damned_institute | Day 30: Staff, Morning

Burly orderlies and agile Calm Effect nurses flooded the cafeteria from the Courtyard while regular hall nurses filed in from the Sun Room and ushered out those not involved in the rebellion. It indeed seemed as if Landel was sending out all the cavalry, and an effective cavalry they were: The riot didn't continue for much longer after the alarm sounded, though it seemed strange just how quickly all of the mutinous patients fell, even the ones who hadn't been injected with anything.

The hall nurses were quick to escort their well-behaved charges back to their rooms, praising those who hadn't joined in and chiding those who muttered under their breath in response. There were some exceptions, of course: One nice young man had even defended one of the nurses from the violent patients! Now, wasn't that exemplary behavior? Dr. Landel would be so proud to hear about it...

Within half an hour, all of the so-called "loyal" patients had been safely deposited in their rooms, and it was then that the alarm finally stopped and the true difficulty of the situation was tackled. There certainly weren't enough rooms in solitary to accommodate such rampant disobedience, and yet measures would have to be taken to ensure proper consequences for each and every patient involved. After all, something like this couldn't be allowed to happen again!

Different options were considered. Perhaps they should make an example out of the girl who had sparked the riot, but then again, perhaps not. This certainly wasn't the first case of patients attacking nurses or their peers in a crowded area, but what had been different this time was the sheer support that the other patients had shown for her. Should the staff then make examples of all those who had tried to "protect" her from the well-meaning nurses? No, there were too many for that...

In the end, it was decided that the best immediate solution would be to treat the rebellious patients in the Medical Wing while they were unconscious and then move them back to their rooms to await punishment. To ensure the safety of both their roommates and the patients themselves, however, the staff decided to securely fasten their limbs to their beds and keep them heavily drugged. Such a sad sight they were to see, but... it was necessary.

Finally, when each and every patient had been escorted back to their respective rooms, the staff hurried off to an emergency meeting upstairs. Strangely, Head Nurse Lydia was the one taking care of the proceedings in the Head Doctor's stead. She calmly told them that he was preoccupied with more urgent matters, and as she began to speak to the crowd, the staff could only wonder what could possibly be more important than an unprecedented patient riot...

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That wasn't the easiest question. Komui had been... asinine and cruel to him for reasons he didn't understand right from the start. Back at the Order, the first time they'd met, he'd used those giant drills and frightening equipment just to 'fix' his anti-akuma weapon. In the end, it'd helped, but the sedative that came with it left him too weak to do anything when Hevlaska was studying his Innocence later. Komui had known it would be frightening, but he hadn't said a word before hand to warn him!

It'd been a lucky thing they'd had a doctor so close in the rewinding town as well, but again, Komui had carried around those gigantic pointy instruments and other things all for his own 'good.' Still...

"No... he wouldn't have..." he gave a resigned sigh. Not intentionally, not like last night. It still gave him chills just thinking about it.

"If he really was brought from your world, though, he'd have retained his personality," Sasuke said, decisively. "None of us are inherently different for being in this place; only physically changed. It stands to reason that if whatever you met that night were really your friend, he wouldn't have attacked."

And it thus stood to reason that if Sasuke ever met Fugaku wandering the Institute and grotesquely modified one night, it wouldn't be Fugaku. Sasuke knew that already, and so he wasn't sure why he was taking such pains to convince Allen that whatever he'd killed hadn't been a real person, but it was important on some level, in some way.

"But... I heard that... that sometimes the make the patients... fight one another. Brainwash them somehow." Hadn't someone on the bulletin boards said that Ravi had attacked him a few nights back? Why was this so different from then? Allen was just relieved that he hadn't run into his friend that night. It might've ended just as tragically as last night had.

"When we're brainwashed, we're given our original equipment and powers back," Sasuke said, rather close to being outright dismissive. "It's a good way to test both the skills of the non-controlled patients and those of the one being used by the Institute."

Breaking the pattern could mean a couple things, if it had occured. It might even be that the Institute was releasing a new wave of experiments, ones that didn't have innate powers and had been modified here for them and were brainwashed to attack from the outset. If so, what that meant for those here who had powers of interest wasn't a particularly bright story.

"So you don't... think this was similar?" he asked, not sure if he was ready to believe it himself, but at least now willing to accept that the idea was plausible. Should he mention it to Rinali? On the one hand, she might be relieved to hear it, on the other... could she even trust anything he said anymore?

"No," Sasuke said, short and firm. If he was operating under this theory of this place, he'd have to believe in it until it was definitely disproven. There was no way to make gathered information coherent otherwise.

Allen sighed, long and drawn out, but this time there was some relief in it. At least... he had something he hadn't had this morning. Hope. And that could make all the difference.

"I... um..." he paused, "thank you."

Sasuke blinked, surprised at first, and realised that Allen at least sounded a little better than he had when he'd first come in. It was awkward accepting thanks for something that Sasuke had needed to clear up himself, so he just shrugged and leaned back against the wall again. When was this shift ending?

"There's no point in losing someone who can fight to this place's crap."

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