<b>WHO:</b> Kaname Chidori, Meiya Mitsurugi, Macua Huitl, Akira Tadokoro, Renee Gauthier, Staren Wiremu, and Leonard Testarossa.
<b>WHAT:</b> A chance encounter!
<b>WHEN:</b> June 16th.
<b>MISSION:</b> Have a good time OUTSIDE of Sousuke's apartment.
<b>WATCH OUT FOR:</b> Leonard and Kaname's first encounter.

<lj-cut text="Something wasn't right.">
Meiya Mitsurugi steps out of the restaurant and on to the street. The restaurant is a nice one, fairly upscale with out encroaching the area of being 'snootish'. She came here with her friend, whom frankly has been through hell the past couple days, though Meiya did not ask for any details of events. This was just a lunch, to help them get their minds off of it.

"I'm sorry I made you come out all this way." she says as she holds open the door for her friend.



While Kaname's thankful that Meiya hasn't yet broached the topic of the attack the other day, she can't help but wonder what her friend knows. Had Sousuke been garbed in full Bonta-kun gear, she wouldn't have any reason to be worried; Sousuke's distinguished manner of speaking would have been muffled behind a series of 'fumo fumo'.

But he wasn't. And /that/ was what worried Kaname the most. If keeping Sousuke's identity secret wasn't such a high priority, she could just ask about these things normally. Instead, she's left weighing the likelihood that her friend knows against the likelihood she /doesn't/.

"What are you talking about?" Kaname asks, laughter ringing in her voice. "You know, it's so nice to get out of that place for a change! I'm going nuts!" What 'that place' is, Kaname fails to mention.


Macua Huitl says "Hey Akira, it's been a while. I see you been keeping out of trouble lately. I don't think you met my boyfriend have you?" Well in person and not shooting at each other at least! Or you know trying to feed him to Devil Nanites. But she is quite over that.

Oh if Kaname and Meiya only knew Macua had slipped back into Cecil's place and found a few things. Wraith probably noticed but she'd know where Macua would be taking them. Less work for her, right? Well any worries Macua has about Sagara have been pretty much knocked out. Sure army brat boy went a bit over kill but he kept Kaname from getting killed by Cecil. Still there where the hell was Cecil now? Shes not sure she wants to know. Still she doesn't think just a wannabe solider would be a good body guard unless hed ya know had actual training. Maybe shell have to hire a trailer to watch things in the neighbourhood.

Shes about to carry on when she spies Meiya, whose hair shed know anywhere followed by Kaname exiting a building just a bit down the way.

"Hey! Kaname! Meiya!" Shes waving at her two friends and guess what Macuas leaning on Kazuma, which could only lead to questions on her friends part.


Chewing her lower lip briefly for a moment, Renee offers a nervous smile up at 'Icarus'; she scritches in the back of her hair for several moments before lowering it back down, although her permanent bedhead-tastic messy hair can't possibly really look worse for wear. At least it isn't sticking up goofily or anything! "Oh, I.. wasn't really looking for anything, I-I was just looking arou.." She mumbles off, before wobbling forward with a start when she's bumped into by yet another person. Her eyes widen and she lets out a little 'kyah!' as she flops forward. Apparently her POWARZ OF EVASION do not extend very well to outside of the cockpit. Alas.


Is Meiya playing dumb on that? Is she waiting for a better time to ask about Sousuke? Probably the latter. She smiles at her friend anyways, figuring Mithril had her in a safe house for a while. "I'm glad this made you feel better. Should we take a look around?"

Then Macua calls for them. "Oh! MAcua, I didn't expect to see you here."


Akira smiles. "Wouldn't say that, but there's a lot less to get into now. Japan ain't really the safest place these days." He keeps one hand on the motorcycle and leans lightly on it, eyes turning to Kazuma. He blinks, and when he reopens his eyes, there is the briefest flash of gold.

"Nah, don't think I have. Hey, you'd know it if you'd seen me out of a cockpit, flyboy!" Akira grins. "Not 'xactly subtle, Mac can tell you that much." He glances down the street and waves at Meiya and Kaname as they approach. Familiar faces, at least.


Icarus' arm moves to catch Renee in a quick fluid motion. He smiles down at her. "Careful. It wouldn't be very nice to hurt that pretty face." The boy comments before releasing her and looking over at Staren, raising a brow. A lab coat? How...there wasn't even a word for how much that made 'Icarus' feel. He just stares for a moment as a sweatdrop rolls down his cheek.

