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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 21, 2010 6:10:56 GMT -5
Cora looked up and him and sighed. "I would like to believe that. I really would."
She reached in and hugged him around the waist, burying her face in his chest. "The future isn't the easiest of roads. There's one moment in life where it just practically ends for us. So right now, before I leave or you guys even have me, make sure, no matter what, that you destroy Zurg. Make sure he's not in the universe in years to come."
*** "Bombing," Mira stated, taking the spare suit. "Some dolt decided to go and bomb an old abandoned building downtown. A creep by the name of SID, who in the the past forty minutes, I decided to do a background check on."
"He's evil guys. Real evil. No go on ahead while I go change. I'll meet you there. Hurry!"
*** SID was grumbling under his breath, unsure as how he got captured by a bunch of idiot police. Granted he PO'd Lightyear in the worse possible way, but he'd been through worse in years.
And that meant he's gotten out of worse in past years too.
"Sheriff, can I at least give them my last few words before I get hauled away."
Woody raised a skeptical brow. He shrugged. "Not like you can do anything more to hurt them now."
SID smiled. "Wrong answer, Sheriff." He grinned, a wide toothy grin that happened to show a small, red detonator locked into his teeth.
Woody's eyes widened. "Goodbye you fools," And he bit down. Seconds later the wall a few feet away blew up, along with another wall and another. In the commotion SID managed to stomp on Rex's foot hard enough to get him to yelp and disappeared in the cloud of dust and debris.
"Everyone get out of here, now!"
Cora moved away from her father and started to run, but not even five steps in she felt herself go through the floor.
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 21, 2010 9:00:52 GMT -5
A shiver slithered down Buzz’s spine at Cora’s words. “What… Cora. What does Zurg do in the future?” He’d taken a few too many punches lately. “Does somebody… does somebody die?”
***
“We’re goin’, we’re goin’!” XR nodded, pulling Booster with him.
“Evil, as in, worse than Zurg?” Booster worried, just before they jetted off.
“If Mira says the guy’s evil, he’s evil, plain and simple,” XR retorted. “Now come on!’
***
The initial blast knocked Buzz off his feet, but he recovered just in time to see his daughter fall. “Cora!” He grabbed her wrist even as she fell—and fell with her.
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 21, 2010 16:10:12 GMT -5
Cora nodded against his chest. "Som-" She chocked on her voice. "Someone very close to me died. To us..."
She couldn't bring herself to say it. Her hands clutched together, hard.
"He was so important...he shouldn't ...I should've been the one to take it." She muttered, her voice cracking ever so often as she talked into Buzz's chest. "All my fault..."
*** Mira hurried to put on her space suit, taking refuge inside a random shop's bathroom. The owner was more than happy for her to change, knowing full well that she was going to stop what was going on.
"Why are you guys closed?"
The owner shrugged. "This is a rundown part of the city. Things like this happen all the time. Not like this, granted, but a lot of gun battles. We open for people who need to escape." Mira nodded. The owner smiled, and for some reason she felt like she'd seen this smile somewhere before.
"Good luck, Miss Mira Nova." Mira looked back at the shop she exited and saw just a brick wall.
Her heart skipped a beat. It couldn't be...
Shaking her head she followed a squad down the street right when another explosion happened.
*** Cora felt her father grab hold of her wrist, but it was all too sudden and it brought them both tumbling down into the darkness. Her head hit against concrete, stars and dots meeting her vision.
She wanted to call out, but she couldn't get a mouthful of air and her chest hurt so bad; she felt like she was dieing.
She closed her eyes and dreamt of home.
***
Woody was out of the building safe, albeit his head was bleeding from a random rock. "d--n," He cursed. "Get a medic squad ready, we're gonna have some injured people being pulled out of there. Rex, Hamm, get to moving those rocks. Go go go!"
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 23, 2010 6:42:41 GMT -5
Buzz just held his daughter and stroked her hair, not knowing what else to do. “Cora…” He shook his head. “I don’t know what to say.”
