A Wicked Shadow [open]

[runs-on-rage.livejournal.com]

Something's been moved down to the hangar.

Something big and foreboding, with glowing red eyes cutting through the dimness of its bay.

And it's watching you.

Incidentally, has anyone seen Vega today? Spoiler: He's curled up on top of one of this thing's feet.

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[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Samus had some repairs to do on her Gunship. Toolbox in hand, she opened the door to the hangar expecting it to be empty. She weaves through the lines of ships and passes something interesting on the way. Was that huge thing here before?

[runs-on-rage.livejournal.com]

The huge thing does not move, but the sense of watching intensifies. Samus can probably make out a strangely saurian outline in the unlit bay, slightly blocky and forty feet tall.

It rumbles at her.

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

A little noise comes from on top of one of the the thing's feet.

Vega opens his eyes.

"Wha-?"

He blinks and rubs them.

"Stacy, lights!"

The bay the Fury's in lights up obediently. There's the culprit, Samus. Vega's sitting on top of the Fury's right foot, rubbing his face. He was sleeping.

"Oh, hey," he says.

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

"..." That was unexpected. She eyes the rumbling mecha a bit warily, "Hi."

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, don't listen to him, he's just cranky because he missed me," says Vega, thumping the Fury's toe.

He's clearly not worried by it at all.

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Her eyes flick between Vega and the giant raging thing he's sitting on, "Missed you?"

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah!" He nods.

"He's an Ultimate X. They're really smart. I'm his pilot, so he missed me."

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Pilot? "How old are you?"

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

Vega eyes her a little more warily. "Eleven," he admits, preparing all his old evasive excuses for if she asks further. He's used to being able to go duck behind another Backdraft member to avoid questioning.

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

She's still taking a few cautious looks at the Fury. "You must be a talented pilot."

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

Well, that was unexpected. He straightens a little bit and smiles. "Yep! They call me The King, because I'm the best."

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Samus nods, she guessed as much (after all, no one lets an inexperienced eleven year old pilot). "I'm a pilot as well, I was just heading over to my own ship."

She totally wasn't making small talk to keeping eyeing the Fury, nope.

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

"Ship?" Vega asks. "Like a space ship?"

It's not as cool as a Zoid, Samus. But he's curious!