An Unsettling Revelation

[Nostalgia Chick]

(January 6th. Night. Continuing From Old Wounds. Open to adult & teen characters. Figured kids would be asleep or be kept upstairs to not see what's going on.)

Nostalgia Chick with help from Snob and Linkara brought Critic in setting him on the sofa.

"Splinter! We need help." said Chick.

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Footsteps were heard followed by Roses, Linksano, Jasmine, and Nani came rushing in. They all immediately gasped seeing Critic.

"Oh my god. Is he alright?" said Roses.

"What happened to him?" asked Jasmine.

"Who did this?" asked Linksano.

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"He's hurt pretty bad. He was in a fight with Malachite. It looked like it ended in a tie. Dr. Facilier took Malachite away." said Nostalgia Chick.

Nostalgia Chick glanced at Critic a bit nervously.

"I hope Splinter can heal him. We can't really afford to lose anyone know that Malachite's on Ask That Guy's side." said Chick.

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“What is going on?” Maleficent snapped, coming down the stairs as fast as her sleep-fogged mind would allow. “In case you fools have forgotten, there’s a battle tomorrow, and we all need our rest if we expect to stand a chance at winning. So what in the name of evil are you all yelling…”

Her voice trailed off when she took in the sight of the Nostalgia Critic lying on the couch, looking as though he had been dragged to hell and back. She frowned, feeling something strange bubble inside her. Was it guilt? Surely not.

“What happened?” The fairy pushed herself to the front of the crowd so as to get a closer look at the Critic. “Who did this to him?”

[Master Splinter]

"Splinter! Quick! He's not waking up!" Snob said in a panic. Looking to all of the adults in the room he replied "Alright. Ask Thatguy has this sorcerer person named Malachite and Malachite is a old enemy we had. He did this to Critic. We don't know for sure but we think he can make it"
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"Ask Thatguy probably sent him as a warning or a way to get rid of our leader. We must protect him better Snob. He is the one who's protecting US after all" Morpheus replied, dramatically entering the room. He didn't listen to any of the other adults only looked at Critic's body. He somewhat hoped Nani didn't come or better yet any of the children didn't awaken
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Splinter heard his name and immediately ran past all the others and saw Critic's body. He let out a horrified gasp escape him. It was definitely serious that Critic was like this. The fight must've been deadly. Taking out a lotion like serum he opened out Critic's chest and replied "I shall do whatever I can... I must have some room to do the healing process" He looked to Snob who was beside him. The human stepped back a bit

Splinter shook his head as he put the medicine on him "He has many broken bones. His breathing is very good, a miraculous thing for if you did not catch him in time his breathing would stop and he would've been dead" He looked to Chick and nodded to her "Your arrival saved his life"

[Nostalgia Chick]

Nani had been silent watching as Morpheus, Splinter, and Maleficent arrived. As Splinter began treating Critic she stepped back quickly followed by the others.

"I'm glad you got to him in time." said Nani.

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Chick gasped hearing the admission he had been dying. If she hadn't gone that way or chosen to wait for him he could be dead.

"But he'll make it right?" asked Chick.

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Roses slipped away to her laptop sitting on the kitchen table. She sent out a mass email to all the reviewers that Malachite was back and Critic was injured pretty badly. And they needed as much help as they could to stop Malachite, Ask That Guy, and the others.

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"Oh my god " The voice of Rachel said . Rachel gasped and said to Pushing Up Roses :"What 's wrong Roses honey ?" Rachel asked . Green eyes turned to Pushing up Roses . The spoild woman felt she 's going to cry . Rachel couldn't resist to cry . She felt a tear in her heart .



Rache felt weird . A tear came from her green eye and rolled down her cheeks . She couldn't believe that . The Critic was pretty bad injured . Rachel said in murmur :"Am I too late ? is he fine .... " Rachel asked in her sweet voice .

[Linkara]

Linkara had to admit: that had scared him. The thought of the fact that with out the Snob, Chick and himself, the Critic would probably would have died. The man who had inspired them all would have passed on. He would have ceased to be. He would have pulled the chain, kicked the bucket, become an ex-critic and gone to the great Critic heaven in the sky.
"Only thing that saved him was the ring. Perhaps we could try and duplicate it. We might stand a chance against Malachite then"

[Master Splinter]

