(GS3) Field: Hospital

[Jello]

There was a beige ceiling and white walls surrounding him. Haruka had administered himself into the hospital earlier that morning when he woke up in shock trauma. His heart was beating irregularly and his nerves were not only fried, but experiencing a severe burnout in his nervous and circulatory systems. Inner body combustion, very rare and nearly never happens in a human's lifetime.

He laid in his hospital gown, currently staring out the window. It was bleak out, nearly raining. Haruka vaguely remembers being in the hospital a bit ago, but he couldn't remember for the life of him how long he'd been out or when the hospital admitted him into the room. Haruka passed out once he came in and signed the form. He was hooked up to a catheter and his body was in a slight stasis. He could very barely move around, so walking away was out of the question. He took a good minute or so of crawling his arm across the table to reach his cell phone on the counter along with his glasses. They took his contacts out for him apparently.

No new messages.

No missed calls..

Haruka was an empty pit from that. He hadn't seen anyone he recognized in days, and yet, nobody has tried to contact him or talk to him. Ever since the culture festival, everyone he knows has been away or off doing something.

"Ah... Where is everyone?"

The skies were still a barren, ugly greyscale. Haruka frowned, feeling his heart sink as his weak voice cracked under pressure. He laid back in bed, slightly sweating still.

I miss everyone.

Sera remained quiet.

Overlord spoke nothing.

Haruka fell silent altogether, save for his slightly off-kilter breathing.

[AlwaysAwake]

Alexander dashed with a speed that would make even the unit Galahad proud, swerving through the people in his hurried dash as he arrived at room 107 in a jiffy. He was sweating bullets, heaving much like before when late to the club meeting. The words "Harooooooookaaaaaaaa saaaaaaaan" could have been heard echoing through the halls before arriving at his destination.

As he entered the room and placed his sight on the patient as he rushed over, screaming the words "My friendo" in a failed attempt at English, worry resting on his tired features.

[Nobody]

Walking through the hallway was Shiki, his eye and forehead poorly bandaged and his clothing overall dirty, his face decorated with a look of confusion as he once again had no idea where to go. Scratching the back of his head he marched forth, and nearly got ran over by a human being faster than a jet fighter, and ofcourse, curosity won the great battle and he just had to check out what happened.

This lead him to a room with his old friend, Haruka, who was hospitalized. Shiki wasn't aware what happened to him or how to act, but then again he looked like a mess too so they matched together, in a way.

"Hey!" he exclaimed at his friend, and waved his arm at him.

[Jello]

The sound of Alex's voice was shocking as Haruka had started to doze off after the aches and pains dulled for a bit and became numbness again. Suddenly jolting awake, he very nearly had a seizure or something at how it scared him.

But you'd never notice because all that happened was his eyes slowly opening a bit more than before, and a his face muscles slowly bending into a smile. He was glad Alex showed up, considering he's the only person he's been able to find in the past few days. Originally he was going to contact Hana or Yukino, but he knew they'd be off doing something really important as of recently and he didn't want to intrude. As for Tsubasa and Seifer, he wasn't sure if bothering them over text was wise considering his condition. He needed the least amount of judgement as possible. Alex was perfect to contact.

"Thank you. For coming." Haruka's voice was barely a level above a whisper. He nodded very slowly, gesturing him to seat himself near the bed. He had something to tell him. It wasn't super important, but he needed to make sure everyone was okay. He got a text message a bit ago from someone besides Alex, but he didn't have enough strength to reach for it and read it at the time.

"Alex. My phone. There's a text from someone, can you read it?" He was talking about the one from Yukino mentioning about the Cardfight Club headquarters. But Haruka had no idea why they needed a headquarters, or what was going on. Haruka was oblivious to the reverse epidemic currently taking over the area it seems, because that entire time, Sera had been in control and Haruka was in a deep slumber. He was none the wiser, essentially.

Shiki showed up as well? Seems he wasn't the only one in a poor condition. Haruka smiled to him as well, nodding to join them. He would say more, but even speaking causes blood to curdle in his lower larynx. He was dying and dying fast, until the medication and rest finally kicked it.

"Ya-he-llo." Haruka managed to whisper out emphatically.

[AlwaysAwake]

"The Training Facility will be our headquarters in fighting against the invaders." Alexander repeated in a confused tone, having given a friendly wave to the stranger earlier as well before having repeated the text from Harukas phone.

"Uh, the heck did I miss?" He asked, blinking. It seems he chose a bad time to go off for some odd cardfight training in the woods.

[Nobody]

Shiki entered the room, just sort of standing there as the other person read a message outloud to which he couldn't help but ask
"Training Facility and invaders? This is roleplaying on a whole different level than I'm used to.."

"Oh! Have you been mugged by some person in a dark alley too? He beat me up so hardcore I don't remember anything between that and waking up here." he added, looking at Haruka and completely ignoring the fact that he can barely speak, or rather, he didn't realize in what kind of state his friend was.

