15[14:34] * Rabbit doesn't actually know what time it was when everyone escaped the hospital and made it back to Stadium. But, after that, there was putting Pest to bed, spending an hour with Cas, then getting back up and doing laundry for a couple hours to make everyone's clothes and gear clean. The offer was also extended to Rock, and her stuff would also be cleaned if she accepted. But, after that... regardless of what time of day it was, morning, noon, evening, midnight, whatever, she grabs her saddlebags and some things and sets out to find Shida, somewhere in the Stadium.
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04[14:41] * Shida is totally that zebra ghoul spy. She's got some stripey coat, but the whole ghoul thing sort of rid most of them. Rabbit actually doesn't have to go anywhere, Shida's in the room on the north end of the stadium, actually dedicated to laundry - so Rabbit was probably already there. It's somewhere shortly after midnight, and Shida's fixing some loose plates on someone's reinforced shirt. She...
07[14:41] * Shida ...has a gross hack once in a while... she was dying in a hospital when she became undead, so that'd probably make some sense there.
15[14:43] * Rabbit figures that was a short trip, then. But regardless, once she's finished, she approaches Shida, keeping a respectful distance before speaking up softly, "Hello, Shida. How have you been?"
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07[14:54] * Shida clears her throat, which doesn't really help her croaky ghoul voice too much, "Tired. I've tasked myself with simple stuff down here, from a lack of energy. I could just sleep the next hundred years away, but I prefer to not be useless." She's been doing a sort of deadpan speak, while knitting something in repair, "We lost a ghoul in the resent attack. I did not know them, but it is a shame...
07[14:54] * Shida ...- we would have had a lot in common, if I felt like talking to anyone more." She finally looks up, "How is your team? And how is... whatever you've found your current mission to be... how is that proceeding?"
15[15:03] * Rabbit nods slowly in understanding to Shida, but adds, "Have they been treating you properly?" She nods again at the news of the lost ghoul. "That is unfortunate, I'm sorry. Perhaps soon you will be able to get to know the other ghouls that are still here." She had been supremely neutral, but starts to smile when Shida asks about their mission. "Our number has grown. I have been joined by one of my sisters, and we have achieved much. Most recently we went south to the Las Pegasus army base to put an end to the robotic armies coming north and threatening all living beings. At the end of the day, we destroyed the corrupted artificial intelligence that was in control of the base. The griffin sustained heavy injuries, including but not limited to a broken wing, a concussion, and loss of an eye. The mare fared much better, but that is not very difficult in comparison, and she sustained many of her own injuries. The filly has been hurt, with a broken limb, but she remains in improving conditions and is currently sleeping. The army base is current shut down, and the ability to restart it and command it after restarting rests with a single person." After the last sentence she's basically just outright grinning.
04[15:10] * Shida nods slowly and certainly towards Rabbit, "They have been fine here. There is clear unsurety in dealing with ghouls, but that is fully understandable. I've made it easier, for them and myself, by preferring to work off on my own with minimal interaction." Her knitting work stops, and she just watches Rabbit talk about her group's situation. "I understood your adventure south was nearly a...
07[15:10] * Shida ...suicide mission. I'm impressed you kept everyone alive." She tilts her head, "...Restarting rests with a single person?"
15[15:14] * Rabbit nods to Shida, "Between the threat of radiation, the heat, the robotic armies and security, and the etherical foes underground corrupted by magic, it was statistically likely that at least two would have died, if not all." She then nods again and says, "In order to ensure that the base could not be accessed and restarted by anyone with unwelcome intentions, the ability to restart and command the base rests with me."
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04[15:24] * Shida nods again to Rabbit, "I would have preferred the base removed entirely, but don't think I'm complaining about success: nobody else was in any place to even do that much. Good work." She watches Rabbit, in a moment of silence, before clearing her throat again and croaking up, "What about... you? Is that a valid question to ask? Are you doing... well? Or just indifferently performing your...
07[15:24] * Shida ...tasks? I don't know robots very well, and will not presume you are particularly alike Physic."
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15[15:32] * Rabbit gives a prim nod, but is clearly happy about being praised for her work regarding the base. "That is valid, ma'am. I am doing well, thank you. It has been difficult. My purpose is clear and well defined, but difficult to obtain." She pauses then smirks, "However I do not believe there is any other agent that has infiltrated and assumed control of an entire army base before. It feels... good. But it is only the first step. You mentioned Physic, and she is part of the reason I wanted to see you. I wanted to ask if you would be willing to accompany me to the hospital."
