Hart sighs at the conversation between Samuel and Maverick. There he goes again... Whatever.  Overlander or Tanelornian, they look and act the same to me.

Hart is slowly regaining his wits and calm demeanor as the battle has seemingly come to an end.  With others salvaging materials, Hart feels an urge to pitch in as well, but another thought is more important in his mind at the moment. "I'm going to head back to Channelwood too.  I'll feel a lot better when I know that the rest of our group is safe and what the Princess wants us to do next." He indicates Samuel when he mentions the 'group.'

Unaware and slightly anxious of the Shelly's status, Hart trots off towards Channelwood, keeping his ears and eyes open for anything odd that the 'bots might have slipped through.
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Katy looks over at Valin. "And by the way, yes... you can assume the mission was failed because we have no scuba gear. But I'm sure you can understand our being distracted by all the masses about to be roboticized."

Valin nods to Katy and says, "I'd say that is quite understandable. After all, we can always go for the scuba gear later. The same can not be said for rescuing prisoners."

  Joe was wondering when the melodrama between the kid and Sam would finish.  He had been tempted to leave the second the kid had asked where Sam was from because there was no question how that would turn out.

  "Why didn't I leave when I could?" Joe sighed, before looking over to Katy and asking "Are we doing anything with this disaster area, or leaving it mostly as is before heading off?"

  "I don't know," Lucky answers Mittens, calming down a little, "She just... suddenly went limp!  Whatever you were carrying her for must have gotten to her!  She said something about water...  Maybe her kind need water to breath!"  Lucky's wide eyes stare at Shelly's parched lips.

"She's breathing," Mittens points out, "But you make a good point.  If you want to help, ask around for some water.  A bucket full at least.  And some clean rags to help cool her off."

(Lucky immediately gets up to start looking for some water.)

When Michael reaches Channelwood he quickly notices something is wrong since the situation involving Shelly doesn't look like a situation where everything is 'peachy'.

Michael quickly heads towards Mittens and Shelly as he asks, "What happened here? Is Shelly okay?" Since Michael doesn't know that much about Seabears he can't tell how serious the situation is.

Katy says, "Joe's right, of course. Let's clean up. I want this place looking like nothing happened here." She then looks at Samuel, "Your help is appreciated, but if you'd rather see to your leader, she's back at Channelwood."

Emerald has been working on stuffing moss into some of the tree scars and covering up the traps that had been set earlier. She stays out of conversation for now, though she does acknowledge Katy, "I'm on it, Katy."

Maverick looks about like he's a little lost. The one guy he figured would have a few things in common with him is from outer space. These people just rescued him, but at the same time, act like it was more of a necessity rather than an act of mercy. Though admittedly, that was the reaction he was feeling from Samuel. Hart seemed like a totally harmless person while Valin seemed gentle, but quite dangerous. Maverick would rather take his chances with someone smaller than himself at this point, so he heads over to where Hart went and starts to quietly follow him.

The humidity levels of the forest are much nicer than the suffocation levels that were occurring in the city thanks to Ra's flames. She is still unconscious, but at least her condition doesn't get any worse for the time being. Nevertheless, her condition will remain the same until someone gets her some water.

Samuel looks a bit glum when Katy refers to 'his leader', for although Samuel knows Katy meant Shelly, Samuel can't help but think of his Captain as he mutters with sadly, "My Captain was roboticized on the same day I was stranded on this planet, so I don't know where he, or the others are now," as Samuel finishes up scavenging parts from the site.

After finishing his scavenging, Samuel then turns his attention towards covering up the 'evidence' of the ambush as best he can. Although for the moment he seems to be ignoring everything else, and it wouldn't be hard to realize that Samuel is simply focusing on the task at hand to avoid thinking about memories that are quite obviously still painful for him.

  "Passed out from exhaustion no doubt," Mittens answers Michael calmly.  "She asked for water before she fainted.  I'll bet she'll need lots of it if her condition is to improve.  I sent that boy to find some," (She points at Lucky) "but I imagine you could get it faster."

  Mittens vision blurs and she braces herself as the dizziness worsens.  @.@  "I could use some myself come to think of it," she continues weakly.  ._.
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  It never occurred to Joe that one day, he would be giving swats a proper burial.  Hey, big holes in the ground that were going to be refilled with dirt anyways may as well have a last practical purpose used anyway.  And yes Joe was well aware of the wonders of metal detectors, but any significant effort to see if this was where some carnage took place would succeed anyways, so the small extra would help with the superficial efforts.

Hart arrives at Channelwood shortly after Mittens and Micheal converse.  Seeing Shelly laying uncouncious, he breaks into a dash over to her position.

