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ON: YSS Senbu
The lift that Masako was waiting to get on was taking an extra long time to get there. Unbeknownst to Masako, some Neko with too much free time from Deck 1 had pushed every button on the lift all the way up to 28 and the lift was just now getting back to normal. The indicator above the lift indicated that the lift had just stopped on the floor above on it's way to Deck 24, and would soon be stopping there as well. As Masako waited Kuriko stiffly walked up next to Masako. What I wouldn't give for a massage. Kuriko thought as she felt soreness all over her body.
"Hmm?" Masako glanced over at Kuriko when she shuffled up next to her to await the elevator. She looked worn out and stiffer than a board stuck in durandium, a thought that made the neko giggle softly. "Hello." she said politely and bowed her head a little, brushing her bangs out of her eyes as the blue hues discreetly examined Kuriko's form as if remembering her appearance. "You ok? You look like you just got up after a 13 hour nap on a hard floor..."
Kuriko looked up to Masako. "Sumimasen." Kuriko said as she forced a smile on her face. The neko in front of her had a rather large bust, which although odd, didn't bother kuriko at this time. "I'll be fine, it's just been....rough. How about you?"
I'm still trying to calm my nerves down. That last sortie was my first experience in spatial combat and using a mindy..." Masako admitted, brushing her fingers through her hair and blushed a bit. "You were out in that too weren't you?" she asked curiously. "I was going to get some ice cream to help me out, care to come with?"
Kuriko nodded in confirmation to Masako, "Yea, we were deployed. We didn't see as much direct combat as everyone else though." Kuriko replied just as the lift arrived. "Sure, I have to fill out some reports soon but sure, let's get some ice cream, I could use the chance to relax." Kuriko said before stepping onto the lift.
Masako snickered a bit and stepped into the lift with her and nodded. "I didn't see any real combat either, I got stuck shooting down LAMIA units with Vermillion." She said with a bit of a sigh. "But it was something at least, took out one of their squad commanders." Masako said and watched her, gauging her reaction. "But past that, what's your favorite flavor?"
"I've never really had ice cream before, so I don't really know." Kuriko responded, "Don't sound so sad about shooting down the LAMIAs, if it weren't for you guys the mission would have been a lot harder." Kuriko said.
"I'm not really sad about it, just it stirred me up is all. And you haven't?" Masako blinked. "Wow, then you're in for a surprise." She said and had the lift head for the appropriate deck to get to the wardroom/messhall. "My name's Masako by the way, I just transferred here."
"I'm Kuriko, it's nice to meet you Masako-san." Kuriko replied. "How do you like the Senbu so far?" Kuriko asked the pilot beside her.
"I'm not too sure, it's a huge ship so I'm finding myself getting lost easily." Masako admitted and blushed a bit at the admission. "What do you think about it?" she continued, referring to the Senbu. "What's the people like here? Nice..duty-bound... mean or what?"
"That's a tough question, it's a pretty big ship and there are bound to be many of different kinds of people. For the most part though, I'd say they're pretty nice." Kuriko replied as the lift stopped to let people on at deck 20, right before 19 where the qaurters and mess were located.
"hmm?" Masako looked at the number for the deck. "... looks like someone else might get on here too." She said said and nodded to her. "Then I'm glad I got assigned here, it should be fun."
A few nekos and a male Yamataian shuffled onto the lift before the doors shut. "You said you're assigned to Vermillion Wing?" Kuriko asked Masako as the lift started downward again.
"Well it was just temporary. The commander said that I had potential and might see more action but in red and gold..." Masako said after gretting the new comers onto the lift and scooted closer to Kuriko, bumping elbows a bit. "I don't know where he meant though."
Kuriko's ears twitched when she heard 'red and gold', "Well there is a Wing that's colors are red and gold, maybe he meant that?" Kuriko suggested, deciding to not mention that it was the same wing she was assigned to just yet.
"Probably so, I'd imagine in the context that it would be. But I dunno why he said it, I almost took out half the wing when I accidentally discharged my positron rifle..." Masako said, rubbing the back of her head. "How many wings are there on the ship?"
The lift came to a halt and the Yamataian and one of the other nekos also got out on Deck 19, "This is our stop." Kuriko said as she started out of the lift. What Masako had said about accidentally discharging rifle and almost taking out half her wing worried Kuriko, but she decided to answer the last question before asking her own. "I think there are 4 wings." Kuriko replied as she looked up the information about the wings.
