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Exploring the Hangar

Setsuna had shown her the way to the hangar after she had woken up on this ship and now she was going to look over the Virtue and 00 Raiser. If the suits were there, then she could take a look over them and make sure that they were indeed fully repaired and ready to fight if they were needed. She was also curious about these other 'Gundams' and wanted to see just what they looked like and possibly meet some of the other pilots.

She didn't have the Red Haro with her as she walked into the hangar and looked around. She spotted Exia, the 00 Raiser and Virtue immediately. They were familiar to her since she had worked on them before. She didn't recognize any of the other suits in the hangar. They were different than what she was used to seeing. They had similar builds to the Gundams that she knew, but they were all different.

(OOC: Open to any of the pilots!)

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It was time for another regular maintenance of his Mobile Suit. Despite the suit not having seen action since the attack on Zokez II, Lowe had to make sure that the Astray Red Frame was still up and running. Admittedly, he was happy to hear about Cowabunga's progress and couldn't wait to see it in actual action.

As he worked, Lowe spotted the pink-haired girl looking over the Mobile Suits. "Oh, hey! Something up?"

She was startled as she heard a voice call out to her. She didn't expect anyone else to be here. She looked up at the suit and blinked for a moment.

"No, I'm just looking at the suits. I know two of the pilots," She said.

She knew two pilots? Her bright pink hair did seem to suggest that she was a Coordinator, so she might have known Kira and Yzak in their times. Of course, there was also Duo or Setsuna...

"Ah, well, you're looking at another pilot. I'm Lowe Guele." he said. "And that..." he pointed to his Mobile Suit "...is the Astray Red Frame. (http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MBF-P02Kai_Gundam_Astray_Red_Frame_Kai)" Despite the fact that the suit looked like a Gundam, notice he didn't call it that.

"My name is Feldt Grace," she said, looking at the Astray Red Frame. It was a good looking suit. "I know Setsuna F. Seiei and Tieria Erde."

She motioned to the 00 Raiser, Exia and Virtue.

"00 Raiser, Exia, Virtue," she said as she motioned to each suit.

Ah, those two. He'd heard of them. Heard of Setsuna's little fight with Kira. Certainly not the pilots he'd kind of expected.

"It's nice to meet you, Feldt!" Lowe said. He took a good look at the 00 Raiser, Exia and Virtue and whistled a bit. "I'd seen them before, but never up close. I've... been kinda worried doing so wouldn't be wise. Even if I'm one of the mechanics here."

"I know how to work on them," she said. Trying to get up close to those suits without being a member of Celestial Being usually meant that you were going to die, so she wasn't surprised to hear that no one else had gotten close to them.

Lowe let out a sigh of relief. It was good to know that there was someone here that knew how to work on them. "Great! I have to admit, that's a bit off my shoulders."

A smile crossed his face as he continued. "If you need anything else, I'll be glad to give you a hand with it...!"

She nodded. "I'll remember that."

She wasn't sure how many times she'd ask for his help, since there were things that she needed to keep a secret. She didn't know if anyone on board knew about Nadleeh and she didn't want them to know about it.

Heavy metal blared out of a red ZAKU, as a Tauren wearing a facemask busied himself by spray-painting the symbol of the Horde on it's shield.

Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Feldt enter.

"Oh. Hey!" Cowabunga shouted, pulling off the mask. "Looking for anything?"

She had never seen anything like a Tauren before. It startled her, but not as much as it would have if she hadn't seen the snake girl on the observation deck. She shook her head a bit.

"No. I'm just here to look over some suits. I know their pilots."

"Ah, Gotcha. Who, outta curiosity?" he asked.

"Tieria Erde and Setsuna F. Seiei," She replied.

"Ah..." He trailed off.

"You know your friends have issues, right?"

