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I have no power!....Wait, what? [Open]

After the events that have transpired thus far, and being unable to find any of his friends, Judau had not been in the proudest of states now. It didn't comfort him knowing that either everyone was either dead, or stuck in those pods he had came from. For now, waiting patiently was the only thing he could do...But he even failed at that. At least back in Shangri-La, when he had to work, work was more fun than simply sitting on his own thumbs and hoping for something to happen.

Thus explained his second venture into the hangar. There were plenty of Gundams around indeed, each one earning several seconds of gawking at before Judau ran towards the next. But he had not been interested in taking them out instead of his own machine. no matter how colorful or cool their designs had been. Were he still a junk dealer, his mindset would scream at him to take them for himself and sell them for a gigantic profit, one big enough to set him up for life. Tempting as it was, without Leina or any of his friends, it wouldn't do him much good anyway. Currency was good here, sure, but it wasn't enough for him to accomplish his goals.

Upon reaching the further depths of the hangar, there he saw it: The ZZ Gundam at long last. The rest of the machines around it were of little concern now, for Judau had found the one thing he had sought all this time. Even better, it had been repaired! With an ever growing smirk, he rushed to his old machine. Even without his pilot suit, Judau climbed the mecha and onto its chest. His hand pressed the button on the side, wasting no time in getting in there and activating the slumbering mech after all this time.

He moved over to the chair once he stepped in side, sitting atop of it and pressing the buttons to activate the machine. His grin grew even wider as the Gundam lit up, eyes flashing and the inside of the cockpit lighting up. Simply seeing it had brought back quite a few memories, even during the time he had piloted the Zeta Gundam before Roux ended up having to do that job. The cameras adjusted, showing him everything outside of the machine; he always did love the 360 cameras. Gripping the controls, he prepared to move the ZZ.

"Sorry guys, but I gotta do this," he said. "Sitting around here isn't my style! Judau Ashta, ZZ, launch---"

And before he could even prepare those words or fire up the engine, the ZZ Gundam powered down, causing a blackout inside of the cockpit, ceasing the functions of the cameras as well. Judau stared straight forward, jaw-dropped in absolute disbelief over what had just transpired. His eye twitched, and he had grown far too annoyed of all of this.

"You have gotta be kidding me..." he muttered, before finally shouting. "They didn't even bother to recharge the power supply!? What the hell is the point in even storing it if they didn't do that!?"

And so plan B had failed miserably as well. All Judau could do was slump back in his seat and give a sigh of defeat. There was one sliver of good news now: he knew what he could do around the ship for time being.

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Not to mention, any junk-dealing urges Judau might have had would be crushed terribly if he went ahead with them by any respective pilot whose suit may have been affected. But back to the main point, Judau's attempted activation of his Gundam wouldn't go unnoticed. Yzak had a ton of reasons to be in the hangar, now that they not only had new pilots, but in his case more familiar faces.

He quickly moved in the direction all of the noise was coming from, looking up to the ZZ Gundam as Judau shouted. Yzak raised his eyebrows and narrows his eyes.

"Why are you even trying to launch in the first place?" he called up to him.

His chances of sneaking away had been crushed immediately. With that idea out the window, there was hardly any other option, save for actually trying to steal the other Gundams, but even that would be incredibly stupid, even by his standards.

"Kinda can't stay here!" he shouted. "Hardly anybody's telling me what is going on here and being sketchy with the details, so I'm handling this my way....at least until the power went out....Don't suppose you know where I can find a new battery or something to get this thing to recharge, do ya?"

Yzak more or less ignored everything he said and asked for, focusing on simply one thing.

"And where do you think you'd go after launching? Weren't you paying any attention to that voice when you woke up?"

Right, the voice, the one he heard when he woke up. Aside from that, Judau had little to go on as to what was really happening, save for things he had overheard others talking about. Thinking about such facts wasn't possible for him, not in his current state of mind anyway.

"Yeah, well, didn't exactly get a lot of info when I first woke up, and not a lot of people are chatty," he replied. "Besides, it's not like I'd be gone forever. The ZZ doesn't have an infinite energy source ya know."

Opening the cockpit at long last, Judau reluctantly stepped out of his Gundam. With it powerless, there was nothing more he could do except what he hated doing the most: waiting. At least now he could gather some information, the correct way this time.

"As much as I can gather, people's worlds are gone, the people they know are either gone or sleeping down in that cave-lab thingy, and we're supposed be what? Champions of justice or something?" he asked. "Anything I am missing, aside from the weird suit?"

"This ship is traveling between universes, a good portion of the time. It wouldn't be a very good idea to try and launch off of the ship while it's doing that. Unless your mobile suit also has an ability like that."

And just like that, Judau's hopes had crashed into the ground, burning into ashes once that fact sunk in. The ZZ certainly did not have any such capabilities, though now he wished it did.

"Well isn't that just great," he replied, frowning. Then he stared back at his mobile suit; well, at least he still had something to do here while he waited for future events, as if he had a choice. "Guess me and the ZZ are grounded for now, huh?"

