Nothing But Home

Ebony

(Well, well, well. Now I guess we can come to a definite conclusion that maybe not all girls are so good, huh?)

Ebony Carey rubs her temples, beginning to make sense of what just happened. She looks down and gasps, covering her mouth in shock, when she finds two bodies sprawled on the ground. The interior is dark, pitch black almost. They crashed. It's the only logical explanation. Maybe they're on Earth. Ebony carefully reaches for her seatbelt, and unbuckles it, and she suddenly falls to the wall. She gasps when she hits it and lets out a muffled his. She rolls onto her back and looks up, to find that the others are hanging from seats attached to the wall. Then she gets it. The drop ship is on it's side.

She gets to her feet and stumbles around for a bit, until somebody groans and then falls to the ground. Ebony runs up to him and crouches by his side. He has dark skin, and when he opens his eyes, she sees that his eyes are a grayish green. He sits up and she pulls away from him, looking back up at the wall of hanging kids. She then turns to the other kid. "What's your name?" Ebony asks.

"Nathan," he mumbles, rubbing his forehead. "One hell of a fall, eh?"

She nods, looking back up at the wall of kids. "I have a job for the both of us."

"Huh?" He looks at her.

Ebony turns to him, "We need to get these kids down."

He looks at her, then up at the kids, then back down at her, "You mean, the one hundred up there?" He asks, pointing up just to emphasize his point.

Ebony sighs. "Yes, there's actually ninety-eight, but yeah."

Nathan bites his lips and gets to his feet, Ebony following. "I'm Ebony by the way," She tells him, but he seems to take no notice. The two then get to work on bringing down the kids. Working from the bottom, they slowly work on brining each kid down, making sure that each one is alive and well when they get to the bottom.

As they work, more begin to pitch in, and they soon are done bringing the kids down. Ebony hops to the ground, a boy, no older than fifteen in her arms. She attempts to shake him awake, but it seems to work to no avail. "Hey," She utters, shaking the kid's head. People start to crowd around her, only adding to the pressure. She puts her hand behind his head and lifts him up into her lap, and she begins to continue to shake him. When she removes her arm, resting his head on his knee, she sees that it's covered in blood.

Having had trained as a doctor's assistant back on the Ark, Ebony knows what to do at this moment. She looks up, beginning to panic. She doesn't have anything to cover the wound. She looks around urgently, then pinpoints the kid who was floating around earlier before the crash. "Hey, you!"

"Me?" The kid asks, pointing to his chest in stupidity.

"No, you in the leather jacket. Of course you! Give me your jacket!" She hisses.

The kid looks at her, "Hell no! I got this on Unity Day!"

Anger surges through her, coming to a breaking point, "Two of us are already dead! Do you want another one of us dead?" He opens his mouth to respond, when somebody else scrambles to her, taking off his jacket.

"Chris? Chris!" He looks to Ebony, "Here's my jacket. Do whatever you can to save him!"

Ebony nods, grabbing the boys jacket and putting it on the floor, then laying the kids head on it. Ebony sits back, leaning against the wall, or what was the ceiling. People begin to dissipate, trying to find a way out. Ebony stands up and carefully drags the kid to a corner, then jumps slightly as a large hissing noise fills the air, followed by a loud rumbling. Blinding light fills the once dark room. Some people gasp, and Ebony begins to smell something musky, like the gardens back on the Ark, but more intense.

Covering her eyes, Ebony stands, grabbing onto one of the seats as support. "Is this Earth?" "I think it is!" "It's so green!" Ebony's eyes adjust and she gasps when she sees what is on the other side of the doorway. A forest, like the ones seen in books. It truly is green, so full of green, bursting with green. Thick vines hang from the trees, and foliage trickles the ground.

"It's like the Garden of Eden!" Somebody laughs.

People glare at him, but somebody else smiles. "More like the Garden of the Delinquents." He's about to step out when the same kid who floated around earlier, the one who refused to lend his jacket, steps in front of him. "Not so fast," he hisses, "I go first."

"But--"

"No buts."

The kid turns to the forest, and takes in a deep breath, then steps out. Before his foot can step down into the damp soil, a girl grabs him and pulls him back, "Hey! What happened to ladies first?" She seems to have black hair with blonde roots.

"Chrissa!" I girl hisses, but the girl ignores it, staring at the guy.

"Right, right!" He smiles, stepping out her way.

She smiles and pecks him on the lip, much to his surprise, and then steps out into the soil. Her foot sinks a couple inches into it, but she doesn't seem to mind. She turns back to the others, pulling her other leg out of the drop ship and stomps it into the soil, sending dirt and bark flying. She raises her arms and whoops. "We're back home, baby!" With that, she starts running around the clearing, driving others to do the same, all the while screaming and hollering.

Ebony turns back to the kid in the corner and walks up to him. She makes sure that nobody is looking, and pulls out a translucent pad. She taps the top left corner two times and the thing lights up. Two words show up, two words that rattle her to her core. "No Signal..."

Now she's truly cut off from the Ark.

(Hiya! I honestly don't know what to talk about at the moment. So hi. Bramb out!)