Where have you been? Who: Annie and Kat (eventually) Where: A valley in a planet near to the station. What: What happened to Annie during the plot / getting back to the station. When: After Higgs' defeat Rating: Low (injury detail, vehicle crash, swearing) Open: Unknown Status: Ongoing
Everyone on the station had been preoccupied with this new Higgs individual and it had Annie worried. Were it up to her she’d have just dealt with him head on, but something in her gut told her that it wouldn’t work. Her paranoia drove her to wilder thoughts, he might be able to force people to do things, to help him. She didn’t want that burden, she had betrayed people in her past.
Annie resolved, wrong or right, that she had to get away for awhile. She hopped into her Viper and took off for a nearby planet. She was stressed, reckless, angry and needed to blow off steam. She flew low, fast and dangerous through valleys and passes. Without warning, she felt reality flex around her, the ripple shifted her course and she clipped the prevailing wall of the pass she was in.
Ejection, at this altitude, was not a survivable option.
The crash was brutal. It felt like hundreds of Gs as she tumbled and spun towards the ground. She grunted, as she fought to regain control in vain. The craft was small and took further damage as it rolled through the valley and plummeted further down. She saw ground, the white of the sky, the valley wall, the ground. Annie couldn’t help but laugh. Hysteria and dumbstruck awe at her own stupidity, “Is this really how I die.” she thought. Her harness straps broke free under the stress of the movement and buckling crash panels, she felt herself fly free of the vessel’s cockpit. Her foot hit the turf first, her body becoming a near mirror for the craft crashing next to her.
Both finally came to a rest in deep furrows on the ground, broken, shattered and destroyed by the impact. The light in her deep, piercing blue, cybernetic eyes flickered and went out. The wind blew through the quiet valley, the sound of the burning wreck waning with time.
Over the course of a few weeks, Annie’s body slowly repaired itself. Her soul was bound to this shell. The process took forever, it’s most basic, the energy around her allowing her soul’s pattern to reform and repair. The grass, plants, bugs and soil around her still body began to wither and die. The light returned to her bright eyes.
She didn’t move to start with, rather to groan and blink a few times before pushing herself out of the dirt. Assessing her situation in the quiet valley, she sighed, her “phone” was broken. The Viper was a wreck, she was alone. “Fuck.” she breathed to herself, before yelling at the sky. “Fuck!”
She stamped over to the Viper and looked into the cockpit. It was completely burnt out, decimated by the crash. Annie paced for a few moments before she looked back up at the sky, remembering something she could do, but rarely relied on. The gift was alien to her but welcome in situations like this. She kneeled back in the spot where she had awoken, in amongst the dead plants and grass and closed her eyes, entering a meditative state and reached out with her mind…;