***
It was Buzz’s backside that hit permacrete, and stars, did it hurt. For a few moments, he couldn’t even see, and he was in too much pain to speak. He coughed, then pushed out, “Cora!” His vision cleared, and he saw her lying there beside him, unconscious.
“Oh God.” He could have been swearing or praying… he vaguely figured it was closer to praying. “Oh, Cora.” Moisture stung his eyes, and he blinked it back. Groaning, he pushed himself up into a sitting position and, agonizingly slowly and painfully, pulled Cora towards him.
Her breath was shallow.
God, let her live. She just came into his life. She couldn’t be taken out, not now, not like this.
***
XR and Booster arrived in the thick of the chaos. “Good golly, what’s going on here?” XR demanded, stunned.
“Where’s Buzz?” Booster added frantically.
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 23, 2010 6:57:54 GMT -5
She let her hair be stroked. She found she couldn't say anything either.
*** Her eyes danced behind her eyelids and she dreamt of that faithful day her life changed. It was a reoccurring she had often and every time it would leave her sweating and breathing hard.
But she wasn't going to wake up from this one quite so easily. No, as long as she was knocked out and in the dark it would be a constant circle till she opened her eyes.
She would see everything. The snow covered streets. The Robots. Being stuck on the street and one large machine with claws neared, ready to swipe at her when...
"Alec," Cora moaned, though still unconscious.
*** Woody looked at the two rangers with feign interest. He did, however point his head towards the rumble before going back in and helping. Mira came up behind them minutes later and stopped dead in her tracks. What in the world? But somehow she knew. "No..."
"Booster, XR we gotta help! Buzz and Cora...."
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 23, 2010 7:12:11 GMT -5
“Alec?” Buzz echoed, feeling his chest tighten in a way that had nothing to do with physical pain. Who’s Alec…
***
“Can’t you ghost them?” XR suggested. “Save time?”
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 23, 2010 7:25:40 GMT -5
Cora's body convulsed and shook slightly, her eyes doing a rough tango in her head. She wanted to wake up from this nightmare, it was replaying again and she didn't want to see it anymore.
"Alec..." She repeated the name unintentionally again. Her body quivered and tears came down her face. She gasped for air and tried to open her eyes, telling her body this was a dream, this wasn't for real; a dream.
Her eyes came halfway open, but everything was too blurry to make out.
*** Mira glared at the bot.
"Do you know how much ruble there is? I could barely get halfway through before passing out, much less get two people out of there. Now shut up and dig!"
"I recognize that mouth anywhere. Missy, you here?" Woody called.
"Woody?" Mira didn't quite understand why the cowboy officer was here, but eh, she'd been through stranger situations.
"Woody what happened?"
"A lot. And if you wanna see your family alive I suggest calling in a lot of back up."
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 24, 2010 14:32:13 GMT -5
“Eesh, okay, okay!” XR backpedaled, throwing up his hands.
“C’mon, XR!” Booster urged, rushing over to the rubble. He all but dove into the wreckage, material starting to fly as he hurled it out and away from his captain beneath.
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 24, 2010 17:30:06 GMT -5
"P...p..a..pa?" She was half awake, not really coherent and might have been still dreaming. She really didn't know. She was cold and was faintly aware that someone was holding her. Other than that she could still hear the background music of destruction and chaos in her mind.
Head trauma was a very curious thing indeed.
****
"Mira...you gonna be OK?" Woody asked, placing a caring hand on her shoulder. Mira looked down at it and shrugged it off.
"I'm fine. Let's just get them out of there."
Woody nodded. "I got a report saying it's not as bad as we think. We might just need to remove a bit more debris and we should be able to get a few people to get inside. What we're really looking for in the basement though, that's where they fell before the roof caved in."
"Than that means there's a good chance they're not pinned by any rubble."
"We're not sure about that." He said seriously. "There's still a chance of that. But we're looking at the bright side of them being slightly conscious. Now let's get to helping out the boys, shall we?"
