052 || before the bomb party starts

[shiro2hero]

(Did anyone else get an almost-message from Bellamy today?)

[There's concern in the message. And the ghost-feeling of the urgent, slip-through-the-fingers contact from his broodmate minutes before. Because how else do you describe what just happened?]

(I tried to get back to him and got nothing.)

[Needless to say, he's worried. Maybe someone else got something more concrete.]

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/pages sam wilson

[bracchium]

[Flight checks. Right flight checks. Bucky fills in holes where he can, though with the technology he knows. Instead of rocket boosters, he substitutes quinn jet engines before continuing to count up from twenty to thirty, but in Russian.]

he's like obi-wan for brain problems

[shiro2hero]

[Jet engines. What...? Where did those come from--]

(You flew?)

[Words. Actual questions and words. That's better. Right?]

help me bro-bi sam kenobi

[bracchium]

[Bucky takes a few more deep breaths, focused on the challenge coin in his pocket as he responds to the question.]

( After. ) [After he lost his arm, after he he fell.]

you're our only hope

[shiro2hero]

(After.)

(I'm. Before.)

[If he's reading the implications of this correctly. But maybe it's not entirely true -- if it counts as flying the Lions or not.]

[bracchium]

[After another few moments of breathing, of pressing his thumb into the coin in his pocket, he offers the mental equivalent of a nod.]

( Before. )

[Well, that's unexpected, for sure. He's not quite certain how to react to the idea that someone else lost their arm. For now, though, he's got other matters to focus on. Digging too deep would be unhealthy for them both.]

( We'll find Bellamy. )

[shiro2hero]

[One on his end too -- short and sharp. Deep breaths.]

[This feels like something that needs to be discussed. Talked about. Something. But now isn't the time, is it? Now is the time to do things like plan attacks and find missing people.]

(He's alive -- so we've got to.)

[bracchium]

( After we figure out he bomb, if Bellamy isn't back, I'll go out looking. ) [Which isn't something he would usually volunteer himself for, but he knows just how deeply a loss of a nestmate affects everyone connected.]

[shiro2hero]

(I'm going with you.)

[He barely knows this person. But, this is bigger than just the two of them. This is more important.]

[bracchium]

( Copy. I'll... keep you advised on the situation. ) [For now, Bucky has to pack up to get ready for the assault on the memory banks.]

[shiro2hero]

(If I hear anything, I'll tell you, too.)

[He needs to get his butt in gear, too. And not get sidetracked by missing people.]