The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (and then cuts off the oxygen)

[meat_mooks]

It was a little hectic in Medbay. Though there were only a few patients, they weren't in the best shape. Still, there was the best life support technology that could be built or grown in the Medbay, and the problems were being dealt with.

For the moment.

That moment would soon be over, only to be replaced by sheer chaos.

[ooc: Tag away!]

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Re: Damage Control

[magnetlips]

Cassie's heart was barely pumping enough oxygenated blood through her system. The oxygen and ventilators were helping keep her stable, though. Without those she had a few minutes before her condition changed for the worse.

Re: Damage Control /let me know if anything needs tweaking

[haruno]

Which is, of course, when the power cuts. Sakura was up on her feet and looking around -- there was more than one person to worry about, and without a backup system coming to life, that meant others who needed immediate attention. People who would be destabilizing if action wasn't taken.

Cassie was one of the problematic ones. Sakura knew her condition had been maintained by the machines, and in their absence, she'd need manual assistance. Granted, even if she lacked chakra, she knew how to manually keep a heart pumping for a short period of time, but she was operating on full chakra. The damn dragons were here, the clock should have been destroyed by now, but of course it wasn't.

"Howard!" She had her hands situated over Cassie's sternum, glowing green with her chakra. She was monitoring Cassie's heart for her, there to keep it pumping sufficiently without overtaxing as much as she could, but she needed hands to manually keep the ventilator going. "I need you on the ventilator to keep her breathing!"

Re: Damage Control /let me know if anything needs tweaking

[i_sell_drugs]

"Already on it. Where the hell are the backups?" He's up at the ventilator fairly quickly.

"What're you doing?" It's not an accusation; rather, he'll know better how to react if he knows if Sakura's healing Cassie or just maintaining her at baseline. If Sakura's just maintaining, that means that she and him are both hamstringed from checking on or aiding the other patients, or trying to get the backups running. His mind races as he tries to piece together a way to keep the ventilator running without doing it manually.

Damage Control/Not much for her to do so it's all you guys, have fun

[magnetlips]

Cassie's eyelids flickered. She stared at her nurses. She knew that something had gone terribly wrong but then her consciousness gave way to darkness.

[haruno]

"Ask the ship," she grinds out, half her attention on the monitoring, half on the rest of what was breaking down throughout the bay. Cassie is stable enough for the moment to afford Sakura the time she needed to lift her hands, performing a set of familiar seals.

As a second Sakura comes into existence, half of the her chakra is siphoned away into another thinking, feeling version of herself free to make the rounds she can't while occupied. Damn it, but back home they would have had all the medical jounin to assist -- "Monitoring for any changes. I'm regulating her heartbeat," she says simply. "And if it comes down to it, keeping her alive until systems come back online. Do you know if we have any backups for the backups?" She'd thought at least some of the manuals she'd read had pointed toward backup power supplies being built directly into the equipment, but she had no idea if this was one of those units.

[i_sell_drugs]

"Stacy! Turn on the backups!"

Stacy takes her fine time answering, during which Howard is deadly silent in case he's missing something.

|| Systems offline. || No backup systems recorded. ||

"What?!" He sucks on his lower lip, thinking.

"Okay, can you keep her stable for two minutes? Maybe your clone?" Which is totally creepy by the way. "I think I have an idea to automate this thing, then I can manually check the backups."

[haruno]

"You've got your two minutes." Sakura didn't specify to the how. She considered that detail unnecessary at the moment.

[i_sell_drugs]

Howard pulls out one of the compartments on the ventilator, the one that should be the backup battery that isn't activating. He spends about a minute trying to use his practically non-existent electrician skills trying to manually hook up that battery, then rips the cord out of it and runs back to the desk he's co-opted, tossing the toybox onto the ground and digging through its contents.

There. A remote-controlled race car. He practically rips the battery compartment out of it and twists the copper tips of the wires (which he hopes to god are universally color-coded) and the cord together before using the remote to turn it on.

The ventilator stops, starts and stops again, before finally grinding into motion on its own. From how how the battery compartment is getting under his hand, he doesn't estimate it'll last long. "I'll check the other patients while that's running. Yell for me as soon as it runs out, I'm guessing in a few minutes tops."

[haruno]

Quick and impressive work. Sakura did what she could to be out of his way while he jury-rigged up the extra battery, nodding and then confirming verbally. "Got it. Same to you. If you need extra hands, give a shout."

An oblique reference to her self still checking up on the rest, if in the dark and flashing red of the current lights she was more another moving form among the beds holding current patients.

"Thank you."