"Hmm.." Masako said as they stepped off the lift when it was their turn. She could look up the necessary informationa bit later on but it was better to socialize and try to make friends at the moment. But that accident was just that really, it hadn't happened again and in fact she'd helped bolster the wings performance by her little promises or hints. "Ah I'll probalby find out eventually, I plan to do a few training sims for piloting power armors better after I get some rest. It's been a long day."
The pair walked for a little ways before finally getting to one of the mess halls. "Do you think they'll have ice cream here?" Kuriko asked Masako, unsure if she might need to go a different mess hall.
"I'm not too sure but I've heard that our ships tend to have a little of everything, we'd just have to request it from the galley. If they don't have it, I can make some." Masako smiled a bit and looked in and searched for the galley cook. "I still think you'll like it."
Kuriko nodded and decided to follow the neko around. The cook wasn't too hard to find, it was a neko who was in the middle of the food preperation area who looked like she knew what everyone else was doing. Occasionally she'd disappear out of sight as she walked deeper into the area to see what someone was doing, but for the most part she stood in an entry way so that she could see into both the food serving area and the food preperation area at the same time.
Masako smiled at Kuriko and turned to the cook and politely asked if she had any orange or chocolate ice cream in the freezer. (waiting on a response from that)
The cook nodded and disappeared for a second before coming back with two bowls full of ice cream. "Here you go, hun." the neko said as she handed the bowls to Masako.
She smiled at her and handed a frosty bowl to Kuriko and lead the girl to sit down at a table and took her spoon and smiled. "Go ahead, try it out but it's very cold." Masako warned her new friend.
Kuriko sat down, happy to be off of her feet and dipped her spoon into the chocalaty dish and scooped a bite into her mouth. The food was cold, as was expected, and had an odd texture to it, but what really made Kuriko happy was the taste. It tasted like milk chocalate, just more liquidy and cold. For a few seconds the neko happily sucked on the end of the spoon before going in a second scoop. "Ne, this is pretty good Masako-san." Kuriko said before biting into the frozen dish again. "How old are you Masako-san?" Kuriko asked between bites two and three.
Masako giggled a bit, having already taken a spoonful of her own orange sherbert ice cream and was sitting there with a goofy kitty grin (the =3), and blinked for a moment. "It's conventional feel-good food." she said and blinked. "In body or mind? I'm one of the people that had to transfer bodies due to the species restriction act." the blonde explained, taking another bite of the creamy dessert. "I'm 19 chronologically, but my body's only 5 months old." She said, playing wth the gold locket around her neck subconsciously, makng it gleam in the light.
Kuriko thought about that. The species restriction act was something she had learned about, as sociologically it's impacts were very far reaching. "That must have been frustrating." Kuriko sympathized with the neko. "Were you Geshrin then?" she asked cautiosly, not wanting to possibly offend the woman.
"Yes I was." Masako said, without seeming to take offense to it and was in fact, purring like a neko would. "It wasn't really because it helped me out, for a long time I had...self-esteem issues and was pushed around many as a child." Masako said. "But I chose to change so I could at least protect my twin sister if I had to, even if we do fight many." she said. "So my reason went far past the act itself. How about you? How old are you if you don't mind my asking."
Kuriko nodded as she listened to the Geshrin's past. "Saa....I'm only a few months myself, almost seven months actually." Kuriko replied as she thought about how long she had been alive. "What do you hope to do while here on the Senbu?" Kuriko asked before scooping into the icecream like she had never eaten before.
"Hmm that's a good question..." Masako said, eating a couple more scoops of her ice cream. "Well I want to make friends for one....never really had many of them, they all seemed to prefer my sister over me." she said, subconsciously still comparing herself to Lucy. "And I want to learn stuff I didn't know before of course." the blonde admitted.
Kuriko smiled, "Well, you've already made one friend, and you'll do plenty of learning I think." Kuriko replied as she tried to scrape up the last parts of her icecream that she so quickly devoured.
Masako smiled at her and blinked, surprised. "Wow you inhaled that... why not get some more, try it with banana slices in it and whipped cream." she laughed softly and winked. "it's heavenly." she pointed out to her friend. "And that makes me happy to hear."
Kuriko thought for a second, the indecision on her face. To get more ice cream, or not to get more ice cream. The neko was torn, oh how she craved the sweet and delicious nature of this newly discovered food, but at the same time she had other things she needed to take care of as well. Finally one side one out and the nekos ears drooped slightly. "I should, but if I don't get started on this paperwork and stuff I won't have time to check in on some other people first." Kuriko said as she glanced away from the ice cream bowl and looked at Masako. "Arigatou Masako-san!" Kuriko said as her ears slid up. "You made me feel much better."