"He shall live. As long as he's in my possession. I will not allow a man to die" Splinter assured out loud, from the sound of it he really meant what he said. After all he had no ability to save his owner he would not risk the life of the leader of the army... Not to mention the rat himself was extremely concerned with his condition. "Morpheus and Chick please get some antibiotics and bandages if you can find them. Linkara-san please get a warm wet towel for the Critic, to get rid of the chance of a fever. The rest of you please step back" He knew he wasn't the leader but he was the doctor so he had the right to speak.
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Nani's arrival made Morpheus uneasy but before he could even talk he listened to Splinter's instructions. He gave a small look of concern to her before speaking "Yes, Come chick. We must find the things for the Critic. Quickly" Without another word, Morpheus went upstairs to any bathroom and searched for any first aid they could find for the critic. Morpheus felt worried, sad, angry and guilt all at once. This wasn't good
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Snob just sat on a seat, staring fiercely at the Critic's body. He wasn't angry, he wasn't sad... He felt afraid. Afraid Critic was dead now, afraid about the outcome when he woke up, afraid about the battle ahead, afraid of everything happening. What would happen now?!
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Critic though although asleep was heard moaning. His moaning was as if he was in a dream and was begging for comfort. He began panting as if he was running away from something. He also started to sweat, whimper and even very softly cry. Also, he was heard saying "No.. Don't leave me Ma-Ti. Don't leave me Chick. Why does everyone leave me? What did I do?!"

[Nostalgia Chick]

Chick nodded following Morpheus to get the supplies he needed. But as she reached the bathroom she burst into tears she'd been hiding. She had considered herself as an unofficial third in command as Critic and Snob had often looked to her for advice since the mess had started. Which meant she had to be tough and yet seeing Critic like that had rocked her to her core. First Ma-ti then him. This had only brought back the fears they'd all talked about on the first day in the council of reviewers. A part of her was afraid that not all of them would make it tomorrow. She wiped the tears from her face, ignoring her thoughts in her head. She couldn't fall apart now. Not when Critic needed her. She began gathering supplies trying not to look at Morpheus and hoped no one else had heard her mini breakdown.

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“One man did all of this?” Maleficent inquired, gold eyes widening. Even for a sorcerer, this amount of damage was rather impressive. The fairy couldn’t help feeling a slight spark of jealousy, as well as something much more powerful. It was a strange and primal feeling, one that she could not identify but was certain she had felt before.

Shaking her head to relieve herself of such thoughts, Maleficent heard Linkara mention something about a ring. The ring that had apparently saved the Critic’s life. She turned to him quickly.

“May I see the ring?”

[Nostalgia Critic]

Splinter continued with putting more serum on the Critic's wounds as well as await the towel and more bandages. Then he heard Maleficent speak and replied sadly "One man can be more deadly than an army sometimes" Confused at her request, Splinter slowly looked at the ring on Critic's pointer finger and took it out and gave it to Maleficent "Perhaps you can make more so we can have a fair fight with this Malachite man"
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Morpheus heard Chick cry and felt a bit more saddened by it. Morpheus despite his calm appearance was indeed a compassionate man. He went over to Chick and held her hand assuringly "He's going to make it. Splinter is more capable than we think" Getting more bandages and a bottle of rubbing alcohol he looked to Chick again and replied gently "I will not say do not show emotion only use your emotions to get stronger"
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Snob got up and found Linkara in the location he was in, He saw Linkara working and tried to help by going to the refrigerator and another towel to get rid of a specific swollen part on one of the Critic's legs. He nodded to Linkara and replied "That ring can really help us but do you really think that Critic will make it?"

[Nostalgia Chick]

Chick nodded. She was glad Morpheus was here. He always seemed calm and collected and knew the right things to say.

"Thank you. I'll try to remember that. It's just before Malachite attacked us a few months ago we never really got this close to death. Then this mess happened. Critic could have been dead. If we'd shown up too late or waited until morning..."

She trailed off gathering the rest of the supplies not wanting to finish that sentence. She headed back into the living room handing the medical supplies over to Splinter.

"Here's all that he had. If we need more I can run to Wal-mart or something." said Nostalgia Chick.

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Roses finished sending the emails looking back at the group. She felt kind of useless. She glanced at the ring as Splinter handed it off to Maleficent. Could that rings be mass duplicated? Gaia had only made one of each for the Planeteers in the show. It would be useful if they could have more of them.

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Nani and Jasmine had both stepped back seeing everything was taken care of. The two women had reluctantly joined Roses at the table deciding to get out of the way.

"I feel so helpless. He took us all in when he didn't have to. He became our leader and now he's really hurt. We shouldn't have let him go out alone." said Jasmine.

Nani frowned. She knew Jasmine was right but there was no point in worrying about the past.

"Listen. We don't need to worry about what ifs and what we could have done. We need to focus on a plan. Critic may not be strong enough for the fight tomorrow which means we could be a man down." said Nani.

"Did we even have a strategy?" asked Jasmine.

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"I'm not sure. If there was one Critic and Snob haven't told us yet. They probably were going to tell us tomorrow before we headed out. But I guess the main point is stopping them and staying alive." said Roses.

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(OOC: If this puts the thread in a direction you guys didn’t want it to go in, tell me and I’ll edit.)

