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"Alright." Elzam said, and took him through a few corridors, and into a two-bunk room. "Here is where you and Ray will be staying." Elzam said, and took him inside.

After Deane got aqainted with the room, Elzam started to leave; "Deane, I know that fighting in the war sounds fun... it's not. I plan to go against the General's orders about bringing you and Ray back... He'll just want your gundams, and use you as his pawns..." He said, with a wave.

((Ah, but, Elzam gives that little speach about war being fun to all of his new recruits.))

Elzam turned toward the door, and opened a keypad next to it, and typed something in... Then, on the door, the words:
'Ray Gausse and Deane Asguard' Appeared on a small section of the door. "Good. Now, to head back to the bridge..." Elzam said, and started to head back...

The Kurogane was within viewing distance of Langrid point, but, in Elzam's heart, something felt wrong... "Sir? You look uneasy." Eita said, looking at Elzam. "Ah? It's visible? Well..." Elzam looked around, and paced a bit, "The UED hasn't attacked yet..." He stated, "I'm worried that they plan to strike soon." "So, should I scramble the mobile suits, sir?" the comm officer asked. "Yes... That sounds like a good plan, Eun." Elzam said, "... Call them." "Aye, sir." Eun stated, and said over the PA, "All mobile suit sqauds, prepare for battle, do not launch yet..." Elzam walked over to the comm, and said, "And Ray, I want to see you on the bridge."

"EH?!" Ray tilted his head in gawking awe, unable to take in the fact tat he said all of it so cassually. 'Doesn't he realize that he could've been dead by now? That there might as well could have been problems in his head? Couldn't he have missed any of those times that he might have frgotten during the experimentastions?' And in an instant, Ray came on baraging the guy with these questions, and even more, though all being smushed up as his wordds came to topple over one another, "How do you feel Is Ryn really your namme What have you been doing all this time How did you escape how did you live in hiding?" It all ended in a big huff as he strived to catch his breath. If Elzam and Ryn had such amazing life stories, he'd have to wonder what the crewmen went through as well. Come to think of it, even Deane's life was sort of interesting, and Ray became puzzled on how such people were gathered in a sigle ship. 'Maybe that's the nature of war... twisting and bending people's lives until it reaps survivors to tell worthy tales.' But as he looked up, he felt awkward realizing that Ryn was gone.

The PA, which he hadn't been taking much attention recently, crackled to life, "And Ray, I want to see you on the bridge," Ray stood up from his bench and asked himself what was going on, until he remembered what Ryn told him. Blood rushed to his head in panic and he immediately dashed towards the bridge, wherever that was, and merely speculated that it was the place where he landed his GUNDAM. The sliding double doors opened with a swoosh, and as he dashed in, he bumped into someone large and buff, making him bounce back and almost land on his behind, if it weren't for the outstretched hand that gripped his own when he reached out for ballance. He looked up to see who it was, and saw a grew bearded man with curly top hair over his square head, smirking while gritting a large cigar between his teeth. "You okay, kid?" the man asked, as he pulled Ray back up to stand.

"Y-yeah..." Ray rubbed his nose, trying to relieve himself of the intching pain. "You shouldn't rush like that, or you'll bump into someone fairly quickly," The large man said in a terribly low voice, pointing his thumb upt ot his chest. That was when Ray noticed his orange and white suit, the same as those of the engineers. In fact, he recognized the man's face, as one of the head staff members.

The two came deeper inside, not wanting to block the path in hopes of not wanting to repeat the past incident. As Ray searched the hanger, the memory of floating over came into his mind, and just as he'd remembered, he saw his two feet afloat looking down, and felt somewhat dimwitted at how much he paniced when he bumped with the man, thinking his fall and crash. When he was sitting down, and crossing through the corridors, he was actually floating! The engineer looked at him with a mischievious stare, and gave some hard chuckle at Ray's pndering. With their hands already in a tight grip, he shook them wildly, introducing himself, "My name's Rick, Rick Thompson. I'm afraid I didn't say that back when I was rescuing you from your struggle to fly," Rick imediately let go and started to reinact how Ray was wallowing through the hollow space in sheer fear of falling, laughing out loud.

This made Ray burry his face deep low, flushed red at how naive he must have seemed. Rick's enormous gloved hands landed on his shoulder, patting Ray into comfort, "You're one strange kid." Just then, the metal double doors swooshed open. The engineer looked over and hastily took out his sigar, hiding it from sight, before giving the man who just entered a big grin. Propelling himself forward through Ray's shoulder, he called out, "Yo Elzam! I was just looking for ya!"

"Whoah!" Ray waved his arms frantically through space, looking down deep towards the nearby mobile suit's feet, his face all pale.Apparently, the large manpushed him hard. Rick looked back and chuckled out some more, amused at the novice. "Hey, help!" Ray 'swam' back into footing, breathing hard on how he thought he was going to die, only to cough out as rick hit him by his back, making him bump into Elzam. He immediately let go and made himself 'stand', smiling meekly and raising his hand as to make a small wave, "Oh hi, Captain."

Ryn slid into the Hanger, running full speed, and collided with Rick. Cursing colorfully, he pushed himself, up, and said," I knew you would hold those two in the ship in the coming fight. What about me?"

He pulled the canteen from his waist, and remembering what he had put in it by accident, just held it, waiting to be addressed, rather impatiently.

((This is in response to Souno.))

The two metal doors slid open as a woman in UED uniform enered, noticing a tired Commander Briggs, rotating his fingers through his temples and his eyes closed, "Commander," she started, walking towards the marble desk.

"Ahh... Rita," Briggs took his massaging actions to a halt, straightning himself up through his chair, and looking sternly at the woman, "I expect that the battle cruiser has been prepared."

"Yes sir. They're all ready," Rita handed the man a folder of all the files of the ship, of which Briggs took and looked over.

"And what about the ace pilot we've been requesting?" He asked, his face covered by the folder he had been scanning. Just then, the double doors opened with a smooth swoosh, and there came the masked man they've been waiting for, slowly pacing towards the Commander's desk, to Rita's right. commander Briggs lowered his folder and came to greet the man,"Welcome to Armory 14 of Langrid 4. You must be Tchai Ete Stanton, I pressume," briggs stood up and stretched out his hand to make a formal handshake, only slightly bewildered at the man's mask.