"Do you mind if I go with you?" Masako asked, finishing her own bowl up quickly and acked. "Nyaaaaaaaah brain freeze." she pouted, putting her hand to her forehead and stood up, her big breasts bouncing a bit as she jolted. When it passed, she shook her head and nodded to her. "I'm glad I could make you feel better, and I don't want to impose but it's better to walk around with someone who knows the ship than get lost for hours." she chuckled.
"You're more than welcome to come, but it's just paperwork for now." Kuriko said as she stood. Kuriko honestly had no clue what paperwork she would even have to do, but she imagined that it would be something related to the mission, and probably performance evaluations of those under her. "My rooms not that far away so you won't really be able to see too much of the ship by following me." Kuriko said simply.
"Oh... well that sounds boring." Masako stuck her tongue out a bit and chuckled softly. "I never did like doing paperwork but it would have to be done but you could probably speed it up by feeding it through the logs of the AIES systems linked to the AI of the ship itself. that way it'd be correct." she said.
"Maybe, but that seems too cold." Kuriko said. "Logs don't take everything into account, they don't account for personality, they lack emotion." Kuriko replied.
"Hmm well that's true." Masako said. "Efficiency is often the bane of emotional input." she said. "I wish I could help but I wasn't there."
Kuriko chuckled, "Oh you were there. Just in a different area that's all." Kuriko replied. "Well, either way the offer to join me still is open if you feel like it."
Masako nodded and went with her. "It'd be interesting to see how it'd done." she said and walked with her. "I don't have too much to do really until I get called to meet the brass." she responded
"Oh? You get to meet the 'brass'?" Kuriko's eyebrows raised as she spoke. "Why do you need to see them?" Kuriko asked curiously.
"Well I was told before I left to at least seek them out for official assignment." Masako said. "My previous commander was a bit..rough around the edges and not overly formal."
"I think you'll like Shizuka-Shosa." Kuriko said before turning to leave. "As for the paperwork, I agree, it will be interesting to see how it's done." After she finished speaking the Heisho started to walk away, but not so fast as to indicate that she'd like to be alone.
END
The lift that Masako was waiting to get on was taking an extra long time to get there. Unbeknownst to Masako, some Neko with too much free time from Deck 1 had pushed every button on the lift all the way up to 28 and the lift was just now getting back to normal. The indicator above the lift indicated that the lift had just stopped on the floor above on it's way to Deck 24, and would soon be stopping there as well. As Masako waited Kuriko stiffly walked up next to Masako. What I wouldn't give for a massage. Kuriko thought as she felt soreness all over her body.
"Hmm?" Masako glanced over at Kuriko when she shuffled up next to her to await the elevator. She looked worn out and stiffer than a board stuck in durandium, a thought that made the neko giggle softly. "Hello." she said politely and bowed her head a little, brushing her bangs out of her eyes as the blue hues discreetly examined Kuriko's form as if remembering her appearance. "You ok? You look like you just got up after a 13 hour nap on a hard floor..."
Kuriko looked up to Masako. "Sumimasen." Kuriko said as she forced a smile on her face. The neko in front of her had a rather large bust, which although odd, didn't bother kuriko at this time. "I'll be fine, it's just been....rough. How about you?"
I'm still trying to calm my nerves down. That last sortie was my first experience in spatial combat and using a mindy..." Masako admitted, brushing her fingers through her hair and blushed a bit. "You were out in that too weren't you?" she asked curiously. "I was going to get some ice cream to help me out, care to come with?"
Kuriko nodded in confirmation to Masako, "Yea, we were deployed. We didn't see as much direct combat as everyone else though." Kuriko replied just as the lift arrived. "Sure, I have to fill out some reports soon but sure, let's get some ice cream, I could use the chance to relax." Kuriko said before stepping onto the lift.
Masako snickered a bit and stepped into the lift with her and nodded. "I didn't see any real combat either, I got stuck shooting down LAMIA units with Vermillion." She said with a bit of a sigh. "But it was something at least, took out one of their squad commanders." Masako said and watched her, gauging her reaction. "But past that, what's your favorite flavor?"
"I've never really had ice cream before, so I don't really know." Kuriko responded, "Don't sound so sad about shooting down the LAMIAs, if it weren't for you guys the mission would have been a lot harder." Kuriko said.