"Aw man... The princess..." He looks over to Mittens and Micheal, trying to keep his visible cool, but speaking a bit quicker than normal. "What happened here?  She doesn't look terrible, but she doesn't look good either.  You don't look so hot yourself, Mittens... maybe you should sit down and chill out for a bit." He sighs, slowing himself down. "Geez, this has been one heck of a trip to the surface..." He looks over at Mittens' unsteadyness with slight concern, also keeping an eye on Micheal for any indication of what's all going on.  He's aware that he probably arrived in the middle of things, and hopefully a solution is already underway.

Katy doesn't really comment on what Sam said since she frankly doesn't care weather Sam sees Shelly is his leader or not. Though she does add, "But he and your crew members will be found. Do or die. And along side them or not, I'll make Robotnik wish he was never born." She sure as heck doesn't complain about the extra help. And will probably thank Sam when clean up is done.

Michael nods and as he says, "I guess it's just a case of dehydration then. I suppose I can get water faster than someone who has never been here before. I'll be back shortly," as Michael quickly climbs up a nearby tree to get to the higher levels of Channelwood. In under a minute, Michael is no longer in sight due to tree branches obscuring his location on a higher level of Channelwood.

A short time later, Michael can be seen with two canteens as he climbs down a different tree than the one he climbed up. Upon reaching the ground Michael walks over towards Mittens and hands her the two canteens and says, "Just make sure that neither you or Shelly drink too fast, as it's not good for someone who is dehydrated to gulp down water."


[OOC: And here I was waiting on Lucky since I felt it might be a bit odd for him to head off to get water first but come back slower, but I had forgotten Lucky hasn't been to Channelwood before and thus wouldn't know where to go... doh.]

"I'm sure she'll be fine," Mittens answers softly.

  She gingerly tilts Shelly's head to one side and carefully tilts the canteen toward Shelly's lips, hoping reflex will help the water go down the right pipe.  Thanks to nearly losing consciousness, her dexterity is near zero and more water winds up on Shelly's face than in her mouth.  >.<  Maybe that's why the stewardess tells you to put on your own oxygen mask first.  But Mittens has never flown in an airplane, and drinking before taking care of the parched princess would be unthinkable even if she had, so she continues the clumsy effort. ^.^;

  Elsewhere in Channelwood, Lucky has managed to get himself thoroughly lost.
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  Remember, only you can prevent litter.  Though whoever came up with environmental awareness slogans likely didn't have burying your unwanted dead robot remains in mind to keep the in view scenery clean.

  "Well, thats over with."  The braver, possibly less sane Coyote than cannon cast members of the species commented as the cleanup job was finished.  Joe looked over to the often melodramatic Human and said "For a helpful change of pace, I agree with the fact your life sucks more than mine." and followed this up by heading for what counted as home for the moment.

  Maybe Sam was better off with people constantly calling him 'overlander' and saying his life wasn't so bad?

Katy glances at Joe, wondering whether the guy is trying to be insulting or mis-spoke. "Joe... that wasn't helpful. Or nice for that matter." she comments, hoping he'll take the hint and apologize to Samuel. In one form or another. But still... She finishes up her end as well and indicates to head back to Channelwood.

Shelly's expression is one of hope and pleasure mixed together as the water hits her face. Like she's dreaming of a long lost friend. She cracks an eye open and grabs at the water to try drinking it herself.

Hart breathes a sigh of relief and sits back on the ground as Shelly grasps for the water. "Heh... You really wouldn't be able to live a day without the wet stuff, would you Shel?  Welcome back to the world of the living." He looks thankfully to Mittens for helping so quickly and smirks at both of the girls as they continue their efforts.
To him, it seems like things have finally calmed down.

  Mittens collapses flat on her back the moment Shelly has a grasp on the canteen.  "Sure hope that boy comes back with more soon."  Here eyes close, and her mouth gapes.  XO

After listening to both what Joe has said and then Katy's response to it, Samuel simply says, "It may not be useful, or pleasant, but neither of those faults make it any less true." By the tone in Samuel's voice it's clear he's not happy, but it's just as obvious that his feelings aren't directed at anyone present as Samuel starts making his way towards Channelwood as he follows Katy.

Samuel figures that now isn't the time to have to try to explain how through his equipment he'd be able to guide himself back to Channelwood on his own since he knows if he's led there enough times if he was asked he could say that he had learned the layout of the land, instead of the truth that he would be relying on technology to keep track of his position and a path towards his destination.

OOC: And thus ends this chapter. Closing thread.