It was the giant rat Maleficent had identified as Splinter through the conversation that obliged, taking the ring from Linkara and dropping into the palm of her hand.

The fairy yelped when the ring made contact with her bare skin, feeling as though she had been burnt – or even worse, electrocuted by her own lightning. She very nearly dropped the ring but was able to cover one hand with her sleeve and transfer the ring to it. She lifted her hand to examine it more closely, a frown crossing her face. The only reason she would be unable to touch the ring was if it contained a magic too pure for an evil being such as her to come into contact with. She had heard of such artifacts but never seen one.

“Interesting…”

[Cinema Snob]

(OCC: I think it's perfectly fine just make sure it's mostly for the Critic to be dealt with and everyone dealing with his recovery and the fact he's probably not gonna be at the battle)

Splinter looked in shock to Maleficent's inquiry. He only hoped she didn't have any weird ideas and would return it to Linkara or the Critic once he awoken or IF he awoken. Receiving the anitbiotics from Chick and bandages from Morpheus he replied kindly "Thank you. This shall do perfectly. You are free to stay in this room now just let me have enough space though" With that Splinter put the antibiotics on Critic's cuts and bruises as well as smoothen it with the serum. Then after that he ripped the bandages enough to cover them. It was taking a while but Splinter's hands were as quick as lightning
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Morpheus sighed in understanding as Chick gave the antibiotics to Splinter. She was right. If they weren't so worried, Critic would've died. Morpheus was a bit angry as well at the fact that no one volunteered to go alongside him. Critic was the leader and despite the fact he was a hottempered man, he had a good heart. He was a golden man and did not deserve the state he was in. No matter how rude he was. He didn't like the look of Critic's final appearance and guiltly left the room and outside. He rubbed his face in frustration
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"We don't have a plan yet Jasmine. J-Just please. Give me time. I'll think of something. Critic's not going to battle that's for sure. I don't care if these wounds heal in a minute, Critic's staying. We will find other ways though... Like I said give me time" Snob replied hastily as he ran with a package of ice for the Critic's bare leg that was about to be bandaged. With a nod to the rat he put it on the moment it was bandaged. He looked to the others and replied "Critic's hurt and we don't know about his recovery but Malachite, the person who did this to him, deserves a message from us. We will avenge critic or at least I will. If you're with me to getting the critic avenged stand up"
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Critic interupted the critic and quite frankly everyone with his sleep moaning. He panted a bit more as if he was no longer running but in a panic attack. His sweating profused ten fold and his crying could no longer be ignored. It was as if the unconcious man was having a realistic battle even within his mind and was losing quickly. "No! D-D-Don't hurt them! T-Take me! Don't hurt Chick! Leave her alone! Please! Help!"

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Maleficent’s hand, still covered with black fabric, closed in a tight fist around the ring. There was certainly some powerful magic lurking about inside it, of that there could be no doubt – she could feel it. Maybe just a little too powerful. If it could defeat this mysterious Malachite, than perhaps it posed a danger to her as well. Maleficent could not stand the possibility of a threat to her power. Clearly something would have to be done about this.

The fairy’s attention was suddenly diverted when a familiar cry split the air. It was the Nostalgia Critic; a weight Maleficent had not even known she had been carrying fled from her shoulders. Hopefully this meant that he would be all right.

The Nostalgia Chick’s name suddenly left the Critic’s mouth; Maleficent turned to the reviewer in question, eyes ablaze with curiosity.

(OOC: All right. Though Splinter might have to pry the ring from Maleficent now.)

[Nostalgia Critic]

Splinter gasped at the Critic. Something wasn't going right. Critic seemed to be in shock. "Linkara! Bring the towel! Morpheus help me restrain him! He's going into shock!" Splinter saw Maleficent distracted so taking the ring back and putting it in his pocket, he then held on to Critic's shoulders which were shaking. Splinter looked to Snob and Nani and spoke "Nani and Snob! Get drinking medicine! Quickly!"
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Snob saw the horror of Critic's shocked comastate body. Without any words he began running like a rabbit and searched anywhere for specific calming drugs. The noticable screams from Critic were pounded in Snob's ears. Instead of wanting them to stop he wanted Critic to get better. Now for sure Critic couldn't go to the battle. "Nani! Find anything yet?!"
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Morpheus grunted as he held the somewhat tranced man. What was this?! The scars must've not only be physical but mental as well. Critic seemed to lost his mind. Morpheus was actually no longer only afraid of Critic's life but of his sanity.
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"Get the hell away! Leave us alone! Fuck you! FUCK YOU! Stop touching me! I'll kill you all!" Critic yelled and sobbed. He seemed to be not angry but desperate. Insane. Upset. Hurt. More importantly, alone. Alone in his own comalike state. He still screamed "You'll not hurt them! Get the hell OFF! FUCK YOU ALL!"