Blue's Blues

[cloningblues]

[Nothing went right during the latest mission in La Gias. Denzel is dead. Setsuko, Toby, and the people they were sent to rescue have disappeared to some place unknown. Blue One took a crapload of damage, but that's the least of Asagi's worries right now. He stumbles towards a sitting area, slumps down on a chair, takes a stomach pill and lays his head on the table. Then, he slams his fist on it. The table, not his head.]

...It wasn't supposed to go like this.

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[majestic_keiki]

Yeah, it wasn't. [Kei quickly joined him at the table, having been thoughtful enough to bring him a cup of tea before doing so. She didn't look like she was doing much better than him either.]

[cloningblues]

[Asagi's hand grabs the cup, but he does no effort to drink it. He doesn't even lift his head.]

...We need to find them.

[majestic_keiki]

Right. If we'd been able to control it when we left La Gias I would have tried looking for them to the edges of Purple-2s sensors...But I can't do that now.

We can try listening to what reports come in, though.

[cloningblues]

Reports... Is that all we can do? Just wait?

[majestic_keiki]

I think so. The planet is a big place and various governments have far better access to information than we do.

[cloningblues]

[In response, Asagi just slumps down at the table again.]

That black machine's pilot... We got him, right? He's dead, right?

[majestic_keiki]

Probably. It didn't look like anything could survive that, right?

[cloningblues]

Yeah. He got what he deserved. Denzel, Yancy, Kanade...

Who the hell was that guy? His name was Asakim Dowen, but I don't know anything except that...

[majestic_keiki]

I don't know...But he's gone now, at least.

Hopefully he didn't have any friends.

[cloningblues]

Don't think so. They would have at least shown themselves once. Every time he appeared, he was alone.

[majestic_keiki]

Or they would deliberately try not to tip their hand.

[cloningblues]

I hope not. If there are more such people around, as evil and powerful as that guy...

[majestic_keiki]

...Why did I even bring the idea up? It's not something anyone would want to think about.

[cloningblues]

That's a very good question. Let's worry with what's on our plate already.

[majestic_keiki]

We do have enough things to deal with already.