The Breaking Wheel

Chapter 42: Fallout

Billy flexed his claws as he came back to physical reality from the ideatic world, leaped onto the serpent's head and plunged his claws into the serpent's remaining eye. It shrieked in response and tried to shake him off, but he held firm. John grabbed its head and pinned it to the ground, then ripped off its lower jaw. Together, they managed to wrestle it into submission and containment.

Lawrence sprinted over to Dr. Collingwood. His own injuries now seemed relatively minor, compared to what had just happened to her. When he peered through the hole in the wall an icy hand gripped his heart. She hadn't thrown through just one wall, she'd been thrown through four. Blood was pooling underneath her head.

John came up next to him and laid a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, she's still alive. I'll take her to the infirmary."

With that, John went over to her and picked her up as gently as possible, then was gone.

"Hey, Lawrence? A little help here," said a strained voice.

Dr. Buck and Agent Green were trapped under a pile of debris. Billy, Charlie, Simon, and Eddie were already clearing it away on one side, but there were only a few people and half were injured. He hurried over to help move a part of the wall that three people were trying to push away, but Billy came over, made him sit down, and quickly shoved it aside, then went back to the 939 brothers.

John came back and cleared away half the debris in a matter of minutes, pulling out Dr. Buck and Green in the process. Dr. Buck had a broken arm and Green a broken leg, but other than that they were mostly fine. The former insisted that she could get herself to the infirmary, while the latter gladly accepted help.