"Watch yourself there. You'll hurt yourself too." Icarus laughs again, feeling rather ill inwardly. He swears if he was born into this world, he would've clawed right through it, taking any simpleton who came near him to the grave. However, outwardly the boy looks just as 'chill' and 'with it' as you can be...despite looking like something from Saved by the Bell.

"Just a tourist then. I guess, I shouldn't disturb you then." Icarus nods slowly, turning his head to look at the good of friends down yander. My, my...He could swear he knows those girls from somewhere.


Kazuma *blinks*, waving to Meiya and Kaname, but shooting a glare at Akira. "If you know who I am, call me by name!" He pauses, looking at Macua. "Akira ... should I know the other name? I recognize his voice ..."


"Yeah," Kaname agrees, with a nod. She opens her mouth to make a suggestion, but before she can, a familiar voice rings out from in front of her.

Kaname smiles. "Macua," she says, by way of greeting. "Who's the guy?" she asks, leaning over slightly as she extends a single digit towards Kazama; it seems she's already knows Akira.

"Long time, no see," she says to the spikey-haired pilot. The two of them never really had the chance to become properly acquainted on-board the Tuatha de Danaan... but considering the circumstances then, it was probably only to be expected!


Staren Wiremu reaches his arms out to catch Renee when he sees her falling, but Leonard is faster, so the boy just drops his arms back to his side, before they find their way into his jacket pockets. "So, um..." Mentally he goes back through words he heard but ignored seconds earlier. "Sorry for bumping into you, did you say you were looking for something?" He looks between Renee and Leonard, not finding anything odd about them. Like he knows about fashion!


Renee wobbles back from the two slightly once she's righted, and looks between Leonard and Staren, scritching at her cheek a few times. "U-Uhm.. Sorry," She mumbles off, shifting from one heel to the other several times -- clearly quite self-concious. "I-I'm Renee. Uh. Ensign Renee Gauthier." She adds, without a terribly refined sense of military decorum. But at least she doesn't do drugs, Graham. She offers an awkward smile to Staren -- "Oh, I think he's.. looking for.. some kind of.. apartment, or something." She mumbles, in a quiet voice.


Macua Huitl looks to Akira and Kazuma for a moment, "Your as about as subtle as your typical Zeon officer but it could be worse. Your all right I take it? He's a friend of mine Kazuma." She now looks to Meiya and nods in agreement.

"I didn't think I'd see you or Kaname here. I went looking for you guys after school but you'd taken off." At the question whose the guy? Well she ends up giving him a peck on the cheek. "This is my boyfriend Kazuma Ardygun."

Some things were out in the open now, between the three girls but some things were still complicated. Such as Meiya and Kaname having no idea Macua was now part of the A.E.U.G rather than just a freelance trailer or just a Gundam Fighter. Even more for irony shes worked along side Mithril on and off since she joined up with what was left of Orb.


"I /don't/ know who you are. Least, I never met'cha before in my life! 'cept maybe in the field." Akira shrugs. He looks pretty familiar, actually; wasn't he a Gundam Fighter that got to the finals? And one of the people who got infected by the Devil Gundam and /survived/? That might explain the scars. "But, sure, whatever. Kazuma, right?"

Akira turns in Kaname's direction. "Hey, Chidori." He grins, shrugging a shoulder. "Yeah, well, been busy avoidin' school at Chibikko House. How ya been?" The Tuatha de Danaan was a bad place to get to know someone during that particular incident.


"Ah. Military! Wow. I didn't think someone my age could be in the military unless you were like one of those guys in the One Year War. Pretty neat if you ask me." Icarus looks at Staren for a moment as he hears Renee. "Friend of yours?" He smiles softly, again looking to the group across the way. He could swear he has met Kaname or Macua before...but where? The boy plays with his goggles in though, looking back to Renee and Staren with a blank expression. "Well if noone knows, maybe I'll go ask by one of those police boxes. That's probably what I should've done in the first place." He sticks his tounge out like one of those goofy kids in the video. In Leonard's opinion, he's pulling off this normal thing quite well.


