Venom

[caressthedarkness]

"Hmph."

[The mock battles ensue, and while most of the attention is on the TSFs and their skilled test pilots...a few may notice the presence of an individual who is VERY out of place among the spectators at Yukon Base.

This may be because said individual is a silver-haired female wearing a long, very elaborate black dress with a feather-lined collar, and is sitting on an equally eye-catching garden chair that seems to be made of carved, black marble.]


"Of all the places to be sent to! For a display of combat abilities, this isn't even remotely entertaining..."

[She crosses one leg over the other with a bored look on her face, then slowly turns a half-filled wine glass in one hand while she sighs.]

"Well... I suppose the weather is still to my liking. But, I do wonder how my foolish student can endure being surrounded this way...

Ah~ to think of how much suffering she must be going through at this very moment... perhaps she even managed to wet her bed again."


"...Um...I am right here beside you, Madame. I can also hear what you are saying..."

"...Oh, I seem to have forgotten that. Do keep reminding me periodically. I am supposed to be on my best behavior, after all. Lapses in memory simply will not do."


[Seta takes a deep breath, twitching ever so slightly.]

"...I mean no disrespect; but, in that case...I should also remind you that you are not the only spectator here..."

[And indeed, around the two is a sizable crowd. Most of them are guests from other countries and such who have promptly backed away to create distance between themselves and the pair of weirdos. Who can blame them?]

After Through The Stomach

[dolorous_sensei]

1.

So what did you see back then, Lieutenant Schmertz? Can you describe it?



It's... something. I can imagine it very clearly even now. I feel really stupid to never noticing it now. It's like seeing a magic eye picture. After you know how to see it, it's so obvious.  But to describe it... How can you describe the colour red? How can you describe sound to a deaf man?



My notes told me that you're complaining about unseen monsters in base. Do you still see them?



...yes. And monsters are the least annoying thing I see.



One last thing....

*Eliene grabs Walt's bandaged arm and unravel the bandages.*


*The eyes. They're still there.*

(Talk to either Walt or Eliene?)


2.

The mysterious being is sitting in the cafetaria. After learning the purpose of the cafetaria, it seems to spend most of its time there now.

Currently it's facing a plate of chocolate pudding. It sniffs the pudding for a long time, clearly enjoying the smell...

Before pouring mayonaise, ketchup, and finally sprinkling it with peppers.


3.When not in the cafetaria, it sits in a corner in the hangar. Apparently it got it hand in some junks and a box of tools, and it's now playing with them, while watching the coming and going of the hangar. It's apparently building something?

So much for just being a test pilot...

[whats_a_good_end]

[1]

[In the wake of the massacre at the Yukon base and the theft of... pretty much everything of value associated with the Breaker program, Ana's just trying to piece everything together.  There's debriefing and internal affairs people asking why she hadn't been with the others and a lot of exhausting things to go through after a day that was already plenty exhausting.

[And then someone finally let her look at the death toll.]

Mechanics, pilots... project heads and even the top eggheads...

[Of course the death toll would be like that.  Legato's men and women had just slaughtered everyone in-person at their little performance.  One that had specifically been arranged to celebrate the completion of the Breaker program...]

We went through all of that, buried so many of our own, finished our jobs... and then this!

[2] (frontdated a few days)

[There's a new pilot being transferred to the Unity Group.  She's not thrilled about this -she's a test pilot, not a combat one- but the theft of the Breakers has sorta convinced some of the upper brass she'd do more good here than helping try to salvage the whole program.  But, as she comes in to Fort Alhambra, wheeling a cart behind her with her clothes, guitar, and a few other things... she's got something else on her preoccupying her.]

-And that white-haired girl at the Yukon's a monster too?  And it's not just the Autobots... but there's a Wulgaru princess helping us?  And we might share some genetic ancestor with them?

... And that blue-haired girl from before is ANOTHER princess?!?

[In short: being just a member of the vanilla ESUN locks you out of the loop about some things.]

-And this person's "kin" want to eat them to become immortal?!?

[A lot of things.]

-And Shu Shirakawa was somehow ALIVE?  And he had some talking pet bird?!?

[A whole lot of things.]

... And the cat thing just has to be someone messing with me!

[It's gonna be one hell of an adjusting period.]