Looking to rumble [open]

[nobel_berserker]

She'd seen the living area. She'd been hauled around the ship by tentacles. She'd wandered around the pod chamber with Hans, yelling for Domon or Rain or anyone else in the Shuffle Alliance without so much as a stir from the things. And she'd been told that Earth--her precious Earth--was gone, and she had to fight a war against the ones who'd done

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[haruno]

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Allenby Beardsley." She smiled, partly out of ingrained politeness. "I did, past the Academy. If you're looking to improve yourself beyond what you learn before you graduate, you end up finding your own masters. Tsunade-shishou was willing to keep me on after I all but forced her into it."

As for the rest of what Allenby asked, Sakura hesitated. "Stacy has a general set of behavior rules, from what I understand. She can't keep track of us as well here in teh City, but in the halls, anywhere where it feels organic, you can assume she's watching everything you do. If you ask her to set up a sparring perimeter for you and someone else, and you both confirm it's what you want, then she complies. Otherwise she might label it a violation of protocol, as an unnecessary instigation of violence between crew-members."

All unnecessarily longwinded, in Sakura's opinion. Not to mention that violations built up to something that made people not want to talk about it in public: Punishment. She wanted to know more about whatever had happened... maybed the Media Library would help.

"Gundams are mobile suits? Robots people fight with?" Sakura's forehead furrowed in confusion. Robots? "Why?"

[nobel_berserker]

"Well that's pretty cool! Sounds like you must be a real fighter to get your trainin' like that." Her smile softened into something more sad. "Hope she hatches out of one of those pod things. There are too many people stuck in there." Allenby just couldn't make herself think that Domon and the others would be gone like Earth was. Surely any good fighters from other worlds would be in there too. It wouldn't make sense for Stacy not to get them.

She pulled a face at the rules Sakura described. "Well that's dumb! What happens if you just get into a fight on the spur of the moment? There might not be time for all that permission stuff." She glared up at the sky projection. "I'm grateful for bein' saved and all, but that doesn't give her the right to watch me."

The next question was a little more complicated now than it had been before Allenby had arrived on this ship. "Well, on my Earth, each country gets one Gundam and we fight in those so we don't need armies and navies fightin' huge wars and killing millions of people." Her face twisted into a scowl. "There's at least one different Earth where they use 'em to stomp all over armies to stop 'em from fightin'. But that's just completely wrong! Gundams are supposed to be a substitute for war, not somethin' you'd use to fight a real one."

[haruno]

There was something horrifying in hearing at the sheer effectiveness of the human population in producing weapons of massive destruction. Machines, things of that nature hadn't been the norm for her world, or the shinobi nations. Yet they'd made their own "weapons" to hold each other back from war, misused as they tailed beasts were over the decades. "It's strange to think the same thing can be used for such different purposes across the universes." Even more so when those universes used the same names, around the same planet, for similar purposes -- in theory, if not practice.

"That's where the violations probably come in," Sakura offered flatly, no more at ease with the reality than Allenby appeared to be. "Guess everything comes with some sort of non-negotiable price."

In this case, saved to fight on, and watched while waiting for that fight. During it, too. "She will. Sooner or later, she'll be cursing her way up through the vine room, probably taking a few of them with her." Sakura smiled, holding on the the mental image of Tsunade taking offence at the vine-room's antics over the sadness of her and everyone else not being actively here. "Not that I'll blame her when she does."

[nobel_berserker]

"It's weird," said Allenby, "and I don't like it." For all she loved fighting, there were some things that she did take seriously. The idea of using a Gundam to actively kill other people? There were not enough words in any language for her to describe how bad it was. She'd seen some pretty horrible misuses of Gundams on her own world, but that wasn't as bad as designating Gundams as war machines right from the start. All the damage they did to Earth just by accident, and people were using them that way on purpose elsewhere? And the idea of more than one Earth was just too strange.

She shook her head. "Guess I'll try to avoid 'em, but I'm not letting a giant livin' spaceship tell me what to do all the time." Sure, she was glad that she was alive and un-podded and had the chance to save Earth and everywhere else, but that wouldn't make Allenby any more likely to pay attention to rules than she had back home.

At Sakura's imagining of how her teacher'd show up though, Allenby grinned. "I'd sure love to see that! Maybe you and her could show me a few tricks. And I'll have to introduce ya to my friends when they pop out of those things." Surely it was only a matter of time before Domon, Sai Saici and the rest of 'em would wake up. It had to be.

[haruno]

"I'm sure we could," she said, grinning in turn. The positive focus was one she appreciated. "Though you'll have to settle for one demonstrator until that happens. As for your friends, I look forward to that. I'll do the same for you when the people I know start getting woken up by Stacy." It was bound to happen, sooner or later.

The rest was thinking material. Giant vehicles of destruction... things out of a fictional reality that hadn't been all that interesting to her back home, only real now that she was here. With everything destroyed... "You could say that about a lot of things here," she said, in response to Allenby's statement against the weird nature of other Earth's use of Gundams. "Expectations are different than the reality."