Building 26: the Aftermath

So this was the situation: I'm shattered and ill from over-exertion with my powers from flying everyone back to base from Building 26 in america, Playwrite's exhausted from keeping Aron alive by force, Tingle is distressed he wasn't able to stop John and Aron from the start, Healthbar's unconsious from heavy healing, Aron's unconsious and seriously injured because Healthbar couldn't heal him completly in one go, but he'll live, Damian was in floods of tears for an at the time unknown reason, John was missing and Diffy was unhappy because all his friends were miserable. We left Aron and Healthbar to recover, and found Damian in the room we put them in. I decided to leave him to recover a bit before questioning him, but I wish I hadn't....



We left the three of them and made sure Evan was ok, we hadn't really been able to look after him since we found Aron, and he was a bit flustered at this turn of events. He assured us he was physically ok, and thanked us for getting him out, but said he couldn't deal with being on a team like this just yet. He gave us his phone number, and told us to call if we wanted his help, and Playwrite offered him a kind of apprenticeship, with lessons and tutoring on Telepathy if he wanted them. He set off to hide, and we advised him not to go home or anywhere he can normally be found for his own safety. After that, we sat in the abandoned shop part of the base and had a proper rest.

I woke suddenly, as did everyone else, to the sound of screaming, just as Precog and Doolittle came in to see how the rescue had gone. We rushed up to the flat above the shop, and found Healthbar almost dead, screaming from burns, and what looked like broken fingers and arms. I told Precog to get Diffy out of the base, he's too young for anything like that. I made sure Precog had got him out to take him to the park, but he was still asking about 'Healthy' (as he calls her, he calls me Tempust, he's still not great with long words) and why she wasn't moving, it was awful. There was no sign of Aron or Damian, except a small sprinkling of dust Doolittle found in a corner. Playwrite experimented going into Healthbar's head and getting her power to turn in on itself, and heal her. He managed for about half a minute, but it happened very slowly, and he fell back, crying out and landing on the floor. He's had a headache for about three days now, but his powers are returning. He managed to make her heal herself a bit, the broken arm is only fractured now as far as I can tell, and most of her fingers are better, we think she might lose one though, and some of the burning's gone down, but she's still in very bad shape. She has bruises on her neck and still has burns and something like frostbite and cuts and bruises and things, but she'll live, and I'll kill anyone who hurts her again, or any member of my team. I mean that. They will be shocked, burnt, frozen, drowned, persuaded to stab themselves, attacked by my Forcefield bubbles, and buried alive. I'm pissed now. I know it wasn't Damian's fault, but John WILL suffer. I swear it.

So, Healthbar told us everything that had happened, what Damian had told her and what he'd done, it took about an hour and a half she was so weak, she kept nearly passing out, and if we take her to a hospital, they'll find out about us and we're all doomed, but I don't care. If I have to, then I will.

Anyway, I came on here and found Damian's post which confirmed my theory of Damian's innocence, and now we're hunting John. I think that's it, I keep thinking I forgot to tell you guys something, I'll post it if I remember, keep watching this space!

Building 26

Well, Me, Diffy, Playwrite and Tingle were shooting off to save Evan, and we touch down a little way outside the gates just as Damian, Aron, and John appear from nowhere. Damian said they were coming to help, and they wanted to come in with me. I disagreed, saying it was better they stay outside so we weren't too big a group, but he pointed out that I'd said Aron would be helpful with cell doors, he could teleport out quickly if we needed him too, and he wasn't leaving John outside on his own. I reluctantly agreed, but made them promise to stay with the group, and made Damian swear not to go looking for his mum. We were here for Evan, not the full rescue plan for everyone else.

They all promised, so I flew us in down through the top, While Playwrite made a large thought bubble round us telling people to ignore us and Diffy made us look like cleaners as soon as we landed. We walked quickly downstairs one level to the holding rooms, and found Evan. I turned to ask Damien to teleport him out, and noticed he'd vanished! John was muttering to a blank looking Aron, and they both told Tingle truthfully that they didn't know where he was, but John said they would go and look for him, and before I could stop them they ran up the stairs again. Playwrite looked troubled and I asked why, and he said something wasn't right with them, but something was making it hard to see. He said Aron's thoughts weren't as complex and normal as they should be, and he couldn't tell what was going on with John. I sent Tingle after them and went phased Evan out of his room.

We followed the others back up the stairs, and found Tingle lying in a corridor unconsious. It was a miracle he hadn't been discovered, hell even as we found him a guard came round the corner, and Playwrite had to tell him to ignore us, and I used to persuasion to make sure he'd stop people coming into this corridor for a while. Tingle had a small lump on the side of his head like in cartoons when someone's hit by a saucepan. We heard raised voices round the corner and we got there in time to see Damian teleporting away from Aron, who was in a very bad way. We listened hard, and could just hear a slight heartbeat. John was nowhere to be seen. We knew something was up, but at the moment, we needed Healthbar urgently. I made us a large Forcefield and flew us straight up and out, Phasing through the floors, not caring about hiding. The life of a friend was in danger. We were going too fast to be seen properly. Playwrite called Healthbar on the way back, I was flying us so fast across that ocean I couldn't concentrate on anything else. Playwrite got Evan to support him as he went into Aron's mind and made it concentrate, keep himself alive, keep his heart beating just a bit longer. Playwrite was literally being Aron's mind, demanding that his organ's keep working.

Healthbar met us near the coast, she'd got a late train so she could get there as soon as possible, we couldn't wait for us to meet at base. She healed Tingle (it was easier to do the simple heal first, it got her power flowing better), who woke up, and told us while she started on Aron that it was Aron that had hit him, because John told him to. Then Healthbar screamed, and we saw that Aron was still unconsious, but his biggest wounds had healed, including the hole in his chest, and that he'd be fine in a second.

But then it all went wrong.

Healthbar screamed again and fainted. Aron had worn her out, and he wasn't anywhere near fully healed yet. But he would live. I flew us all back to base, and we carried them both inside and lay them down to rest for a bit. Damian was there, in floods of tears, but I thought it was better we leave him to be unhappy and ask what happened later. I wish I'd got him out of there to talk then, I might have saved everyone.....

To the Rescue!

Writing this by technopathy on my way to B26. DON'T FOLLOW ME IN, BUT PLEASE BE READY IF WE NEED HELP. Too many people inside and we'll be caught. I'm off to rescue Evan, Danko tricked him and has him trapped. I'm going to phase in with Diffy, Playwrite, and Tingle, with Diffy hiding us, Playwrite working on the guards and finding Evan, and Tingle making sure we don't get tricked. Please be ready to help if needed, but don't follow us inside unless you really have to, this is the most people we can have in without being found, we've tried. This isn't the big rescue plan, just getting Evan, not Cienfuego's mum or looking for pete or anything. I'll let you know how it goes.