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RP: ISC Phoenix [Prologue, Kyoto] - Roping together

Jim remembered back to a few days before when he was still in the military in the 5th fleet. He enjoyed it, but it got stale after the first year. There seemed to be no glory for him as an individual. Instead, when the ship won a victory, they were all praised. He sill enjoyed doing what he was trained to do however.

"I'm a combat medic, I can rough it up then patch it up afterwards. I am also an accomplished chemist and can make a medicine as easily as I can make a bomb. So, am I in?"
 
Hitori smirked again as she continued to advise Luca, "A medic, let alone a bomb-maker, could be a quite useful tool." She waited for Luca's decision.
 
Luca listened intently to Jimmy, then thought for a moment...
Lets see, there's me, the team leader... Luca considered when he looked at Jimmy, Hitori, the brains of the group and finally, Jimmy, who is a medic and bomb maker... I think we have a match.

Then Luca gave Jimmy an enthusiastic thumbs up and shook Jimmy's hand vigorously, "Consider yourself in, Jimmy!"

Suddenly, the shuttle began to start up. The engines were warming up as the pilot's voice resounded over the communicators, "All right folks, this shuttle is heading to Ralt," The pilot's voice sounded female and weary, "The trip should take around 4 hours... this shuttle goes at about 150 MPH... So sit back, enjoy the ride, do something amongst yourselves..."
Then the shuttle took flight with a few bumps, but nothing too serious.

Then arose the question in Luca's energetic mind, "...what are we going to do for 4 hours?"
 
Jim smiled and shook Luca's hand, glad to be a part of their adventure, whatever it may turn out to be. The two seemed like they were interesting people, to say the least.

When the pilot told them it would br four whole hours until they reached Ralt and there was apparently nothing to do, Jimothi started shuffling through his carry-on bag. After a fair bit of searching, he produced a deck of playing cards, obviously well played– the edges were bent from use. "So," Jim asked, "what game are we up for?"
 
"Cards eh?" Luca said as he examined the deck of cards, "Hmm... how about Texas Hold 'em? Or Indian Head Poker?" Then he leant over to Hitori, "Hey Hitori, you interested?"
 
Hitori shrugged silently. She wasn't much of a card player, but she didn't like the idea of having nothing to do for four hours.
 
Jim shuffled the cards with some skill and dealt the cards. Then he asked, "You two any good? I'm not all that good, but I can hold my own."
 
"I'm a blunder when it comes to cards," Luca simply confessed, "but I do like to play if there's nothing at stake."
 
Jim laughed at this and said, "I never bet anything either, a favor once or twice, but that's about the extent of it. How about you, Hitori?
 
Hitori smirked and replied, "Sometimes, playing cards is an excellent way to... 'learn' things. I expect no trouble at all." She had a confident look in her face as she watched both men carefully.
 
"All right then Jimmy," Luca commanded, "Deal the cards."

So Luca, Jimmy and Hitori played around 20 hands of Poker, Jimmy won a fair bit, Hitori managed to sneak a few victories, and Luca had his lucky breaks every now and again.

About an hour and a bit had passed before they decided to stop playing. Luca took a look at his communicator and flipped it open to see the time. It read 12:06 AM YST.

Then he decided to see if there was anything interesting on the Communicator, so he began to search through it, and found some pre-installed games on it, such as Mishhu Invaders, Galaxy Adventure and Neko no Oden.
"Hey guys, look at this," Luca said as he gestured towards his communicator, "There are games on this thing."
 
Jim looked over at it and burst out laughing at the absurdity of the game: Misshu invaders. "I can't believe that they included the laugh!" He imitated, "Heu heu heu heu!!"

"You have to let me have a go at it after you." Jim said.
 
"Yeah yeah, hold on!" Said Luca as he kept on playing the game.

On screen was a Neko armed with what appeared to be an SMG which never seemed to run out of ammo. She bore striking resemblance to Ketsurui Hanako. Around her was a somewhat apocalyptic landscape, which looked as though it had just been sent to hell and pulled back out. Enemies on screen were mainly Mishhu in power armour and by themselves. It was also possible to rescue hostages dotted around the landscape.

And Luca was having a ball playing this game, until his little Neko character ran out of health. A game over screen came up with "Game Over! The Mishhu have won" and the sounds of "HEU HEU HEU HEU!"

"Okay, your turn," Luca told Jimmy as he passed over the handheld game, "Use this button to jump, this one to shoot and this one to throw a grenade."
 
Hitori smirked as the two "men" played with their toys. She busied herself searching for any secret compartments within the shuttle. She doubted that she'd find anything, but at least it kept her occupied.
 
Jim was engrossed in the game, occasionally breaking out into a smile when the evil laugh of the Misshu floated out of the communicator. He pushed the buttons and completed level after level, but soon his health bar was reduced to zero just as Luca's was. Jim handed the communicator back to Luca and thanked him.
 
Luca was happy to see that Jim was enjoying himself. He then closed the game and opened up the application named "Galaxy Adventure", it appeared to be a role-playing-game of some sort, which you could make your own character and make it's way through the Universe as a hero.

So Luca created a character who looked similar to it's maker. He wielded a large sword, along with a shotgun.
"Hmm, this game uses that RPG system that's used for that popular game on the market..." Luca pondered for a moment, but couldn't figure it out. He turned to his companion, "Jimmy, what's that game called? I can't remember it."

As Luca was looking at Jimmy, he noticed Hitori searching about the shuttle, "Hey Hitori, whatchya looking for?"
 
Hitori shrugged, replying, "I'm trying to find any secret compartments... you know, like smugglers prefer to use to hide their goods." She gave up her search and sat next to Luca.
 
Jim responded to Luca's question, "I think its called 'One Last Adventure'. I Think it's on its 12th game by now?" He shrugged. Jim had played one of the series, but since he had joined the military, he had had no spare time to go back to gaming. However, he had heard that this game was coming out somewhere along the way.

"May I create a character?" Jim said after about 45 minutes.
 
"Heh, well we aren't going to use this clunker of a shuttle any day soon!" Luca told Hitori as he put a hand on her back.

"Hey! I heard that!" The pilot's voice yelled from his cabin, "Don't blame me! Blame the Military! They sold us these things!"

Luca quirked for a moment before responding. Maybe the pilot was right about one thing, but she was a bit wrong for saying it. To which, Luca simply said: "...Right..."

Luca then turned to Jimmy, "Sure, let me save my game first." Luca's little character was busy running about doing good deeds for the universe, such as fighting Mishhu, saving planets from semi-certain destruction as well as having some fun, coin and sweeping girls off their feet along the way. Then his character was taking a rest in a pub on a planet somewhere. That's when Luca was able to save his game. "Okay, your turn," Luca said as he passed it over to Jimmy.

The Clock on the communicator read "12:53" YST. About two hours left till the trip finished.
 
Jimothi took his turn saving the universe, killing misshu, and making a name for himself among the heroes of the land. He also had his share of damsels in distress and saved every one. He was in the middle of a particularly hard dungeon when the game paused itself and a message came up showing that the user had a message. The sender was identified as Galar Vanatosk.

Jim without opening the message said to Luca, "You seem to have a message from someone named Galar." He then handed the communicator back to Luca.
 
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