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[At the wee hours of the night, most people are sleeping. But most people doesn't include Kagura, who has been rather suspiciously busy carrying around instrumentation and personnel around for weeks now. And now, in an office, she's checking some results, the massive robot armor looking as incongruous as usual when it comes to handling normal-sized sheets of paper.
The battle suit masks her face, as always... but as she reads she practically irradiates a perceptible aura of frustrated irritation. And impatience. Kagura needs this done yesterday, and it's not advancing fast enough.]
"SOMEWHERE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ATLANTIC". YEAH, THAT'S PRECISE ENOUGH FOR RECON. LIKE THAT ISN'T OVER A HUNDRED MILLION CUBIC KILOMETRES. YOU PACK OF CHUCKLEFUCKS.
THERE HAS TO BE SOME WAY TO SPEED THIS UP. THERE HAS TO.
[2]
[(Only people with existing CR with Kagura in this prompt, please)
A bit later, Kagura is outside. Well outside Alhambra base and, more unusually, outside her suit. The small form of the Mistletoe, however, is impossible to miss in the night - while every mistletoe always has had a slight glow in their eyes, owing to their nature as SOL and LUNA energy reactors, Kagura's irises right now are green lights strong enough to see at two hundred paces - an adorable flashlight strong enough to read to. And the occassional crackle of electricity whips the air in the surrounding area even as she floats there doing nothing but look towards the east. Some pebbles even intermitently vibrate and float under her.
Her posture is also somewhat different. She used to stand against herself, standing in defiance of a body that didn't want to. But right now she looks stronger. More upright. You could even say a little healthier. At least as long as you don't look at her face. Because that face is equal parts enraged... and worried. Perhaps even a little scared. And definitely lost in thought.]
[3]
[The next day, a long distance away, Kagura looks at an empty, ruined building. She checked the forms and had words with the on-site foreman - the thing is scheduled to be demolished tomorrow. And she's allowed and in fact welcomed to assist with civilian issues if it does not directly contradict any of her current standing orders. It will do.
The battle suit makes a turn around the building for a minute, scans making certain no life forms are picked up inside. Then she floats above it, stops, opens a hand...
*BBBBBZZZZOWNT!*
...and a huge beam of SOL energy, easily as powerful as anything Kagura has ever used, falls from her and pierces the building to the basement before exploding in a spectacular silver and orange explosion, which is followed by a rain of silver LUNA beams Macrossing out of her back to intercept and annihilate all the debris that comes out flying. All that remains by the end is a somewhat melted crater and rubble. And not even particularly large rubble. That was... pretty excessive, really. At least the cleanup people aren't going to need much more than shovels to clean up what's left.
After that, she begins floating back. But while she made sure to do this a good distance away from the usual UG haunts, the fact that someone blew up a building in a pillar of fire and plasma is kinda hard to diguise if anyone happened to be anywhere near this town.]
[At the wee hours of the night, most people are sleeping. But most people doesn't include Kagura, who has been rather suspiciously busy carrying around instrumentation and personnel around for weeks now. And now, in an office, she's checking some results, the massive robot armor looking as incongruous as usual when it comes to handling normal-sized sheets of paper.
The battle suit masks her face, as always... but as she reads she practically irradiates a perceptible aura of frustrated irritation. And impatience. Kagura needs this done yesterday, and it's not advancing fast enough.]
"SOMEWHERE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ATLANTIC". YEAH, THAT'S PRECISE ENOUGH FOR RECON. LIKE THAT ISN'T OVER A HUNDRED MILLION CUBIC KILOMETRES. YOU PACK OF CHUCKLEFUCKS.
THERE HAS TO BE SOME WAY TO SPEED THIS UP. THERE HAS TO.
[2]
[(Only people with existing CR with Kagura in this prompt, please)
A bit later, Kagura is outside. Well outside Alhambra base and, more unusually, outside her suit. The small form of the Mistletoe, however, is impossible to miss in the night - while every mistletoe always has had a slight glow in their eyes, owing to their nature as SOL and LUNA energy reactors, Kagura's irises right now are green lights strong enough to see at two hundred paces - an adorable flashlight strong enough to read to. And the occassional crackle of electricity whips the air in the surrounding area even as she floats there doing nothing but look towards the east. Some pebbles even intermitently vibrate and float under her.
Her posture is also somewhat different. She used to stand against herself, standing in defiance of a body that didn't want to. But right now she looks stronger. More upright. You could even say a little healthier. At least as long as you don't look at her face. Because that face is equal parts enraged... and worried. Perhaps even a little scared. And definitely lost in thought.]