"Nice to meet you, Kazuma. I'm Meiya Mitsurugi." She lets Kaname introduce herself. If she knew about Macua in AUEG or Mithril, it would produce mixed feelings.


Kazuma Ardygun turns his attention to Kaname and Meiya, and bows slightly - more his head than anything else. "Kazuma Ardygun of the Valstork Family," he introduces himself, offering a handshake to the two girls. Akira is being summarily ignored, at least for now. "Macua talked me into coming to Tokyo to try going to a normal school ..."


Staren shakes his head. "I don't know her. Though..." He looks down at Renee (He's a few inches taller) and then back at Leonard, "I think these days it's not that uncommon, actually." The military... She's EFA if she's talking about it, too... That reminds him why he's on vacation, what he's trying not to dwell on. He wonders if she knows the man he killed... Probably not, but then... Well, it's not like he can just confess right here. He looks down at the ground a moment.

Not that it'll make a big difference, but maybe he can do a small good deed for a random stranger here. He looks up at the pale-haired boy, "You need to find something?" He asks Leonard. "I'm good at finding places, where do you need to go?"


"So you're Macua's boyfriend!" she says, leaning slightly forward, her hands clasped behind her back; he looks normal enough. And he's polite, too!

"I'm Kaname Chidori. I'm student council vice president and class rep of Class 3-2." That's their class. "Feel free to ask me if you have any questions."

Her attention is immediately deflected back to Akira.

"Better than the last time we met, anyway!" Though /that/ probably goes without saying. "I'm glad that you're okay, though." After they had separated, she didn't know what had happened to him.


Renee's nervous smile widens, and she sways a few times on her heels. "W-Well, I'm.. I'm pretty new. I've only been in a couple of battles.." She murmurs, bringing her hands together to steeple her fingers together. "U-Uhm.. I.. could probably go with you if you want, though, I mean, I guess I probably.. wouldn't be much help, though.." She murmurs out, stroking her lips together self-conciously and casting her green eyes downward. "B-But it was nice to meet you both..!" She does not, apparently, think it likely her company will be requested, by the tone and content of her voice.


Icarus looks over at Staren, smiling brightly. "I'm trying to get to this apartment building. My friend said he was visiting his girlfriend and wanted to meet up to groove and jam. It would pretty swell if you could help me out."

The boy produces a nicely written piece of paper, showing an address which conviently is the address of the building across from Kaname. The building of Sousuke Sagara. Coincidence. Very much so as Leonard was still unsure of where Cecil was. He even recites the address for others to hear. 'Icarus' smiles until he sees Akira. It is only then that his smile becomes strained. That man....He knows that man for sure. That was one of Mythril's agents. So close that Icarus could just call the whole thing off and burn this city to the ground. Yes, that would be nice. To kill the man who got into his head...

Icarus however is snapped back to reality by Renee's squirming. Even a heartless monster like Leonard is touched by this girl's spirit. He very much wants to turn this slab of clay into well tuned killing machine. The Naive ones were always the best to work with. Icarus smiles plainly, shaking his head. "I would be disappointed if you didn't come."


Staren Wiremu gives Renee an odd look. _This_ is a soldier? He considers saying something, but... Why would she listen to advice from a random kid? He certainly can't explain. He then turns and looks at the note. "Hmm. Well that's, um..." He stalls while Neo-Google Earth loads up and takes the address, and the address of the theater he just left. He raises an eyebrow as he switches back to normal vision. "Huh, it's right over there?" He turns and looks over at the building in question and nods at it. He raises the other eyebrow too, "So you got pretty close!" Wait, is that Akira over there? "Akira?" He looks over.


"Heh, well, not much could be much worse than the last time," Akira says. "Likewise. Figured you would be though, with Sousuke around, anyway." He grins again. "We'll have to hang out sometime when we /aren't/ in mortal danger." Well, Akira reflects, most of the time he's in mortal danger anyway, so he should probably get used to talking to people during. While reflecting, he ignores Kazuma in return; he'd probably just get loud anyway.

He turns to another familiar voice, and his grin widens slightly. "Heyyyy, Staren! Finally came back down to Earth, huh? Missed gravity and fresh air and non-freeze dried food, maybe?" He might be ribbing him a little. Icarus gets a glance, but Akira doesn't notice the strain on the smile. Renee gets one too, but instead gets a curious look in return, an eyebrow raised.