There was a hangar. A hangar with Mobile Suits in it. This ship thought of everything, didn't it? Except getting some more Gundam Fighters. So far, Hans Holger was the only one Allenby had managed to find here, which was honestly a huge miscalculation on Stacy's part because if you wanted someone to defend a planet you couldn't do better than the Shuffle Alliance--

She didn't like the transport tentacles, but at least they were fast. Allenby brushed off her plantsuit as she looked around and saw... Gundams. Unfamiliar Gundams, but Gundams just the same.

That meant Nobel Gundam had to be around here. She started running in, but skidded to a halt when she spotted someone with pink hair. "Heeeey! You know your way around this place?" she asked, waving.

"No, not really," she said, turning to look at Allenby. She was standing in front of Exia. It looked just like she had remembered it. One of the 00 Raiser's GN Drives was from Exia. She remembered when they found Setsuna again and Exia was falling apart.

"I just got here."

"Oh, you too huh?" Allenby sighed. She wanted to say something more, but--the only thing she could think of was something about how their worlds were gone. She still had trouble believing it. Wouldn't she remember? Unless Stacy had grabbed them all before it happened...

She looked up at the Gundam for a distraction. As far as distractions went, it was a fairly impressive one. "I don't recognize that one--you know what nation that Gundam's from?" Hey, maybe this gal was even a pilot! She didn't look much like one, but you really could never tell.

"It's from Celestial Being, not a nation. I know it's pilot," she said before motioning towards the 00 Raiser and Virtue. "I know the pilots of those two suits as well."

"I don't see any Union, AEU or HRL suits here as well," she said glancing around. She didn't recognize any besides the ones from Celestial Being. She almost wished that Haro was here to help her out a bit.

Celestial whatnow? "You wanna... start over?" AEU, HRL, what did that mean? Was it some kind of code or something? "I've never heard of Celestial Bein' and I don't think it'd be good if someone else just decided to make their own Gundams." If they started screwing around with the Gundam Fight--not that there were colonies. No.

Dammit.

...That other suit looked more like a tank than anything else. A tank made out of cubes. Whoever had made these Gundams, it looked as though they knew what they were doing.

"Celestial Being. Our goal is to use armed interventions to end all war. There are three factions, made up of many nations. There is the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations, known as the Union, The Human Reform League or HRL, and the Advanced European Union," she explained. "Celestial Being doesn't belong to any of those groups."

She motioned to the three suits that she knew, starting with Exia.

"This is Gundam Exia."

She motioned to the 00 Raiser.

"00 Raiser."

And finally Virtue.

"Gundam Virtue."

Allenby frowned up at the three suits. This obviously wasn't a case like Cagalli, where their two worlds (or planets, or whatever) had just come up with the same name for two similar things. These were Gundams. They had the distinctive V-Crest that marked even the most outlandish designs as a mobile fighter.

"So what do you do in these armed interventions?" she asked. "What are these things armed with, huh?" Allenby didn't think it was just disabling equipment. And what the hell... Gundams had ended war. That was why Gundams were invented, because they were used instead of war! The whole point of a Gundam was that there was no more war!

But she'd wait for the girl's explanation before getting madder. Maybe she just didn't know the whole story.

"The Gundams are sent into battles to end the fighting on both sides," she said simply. That's all she would say on that. She had probably already said too much. Celestial Being did have rules on secrecy and she was used to not talking about certain things. She had given Allenby basic information on the time that she was from but nothing too detailed on a lot of things.

She had completely ignored the question about what they were armed with. She couldn't tell that. She could find out when they fought. To Allenby, Gundams may have ended War, but Feldt was from a far different place.

"Right, and just what do you do to end the fighting?" Allenby wasn't going to let this go, apparently. And the girl had said European Union. "Are you from Earth? 'Cause the Earth I know, we sure don't do that."

She glared at her, wanting to know more. If there was a constant she'd had back home, it had been the Gundam Fight. Everything had revolved around it; that was what she was raised for. And she really hated when people abused their Gundams. (Not that she always followed the rules, but she always had good reasons to ignore them.)

"Whatever is necessary," she said. She was getting tired of all of the questioning. Most of her answers were rather vague, but that's just the way she was. She wasn't going to tell too much and break the rules of Celestial Being.

