Luca was upstairs, opening up the box for one of the bunks and laying the various metal pieces and parts down on the ground. He also found an instruction manual on how to assemble the thing and get a good night's sleep.
Niiice Luca thought as he tried to comprehend how to build the damned thing. His eardrums were still deafened by the blast at this point.
Mich was still somewhat on edge given his understable misunderstanding that the explosion meant that the base was under attack. He resented that this, and the shock, had made him forget he was drunk (which meant he had wasted a good deal of alcohol) and that he was probably going to get that peculiar inner ear pain he so often got after being nearly blown up. However he finished he set task of carrying some boxes and wondered when they would be getting to sleep - he of course only needed an area of a floor. Beds were for the the weak, or for those who could be bothered to set up a bed while tired.
Luca didn't seem to notice the footsteps of the other builders coming up the ladders to try and assemble everything else around him as he tried to fiddle with bed and figure where Part A slid into Part B.
Mich began to walk around the establishment leisurely looking to see if there was anything he could do to help. Otherwise they might begin to think that the ID-Sol could actually replace him, and that would never do.
Some of the builders decided to try and get the table for the study fixed up by giving it a 'leg up' and assembling the bookshelves. Downstairs in the kitchen, things seemed to be going smoothly with Crane keeping everything under control. The builders outside in the yard had finished making plans for the new hangar, and tried to get someone to move both of the shuttles so they could pour concrete down.
Mitch supposed that that at least would be something for him to do, so climbing inside the shuttle he put it through its pre-flight procedures and took off from the ground. However having not thought the procedure through he didn't have an alternative place to put it, and as such he deicded to go for a little fly to clear the head, and perhaps the ears. The silence of an efficient shuttle was a boon to the inner drums.
John stumbled out of the armoury trying to clean his ears out from the blast, and attempted to converse with one of the builders on the Hangar.
"Can - Understand - Me?" John said deafly, his voice was odd now that he couldn't hear himself.
The builder nodded and made an 'O' with his thumb and index finger. He made motions for John to move his shuttle.
He walked onto the porch of the base and and looked around - then saw his shuttle just about to take off.
"OI!!" He yelled out as he tried to get to his shuttle, which was floating away in Mich's hands.
Mitch was pleasantly oblivious to the commotion underneath him, being in the glorious silence which he so craved. He plotted a complex figure of eight formation around the building before bringing it into a few sharp turns that if it wasn't for inertial dampners might well have killed him.
Luca was still trying to comprehend how the bunk bed was supposed fit together, still oblivious to the other construction around him. He just shrugged and stood up, leaving it unassembled. A maid-builder person came along and began fiddling with it and yielding more reliable results.
Luca decided to clear his mind by walking outside and onto the porch, sitting down next to Mum, Dad and Nina. He noticed they had ear protection when the blast came on.
"Ah - Luca!" Nina said, "Your dad just told me about you!"
Luca didn't get any of this and just tapped his ears.
Mich eventually got bored of his shenanigans and hovering the craft twenty feet above the site (not being able to find a good place to park it) took a cable dispenser from his belt, clipped it to the inside of the shuttle and slowly lowered himself down with a beatific smile, landing softly before releasing the locking mechanism and triggering the withdraw procedure. A useful device. He sent to look for something else to do.
John marched to Mich with a scowl on his face. "That - is my shuttle!" He told Mitch while pointing to the shuttle, now floating about. "Ask me before you touch it, because it's a backbone of this organisation! If it blows up, we'll be out of business!"
Luca watched the shuttle float about and grabbed some imaginary popcorn to watch the ensuing argument.
"Can't hear you lad." Mich replied, pointing at his ears, "Sorry about the inconvenience, it had to be moved - you weren't there and I used some iniative." He misjudged the volume of his voice due to his deafness and as such went from quiet to near shouting several times.
Luca watched Mich 'yell' at John, he still couldn't tell what they were on about, but it certainly was entertaining.
"Well!" John said folding his arms and looking at the floating shuttle, raising his voice a bit, "Did you have to leave it there? There's plenty of perfectly good ground for this to land on."
Mich showed no sign of being able to understand him (although this was quite possibly because he found it funny), shrugged and said in a particularly loud voice, "Whatever it is we'll talk about it later."
About this point, Luca's hearing was beginning to clear up a little. He managed to hear "We'll talk about this later." from Mitch. He then stopped smiling, because he thought that they'd actually met peaceful ends instead of a full blown war.
He decided to get up off the porch and see where Hitori was. He strode inside the base and called out: "Hey Hitori. You anywhere? I can hear things now! I've got something I want to talk about with you!"
Hitori's head finally cleared up for her to move around again. As she slowly stood up, she heard Luca call to her.
"Over here," she called back. She wondered what he wanted to talk about.
Luca heard her voice in the Kitchen. So he walked in and found that the kitchen was quite functional. Crane had managed to get everything working. The prospect of dinner seemed pretty good.
Luca sat down at the new table and motioned for Hitori to sit with him.
Hitori sat at the table and asked, "What did you need, Luca?" A slight buzzing noise was in the back of her head, but she tried to ignore it.
"Just want to ask you something," Luca said calmly. He looked away a little to admire the scenery of the new kitchen, but came came back to the conversation. "Who did you work with before you came here?"
Hitori froze for a second. She wondered if she should tell the truth or not. In the end, she did decid to tell the truth. She took a breath before replying, "My most recent ex-employer was a man of... many talents. What exactly do you want to know?"
"Oh, just what you used to generally do." Luca replied. He was beginning to remember what he did before gathering these people together, "I used to be on a cargo ship. I thought I'd just go there to do some simple labours and go out. That never quite happened. I was almost killed - three times." He chuckled on the good times and began to stray off subject, "But, I did make quite a few friends, and got these." He flashed the inside of his jacket open to reveal 7 Star Army of Yamatai medals. "I can explain what each one means later. What did your employer used to make you do?"
Hitori smiled as she remembered a few past events herself. "I never received any medals," the Geshrin continued, "but I did do a little bit of what I am doing now. I gathered information for my client, and he... he took care of me." She smiled a little more as she fiddled with the hem of her cloak.
Luca smiled at this little employee-employer relationship she used to have, he considered himself to be doing something similiar. "Where people were and such?" Luca smirked, "Sounds pretty simple. How come you left him or her and went after me anyway?" He remembered that time when she first ran into him and almost tried to shoot her by accident.
Hitori smirked back as she replied softly, "Something like that..." Right after Luca's question, her voice became cold and sad, "He died." She quickly recovered and continued, "Well, it was part of the business, you see? Sometimes you get them... and sometimes they get you." She sighed as if a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
"Died?" He frowned a little and leant over to her to offer some comfort, "You poor thing..."