take him to the river if he failed again.

He took a deep breath and dragged his bleeding, battered body to the wall of the ring. Each drag of his leg sent spikes of agony into his half crushed hip, but he couldn’t stop. There was no one here he could let see him vulnerable, no one here he could trust.

Not until he could get back into the barracks and get back to marcus and seneca - the only guard and the only healer that were worth anything in this forsaken pit respectively. Only then would he feel even slightly safe. He could literally count the number of people he could trust on his remaining limbs.

Another deep breath, and he pushed himself to his feet, and raised his eyes to Antonia in the stands, looking down at his with approval.

It made his skin crawl, but all he had to do was stay alive until Him, Marcus and Seneca could get out. just stay alive.

2) it’s finally time to quit.

Oscar had fought almost his whole life. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do now, but his sponsor had told him that he was going to have to quit. He knew he was supposed to be glad - he could finally go and live his life, go out and not get beat up every night, go out and rest, but really? He just felt lost.

Was his sponsor really going to drop him, just like that, all because the crowds were getting bored? The man had practically raised him! He didn’t have anywhere else to live...

He was sat on the desk chair in his small room in the hub, staring over at his bed and the outfit laying on top as the sunset peaked through the slats in his blind. His outfit. His second skin. He supposed this made sense, that he should have expected it. Despite how long they had known each other, despite how he saw the man as a substitute father, he had never told Oscar his name. It was always just ‘sir’ or ‘his sponsor’. To his sponsor, Oscar was just a belonging, more a racing dog than a person, and he should have predicted this. Sir had been right (he was always right), Oscar truly must have been stupid.

So he would do as he was told, put on his shining colours one last time, step out into the ring, and loose.

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The crowds cheers were louder than usual, the lights brighter, the atmosphere wilder. He could feel himself starting to wind up for the fight both with excitement and sadness, the two mixing together in a swirling mass that took over his whole body. It was a weird feeling and he wasn’t sure whether to scream or cry.

The lead up to the fight was a blur, as were the introductions. His only sight were the ropes and his opponent - some new recruit he’d seen around the hub a few times. He was angry that this untested newbie was replacing him at the same time as wanting to grab his arm and yell - ‘Run! Run now! Get out while you can!’. The kid would end up the same as him, and he didn’t wish it on anyone.

He didn’t really have to try to lose - his head was barely in his body at this point, and he was only focusing on the empty pain of each blow and the roar of the crowd cheering for his opponent. The fact would usually make him angry, hype him up, make him even more determined to win. Now? Now it just made him overwhelmed.

He let himself get knocked down again and again, until he finally lost the match.

Time to ‘quit’, and stay alive without the fight.

3) still stationed at the breech

Tabansi leaned against the wooden barrier, panting as the last of the attacking force limped away across the border and down the ridge. He shouldn’t let them escape, but his own forces had run out of ammunition long ago and he wasn’t willing to send any of them to chase – everyone was exhausted and he would be shocked if any of them were unscathed.

His own injuries stung but didn’t seem too bad. His knuckles were bloody and bruised from fighting the attackers with his fists after they ran out of bullets and he probably had a fracture somewhere in there but it didn’t matter too much, some of his men were much more badly hurt. It was the reason he had been avoiding the medics so far. They would definitely force him to get treatment, potentially over someone who would need the bandages more just because he was ‘the leader’.

He noticed his second in command, Aasim, approaching with a medic, not directly towards him but probably close enough to spot him, so he decided to hop off to somewhere else to hide. He knew that Aasim would be annoyed but he just… he couldn’t deal with someone suffering because of a lack of resources just because he had a messed up hand.

When he straightened up however, a sudden sharp pain lanced through his side. He clamped his hand down onto where the pain originated with a cry of suprise, pulling it away to see a red stain bloom across his dirty shirt, already past what his hand could cover- He had been bleeding for a while, then.

Shit. He’d been shot.

Tabansi cursed quietly, regretting passing off the pain near the start of the battle - what if it was actually bad this time?

He looked up, locked eyes with his Aasim, and collapsed into the mud.

His vision swam, the sky above swirling with shapes he couldn’t quite name - blood-loss finally catching up to him - as a worried face loomed over him, calling his name. The medic wasn’t far behind as Aasim rested Tabansi’s head in his lap, worry pushing through the general pissed-off-ness that usually draped his face. Oh, he was going to get such a lecture after this, but he coudn’t help but grin at the other man, his dark skin and short hair glowing in the late afternoon sun making him look like an angel. he reached up a hand, and caressed it over Aasim’s face before dropping it down with a small frown - he’d gotten blood on his angels face.

well, he would get a lecture If there was an after.

“Please, Tab-!” called Aasim desperately, the sound just about making it into Tabasi’s ears “just, just stay alive, ok?!”