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[spongetastrophe]

Hey, it's Peter. You know what to do.

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audio ; during all the bombing

[waywardscion]

Peter! There's a lot of explosions, are you alright? Get some place safe.. which I think... the best place... where there isn't any buildings!!

(In the background Peter can hear a lot of noise, some screaming, then a loud crash as a building near Noct starts to crumble.)

...shit! (Beep!)

[spongetastrophe]

[The fuck?]

Noctis? Hello? You still there?

[waywardscion]

(Noctis doesn't get back to Peter too quickly. He's glad to see Peter's responded, which means that the guy was safe.. right?

He didn't have to worry about the guy at least for now. He responds as soon as he can:)

Peter? What.. yes! I'm here.. I'm.. stay away from buildings! The hotel.. it's.. (He cuts out again.)

[spongetastrophe]

[The hotel, huh? Rather than try to send Noct another message, Peter will just head over there. He has to get to Noctis and get him away to safety]

[waywardscion]

(Noct can be found in front of the hotel, shouting at others and pointing away from the building. He has his phone in the other hand. He looks beat up, he's bleeding and rushing around.

It doesn't take long before he notices Peter.)

No! Stay back!

[spongetastrophe]

[It's opposite day, because Peter ignores that and moves toward the prince instead]

I'm not leaving here without you.

[Whatever their differences, he does care about Noct]

[waywardscion]

(No.. No.. NO!)

Peter! (He doesn't have much in him but a shove at the other's chest before he's back to concentrating on others around them.) Stay away from the buildings! (He shouts out to others.) The spa.. the hotel.. I don't understand.. they're..

(Another explosion hits and he grabs onto Peter and warps back from the hotel. The warp consists of both of them disappearing from the spot they stood in a brilliant blue light, breaking their visual bodies into blue specs of light, as if a shattering crystal, then they reappear twenty or so feet back from where they stood - near the hotel. They're a safe distance from the debris that falls from the hotel as another explosion comes from the building.)

[spongetastrophe]

[Peter has teleported and has gone super fast, but this warping was something new. It was a little disorienting, actually. It takes him a minute to recover from it]

Noct... Are there any people in there?

[Focusing right back on the issue at hand]

[waywardscion]

(Peter, Peter, Peter.)

Get out of here, stay away from the buildings!

(Noctis leans forward, as if he's about to warp back toward the hotel. It's obvious his intention is to go right back toward the hotel.)

[spongetastrophe]

[Stares at him. Yeah, he can see you're about to run back in, Noct]

Sure. But first, I need to make sure there's no one trapped in there.

[He speeds his way back in before Noct can stop him. If he does spot someone, he'll get them to a safe distance before going right back in]

[waywardscion]

What the hell are you doing!?

(He's not sure what the hell the other guy was thinking but instead of fighting with him, he figures they should concentrate on helping others.)

Wait for me! (He catches up to Peter and points toward the east side of the building.) We should start there.

[spongetastrophe]

I can't get hurt, Noct. I'll be fine.

[He nods, going into the building. He can walk through walls so he gets through all the rubble quickly. Between that and Noct's warping, they should hopefully be able to go through this whole building and save anyone they come across]

[waywardscion]

(First of all, what the fuck. Noct follows with a strange suspicion tailing his heels. Noct can't do anything like that so it takes him a significant amount of effort to follow in after Peter.)

... listen, I can hear.. (Someone's rasping with heavy breathing. He looks further into the hall (or what's left of it) and can see beneath some rubble a staff member.) A demon, look .. I'm here.. I came to help..

(He doesn't want to distract Peter if he's found someone to help himself. He begins to pull off the rubble from the demon.) It's alright, don't worry.

[spongetastrophe]

[Yeah, good luck with whatever you're doing, Noct. You can take care of yourself, right, because Peter is over here helping some random characters out of the rubble. Though he is keeping an ear out in case Noct needs him for something]

[waywardscion]

(Once he's got the demon out of the rubble and through the exit, he moves over to where Peter is. He looks for ways he can help Peter.) Do you recognize them? (He doesn't, but he sets in helping pull off some of the debris that's scattered over the person.)

[spongetastrophe]

Not really. Doesn't matter, though.

[He helps pull off the debris. He checks to make sure the one they freed is okay, before going back to check for more people. He'll make sure they've saved as many as they can before he stops, because that's just how he rolls]

[waywardscion]

(Noct helps alongside Peter. Though, there's a few times where he splits up from Peter to free someone else from the debris. They can't move too far into the hallway, with the way the floor above collapsed down onto the ground floor. He then considers something as he's helping out someone from the hole in the wall.)

You think you want to go to the higher floors? I can get us up there and you can... do whatever that wall trick is to find more survivors.

[spongetastrophe]

Sure. We need to get out as many people as we can before this whole thing collapses.

[Peter could just fly himself up there, but he wants to keep an eye on Noctis to make sure the prince gets out of this safely, too]

[waywardscion]

(Noctis guides Peter out a few feet from the building and looks for a good place to warp to. There's an opening some forty or so feet up. He points up there.) Does that window.. look open? I can get us above it and you can go through..

(It's one of the few windows that aren't seeping black smoke from it so they weren't at immediate risk - or so it appeared at this level. Who knew what they would find once they warp up there. The whole floor, for instance, could collapsed and all that was left was the window. If that was the case, Noct could just warp them back down.)

Ready? (He pulled his arm out for Peter to step close to him.)

[spongetastrophe]

Ready. Be careful.

[It will be a question of who reacts first, really. But hopefully they can save some people before the floor collapses]

[waywardscion]

(Noct pulls Peter in and warps upward to the windowsill. They come in crouched on the sill and face to face with a relatively calm room that appears untouched by the chaos.)

Okay, good.. Come on- (He moves into the room and rushes toward the door.) -we should hurry!

[spongetastrophe]

Shit.

[He quickly follows. He tries to be careful so he doesn't break anything. But the floor is very unstable. One false step and the floor gives out from under him. He crashes through and winds up a floor below.

Oops]

[waywardscion]

(The collapse outweighed any other sensation Noctis had noticed. He had made it through the flooring but it seems Peter had not been so lucky. He navigates carefully on the remaining floor, his body flush against the wall and he waits for the dust to settle before he calls out to Peter.)

Hey??

(He offers a few coughs and waves his hand before his face trying to wave away the cloud of debris that comes up from the collapse.) Peter!?

(He calls out louder.) Peter!?

[spongetastrophe]

[Peter being Peter, naturally when he fell he had the awkward misfortune of landing with a piece of flooring impaling his leg]

Fuck. I'm over here. Just give me a minute.

[Yeah, don't mind him as he pulls his leg up. You're not supposed to do that but he clearly doesn't care about that or how much it hurts as he does it]

Okay. I'm good.

[No you're not Peter you have a hole in your leg]

[waywardscion]

(It takes a good minute before he can see Peter and ... he's a bit stunned as he watches Peter pull his leg off from where its impaled.) What the fuck!?

This is exactly why I didn't want you in here doing this shit! (There wasn't really any need for an excuse to argue with Peter, the two had been cordially at ends with one another for one reason or another. Noct's worry betrays the stern tone in his voice.) Dammit.

Just. Stay there! Stop moving!

(He looks for a safe spot to warp down and once he's on Peter's level he rushes over to the guy's side with a heavy frown.)