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How had this conversation go from fun catch up to stifling and totally uncomfortable? Oh right, he'd asked about Raziel. Hindsight, he thought to himself, remember hindsight. Another long drink and the pilot found himself out of a drink. That just wouldn't do! Though, no more alcohol for now even if it was tempting beyond the norm. He grabbed a water and downed half of that before he replied, using it as an excuse to keep his mouth shut.

"Sorry. . . but what was that part about Seraphim's systems shut down? " He couldn't help but ask. Why did he suddenly have this urge to pack up and continue the joint mission? A shudder ran down his spine coincidentally at the same time as Angelina mentioned the dead pilots ad practically scrapped Zoids. His mind may have been on the lovely Judge figure, but he was thankful for that reaction. "Yes. We did lose men and Zoids that day. "

Talon nodded as his Raptor was complimented. He was quite impressive. Slower than what he was used to, but the both of them were getting past that. "Naw. He's still just as impressive, with more firepower. Seraphim looks like he's doing well. "


Moe released the awesome shiny Zoid only to be pounced on by the smaller little lizard thing. Surprised, Moe started running around in a circle, then forgot there was something on his back so he started seeing if he could pester a bipedial. Oh look, there was one all by their selves. Moe wiggled his little stump tail and plowed over to Ranee, squeaking and hooting about something or other that was mostly unimportant.


Urania smiled and paused, she wasn't good at this conversation thing at all. "Oh? Neat! What types of food do you enjoy? " Dead conversation was dead. . . Had to thing of something. . .

Giving another smile, Urania decided to bother Shun since he seemed to be sitting there all alone. Pft! So, Urania hopped closer to Lorna, looped an arm in hers and started walking/dragging the girl over to where Shun was sitting on a boulder. "Mind if we join you Shun? This is Lorna, she likes to cook. " Yes, that was all Urania had gotten out of that brief conversation, but it was enough to start another with someone probably better at these things than she.

Look at that ridiculous display, She chuckled as Moe ran in circles suddenly surprised by the other MRZ. Ranee grinned at moe as he came over "Hey little trouble maker." she pat moe before taking another bite. If he was an animal she would have offered some food to the MRZ. Oh well.

Angelina thought back for a moment "All his systems I think, though I wasn't in Seraphim at the time." she had to go get Cross from that masked woman. The incident hadn't let near as much of a mark thanks to the memory altering by the fog.

Angelina gave a nod "yeah he's doing quite well, he's been tuned and repaired," she glanced to the Organoid "Raziel even does her fair share Seraphim's blades are more brilliant with her." She looked back to Tyrant then Talon "Tyrant's evolution is a big thing too, what about the other Raptors have any of them evolved." she asked after all Talon was in a team, he'd told her about that the first time they met, or something like that.

He is indeed Raziel agreed watching Moe's spectackle, arching her long serpentine neck she faced bent-tail I'm Raziel, and that little one is Skylar may I ask whom you are? she asked the rat organoid realizing she had yet to offer her name or ask his.

Skylar hung on tight as Moe started running about maybe it wasn't a good Idea to try and ride things when they weren't expecting it. Skylar's claws slipped and he ended up landing on Shun. Ooops.

"All kinds of food, um.." Lorna paused "What kinds do you like?" she asked and before she knew it Lorna was suddenly dragged by Urania over to Shun who was sitting by himself. She didn't even have a chance to protest. Lorna had heard about Shun in the news paper, and it seemed like it was blown out of proportion. But then again in the news what wasn't.

"Hello." she gave him a nod back as she sat down with her plate. Lorna really wasn't good at conversation.

"Lots of regions. Though I'm particularly fond of the southern plains and the swamps. The simplicity of their complex spices are just something I can never get right when I bother cooking. I get kicked out of kitchen duty a lot for daring to add Paprika to anything. " Urania happily answered the question while escorting Lorna over.

Urania rolled her eyes at Shun and, well okay, she deserved that comment. Seriously, if he was going to be a stick in the mud, might as well have little mud skippers to keep him company. Or something like that. She smiled happily as Lorna introduced herself and Shun himself. No she wasn't playing matchmaker, though that would have been quite fun. That was something for the higher nobles to do, like Ranee over there who seemed to be having fun watching Moe act like a fool of a mini-dinosaur mechanical thing.

"Well its a social outing so you should be somewhat social. Mingle! Make friends! Catch a cute Republic girl and ask her out on a date or something! " Urania blinked when she remembered Lorna was standing there, she smiled and half hugged her. "Lilke Lorna here! She seems perfectly wonderful, albeit a bit shy, but I'm sure that'll fade over time. New situations can be like that. "

Of course, Urania spotted a hapless butterfly passing through. A lovely white cabbage butterfly. The poor girl screamed, dropped her plate of food and ran right back to her Sabre Fang where she hid. Probably for the remainder of the picnic. Shouting of obscenities at butterflies could be heard in the background somewhere coming from her Sabre Fang.

