trans_9 | A Junker's Dream Come True [OPEN]

"Oh..."

"...my..."

"...god!"

Lowe's exclamation could be heard as it echoed throughout the hangar. It was like being 8 again and waking up Christmas morning. Inside was nothing but vehicles of all types. It was like a melting pot of hundreds of thousands of civilizations' technologies. Many of them a lot more advanced than what ZAFT, the Earth Alliance and Orb could EVER make.

[There's a lot of machines in here. It's almost impossible to count...!] 8 chirped in.

"I know! Ah, man...! I gotta see, I gotta see...!" Lowe said, making his way over to the first thing he saw: an X-Wing. "Man, look at this! This is too sleek of a machine to be a normal Mobile Armor! A-And those guns... they have to be beam weaponry!" He pulled himself away and made his way to the next machine he saw - the Unicorn Thunderzord. "Man, look at this thing! Such an odd design! There has to be something more to it, though: there's no way it could JUST be like this!"

[Perhaps it's a component of something!] 8 said.

"It has to be!" Lowe said. The next thing he gazed at: the Unit 2. "Wow... that thing's HUMONGOUS! There's no way that's a Mobile Suit - Mobile Suits that big is just ASKING to get it's butt kicked!"

[We're dealing with a melting pot here. What may be a sitting duck in our world may be... Hold on!] 8 chirped before being stopped. [I think... 20 meters in front of us!]

"Twenty meters...?" Lowe repeated, confused. He made his way forward and gasped. In front of him was a VERY familiar machine. "It's... it's Red Frame! But, it's different!"

[Perhaps it's a gift from our saviors!] 8 said.

"It has to be... I-I gotta check it out!" Lowe said, making his way into the cockpit.

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"I can tell. The general frame is familiar enough."

Yzak took a step closer to it, curiously. "What are its armaments and features?"

"Well, for the most part, it has the basic weapons - Igelstellung head vulcans, beam saber, and beam rifle. A lot of it I've added myself!" He pointed to the katana mounted on the left. "That's the Gerbera Straight - helped reforge it so that I could have a weapon that didn't drain the battery. I also modified the OS and the parts so I can use it without having to blow out its arms every time I swung it."

He looked at the other katana on the right. "The other blade and the thing on the back I have no clue on - I'm guessing it's something that got added later on... doesn't mean I'm not going to find out!"

Yzak sent him a very skeptical look.

"You don't know what else is on your own mobile suit?"

"H-Hey! I do know! Just that a lot of this wasn't on Red Frame when I saw it last!" Lowe said. In his defense, this was the truth.

"Finding out shouldn't be too hard..." he took a thoughtful look. "...I wonder if there are other Mobile Suits here. Kira's here, so he should have his..."

"Finding out could also be dangerous, if you don't at least try to figure out what the equipment is beforehand. Who knows how dangerous something can be? Especially if it's on a mobile suit."

He looked around the hangar. "Maybe there are. If this unit is, I--" He stopped short, double-taking in one direction and blinking.

Lowe was about to counter, but then he remembered the incident with the BuCUE head. And the fact that he left behind a nearly 2 million dollar piece of equipment...

When he saw Yzak reacting at something, he couldn't help but blink in surprise. "You find something?"

He put a hand up. "Hang on."

Turning, he made his way down the hangar to get a better look at whatever caught his eye. Still within Lowe's sight, he stops a small distance away when he gets close enough to make out what the possibly familiar item is.

"My GOUF!?"

"Your...?" Lowe said, trailing off as he saw the new Mobile Suit. He couldn't help but gawk in shock at it - that was an entirely new model!

"Oh, wow...! Look at that! The frame's certainly ZAFT design, but the shoulders... the shield... a-and the wings... Oh, man! They've really changed!"

[We've lost him...] 8 said, a bit dejected.

"Really changed?" Yzak looked over at Lowe, raising an eyebrow. "These have been in production for a while, now."

"For a wh--" Lowe began to repeat... then facepalmed. "Aw, man... don't tell me you're from the future, too!"

Yzak didn't know what part of that sounded more off. Future? Or too?

"The future?" he asked, giving Lowe a look like he was crazy. "What the hell are you talking about?!"

"Ah, well... l-look, the last thing I remember, Jachin Due fell a few weeks ago. I met Kira awhile back and he just went through another war...!" Lowe admitted. "I know it sounds funny, but, well..."

"A few weeks?" Yzak's eyes widened slightly. "What are you talking about ... that was over two years ago!"

"That's what Kira said!" Lowe said. "I think I'm from your past... or you're from my future! A-All I know is what I'm looking at is brand-spanking new to me and what I'm hearing is news to me!"

This is going to be a big headache.

"What kind weird-ass place is this?!" Yzak's surprise and inward joy over his GOUF was quickly put aside at this new bit of information.

"Are you sure you're not just stupid? Maybe you hit your head or something!"

"Hey! I'm not stupid! And I'd know if I hit my head!" Lowe shouted back. "Look, it has to be this stupid ship! There's no other explanation!"

[Believe me, I'd know if he was screwed up somewhere...!] 8 chimed in.

"Thanks, bud... I think." Lowe replied.

"--what is that thing, anyway?!" Yzak pointed up to Lowe and 8.

"This?" Lowe said, holding up the suitcase-like device. "This is 8! We're pretty much traveling companions!"

[That, and without me at times, he would have been a sitting duck!] 8 replied.

The machine had a pretty good vocabulary. Already much more tolerable than the sort of mechanical sidekicks Athrun tended to make. Thus, Yzak seemed interested.

"How advanced is it?"

"Advanced enough to help me pilot Red Frame. I'm no ace, that's for sure!" Lowe said.

[Lowe rescued me from a craft I was abandoned in. It got lonely.] 8 said, offhandedly. [But, yes, I'm capable of piloting Mobile Suits by myself. Or at the very least aiding those who cannot fully pilot them.]

"Pretty impressive," he remarked.

"At any rate, you should really look into what those new armaments on your unit are. Maybe that-- 8 can help you with identifying them."

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...I need to make an 8 icon!

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