Icarus looks over at the building, nodding slowly. So this is where he should be waiting and all the evidence that has been left by Cecil. The purple haired boy looks over at Renee, smiling reassuringly. "Is something the matter." He looks over at Akira again. This time he seems completely normal...as much as he can be.

He looks at Staren and smiles. "Ah, you ran into one of your friends. Should we go on without you? If so, hey, you've been a swell guy. Thanks for being super keen." Icarus is so sad to see the man leave. He doesn't really have time for someone like Staren anyway. Judging by his mellow expression, he is probably whining because a female left him or something. Bah. He keeps his expression chipper however, making everyone think he is such a sweet guy.


As soon as she's positive that Macua and Meiya are not looking at her, Kaname waves her arms back and forth frantically at Akira, all while shaking her head 'NO' at the same time. Apparently there's something in there that her friends don't know.


Macua Huitl has her reasons for it notably the continued production of the Gundam X, giving it to Yazan, the fact all the information she digs up on her past points to the EFA. Or some sub section of it being behind it. But thankfully Meiya doesn't know so it's not a huge issue right?

She grins at her friends surprised. Kazuma living proof a mecha pilot can behave like a normal person socially. Perhaps it's the fact he has three very strong willed sisters to riot act him when he slips up.

She pauses eyeing Staren this could be a problems if he accidentally lets something slip. As for Renee and her friend they don't get much notices she's kind of distracted. "Hello Staren. Spacer food can be horrible some times." She nods to Akira at his suggestion to hang out with Kazuma. "Oh how's your sister doing, Akira?"


S.. Space? Renee's expression tightens a bit at Akira's words, and she eyes Staren for a few moments, nibbling her lower lip -- is he.. A SPACE MONSTER? That is certainly the primary thought running through her mind, but she does her best to eek out a nervous smile toward him. "O-Oh.. I'm.. I'm fine.. just fine! Perfectly fine." She babbles out toward Leonard, with an eager little nod of her head; she sways just a little on her heels, slipping her hands around behind to clasp them together at her lower back. "Just fine."


Staren Wiremu nods to Leonard, "Seeya. Have a nice day." He smiles a little and nods to him and Renee, and makes his way over to Akira and the blue-haired girl. "Oh it's not _that_ bad, they have hydroponics gardens and things... But yeah, good to return to Earth I guess. Shame I can't go home, though. But... Someday." He nods to Kaname. "Who's your friend?"

. o O ( Should I ask him for advice? He did kill a guy once... But it was a DG-infected jerk who was threatening to kill his sister... I just killed some guy defending the prison! Oh man... I came down here to think about something else... But ya never know, he might have good advice. NEOGOOGLE EARTH cNCA118 <Sousuke's address> )


"Ah! You made it!" A voice calls from down the street, waving toward Icarus. The man in question was a man in his late 20's wearing a red blazer, blue shirt, and yellow tie over his thin frame. He had hair that was cut short, close to scalp and came down along his jaw in long well kept sideburns. He smiles in only the way a simian can, leaning over as he walks toward the group and placing an arm around Icarus. "Sorry. Were the directions hard for someone like you to follow?"

Icarus smiles and shakes his head, looking toward Renee. "No, dude, I have these swell people to help me find my way."

"Swell?" The new man tries not to laugh as he places a cigarette between his lips.

"Swell. And very cool I suppose." Icarus nods. He was sure this was how people spoke to each other. He looks at Renee and gestures for her to follow. "Please allow me to treat you to a pop while we're out for helping me." He can kinda see she wants to get out of here.

"Pop?" The other man snickers and is trying his best not to laugh Leonard into one of his rages.

"Yes. Pop." Icarus repeats, giving him a look. "Lets go."

The pair begins to walk, hopefully with Renee close behind. As Icarus walks past, he makes eye contact with Kaname for a single moment. That moment last forever as it comes together...It was her...That girl from his sister's sub. Leonard wishes to stay there forever in that split second as the winds of destiny pass between him and Kaname. That was how he envisioned it. For Kaname, it was probably just a random passerby. For Leonard it was much much more. That moment frozen in time passes as he keep walking, not pausing to decipher more on this.

Icarus smiles to himself, continuing beside his "friend". "You will need to tell me all the stuff you saw in Tokyo. Right down to the places you looked into for me."


