The remainder of the evacuation progresses. They had some warning. Enough warning to fill up every place that can take some people. Enough warning for people to transfer their bank accounts to national branches and try to take the last pictures of this or that which will ever be taken and loot the hell out of every store in the blast zone.
They don't know exactly when it's going to blow.
As the uncertain time approaches the evacuators concentrate on places farther from Yellowstone itself: less Idaho, more Nebraskans who have been stuck in inescapable traffic trying to drive away. Bella puts an Alli next to car jams and crosses her fingers as hard as she can that "one down" will just be like "converged" for Alli if something happens. Alli makes everybody get out of their cars and line up and Bella puts them all one by one in Japan, because Japan is taking refugees today, apparently, whatever, Bella's job is not logistics on any high level, Bella's job is flicker flicker flicker flicker down the self-assembling line of people Alli commands into existence, she can do four people a second if she's really on and if that turns into three people a second it just means she needs to stop thinking and fucking teleport.
There's an earthquake.
It even shakes the ground as far away as Charlie's house, though only a little that far away, barely enough to knock badly shelved books onto the car. Alli converges in alarm, the one of her standing on someone's car screaming at the lady to get her toddler out of the seat there's no time there's no time disappearing into her other self.
And then the center of the continent heaves itself up like a bursting boil, and Bella is standing in Japan, holding a two-year-old. She puts the kid down and goes back for the mom because she can't leave a baby without his mom in Japan and she can't leave this screaming teenager to be crushed between quaking cars and she can't leave this oh god it's an entire fucking school bus how did she not see the school bus first thing -
When she's halfway through the school bus she tries to teleport back to the highway and she can't.
She can't hit a moving target.
She lands in the sky above where the school bus was and descends flicker by careful flicker and into it and it pitches onto its side and the kids are screaming and the bus driver is screaming and Bella is screaming and she grabs the nearest kid and takes them to Japan and does that six more times and then she lands in the sky again and there isn't any screaming anymore.
Bella goes home.
Alli finds that Bella's bleeding, and fixes her, hissing with sympathetic pain, and Bella flops onto her twin and sobs.
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Date: 2014-08-06 11:01 pm (UTC)They don't know exactly when it's going to blow.
As the uncertain time approaches the evacuators concentrate on places farther from Yellowstone itself: less Idaho, more Nebraskans who have been stuck in inescapable traffic trying to drive away. Bella puts an Alli next to car jams and crosses her fingers as hard as she can that "one down" will just be like "converged" for Alli if something happens. Alli makes everybody get out of their cars and line up and Bella puts them all one by one in Japan, because Japan is taking refugees today, apparently, whatever, Bella's job is not logistics on any high level, Bella's job is flicker flicker flicker flicker down the self-assembling line of people Alli commands into existence, she can do four people a second if she's really on and if that turns into three people a second it just means she needs to stop thinking and fucking teleport.
There's an earthquake.
It even shakes the ground as far away as Charlie's house, though only a little that far away, barely enough to knock badly shelved books onto the car. Alli converges in alarm, the one of her standing on someone's car screaming at the lady to get her toddler out of the seat there's no time there's no time disappearing into her other self.
And then the center of the continent heaves itself up like a bursting boil, and Bella is standing in Japan, holding a two-year-old. She puts the kid down and goes back for the mom because she can't leave a baby without his mom in Japan and she can't leave this screaming teenager to be crushed between quaking cars and she can't leave this oh god it's an entire fucking school bus how did she not see the school bus first thing -
When she's halfway through the school bus she tries to teleport back to the highway and she can't.
She can't hit a moving target.
She lands in the sky above where the school bus was and descends flicker by careful flicker and into it and it pitches onto its side and the kids are screaming and the bus driver is screaming and Bella is screaming and she grabs the nearest kid and takes them to Japan and does that six more times and then she lands in the sky again and there isn't any screaming anymore.
Bella goes home.
Alli finds that Bella's bleeding, and fixes her, hissing with sympathetic pain, and Bella flops onto her twin and sobs.