While everyone else was busy going shopping down on the planet, Setsuna had more important things to do. Namely, take his Gundam out for a test run
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Allelujah had definitely seen better days. It wasn't exactly visible to the naked eye save for the pinch of stress evident in his brow-even he was somewhat relieved to find that his mobility hadn't be affected in the four years he was unable to move more than few inches at a time. But even that seemed like it was falling into a narrow sort of binocular vision at this point, straying farther and farther away on the scale of importance.
The light, the feeling like the floor had been dropped from beneath him. It was unforgettable. The only thought that flashed through his mind had been brief; Allelujah wondered if the detention facility had been attacked, if that was how it would all end for him, after all.
Luck had somehow been on his side.
Which is what he would have liked to have thought, had he not wound up spit up into some pulsing, sick-smelling foreign cavern, covered in slime and thankfully, mercifully alive but also decidedly naked and wholly confused. And it hadn't ended there. No sooner than he had found his way to being
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This is... a friendly face-- okay, more a familiar face, at least.
"Allelujah Haptism. Read this," he stated, holding his omnicomm out. Yes, leave it to Setsuna to go straight from 'pleasantries' to business with barely a breath in between. But considering that he figured that Alle's next question was going to be 'What the hell is going on?', the files he was about to see would give him some answers.
It was familiar all right, familiar enough to stun Allelujah into a dead halt on all fronts.
Only a bewildered "Setsuna-?" was his eloquent response. Near mechanically, a trained reflex from simply knowing Setsuna and how he operated after all those years, Allelujah took the device. Though admittedly, he was still doing more staring than reading, somewhat shell-shocked.
Setsuna gave him a few minutes to look over everything, simply standing aside quietly. He eventually turned his attention towards Kyrios and Arios, but noticed an important detail and began looking around further.
"I don't see the GN Archer," he noted. "Soma Peries isn't with you?"
Allelujah was caught off guard by the sudden question, attention severing from the unbelievable information he was trying to take in about this ship, the situation, everything. In fact, he looked as though he was all but forgetting about the omnicomm and its contents.
"Soma Peries." The very name sounded heavy and hesitant in his mouth. Allelujah averted his eyes to the side. "No. I haven't been able to see Marie since Lagrange-1."
Setsuna opened his mouth to respond, and even mentally lined up all the syllables necessary to inform his comrade that he was wrong. It was only the simple fact that Allelujah should know that he (Alle) and Soma took a leave of absence together about a year ago that forced him to close his mouth without saying a word.
After a moment of quiet confusion, he approached Alle, and seemingly began a visual inspection of him. Like he was looking for any sign that this wasn't the same person he knew. But he was the right height, right age, right hair style, and even had the right scar on his forehead.
...okay.
He sort of figured because of Tieria's... situation with Veda may have somehow caused his memory issues. But Allelujah?
"What's the last thing you remember before waking up here?"
Indeed he was one and the same, and though Setsuna was a fair deal shorter and slimmer, Allelujah was looking none too comforted by his fellow meister's inspection. Brows furrowed, Allelujah gripped the omnicomm, lips pressing into a thin line as if each word that would follow was difficult to dredge up.
"We were discovered by the UN and attacked a third time. I was captured and imprisoned after Kyrios was badly damaged." And Hallelujah was killed. "I don't know where, or for how long."
It was clear that he bore the weight of his ordeal-the days had been long, a seamless blend of torture for information on Celestial Being that he had refused to give up, time after time. Allelujah kept his gaze focused on the ground for the time being. "I was still there before I ended up in this place."
He looked back up then, a creeping touch of fondness melting into the melancholy. Allelujah had always been (vaguely) sentimental.
"I had never known what happened to you, or Tieria. If anyone survived."
There was only silence as an immediate response from Setsuna. How could Allelujah forget more than a year of his whole life?
"...we survived. As did Feldt Grace, Miss Sumeragi, Ian Vasthi, and Lasse Aeon." Notably absent from that list were Chris and Litchty. He'll let Alle put two and two together on that one.
"You were kept in a Dissident Detention Center located in what used to be HRL territory. We rescued you from that place over a year ago." Setsuna's normal stoic expression curved downward into a slight frown of concern. "You've forgotten a lot."
Rescued? Allelujah couldn't help a harried knee-jerk response: "Is that even possible? Setsuna, I couldn't forget if something like that happened."
Allelujah rarely forgot anything, the good and the terrible alike. He appeared as though he truly believed that too, even if he was quickly starting to look sheepish for his small outburst.
"... This is the first contact I've had with any member of Celestial Being since that time."
Again there was that pause of Setsuna clamping down on his knee-jerk response of you're wrong. How does someone go about explaining to someone else the life that they don't even remember living?
Setsuna came to the conclusion that he couldn't, his frown deepening with that realization.
"Allelujah..." First Tieria, now Allelujah. Even Lockon never remembered the last few days leading up to his death. What was happening in the pod caverns?
He realized the strain he must be putting on Setsuna (what reason would he have to lie to him?), and though he still didn't understand much of it, Allelujah straightened his stance in an attempt to diffuse some of the tension. For the first time since Setsuna asked about Soma Peries, Allelujah again looked at the omnicomm for lack of anything else appropriate to do. His reluctance was only a product of his honest confusion, after all.
"Even if I don't understand, I'm sorry." What else could he say now? "But if this really is the current situation ..."
He decided it was better to let it lie. Though Setsuna looked older than Allelujah remembered, he was still the same as ever. And he'd always trusted him on the severity of situations they'd been in; this time would be no different, even if he still had questions. One of which was quite prominent-Setsuna had said, 'we.'
