A Boy And His Robot Dinosaur

[obscura_prodigy]

Vega, like many long-absent crew members, had important things to do when he woke up. Some would have gone to family and friends, inspected their living spaces for tampering, or chased after important ship news

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[in_venting]

Sherry, true to her word, had left her quarters as though she had wings on her feet without so much as a word to her mother. She flew through the Hub to the hanger, stopping for breath.

It had been a while. Usually, Sherry had no reason to even be down here. Especially with Vega gone so long. She tried to make heads and tails of the expansive hanger again, chose a path that looked somewhat familiar, and took off down it.

Sherry stopped short of the Fury and Vega, cheeks red with exertion. "I found you!"

[obscura_prodigy]

...OH right Sherry was coming and he should have remembered to hide somewhere.

Then again, Vega was happy to see her. Much though they argued about everything, Sherry was his friend. So, despite the fact he had kind of just challenged her on the comms, he grinned.

"Hi!"

[in_venting]

Sherry stared at him for a minute, and pushed her hair out of her eyes. It wasn't a trick! He was really there!

So, she did what any excited girl who'd missed her best friend and trouble making partner would do: she ran down the carapace walkway and threw her arms around Vega. "Hi!"

Somewhere else on the ship, Leon's eye probably twitched.

[obscura_prodigy]

Vega jumped a bit, startled, and patted Sherry awkwardly.

"Well," he admitted, "I guess you're not that slow."

The Fury, in the meantime, emitted a low rumbling noise.

"C'mon Fury it's okay, Sherry's my friend!" Vega frowned at the Zoid. It did not "reply".

He sighed. "He's still mad."

That was because the Fury was always mad, but Vega was bad at noticing.

[nobel_berserker]

Allenby had been planning to do some general fixing-up of the mobile suits today, mainly seeing if she could get the Zakus to be anything other but big, ugly tanks. After seeing and hearing about the new Ohm soldiers, she wanted to make everything faster.

But the kid standing up in the shadow part of the Hangar caught her eye. Jumping up the catwalks, it wasn't long before something in there turned on and started to glow like eyes. Getting closer, Allenby saw that, well...

It wasn't a mobile suit, that was for sure.

"What is that thing?"

[obscura_prodigy]

Vega turned at the voice. Somebody else who didn't recognize the Zoid, he supposed.

"My Zoid," he answered. "I've been gone a while so I had to come check on him!"

The lights revealed a large, saurian machine over twelve meters high and close to twice that in length. The heavy armor the clung to its frame was not quite white, but a pale lavender that was somehow at odds with how ominous the thing's presence was.

The kid, however, seemed entirely used to and unbothered by this.

[nobel_berserker]

"A Zoid, huh?" Allenby approached the machine, trying to fight down a strange, back-brain sensation that she should definitely not be so close to something with that many teeth. It wasn't a real dinosaur, after all. Anyway, the kid had a pretty happy grin on his face.

Its strange color, of course, didn't faze her at all. A pink dinosaur was no odder than a schoolgirl-themed Gundam. "So he's some kind of mech, huh? Hah, stick a Gundam crest on his forehead and he could be from my Earth." She looked down at the kid. "But you look kinda young to be a pilot, no offense. What's your name?"

[obscura_prodigy]

Vega's grin didn't falter.

"I'm Vega! So I take it you're a Gundam pilot, huh?" He was somewhat familiar with them, though the fact that they tended to be shaped like people was just weird.