Moe, oh Moe. Oh great and wonderful little Dino of so much energy, barely noticed that his passenger had fallen off. He wheeled around and stared at Skylar, head tilted to the side and a few hoots of confusion and amusement passed. It was followed by a butt wiggle then a playful pounce.

Then the little dragon was all but forgotten when he heard one of his many names called. 'Little Trouble Maker' was one of the many phrases Moe recognized as his name. And the nice lady was calling him. So of course he was going to run over and see if he was getting an olive or something! The little MRZ wagged its stumpy tail, coincidentally moving its entire rear portion and barked, chirped, hooted, and honked at Ranee. The pat got a loud purr. Course then the squishy had to eat food just then. Moe, processing quickly that with the food gone, optimum petting would ensue, decided to do a flop onto her lap ( somehow avoiding the foodstuffs) and wriggled about to expose his metallic belly. Optimum pettage right there.


"Complete system shut down . . . " Talon said to Angelina to clarify, though mostly it was to keep his mind from totally shutting her out of the conversation. Well, this was an interesting pickle he walked into. It wasn't like there was a chance of spikes to randomly pop out of the ground and skewer him, but it was dang close.

A hand ran through his hair, messing up the fluff slightly. Yeah, this was going to be fun. When was lunch up again? "Nice! I wish Moe helped out like that. The most he does is kick the wrench away from me when I'm doing minor repairs. Dang cuddle machine. . . Mmm. . . Ah. With an Organoid as lovely like that, and lines of a predator, Raziel probably does add quite a punch to the majestic Seraphim. Congratulations, I do believe, are in order."

He managed to get a few sips down when more questions came about the Tyrant and the other Rev Raptors. He actually hadn't a clue how they were fairing at this point. " Well, what I can tell you is that one of the pilots managed to piss the higher-ups off so the Zoid was repossessed. The others . . . Um. You know, I don't know. I'm not sure if I should be mad or glad I haven't been attacked with a knife yet trying to drag one down to the pub for a drink. " Yeah. . . Those were the days. "Uh. So no. I don't believe any of the others have gone through their evolution just quite yet. "

He tapped his chin with the lip of the water bottle, "Well . . . This was a fun event! " Cheerfully he grinned at Angelina and laughed. "Perhaps we should talk of happier things. After all, this is technically a break. "

That poor little dragon had landed directly on shun's plate. She couldn't help but chuckle. Urania was even trying to play matchmaker which add another bit of hilarity to the situation. Ranee quietly watched the situation from afar, something she was good at. Ranee tossed Moe an olive, before finishing her plate and placing it beside her, and as soon as she did that moe seemed to leap into her lap as she started petting him.

"Why Talon can't stand you I will never know." she smiled at the little MRZ, Ranee looked up as Urania screamed, she screamed like something terrible was about...

and insect. Ranee wondered if there was a reason for this ridiculous behavior. After a while Ranee stood placing moe on the ground "Want to come?" she asked looking to Urania's Zaber. "I'm going to check on her, maybe some of your charm will fix things."

Angelina nodded "yeah that's it." she said thanking Talon for his correction. She chuckled at the face Moe seemed to be more of a hindrance than a help. "I'm sure it's just his way of showing affection, and thank you." she gave a nod agreeing that it was best to drop the rather dark talk, it was that indeed dark talk. Angelina glanced over to Lorna and chuckled as she was being dragged around by the other imperial soldier. Lorna definitely needed to make some more friends.

"I brought you some turkey sandwiches." she told Talon.

Skylar stood as fast as he could, had he ears they would have been lowered. The little dragon leaped of the plate as fast as his legs where able to carry him. However he was now covered in.. well whatever was on Shun's plate. Skylar ran back over to Angelina.

"What have you been doing?" she asked the little dragon as she started to wipe him clean. Angelina sighed, "you never normally get into trouble like this." Angelina looked up suddenly as one of the girls screamed, she seemed to be running from a butterfly? a perplexed look crossed her face.

Raziel looked over to skylar and sighed 'I'll certainly have to agree with you, I just hope he doesn't get into any more trouble, and your human goes easy on him'/i] the silver dragon shook his head knowing full well how some humans where very temperamental and there was nothing organoids, zoids or mini zoids could do about it. Arching it to looking at bent 'it's a pleasure to meet you'


Lorna smiled and gave a nod "They do have marvelous spices down there don't they." at least someone else here liked to cook, Lorna wasn't really even allowed in their kitchens due to her tending to take over.. she made excellent meals for everyone. however the other chefs didn't seem to like it when she did that.

