The new Deadman..

[sunflowerfairy]

Characters: Yotsuba Koiwai and you!~
Setting: Around the Tower's steps.
Format: Starting in prose, but I'll match you.
Summary: After unknowingly eating some contaminated food on the eleventh, Yotsuba gains some strange powers, and is rather..curious about them, so she starts to search for answers.
Warnings: Yotuba will get killed by Wretched Egg, so look out for that. And Yotsuba can control her blood, so..people who don't like that should probably avoid this post.

Yotsuba dimly remembered that dinner on the eleventh had tasted odd, but since it wasn't yucky, not many people payed to much attention to it, chalking it up to the Administrators again, and since it wasn't bitter, no one thought it was poisoned. She didn't give it much thought either, since she wasn't harmed. After all, she was a little girl with much more to do and much more to keep her occupied.

However, when Yotsuba woke up on the thirteenth, she noticed that she wasn't feeling..right. Not bad, just not right. Trying to think of what wasn't right, she got hopped out of bed and started to walk through the dorm floors. When she heard a loud noise from below-probably someone fighting or a newcomer-she jumped, surprised..and cried a little in pain. Turning her head around, she saw small spikes of her own blood coming out of her back.

This..wasn't normal, and curious, Yotsuba started to walk up the Tower steps, calling out the people she knew so that she might be able to find some answers. Since she didn't know how they came out, she didn't pull them back in. They just stayed like that while she climbed and called.

"Dia..Diamud! Edgeworth?! Arada! Hibiki?! Yu..Yukki?!"

Feel free to bother her or help her out.

Comments

[sunflowerfairy]

Oh..I do! I don't have my crayons here with me!

[At that suggestion, Yotsuba's eyes widened. But not in horror. This was in surprise. Yotsuba had never seen a robot before, and now she could ride in one.

This was more awesome than candy.]

Yes please!!

[savarin]

Alright! One sec!

[With a grin, Red leaps into the cockpit, immediately grabbing the controls and lowering one of Dahak's huge hands for Yotsuba.]

Just step on and I'll lift ya up here!

[He's very good at controlling it, so don't worry... just as long as Yotsuba doesn't start fiddling with the controls.]

[sunflowerfairy]

[This was Yotsuba's equivalent of winning the lottery. For her, this was as good as it got. Grinning like a madman, Yotusba nodded.]

Okay!~

[Yotsuba stepped onto the hand, being careful to not fall off. No promises on those controls though.]

[savarin]

[As promised, Red raises the hand carefully, holding it at the perfect height for Yotsuba to hop into the cockpit. There's just enough room for her to sit right next to him.]

Okay, where we headed? Which room are you in?

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba managed to hop inside the cockpit and wiggled beside Red, smiling.]

Oh..Yotsuba doesn't know!

[Her reading skills were not that good, and she had never checked to see what room she was in.]

[savarin]

Wh-- what do ya mean you don't know?!

[Okay, maybe she knows how to get there another way. Red scoots over a little more, letting the girl have some more room.]

Listen, if ya can't tell me which room it is, can you point me in the right direction? I mean, you gotta know how to get back, right?

[sunflowerfairy]

[As Red scoots over, Yotsuba takes advantage of the extra room and looks out of the cockpit, smiling. She was inside a robot. This was amazing!]

Yotsuba knows you to get back! It's that way!

[Yotsuba pointed down the hallway.]

How do you control the robot?!

[savarin]

Well, I use these levers and buttons and pedals... looks real hard, but I got no trouble usin' it.

[Speaking of, Red sets it moving down the hallway in the direction she's pointing. They're not going too fast, so she can direct the dog-man as needed.]

Pretty cool, isn't it?

[sunflowerfairy]

[As they moved, Yotsuba's face just brightened. The robot was moving!~ She was in a moving robot!]

It is! It's..it's super cool!

[It might even go beyond super, but Yotsuba doesn't have a proper word that goes beyond 'super'.]

Can Yotsuba try?!

[savarin]

You... wanna drive Dahak? No way! Sorry, kid, but you're not old enough.

[Red presses on, keeping an eye on Yotsuba just in case she decides to start messing with the other controls. She needs to navigate, anyway.]

Have you even used a robot before?

[sunflowerfairy]

What?! How old do you have to be then?!

[Thankfully, Yotsuba hasn't messed with the other controls, but she does look stunned at that.]

