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And let there be scrap! [OPEN]

While most people would have been on Shore Leave and head down to the planet, Hilde had decided to go and explore the ship. She had a lot to figure out and she wondered just what kind of places there were. The city had been a sight to see. She had spent a day just exploring that while Duo had gone down to the planet. She hadn't seen a whole lot of him since she first arrived, since he chose to sleep in his Gundam. She didn't think the cockpit of that Taurus unit was that comfortable.

This was her second day of exploring and she was on the outer edges of the city when she spotted something familiar. It looked like a pile of scrap metal piled up about a foot above a fence. She decided to take a closer look.

Once she got closer she realized why it seemed rather familiar. It was her scrap yard. It was separated into different sections by fences and one of them had two buildings, one that served as an office to the yard and the other as her house.

She couldn't help herself and ran back to the hangar to find a certain braided pilot.

"Duo! Duo!" she called out, knowing that he'd hear her.

(OOC: The post is open to anyone wanting to find her in the scrap yard, but one thread is going to be her dragging Duo back to it. Feel free to tag once she gets back in!)

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Having been busy rummaging through the piles of parts he'd brought back from shore leave, Duo perked when he heard his name being shouted across the hangar, the owner of the voice not far behind.

"Huh? Whatcha in such a hurry about?" He quirked a brow up at her from his place on the ground in front of Deathscythe, surrounded by junk, a few more pieces in-hand.

"You have to come with me Duo. My salvage yard, it's here!" She said, not yet caring that he had spent a lot of money on various junk. The excitement of actually having her yard and her house back had excited her too much. "You have to come with me."

Duo spent a good 5 seconds staring at Hilde as if she'd grown a couple of new heads before giving a look of disbelief. "Here? But- how!?"

He pushed some of the junk out of the way, rolling up to his feet and wiping his hands on his black overshirt. "You sure you're not just.. Iunno, seeing things? You didn't walk into the Sensoriums and see it, didja?"

"I didn't go to the Sensoriums. I was exploring the city and saw it on the outskirts. I'm not making this up, Duo," she said. She was tempted to just grab his wrist and drag him to the yard, but she wasn't that desperate yet. She knew that he would be excited to see it, once he thought it was real.

"I don't know how it's here, but it is."

He was still skeptical, but gave a shrug. "Well, lead the way. Might as well check it out if nothing else..."

Though... if it was in the City, that meant that other pieces of the Earth Sphere could have been dragged in there too, couldn't they? He made a mental note to explore around in there a bit later, to see if they could find anything else.

"Come on," she said and started off. She was excited to show him the yard. She had missed it. It was her business and her home. She had worked out of it before and after she had left OZ. It didn't take them that long to get to the part of the city where the yard was and once she was there, she stood by the office door.

"I couldn't believe it at first, but here it is."

Duo couldn't believe his eyes at first, but.. plain as day, there sat the old scrapyard they'd lived and worked in for the past year before he'd woken up on Stacy. Giving the yard a wide-eyed look around, he retraced all his usual steps around the yard, before joining her at the door to the house and office.

"Well, I'll be damned. Even the junk's still here, or some of it, anyway. Check inside the house yet?"

"I haven't looked around yet. I saw it was here and then came to find you," she said. She pushed open the door to the house, thankful it wasn't locked. She wouldn't have been able to have the key with her in the plantsuit.

"Everything seems to be the same."

"Jeez... wouldya lookit that..."

Duo scanned the room- it was as she said. Everything was more or less as untouched as when he'd last seen it, before he'd left to go find Heero upon intercepting the intel of the Barton Foundation's plans. He wandered over to the couch, flopping down and stretching.

"Home sweet home! ...Sorta. The power workin'?"

She flipped on a switch. Yep, the power was working. She watched him flop down like usual and smiled a bit. Now if only she could get him to do some actual work, but she wasn't going to push things.

"It seems that it is."

"Huh. TV?" He grabbed the remote and switched it on, but.. nothing but static.

