Feldt was slowly getting used to the ship. She had found her way to the hangar and knew that the 00 Raiser, Exia, and Virtue were all there and looked to be in good shape. She had also learned that no one else had been working on them besides Setsuna and Tieria. She wasn't sure what she would have done if anyone else had been working on them. It was against Celestial Being's rules to let anyone else know about their technology. Someone else had already stolen the GN Drives from them.

On this trip to the hangar, she had the Red Haro with her. She could use the robot's help with the system checks. She looked around the hangar as she stepped inside. She had met several other pilots in here already, and none of them seemed to understand Celestial Being's thoughts on war. They were supposed to be stopping it, not engaging in it, even if it was for survival.

She was thankful that it was empty right now. She didn't want to deal with the probing questions that she couldn't really answer. The quiet would allow her to focus on her work and she'd be able to get it done faster and let Tieria and Setsuna know that they had been doing a good job on the upkeep of their suits.

This time things were different. She could only stare at one of the newest suits in the hangar. For a moment she thought that it was Cherudim, but no. It was a similar suit. It was Cherudim's predecessor, Dynames. She could only stand and stare at the suit for a moment as she remembered the suit and pilot. Dynames had been mostly destroyed the last time she had seen it and it's pilot had been killed. The first Lockon Stratos meant a lot to her. There was no way that he could be alive again.

She didn't realize that she was crying until she felt the tears falling down her face. Lockon, he was here and alive. How could she have missed him?

Zouichi had heard about the Sensoriums from other people aboard the ship, and though he'd been a little apprehensive at first, had decided to pay them a visit. Or rather, he'd decided to pay Earth a visit.

After all, it was hard to go for a real ride on a disturbingly squishy ship.

If there had been any police left, he would have been pulled over for speeding and quite possibly reckless endangerment. But there weren't. What there were was vast expanses of jet-black concrete laid empty for miles ahead of him, honeycombing through levels of the massive megacity at insane angles.

So he punched it, hard. The motorcycle surged forward toward the city, its display ticking steadily past a series of numbers: 100, 200, 300...

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Billy had just launched another portal in that maze of mazes, exhaustion setting in. Surely this time he would land on another moving platform of death?

Nope, just the exterior of the finished bathhouses. All polished, systems running, and just about ready to open! Given how sore and exhausted he was, that sounded like an excellent idea at the moment.

With a quick message to the rest of the crew, he set out the 'Open' sign for the first time and took advantage of his owner status---the prime waterfall spot could be his!

((ooc: The bathhouses are now open! Feel free to mingle around, relax, and have a party. Or cause trouble, but that might invite more trouble. Just start a subthread with your character's location and have fun. For reference there are individual showers in front, followed by hot tubs centrally located, saunas further back, and private baths along the side. The showers, tubs, and saunas have smaller sex-segregated units along with a central group unit that's larger.))

Sasami probably felt she was on Cloud 9 right now. The strings of friends she had met - Aqua, Kairi and now Hoshi - really seemed to lift her spirits after her brief bouts of depression. And right now, going to help show Hoshi around really made things even better for her.

Leading her out of the Observation Deck, Sasami lead Hoshi out into the halls.

"Is there anywhere in particular you wanted to know about, Hoshi?" she asked.