For longer than you think, Yzak thought, crossing his arms and giving the ZZ a look over.

"Get down here and I'll explain some things to you."

Judau shrugged, as if he had anything better to do, and he needed some answers ASAP. "Alright, whatever. Think we can do this over a nice hot--"

He began his descent by stepping further away from the cockpit, right onto the ZZ's extra armor plate. Something shook, giving Judau some cause for alarm. Another second, and the armor had suddenly become loose, slipping off the mobile suit! Panicking, Judau leapt back onto his mobile suit, allowing the armor to fall below, right near Yzak!

"Look out!" he shouted.

WAY TO GO JUDAU. Thankfully for him, Yzak's Coordinator reflexes and speed let him jump away from the falling armor before it hit him in any way. What kind of mobile suit lost its armor from something hardly touching it?!

"W-WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"

Judau had been wondering the same exact question himself. Curiosity getting the better of him, he inspected another blue armor plate near the chest. Seeing it up close had not eased his mind, only causing more problems for him.

"Damn armor wasn't set right!" he replied, a bit angry as well. "Man, first no power, and now the extra armor is loose too!? Sheesh, if I had flown, the ZZ might have tripped in this place!"

Realizing what had transpired moments ago, Judau looked over back at Yzak, noticing he was none to pleased. The young Newtype still smiled, chuckling a bit while scratching the back of his head; oh he had no doubts he was in for an earful. "But hey...you are alive! That's good, right?"

"NO THAT'S NOT GOOD WHEN THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Yzak's voice echoed through the hangar.

"What, are all mobile suits where you some from this flimsy?! That's not going to be any help for us at all!"

Judau glared at Yzak for the latter comment. "Two things, pal. First, these are just the extra armor plates, so the ZZ can still function," he corrected. "Plus, I wasn't the idiot that decided to stop working on the Gundam! Second, I think you might need anger management. Not even Bright and Roux combined can out yell ya."

"You try being happy when you have falling armor almost crushing you!"

He crossed his arms and huffed. "Who's the idiot who decided to stop working on it, then?"

"Please! Try a mountain of junk the size of ten battleships, and then talk to me about being near-death experiences with metal!" he countered, already recalling in his mind of such events happening; another one of the reasons he had wanted to work with Beecha less and less back in those days.

"Well, I did have some mechanics working on this thing, but...well..." Judau scratched the back of his head, being reminded why he could help out himself. After such an event and battle, he had hardly been in the condition to do anything for a good while. "Forget it. Let's just say I was too busy before getting backed up into that little pod."

"My point still stands. It's not something to smile about after the fact!" He sideglanced at the piece of armor. "Thankfully we don't have idiots like that here - our mechanic isn't the type to just stop."

"Well that's good, even if they didn't adjust it while I was trapped in those pods." Seconds later, Judau's eyebrow rose. If there had been a mechanic dealing with Gundams, there had only been one man he knew of to do the job. "Wait, who is the mechanic here anyway? Is his name Astonaige?"

Yzak gave him a look. And even without his words, the look alone said that he had no idea who Judau was talking about. "No. It's a guy named Lowe."

"Oh yeah, I think I met him earlier," he replied. "Though to be honest, not much. Ah well, just hand me some tools and I can fix this thing myself. Something to charge the power back up too, or this baby won't even move a finger anymore."

The latest improvements to the Freedom's OS seemed to be working fine - Kira had been about to leave the cockpit and power everything down when one of the sensors lit up. Another one of the mobile suits in the hangar was being activated? He quickly scanned the cavernous vehicle bay, looking for the one that was powering up and finally seeing one that he didn't remember being there before...

...but then as quickly as it had powered on, it powered off again. Kira blinked, a bit puzzled... and then headed in that direction to investigate.

Judau growled, slamming his hands on top of the controls. The one chance to get out of here had been gone just like that, and there was no telling if the other Gundams were even powered as well. With a frustrated sigh, Judau got up and out of the cockpit. All this thing needed was a good recharge, and maybe it could finally be up and running once more.

There was just one problem with that...

Looking around the cavernous hangar, he realized what that problem had been. "Okay...The one time science class could have come in handy...Great."

Kira jogged through the vehicles in the bay until he reached the unfamiliar mobile suit. Like Setsuna's and Duo's, it was in full color - did that mean it didn't have Phase Shift capabilities? Either that, or it simply wasn't from his world (arguably the more likely explanation, given the unfamiliar design).

There was a figure up by the cockpit, a young man he didn't recognize.

"Hello?" He called up. "What are you doing?"

Broken from his thoughts, Judau looked down at the source of the voice. Plans were certainly shot down, though maybe he could at least recharge the ZZ Gundam.

"I was trying to start up the ZZ to get out of here," he replied, looking back at his Gundam before sighing heavily. "Yeah, that plan ain't gonna happen now. Got a spare battery or something to charge it back up?"

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