And they continued to dig.
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 25, 2010 16:05:39 GMT -5
“Cora!” Buzz nearly cried with relief—a tear managed to slip out. “I’m here, sweetheart. I’m here.”
***
When Booster focused his attention on a task, he could be very single-minded. And right now, he was bound and determined to get Buzz and Cora Lightyear out of that cave-in.
So after just a minute of digging, his hand punched right through the rubble and met with empty air.
***
Buzz shifted away to miss the falling debris and coughed. “Hello?!”
***
Booster gasped. “It’s Buzz!” he cried, then pulled out his hand and bent down further. “We’re coming, Buzz!”
“Hurry—Cora’s hurt!” called Buzz’s faint but unmistakably alive voice.
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 25, 2010 16:40:59 GMT -5
"Uggg," She coughed, tasting something between blood and grime. "Son of a....craters, what happened?" She winced at the pain throbbing at the back of her head. She shakily reached up and pulled back blood smeared on her hands.
"Sh...that's just lovely." Her voice was raspy and she guessed this is what a drunkard felt like after one too many drinks at the bar before tumbling into a gutter.
"Dad?" She took in a sharp breath. Boy was she in a lot of pain. Her whole body felt on fire. "Why're you holding me?" **** Both parties scattered into the wreckage, Mira only stopped momentarily when Buzz said Cora was hurt.
"Craters," She muttered, helping Booster and XR reach them two. Soon the broke through enough to get a team in there to pull them out.
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 26, 2010 6:04:33 GMT -5
Buzz stared at her. “What kind of question is that? You’re hurt, and I’m holding you till help arrives.”
***
Of course, XR was so close when they broke through that he almost fell in, himself. “Okay, who’s going down?”
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 26, 2010 8:53:28 GMT -5
She closed blurry eyes. "Hurt?" She questioned, feeling a bit sick now. "Well that explains the blood...and the pain...and why you suddenly have a twin."
She coughed and felt every bone in her body react to it, and it didn't react nicely. She gasped in pain and buried her head into Buzz's chest to stifle any screams.
"Craters, what happened?" Then. "Are you hurt any?"
**** "Me and you XR," Mira said, grabbing the security line the rescue team was deploying. "You still have that first aid kit installed in your system?"
"Buzz, Cora we're coming down!" She shouted into the hole. "Booster I want you to contact Commander Nebula and give him a report of what's going on so far, ok?" She smile reassuringly, trying to give the gentle giant something to keep him from worrying too much about Buzz and Cora.
"Don't worry, they should be fine. Buzz just over reacts sometimes and Cora probably has a cut cheek or something." She highly doubted that.
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Post by Skyfire on Aug 27, 2010 6:36:22 GMT -5
“Explosion. We fell through the floor.” Buzz paused. “I’ve had worse.” That was true, but he’d also had better. Much better.
***
“Yeah, got it right here,” XR replied, a kit briefly zooming out of his chassis.
“Got it!” Buzz’s voice drifted back up.
“Okay,” Booster nodded, his lower lip trembling slightly. He took a few steps back and opened his comm. “Commander Nebula? It’s Booster…”
XR activated his jetpack and hovered above the hole briefly, then zoomed in. “Buzz, you guys all—” He stopped himself and grimaced. They both looked pretty bad. “Aw, craters.”
Buzz gave the ‘bot a world-weary look. “Hi, XR.”
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Post by cherryproductions on Aug 27, 2010 6:55:45 GMT -5
Cora nodded, feeling her eyes grow heavy. "Hmmm." She felt her eyes flutter closed. Her head was hurting to much for them to be open and full of dust. "Then tell me about that adventure...and I'll tell you about the future..."
***
"Oh craters," Mira repeated, stepping towards the two. "You two alright? Cora you're bleeding! Buzz same to you! What in the world went on here?"
She lightly touched the cut on Buzz's check and rubbing Cora's forehead with her other hand at the same time.
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