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<nazca> Space. A cosmic darkness, dotted with the winking lights of a great many stars, and billions upon billions of planets. Tranquil. Silent. Placid. Peaceful.
<nazca> Of course, nothing so peaceful and so beautifully-static stays that way forever, as space itself seems to crackle and tear apart as the high-performance engine of an Excellence Argent Fighter blasts the chassis right out of hyperspace, the diminutive ship crashing back into reality with a veritable storm of azure electricity.
<nazca> This is then followed by what sounds like deep, bass-infested rap music being played on a very unreasonable volume. Whoever said sound can't carry on in space may not have heard the pink-haired girl travel with her music blasting in full in whatever cockpit she's in.
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<nazca> And true enough, the person manning the souped-up spaceship is none other than that pink-haired lass, her fingers flying over the aero-gel illuminated keyboard over the cockpit display, pressing the keys in tune to Cypress Hill's Insane in the Membrane, the melody being hummed underneath her breath.
<nazca> Behind her, of course, is her ever faithful companion and sidekick, Age! Who may or may not have been turned deaf by her inconsiderate music playing.
<Sandwitches> Age smiles and taps on his companions shoulder.  "...  Stop The ship."
<Sandwitches> "We're here."
<nazca> It takes a few moments for the girl to actually register the tap on her shoulder, seemingly way too busy syncopating with her keystrokes. "Don't you know I'm loco--huh? We're already where?" She blinks as she turns to look at him quizzically, as well as bringing the ship to a complete stop by way of a quick button press.
<Sandwitches> "Yes."
<Sandwitches> As the ship comes to a stop the space before the Fighter almost seem to distort...
<nazca> "...Yes, where?" The girl asks after another moment of silence as she lets the overworked engines rest for a while, as well as lowering the volume of this sudden road trip's soundtrack. "We're not anywhere near any system, much less a planet to orbit around--whoa!"
<nazca> "A-Age-kun, what the hell is happening...?!"
<Sciencegar> Compared to the fighters emergence into reality, the blue and gray mech's appearance is more like a ripple in a pond, slipping into the space in front of the fighter like an otter. It floats there, the Lions Head symbol displayed on the front of its hull, as it slowly starts up.
<nazca> "...Okay. Creepy. Er..." The girl swallows audibly at the sight, before turning to Age. "Should I be turning the weapon systems on now, or do we just make a run for it? We're not in my Deep Striker, so my vote is to get the hell out of here and pray they don't have hyperspace tracking capabilities..."
<Sandwitches> Age smiles.  "Just wait."
<nazca> "FFFFFFFFfffffiine. I can...try waiting." It takes a lot from the girl to agree to the young man's rather unreasonable request for her to not do anything, and instead turns back to the cockpit display, leaning heavily into her chair's backrest. "You're the planet-destroying dude here, I'm just the scientist."
<Sciencegar> Finally, the mech appears to become active, and looks around, taking in its surroundings, before focusing the cameras on the fighter. Then the comms e-engage."
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<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> Finally, the mech appears to become active, and looks around, taking in its surroundings, before focusing the cameras on the fighter. Then the comms e-engage."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "H-hello? Th-this is Guarlion LP-004, calling u-unidentified space fighter. Please, erm....Could you please tell me whats going on? Who are you? How did we get into space already?"
<nazca> "...I should be asking you that question!" The pink-haired girl snaps as she engages the comms with a furious swipe of the aero-gel keys. "For your information, this is an Excellence Argent Fighter from my Nana, but you should see my other ship! It's got tons of cannons and everything!"
<nazca> At the Guarlion's further questioning, she raises her eyebrows. "...What's going on? Er...I don't know, either! We just got out of hyperspace a couple of seconds ago, and you popped out all of a sudden!" It's then that she frowns. "And why are you asking ME how you got into space?! You're the one in that thing!"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "But I...I just went to sleep!! We weren't supposed to be taking off until tomorrow!! And I'm not detecting the ships signal anyway."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "H...Has something taken us here?"
<nazca> "I don't know! Maybe you sleep-launched or something! That happens a lot! Sometimes when I wake up I find myself inventing twenty-three different devices, each one able to blow up a specific civilization back to the stone age! But I usually manage to deactivate them before they engage!" The pink-haired girl glances towards Age, and shrugging.
<nazca> "Er...well, let's get something straight, here, first...you're not going to blow us up, are you?"
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<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "N-no!! I wouldn't attack anyone without reason!! I'm just trying to figure out whats going on!!"
<Sandwitches> Age shakes his head and frowns.  "There's something else here...  Something that shouldn't be."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "And who are you? You sound like Kohaku, er, from the Buster Squadron. She says things like that all the time."