[Jello]

Haruka heard Alex's message subtly nodding and gesturing to set the device down. With a good amount of Haruka's energy, he pushed himself to a sitting up position, using his pillow to support his back in the meantime. He was worse for wear than he thought he'd be. He was not only affected on the inside, but the parts of his bodies that felt like they were fried, well, were fried. There were bits of skin on his arms and fingers that were blackened and reddened by the static Sera had implanted into people.

Haruka still had no idea what was going on, so he just bit his lip, shaking his head slightly to get the thoughts free from the clasps of his mind. No more thinking about it. He had to get caught up with what was going on.

"Shiki, Alex. I need you guys... To do me a favor." Haruka sputtered up a few drips of blood on the bed sheet. Red spot on a white cover. Nice. He wiped his lips with his sleeve, trying is hardest to convey this message before it all came up again.

"I need your help. Please help me." Haruka took a few weak breaths in rapid succession to keep the blood from spewing out of his throat. It burned and tasted a lot like iron to him. Gross.

With another few quick breaths, he gripped his blanket slightly, somewhat frustrated by his inability to act on his own.

"I can't remember. The past few days..." Cough cough. "I keep passing out and waking up... a lot." Cough cough. More iron on his tongue. "If you Yukino, or Hana, or anyone; if they ever ask about me.... Tell them I'm fine, and to not worry about me." Haruka nearly coughed up a lung after that. He forced himself to lay back down afterwards, clenching his teeth together to keep anything from coming back up.

"I don't think they'd want to see me like this." Haruka became frail of a sudden. A set of nerves across his body shot online all of a sudden, causing him to panic for a moment about being able to feel more things in his body. The sweat went down a moment after, but he was still worried nonetheless. Has to be more prepared for stuff like that.

[AlwaysAwake]

Alexander was speechless, the condition of his good ol pal Haruka looking worse for wear. He blinked, eyeing him with worry as he listened to his words.

"I don't know how I feel about lying.... But I'll try at least, man." His voice showcasing his worry over Haruka and the situation at hand, pausing for a moment before speaking again. "What happened to you though?" Asking curiously.

[Jello]

Haruka blinked, unsure of what he was asking.

Oh.

"I don't remember." Haruka simply put, he doesn't know why he was like this. Each day he woke up in different places, feeling worse than before. Today was the worse, but at least he woke up somewhere remotely close to where he passed out. That was comforting to some degree.

"I'm sorry. You can tell them..." Cough. "Just don't make it sound too bad."

Haruka was sure Yukino would have a panic attack or something if she saw Haruka spitting up blood like it was a Casual Friday event or something. Hana would definitely be annoyed at him for trying to die without a good reason and order doctors and nurses or something to fix him. Tsubasa and Seifer might get too friendly and try to help out of bed or something and Haruka still can't feel anything below the chest really so he would probably just ragdoll onto the floor at that point.

"I'll be fine. Probably."

Realistically? Not.

[AlwaysAwake]

Truthfully didn't have many plans and had actually spent the night in the hospital room with his rather bloody pal, having found a modest place to sleep in what is known as the wonderous invention the chair.

His eyes had just opened, though he was still in a groggy state and not being able to make much of his surroundings in his half asleep delirium. A huff of air exhaled by him as he stretched, it seemed it'd take him a few minutes to fully awaken to say the least.

[Jello]

Haruka had spent a majority of the previous night silently staring at the ceiling, listening to the stories Alex told of his training and his time in the wilderness recently. Haruka was genuinely intrigued in the stories, he just had a hard time expressing the awe in them, so he just smiled and nodded, occasionally requiring his pillow to be readjusted at several intervals of the evening.

It was nice to finally hear someone talk about themselves openly, and Haruka was very happy he even got a visitor. It was nice to say the least that somebody came to him. Albeit, invited, but Alex wasn't the closest person to Haruka before so the fact he took the time to come out and even spend the night there was comforting for Haruka's destabilized psyche.

In the middle of the night, Haruka awoke. His body was frail, and it was sore all over. But it was sore all over! He could feel it again! It felt like burns and sores all across his body though, as if he was laid in a coffin of hot coals. His body was definitely in poor shape, but it could move. He sat up slowly, feeling the cracks in his back and spine. Poor shape indeed.

Haruka saw Alex still sleeping peacefully. Haruka wanted to show some gratitude to his friend for sticking with him during the evening. Taking several minutes, probably ten or more, to escape his bed, he walked over to the bag in the corner containing his things. Haruka still had the deck Butler-san let him borrow, because over the trip, Butler-san had upgraded to a different Nova deck anyways, causing Haruka to become the recent owner of it...

With the deck in hand, he placed it on the small coffee table beside Alex, sighing with a grin at the guy. He left a small note, composed swiftly on a sticky note attached to the top card; Ethics Buster.

"Dear Alex,

I appreciate you coming out today to see me, it made me day. It was really difficult to stay up and listen to your stories due to fatigue,  but I really enjoyed every minute of them. I'm feeling very sick however, so if I'm not awake tomorrow morning, just take this gift and go, please. I'll be up later in the day, no biggie. And remember, Stand up, Vanguard!

