towerofanimus | Is This Home?

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Is This Home?

Characters: anyone who got sent "home", anyone going to rescue them
Setting: your world?
Format: any
Summary: Post your nightmare world! Travel to other nightmare worlds! Save people from nightmare worlds!
Warnings: general angst/horror warnings for now

There's a bright flash of light and a screech of sound before you pop back into existence in familiar territory. Maybe something's off about it, though...

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"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.

They both should learn not to walk through strange doorways, especially alone. Suzaku frowned, "Why would a doorway lead here?"

He is getting further and further away from the palace, but two Japanese teens, one of whom was the infamous Knight of Zero, the deposed emperor and a troll were not going to get very far in Britannia. Not very far at all.

"It was supposed to be to rescue the ones who were taken from the tower," Signless said, scowling. "But it was only about half effective, so far."

"I can only assume the others meet up with their rescuers." They're not the only ones who walked through the door. Minato watched the screens as they go.

"Where exactly did the door bring you? Perhaps there are others nearby?"

A beeping sound and a emergency report came up on part of the front screan.

"Officials are looking for the escaped former "Demon Empire" who has escaped, with him are two Elevens, one believed to be the former Knight Suzaku Kururugi," a picture of Lelouch and Suzaku flashed up on the screen, "And a creature guards only described as a horned demon." another message popped up requesting they return back to the palace, sent to all Knightmare Frames outside the palace grounds.

Suzaku pressed buttons trying to cloak them.

"It took me into the palace, where I hid for a bit. That was how I found you two, by following the guards and listening," Signless explained.

Then the emergency call went out, and he facepalmed at the mention of him as a 'horned demon'. "Well. Fuck."

"I was outside. It wasn't that long when they noticed me." An 'Eleven' with a sword was hard to ignore.

"Where to?" He heard the emergency report, silently acknowledging it in regards to their situation.

Suzaku continued pressing buttons until finally the call to return was silenced. "I cloaked us from their sensors, hopefully they will assume this unit has been destroyed."

Of course it wouldn't be too long before they were spotted anyways but it bought them a small amount of time. "We need to get out of this area."

"Then let's stop distracting you so you can get us the fuck out of here," Signless said, glancing at Minato with a sheepish smile. "We need to find somewhere to hide out."

Minato nodded, giving Signless a thumb up. "We should. And a place to take a short break if it's possible."

If they're going to fight more battles, he rather face them with full energy.

Suzaku nodded and concentrated on getting as far away as possible. When they were on the outskirts of the city he found an empty alley way and stopped the Knightmare Frame. "We should be safe here for a little while, whilst we think."

Signless lightly touched one of his horns. "What are we going to do about me? I mean, I think people might notice me going by and talk."

"A hood won't hide their shape well enough...unless it's one of those cat ear hoods." Which they don't have at the moment. Minato looked at the horns. "A hat?"

That may hide the horns, which leave the rest of his appearance.

Suzaku frowned, "A hat is a good idea," except they didn't have a hat, "We could go see if we can get one..." Except they had no money, unless there was some in the Knightmare Frame somewhere. Minato would have to buy it, since he was the only one of them who wouldn't be instantly recognised.

Unless Signless had any better ideas, Suzaku looked towards him.

Is This Home?

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argh I never got a notif!

/pets

seems like LJ notifs are slow/dead

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