towerofanimus | Is This Home?

It seemed like there's a history between Suzaku and Lelouch. Whatever it was, now was not the time for it.

Gripping his evoker, he nodded to Suzaku and Signless. "Ready."

Suzaku nodded, Lelouch had slowed down now, waiting for them to catch up. That must mean they were there, he pushed open the door and was relieved to see it was the right place.

The three engineers looked up in surprise, Suzaku was just relieved Lloyd was not one of them. Then again he had been in the tower for a while so he was probably considered a traitor also...

There were three soldiers also and they ran towards them, bringing out their guns to shoot.

Signless was out in front in an instant, baring sharp teeth in a protective snarl as he strifed. He threw one sickle and it knocked the first soldier's gun out of his hand, opening a deep gash in his arm that bled bright candy red.

It was a superficial wound, but the soldier dropped with a scream. He'd be all right, Signless was sure. He was equally sure that talking wasn't going to help in this instance, so the key was subduing these soldiers quickly, and non-lethally, if possible.

If anyone's expecting Minato to fire his 'gun' at the soldiers, they would be very surprised to see him pointing it at his head. Immediately before anyone can stop him, he pulled the trigger.

Surrounded by a blue aura, a strange coffin (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080625015127/megamitensei/images/3/3d/Mot.png) appeared. The lid opens to let an arm out and wave its hand at the soldiers. Then, an odd energy wave swept through them, before one of the soldiers look very fearful and backing away.

Suzaku had witnessed the other Minato summon his monster, and so didn't bat an eyelid when he shot himself in the head instead. He kicked a solider, stealing his gun when he fell to the floor. He paused when the energy wave swept through the room, not wanting to get in the way of anything that was about to happen.

Signless had seen it before, too, though the Minato he knew had summoned something quite different. As the last soldier was taken down by Suzaku, he scooped up his thrown sickle and looked around warily for any signs of other resistance.

The energy wave would cause the target to feel fear, if it hits. Fortunately, it pass through the three of them harmlessly, as Mot knew they're allies from his mind. Minato's glad they, Suzaku and Signless, wasn't freaking out over his Persona summoning.

Which meant the other Minato summoned before, unsurprisingly.

He glanced around, as the arm retreated into the coffin.

Suzaku glanced round as well, checking to see if any back up turned up, if they had had any time to sound an alarm before they got attacked. It didn't seem so, Suzaku started hunting for an access key, he grabbed the first one he found. "It will be tight but we will all fit in the cockpit," it would be very tight but since they had both looked confused at his mention of a Knightmare Frame Suzaku assumed that it was not something they had in their own worlds.

He found the corrosponding frame quickly and nodded for them to get in, he just hoped it had enough power to get them out of here. Doing this with no backup from engineers was stupid but it wasn't the first time, Suzaku continued looking around gun ready in case anyone arrived.

Signless blinked up at the big robot, then climbed up and settled in the crook of one elbow to give Suzaku a chance to tell him where to sit in the cockpit. "Fuck, I'll admit that's impressive. Trolls have never developed vehicles that look like robots. We tend to do one or the other."

Minato had to admit, the robot looked impressive. He climbed inside after Signless and move into the other side for space, glancing around at the interior and the space. "I haven't seen any robots this large before."

Suzaku blinked at them both, he had thought perhaps they might have similar technology in their world called by different things, but they seemed to have never seen anything like this befoe. "Well they are relatively recent, they were first used to take Japan and that was only eight years ago." He sat in the chair and plugged the acess card in.

"Sit anywhere there's room and hold on." Lelouch glowered at him as the knightmare frame started up. Luckily it has enough Sakuridite.

"Ready?"

Signless climbed in after Suzaku and squeezed his stocky body in next to the chair, bracing himself. "Yeah, most robots I've seen were troll-sized. But it's a creative idea. I can think of a couple of people who'd need to grab a pail after seeing something like this."

He nodded. "Ready to go, Suze."

"The robots I know are human sized." Minato sat down, bracing himself for take off. "I'm ready, Suzaku-san."

"Human sized robots?" Suzaku looked over his shoulder, "How do you control them to fight?" He took a breath and placed his hands on the controls feeling a thrill, it had been a long time since he had driven a knightmare frame and he had missed it. Britannia might have destroyed his country, his childhood. He might have almost lost himself in joining them, in attempting to bring change from the inside.

They might have now won and destroyed the last chance the world had at peace but somehow when he was back in the seat of a Knightmare frame he felt as much at home as he ever did.

He didn't think that was healthy, but he couldn't bring himself to care and he had more important things to think about. He nodded at Minato and Signless and the Knightmare started moving, bursting through the door gun blazing.

"Mostly they control themselves, from what I understand," Signless said with a laugh.

"That's right. They got their own A.I. move around and form their decisions." Minato smiled a bit, remembering Aigis.

"Robots that control themselves?" Suzaku's voice was surprised, he had never heard about that before. "Isn't that... dangerous?"

After all humans (and from what he had seen trolls as well) were barely capable of making their own decisions that didn't involve harming others, he did not think they would be capable of creating robots that could safely make decisions.

As he spoke he shot down a few guards, his time in the Knight of Rounds and having Gino over the other end of the communication systems had made him practiced at holding conversation whilst fighting.

"Can be dangerous if the robots don't obey. But they usually have failsafes in their programming. They just follow orders," Signless said, glancing over at Minato. "At least, where I come from, that's true."

As he spoke, he watched Suzaku fight out of the corner of his eye. "Too bad this thing probably can't fit in the tower."

"It's the same over here." However, Minato don't think of Aigis as just a robot. "They have their orders for their purposes."

He watched the guards fell with an neutral expression. This might be necessary, but he don't have to like it.

It still sounded dangerous, in the wrong hands, but so were most weapons. Suzaku shot at another group of soldiers, he could see the exit now. "I know a scientist who would be very interested in robots that could follow orders," Lloyd would love it, to not have to deal with humans at all.

Here, he burst out of the door into the courtyard. "I have no idea where to go."

"Scienterrorists usually are interested in things like that," Signless said wryly. Not that he'd known many of those. "Is there anywhere we can go that'll be safe? I mean, I still don't know where the fuck we are or what's happening! We have to figure out how we got here, and how to get ourselves back to our own worlds. No offense, Suze, I'm sure your world is lovely, but I don't think they know what to do with guys who have horns."

"Scientists normally have interests in them." Minato simply said, remembering the history of the Kirijo Group's research from that beach trip. "...And I don't know what they would do to me if they see my powers."

Research him, most likely.

Suzaku nodded and then frowned, "I don't know, it looks like Schneizel has won, who knows how much of the world Britannia controls now..." He looked to Lelouch who looked back at him darkly and muttered something about a the U. F. N shrinking and now being smaller than the original Chinese Federation had been.

"Me and Lelouch are well know... and not well liked, if we are seen we will be reported straight away. How did you say you got here?"

The tower was not a good place to be, but it was better than a world under Schneizel...

"I walked into the building from a doorway in the tower," Signless said, scowling. "Psi was right behind me, but he never came through, and the door disappeared. It wasn't there after I came through. So it seems to me that we're stuck on this world until we can figure out how we got here."

"It's the same for me. I walked through a door back at the tower." Minato paused, briefly. "It was just me at the time."

He went through the doorway alone, basically.

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argh I never got a notif!

/pets

seems like LJ notifs are slow/dead

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