Tessa was buried in the debris of her own flight deck, smoke was rapidly filling her cabin, and she was coughing like crazy, "This is Arcade Base—" "Help from Bayview—" "Requesting immediate backup!" "DEMONS ARE EVERYWHERE!" Tessa's left arm was crushed, pinned between the console and what was left of the forward hull. It hurt her chest, soaked up smoke, and every breath damaged her lungs. She could hear the fire creaking up on her, slowly roasting her alive, but she wasn't sure if the smoke or the fire would get her first.
She couldn't see, but she could feel the vibrations of something climbing onto the hull; she couldn't think straight, her gun under her pinned left arm. Is this how she died, down an arm and killed by a demon? Another vibration as something tore the hull apart; she braced as the front hull started to be pulled back. Finally, something pulled her out of her wreck. She coughed and coughed before finally passing out. Kairo pulled her from the wreck; her arm was clearly fractured and bent at an impossible angle. Tessa was barely breathing, limp in Kairo's arms. Aria watched as demons started to show themselves, "KAIRO! Find Nova and get back to Ashfell!"
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Kairo ran through the streets with Tessa on his back. It looked like a firestorm ripped through the city, he saw in the distance, airships with people being loaded on and evacuated from the area to God knows where. Kairo kept running through the city when he felt it. Felt her. He moved up a side street, then right into an alleyway to see Nova knocked out. As far as Kairo was concerned, Nova was hurt, and so was Tessa. Nova had taken serious bodily damage, and the bruises suggested it was one punch. Lucan. He gritted his teeth as a vehicle, a green Humvee with ABPU, 'The Zenith' was plastered.
"Aye, son. Hop in." It was Senior Inspector.