An End to Brotherhood

[genericprotagonist]

[After the battle at Anchorage, one has to wonder what happened to Gipsy Danger. MIA and falling off the radar after the Plasma Blast into Knifehead. Well... somewhere further up the coast, a massive behemoth of sheared and torn metal trudged onto the snowy, frosty beach with debris crashing to the ground with every step. A low groaning, shrieking noise filling the air as it just couldn't keep going and plummeted to earth with a tooth rattling crash. A fallen giant in every way. A figure stumbled from the ruined Conn-pod. Unsteady on his feet and nearly falling multiple times. Several injuries were revealed from the damaged sections of his suit, his eyes, clearly visible from the broken helmet betraying shell-shock like you wouldn't believe as he staggered about as if searching...]

Yancy?! YANCY!!!

[He didn't want to believe... he saw it happen of course... he saw his brother get pulled away and die. Both with his own eyes and Yancy's. But denial was a powerful thing, especially coupled with immense stress, mental fatigue and blood loss. He crashed into the ground like his Jaeger, struggling to force himself back to his feet... he had to keep looking... but everything was getting so blurry. He could barely even register what was happening around him, let alone the cold.]

YAAANCYYYYYY!!!!!

(OoC: Because I am a terrible terrible person, I needed to do this scene in a post. Feel free to have someone pick Raleigh up. Note that the timeline for this is both after Anchorage as well as the Symphogear mission.)

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[ugyuuya]

[Raleigh feels the warmth of wake wash roll over him as a pair of units land by him. As the pilots disembark they quickly approach relief and tension mixing in their voices. Yuuya takes the lead while Stella checks the conn-pod and then offers assistance with first aid.]

Raleigh are you alright? Can you focus on me right now, you've been out for a while now and they advised that piloting solo like that is dangerous.

[Yuuya quickly checks the broken areas of Raleigh's suit and tries to get the other pilot to stay awake and focused while they treat his injuries and get a proper blanket with heating pads built into it to bring up his core temp. Yuuya is internally relieved but is very careful to avoid mentioning Yancy or the events at the concert.]

[genericprotagonist]

F..fine... I'm fine... just... need some air...

[Raleigh struggles to get in some air... while the treatment and blankets were appreciated the Jaeger pilot truly felt dead on his feet and the world was going to tip over at any second.]

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya guides Raleigh to a nearby rock and has him sit, checking the helmet seals and attempting to get it off to open more air to the pilot.]

Just take it easy, we've got evac birds on the way and recovery teams ready for Gypsy. We had pretty much every team available up in the air looking for you, I'm glad you made it back to shore, it was rough enough with what happened, having you up in the air was tough on everyone.

[genericprotagonist]

[Raleigh nods weakly, breathing a bit more deeply now though his hands were still shaking. He took a glance at his shattered Jaeger and felt a profound sense of loss. It wasn't that he just lost his brother, but a friend to both of them as well.]

Did... you find him?

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya pauses for a moment and looks towards Stella who is still standing by the torn out section of Gypsy's cockpit.]

No, he apparently went down with the Kaiju and command received several suit failure warnings before they lost the telemetry. We don't have anything conclusive so we may be wrong but it's unlikely.

[There's a sudden noise of debris clattering and metal ringing. Stella had apparently kicked part of the wreckage and she turns to Yuuya and Raleigh.]

Giving him false hope isn't going to help Yuuya. The official mission report has Yancey as KIA which they don't slap on to a pilot recklessly.

[jianai]

[Whomever moved out to retrieve Gipsy Danger and its pilot will find that the worst and most critical of Raleigh's injuries were already taken care of. By who? It's a mystery. There is no one around, though there are footsteps on the sand.

Raleigh himself may vaguely recall that someone bandaged him - but probably has more dramatic things to worry about than the person's identity. If only the mind was as easy to heal...]