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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Just saying this so that the others know, Feldt is likely to threadjack.pinkbridgebunnyApril 17 2011, 02:45:35 UTC
Feldt had been a safe distance away, watching Setsuna in the 00 Raiser. She had been saddened to see Virtue leave for a short while, but it was a surprise to see it back along with Arios and Kyrios. Wait, Arios and Kyrios? That could only mean that Allelujah Haptism, another Gundam Meister, along with Tieria Erde were here. She quickly made her way to the floor of the hangar and to Setsuna's side.
"Tieria, Allelujah," she said quietly. "All the Meisters are here. That could mean that the others will be here sometime."
She hoped that Sumeragi, Milena, Ian, and Lasse had survived.
"Perhaps," Setsuna stated. "But that's not something we can count on."
He didn't dwell on the thought, however. Miss Sumeragi, Ian, Saji, and the others weren't here right now. Just the other Meisters (sans Lyle and Soma) and Feldt. And that was that.
She had felt no danger, so had no worries when she noticed Setsuna's Gundam had gone out. Still, that did leave her curious, which was why Dhianeila's projection was also in the hangar when the Meister returned. Seldom did she also feel much joy from Setsuna in the time that she'd known him, so his reaction when he noticed the other suits in the hangar didn't go unnoticed. She felt glad feeling Setsuna happy, even if it was a somewhat brief rush.
"Hello, Setsuna," she spoke aloud to let her presence be known.
"Princess Dhianeila Y Leisha Altoria Ol Yunos..." He hadn't expected to see her there. He didn't figure her for a hangar rat like most of the pilots were. Plus he thought she'd be down on XaXing.
"I was, earlier!" she exclaimed with a smile. "I gave Kang my funds because I cannot be there to bring anything back myself. But I've met so many different people so far. This planet is such an amazing thing to exist in this universe."
"I suppose." He couldn't say he found the place as interesting as she did. Outside of his Gundams, he wasn't that materialistic. He didn't see why people had to own so much stuff, remarkably more than what they needed.
"Why are you here?" While he could understand that it would be hard for her to stay around so many people for long, which would explain why she was on board Stacy, that didn't explain why she was in this part of the ship. He was curious to know, and being blunt was very much his style.
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?"
To say he was 'distressed' would be putting it nicely.
From the familiar confines of Seravee's cockpit with Feldt hastily transferring coordinates from the Ptolemy to the Gundam's mainframe, to the muggy, nigh suffocating conditions of this living, breathing ship (Stacy, was it?) had been alarming on its own. The about-face from the dimly lit nursery of pods (still coughing slime from his lungs) to the sterile conditions of a hellish labyrinth had been even more so. Why the AI had continued to insist on confectionaries when he'd explained multiple times that he had no interest in sweets hadn't made his stay at the "Enrichment Center" any more tolerable. In retrospect, he never did see hide nor hair of the rumored cake.
... And then there was Veda, a detail of which he'd been aware of from the moment he'd spilled like a fish from the artificial womb of the ship and gasped his first breath, near incessant with bewilderment.
"Veda..." He breathes out, a name he'd once based his entire identity on felt foreign on his tongue, as he
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I said she might threadjack.pinkbridgebunnyApril 18 2011, 03:46:40 UTC
There was another surprise that he was going to get. From another part of the hangar there was another member of Celestial Being. She had been watching Setsuna in the 00 from a safe distance. She hadn't been able to go out with him when he went to test the systems of the Gundam, but she had been waiting quietly for him to return.
It seemed that he hadn't noticed her at the foot of Exia, where she had been watching for the 00 to come back and she was about to go talk to Setsuna when she noticed the other Meister.
"Tieria?" she called out, stepping out from around the foot of Exia, so that she could be seen better.
"Feldt?" He forms her name like a question, his attention transitioning for a third time.
His alarm surrenders to agitation at Setsuna's idiocy comment. Why should he be anything but surprised! And is that any way to approach someone you haven't seen in upwards of four entire years?
"Don't mock me. Explain the situation, post-haste."
As usual now, Haro bounded ahead of his owner, ears flapping and chirping happily. Lockon didn't mind. The hangar was safe and more than likely Feldt was there anyway. He vaguely remembered a request from Duo to retrieve some tool from Setsuna; he wondered where Setsuna hid the things he took as the spoils of poorly thought out plans.
Normally, Tieria wouldn't have bothered to look up (he stood by the edge of the walkway, hands loosely gripping the safety rail), but the familiarity of Haro's robotic chatter was entirely too much to ignore. While there were bound to be hundreds, if not thousands, of occupants aboard Stacy, surely Haros weren't commonplace.
He found himself (guiltily) wishing he hadn't.
"Lockon... Stratos-?"
Of course Feldt and Setsuna hadn't any reason to lie, not about something like this; they hadn't anything to gain. And now- there wasn't any room left for disbelief.
He blanches. He feels chest tighten and his stomach drop, and he's sure his hands would be shaking if they weren't already too busy squeezing the life out of catwalk's railing.
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"Tieria, Allelujah," she said quietly. "All the Meisters are here. That could mean that the others will be here sometime."
She hoped that Sumeragi, Milena, Ian, and Lasse had survived.
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He didn't dwell on the thought, however. Miss Sumeragi, Ian, Saji, and the others weren't here right now. Just the other Meisters (sans Lyle and Soma) and Feldt. And that was that.
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She was one of the few people that could repair and work on the computer systems for it. Ian wasn't here to do so.
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"It handled flawlessly," he finally answered. Though he still seemed bothered by that fact.
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"Hello, Setsuna," she spoke aloud to let her presence be known.
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"You're not on the surface?"
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"Why are you here?" While he could understand that it would be hard for her to stay around so many people for long, which would explain why she was on board Stacy, that didn't explain why she was in this part of the ship. He was curious to know, and being blunt was very much his style.
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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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From the familiar confines of Seravee's cockpit with Feldt hastily transferring coordinates from the Ptolemy to the Gundam's mainframe, to the muggy, nigh suffocating conditions of this living, breathing ship (Stacy, was it?) had been alarming on its own. The about-face from the dimly lit nursery of pods (still coughing slime from his lungs) to the sterile conditions of a hellish labyrinth had been even more so. Why the AI had continued to insist on confectionaries when he'd explained multiple times that he had no interest in sweets hadn't made his stay at the "Enrichment Center" any more tolerable. In retrospect, he never did see hide nor hair of the rumored cake.
... And then there was Veda, a detail of which he'd been aware of from the moment he'd spilled like a fish from the artificial womb of the ship and gasped his first breath, near incessant with bewilderment.
"Veda..." He breathes out, a name he'd once based his entire identity on felt foreign on his tongue, as he ( ... )
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It seemed that he hadn't noticed her at the foot of Exia, where she had been watching for the 00 to come back and she was about to go talk to Setsuna when she noticed the other Meister.
"Tieria?" she called out, stepping out from around the foot of Exia, so that she could be seen better.
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His alarm surrenders to agitation at Setsuna's idiocy comment. Why should he be anything but surprised! And is that any way to approach someone you haven't seen in upwards of four entire years?
"Don't mock me. Explain the situation, post-haste."
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He found himself (guiltily) wishing he hadn't.
"Lockon... Stratos-?"
Of course Feldt and Setsuna hadn't any reason to lie, not about something like this; they hadn't anything to gain. And now- there wasn't any room left for disbelief.
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Nothing could've prepared him for this.
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