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The blank look confused her, and Mimi stared back at her blankly, blinking a few times before she realized that she probably sounded a little crazy.
"I-I-I... a-ah, désolé!! I just... I think had a dream, where I was in this place that looked a lot like Alice in Wonderland, and I was a rabbit, and, you were a rabbit, and..."
Oh gosh, she was rambling even more now, and she clutched her face, cheeks turning a bright red.
"U-um, I-I mean, that is..."
There was a small squeak when she buried her face into her hands.
"Gomen."

O-oh, thank goodness, she wasn't completely crazy..
Mimi lowered her hands and looked up at Sherry timidly, giving her a grateful smile.
With that, her enthusiasm returned, and she grasped Sherry's hand with both of hers, eyes sparkling with admiration.
"Merci! My name is Mimi Magloire, and I'm..."
Well, she wasn't quite sure what she was. Life hunter? Had the man said they were hunters? She couldn't remember. The name didn't sound very cute for warriors of justice.
"Um, if I may, what is a 'hunter'? And you said 'life hunter'. Does that mean there are different categories of hunters?"

"Également!!"
She gave Sherry her full attention, hands clutched to her chin as soaked in every word.
"Mm, I remember agreeing to fighting monsters! After all, I can't let them terrorize the poor citizens! Since I have this special power, I am bound to fight the forces of evil, and protect everyone to the best of my abilities! This is what my heart has told me to do."
She actually seemed pretty serious about what she said.
At the mention of partners and uniforms, Mimi let out a loud gasp, grasping Sherry's hands once more.
"A partner? Like... like Usagi and Luna? Do we get cute sailor outfits also??"
She was positively sparkling

It was ok. Her classmates often gave her the same look when she had exclaimed things about seeing shadows, and how she might have awoken some sleeping dormant power, and on more than one occasion, had told her to stop watching such childish things.
It wasn't childish though, in her opinion. One could never be too old for anime.
They were also pretty informative.

She couldn't help but frown a little, sad that she wouldn't be fighting the forces of evil with a cute talking cat. Sure, they had owned a cat, and she had stuck crescent stickers on its forehead, but sadly, the cat didn't talk. Only yowled pitifully at her. Perhaps she hadn't awoken her special powers at that time yet. Which was why she was here, for training!

"Mm, I guess heros wear scarves, and coats are pretty important!"
At least she had the cute outfit already prepared, and did a twirl.
"Oh! Um, can I meet your partner?"
It might not have been cute or cuddly, but perhaps that was subjective. Sherry was pretty, so surely she'd have a pretty partner also!

"Weapons...?"
Mm, well, she supposed if they were going to fight, they needed weapons, but she had never really thought that weapons could be partners. It was a naive thought though. There were several animes with talking weapons, and wasn't there one where the weapon could turn into the person? Or... vice versa.
She couldn't remember too well, as she tended to watch the more cutesy magical transformation ones.

"U-um, ok! Arigato!"
She took the hunter's hand, eager to learn who her partner would be.

The hiss of air, the beeping of an alarm. It all just seemed like he had been sleeping, dreaming (and he had been, just for a lot longer then his fuzzy mind first realized), and now it was time to wake up and get started with his day. He tried to sit up, to turn over and slap his hand down on the alarm clock that would undoubtedly be on the stand right next to his hotel bed, but something was wrong. He wasn't lying down, his feet somehow underneath him as he stood vertical in the pod, his hand slapping against glass instead of on top of some mechanical, noise making, time giving device.

It was confusing, the kind of confusing that jolted ones brain awake much faster. The type of confusion that was slightly panicking, one that gripped a person's chest tight. Dark eyes flew open just as a glass door disappeared upwards and out of sight, the hissing of air continuing until it was out of sight. Dark eyes blinked and a tongue darted out to lick lips that felt too dry. Dark eyes darted left and right, taking in the sight of rows of pods, glowing, holding people, like some kind of scene out of an alien movie.

"S-Salve?" He called out, his voice small, hesitant, not packed with it's usual bravado and confidence.

Maybe calling out had been a stupid idea. He could hear it now, footsteps that in his still hazy mind sounded more like the skitter and scrabble of alien feet along a tiled floor. He had just alerted some disgusting and creepy predator that he was awake, and he was fairly sure that it meant he was about to be torn apart and feasted upon."Cazzo!" He hissed, debating whether to step out of his pod and attempt to make a run for it, though he could feel that his legs were shaking and weak.

Instead he leaned back against the back wall of the pod, hands clenching into fists. If he had to, he would punch this alien ******** right in whatever face it had. He was not about to go down without a fight!

He braced himself as the sounds came closer, and when a head popped around the edge of the doorway, he lunged before he could even realize that it was a woman. A kind and cheerful looking woman with bright eyes and a warm voice.

And his fist was already flying straight towards her.