"I am not from your Earth," she added a moment later. "And no, I'm not from Earth. Celestial Being's origins are in Space."

Yeah. That didn't sound satisfactory to Allenby at all. She didn't like the impassive look on the girl's face either--it would have been better if she got mad too, or something. Not this dispassionate evasion.

But what she said next caught the Fighter off-guard. "What do you mean not my Earth? There's just one of 'em!" Or was, said that nasty thought, but dammit Allenby just couldn't think of it as not there. It was Earth!

Feldt was good at keeping a blank face. She had perfected it over years of living with Celestial being and not speaking much. She often kept her emotions to herself and tended to talk more to the Haros than the rest of the crew.

"It's obvious that the places where we're from are totally different. You don't know anything about the Union, AEU, or HRL, nor did you know about the armed interventions which had been all over the news for several years."

Well okay. Maybe that kind of made sense. Allenby was really stretching her definitions of "makes sense" given the fact that she was on a ginormous living spaceship. But she still wasn't satisfied. "Okay, so there are two Earths and yours's got a completely screwed-up idea 'bout how to use Gundams," she said. Diplomacy was something for other people.

"Is one of these fighters yours? Who are you, anyway?"

She ignored the comment about having a screwed up way of using Gundams. She wasn't a pilot, she could repair the suits, but not pilot them. She kept her blank face as she looked back up at Exia.

"These three are a part of Celestial Being. I am not a pilot, but a tactical officer. My name is Feldt Grace."

...oh. That put a damper on Allenby's idea to challenge--or goad--Feldt into a fight. Not to beat her up, but so she could get what she was talking about with these armed interventions and continuing war on Earth, and to figure out what sort of person Feldt was without having to deal with the blank face and inadequate answers.

"So you wouldn't be a Fighter then, huh." There was definitely disappointment there. "Well, I'm Allenby Beardsley."

You're not going to get much out of her, Allenby. She grew up with strict rules about secrecy and she wasn't about to break them any time soon. She wasn't about to break them any time soon. She also knew when to walk away and she wouldn't have a problem leaving the hangar.

She just nodded and stepped closer to Exia. She needed to talk to Setsuna about doing a full systems check sometime soon.

Well she could have at least said something after that. Allenby clenched her fists, reminding herself that it just wouldn't be fair to try and get a fight out of someone who wasn't on an even level with her. That wouldn't be so bad, though, if Allenby didn't have the feeling that Feldt wouldn't rise to the bait no matter what she said. In Allenby's opinion, there was no such thing as just walking away from an argument.

"I'm gonna go find my Nobel Gundam. And you better not go anywhere near her, got it?" She pointed sharply at Feldt. Though she sort of doubted Feldt would be interested in anyone else's Gundams, Allenby wanted that to be said.

Kira, meanwhile, was seated at the base of the Strike Freedom running another remote diagnostic on the mobile suit's systems. He didn't think that the arrival of any of the new suits - most of which he didn't recognize, save the Akatsuki - might have interfered with something, but it never hurt to check.

Footsteps - he looked up to see an unfamiliar girl with pink hair, but it certainly wasn't Lacus. "Ah... can I help you?"

She looked over at Kira, silent for a moment as her attention was drawn away from the suits.

"No, I'm just looking around. Setsuna told me that the 00 Raiser, Exia and Virtue were in working order but I wanted to see for myself."

She looked up at the suit he was sitting at. It had to be his.

Ah. Then she knew the other pilots. "So you know Setsuna and Tieria... are you from their world, then?" There may have been a slightly odd expression on his face. He still wasn't sure what to think of the taciturn pilot.

She nodded. She did work with Tieria and Setsuna, but in a different way than he probably thought. She wasn't a pilot, but worked on the bridge.

"I do work with Tieria and Setsuna," she said. "My name is Feldt Grace."

"Kira Yamato," he offered politely. "...I'm the head of our mobile suit squadron here on the ship." At least, in theory. Her coworkers still hadn't joined up.