Urania started talking to shun then the conversation suddenly switched to something about dating Urania was going rather fast for her. Lorna was suddenly hugged as she slowly began to digest what Urania was saying, Lorna blushed a bit, she couldn't help herself it was awkward, very awkward especially for her. Lorna saw a small butterfly flutter by. Lorna gave a nod "Neither am I really..." however her sentence was cut short by Urania's screeching cry.

"Did I say something?" she asked suddenly worried it was her fault.

Moe purred and cooed happily at the pettings, though he blinked up at Ranee and chirped as an answer to the question. Talon quite liked Moe. Moe just was an attention whore when people were around. And he liked helping! So when he was placed back onto the ground he hooted indignantly, leaped at Ranee and scrambled up to flop over her shoulder. His little stump of a tail would wag wildly. Moe would also hoot and squeak in rapid succession that he was more than happy to go and check out the screaming lady.




Talon's gaze wandered to watch Moe for a moment torment-I mean play- with Ranee. They seemed to be getting along good. It was a good distraction for the Pilot. His gaze was torn back to Angelina, curious to her chuckling, and then noticed that it was Urania dragging someone over to pester Shun.

Oh. . . This was going to be good. A caculated smirk passed over Talon, when that was interrupted it seemed by the mentioning of delicous food. "You did? Aw, shucks. You didn't have to bring them just for me. " He teased and jokingly kicked at the dirt.

Though as he did look down he noticed the small dragon type MRZ sporting the new fashion. Picnic food. "Wha... Poor thing. "

Then the scream. Talon's head shot up and he could only stare in amazement as Urania ran. His head tilted to the side and he saw the distasteful insect fluttering along, landing on a nearby flower to see if it tasted good as it looked. He said one thing that summed up his thoughts. "Huh. . . She never heard it coming, did she? "


Urania, huddled in the pilots seat, stared out at the monitors, targetting all the butterflies there were in the area, ordering the Sabre to shoot. It didn't. It thought its pilot was being a sissy and openly ignored her orders to destroy.

A missel for an insect the size of a quarter was seen as too much overkill-if there could be such a thing. Though something new came onto the screen, and that was Ranee. The woman opened the hatch and screamed down at Ranee, practically crying.

"It almost touched me! crying "

"Ya mean that harmless butterfly?" Despite Uraina's crying Ranee couldn't help but find this funny she did her best not to let the hint if a smile creep onto her face, and mind you it was hard especially for Ranee. Ranee bent over to pet Moe "Still want to help?" she asked a mischievous glint flickered in her eye, as the picked up the little creature gently in her hands "I hope you want to fly." she teased Moe before hurling it up toward Urania suddenly. Not at her mind you but toward the direction of her cockpit...

"I'm sure that butterfly wasn't trying to touch you, why don't you come back down here ok." Moe would most likely have better luck in making Urania feel better than she would. Still this was absolutely hilarious.

"Of course I did," Angelina smiled as she cleaned off Skylar, "they're for you and your comrades," Angelina was still rather surprised by the scream as she too saw the butterfly flutter onto a flower. Angelina thought of how pretty a picture it would have made then focused her attention back on trying to clean Skylar, Talon said something "I don't believe any of us saw that coming." she noted some of the other surprised faces earlier.

"There all clean." she announced once Skylar was glittering once more. "Do try and not make another mess OK." she glanced over to the pilot that had suffered Skylar's mischief, "I'll have to apologize to him after lunch for that." she muttered.

Skylar gave a draconic chirp at Angelina before heading back toward Raziel, however the dragon now had the lingering sent of food. At least Raziel was a better influence.

Raziel chuckled as Skylar came back over "So it would seem, however I am relieved still." Raziel bent over to allow Skylar to hop on her back. the smaller dragon landed on her shoulder blades.

Lorna offered shun one of the napkins she'd picked up. "Here." she said quietly before giving a quiet nod to what Shun had said Lorna did feel a little better to know she wasn't the cause of Urania's flight, it seemed another Imperial soldier was trying to cheer her up too it seemed. "I'm sorry about your food." she told shun as though it was her fault even though there was no controlling an MRZ.

Lorna glanced skyward, it seemed peaceful enough and she was thankful for that.

Urania squeaked in retort, "It is not harmless! It is evil! Those things can cause storms on the other side of the planet! They also shed over you and can poison you with their dust! They suffocate babies! They pillage farms! Egg villages! Destroy crops! Whaaahaha!!! " Her brother had put a fuzzy Caterpillar on her head when she was little and squished it on her. It steamrolled from there. Thus, all butterflies are evil.

Moe on the other hand found himself flying through the air and landing in Urania's lap. Who immediately snuggled the little confused and air groggy dinosaur. "Oo-kay.... I guess I could come out....EEP! " Her Zaberfang had enough of this silliness. He lowered his head to the ground and managed to dump his pilot onto the ground, close his canopy and give a snort that clearly said, ' I am ashamed you are my pilot, grow a backbone, it's just a squishy bug.'. It did give her a small nose bump of affection though. Which meant Urania ended back up on the floor clutching the poor dazed, snuggled Moe.

