One half of a duet's entrance

[duetsavvy]

[A white Gespenst lands in Unity Group's hangar, heavily and unceremoniously. This type of Personal Troopers is customized for psychodriver use - are you familiar with the rare Gespensts-TT?

Anyway, the cockpit opens revealing its pilot, a young woman. As well as bags full of personal possessions that she apparently hauled inside the PT as well.]


Hello everyone. I know the timing's bad, but I'm new. I'm Bryanne Eriksen, nice to meet you. I heard a lot of good things so I've decided to join Unity Group - don't let me down, okay?

Me and Rani know each other, we've been at it for a while now. Not a very long while... but still! So.


Let's try to stop some Vagans, shall we?

Comments

[duetsavvy]

Ah, but that's a story for another time~.

But I'll say this, the fact our units are the same is not a coincidence.

[majestic_keiki]

That's pretty obvious. Especially rare ones like that.

Anyway, welcome aboard. I'm Kei Kugimiya, from Team Rabbits.

[duetsavvy]

Hello Kei. I actually know who you are, which is fair because I introduced myself already!

I saw the videos online, and everything. How was it... "Blue Rabbit dodges armor"?

[majestic_keiki]

Please don't tell Asagi. He's still feeling bad about it and he'll probably just drown the base in scented candles if he's reminded.

[duetsavvy]

Scented candles? Ookay...

I guess I shouldn't tell him he's the second most popular member of your team either, then.

[majestic_keiki]

Probably not. We're not a boyband, but actual soldiers

...Who's the most popular? Tamaki because she's cute or Izuru because he beat Jiart?

[duetsavvy]

That's a se-cre-t.

[majestic_keiki]

You know that I could just check popularity polls if I really cared?

[duetsavvy]

That's true. And I'll save you an embarassing search to say - it's you! You are number one.

[majestic_keiki]

I see.

[And moving quickly on to something less awkward.]

So how come you and Rani joined us? Anything we need to look out for?

[duetsavvy]

Not look out, no.

[Rani shakes her head quickly.]

We didn't like how SSR did... some things. That's all. They're not your enemies though, I wouldn't worry about that.

[majestic_keiki]

Can't be worse than how Vice-Admiral Komine used to run things around here.

What kinds of things? I hope you didn't defect because you wanted more discipline...

[duetsavvy]

I wanted a better boss. Does the name "Lee Linjun" sound familiar to you?

[majestic_keiki]

He's a commander at the SSR, right?

[duetsavvy]

That's the guy.

[majestic_keiki]

He seemed almost as bad as Komine was and he only occasionally commanded us...

[duetsavvy]

And now you know. This guy, and how he deals with his sponsors, make me suspicious about SSR. Like, they have some other motives other than peoples' safety...

The rank and file members, and even squad leaders like Vadim, they're good people. But, why?

[majestic_keiki]

I'm not sure. Governments using the military for their own purposes is nothing new, but why now? We're still fighting for our survival as a species.

[duetsavvy]

I guess for some people, our survival is already more or less certain. So it's time to make sure once everything settles, they're on top of the mess.

[majestic_keiki]

We've seen plenty of those...Did you know that we got attacked by Flemish separatists of all things on numerous occasions? But you'd think that large, important countries would be more careful than that.

[duetsavvy]

It's not only about terrorist actions and direct fighting. I'm sure there are far more subtle ways of getting ahead.

[majestic_keiki]

Yes. Who knows what can be salvaged from alien and extradimensional robots and creatures? And I'm sure there are ways of claiming some territories that were occupied by them and belonged to another country before.

[duetsavvy]

Now that I'm here, I hope UG wasn't used for this kind of thing...

[majestic_keiki]

Not that I know of, but the leadership is kinda distant and lots of the time we just follow the directions of various partners.

[duetsavvy]

Hmm... you have to admit, that's not completely reassuring.