"I'm not a pilot, I'm a tactical officer," she said, hoping that would explain things a bit. "I also know how to work on these three suits."

She motioned to Exia, 00 Raiser, and Virtue.

Ah, a bridge officer then. "That's good," he gave a small smile. "We could use crew like you." Kira followed her gesture to the three mobile suits. "...and they haven't let anyone else work on them yet, so they'll probably be grateful for that as well."

She nodded, glad that they hadn't let anyone else look at the suits. She wondered if Kira or anyone else knew about Celestial Being's rules of secrecy.

"I was going to give them a look over before talking with Setsuna and Tieria again."

Oh, believe him, Feldt - he did. He'd heard it before. At length.

"It seems they've been doing all the work themselves, so I'm sure they'd be grateful."

Kira paused. "So you're with that organization too? Celestial Being?"

She nodded. She had grown up in Celestial Being. She had been around Gundams and Haros for all of her life.

"I'm sure they'll be glad that someone else is taking a look. Someone that they know that they can trust."

Another pause. "...I understand that. But don't you think that we should all be able to trust each other here? After all, it's not like the organizations we fought for exist anymore - we're on the same side now."

"I know that we're all supposed to be working together, but that's not something we're used to doing," she said. It was the truth. They were used to working on their own. Most of the people they had worked with betrayed them.

Violet eyes looked up at her. "Do you really think we can afford to act like that right now? This isn't just another war of humanity..."

She met his gaze. "Still, we're not used to working with others. I grew up in Celestial Being. It's against our beliefs to engage in war."

But they had the Gundams. What were they if not a weapon of war? "It's a nice sentiment," he allowed, "And I wish more people would follow it. But are you saying you won't even fight to survive?"

When his time of finding his friends had proven useless, Judau had little choice but to find his own machine: The ZZ Gundam. It didn't much for Judau to realize where mechs had been obviously stored, but the odds were still a bit slim. If the machine wasn't here, then either it had been hidden away, or worse, scrapped for spare parts. The last thing he needed was no way to even fight the supposed threat.

Running inside the hangar, his legs immediately skidded to a stop before the other machines Feldt had been staring at. He knew Gundams when he saw them, but these designs were ones he never witnessed in his life. Briefly, he wondered if AEUG or the Earth Federation may have made these things. Glancing around the hangar some more, there had even more models, in different designs in fact. Just how long had he been out? There was no way either faction he knew could produce this many models so quickly.

"At least they got style," he said to himself. His eyes fell downward at the legs, only to spot Feldt Grace looking at them as well. What luck, a possible fellow pilot maybe? In any case, more answers were just around the corner.

"HEY!" he shouted, hoping to gain her attention as he walked up to her. "Yo, you wouldn't happen to know whose Gundams these are, do ya? Are they with AEUG or the Earth Federation?" His third guess had been Neo Zeon, but he doubted these things were their property. The only Gundams he saw were the Psychos.

She had been too caught up in her own thoughts. It was a bit of a shock to see Exia, the 00 Raiser, and Virtue all together. It had been several years since they had stopped using Exia and Virtue. Newer, better suits were being used now. Exia's GN Drive was one of the ones used to power the 00 Raiser. She didn't recognize any of the other suits, but there were several very interesting designs.

Her head snapped up when she heard someone call out to her. She looked up and around to see who was calling out to her and blinked for a moment at Judau. For a moment, her face was blank. She didn't know of the Earth Federation or the AEUG. Maybe he meant the Union or AEU. She shook her head as he approached.

"I don't know of the AEUG or Earth Federation. I know of the Union, HRL, and AEU. I know the pilots of these three suits," she said motioning to the three suits that she had been looking at.

Judau raised an eyebrow at the mention of the other factions. Maybe they were from another world, much like everyone else had in this world, based on some of the strange things he had seen here thus far. Though his idea of finding people from his own world had been shot down again, the thought of different Gundams in other worlds did earn his interest.

"Which one do these things belong to then?" he asked.

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