-Haruka"

Alex was cool, for sure. Haruka would have to remember to invite him out more on better circumstances. Carefully climbing back into the hospital bed, Haruka returned to his slumber....


And he didn't wake up the next morning, or, the next day, for that matter.

[AlwaysAwake]

Alexander would finally gain his bearings as he had awoken to the world of the living after the deep yet uncomfortable slumber. He let out a pained sigh as he stretched within the chair, having gained slight back pain from the ordeal of sleeping in a chair. He was sure he'd get a earful from his mother when he went back home, gulping at the challenge ahead.

A small sigh holding an essence of despair sounded from him, though then his eyes zoomed to a deck on the coffee table near him. Groggily he moved his hand to clasp it though it hit the note on the top card, picking it up as he skimmed through it. "Huh, I see..." He said with a bit of sadness, though this time his hand stretching to reach the deck after shoving the note in a pocket, eyeing the beast deity cards as both old and new found themselves within the lineup.

"Well, this is a bit ironic, huh..." Chuckling, having used the grapplers awhile back.

"Well, a gifts a gift." Resigning himself to taking the deck and placing it within a bag hecarried with him the day before.  Turning to face the sleeping Haruka before giving a small smile as he spoke in a happy tone. "Thanks for the gift, man. I hope you have a speedy recovery. And don't worry, I'll check by the training facility place for you, wouldn't want to have your girlfriend worry about you heh." Alexander trying to keep himself composed, seeing Haruka in this state causing him some real emotional pain albeit their short time knowing one another. With a tiny wave he took his stuff and headed out, likely straight home for the time being planning to check on the training area soon enough.

[Spectre Diamond]

The fight had mentally and physically exhausted him to the point of being barely conscious just to hear Hana's speech and with parts of the reverse were destroyed by the masked Diablo. He was knocked out for the rest of the night to morning. It seems his heart problems have ceased to cause any problems for him. Good riddance to that suit of his. Hikaru examined his body he had bandages over his left forearm and on his abdomen. Moving his body carefully he reached for his clothes that were surprisingly in good condition. Figuring that with the suit he didn't need to change clothes. He slowly puts them on not wanting to exert his body to much.

Hikaru walked over to the window and checked outside to see that he was on the first floor...It was time he leaved this place. Jumping through the window and began to run as fast as he could before any of the doctors or nurses realized that he was gone. He grabbed his phone and began to speed dial.

"Hey..Kaori do me a favor and pick up my bike will ya."

[OverDrive]

Tsubasa rushed over to the hospital with an unconscious Neo grasping at his deck, in his arms, upon entry he shouted to the professionals that were around, asking for a stretcher and some immediate care.

As the doctors performed the necessary procedures they finished and brought Neo to a hospital room, where he could rest, Tsubasa took his deck and placed it on the shelf next to his bed, leaving a note behind that said, "Hope to see you soon my Friend."

With that Tsubasa walked out of the hospital room, but did not leave before asking the nurse about a patient named Hikaru.

"...I'm sorry that patient left already..." she said.

"..That's impossible he was in much pain when- ..he was brought here." he said, trying to contain his surprise.

"I'm sorry there is not much I can do there...he has no family records so I can't do much." she said, with a look of helplessness on her face.

"..I understand..though please do try to keep an eye on Neo I beg you." he said, as he left the premises, entrusting Neo's care to the professionals.

He also took this chance to send a message to Yukino he had an idea what the weakpoint was but he wanted to clarify and hopefully get everyone up to speed, "In that case we should meet up and discuss this weak point with everyone, I don't want more lives to be put at risk, that aside I have a concern that I must address to you."

[NeoBuster]

Tsubasa had carried Neo all the way to the hosiptal. Serveral hours after Tsubasa left, Neo finally woke up and saw that he was in a hosiptal room.

"Where am I? What happened?" Neo asked himself

There was no sight of any doctors around so Neo looked around the room and saw his deck and saw a note from Tsubasa: Hope to see you soon my friend

Neo then just sat there in his hospital bed thinking about everything he did while being Reversed.

"If I was reversed all this time.. What did I do? How much damage did I do? How much destruction did I cause?"

Neo kept asking himself so many questions while hanging his head down shedding his tears. He couldnt believe everything that had happened.

"Tsubasa went out of his way to save me, he even went to great lengths to carry me to the hospital. He did everything he could to bring me back and to make sure I was alright. Then I saw that vision.. All of my friends standing by my side.. This feeling of being alone, the obsession with that power.. Why did I do it?!" Neo screamed crying

"It was never worth it.. That power is not worth it! Any persons true power is stronger then that fake seducing power!" Neo screamed

Just then Neo's deck started glowing and the deck floated in front of him.

"W-whats going on?" Neo said

If you wish to make things right, I will be there; My Vanguard!

Just then a card appeared in Neo's hands.

"Eradicator, Tempest Bolt Dragon" Neo read

Neo couldnt believe his eyes. A new unit had appeared before him to help fight against the reverse. But for now he had to rest. So Neo put his new deck down on the counter and went to sleep.

"Thank you... EVeryone"

+10 AF to Tsubasa