Bad ideas from good sources

[herodrawing]

[Psychologists on location? Good! Izuru visited a counselor a day or two ago, just once, to see how it's like. What results did the visit bring?]

[It's early morning and someone is knocking to your door. It's the Team Rabbits leader, ready to barge into the room - if you let him.]

Hey! I know it's sudden, but would you like to participate in a team-building exercise?

It will be fun, I promise!

Comments

[cloningblues]

Izuru. It's 6 AM. What are you doing in my room.

[herodrawing]

It's 6 AM here, but Unity Group is an organisation that works all over the world. If you go to Alhambra Asagi, you will find that time over there is totally different!

[cloningblues]

Wow, different places have different timezones. Who'd have thought.

Can't you go ask some people in Alhambra, not me? I'm trying to sleep here.

[kill_all_vagans]

[And since Flit's on Star Rose, just means he'll be one of Izuru's earlier targets.]

... What?

[herodrawing]

A team building exercise. Everyone felt so gloomy recently, so cooperation will help lift up the spirits and make bonds stronger in the team.

[kill_all_vagans]

That... could definitely be a big help!

[Flit wouldn't mind a morale boost himself at all.]

In school I heard about how you could test that by falling backwards and counting on someone to catch you... were you thinking of something like that?

[majestic_keiki]

[Kei clearly hadn't had time for any personal grooming by the time she opened her door, leaving her head in a mess and her clothes put on sloppily as if she'd put them on hurriedly.]

Why are you even up now?

[herodrawing]

My head was too full of ideas, so I couldn't sleep.

[majestic_keiki]

And that means nobody else should?

[gold_four]

...Haven't we done that sort of thing for the last year? To less than desirable results?

[Ataru is, funnily enough, entirely up, possibly running on caffeine. He's got a laptop open in the middle of his room, and several wires running from an open panel in the wall.]

[herodrawing]

This time it's different. We're real pilots, and members of Unity Group now!

[gold_four]

Hm... fine, but what exactly were you hoping to do? Standard formation manoeuvres? Or something with the rest of UG?

[break_the_nine]

Sure! What are we gonna do Izuru?

[Leos sounds pretty excited here.]

[herodrawing]

We'll learn how to evacuate each other out of cockpits safely.

It'll be fun AND educational.

[break_the_nine]

Yeah I-...

Um... I don't know if I can do that... I mean...

I'm not sure if I'm gonna be allowed into the hangars while I'm...

[Leos makes vague motions.]

Therapy and everything...

[ugyuuya]

[Returning to his room from some personal PT Yuuya notes the excitable young pilot at his door. As Izuru spots the older pilot and launches into his sales pitch, Yuuya notes the rest of the Argos Flight poking their heads out of their nearby rooms at the commotion.]

Alright Izuru what did you have planned and I'll consider it but UG operations have made our schedule a bit more crowded with new development plans.

[herodrawing]

Well, you see mr Bridges - there are all kinds of diffrent cockpits, right? For example your TSF works a lot different than a mobile suit.

We need to study how each one works, so we can save each other in an emergency!

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya pauses for a moment in thought before looking back at the nervous teen.]

And you say this idea came to you while you were seeing one of the counselors? It's actually a pretty good one given the current attrition rate of certain units.

TSFs actually eject the entire cockpit out the back as part of their emergency evacuation process and the interior can be used as a powered exoskeleton so it's probably a good idea for us to be properly briefed on those procedures. Get a time for us and I'll take it up to our command to adjust the timing of any tests, it's a good initiative you've got there kid.

[blackhole_sunattack]

Team building huh? Well, I suppose it would do me good to learn to work with smaller units around.

[herodrawing]

Thank you, mr Banjou! It will be great to work with you and your giant Daitarn.

... But how will we reach the cockpit?

[blackhole_sunattack]

Of Daitarn? It's only 120 meters tall. A short trip with another mobile suit, right?


Oh, my car can get there too, of course.

[way_of_vengeance]

...You're a bit young for that kind of thing, aren't you?

[an exasperated sayo can be seen nearby.]
Only you would think he meant that...

[herodrawing]

Eeeh? But I participate in all kinds of exercises already!

[chidori]

[That catches Kaname off-guard.]

A team-building exercise?

[A beat.]

Are you sure you have the right room? Ken's right down the hall.

[herodrawing]

Ah, miss Chidori?! I thought this was the other room, that... yes, Ken, that's who I meant.

But I mean, you may still come with us after all! You're part of the team too!

[Part of the team? Since when?]