Nightshift 26: F-Block Hallway

[haiiro-no-chou.livejournal.com]

[From here.]

Shining the flashlight around the corner, Rukia didn't see any other patients around, which was fine with her at the moment. She wanted to get to Colonel Mustang quickly, and hopefully Renji wouldn't take too long to meet her...

Jogging along quietly, she continued on.

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[icy-pole.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Not good. Obviously this Usagi had been taken from a different time than Ami, or she was from a different dimension. Ami knew she was treading on dangerous ground now. Anything she said could force the threads of time to shift and change, possibly for the worst. She sighed and rubbed her temples.

"Usagi, I don't think we were taken from the same time period," Ami broke the news gently. This was going to be hard to explain. "I can't really tell you too much about what is happening in my timeline because I'm afraid that it could drastically change the future." Ami closed her eyes, deep in thought. "All I can say is that I'm beyond the time period that you are from...but not by much." That was about as much as Ami could reveal without completely ruining the future.

[moon-brained.livejournal.com]

"... what?!" Finding out there was another world where some floozy was giving out her secret identity for a TV show was bad enough! The distant future was one thing... now these jerks at Landel's were taking her friends from closer timelines just to confuse her?!

"Are you sure you can't tell me?" She asked, clutching her flashlight. The idea that something very bad could be happening in her immediate future was frightening. "Pluto and Neo-Queen Serenity broke those rules about time and nothing bad happened!"

[icy-pole.livejournal.com]

Ami knew that any information she could give Usagi regarding the new fight with Nehelenia could be vital, but was just as afraid of corrupting the time/space continuum. "I'm so sorry Usagi. I really want to tell you what's happening, but I really can't." Ami gnawed at her bottom lip in worry. She didn't want this version of Usagi to worry about what was happening to her future self.

She tried to comfort her best friend. "Unfortunately Pluto and Neo-Queen Serenity had more of an idea of what would happen if they did break the rules," she said, sorrowfully. "But all I can say Usagi, is that in the time I am from, you are even more powerful than ever, and I have no doubt that your future self is strong enough to overcome the toughest of obstacles." Ami smiled encouragingly. "You just have to believe in yourself."

[moon-brained.livejournal.com]

Usagi let out a deep sigh. No amount of pleading would get Ami to give up important information about the future, but that didn't make it any less frustrating. It wasn't fair that her friends kept having to go through fight after fight with no relief. Usagi needed to be strong to protect them, but the constant barrage of enemy attacks was beginning to take its toll on her heart.

She smiled at Ami's encouraging words, not wanting her friend to know how depressed the news about the future had made her. "Then I guess we should be more worried about getting out of here."

[icy-pole.livejournal.com]

Ami let out a small sigh of relief, glad that Usagi seemed to have cheered up at her words. Maybe even the small amount of information Usagi had gleaned from her would be enough to help her in the upcoming battle. That's IF we get out of here, Ami thought. What if they were stuck in here until they disappeared or died? Or if more of the senshi became stuck in here? Face it, you're useless without your change rod. You'll just be a burden.... A feeling of dread started to wash over her, and Ami struggled to pushed it back. "There's something wrong..." she murmured, looking around in the gloom. "The air feels....heavy." She wondered if Usagi could feel it too. Mentally shaking herself, Ami's blue eyes caught Usagi's again, remembering there was one very important thing she wanted to tell Usagi.

"Usagi," she said in a low voice. "Kunzite is in Landel's too."

[moon-brained.livejournal.com]

Usagi looked at Ami with concern and tried to sense what her friend was feeling. To her there was always a heaviness and confinement to the air of Landel's. Was Ami sensing some danger headed their way? She looked around the hall as a shiver ran down her spine.

Ami's next sentence caught Usagi off guard. Mamoru had the four stones of the generals and she knew that he could consult them in times of danger, but they had lost their physical forms. He trusted them, but if Landel's could take Ami from the future, it could take Kunzite from a time when he was still brainwashed by Beryl.

"Do you think he will help us?"

[icy-pole.livejournal.com]

Help us? That would be incredibly unlikely, given that we destroyed him...unless something else happened in Usagi's timeline. Ami sighed again. This was getting really complicated.

"Somehow I don't think so," she murmured, her thoughts returning to what happened the previous night. "There was something...ominous...about his presence." She looked back to Usagi. "But then, this place has been full of surprises." Realising they had been talking for some time, and that thre were people waiting for them, Ami thought it was probably time they made a move.

"We should probably go meet the other three," she said matter-of-factly, smiling at Usagi. "They should be waiting just outside this hallway."

Ami turned to lead the way to the designated meeting place.

[Leading to here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/183909.html?thread=12730981#t12730981)]

[moon-brained.livejournal.com]

Usagi nodded to Ami and followed, not wanting to hold up the other people they were meeting. What she said about Kunzite was troubling, but she'd worry about that when it came up.

[To here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/183909.html?thread=12730981#t12730981).]