Performance anxiety

[star_of_sad]

[Virgola unit 3 was wrecked. Then it was repaired... and wrecked again, along with Setsuko's self-esteem.

At this rate, the mobile suit will never regain full functionality. The damage is just too severe.]

I really am a failure... even after all that happened, it's as if I learnt nothing.

Who thought it was a good idea to give a newbie position in the Glory Stars test team? Maybe I should just... go home...

[The pilot can be found moping not too far away from the hangar. It's like if Setsuko was reluctant to leave her own unit's field of vision.]

Comments

[ugyuuya]

Well whoever it was had the right idea on some level, you definitely seem to work well enough with the other two members of your unit and even with a badly damaged mech you were able to at sortie more effectively than most of the Genoace pilots.

[Yuuya's voice comes clearly from behind the moping pilot.]

I didn't mean to scare you but I was worried, I know there were no serious wounds on your team despite what happened but it looked pretty bad. But even our units weren't able to fight them off effectively, the only reason I didn't wind up like you did is that I had a shield, even with that we had to replace several outer armor plates and re-adjust the carbon fibers that make up the artificial muscle system. I swear whatever those things are they're worse than BETA in some ways.

[star_of_sad]

Well, the thing is that we fought BETA a lot longer than those... things. We had time to develop countermeasures and tactics.

While the ones we used for this operation stopped working.

[ugyuuya]

And we still had much lower casualty rates against those monsters than we continue to have in the battles against the BETA.

I wouldn't sell yourself short, after I read the reports from the last operation in La Gias I'm not sure we could have done much better than you did.

[star_of_sad]

Ah, well, I wasn't exactly alone out there.

[ugyuuya]

And neither is an Eishi when he sorties against the BETA. As a matter of fact we traditionally sortie in much higher numbers. Anyone who proclaims to be a great solitary savior is a liar or delusional.

Everyone here counts on you and your team to watch our backs out there while we watch yours. If there were any issues we'd be putting you through the same boot camp Leos has been getting wouldn't we?

[star_of_sad]

He seems to be having fun, though.

[Setsuko manages to cheer up, somehow.]

If this is what you say, I will try my hardest to watch your backs. As a soldier, it is something I can do as well.

[ugyuuya]

Good, if you're ever worried about this again let me know. Now I don't know about you but I'm hungry and heard they've got steaks in the mess today. They're pretty rare to get and would be a nice change of pace don't you think?

[star_of_sad]

Steaks? Really? Now that's a rare opportunity... I wonder did something good happen.

[ugyuuya]

If I had to guess it may be a bit of a morale booster given the pair of hard missions that just happened back to back. I'll take it since they've got some top class chefs to cook them rather than the ones they had at Groom Lake, couldn't cook anything except chicken there without turning it into shoe leather for some reason.

[star_of_sad]

Only chicken and shoe leather?

[Setsuko ponders this for a second.]

Did anyone mutiny, eventually?

[ugyuuya]

Not quite but we did come close. We also got into a heap of trouble when we ordered a bunch of pizzas to be delivered to the base. They were confiscated and disposed of supposedly but the senior officers were a lot happier for a few days after that.

[star_of_sad]

I think I can imagine what happened.

[Setsuko seems amused for some reason.]

[ugyuuya]

[Yuuya smiles a bit, glad to see Setsuko's mood improved from the way it was when they started the conversation.]

Yeah, we basically figured what happened as well. We got our revenge later when we had the enlisted in the mess who went in with us prepare "special" dishes for the senior officers. We managed to time that one well enough and mask the efforts of what happened to a "bad" batch of cans.

Yeah those were certainly interesting times, but with everything else going on now completely inappropriate here.