"Ahh.. guess I shouldn't push my luck. Oh!" Leaping up from the couch, he jogged into the kitchen, swinging open the refrigerator door.

Like a kiddie on Christmas.

"BLT'S! Oh, how I missed you so!!" He cried, clutching a package of bacon.

She followed him into the kitchen and her hand promptly met her face. Oh Duo. She shook her head a little bit. She saw what passed for food in this place and it tasted nasty. She didn't know how people had survived in this place.

"Oh, Duo."

"Hey, don't judge! You ain't been eatin' slop for half a year," he pouted, returning the bacon to the refrigerator after pulling a strip out to munch on.

"We oughta go down to the surface and stock up on as much as we can fit in here that won't spoil too quick, whatcha think?"

"That sounds like a good idea. I'd rather not have to deal with what they consider food on this ship," she said, making a face. The food was gross. She didn't like it at all and she'd rather eat what she could in the house before trying to get the slop here.

"Well, if we can ration what we get for that long. Who knows when the next time'll be that we can make a planet pitstop for food, yanno?"

Then again, with Duo's background- he wasn't exactly picky. At least the slop was edible.

"While were here we might as well stock up on what we can. If we're careful we can make it last as long as possible," She looked in the freezer for a moment before looking back in his direction.

"But tonight, what do you say to some steak?"

"And in the meantime, take out every day!" Duo beamed happily. "Ahh, cheeseburgers, I can already smell your delicious grease..."

"Babe, that is music to my ears~" he called, wandering into the halls of the house towards his bedroom to make sure everything was in place where it should be- including his clothes.

Oh pants. He missed you so.

She laughed a little bit as she got the steaks out of the freezer so that they could get thawed out in order to be cooked for dinner. She heard him wandering around and vaguely wondered if her own clothes were still in her room.

Once she had things for dinner set up, she started to wander towards her own room so that she could see about getting changed as well. She started going through her closet, wondering what she would change into.

Tossing open his closet, Duo grinned as the scent of dead cow wafted out.

"Ahhh......"

Rifling through the hangars, he yanked out his moto jacket and a pair of black jeans, tossing them on his bed and then turning to pull off his overshirt and turtleneck. Sure, his garb would have to go on over his bodysuit, but it still felt more familiar to have them there.

Exploring the city has taken a back seat to things like, say, getting stuff on XaXing, running combat training, figuring out his way around, and that weird fantasy world mission. At least it hadn't been all bad... just mostly.

Still, he gets to it eventually.

Ruins... church thing... temple thing... ruins... hey... what's this? Ok, so its not Jack's scrapyard. That would be too much to hope for. But... its scrap metal, vehicle parts, wreckage, machines... total junkyard paradise.

Of course, he also smells someone... maybe a couple someone's around here, so someone else may have a first claim to all of the lovely discards... time to introduce himself and see if they can work out a deal.

He follows the scent through the yard to see who owns this little stretch of almost-familiar.

Hilde was just now coming out of the office, a smile on her face. She was glad to be able to see a bit of home again. She missed her yard and being able to do some normal work. The yard would be a good place for Duo to find some parts or anything he might need for Deathscythe as well.

Most of the scrap here was old mobile suit parts that were salvaged from the battles around her colonies. She hadn't noticed anyone else in the yard, but she didn't mind if anyone came to look at things.

As soon as he hears someone else entering the scrapyard proper, he makes himself known. "Hey, don't recognize what kind of parts these are, but you seem right at home. This place yours?"

"Most of them are military scrap from the mobile suit battles that had happened around the Colonies," she said, "And ya, this is my salvage yard."

"Its a nice place... haven't found the scrap yard from my own home. Don't suppose you might be willing to make a trade? Let me use some of the raw materials now and then for projects, and I'll give you some labor, heavy lifting, and access to stuff made from it. Most salvage projects aren't one person jobs, after all....oh, I'm Chase, by the way."

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