<nazca> "Oh? Well, that's good, then! In that case, I'm not planning on blowing you up too! Seems like we can get along just fine, and--" The pink-haired girl blinks, and then turns back once more to Age. "Huh? What do you mean? Er, besides the Guarlion unit that just popped out of nowhere..."
<Sandwitches> Age nods...  as Space beings to distort again.
<nazca> She then blinks, and then turns back to the cockpit display. "W-who? I don't..." She begins, but then grunts in slight frustration. "Call me Yuyuko for now, and--WHAT. WHAT THE HELL."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "We....This thing is going to be dangerous, isn't it?"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> The mech pulls out a pistol and the hilt of some kind of energy blade. "We might need to fight!"
<nazca> "Great! Just...just great, you know! After I get my own mech wrecked, this has to happen. Random encounters. Yay." The pink-haired young woman sighs as she arms the weapons systems of the Excellence Argent Fighter. "Peashooters compared to the Deep Striker...but I suppose we'll have to make do."
<nazca> "Age-kun, sorry, but I think we have to fight again," she calls back to the young man. "Sorry! This isn't my fault, I swear!"
<Sandwitches> A dark sphere shimmers into existance.
<Sandwitches> "...  Let me out."  Age asks.
<nazca> "...Huh? You want to step out?" The young woman blinks. "W-wait! You don't have to space yourself, we can do this! I just need to engage hyperspace while the Guarlion's engaging whatever this is, and...!"
<Sandwitches> "You don't understand..."
<Sandwitches> "Thiss... shouldn't be here."
<Sandwitches> ""And the Nirvana will pass by here shortly."
<nazca> "...Er...okay..." The girl's eyes go wide at this, but then taps at the Omni-Tool materializing over her left arm - and the inside of the cockpit is suddenly layered with a blanket of blue light, an oxygenated forcefield to keep the rigors of space out. Another button press, and the cockpit slides open.
<nazca> "I...I don't really get what you just said, but if you've got that serious expression on your face..." She murmurs quietly, nodding at him. "I trust you."
<Sandwitches> Age Leaps out of the Fighter and closes the cockpit behind him, taking a spot atop the fighter.
<Sandwitches> In the distance the orb expands...
<Sandwitches> And a White Machine with Gold and pale blue Machine with Three golden orbs, one in each arm, and one in the chest, Emerges.
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<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "The....The Granzon? B-but..."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "Yuyuko, we have to escape!!!"
<nazca> "The....the Granzon...?" The one who called herself "Yuyuko" pales at the sight of the monstrous machine, sweat breaking out in her brow. Usually, when faced with a threat like this, she would merely scoff before blasting it to smithereens - but that was with her regular mech. In a fighter, she felt naked, vulnerable. Defenseless.
<Sandwitches> The Granzon floats lifelessly through space...  As...  SOMETHING else emerges from the sphere.  A legless olive and grey colored THING Half again as large as the Granzon.
<nazca> "It's...it's not even supposed to be here..." She murmurs, before turning to the young man standing on top of the cockpit canopy. Raising a hand, she frantically bangs at the reinforced glass. "H-hey! Age-kun! We have to get out of here! That thing is bad news!!"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "And that....That looks like it might be...even more dangerous!!"
<Sandwitches> "..."  Age nods slowly.
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "Please, Yuyuko!! I d-don't have any means to teleport or warp! Y-you need to bring me with you!!"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "This is a nightmare...Am I dreaming? Do dreams work like this?"
<nazca> "...W-what? You don't have any...?!" A mighty struggle between morals seems to be waging inside the young woman with the pink hair, her hands clenching into fists as she looks at the thing emerging from the Granzon. "....I-if I leave whoever this person is, we can get away scot-free, but then...g-ghk..."
<nazca> It's then that she bangs on the canopy, once more. "AGE-KUN! GET WHOEVER'S INSIDE THAT GUARLION AND GET HER INSIDE THIS COCKPIT, NOW! WE HAVE TO RUN!"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "Wh-what?! B-but my Guarlion, I have a responsiblity to Ms Arturia to keep my mech intact!!"
<Sandwitches> Age nods and kicks off the Excellence towards the Guarlion.
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "I already annoyed when I showed her Slowpoke, I can't lose my mech too!!"
<nazca> "WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS, A TUGBOAT?! THIS IS A HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIGHTER! I CAN'T DRAG A GUARLION AROUND IN HYPERSPACE, WE'LL BREAK APART!"
<Sandwitches> The Second machine reaches out with two hooklike tentacles and begins to drag the Granzon closer to it.
