"You know Roeyka there are safer ways of breaking up a blockade." The erep medic fixing her up was named Johnson from the tag on his uniform, though she couldn't be sure if that was really his name or just the uniform he was currently wearing.
"My EGO device informed me of the same thing, I'll tell you the same thing I told her, none of those ways are quite as fun as ramming it in a muscle car." Three cracked ribs, a bruise that covered the entire right side of her face, and a cut over her eye that took at least twelve stitches to heal told her otherwise about the amount of fun it was to crash into the barricade. As a plus the Challenger seemingly made it out ok, though of course it wasn't starting at the moment.
"In the future you might not have erep support Operator, take care of yourself a little bit better than this ok?" Johnson finished the stitching and gave the thumbs up to someone standing just outside of the tent. Sergent Cobb entered his usual bright personality on display.
"How are you feeling Roeyka you look like shit." She was still covered in the mud she'd fallen into, and the blood from her head wound had coated the rest of her uniform, plus she hadn't showered in what felt like forever, she could tell by the look on his face she smelled something awful.
"Right as razor rain as the saying goes." Bravado was all she had left.
"As I said you look it, I'll be nice and give you a couple days to get your shit together, then you're back with me, you've been reassigned."
"What?" Xanthiana tried to stand up, her body lighting up in pain told her that was a bad idea and she sat back down.
"Did I stutter? You're back with me Roeyka, we've got more problems than just mutants and VBI gave you back to us."
"That's bullshit Cobb, I'm here to protect Von Bach and hunt Arks, not play nice with ereps, no offense, but that's not what I signed up for."
"VBI sees things differently, apparently your tactics and tack have not won you any friends at the company Roeyka." Elly had been quiet for a bit post the crash, Xanthiana wrote it off as being angry at her for being reckless, apparently it was something else entirely.
"Fantastic Cobb, so what shit duty have I pulled now?" Xanthiana was upset, but she couldn't exactly put her finger on why, its not like her time acting as a VBI employee had been all sunshine and rainbows, but it still hurt they didn't want her for whatever was next post rescuing Von Bach.
"I'll get to that when you're feeling better Roeyka, just rest up, take a shower, maybe find some clean clothes that fit, and then come find me." Cobb left as abruptly as he arrived and Xanthiana was alone to curse her luck. At least she still had the car she thought, even if it didn't run, that at least brought a smile to her face. The car could be fixed, the issue with VBI though, would take a lot more effort.
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