[X] Pink

There was a beeping sound, from within the room. She had missed it until the alarm had stopped blaring for whatever reason, and the explosions that had detonated outside the building, combined with the screeching song, was deafening enough that it had been really easy to miss.

The beeping was...

Well, it was distracting, but that was a good thing right now. Distractions were nice. Time to think about her current situation, and what was going outside, wouldn't work at all. There wasn't any windows in this room, so she wouldn't be able to look outside and see what was happening anyway, and if she thought about how hurt she was...

Her arm was salvageable, she mused. It had been shredded when the steel slab impaled through it had shattered, but the machine it was hooked into right now might be able to hold it together. She didn't know the science regarding it, but as far as she knew, it was using some kind of gravity dust mechanism to dilute the flow of time within the space of the machine, slowing down the risk of it being damage irrecoverably, while it made use of the usual maintenance technology to keep the limb intact and tried to kickstart her Aura.

But it still hurt. So did the rest of her. Her back hurt, her arms hurt, her...

Well, forget it. She couldn't afford to mope around right now, not much point. There wasn't anything she could do about it anyway.

Just think about the beeping. The happy little chirping beeping with it's nice little pattern to it. She wasn't entirely sure why it was beeping, though. Wasn't a beeping in a hospital usually a pulse thing?

Nora didn't remember hooking anything up to her heart, and she doubted that the veins in her arm were intact enough for the usual pulse taking area to be there. Maybe it was just a way of informing people that the technology was on, since she imagined that it would be kind of expensive.

Another screeched pierced through the air, and Nora tried to tune it out. There was some kind of fight going on outside the building, but it was fine. That screech was kinda melodic, kind of like something you'd expect out of a song where the singers and other musician were competing to see who could be the loudest and thus most famous. So that was an Intoner fighting, if Nora's past experience was anything to go off of.

So that meant that Three had come out of her room, then, right after Nora had gotten to the medical area. That was nice. Kinda surprising that the fight was even still going on, in that case, since Intoners were kinda strong. Nora had seen Two fight for a bit, back in that village where she first met Two. The one that had been burning, and where Yang turned up for the first time, so she knew how effective an Intoner was.

Was there just more than one combatant? Or was Three taking her time?

Nora hoped it was the latter. If there was several people running around doing as much damage as that silver knight, well, that was kind of a scary thought. Just one of them had torn through Ren, herself, and that one girl with the minigun with a casual ease. The idea that there was several people on that level running around meant considering what could have happened if she and Ren had encountered a dozen of fighters like that from the start.

...She hoped Ren was okay. He'd been hurt pretty bad when she started trying to lure the red lightning girl away from him and into the building. Yang had passed by to get into the building, so she must have seen him and helped get him away.

Though how would he be feeling right now? Assuming he hadn't passed out from blood loss or whatever. He'd probably be really worried about her right now. Nora hoped that he'd stay put, at least. She still remembered the last time he had ended up acting out because he was sick of losing things, and she saw Yang walk down a similar path while they were in Vale.

The building shook, as a roar echoed through the air, and Nora turned her head towards the source of the sound.

...That wasn't good, she thought to herself. Things capable of shaking the house from the distance that roar had come from usually weren't good. On a scale of good things and not good things, that was like a lot of not good things.

Wow, was that the best she could come up with? The blood loss must really be getting to her-

The shaking of the building continued, and Nora fell back. Her ruined arm nearly jerked out of the machine Nora had put it in, before the safety features kicked in and Nora felt herself hanging in the air from her arm for a moment. Quickly kicking down and standing up again, Nora ignored to pain shooting through her back as she got to her feet, and started to look around.

There was a cracking sound from underneath her, Nora noticed. Cracks started to climb upwards, into the steel floor at her feet.

When the floor began to collapse from under her, Nora didn't have much time.

The entrance she had used to get into this room was already gone, as they began collapsing. There were other doors in the room, fortunately, but Nora would need to outrun the crumbling building first. With all the injuries she was covered in and barely able to walk. She still had the gauntlet that Yang had given her and might be able to throw herself through the air with it, but then there was the initial problem.

Her arm was still in the machine.

Lashing out forward, Nora didn't bother going for the opening latch, instead punching through the machine. The beeping suddenly increased in frequency, growing louder in the process, while the soft hum of the Dust working on her arm suddenly cut out. The hand with the gauntlet on it was fine, as Nora ripped it away, but she could vaguely feel more shards of metal slamming into her other arm as she pulled it away.

Turning away from the machine, Nora started to run, vaulting over a hospital bed to throw herself across faster. As her hand pushed down on the bed, though, it started to fall. The floor under her was gone.

Throwing her good arm down, Nora aimed at the ground and fired. The recoil of the blast shot her upwards, her useless arm dangling to her side as she slammed into the roof. She felt the steel above her spin as she hit it, and Nora suddenly became aware that the roof was collapsing as well, not just the floor.

The walls too, Nora noticed, as they began to crumble away as well.