<nazca> 'Yuyuko's' eyes widen at the cosmic horror playing out before here, and fires the thrusters of the Excellence,  hurrying up the process and nearly slamming into the Guarlion. "Alright, whoever you are! Get your atmospheric controls activated and hop in, I'm opening the cockpit! Get what you absolutely need to bring with you, nothing else!"
<Sandwitches> Moment later...  A Massive Blue StarCruiser emerges from Hyperspace.
<nazca> "Oh God I have made many mistakes in my life." The young pink-haired girl murmurs. "WHY IS EVERYTHING HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?!"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "B-but I can't leave it!! I'll never be able to explain how I lost it! Even the recorder won't be any good, because none of this makes sense!!"
<Sandwitches> "...  Nirvana."  Age's words somehow reach the girls ears.
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "It has to be a dream!! None of it makes sense so it must be my nightmare!"
<nazca> "...If it's that important to you, I'll make you another one!! JUST GIVE ME A CAVE, A FEW DAYS, AND SOME SCRAP METAL! WE NEED TO GET OUT NOW--huh? Nirvana...? Age-kun, is that...?"
<Sandwitches> "Yes."
<nazca> She shakes her head at the blue cruiser, the unfamiliar lines and curves on it matching none in her memory; it was so alien that she felt nothing but apprehension at its sight. "A-alright, you, whoever you are, I'm giving you ten seconds to take what you can, get out of your mech, and hop in. I am not going to count to GODDAMN TWENTY."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> Anri starts looking around "Destroy...Destroy the Granzon? No, you must mean the monster mecha...If I do that, I can wake up? I save the day and I wake up?"
<Sandwitches> As Ages words echo...  No less that Three Dozen Brown humanoid figure manifest around the Granzon and the mech dragging it closer.
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "Th-the Granzon then. Ok, ok....I can do this."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "I'm a hero!! Anri Sonohara, of the Lions Pride!!" The Guarlions beam saber ignites, and she turns the mech and accelerates forward. "And a Lion does not fear!!"
<nazca> "DESTROY THE GRANZON?! ARE YOU INSANE?!" The pink-haired girl's eyes widen even more at the hallucinations that had now slapped themselves into this horrific nested nightmare that she's finding herself in. Or, at least, she's convinced herself that they're hallucinations.
<nazca> And now that the girl - who had called herself Anri Sonohara - was about to attack one of the most nightmarish monstrosities that her father had told her about. "...YOU'RE ATTACKING THE GRANZON WITH NOTHING BUT A GRUNT MECH WITH STOCK ARMAMENT. WHERE DOES THE LOGIC FIT IN."
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "Heroes make their own logic!! P-please, don't bring thinking into this!! If I start thinking, I-I won't be able to do this!"
<Gilliam_Yaeger> From the Nirvana, a pair of powerful light blue beam shots are fired at the small mass of brown mechs.
<Sandwitches> Half the Brown things are vaporised by the beams.
<nazca> "There's a reason why heroes are called heroes, Sonohara-san. It's because they did something ridiculously brave and crazy. But the main fact is that the title is usually conferred POSTHUMOUSLY." The pink-haired girl is sweating bullets now. "If you're not getting in, then I'm going to have to ask Age-kun here to FORCE you out!"
<Sciencegar_Sciencebolt> "Or you could help!! Like the Blue Ship is doing!" The Guarlion boosts on, its Breaker Field engaging.
<Sandwitches> A new commline opens to the pair.  "You two are VERY lucky."
<nazca> "...Help? But.." The pink-haired girl blinks as the Guarlion passes the Excellence by - and a moment of silence passes before she grunts in frustration, both hands curling into her hair. "Dammit, I don't NEED the morality argument coming back to bite me in the ass TODAY--"
<nazca> She blinks at the new comm bursting in on their frequency. "Yeah, I guess you can call us that. By the way, is it Opposite Month on your side of the Galactic Calendar?"
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<Gilliam_Yaeger> Atop the nearby capital ship is the source of the beam shots - a large, menacing dark blue mech with a single silver horn stands proudly on the roof of the starship, its arms crossed and stance wide. Over each shoulder is a long, glowing lance of some sort - clearly the source of the beam cannon shots, several parts of the mech's armour glowing in the same way. The lances flip back over the shoulders, now appea
<Gilliam_Yaeger> ring to function as boosters, and the mech takes off, charging at the mechs.
<Sandwitches> "Galactic Calendar?  You two aren't from around here either, are you?"  The voice continues over the comm.
<nazca> "Negative. I am a meat popsicle." The pink-haired girl replies, one eye twitching at the appearance of the new mech. Crazy! This stuff was crazy!
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<Sandwitches> Dozens more fo the brown things begin to appear....  Only to be met by a squadron of fighters emerging from the Ship.