ALL HANDS! HOIST THE COLORS HIGH!

"Yeesh, you're really into hugs, aren't you Granny?" Wave asked, still doing her best to focus on the work, though managed to give a slight one armed hug to the wing. "Thought you'd be more mad about the cores, though I'll take it." The swallow didn't need to be lectured by something they did try their hardest to prevent. A testament to just how dangerous Eggman can really be when he puts his mind to something. For now she put her full focus on the mechanical leg.

"Something like that... You're fine to replace them, Storm. I don't feel much of anything in that leg anymore no way." As she laid there, Atreya's mind began to wander. Since she didn't have much else to do, why not fill in the gaps?

"Go on and keep working you two. I'm mostly just talking for the sake of it. But, I want to tell you all what happened during the fall. At least from my perspective anyway. I'm sure those who managed to flee left their own stories here and there."

"Counting the August of this year, I'll be chronologically, 1,511 years old. Probably not a good thing to keep track of, but that's all I had to do~ When the lightning and Gaia knows what else came crashing down, Typhon's massive arc core activated. I'm assuming my father was intending on using her to get us out. Sadly, as the antigrav field was deployed, those beams from the heavens crashed down at the same time. I was still a little bird at the time, so I don't recall much of what happened after I was thrown back."

"I do remember not being able to move anything... The only thing that was still relatively active was my brain. I guess part of me was scared that if I let my thoughts rest, I'd die. So, I did what I could. For a thousand years I was counting. I counted the voices I didn't hear anymore, the rubble, years, grains of sand... Then just defaulted to basic math."

"Just when I was ready to give up, I felt the rumbling again. And right away, fear set in.~ I thought whatever struck us down was coming back to finish the job. Only to realize there was no light... More than that, painful as it was. I could move again. My legs were pretty stiff but I could still move my arms mostly well."

" i dunno but YER HOT! "

Blink Blink

"I think she's more or less used to the comments by now~" Atreya giggled softly as she gently took Tangle into her arms and hugged her tight.

"Not our Extreme Gear, though mainly because we didn't even know they existed until we found them. Though uh, they kinda got destroyed by being sucked into a black hole. Long story," Wave said, not sure how Atreya would take to hearing such ancient Babylonian artifacts were destroyed. "Saved the Babylon Garden though."

"I see..." Well, that was all she needed to hear. Atreya transformed her arms into wings to hug the two without getting off the bed. "My grandkids were right under my beak, and I didn't even know it. I'll admit when I woke up all I wanted was just to leave the garden, but... I owe all three of you a sincere thank you. Unintentional as it was, you freed me from my prison."

A small part of her felt a tiny pang of irritation over the Extreme Gears being destroyed. But that was horribly drowned by the overwhelming gratitude she felt towards her Grandchildren. "There's a lot I need to tell you three... I promise to do so after." She gave one last squeeze then laid back so Storm would work.

"I'll make you a nice display case for it unless you have something else in mind you'd like to do with it. Just let me make some last minute adjustments while Storm checks out your leg."

"And that makes twice those words have been said to me. It's fine, Storm. My own doctor felt the same." To help ease his nerves, Atreya hugged the big guy gently before moving over to Wave. "Actually...I'd like for the Rouges to keep it. The ark of the cosmos already powers your extreme gears, right? Now you have a bigger one."

"Don't worry, I'm a professional in making mechanical prosthetics. It's a bit of a side hobby I do whenever we go back home to rest. I'll even go the extra mile and add synthetic skin. Though for now keep it one until I have it done." Wave didn't need to bother taking measurements as she could do that simply by looking at Atreya. "Storm, why don't you take Granny back to the lounge and give her something to eat?"

"Tuh'u...?"

"No, focus, Atreya! Thank you, Wave! I'll make sure you're compensated accordingly. Jewels or ancient technology. Which ever you want, I'll provide." Atreya at least lasted long enough to get what she needed out before her stomach took the wheel. With one last wave, she took off after Storm. It had been quite some time since she last had tuh'u stew. Calypso was an amazing chef, that much was true. But a lot of the dishes Atreya had grown up on were either lost to time, or were so faded in her memory that she had forgotten how to prepare them.