[3]
[The next day, a long distance away, Kagura looks at an empty, ruined building. She checked the forms and had words with the on-site foreman - the thing is scheduled to be demolished tomorrow. And she's allowed and in fact welcomed to assist with civilian issues if it does not directly contradict any of her current standing orders. It will do.
The battle suit makes a turn around the building for a minute, scans making certain no life forms are picked up inside. Then she floats above it, stops, opens a hand...
*BBBBBZZZZOWNT!*
...and a huge beam of SOL energy, easily as powerful as anything Kagura has ever used, falls from her and pierces the building to the basement before exploding in a spectacular silver and orange explosion, which is followed by a rain of silver LUNA beams Macrossing out of her back to intercept and annihilate all the debris that comes out flying. All that remains by the end is a somewhat melted crater and rubble. And not even particularly large rubble. That was... pretty excessive, really. At least the cleanup people aren't going to need much more than shovels to clean up what's left.
After that, she begins floating back. But while she made sure to do this a good distance away from the usual UG haunts, the fact that someone blew up a building in a pillar of fire and plasma is kinda hard to diguise if anyone happened to be anywhere near this town.]
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Hello, what's this? Something super-secret or important is going on?
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YES.
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[Brye spins around on her foot and starts taking steps away from the office.]
I'm just saying, if there's trouble brewing then maybe letting people know, people who deal with this kind of thing for a living, isn't such a bad idea?
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AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, YES. YES IT IS A BAD IDEA. UNTIL I GET THIS DONE, TELLING ANYONE WOULD BE THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF PRODUCTIVE.
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[The sarcasm is so heavy, it practically drips.]
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QUITE. IT'S ALMOST AS IF THINGS ARE SOMETIMES KEPT SECRET FOR OTHER REASONS THAN BOTHERING YOU SPECIFICALLY.
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OR JUST MAYBE IT'S SIMPLY WHAT I SAID AT FIRST, AND INFORMING ANYONE BEFORE ACTUAL DATA ARE THERE WOULD DO NOTHING EXCEPT RUIN THE ENTIRE GOD DAMNED THING.
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I'VE NEVER BEEN ONE TO PLAY THE LONG ODDS IF I CAN HELP IT, MISS ERIKSEN.
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Burst being the operative word, here.]
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YES. GOOD NEWS IS, I'M STARTING TO THINK THAT MY WORRY THAT THIS IS UNNATURAL WERE UNFOUNDED, GENERAL.
BAD NEWS IS, I'M FAIRLY CERTAIN I'M TOO DAMAGED TO KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL ANYWAY. AT THIS RATE IT WILL BE A MONTH, MAYBE TWO, BEFORE THE RISK OF ACCIDENT IS UNACCEPTABLE.
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...Are those two months enough?
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[Kagura falls silent for a moment. For a second, even with the suit's dampeners and capacitors, a spark makes a whiplike sound in the air]
FUCKING HELL. LISTEN TO ME. I HOPE. YEAH, RIGHT. WHEN DID HOPING ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING POSITIVE AT ALL.
ANYWAY, I HAVE HAD A FEW RESULTS, AT LEAST, IF NOT AS MANY AS I WOULD WANT. I WON'T BORE YOU WITH THE DETAILS, BUT I CAN SHARE THE OVERVIEW IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.
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Tell me as much as you are willing to share, major.
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WHEN I FOUGHT IN THE CARDINAL SHAFT, SOME OF THE SIGNATURE OF THE ETERNAL CALENDAR STUCK TO MY ARMOR AS IT NEARLY KILLED ME. I'VE HAD SOME PEOPLE TRYING TO TRACE THE WAVELENGTH. AND THEY TELL ME THEY HAVE A PING SOMEWHERE UNDER THE ATLANTIC.
THERE MAY BE ANOTHER ETERNAL CALENDAR, GENERAL. AND IF THAT IS TRUE, IT COULD VERY WELL BE REBUILDING ALL ITS FRIENDS FOR AN ELECTRIC BOOGALOO RIGHT THE HELL NOW.
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And after that...
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IF YOU HAPPEN TO STAY AROUND IN EARTH FOR A FEW YEARS, THOUGH, DO ME A FAVOR AND KEEP AN EYE ON GRAVEYARD. UNLESS I GREATLY MISS MY GUESS, THINGS ARE GOING TO GET HILARIOUS IN SOME YEARS, AND I'D LIKE IT IF SOMEONE WHO GOT THE JOKE WAS WATCHING.
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I know you do not have much time left...But I trust that you will do the right thing when you cannot control your power anymore. It has been an honor.