"Are there any more of our comrades here?" Allelujah cast a long look to what areas of the hangar he could see. A repaired Kyrios. What looked like Virtue. ... Dynames. More that he felt like he should be able to recognize, but didn't.
"Tieria Erde is here, as well as Feldt Grace." There was another uncharacteristic pause as Setsuna realized he was about to drop another bomb on Alle's head, but it was too late to stop now. "So is Lockon Stratos... somehow..."
Rather than let that hang in the air too long, Setsuna simply steamrolled on. "Veda is also somewhere on this ship. Along with all of our Gundams, including both of yours."
And here comes Feldt~pinkbridgebunnyApril 19 2011, 22:42:06 UTC
Speak of the girl, here comes Feldt from the 00's cockpit. She hadn't been able to find anything wrong with the systems, which puzzled her. That suit had always had a couple of flaws, mostly just minor things, but they had never been able to completely debug the system.
She was about to tell Setsuna about this, but her attention was caught by Allelujah. She hadn't seen him arrive, but she knew that he had to be here if the Arios and Kyrios were here.
It was a lot to take in. Each name registered one after the other, though it was less than he had hoped for with the broken state Celestial Being had been left in.
And ... Lockon? How-?
Allelujah was ripped from that precarious thought train by the familiar voice. Though Setsuna had said she was here, it still took him by surprise. His attention was caught as he craned his neck to spot the familiar splash of pink emerging from a nearby gundam's cockpit.
"Feldt ..." He almost said to himself, before smiling. He then projected his voice a bit better.
The light, the feeling like the floor had been dropped from beneath him. It was unforgettable. The only thought that flashed through his mind had been brief; Allelujah wondered if the detention facility had been attacked, if that was how it would all end for him, after all.
Luck had somehow been on his side.
Which is what he would have liked to have thought, had he not wound up spit up into some pulsing, sick-smelling foreign cavern, covered in slime and thankfully, mercifully alive but also decidedly naked and wholly confused. And it hadn't ended there. No sooner than he had found his way to being ( ... )
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"Allelujah Haptism. Read this," he stated, holding his omnicomm out. Yes, leave it to Setsuna to go straight from 'pleasantries' to business with barely a breath in between. But considering that he figured that Alle's next question was going to be 'What the hell is going on?', the files he was about to see would give him some answers.
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Only a bewildered "Setsuna-?" was his eloquent response. Near mechanically, a trained reflex from simply knowing Setsuna and how he operated after all those years, Allelujah took the device. Though admittedly, he was still doing more staring than reading, somewhat shell-shocked.
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"I don't see the GN Archer," he noted. "Soma Peries isn't with you?"
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"Soma Peries." The very name sounded heavy and hesitant in his mouth. Allelujah averted his eyes to the side. "No. I haven't been able to see Marie since Lagrange-1."
Since the UN's final attack on Celestial Being.
"Four years ago."
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After a moment of quiet confusion, he approached Alle, and seemingly began a visual inspection of him. Like he was looking for any sign that this wasn't the same person he knew. But he was the right height, right age, right hair style, and even had the right scar on his forehead.
...okay.
He sort of figured because of Tieria's... situation with Veda may have somehow caused his memory issues. But Allelujah?
"What's the last thing you remember before waking up here?"
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"We were discovered by the UN and attacked a third time. I was captured and imprisoned after Kyrios was badly damaged." And Hallelujah was killed. "I don't know where, or for how long."
It was clear that he bore the weight of his ordeal-the days had been long, a seamless blend of torture for information on Celestial Being that he had refused to give up, time after time. Allelujah kept his gaze focused on the ground for the time being. "I was still there before I ended up in this place."
He looked back up then, a creeping touch of fondness melting into the melancholy. Allelujah had always been (vaguely) sentimental.
"I had never known what happened to you, or Tieria. If anyone survived."
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"...we survived. As did Feldt Grace, Miss Sumeragi, Ian Vasthi, and Lasse Aeon." Notably absent from that list were Chris and Litchty. He'll let Alle put two and two together on that one.
"You were kept in a Dissident Detention Center located in what used to be HRL territory. We rescued you from that place over a year ago." Setsuna's normal stoic expression curved downward into a slight frown of concern. "You've forgotten a lot."
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Allelujah rarely forgot anything, the good and the terrible alike. He appeared as though he truly believed that too, even if he was quickly starting to look sheepish for his small outburst.
"... This is the first contact I've had with any member of Celestial Being since that time."
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Setsuna came to the conclusion that he couldn't, his frown deepening with that realization.
"Allelujah..." First Tieria, now Allelujah. Even Lockon never remembered the last few days leading up to his death. What was happening in the pod caverns?
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"Even if I don't understand, I'm sorry." What else could he say now? "But if this really is the current situation ..."
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"It is," he confirmed. "This is larger than anything we've ever had to deal with before."
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"Are there any more of our comrades here?" Allelujah cast a long look to what areas of the hangar he could see. A repaired Kyrios. What looked like Virtue. ... Dynames. More that he felt like he should be able to recognize, but didn't.
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Rather than let that hang in the air too long, Setsuna simply steamrolled on. "Veda is also somewhere on this ship. Along with all of our Gundams, including both of yours."
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She was about to tell Setsuna about this, but her attention was caught by Allelujah. She hadn't seen him arrive, but she knew that he had to be here if the Arios and Kyrios were here.
"Allelujah!"
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And ... Lockon? How-?
Allelujah was ripped from that precarious thought train by the familiar voice. Though Setsuna had said she was here, it still took him by surprise. His attention was caught as he craned his neck to spot the familiar splash of pink emerging from a nearby gundam's cockpit.
"Feldt ..." He almost said to himself, before smiling. He then projected his voice a bit better.
"It's been a long time."
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