[RL with Simon]

[pink_sugargirl]

After talking with Pegasus late into night Chibiusa feel asleep. It wasn't a very deep sleep and she felt restless the whole time. Eventually she woke up again and something didn't feel quite right. She winced a bit as she stretched and yawned. Slowly and groggily she sat up and rubbed her eyes. It wasn't until she actually opened her eyes that

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[core_digger]

Simon had been sleeping. Pretty peacefully, too. It was a rarity, since Kamina had died. First, when his guilt had been eating away at him, and then, all the responsibility of being the Leader of the Dai-Gurren-Dan... well, he hadn't exactly gotten any more. So it was groggily that he woke up, when skin touched his... And then the screaming. "Nia?!" He jumped out of bed, his eyes already adjusted to the dark. The voice was young, and it was a girl, but... as he looked at her, he knew. "You're not... Aagh!" He cried, falling to the ground, grabbing his chest in pain. As he fell, he knocked into the newcomer, taking her the rest of the way down to the ground with him.

[pink_sugargirl]

Chibiusa screamed again out of reflex as Simon landed on her. However as soon as they made contact the chest pain vanished. Frightened out of her mind Chibiusa reached for her pendant but it was anywhere. It had been under her pillow like always...but she didn't think her pillow would be anywhere either.

"What's going on?" she demanded. "Who are you?" she asked. As her eyes began to adjust to the dark she could make out a figure. A boy she though. "What do you want!?"

[core_digger]

"Me?!" Simon was slowly getting up, to his knees after the pain-- "Agh!" The second he had moved away from her the pain came rushing back. He fell again, panting. "Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my room?! H-how did you even get in here?! My door--" He groaned. "And can you stop screaming in my ear?!" It was too early for this.

[pink_sugargirl]

She took a few deep breaths to try an calm down. From the sound of it, whoever it was, was just as confused as she was. Though that could have all been an act.

"I don't know what I'm doing here. I just woke up and I was here!"

[pink_sugargirl]

"So you mean the other people here," Chibiusa said. She hadn't thought about that in her panic. And she hadn't thought about everyone back home either. Usagi or Mama Ikuko would come up to wake her and she wouldn't be there. Had they already found her missing?

[core_digger]

"Yeah. A lot of other people. Yoko, Nia, Kittan, Rossiu, Leeron... not that you would get anyone but Yoko. And no one's gonna be pleased about me having a random kid attached to me." Even if it occurred to him, Simon wouldn't have understood it--he'd never had a family to miss him. No one except Aniki and Boota had payed much attention to his existence. And now, Yoko and Nia.

[pink_sugargirl]

"I am not a kid," Chibiusa said with a frown. If there was one thing she didn't like, it was being called a kid. "And besides. It's not like I wanted this to happen."

[core_digger]

He sighed. "All right. ... What do we do now? You've been there longer than I have. Knowing that place, something like this happened before. We can probably get you back and then we'll be done with each other, okay?" He looked at her, unamused. He was hungry.

[core_digger]

"Well, you heard about Nia. And how she's the Helix King's daughter? Apparently, he threw her out... and one of the four generals was gonna kill her, so we had to save her again. And then another one of the, Guame, took over the Dai-Gurren..." he Flat faced for a moment, "...because kittan--nevermind. And he was going to kill all of us, but I managed to get Lagann and get us all out of the prison we were in, and we kicked them all off. We're heading for Teppelin now."

...He never said he was the greatest story teller. It would come with age.

[pink_sugargirl]

Chibiusa stared at Simon with wide eyes. She had tried her best to follow but with all of the unfamiliar names she got lost.

"So um...what's at Teppelin?" she asked, hoping the question made sense.

[core_digger]

"Teppelin is the capitol of the surface. If we can defeat the Helix King, we'll be able to live above ground. It was Aniki's dream, so we have to do it." He grinned like the kid he was. He was easily excitable once he woke up.

[pink_sugargirl]

Chibiusa smiled in return. It was good to see Simon determined. When she'd first talked to him she thought that if she'd actually met him she'd have smacked him.

"Sounds like a good dream," she said. "People shouldn't be forced to live underground."