We don't have much time!" Marinette cried out when she saw that another Legionnaire had joined her. "There are people trapped down there and the building won't stay up for long."
She was standing near the edge of a huge pit, a sinkhole that had formed because of the earthquake. There were people yelling from down inside it and when her fellow Legionnaire got closer, they'd see that a whole building had slid down into the pit. Some of it was still standing, miraculously, so that some of the victims weren't too badly injured, shielded by chunks of the building that'd stayed intact, but they were trapped down there with no way of getting back out. Others were partly buried under debris.
The standing parts of the building were creaking ominously, though. If it collapsed -- or if the sinkhole sank even deeper -- then the people trapped down there were done for.
Marinette didn't hesitate; she dove in, letting gravity give her some speed, using her ring to stop her fall only when she reached the people at the bottom. She was trying to do this as quickly as she could -- they had to work fast to be able to save them all.
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Marinette's powers were ideal for helping with the floods. Really, when you dove into rapidly rising flood waters with dangerous currents the best power you could have besides controlling water was luck, because that was sometimes the only thing that let Marinette grab people and manage to pull herself back out again. Even the flight rings had trouble working against such horrible currents.
Her yoyo helped too. Now more than ever, it was her lifeline. She kept attaching it to something solid on one of the standing buildings before she dove in so she could use it to pull herself and the victim back out again.
The rescue services were coming by and picking up rescued people from the rooftops of the still-standing buildings but right now, the Legionnaires and the UP's rescue divers were the only chance some of these people had in making it safely to the rooftops in the first place.
Marinette was already exhausted but there was no way she was quitting when these people needed help. She turned when she found she was no longer alone.
"We have to get to the city square. They said one of the levees is about to break. If we hurry, we can help people get to high ground before the flood waters hit."
Unfortunately, she'd saved all the people she could here. She tried not to think about how she no longer saw people in the water and how that didn't necessarily mean she'd saved everyone -- it just meant that the people who were already lost were impossible to save, probably already trapped or dead under the water.
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We don't have much time!" Marinette cried out when she saw that another Legionnaire had joined her. "There are people trapped down there and the building won't stay up for long."
She was standing near the edge of a huge pit, a sinkhole that had formed because of the earthquake. There were people yelling from down inside it and when her fellow Legionnaire got closer, they'd see that a whole building had slid down into the pit. Some of it was still standing, miraculously, so that some of the victims weren't too badly injured, shielded by chunks of the building that'd stayed intact, but they were trapped down there with no way of getting back out. Others were partly buried under debris.
The standing parts of the building were creaking ominously, though. If it collapsed -- or if the sinkhole sank even deeper -- then the people trapped down there were done for.
Marinette didn't hesitate; she dove in, letting gravity give her some speed, using her ring to stop her fall only when she reached the people at the bottom. She was trying to do this as quickly as she could -- they had to work fast to be able to save them all.
C.
Marinette's powers were ideal for helping with the floods. Really, when you dove into rapidly rising flood waters with dangerous currents the best power you could have besides controlling water was luck, because that was sometimes the only thing that let Marinette grab people and manage to pull herself back out again. Even the flight rings had trouble working against such horrible currents.
Her yoyo helped too. Now more than ever, it was her lifeline. She kept attaching it to something solid on one of the standing buildings before she dove in so she could use it to pull herself and the victim back out again.
The rescue services were coming by and picking up rescued people from the rooftops of the still-standing buildings but right now, the Legionnaires and the UP's rescue divers were the only chance some of these people had in making it safely to the rooftops in the first place.
Marinette was already exhausted but there was no way she was quitting when these people needed help. She turned when she found she was no longer alone.
"We have to get to the city square. They said one of the levees is about to break. If we hurry, we can help people get to high ground before the flood waters hit."
Unfortunately, she'd saved all the people she could here. She tried not to think about how she no longer saw people in the water and how that didn't necessarily mean she'd saved everyone -- it just meant that the people who were already lost were impossible to save, probably already trapped or dead under the water.