Problems of the U // Team 9's Feeling Fine!

[tanteiotaku]

The last place he wanted to be when the earth shook like that was underground. But maybe, just maybe, after that first shake that was all they were in for.

It was not to be. As the world came down around them, he ducked and covered his head. Through the dust and falling rocks, he didn't see that fairly sizable stone coming down toward him. He let out a shout of pain when it made impact. He rolled over onto his side and scrambled away from the rock, in case more were coming. Fortunately, it was a glancing blow. A stone that size could have hurt him a lot worse if it had hit him squarely.

He stayed curled up until the shaking stopped, and the last pebbles settled. He patted his vest. It didn't seem like anything critical had been damaged.

Time to see how the others had fared. He called out to the room at large. "Oi--ow!" he wrapped his arm around his chest. Okay, that really hurt. The black of his vest and pants was muted by the settling dust as he pushed himself to his feet. "Everyone alright?"

He had someone else to check on, too. He pulled out the Stag Phone, jabbed a button and put it to his head. He was rewarded with a loud, shrill shriek and he jerked it from his head. Okay, that was weird. He started pushing pseudo memories into it, the flying blue Bat Shot, and the skittering yellow Spider Shock. "Go find anyone else in trouble," he told them.

While he did that, he experimented a bit with breathing in a way that wasn't painful while he looked around the smaller space that had been the large main room. Nothing but rocks. He took a few steps around the rock that had wounded him. "Anyone else out there?"

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[aehallh]

By now, Irian has... mostly put herself back together. Her hair is back in its ponytail, as best she could get it without a mirror; she's gotten the worst of the dust off her uniform; and the shallow gash on her neck has stopped bleeding, though there's nothing she can do about the blood drying uncomfortable and sticky on her skin. She has, needless to say, been in worse situations than this.

She's quiet for a bit while the others talk, leaning against the wall, arms crossed. Mostly, she's evaluating the four people trapped here with her. Shotaro she met when she first arrived on board Enterprise, and Dylan she has only just gotten to know, but the other two are a mystery to her.

Irian is not a hero, although there are some who would argue otherwise. She's not given to putting herself in danger to protect others, not unless she must. But this... all their lives are at stake. It would be foolish, even dishonorable, not to try to help.

Normally, she would be in command in a situation like this; it feels awkward and strange, not to be the one giving orders. On the other hand, her rank is meaningless here. None of these people care what command she holds in her own world. It's best to treat all these people as her equals, unless they prove otherwise — that route is the least damaging to her honor.

"My people are much stronger than most humans," she says finally, matter-of-factly. "I shall do what I can."

[tanteiotaku]

He nodded at Dylan, and rattled off the names that Philip had given him. "Geordi LaForge, Terzen T'karr, KITT, and Noriko Ashida are with him. As far as how..." he fidgeted a bit with his hat.

Well, there was no harm in just fessing up. "Together we are one detective, and we are also a single hero called Kamen Rider Double. It's kind of a long story, but it means that with the belt on we can talk to each other, among other things." He nodded, deciding that it was okay to trust these people. "Hopefully we won't see the kind of trouble down here where I'll have to use it for much more than that."

He looked over toward the area one of the Gadgets had earlier alerted him to there being other people. "Yeah, the more of us we get together the better. The gadgets would have told me if the people on the other side needed more urgent help. Let's get some tools together and we can rotate pickaxe turns. I can set the Gadgets to check out the side tunnels to see if there's anyone else down them. I'd rather lose one of them than someone else get trapped if there's another cave-in."

[dreams_dont_die]

He's used to being the one in charge in a situation like this, but so far, the rest of the group haven't actually come up with anything he feels the need to contradict. He's curious about what Shotaro says, though for now he puts it aside as a thing they can talk about later if they need to. He's also glad that there's one name he recognizes on the list of people who are known to be okay, even if that name isn't Harper's (or Tyr's or Rhade's).

"That's a good plan." He gestures around the cave. "We should also check around, see if there are any sort of emergency supplies down here."

He's not going to state the obvious. But if they're stuck down here for long, they're going to want to have all the resources and supplies they can put together.