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Bruce Wayne has kind of had enough of today; while the world of Taxon doesn't look nearly like the (artistically rendered, he suspects) Doctor's looming apocalypse, it's still in a near-cracking state. The destruction of citizens vs sentinel robots, accidentally-detonated bombs, and his own creative use of the tram have left a notable impact. Still, there is more to come - but just how much more depends on all of them.

"There's no radiation in the individual bombs," he says, and he's walking, headed straight towards the Sanctuary building in downtown Osten. "The machines are there to protect civilian life, not the explosives. If you're still here and can't get to a safe zone or on the ship, stay as far away from any sentinel activity as you can."

Speaking of the machines - they're approaching, because he isn't stopping, and neither are the people behind him, whose shoulders or backs can occasionally be seen in his broadcast. Bruce is holding something small and heavy in his hand, somehow both calm and extremely annoyed.

"Unless you'd like to get down here and help break this goddamn facility open, because the Doctor is right here."

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The antiradiation treatment is a little beyond Sol's abilities right now - it's understandably not something he's been called upon to heal before and they'll have to wait on an actual doctor instead of a Verbena healer who doesn't specialize in healing in the first place - but he can take care of the beating she's taken and he briefly hopes that she's not going to wake up ready to enact a witch-hunt for his help.

(The burning times weren't quite so long ago for everyone, let's say.)

He grimaces back at Bruce in commiseration and then, setting River carefully down next to him, he kneels by the bench to find Morgana's injuries with bloodsight and do something about them. After that, it'll be a matter of antiradiation meds (and they could probably all use a course, just in case).

After being separated from Judith by means of the explosion that flung Enfys backwards into a wall, well- Slayers are built to withstand that kind of knock-around and she got up again, even if she hadn't been able to find her friend afterwards. Yet. With her axe in hand, she's been taking out sentinels and trying to avoid being sedated by them, and she fumbles a little for her tablet when she hears Bruce asking for her.

She looks like hell, but not as though she's letting that slow her down or even ruin her mood. "Three minutes if I run, you need something?"

He watches Sol, remembering the exploding flowers from earlier, and wonders what the actual fuck this all is. He doesn't really like the idea of magic, something so uncertain and unspecific, but he can't complain about it right now. (And what on earth happened to the other girl - River, was that her name?) He nods, minute, and then turns away to converse with Enfys.

"Tell Cat you're running an errand for me. Garage is in the north corner, keys are in the cabinet to the right of the door. Second row, third one in, it's the black one. I need you to find a doctor and get him or her here as fast as you can." He looks down, thinking about Enfys and Morgana, and their odd friendship.

"We're just off the south tram line but it's probably down. It's Morgana. And don't crash my bike."

"What's Morgana-"

Enfys stops, visibly, takes a breath and nods, the energy of her winding back inside to drive her through the city on this errand; she doesn't finish her question because right now it doesn't help her to know and she refuses to be slowed down.

"Right, I'm on it."

The connection goes dead without another word.

Cat is in the last minute stages of preparing as best as she can for something she barely understands that she's fairly sure is at least going to give everyone a very bad tan.

When someone new arrives at the door she just lets them in, unquestioningly, the kind of thing she's aware Bruce probably wouldn't approve of even under these circumstances - but the girl doesn't look like trouble, armed (...impressively) or not.

"Come in," Cat says, stepping aside to usher her indoors.

"You're Cat?" Enfys queries, without significant preamble - she gestures, possibly unnervingly, with the lochaber she's presently deeply unwilling to part with. "Bruce said to let you know I'm running an errand - 'running a fucking errand', I think he has brain damage-" fondly, "-so I'm gonna go fuck off with one of his vehicles, if that's cool."

Her tone implies that she's only tacking on 'if that's cool' for the sake of her slightly rusty manners, because she will be doing it whether or not anyone approves of her striding in here covered in sweat and dirt and bleeding from a few places. She's nearly vibrating with restrained energy, the effort of not just bolting past Cat and remembering to stop and tell her what she's doing before she just goes and does it.

Cat gives Enfys another once over, and decides that if Bruce didn't actually send her he'll probably understand why Cat let her run off with one of his vehicles in the middle of all of this chaos.

"Yeah, I'm Cat - you go ahead with that, I won't get in your way. The garage is down that way--I've got extras of the map, here." She figured that they'd be good for other people to have besides her, so she hatched some copies, one of which she now offers Enfys. "Are we dying today? 'Cause if we are I need to figure out what I'll say to everyone in here."

Oh, hey, a map - Cat hopefully can survive personal space invasion, because her ability to roll with all this earns her sudden cheek-kisses. (Enfys thoughtfully holds her axe back.)

Pausing a few feet away (she moves fast when she's got someplace to be), Enfys registers the question (it took her a minute) and shakes her head. "Doesn't look like we're dying, babe. He wants medics, not back up, and I figure if we're ready to be worried about keeping people alive, we've got some breathing room."

Cat responds to cheek-kisses by touching Enfys' arms lightly and without awkwardness, as brief and abrupt as it may be. (She appreciates the axe not ending up near her, still, that's thoughtful.)

"Well, then, don't let me hold you - you better get on, if people are in trouble, and if Bruce asks we're all just fine here." Cat making a shooing gesture at Enfys, as if she really needs the encouragement, and will get back to her work with a quickness.

Once Enfys has jogged through to the garage and located the...Ducati, nice, Bruce is probably not getting this back in a hurry- she improvises to strap her axe to the back of it and thoughtfully grabs a helmet.

She's not wearing it, she's taking it for whoever she finds first. Of course she is. For fuck's sake, Enfys. The point is she heads out into the city, running through her mental list of who she may or may not know to be medically-trained and who she can probably find the quickest.