04[15:47] * Shida takes in, and lets out, a deep breath. She slowly nods back to Rabbit, "No, I doubt any other agent has had an accomplishment like that. We had failed to properly invest into better solutions, beyond destruction." She snorts, and gives a very small smirk, "With that in consideration, I change my mind: I prefer how you did not solve the base problem with more explosions." She puts the plated...
04[15:47] * Shida ...shirt to the side, and then looks back to Rabbit, "You have further steps to your mission? And why would you need me at the hospital? ...I suppose I could entertain a trot over there..."
15[15:54] * Rabbit has more proud grinning done when Shida withdraws her conditional compliment and turns it into only a compliment. "Your own consideration is that officers failed to invest in better solutions beyond destruction. If I am able to do so with an army base, I can do so with a city. That mission requires many more steps. I do not -need- you at the hopsital, but I would be pleased if you walked with me. It would provide me a chance to explain the mission and explore the first step, and after seeing it, ask if you would be willing to assist." Though Shida already said she could go for a trot, so Rabbit starts to back away, in the assumption that Shida would be following her.
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07[16:14] * Shida groans, and stands herself up. She starts to follow. She is not so spry, so the walk might take a little extra time. Not by much though actually, considering avoiding ferals isn't really a concern with a Shida ghoul. As they trot, she speaks, "You'll have to elaborate when we get there. I have not talked to Physic in a while, so I would not mind seeing her again." Then she changes the topic,...
07[16:14] * Shida ..."If you recall... most of the Zebra Empire settled into Equestrian military destruction as a proper solution. Domination, not so much. But there was a lot of chaos leading up to the balefire... Do you recall the zebra: General Kushinda? Well, I know you do, but in the final year, her actions were hidden amidst the chaos between our own leaders. She-... well, this may be entirely irrelevant. I t
07[16:15] * Shida hink I have heard her name pop up, from ponies traveling up to use from the south."
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15[16:19] * Rabbit steps out and leads the way to the hospital, taking her time. Everyone else would be asleep for hours yet, so it would be quite some time before anyone would even notice she wasn't around. She had all the time in the world. She looks to Shida and says, "Are you implying General Kushinda is still alive? What were her actions before the balefire? And where have ponies been coming from from the south? The army base and robots have been cutting off that area, along with the radiation, there must be some settlement I am not aware of."
04[16:35] * Shida shakes her head at Rabbit, "Those ponies from the south... the ones who were at the stadium before I was. That pistol pony, whatever her name was, mentioned the name recently." She clears her throat again, which turns into some coughing, then she speaks up again, "Kushinda pushed for attack actions of city conquest, while the majority of our people just wanted to defeat the enemy military. I...
07[16:35] * Shida ...don't know if that's putting it correctly... but she seemed to favour tactics that came to be viewed as 'underhoofed' for the sort of war that was preferred. She controlled a zebra base, but was denied her preferred intentions of deployment. When the balefire option became available, there was a lot of chaos around her, for the same reasons that prevented her actions before. Megaspells...
04[16:35] * Shida ...are far worse, but became a necessary option given Equestria had the same. I don't know what Kushinda could have started in that last year, but all that chaos probably came about from her own options opening up." Rabbit wouldn't know for the same reason.
15[16:37] * Rabbit walks and nods along as Shida explains what she knew. After some time spent processing that she asks, "Did they say where she was last seen? If not, could you give me a description and I could go question the mare myself?"
04[16:47] * Shida shrugs to Rabbit, "A ghoul settlement a good distance to the south. The excess number of ghouls bothered the pistol pony, but that was the only purpose the pony mentioned the name at all. I suppose Kushinda is still alive then..." Rabbit would certainly have General Kushinda recognized as an important superior, but at the same time... she wouldn't be required to take orders from them unless...
04[16:47] * Shida ...chosen to - that General had been put intentionally separate from general spy operations and priorities. Or maybe Rabbit's dad interfered in that somehow? Anyways, the two of them approach the front doors of the hospital, and a glitchy Physic stands behind the entrance counter.
15[16:53] * Rabbit nods. "I will inquire further regarding the settlement. I would be interested in learning her desires back then as well as her life and plans presently." And then the hospital! First things first is she goes about stripping the corpses that were there from a few hours ago, and dragging the bodies outside and piling them up somewhere not immediately by an entrance to the hospital. More laundry to do, almost certainly. After that was done she speaks to Shida while stepping over to the glitchy display of Physic, and pulling out her tools to see if maybe she had anything she could use to try and repair the display. "The next step is to repair Physic and get a functioning hospital. Cleaning, restocking, and distantly in the future, staffing."
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