A frank exchange of opinions [closed]

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Allenby yanked the last of the wires out of Nobel Gundam's cockpit with a grunt and dropped them on the floor. She straightened up, looking down at the pile of circuits, transmitters, and wires that had once been the Berserker System.

"Sorry, Doctor Belliman," she said. "I know you spent a long time makin' this and all, but it never was any good." She did feel bad about that. The doctor was a nice guy, for all she hated his invention. But she doubted he'd disagree if he knew about this.

...Though he might disagree with this bit. She brought her foot up and slammed it down hard, and was rewarded with a very satisfying crunch. That was it for the Berserker System. Picking up the remains, she stomped out onto the cockpit door and looked around. "Anyone out there watch out!" she yelled, before hurling the pieces as hard as she could. She was a model of responsible Gundam maintenance, absolutely.

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[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Well then how are you gonna do it?!" she demanded.

[a_mere_human]

"Together. With my Gundam." He really can't explain it any better than that.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"What kind of an answer is that?!" Allenby threw her hands up into the air. Dammit! She wanted to pop him one again, because the way things were going nobody was going to understand anyone unless fists came into play.

"You can't go around saying, 'your Gundams are crap,'" she pitched her voice low in imitation there, "and then not even be able to explain why your way of usin' Gundams is better than everyone's!"

[a_mere_human]

He went back to being nonplussed by her anger.

"You'll understand eventually." Or she won't, and he might have to kill her. Either way, not everything could be put into words, or should be, for that matter.

Some things people had to experience for themselves first hand.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Oh for--!

"So until 'eventually' comes I gotta put up with you insultin' me and my Gundam and my friends that haven't hatched out of those pods yet?" She slammed her fist into her hand, as it was a better alternative to clocking him again. He looked like he was back in unresponsive snob mode.

"You come out with all this stuff about humans and choices and then you lock back up again, and you don't even do anything when I hit you! Why can't you try actually communicating something?!"

[a_mere_human]

"I did." Try communicating something. In his own special and indecipherable to most people way. And if she couldn't understand even that much, then there was little point in continuing the current conversation. Words would do him no good here.

So he started to walk past her.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Oh now that just wouldn't do at all. Allenby followed at once. "No ya didn't. You insulted me, then you started talkin' about war and humanity and now you're back to not sayin' nothing! I could get it if you'd fought back, but ya didn't even move!"

It was that which bothered Allenby the most. "If you're bad at communicating with words, why couldn't you try communicating with your fists?!"

[jesus_is_gundam]

"That's absurd." He uses knives, silly.

Though, truthfully, he had no reason to fight her, so he didn't fight her. There was really no greater reason than that.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"No it's not!" Yes it is, Setsuna, you've hit it right on the nose. "What's wrong with you! You talk real vague and you act like you don't get mad, but I just saw it! So howcome you won't show me your feelings in a fight!"

It made perfect sense to Allenby. Martial artists expressed their feelings to each other by using their fists.

[jesus_is_gundam]

Except Setsuna's not a martial artist. He's... well, a terrorist, really.

"That isn't my way of fighting."

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Then what is your way? You can't expect anyone to understand ya unless you can show them what you mean somehow."

It was too--what the hell was the word. Too vague. Allenby wanted details. "So you wanna stop humanity from fighting. And you do--armed interventions. That means when you catch people startin' a war you go in your Gundams to blow them up, right?"

That seemed to be the gist of what Feldt had told her, anyhow.

[a_mere_human]

She was persistent. But Setsuna could stonewall like nobody's business.

"Your point?"

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Just who were ya shootin' at when you intervened? The soldiers, or the people who started the wars in the first place?"

Setsuna might be able to stonewall, but Allenby was determined to get the full story out of him. If he thought he was so much better than she and her Earth were, he needed a damn good reason.

[a_mere_human]

He did have a damn good reason. Beyond the fact that her Gund Mobile Suit was hideous. He just couldn't articulate it.

"Whoever we needed to," was the cryptic answer she got back in response. She could make of that what she would.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"So if I ask ya if you'll mow down hundreds of people who are only there 'cause their governments made them be there, your answer's gonna be yes, and you think it's morally better to do that than the Gundam Fight," Allenby said flatly. "Well, if that's the case, you and your Gundam are both trash."

She meant it, but it'd be a lie to say that she wasn't also hoping that the insult to his Gundam would provoke him into another display of emotion, if not a punch of his own.

[a_mere_human]

Unfortunately, there was no such display of emotion. Mostly because he knew that no one really made those soldiers, the A-Laws, Katheron, or anyone else open fire on each other.

"Hate me if you want," he stated in the same empty monotone. "There's nothing I can say that'll change your mind on the matter." And for the moment, he was through trying.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Allenby stopped short. "I don't want to hate you," she said. There was a difference between not liking someone, even what was shaping up to be a really strong dislike, and hating. "That'd be dumb. We've all gotta restore Earth. What I don't get is why you think CB's got the only right way of usin' Gundams when it hurts people as much as any regular war!"

Setsuna might think he was through explaining, but Allenby could be very annoyingly persistent. "What happens after you intervene? Do you make the two sides talk to each other?"

[a_mere_human]

Setsuna didn't stop, and continued on, putting some much needed distance between them.

"We have our ways and we have our reasons. I doubt you'd understand."