"I'm not really sad about it, just it stirred me up is all. And you haven't?" Masako blinked. "Wow, then you're in for a surprise." She said and had the lift head for the appropriate deck to get to the wardroom/messhall. "My name's Masako by the way, I just transferred here."
"I'm Kuriko, it's nice to meet you Masako-san." Kuriko replied. "How do you like the Senbu so far?" Kuriko asked the pilot beside her.
"I'm not too sure, it's a huge ship so I'm finding myself getting lost easily." Masako admitted and blushed a bit at the admission. "What do you think about it?" she continued, referring to the Senbu. "What's the people like here? Nice..duty-bound... mean or what?"
"That's a tough question, it's a pretty big ship and there are bound to be many of different kinds of people. For the most part though, I'd say they're pretty nice." Kuriko replied as the lift stopped to let people on at deck 20, right before 19 where the qaurters and mess were located.
"hmm?" Masako looked at the number for the deck. "... looks like someone else might get on here too." She said said and nodded to her. "Then I'm glad I got assigned here, it should be fun."
A few nekos and a male Yamataian shuffled onto the lift before the doors shut. "You said you're assigned to Vermillion Wing?" Kuriko asked Masako as the lift started downward again.
"Well it was just temporary. The commander said that I had potential and might see more action but in red and gold..." Masako said after gretting the new comers onto the lift and scooted closer to Kuriko, bumping elbows a bit. "I don't know where he meant though."
Kuriko's ears twitched when she heard 'red and gold', "Well there is a Wing that's colors are red and gold, maybe he meant that?" Kuriko suggested, deciding to not mention that it was the same wing she was assigned to just yet.
"Probably so, I'd imagine in the context that it would be. But I dunno why he said it, I almost took out half the wing when I accidentally discharged my positron rifle..." Masako said, rubbing the back of her head. "How many wings are there on the ship?"
The lift came to a halt and the Yamataian and one of the other nekos also got out on Deck 19, "This is our stop." Kuriko said as she started out of the lift. What Masako had said about accidentally discharging rifle and almost taking out half her wing worried Kuriko, but she decided to answer the last question before asking her own. "I think there are 4 wings." Kuriko replied as she looked up the information about the wings.
"Hmm.." Masako said as they stepped off the lift when it was their turn. She could look up the necessary informationa bit later on but it was better to socialize and try to make friends at the moment. But that accident was just that really, it hadn't happened again and in fact she'd helped bolster the wings performance by her little promises or hints. "Ah I'll probalby find out eventually, I plan to do a few training sims for piloting power armors better after I get some rest. It's been a long day."
The pair walked for a little ways before finally getting to one of the mess halls. "Do you think they'll have ice cream here?" Kuriko asked Masako, unsure if she might need to go a different mess hall.
"I'm not too sure but I've heard that our ships tend to have a little of everything, we'd just have to request it from the galley. If they don't have it, I can make some." Masako smiled a bit and looked in and searched for the galley cook. "I still think you'll like it."
Kuriko nodded and decided to follow the neko around. The cook wasn't too hard to find, it was a neko who was in the middle of the food preperation area who looked like she knew what everyone else was doing. Occasionally she'd disappear out of sight as she walked deeper into the area to see what someone was doing, but for the most part she stood in an entry way so that she could see into both the food serving area and the food preperation area at the same time.
Masako smiled at Kuriko and turned to the cook and politely asked if she had any orange or chocolate ice cream in the freezer. (waiting on a response from that)
The cook nodded and disappeared for a second before coming back with two bowls full of ice cream. "Here you go, hun." the neko said as she handed the bowls to Masako.
She smiled at her and handed a frosty bowl to Kuriko and lead the girl to sit down at a table and took her spoon and smiled. "Go ahead, try it out but it's very cold." Masako warned her new friend.
Kuriko sat down, happy to be off of her feet and dipped her spoon into the chocalaty dish and scooped a bite into her mouth. The food was cold, as was expected, and had an odd texture to it, but what really made Kuriko happy was the taste. It tasted like milk chocalate, just more liquidy and cold. For a few seconds the neko happily sucked on the end of the spoon before going in a second scoop. "Ne, this is pretty good Masako-san." Kuriko said before biting into the frozen dish again. "How old are you Masako-san?" Kuriko asked between bites two and three.
