Meet N' Greet

[cityship]

The rest of the crew assembled on the Observation Deck to meet the latest editions to their numbers. After the revelation that their worlds are gone, many of them are even more eager to see people they knew from home

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[igotjetdog]

After being molested by tentacles and handed a plantsuit and a soccer ball, Rock is still bewildered. The crowds of people don't really make him think Wily, he wasn't too big into mass kidnapping. Massive destruction was more along his lines.

He turns around and around, looking a little lost. "Why so many people?" Don't tell him that he was supposed to watch out for every one of them. Rock runs a hand through his hair and considers switching over to his Megaman armor, just for a moment. At least then he'd be able to handle any sudden threats.

But maybe it was best to play along for now?

[dis_courageous]

"Because we're fighting in a war!"

Komali's leg might be broken, but he can still get around well enough with the aid of a crutch. He's still working on those stealth-greetings though- hobbling isn't anything like so quiet as he usually is.

"Hello," He greets, without offering a handshake, "My name's Komali, what's yours?"

[igotjetdog]

"Another war?" There's a brief flicker of something like a depressed expression across Rock's face, but he shakes it aside, examining the bird-guy-thing in front of him.

So little! If he were human, he might be about the age Rock was supposed to be. But so weird! A bird-person! Who doesn't register as a robot with Rock's sensors.

He jerks a thumb to his chest and grins. "I'm Rock. Pleased to meet you, Komali." He waits a bit. "Will your leg be okay?"

[dis_courageous]

"Yeah it's okay," Komali assured him. Compound fracture? No big deal! It was only a little bone poking through the skin, right?

Komali hesitated, then confided his one and only bit of gossip in Rock, "Sherry pushed me off a building!"

[igotjetdog]

"That's good to hear."

Rock leans in to listen to Komali's gossip, then jerks back, clapping a hand over his mouth. "No way! Why would she do something like that?" He doesn't even know who Sherry is, but she's gotta be some kind of bully if she's pushing little bird-kids off of buildings!

[dis_courageous]

"She was trying to make me fly," He explained. To be fair, he had flown, a little. Maybe he was being a little harsh on Sherry, "She's not so bad, mostly. Sherry's just mean sometimes."

[igotjetdog]

"Oh." Well he does have wings. Wing arms. Something like that. "She shouldn't be like that. You got hurt!" Yeah, he's still going to flail over that a bit. "Didn't she put down padding or something?"

[dis_courageous]

"Nu-uh, she just kicked me! It was cement down there!"

He was waving his arms now, to emphasize the point, "I don't know why, it was just stupid. The worst part is, I don't know if it's just Sherry, or if all girls are like that!"

No, Samus doesn't count as a girl. She's a mom. Whole different species.

[igotjetdog]

"That's not cool!" He shakes his head. "Someone oughta teach her a lesson. My sister wouldn't do something like that!"

Man, this Sherry girl must be some kind of monster. Why would you just kick people off buildings? Everyone knows that you should test flight capabilities with trampolines.

notice how his story gets more violent every time he tells it? XD

[dis_courageous]

"It's okay, my mom's the chief of security," Komali wasn't above bragging, especially now that he had a parent that actually cared to look in on him every now and again, "I bet she got in tons of trouble."

Only a little!

[igotjetdog]

"Chief of security? That must be so cool!" Rock nods enthusiastically, excited about this. It sounds like some sort of science fiction show! "What's she like? Your mom, I mean."

[dis_courageous]

"My mom is super amazing," Komali gushed, excitedly, "She wears bright orange armor and she has an arm-canon that shoots lasers! She's the best fighter on the ship, and Captain Kennedy trusts her the most."

[igotjetdog]

Bright orange armor? It sounds like she'd be easy to spot. "She's even got an arm cannon? That's pretty neat!" He's got one, but it takes some adjustment to shoot lasers from. "Your mom sounds pretty cool, Komali."

[gunslinging]

It's only the first podpop since his own, but Axl's already figured out his routine for these things -- scope out the crowd, check for X and Zero. And seeing an oddly familiar dark head of hair, he stops short and does a double take, even as his rational side (because he does have one no matter what some people say, thank you very much Signas!) says that there's no way that's X, it's way too short.

He steps a bit closer to get a better look and realizes that he's right, it's much too short to be X -- and yet that doesn't seem to matter, almost. Shorter, definitely. Much younger features, yes. But other than that he could be looking at X's twin.

But it's rude to stare! And as much as Axl doesn't really worry about what's rude, he does remember all too well how crazy waking up on Stacy is, so he's not really inclined to make anybody's life harder, and he speaks up. "Uh, hey. New to all this craziness?"

[igotjetdog]

Wow. Okay, that's one nasty scar that guy's got. Feeling just a tad intimidated there, Rock waves a hand, determined to cover it up with another smile. "I just got out of those slime pods. It's um..." He looks around a bit, standing on the tips of his toes in a failed attempt to look above the crowds.

Rock is short, okay?

"It's pretty busy around here. Is it always like this?" He hopes not, because it would drive him crazy trying to keep track of everyone.

[gunslinging]

"Nah, not always. They wake up a new bunch of people every couple months, from what I've heard -- last time this happened was when I got here, though, so I'm still kind of getting the hang of stuff too." Axl took another glance around as he kept talking; his hopes were not crushed yet, dammit. "So between the new people trying to find out what's going on, and everyone else looking to see if anyone they know is in the new group...it gets a little crazy."