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I STILL NEED TO BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF KLEIN, FOR ONE.
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Very well then. Try to live as long as you can, Major. And when it all ends... make sure it happens on your own terms.
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So Kagura makes a waving "something like that" or "more or less" gesture with her diminutive hand, and then an open palm to ask her to wait a moment as she floats back to her suit - where her voice synthetizer is]
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YES, THERE IS SOMETHING OF A PROBLEM, KUGIMIYA. MY ENERGY OUTPUT IS RISING OVER MY DAMAGED BODY'S ABILITY TO TAKE IT. I'M HAVING TO SPEND SOME HOURS EACH DAY STRAPPED TO A THING TO TAKE AND GROUND SOME HUNDRED MEGAJOULES OF SOL ENERGY FROM ME.
YOU KNOW MY OPINION ON HAVING TO SIT STILL AND DO NOTHING FOR HOURS ON END, I IMAGINE.
[All of which is true, but not even close to the whole picture, of course. But no point worrying Kei.]
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Did it happen after...You know.
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DYING, YOU MEAN? YES. SOME OF THE RESIDUAL ENERGY FROM THAT PLACE STUCK TO ME. ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH BEING A MISTLETOE. ON THE PLUS SIDE, I SUPPOSE IT'S PROOF THAT IT REALLY HAPPENED AND WE DIDN'T GO INSANE.
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THAT SAID, IF YOU'VE NOTICED A COUPLE DEGREES CELSIUS RISE OF THE AMBIENT TEMPERATURE IN ALHAMBRA LATELY, THAT WOULD BE ME. YOU CAN'T DO THIS KIND OF THING WITHOUT SOME HEAT, AND I DECIDED RADIATING A CHUNK OF IT WOULD BE SAFEST.
[Raising the temperature of an entire hectares-wide area is rather a lot of energy. But then, Kagura always was a rather powerful generator, even before this.]
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So any idea of how this works and is happening?
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AND IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF DATA OBTAINED OUTSIDE OF THOSE THEORETICAL CLASSIFIED ORIGINAL BLUEPRINTS. I'M THE OLDEST MISTLETOE ALIVE, AND I'VE BEEN STEPS AWAY FROM THE TRASH CAN FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS. MISTLETOE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXACTLY A DEVELOPED SCIENCE.
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[The face plate turns slightly, the eyeless metal "looking" at Kei unnervingly for a few seconds]
I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT IT ALL. BUT SUFFICE TO SAY THAT WAS ABOUT A PERSONAL PROJECT I HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN. REMEMBER, BY ALL ESTIMATIONS I SHOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD YEARS AGO. I'M JUST TOO STUBBORN TO KEEL OVER EASY. AND THERE'S A THING I WANT TO LEAVE DONE BEFORE MY BODY CATCHES UP WITH ME.
THAT SAID, IF YOU BREATHE A WORD OF THAT TO ANYONE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A PROBLEM.
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Why did you think I went out here in the middle of the night?
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IN CASE YOU FORGET, KUGIMIYA, YOU HUMANS ARE THE EMOTIONAL EQUIVALENT OF A TRUCK HITTING THE CLAXON TWENTY FOUR SEVEN. IT'S VERY HARD FOR ME TO NOT KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY HUMANS ARE AROUND.
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And I was around here to maintain practice in operating at night since enemies aren't going to politely wait until the time is convenient. Nobody wants me to do maneuvers around Sakihama unless it's an actual emergency.
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[To the second part, the massive hulk does a small nod]
WELL DONE. YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE REST OF YOUR SQUAD OUT OF BED FOR IT AS WELL. SURUGA IN PARTICULAR APPEARS TO ME LIKE HE COULD DO WITH A FEW SURPRISE NIGHT ROUTINES. [Being a space pilot, Kei might not have been subject to the drill instructors perennial favorite of suddenly waking people up for maneuvers at midnight, but Kagura has definitely used it to torment cocky recruits more than once]
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"Here's what you requested." He says quietly. "You have the location picked out, Da?"
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YES. THE FIRST SHIPMENT ARRIVED ALREADY. I HAVE HAD THEM WORKING FOR SOME DAYS NOW.
PRELIMINARY RESULTS HAVEN'T BEEN TOO GOOD YET. I HOPE THAT RESONATOR YOU HAVE THERE WILL HELP, AND FAST. TIME IS ABOUT THE THING THIS PROJECT HAS THE LEAST OF.
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AFTER A CERTAIN POINT, RANGER, THE RISK OF ACCIDENT IS GOING TO OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS.
I WOULD PREFER IF IT DIDN'T COME TO THAT.
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