Masako giggled a bit, having already taken a spoonful of her own orange sherbert ice cream and was sitting there with a goofy kitty grin (the =3), and blinked for a moment. "It's conventional feel-good food." she said and blinked. "In body or mind? I'm one of the people that had to transfer bodies due to the species restriction act." the blonde explained, taking another bite of the creamy dessert. "I'm 19 chronologically, but my body's only 5 months old." She said, playing wth the gold locket around her neck subconsciously, makng it gleam in the light.
Kuriko thought about that. The species restriction act was something she had learned about, as sociologically it's impacts were very far reaching. "That must have been frustrating." Kuriko sympathized with the neko. "Were you Geshrin then?" she asked cautiosly, not wanting to possibly offend the woman.
"Yes I was." Masako said, without seeming to take offense to it and was in fact, purring like a neko would. "It wasn't really because it helped me out, for a long time I had...self-esteem issues and was pushed around many as a child." Masako said. "But I chose to change so I could at least protect my twin sister if I had to, even if we do fight many." she said. "So my reason went far past the act itself. How about you? How old are you if you don't mind my asking."
Kuriko nodded as she listened to the Geshrin's past. "Saa....I'm only a few months myself, almost seven months actually." Kuriko replied as she thought about how long she had been alive. "What do you hope to do while here on the Senbu?" Kuriko asked before scooping into the icecream like she had never eaten before.
"Hmm that's a good question..." Masako said, eating a couple more scoops of her ice cream. "Well I want to make friends for one....never really had many of them, they all seemed to prefer my sister over me." she said, subconsciously still comparing herself to Lucy. "And I want to learn stuff I didn't know before of course." the blonde admitted.
Kuriko smiled, "Well, you've already made one friend, and you'll do plenty of learning I think." Kuriko replied as she tried to scrape up the last parts of her icecream that she so quickly devoured.
Masako smiled at her and blinked, surprised. "Wow you inhaled that... why not get some more, try it with banana slices in it and whipped cream." she laughed softly and winked. "it's heavenly." she pointed out to her friend. "And that makes me happy to hear."
Kuriko thought for a second, the indecision on her face. To get more ice cream, or not to get more ice cream. The neko was torn, oh how she craved the sweet and delicious nature of this newly discovered food, but at the same time she had other things she needed to take care of as well. Finally one side one out and the nekos ears drooped slightly. "I should, but if I don't get started on this paperwork and stuff I won't have time to check in on some other people first." Kuriko said as she glanced away from the ice cream bowl and looked at Masako. "Arigatou Masako-san!" Kuriko said as her ears slid up. "You made me feel much better."
"Do you mind if I go with you?" Masako asked, finishing her own bowl up quickly and acked. "Nyaaaaaaaah brain freeze." she pouted, putting her hand to her forehead and stood up, her big breasts bouncing a bit as she jolted. When it passed, she shook her head and nodded to her. "I'm glad I could make you feel better, and I don't want to impose but it's better to walk around with someone who knows the ship than get lost for hours." she chuckled.
"You're more than welcome to come, but it's just paperwork for now." Kuriko said as she stood. Kuriko honestly had no clue what paperwork she would even have to do, but she imagined that it would be something related to the mission, and probably performance evaluations of those under her. "My rooms not that far away so you won't really be able to see too much of the ship by following me." Kuriko said simply.
"Oh... well that sounds boring." Masako stuck her tongue out a bit and chuckled softly. "I never did like doing paperwork but it would have to be done but you could probably speed it up by feeding it through the logs of the AIES systems linked to the AI of the ship itself. that way it'd be correct." she said.
"Maybe, but that seems too cold." Kuriko said. "Logs don't take everything into account, they don't account for personality, they lack emotion." Kuriko replied.
"Hmm well that's true." Masako said. "Efficiency is often the bane of emotional input." she said. "I wish I could help but I wasn't there."
Kuriko chuckled, "Oh you were there. Just in a different area that's all." Kuriko replied. "Well, either way the offer to join me still is open if you feel like it."
Masako nodded and went with her. "It'd be interesting to see how it'd done." she said and walked with her. "I don't have too much to do really until I get called to meet the brass." she responded
"Oh? You get to meet the 'brass'?" Kuriko's eyebrows raised as she spoke. "Why do you need to see them?" Kuriko asked curiously.
"Well I was told before I left to at least seek them out for official assignment." Masako said. "My previous commander was a bit..rough around the edges and not overly formal."
"I think you'll like Shizuka-Shosa." Kuriko said before turning to leave. "As for the paperwork, I agree, it will be interesting to see how it's done." After she finished speaking the Heisho started to walk away, but not so fast as to indicate that she'd like to be alone.
END
