>>6170563“Blueberry. Cui's second.” he replies, coughing up a bit of blood. “Is he-?”
“Everyone else is still alive and in better shape than you soldier, I'm going after them next.” your reply, gesturing behind you with one hand. “So far only one casualty of ours.”
“Tapua. A good man.” he says, sighing out. “I'll tell his family personally.”
“What happened here? Short version.” you say, Blueberry telling you how he'd been here in a meeting with an old man, the one he presumed leader from how the others all treated him. But he was also presumably a robot like the orange gi'd two and the triclops, they couldn't get any reading whatsoever on any powerlevel when the meeting was interrupted. He and the rest of Cui's team as well as the other robots, aside from the scarred one who had tried to stop the blast and was sent down and down, his status unknown had all tried to engage Meloka Black, only to all be swatted away like flies. As he talks his voice becomes firmer, eye focusing better as his mind starts working more.
“Can you move?” you ask him, Blueberry nodding to you.
“Now I can. At least 'till the blood loss gets me.” he replies, hovering up to stand on his one good leg, still dripping blood. “Cui. He an' the boys, they tried to fight her. But-”
“Good. Head back to where I confronted the Namekian and the OTHER time traveler earlier, there's a portal there back to New Salda. More help should be coming through shortly.” you say, the man nodding and taking off without another word. You sweep the room one more time, not seeing either Marron's could-be father in this time nor the triclops. But as you think of them, you feel another powerlevel dropping and leave the thought alone, raising your right hand to your forehead.
With a thought teleport out of the building, going all the way down into the craterous construction of this fortress, where a familiar figure is left hanging in a crater in the rocky cliff face. Unconscious, but as you fly closer still breathing. If a bit shallowly.
“He's okay.” you think to yourself, reaching out and placing a hand on Cui's bleeding chest, infusing him with your power as well. Causing him to gasp awake after a second, eyes wild and disoriented, flailing weakly against your for a second. But then his brain starts working, he blinks a couple times then finally recognizes you.
“Karn?” he asks, sounding equal parts disbelief and relief. “Is-?”
“One casualty, one wounded and on way to evac, two are more stable than you.” you tell him, giving him his team's status. Something you know you'd want in his condition. “Tapua was kia inside the main building, where you were attacked.”
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