This is Yotsuba's first time seeing a robot!

[savarin]

Well, old enough to-- oh, furballs, I forgot you probably came from some other world! You don't got robots, do ya?

[Red sighs, stopping Dahak and dangling one arm over the side of the cockpit. This girl would probably never get a chance like this again...]

Y'know what, I'll let ya drive a little bit. I don't think you can reach the pedals, so just move the arms around a little. Here ya go.

[He scoots over a little more, letting Yotsuba at the levers and buttons that control the arms. Should anything happen, though, he's more than willing to shove her over and get control back. Gently.]

[sunflowerfairy]

[And Yotsuba's face just brightened at that as she scooted over and looked at the levers and buttons that controlled the arms. She looked like a kid in a candy store.]

No, Yotsuba didn't see any robots back home! thank you!

[Carefully, Yotsuba took one of the levers on the right and pulled it.]

[savarin]

[In response, Dahak's right arm goes up. If Yotsuba fiddles with the lever more, she'll find that moving it from side to side or twisting it produces the expected movements in said arm. It's more like a joystick than a lever, really; there's even buttons that make the hand open and close.]

Figure that since I'm here, I might as well do somethin' useful, even if it's just makin' a kid like you happy.

[sunflowerfairy]

[As Yotsuba moves around the lever, she figures out that whatever she does to the lever will happen to the arm, which is pretty cool. However, that comment puzzled her.]

A kid like Yotsuba?

[savarin]

Yeah, of course! Who else?

[Honestly, she's adorable. Red always had a soft spot for kids... it's just too bad that the Tower is so eventually-lethal. He'd protect her as much as he could, of course, but if there wasn't anyone there for her...]

Hey, Yotsuba, ya got anyone else lookin' after you here? It's real dangerous for you to be alone.

[sunflowerfairy]

[While that comment made her smile, as she closed the robot's hand, she still looked puzzled.]

Daddy's not here..but he will be soon! He'll track down the bad people! But Edgeworth and..Diarmuid help me sometimes.

[In other words, they helped her out when she was crying for help, but a long-term parental figure hadn't quite been established yet.]

[savarin]

[Being away from family in a place like this must be hard... especially since there's no guarantee that you'd ever see them again. Red ventures a pat on the back, making sure to keep his hand away from where those spikes were.]

Well, as long as ya got good people helpin' you out, that's good! You can always ask for me, too. Red, remember?

[sunflowerfairy]

[Actually, the spikes were retracted now, so Red didn't have to worry about them. However, Yotsuba smiled at that. She didn't get pats on the back often-people usually went with the head, so it was an interesting change of pace.]

Yotsuba remembers! The opposite of blue! And Edgeworth and Diarmuid are good people!

[savarin]

[There's always the chance she could startle and extend them again...!]

Opposite of blue, huh? I'll remember that one. Don't you worry, kid, I'm a good person too!

[Red can at least keep Dahak moving forward while they talk. Hopefully they're close to Yotsuba's room now.]

[sunflowerfairy]

[Not that she knew how yet.

However, at that, Yotsuba smiled and nodded.]

I know!

[Yotsuba lived in room 2-07, so they would probably be close by now.]

[savarin]

[There's name plates on the walls, and Red's checking them as he goes. There's his room, 2-10, and... just a few doors down, he spots it. Yotsuba Koiwai, residing in room 2-07. Dahak stops, and Red gently nudges the girl in the side.]

Hey, we're here! Lemme have the lever back and I'll put a hand down so you can climb down.

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba let go of the level and scootched over, smiling.]

Okay! And I can draw you a picture of a puppy and a kitty!

[savarin]

Sounds good! I'm excited to see what's different about 'em!

[Red takes the lever again, moving Dahak's arm down so that Yotsuba can disembark safely. Once she's down, he'll just drive it into the room; who knows what monsters could do to the robot?]

Alright, got your stuff ready?

[sunflowerfairy]

[Yotsuba carefully and quickly climbed down the robots arm before running into her room..only to be followed by the robot.]

Hold on!

[Yotsuba pulled her sketchbook and a box of crayons out of her trunk before sketching a very fat-looking cat on one page and a very odd-looking dog on the other. They were horrible drawings, but Yotsuba was proud of them, so she smiled as she tore them out of her sketchbook and put them in the robot's hand.]

There you go!