Trixie is in the process of making her way to the manor, having learned it seems to be a meeting place and a more conveniently located one than the moonship; she's got medical supplies, which she hatched, and a plan to go on and round up everybody she can sooner or later for treatment.

This makes Trixie the first person Enfys comes across, but under the circumstances it's the medical supplies and not Trixie's face that catch her attention enough to make her stop, pulling up sharply a few feet away.

"Trix! I need your arse, get on the bike."

"Lord, I hear that way too often," Trixie says, sighing dramatically, "now when will people value me for my mind and not my body--"

She's getting on the bike as she says it, by the way, and rearranging the axe as she goes.

Team Rescue is also apparently Team Reckless Endangerment (or has the Doctor got that one sewn up?), judging by how neither of them are wearing helmets as Enfys laughs and kicks off toward the Sanctuary For All. Bruce will love that.

The helmet is a nice thought - maybe he could harp on it if it wasn't just about the absolute least of their worries, but she will hear about it later, oh yes. Bruce is standing, arms crossed, pacing every so often; he found Morgana's tablet and turned it off before setting it near her. It's not that he wants to deliberate worry anyone who might go looking for her, but he doesn't know what to say, and doesn't feel up to communicating more than he has to.

He's restless, and it's clear, but the sharp-eyed acknowledgment on his face when he sees Enfys arriving with Trixie is close enough to relief to work in a pinch.

The second the bike has skidded to a stop, Trixie is moving (almost before it, anyway, or at least she's preparing)--judging by the look on Bruce's face, she's got some work to do. She strides for the unconscious woman immediately and starts taking vitals, wishing she had the proper machinery for it but certain of her training in the field, anyway; at least Morgana doesn't seem to have any sucking chest wounds.

"What happened?"

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"I cleaned up the bruising and internal bleeding - rubber fucking bullets - but her system's not firing on all engines and she's been exposed to heavy radiation," Sol explains briskly, moving out of Trixie's way with ease of practise adjusting to who's best suited to doing what. "She passed out not long after we got into the building."

Rather than storming in where she's useless or even asking questions about it, Enfys leans against the parked bike and watches, dark-eyed and forgetting to cover the stillness underneath her frenetic approach to reality. She glances at Bruce, eventually, and says, "Cat gave me a map of your place."

If this were any other moment, there would be an implied 'ha, ha'.

Efficiently after Sol, Bruce adds, "She's coming down off improperly prescribed insomnia medication and was already exhausted and suffering mild withdrawal. If you can avoid giving her chemical sedatives or painkillers, that would be best, her system's not up to processing it and the anti-rad medication we're all going to have to down will be harsh enough."

Speaking of, he looks back at Enfys. "There was no 'Enfys' room' label, you notice--" yet, Mr. Wayne, oh how foolishly you tempt fate, "I'm going to go back and set up for the radiation treatment. Are you okay to keep couriering doctors?"

"Okay, I'm gonna need her set up to rest somewhere secure - not a bench," not that she's holding that against them, it's a sucky situation all around and they definitely did well with improvisation, "flat bed, put her on an IV so she can get some fluids in her system and rest. So! Who's got room and a spare bed?"

She pauses, and adds to Sol, "Internal bleeding- she might have some busted ribs, I'm gonna check that out, too, did you notice anything along those lines?"

"I can ferry doctors," Enfys says, and looks between Trixie and Bruce thoughtfully, "but why don't I go wrangle someone who can drive a car down here to play ambulance? Wayne Manor's got plenty of space, Cat's already been settling people in there, hasn't she?"

She rocks back on her feet. "I can grab someone around there on my way. What d'you reckon?" To Bruce.

"There's a few broken ribs," Sol confirms for Trixie, scratching the side of his face- he looks exhausted and he is. Some of the bullets had managed to get through her clothes to leave ugly holes in her skin that he'd meticulously repaired, as well as handling the bleeding in her abdomen; he'd done what he could for everything else, lending her a little more strength and noting the concussion. "Something hit in her in the head, so fuck only knows how she was on her feet for as long as she was with a little concussion on top of everything else. The left side of her took the worst of it."

He nods. "East wing is full of bedrooms or you can triage one of the ballrooms, whatever you need. Enfys, do that, use the Rolls, it has space and nobody will drive it into a wall by accident." If there's a slightly ominous tone there it's one of do not let anyone touch my Lamborghini or they'll wish they'd gotten blown up.

"Make sure they can actually drive. Get going, I'll see you around." He is just going to head out on foot, apparently, because he'd just be slowing Enfys down. He gives Trixie and Sol one last look - solidarity, if not appreciation, he's too stoic for that. "Good show," is all he says, and then he's off.

"All right. Yeah, we'll want a bus--however makeshift--down here before I do anything else, I'll keep her stable until then." The injuries aren't presently life-threatening, just painful, but they could worsen, and Trixie makes a mental note to get Morgana some of the good drugs. And maybe someone to explain what IV medicine is, because if Morgana wakes to that with no one to tell her what it's for, it might be mildly traumatic.

"When we get there, I'll get her set up, and triage in a ballroom ain't the weirdest thing I've done, but it'll sure be new." She'll be pleased to have all the space such a thing suggests, though. "Here's a thing," she says, conversationally, to Sol, "how exactly did you clear up those internal injuries of hers?"

"I'm on it- Trix, I'll send somebody back down here with 'care of Enfys' stamped on their arse, you two stay out of trouble."

Enfys takes the unused helmet with her, since it's Bruce's and not hers to dump haphazardly around the city, and leaves moments later.

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