So, we have Clarke finally making some contact with the Ark, and they've discovered the Elgius ship was sent into deep space and have attempted to "call it back" but we now have a meteor shower that has his the Ring. What happens next? Reviews welcome of course!
The dark and cold remained, but Raven had woken up. She panicked - her memory instantly going to her leg, but was relived to feel it moving. She groaned. The fall and debris were not pleasant, and environmental controls were clearly off in this section. She hoped that the meteor shower had kept its hit to the starboard side that they were currently on and didn't impact any of the other sections. She felt slow movement beside her.
"Monty? Emori?"
A groan escaped from ahead of her. It sounded like Emori. Silence otherwise.
"Monty?" she asked the darkness. Still nothing.
Raven took the flashlight out of her pocket and pointed it to her left and right, and there Monty lay. His face was nearly turning purple and it was clear that whatever was on his chest was going to suffocate him. No wonder he hadn't responded.
In moving herself upright and pointing the flashlight, she could see ahead of her another person... Emori, crushed under the same equipment. But clearly still making some noise and breathing. Raven knew she had to act, if she could, and as she suspected the section had automatically sealed as programmed to do in a meteor shower, it would be too long to wait for the rescue team. The rescue team of Bellamy, who was barely himself, Echo, who could barely lift 10 pounds, Harper who had spiralled deep into depression, and Murphy. "That little asshole" Raven thought to herself and she shifted her weight and got up. She felt surprisingly strong. She knew she wasn't able to run very fast but all those exercises had changed her body and strengthened it. Monty didn't have much time. She had to save him.
Raven used all her strength to pull up the equipment. She felt it shudder and saw more pull down to where Emori lay... trapper her. Raven continued, and using her good leg, rolled Monty onto his side. Where he instantly coughed up a significant amount of blood.
"Shit. Monty, we need to get you out of here now."
Raven heaved his weight up onto hers and started dragging him to the locked doors. She laid him down and quickly started programming with the keypad. The door opened. She hauled Monty inside and heard shouts coming from the hallway.
"We are here!" she screamed, already feeling the exhaustion take over. Only then, in the light, did she look down at her good leg and see the blood pouring out of it with shrapnel stuck in it.
Bellamy and Murphy came running down the hallway and saw Raven dragging Monty, who was still blue and had stopped breathing.
"He stopped breathing!" Raven screamed at nobody in particular. "Monty! Monty!"
"Emori!" Murphy yelled into the darkness starting to climb over the debris.
"No." Bellamy said, grabbing his shirt. "Monty needs you now. I'll go get her. Use the cart and take him there now. I will bring Emori."
Murphy started to protest when Bellamy changed, pushing him up against a wall and holding him there with more strength than anybody would have expected.
"You do what I say, and you do it now."
Murphy's eyes widened and nodded slowly. He hauled Monty onto the cart and Raven slumped down on the floor, defeated. Bellamy took her flashlight and walking into the wrecked section.
It was dark, and the hazards ever present with hissing noises and creaks that made it sound like the entire section might fall off the Ring at any moment. It was hard to breath due to the lack of environmental controls and steady oxygen. Still, he half walked, half crawled forward. He had no idea how Raven had managed to pull Monty out of there. Sheer stubborness if he was to guess.
"Emori?" he called. A groan about 15 metres ahead.
Bellamy crawled up to Emori and tried to pull the equipment up. It wouldn't budge. He looked at the piping, about a foot wide and 20 feet long. The side that Monty and Raven had been on had been torn from its post, but where Emori was... her body was stuck underneath is entirely with two other pieces weighing down on it on either side. She was going to need to be sawed out.
"I'm going to need to get more help Emori. This is worse than I thought. I need to get a saw to get you out of here."
Emori was unconscious, but still breathing. Bellamy went as quickly as he could to the unimpacted part of the Ring and grabbed the intercom.
"Harper, Echo - I need you immediately and bring a metal saw. NOW." Bellamy ordered. Then he added: "If you don't get here in five minutes, I'm floating you and you'll have wasted three years in space for nothing."
Echo was there immediately with a metal saw, but Harper was not. Bellamy didn't have time to waste.
"Echo, this is not ideal. You aren't healthy but you can help. Let's get Emori out of here."
They crawled back to Emori. "Emori? Can you hear me?"
Nothing. The silence... it held them for a moment. Bellamy didn't have time to panic. He had to use his head.
"First things first, we need to get her sawed out. I'll saw this out more quickly but Echo you can pull it so that its at an angle to make it easier.
They worked as quickly as they could, but it felt like forever. Finally, they were able to lift the equipment and wedge Emori out.
"She isn't breathing." Echo observed.
"Let's get her to medbay." Bellamy stated, unsure as to what the next step would be.
They went as quickly as they could back to the Ring, where Bellamy typed in the code to the section and re-sealed it off. Echo pulled up Raven and supported her on her bad leg, as Bellamy rushed ahead carrying Emori.
When Bellamy walked in there with Emori, Murphy gaped at his partner, limp in his arms and pointed to the extra bed.
"I've stabilized Monty, barely. He is not breathing on his own but his colour has returned to normal with assisted breathing. Is she breathing?"
Bellamy shook his head, but Murphy already knew.
He started working on her right away, trying everything he had read about. He intubated for the second time, the first being Monty moments before, and gave her one of their precious doses of epinethrine, and shocked her heart.
Nothing.
He tried again. His eyes started to go crazy. He looked like a madman as he tried everything and nothing worked. Bellamy watched. Nothing worked. He started to scream obsenities and kicking at the equipment and begging Emori to wake up. Nothing.
At that moment, Raven and Echo limped into medbay. Murphy turned on them, staring at Raven and then Bellamy. He ran up to Bellamy and punched him hard across the face, and then tried to go for Raven.
"You fucking bitch! You chose Monty over Emori! You fucking horrible asshole bitch! You took the one thing I cared about. I FUCKING HATE YOU." He screamed at the top of his lungs while Bellamy attempted to hold him back. Raven looked at Monty and then at Emori, her eyes glistening, her face still in a state of shock, when all of a sudden, she fainted and Echo not being as strong as she once was, let her fall to the floor.
I don't want Emori to die. But six years on the Ring with no accidents or deaths? Emori isn't joining the main cast next season but Echo is? Emori who is the eternal survivor, who was learning and mastering technology, suddenly gone because of a choice Raven made? How will this change them all? Thoughts and opinions welcome.