Staren blinks at the unprompted comment. "Was that...?" He lifts his sunglasses and looks at Akira for a second -- He looks like he hasn't been getting much sleep. "Huh." He lowers the glasses again. "Didn't feel a thing." He looks over to Kaname, "Hello. Friend of Akira's?" And then he hears... Macua? He hasn't seen her out of her machine since the Hoffman Sealab incident but he remembers that day well. "Macua... long time no see... How've you been?"

.oO( Did he just read my mind? He must've.... Huh, didn't feel anything. ... ... I wonder if he's reading it now? Hi, Akira! Okay, now that's getting silly. ...I'll call him later. When we can talk alone. )


Macua pauses and looks right at Kaname and it's like she senses something is bothering her friend. She pauses at Akira? She doesn't say anything she'll not bring it up but she seems worried for a moment. Akira would know Macua is a new type and may have picked up on something from Kaname. She pauses, "Hey Kaname? One second." She darts away to a strange vending machine she pops some money and comes back with a package of underwear? Yes, it's plain female underear she passes it to Kaname. "I had a feeling you might need this!"

She looks back to Staren for a moment. "It has been a while."


"Well, something like that," Kaname says to Staren. It's hard to be quite sure what they are. Allies, maybe? No, that sounded too much like a term /Sousuke/ would use.

There's no time to debate semantics, however, as Macua strangely, and unexpectedly disappears, only to re-emerge with panties. "Huh?" How did she know that--?

It's at that moment that Leonard passes. Kaname, who had been talking animatedly until that point suddenly stops, then looks over her shoulder.

But he's already vanished into the crowd.

Kaname is immediately overcome with a feeling of unease; it wasn't something she could quite describe. Suddenly, she was overcome with a wave of wrongness. Something wasn't right. Something wasn't /right/.


MEiya had been quiet up until now, internally debating how to handel some of the people here, like Akira. Nothing really against him but, but the only time she saw him was in Orb, and Orb's currently tangled up in Karaba.

All of that stops when 'Icarus' leaves, and Kaname looks towards him. Meiya is no Newtype or psychic, but picking up on her friend's body language is easy.

Meiya reaches out to put a hand on Kaname's shoulder "Kaname? Are you alright?"


Macua Huitl could just have guessed or maybe she foresaw it who knows. Macua pauses for a moment she gets a very murky vision like in combat. Which was odd she normally didn't see things out of combat she wasn't like Tiffa. Still it's hard to make out but she swears about someone wait is it her? A friend has a gun but she can't make out their face, then there's a Gunshot and she feels herself get hit and go down. Then there's some voice she doesn't know but she can hear a malevolent laugh The vision fades and she's holding her head, she makes a pained noise. What the heck was that? She puts her hand up to her temple and rubs it still. What the heck was that.


Staren gets an eye-roll, 'Icarus' gets another brief stare, and Renee... well, she looks too nervous to even threaten to glare are, the poor girl. He just shakes his head and watches them head off, turning back to the others. He almost makes a lewd remark to Macua, but he gets his own brand of Bad Feeling when Kaname is suddenly... quiet? Akira opens his mouth to say something, but stops when he sees Macua get an inexplicable headache.

Akira frowns deeply. He keeps one hand on his bike, turning to face the other direction and look for the vanished 'Icarus.' He glances through the crowd, trying to spot him but to no avail. His free hand clenches into a fist, a brief rippling in the air around it as if it had suddenly become very hot. He forces himself to unclench it, the weird effect going away as quickly as it had come.

"Hnh." He looks back at the others; Meiya gets a nod, a brief flash across his eyes and a muttered, "I'm not with /them/," another one of his odd 'answering things that weren't asked' moments. Kaname and Macua get looks. "What happened?"


Kaname doesn't answer Meiya's question.

"I'm going home," she says shortly.


Meiya is slightly taken back by Kaname's reply "..Alright. Just let me know if you need anything." She takes away her hand, and Akira's words catch her attention...
It's sort of odd, how he knew what she was thinking, but.... this world is ful of strange thing, and it's possible, though unlikely, that he infered it through her hesitance.

Meiya nods to him once.


Kaname, perhaps too quickly, makes her way back to Sousuke's apartment.



Akira is slow, or he would have offered her a ride home.

He shrugs a little bit at Meiya and Macua. Whaddaya gonna do?</lj-cut>