Toni flipped the face shield of his helmet up and crossed his arms as he sat on his bike, looking up and watching as Lucien ascended the steps of the tower. He was indeed being impatient, but not for the reasons Lucien probably thought. Toni was always impatient during missions, though most of the time did his best not to show it. He tended to want these things to go as fast as they could so all get back to the caves and to their friends and families as fast as they could. But now, with this news from Uncle about the robots wanting to take not only live humans, but dead ones, that made things even worse. The mission to get the dead bodies back, should anything happen, posed even more of a danger because the robots would surely try hard to keep them from doing so. He could only hope nothing would happen for this raid. 

But once again he was wrong. Lucien began waving and pointing and at first, Toni was confused about what the man was doing. But when he followed the man's gesture cursed and shouted, "Idiot! Get down here now! Hurry up!" But his shouts fell on deaf ears with him all the way up there. Toni couldn't leave Lucien here. He would never make it to the base on time. That and if Lucien died he had to retrieve the body. Meaning he was stuck. Reaching into his pack, he grabbed a walkie talkie. It was a very old one that the robots couldn't intercept and hear with their modern forms of communication. He pulled the antenna up, speaking into it quickly, "Code red! We got the droids after us. Drop it and leave with what we have! Don't worry about us! I have my bike! Get and go!"

He could only trust the other men to listen. At sound of the explosion he looked up quickly, eyes wide as Lucien fell down the steps very painfully. This time Lucien moved quickly over to where Lucien was and cursed again. He was a bloody mess and obviously couldn't move on his own other then a pathetic crawl. "Can't leave you here. We have to get out of here. Now." He bent down and lifted the man over his shoulder before running back over to his bike, setting Lucien in front of him to keep him from falling off as they road off, quickly meeting up with the other few vans and jeeps that road away quickly. The androids were still overhead and another explosion sounded. It close behind the group. Not even ten seconds later, another hit. The van a few vehicles down exploded into flames, almost knocking Toni's bike off balance, but he managed to steady himself. Now people had their guns and were shooting up at the hovercrafts. It wasn't long though because obviously the androids seemed more interested in the burning van left behind. Toni knew what they were after, but was fairly sure in that scorched mess, they would find no usable bodies.

He sped up his motorcycle and the group rode in a random direct for a little while until they were sure the androids were not following them. Once they were sure of that, they drove back tot he caves. 

...

Once arriving, Toni sighed and hefted the wounded Lucien over his shoulder, walking into the caves where people gathered to see what the gains, as well as the causalities of the mission were. There were gasps and such when people saw Lucien draped over Toni's shoulder, obviously thinking the worse of the body mess he was in. And that especially included Cassie, who ran up after spying them, in her still baggy clothes and hair still dripping wet from likely getting out of the batheing river. She seemed too scared to try and even touch Lucien, tears streaming down her face, "I-is he...."

"Wounded. I'm taking him to Jodie in the infirmary." Toni said simply, and made his way quickly to the infirmary, where Jodie was with two other low case patients, one sick with a slight fever and the other with a cut from one of the kitchen knifes they had in the dining hall. But when Jodie saw the condition Lucien was in, immediately told Toni to put him on one of the cots and went to work. First was to clean all the blood so she could get to the wounds. He was battered pretty badly, but Jodie said nothing, trying to not upset the obviously distraught and worried Castille sitting close next to Lucien, holding his hand tightly. Jodie worked for over two hours, patching and stitching things up until she had done all she could do. By then, the other two patients had been taken care of, and Toni left to help unload all the supplies, while Jodie went to check on Jacob, who she had surprising left with Pony again. The little boy had taken a sudden liking to going with the girl. 

Left alone with Lucien, Cassie was torn up on the inside to see him so battered. It wasn't as bad now that all the blood was washed off, but it was still bad. She cried softly as she sat there next to the cot, her hands hold his own hand. The only time she would even move from that position was to change the bandages he had if blood seeped through. She was carefully changing the bandages on his arm when she heard what she thought to be a sound come from him. She quickly moved to look at him, worry in her eyes and tears falling from her face as she gently placed her hands on his cheeks, "Lucien?....oh god Lucien.....please wake up....."