Nora fell for a moment longer, as the hunk of steel she had hit spun around, and as it shifted her above the majority of the falling roof, her foot found purchase on another chunk of falling ceiling.

The footing was unstable and barely there, but with the amount of force that was flowing through Nora's body after the shocks she had taken meant that it was enough. The steel rent and shattered as Nora kicked off of it, shooting herself upwards with Yang's glove covering her face. She burst through the rest of the falling roof, feeling her arm buckle from the weight in the process, and pain shot through her back as the shock of the movement pulled whatever injury she'd gotten there.

For a moment, she was sailing through the sky above the Schnee manor, towards the back. Two white wings dominated Nora's view, the scales on them gleaming in the sunlight. And then she was falling again.

The yellow gauntlet was aimed down again, and fired to slow her descent, angled just right to throw her away from the back of the Schnee manor. As she fell towards the front of the building at a slower rate than before, she changed her aim to straight down, and fired again.

The rounds echoed off over and over, until the gauntlet stopped firing. Her descent was slowed, but as she slammed downwards, Nora realised that she was above a section of the building that had caved in.

She fell, and when she slammed into the broken ruins, the momentum was enough to shatter bones. Her legs, the arm extended to stop her fall, her ribs, all shattered. Somehow, she managed to keep her head off the ground, but the pain that put her neck through was immense. As her head lowered itself a moment later, Nora realised she couldn't force it back up again.

...This wasn't good. Not good at all. She could barely...

Nora coughed, as she looked straight ahead. She was still high enough to be several storeys off the ground, so she couldn't drag herself off the ruins and towards help. If she could even move at all. Considering how much pain her arm was in, as the shattered remnants of Yang's gauntlet collapsed around her fingers, she kinda doubted that.

She could barely feel her legs, there was something there, vaguely. Some sort of stabbing sensation, right near the middle of her femur. It felt like the bone had pierced muscle and skin when it pierced outwards.

This was...

Well, she'd been better. She thinks she might have been worse once, but that was just emotionally, not physically. Sure, it was hard staying positive now, but that time alone had been good for getting her head clear and she wasn't yet at the point where she was going to start breaking down into negative thoughts again.

Nora tried to crane her head upwards, as she looked towards the front of the Schnee manor. A bright blue light was burning, as Two sang. For a moment, Nora wondered where Three had gone, before pushing that thought away. Nope. Bad Nora. No thinking about things that might make you freak out, like the idea that things here were still dire enough for an Intoner to be fighting but the Intoner that had been here was gone.

...Well now she'd gone and spooked herself.

There was a roar, and a shadow passed overhead. Tilting her eyes up even if she couldn't move her head, she saw the white wings from earlier soaring overhead, even as purple lights jumped up to throw something she couldn't see. The white beast paused in the air, before being dragged into the ground. As it faded from Nora's sight, she saw, momentarily, the airship that was approaching. The sunlight that reflected off of it and was blinding, and Nora was forced to close her eyes.

Damn it, she didn't even know what was going on anymore. She sits out the conflict once she gets to the medical bay, and when she gets out, the air force is here, Two's here, Three's gone, there's some purple things that she didn't get a good look at, there's some kind of...

Some kind of dragon, from the looks of things...

What had gone on after Nora put herself in that medical bay? A lot, from the looks of things. She'd missed a lot.

...She needed a better look at things, Nora decided. Careful not to disrupt her arms too much, Nora tried to shuffle her shoulders forward. The pain in her leg was excruciating, but she worked through it. The wounds in her arm were reopening and getting worse, but that was nothing compared to how much it had hurt to get that wound in the first place, just because Yang hadn't paid enough attention.

Besides, the worst of the pain right now was whatever part of her back was hurting since the silver knight had slammed her into the floor way back when. The fall hadn't helped, and the pain coursing through that was enough to make the rest of it seem pointless. And even that pain was feeling less important as she shuffled forward.

...Or maybe that was the blood loss. She was feeling lighthearted, and it was getting harder and harder to concentrate. She pressed into the rubble wrong, and felt a stabbing sensation as her ribs pierced something they shouldn't have, but the pain felt distant.

Definitely not feeling everything she should be, then.

As she came to a stop by the edge of the ruined floor she was on, barely intact after the dragon had flown through it, Nora looked down to see the doors of the closest airship opening. Several robotic figures started to move, and Nora took a moment to look around.

...She needed help. She knew that much. She was bleeding out and not noticing how much she was hurting, that wasn't good, and she was fairly sure that here wasn't much in her chest that her ribs could pierce without hitting something important. Help was arriving, she could call out to it.

But...

The dragon roared, as it breathed flame towards the blue light that Two was behind.

...That was a problem too. The monster right there, which had collapsed most of the mansion just by flying through it once. If it hit the Schnee manor once or twice, the semi-stable platform Nora was resting on wouldn't last, and she wouldn't survive a fall like that. Could she really afford to draw attention to herself? Or should she just watch until the attacker was gone?

Struggling to think through the sluggish thoughts, Nora reached her answer.

[X] Shout out, and draw attention to herself.
[X] Stay silent, and wait for the situation to resolve.