POLUS

VIII - The Arrival

Bianca
Chapter Four
Ship 2

BIANCA POV

"We're being ambushed."

"I'm sorry, WHAT? AMBUSHED?"
I yell, although Im still quiet compared to the sounds of the shaking airship.
"Sabotaged, to put it less dramatically."
"THAT'S LITERALLY NOT ANY LESS DRAMATIC?????"
Pink sighs and puts his focus back on the navigation monitor.

"I think you were right. Something's wrong."
Well... at least he doesn't sugarcoat it? Ugh, I would have rather it be sugar coated. Hazel's shaking again, worse this time!

"I took a course on this stuff last break."
"Last BREAK? God, you're a whole different breed of workaholic."
I can sense him rolling his eyes as he taps some more on the monitor.
Damn, he seems really calm about this. Im impressed! But honestly, when it comes to Pink, when am I not? -w-

Hazel begins to sob next to me, so I pull her into a hug as the ship continues to rattle. A girl I don't recognise runs over to the area frantically. "What's going on?!" She asks. Her suit has lime green accents, which compliment her blue hair. Cute!!
Wait, we're in the middle of being ambushed.
"Rebalancing route..." Pink says, not looking away from the monitor. I turn to the girl in the Lime.
"Hi, I'm Bianca! Or Bee for short. And this is Hazel."

"H-H-Hhhhheeello...." Hazel says, still currently sobbing.

"Oh! Levy." She nods, smiling. Wait! I saw her name on Hazel's list! If I didn't see her at all this whole time, maybe the others are-
Oh! The ship stopped shaking- but the angle seems off.

"What's going on, Pink?" I ask.
"Well... something happened with the navigation AI and it seems like we were re-routed to somewhere new, but the route wasn't cooperating with the system, so I just switched it." He explains. "Re-routed? Huh?" Levy chimes in. "Mhm. I don't know where we're headed now but we'll need to stop there no matter what." He replies. "Well, at least we made it to Polus?"
"We did?"
"Yeah, look!"

Levy points out the windows of the airship, to show a gorgeous landscape array of purpleish-blue mountains, some engulfed in quite a lot of snow.

"Wow, it's so pretty!" I say.
"Yeah, in fact, the route we took is actually landing us in like, ten minutes." Pink says, pointing to the monitor. There's no way I'm decoding that fancy navigation stuff, so I just take his word for it.

"Wow! That's so soon!" Levy exclaims. Pink looks over to Levy confused. Oh, he didn't notice her earlier.
"Uh, who..."
"This is Levy, we just met!"
"I can see that."
"Well, nice to meet you."

Pink looks over to me and Hazel, who is still gripping onto my arm. "You all okay?" "Yep! Hazel?" She doesn't reply, she just grips onto the sleeve of my cardigan harder. Still sobbing.

Levy inches closer.
"I can take her back to the sleeping quarters if you want? She might need a bit of rest." Levy smiles politely before holding a hand out to Hazel, who carefully takes it and walks alongside her.
"Sounds good! I'll come check on you guys in a bit!" I wave to them before turning back to Pink.

"I know you said you were... but you're okay, right?" He asks hesitantly.
"Yeah of course! Why wouldn't I be?"
"I don't know, knowing you, you'd probably be more worried about Hazel than yourself." He's kind of spot on there. "I just..." ...and he ends it there. Pink has an excellent relationship with not finishing sentences.

"I'm fine, I promise."
"...Okay."

"Nice PJs, by the way."

He flinches when he notices what he's wearing, and crosses his arms in an attempt to hide the obvious Pokémon logo on his shirt.

"Wha- that- I didn't have I choice! It- I was asleep when this happened! Wh-" I chuckle at his reaction.
"I was just joking, no need to get all flustered. I still proudly wear all my Pokemon merch if it makes you feel any better. Which it should, cause Pokémon is great."
I hear a slight chuckle sneak out from him, and he starts walking. "We should go check on the others real quick." I hum in agreement.

We head over to the cafeteria, where the girl with the black spacesuit is stood looking out the window, and the guy who I saw sleeping earlier is leaned against the wall next to a download module. The girl in the black suit waves at us, and so I wave back.

"What was all that about?" She asks, seemingly curious after having seen us rush down the hall earlier. Pink begins to explain what happened and I turn around to look at the guy leaning over on the wall. Time to introduce myself!!
"Hello!"
He looks up from his tablet and takes out one of the earbuds I just now realised he had in.
"Hm?"
"My names Bianca, but you can call me Bee!" I smile and hold out my hand enthusiastically for him to shake, but he just stares at it.
"Uh, yeah. Hi." It takes him a moment but he reluctantly shakes my hand.
"I'm Kai, I guess?"
"You guess?" I chuckle. He doesn't seem to react. In fact, he doesn't seem to have been phased by any of this. "what you up to?" He shrugs. "Not really anything. I was just here with Kaela and the ship decided to go batshit."

Kaela! So that's the black-spacesuit girl's name. Probably better than calling her the girl with the black spacesuit.

"Yeah, glad that's over now! Mostly. Apparently we're headed somewhere different now though. It feels kind of off." I look over again. Kaela's hair is a greyish hue, with purple curtain bangs that are bright even in the dim light- she also has a few visible tattoos on her shoulder and neck. Meanwhile, Kai's hair is black. Or a really dark brown, It's hard to tell in this lighting.

Soon enough Pink approaches us.
"Also, this is Pink!"
"We met earlier when you were asleep." Pink says. "Oh awesome!"

It's silent.
Boy these two are definitely going to get along, both of them rarely talk- apart from when pink is focused on smart stuff.

And also, Pink talks to me more than most people but still.

Pink and I continue walking around before finding ourselves back in navigation.

"The tablets still haven't updated." I say, showing him mine. He observes it. "Mine had you, so yours should have me listed either way..." I scroll through the list, still not recognising a single person there. "I hope a manager or two will reach out soon. Both the group situation and the dangerous reroute are really unlike them." He turns to look out the window above the few navigation monitors.

"Yeah... so, what we doing now? Assuming after all of that, you're focused enough to not go back to sleep."

I chuckle a bit at my own words, but notice when Pink is once again not moving a muscle.

"Pink? What's wrong?"
I inch closer to the window that he's staring out of.

...Oh.

Below the ship, which seems to be mid-landing, is a base.
Definitely a Mira base, that's for sure. But this one seems off. The buildings look old. There's snow covering everything. But the thing that immediately worries me is the same thing Pink is staring at.

Another airship.

...a crashed airship.

A/N
And there's Bianca's chapters done for the time being !! Gosh, why did her POV take so much longer to write than Harvey's X_X
Anyway, the perspective is switching back to the other group now so see u guys soon ! ^_^