02 - Flicker of a Candle

[onlyburnhotter]

Who: Yang Xiao Long and You
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS wonderduck
When: Now

[When Yang turns on her communicator's video feed, one would assume she is broadcasting from her own bunkroom aboard the Bishop; however, Wonderduck crew members will likely recognize the room as one on their ship. In fact, it's more than likely they've seen Yang coming and going fairly often the past couple of days, as she's been visiting her seemingly unconscious partner, Blake Belladona.]

[After she passed out during the meeting between Blake, Yang, Penny and Pyrrha, Yang had carried her back to Blake's bunkroom on the Wonderduck, and ever since she's been checking in on her. Each time, leaving more and more concerned about the state of her friend. From what she'd been able to pull from the fleet's archives, this kind of thing was not exactly a rare occurrence; yet, it still had Yang worried. After several days of just sitting and waiting, her impatience gets the better of her, and that's what causes her to flip on her communicator and set it broadcast fleetwide. Maybe she can get some answers or find some small comfort from other fleet members who have some experience dealing with this kind of thing.]

Hey everyone...

So, from what I've gathered, it's not exactly odd for people in the fleet to more or less drop unconscious for a little while, only to wake up later a little different.

[A slighly worried look off screen before she returns to addressing the communicator.]

But how long usually does this whole coma-like sleeping thing typically go for? And... when people DO wake up... is it usually bad? I mean, like... do they wake up still as themselves? Or only after something "else" has happened to them?

Am I even making sense?

[That last question addressed more to herself. She sighs, shakes her head. Tries to sound a little more cheery, with only moderate success.]

Anyways, yeah, any advice or answers anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

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[alwayscomeback]

I was out for about a week or two when it happened to me, nothing happened before it, I just went to sleep and stayed asleep. Anyway, when I woke up, it was like I'd gone home for three years. I had all the memories from being at home, and I'd aged too. Which, according to my first mate isn't something that happened in the last place he was at. He pointed out that a lot.

Anyway, aside from being kinda disoriented because I hadn't been here in my mind for a long time, I was okay.

...I was kinda cold when I woke up if that counts for anything?

Video

[onlyburnhotter]

[Whoa! That's a lot for Yang to process all at once, she shakes her head, making sure she understood all that.]

So wait... you actually went home? Or you thought you went home? And you're saying it felt like three years? But here it was only about two weeks?

Man... that's trippy...

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[alwayscomeback]

My body stayed here, so I guess I didn't actually go home, even if it felt that way. Maybe they...dumped all the info into my brain or something? And then aged me to suit?

I honestly don't understand it at all. It's super weird.

[onlyburnhotter]

But even though your body stayed here... you still aged? Like, it was only two weeks here, but you aged three years?

[alwayscomeback]

That's exactly what happened. Like I said, super weird</I..

[onlyburnhotter]

{She appears to be studying him for a moment before responding.]

So how old were you exactly before you passed out?

[alwayscomeback]

Sixteen. I'm nineteen now... actually, technically I'm twenty, if you count time here, too. I've been here over a year.

[onlyburnhotter]

[Damn, that does make him older than Yang. He does look fairly young though... like he could be a fellow student at Beacon or something.]

So three years in two weeks... that had to have been quite the shock.

[alwayscomeback]

[They breed them young and gorgeous in the South Pole. ]

It really was. But that-

[He pauses, his brow furrowing. ]

That wasn't the worst part. While I was out? My girlfriend vanished from here. I woke up and she was just gone.

action, forward-dated

[fedupwithyourbull]

[Well, a few days after Yang makes this post, Blake finally starts to stir again.

She's clutching at her side, but that isn't too weird, right?]

Action

[onlyburnhotter]

[Yang is just now entering Blake's room, having been planet-side for a little while. At first, she doesn't notice anything. Blake's position having not really shifted all that much, but then her little movements catch Yang's eye.]

Blake?

[Her voice soft, not quite a whisper, but lower than her normal speaking volume.]

Action

[fedupwithyourbull]

[Her eyes snap open when she hears that voice, focusing instantly on Yang in panic, and she practically leaps out of the bed.

... And immediately stumbles and nearly falls because she hasn't been upright in a few weeks thanks to this coma.]

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[onlyburnhotter]

[Blake's somewhat violent wake-up startles Yang too, but she recovers a bit more quickly and gracefully than Blake.]

Whoa! Jeez, Blake, you scared me.

{She giggles a little at the somewhat goofiness of it all.]

Are you okay? Do you know where you are?

[fedupwithyourbull]

Yang-? How are you here- What happened-?!

[Her eyes flick back and forth between Yang and the exit, like she's trying to decide if she can make it there. Like she expects Yang to stop her if she bolts, really.

Until she stops, staring down at Yang's right arm.]

[onlyburnhotter]

Well, I mean, I'm the one that brought you here. You passed out during that meeting with Penny and Pyrrha. Everyone's been really worried about you.

[Yang follows Blake's gaze, first to the door--odd, but she doesn't really question it. Then she notices Blake starring at her arm. It lasts a moment enough for her to feel awkward about it. She waves in front of Blake's face in a "Earth to Blake, are you there, Blake?" gesture.]

[fedupwithyourbull]

[that snaps her out of it, and she takes an unsteady step backwards.]

You- Wait, meeting with- Penny and Pyrrha? But, they're...

[hold on. you can see her brain starting to catch up with current events.]

This... This is the Fleet, isn't it.

[onlyburnhotter]

[Yang lets out a small sigh, knowing where Blake's thoughts are likely going. She can't really blame her for feeling distraught over being back, especially if she was where Yang thinks she was during her period of unconsciousness.]

Yeah, you're back at the Fleet.

I'm guess... you were back home, weren't you? Back in Remnant?

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[combatready]

[ Aaand here's a Penny. ]

How is she doing...? [ Penny she. Pretty much just said how she was doing. But okay. ]

[onlyburnhotter]

[Penny! Yang gives as confident of a grin as she can manage, trying to keep Penny from worrying too much.]

About the same. Doesn't seem like her condition's changed.

[For better or worse. Yang adds to herself, internally.]

[combatready]

That is very unusual. Isn't it? [ Blake is not a robot. Humans - or faunus - can't power down for days or weeks at a time. ]

I do hope she recovers soon.

[onlyburnhotter]

Apparently it's not so unusual here. People have fallen unconcious like this, and when they wake up there's often something different about them. Typically, it sounds like they dreamed about being back home... or they did actually go home temporarily... or something like that. Honestly, it doesn't make much sense.

[And that's what has Yang worried all the more about Blake's condition.]

[combatready]

So it is possible she is experiencing the time between your arrival, and mine and Pyrrha's? [ Not good, probably. ]

[onlyburnhotter]

Yeah... that's looking like a real possibility.

[combatready]

I am hoping nothing bad happens to you or Blake in that time. [ Of course, from what Pyrrha had been saying. Something bad was happening to the entire city.

Also not considering that Yang's disqualification in itself is pretty bad. Way to go, Penny. ]

[onlyburnhotter]

[Yang stiffens a little at Penny's words, but she tries to play nonchalant.]

I'm sure we'll be fine. I mean, we're partners... I trust her, and I know she trusts me. No matter what, we've got each other's backs.

[Tempting fate here, isn't she? In fact, yang does sound a bit like she's trying to reassure herself, as much as she is Penny.]