1st hand- SHOWTIME!

[nightfowl]

Characters: Haken Browning and YOU
Setting: Various floors. the ninth of november
Format: action brackets!
Summary: Haken gets accustomed to the tower
Warnings: Haken flirts. a lot.

Dorm room 1-08 and the floor surrounding it
[Haken wakes up, a little groggy. Saving the world and getting the girl will do that to a man, especially if said girl asks to turn out the lights. Anyways, he wakes up, shrugs his shoulders at the lack of Kaguya. Though, when he realizes that this certainly isn't the Captain's cabin in the Krokodil, and this certainly doesn't look like the interior of a ship at all, that something's amiss. He notices the letter and reads it.]

My world's been destroyed, eh? That's funny, certainly recall kicking the Einst's ass and reuniting the Endless Frontier. Last I checked, that was the opposite of "World's been destroyed." Someone's bluffing here, and I reckon I'm gonna call them out on it.

[He notices that there's other people living here, too. Might as well try and get some answers from them, if they show up. If not, he leaves, taking his things out of his trunk and equipping himself for the day ahead. And potentially the random encounters with monsters. Because there's always those. Anyone in the room or the subsequent hallway, you've got a cowboy-looking fellow with a rather large gun holstered on his back and another on his person. He's friendly, don't worry. He's looking around, as if he's looking for someone.]

FLOOR ONE/THREE
[The first place to start is Always at the bottom. After a quick stop at the cafeteria, Haken heads up a few floors to the library. Better place as any to get answers, but is disheartened to find that he can't find anything of worth.] Talk about a limited collection... At least there'll be some readin' material for downtime.


Floor Eight
[of course. A maze, filled with random monsters. Looks like he took a wrong turn and is face to face with a group of weaker monsters. He shrugs at this. Nothing he hasn't seen before, in fact, he was wondering why he hadn't faced anything like this up until now.]

Figured it was only a matter of time before I got into a scuffle. Alright pardners, it's showtime! Time to put your cards out on the table.

Floor 25
[Boy, Haken certainly gets around, doesn't he? He's wasted no time in doing some exploring, because that's just what one does when faced with a huge tower on the Endless Frontier.]

Well, now I've seen everything. A meadow in the middle of a huge tower. What the heck is this place?

Comments

[surpassthelimit]

[For someone who was happy, he certainly did get angry quick.]

Einst...

[Browning...that's right, Haken was a Browning.]

You...! Nanbu! Was there a Kyosuke Nanbu in your world?!

[nightfowl]

Yeah, those Einst were providing a bit of trouble in my world. Managed to beat them back, though. Hopefully they won't be bothering anyone ever again.

[Haken shrugs]Nanbu...? Name's certainly familiar to me. I don't think the princess has got a Kyosuke in her family though.

[surpassthelimit]

Tch, they seem intent on taking over everywhere. If you want to know the reason why your ship wrecked in some other world, just look at the Einst. We had to make an emergency jump since they were attacking our base after wiping out the rest of the world's military. The world we're originally from is probably destroyed at this point.

[nightfowl]

[Haken shrugs. The circumstances of that don't really matter to him.]
Wouldn't doubt it, though we did a good job at gettin' rid of the pests over in my world. Had a long shot at my plan working, but I've never minded betting on long odds.

We shouldn't have to worry about them anymore. Well, unless they suddenly start showing up here. But I'm pretty sure they'll be no problem for us.

[surpassthelimit]

They won't be no problem. If they find a host, it's all over, you understand?

The host, if parallel universes are anything to go by, is always a Browning or a Nanbu.

[nightfowl]

[That was a little heavy. Certainly something he can't really ignore, but he passes it off as something that doesn't bother him. In a way, it really doesn't.]


If I'm the host, then that means I've lost and everything I've done in my world was for naught. Refuse to believe that, even for a second. I'd think killing them right out in their homeworld would do a pretty good job of eliminating the things. Like hell I was gonna let them just be sealed off and have a hot princess sacrifice her life for a temporary solution!

If they do arrive, hope isn't lost, hombre. It's only lost if you give up, and you certainly seem like the type to not go down without a fight. We'll win.

If that happens. Though, the head honchos here sound just about as pleasant as the Einst, if you ask me.

[surpassthelimit]

You'd know if you were picked. You couldn't hide it in the first place, especially from a guy like me, who has seen it twice.

But I don't know what you're used to dealing with but without the Soulgain or any other personal trooper, it'll be tough. These guys can be twenty or thirty meters tall.

[But bleh, he brings up a good point.]

Considering the leaders here, I doubt anything will happen.

[nightfowl]

Wouldn't be standing here talking to you if I was, that's for sure. It'd be a hell of a fight.

Things have downsized in twenty years time, I suppose. They were mostly human-sized.

Same for the PT's actually. Phantom's only a few meters tall. But I'm guessing you know that horse by a different name.

Soulgain? Name sounds familiar.

[surpassthelimit]

[Whatever the Phantom was. He hadn't heard that one before. But, huh. OH YEAH.]

You probably heard of W10, the Arkgain.

[nightfowl]

Sounds about right. Had a few close encounters with that little robot.

[surpassthelimit]

When you guys got lost in the jump, all the W series must have gotten their programming messed up. Even W17 had issues and she made the jump without an issue. Well, you're the only one without problems for obvious reasons.

[nightfowl]

Guess human minds are a lot more durable than programming, eh?

Sister Seven couldn't remember much of anything... guess she wasn't immune to it either...

W17?

[surpassthelimit]

W17, also known as Lamia Loveless. Think of her as W07's little sister and the first success of the W series.

[Which says all you other suckers are failures.]

[nightfowl]

First success? Come on now, can't say that Cinderella and I didn't turn out alright.

[surpassthelimit]

Huh, no. You were probably the biggest failure.

[Sorry to say. Though he does rub the back of his head.]

Look, they were looking for a way to make soldiers when they first started the whole W series project. Because you were human and needed to grow up, you were an instant failure. You can't make an army when it takes 18 years for it to grow up.

Though the project started to change after its inception.

[nightfowl]

That stings a little... Especially since saving the world and getting the girl is probably the opposite of failure.
[He laughs a little nervously]
Great things take time, I suppose.

I remember hearing something about that. How so? Besides the whole switching to android hotties thing.

[surpassthelimit]

I think you'll get over it.

But as the project dragged on, Lemon decided she would like to make a robot that could be human in every single way. ...she ended up pulling it off.

[nightfowl]

Well, I'll be damned.

So guessing this girl looks like Aschen without the robot parts, huh?

...is she always stuck in Party Girl mode then?

[surpassthelimit]

A different hair style and a larger rack. [Why dance around the subject.]

...the heck is party girl mode?

[nightfowl]

Well, now you've caught my interest.
It happens whenever she gets really hot.

She removes a few layers and well...

[awkward silence]

She gets flirty and lively. Very much so, at that.

[surpassthelimit]

....what the hell is the point of a robot flirting?

[Srsly.]

[nightfowl]

[Haken shrugs, giving a slight chuckle]

Hey, gal's got needs. Doesn't really matter if she's a robot or not, she's still a woman.

[surpassthelimit]

Somehow, I'm having trouble believing that.

[nightfowl]

[Haken shrugs. that bugged him, that bugged him a lot. But he still kept his cool.]

It's just who she is. Robot or not, she's a person to me. Just like how I'm still who I am, even if I am W00 and a failed experiment and all that jazz.