But Moe was happy where he was. Not much else needs to be said.


Talon was laughing, happy to forget for the time being the doom and gloom that brought this jovial picnic together. "Sweet. " he then frowned for a moment, "That means I have to share, don't I? Aww..... Well, that's okay. Just means I get to come up with an excuse to visit the Republic if they're all gone by the time I nab a couple for snacks later. " He doubted there would be any reason to, but he was on a roll and enjoying relaxing.

And watching the little lizard/dragon get cleaned of food was funny. Talon laughed softly, "Don't worry about it too much. That happens every now and then. Shun knows Moe causes trouble so Skylar is innocent. Cute little devil you have though. "


A loud screech came from the direction of Shun and his own Zoid. Talon looked over and frowned severely, possibly plotting how to melt down that obnoxiously stupid Striker into scrap metal. That thing would doom them all if he didn't learn to keep quiet. Thankfully, Tyrant was also annoyed by this and immediately after bellowed an apology, opened up his sensor panels, and threw open a broadcast channel of some random FM radio station that managed to reach this far out.

. . . It wasn't great, but hey, it was good cover for Zutnic's folley.


He frowned then sighed, playing light of the seriousness of the situation. "Heh. . . The Zoids are getting antsy. We better wrap things up. "

"Alright it's a monstrously evil, vile butterfly," Ranee confirmed "I'll hit the next one that comes near you." Ranee gave a nod as Urania finally agreeing to return to the group but no sooner had that happened than the Zaber had decided this was ridiculous and Urania was clutching Moe on the ground. Ranee on the other hand had to manage a leap backward to avoid the large head of the Zoid.

That was different, “Need a hand up?” Ranee knelt down and offered her hand to the ground ridden pilot “You know it’s easier for bugs to climb on you when you sit on the ground like that.” The instant realization of what she had said hit her moments too late, she might jump in another zoid and lock it...

Crap.

The high pitched noise tore through the camp; Ranee glanced at Tyrant as it called an apology as the Radio seemed to start, oh well. Ranee shrugged. “Let’s get moving then.” She agreed it gave her a chance to get back in the air, as Stiker echoed her sentiment.

Raziel turned immediately as the high pitched noise broke through the seemingly normal atmosphere. The organoid hissed as she tried to find its source. Raziel turned toward the zoids, even though Tyrant had attempted to hide it, the sound Raziel felt was out of place. Where had it come from?

"Have you felt that before?" the dragon asked the rat “It’s strange I felt it earlier”

“Of course!” Angelina laughed before adding teasingly “So long as the border guard buys your story.” She but through a sandwich she had brought beside her though it now had one of Skylar’s little claws in it, Oh well still tasted good.

Swallowing Angelina smiled “He is isn’t he, Moe is pretty cute himself.” Relaxing was a good thing, too bad she hadn’t brought any paint, and her sketchbook was still in Seraphim’s cockpit, damn, she could have sketched a few pictures and painted them latter, might have been fun. But there wasn’t any pressure on anyone really and everyone was it looked like feeling better after these strange turn of events.

“That was peculiar, didn’t know you where impatient Tyrant.” She teased the green zoid before offering a nod to Talon, "Lets head off then along the border."

Angelina looked back toward where Skylar and Raziel had been talking with the other organoid, seemingly they were gone, a reflection off Raziel's silver platting told her the Organoid was off in front of the other zoids. Angelina paused as Raziel seemed to be sitting in front of Tyrant and the Zaber Striker. "Raziel!" Angelina called "We're going."

Skylar was still on Raziel's back as the silver dragon made its way toward the other zoids. The human's didn't seem to mind the noise as much as Raziel; Skylar voiced its concern to the organoid.

Raziel gave a nod to the MZR, as she paced in front of all the zoids before pausing in front of Tyrant and the Zaber Striker. She couldn't pinpoint the source but she felt it didn't belong something was wrong about these two zoids, well not wrong perhaps but different than the others she had felt it earlier and shrugged off the feeling. Raziel stared at them for a time before being called by Angelina.


Returning with a ‘you’re welcome’ nod, had Lorna been more observant she might have noticed Shun’s strange twitch. Lorna folded her hands as she glanced back in the direction of Urania, her zoid seemed to have plopped her back on the ground itself. A shame because Everyone else seemed to start packing up.

It was time for patrol again, Lorna looked to the sub Geno then back to Ares. Her Sniper had long range sensors, but that green Sub Geno raptor seemed to have a longer range than her Sniper, she’d eventually have to ask how he’d gotten the system to work like that or what system he was using even. “It was nice meeting you and Urania.” She gave a light bow as she stood to go and put away the remaining food.