Looking to rumble [open]

[nobel_berserker]

She'd seen the living area. She'd been hauled around the ship by tentacles. She'd wandered around the pod chamber with Hans, yelling for Domon or Rain or anyone else in the Shuffle Alliance without so much as a stir from the things. And she'd been told that Earth--her precious Earth--was gone, and she had to fight a war against the ones who'd done

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[haruno]

Sakura blinked in mild surprise as she noted someone else using much the same preferred route of movement as the shinobi from back home. Watching for a while, she finally decided it was worth trying to make contact with a fellow -- what were they really calling themselves -- crew member.

Contacts, after all, started by making contact.

She pushed off the taller building she'd been perched on, launching off convenient surfaces to fall into step at a respectable distance with the other woman. "Seen anything interesting so far?"

[nobel_berserker]

Hey, another runner! Another runner that could move like a Gundam Fighter could--well that was kind of awesome, though Allenby was pretty sure this girl wasn't one. She'd never seen her before.

She slowed as the girl drew level with her. "Oh yeah, lots of stuff!" she answered. "I saw that Sensorium thing, the hanger where they keep all the spaceships and mobile suits, the livin' area and quarters--how 'bout you? You another new kid?"

[haruno]

"I am, yes. Sakura Haruno. Nice to meet you." She flashed the other girl a smile while she did a quick mental review -- most those places she'd been my as well. The only unfamiliar one was the hangar. "Sounds similar to where I've been, though I've thought about stopping in at the Media Library. Eaten at the cafeteria already -- they weren't kidding about the paste."

She kept her tone light, even if she grimaced a little at the memory. An admirably effective way of keeping everyone nutritionally sound didn't make for an admirably palatable meal. "Haven't been near the hangar, on the other hand." She had even less of a clue what a mobile suit was, though spaceships... they were on a giant living one.

She could at least guess what those were.

[nobel_berserker]

"Ohhh, yeah--that goop is pretty gross," Allenby agreed, pulling a face. She found herself wishing for the pre-packaged military food she'd been eating since she was six. "I guess it's pretty futuristic, but I'm still gonna see if I can find anywhere that's got real food." It was a big ship, after all.

She stood on tiptoe of one foot, lifting her leg behind her and raising her arms to test how her balance was. Whatever gravity-simulating system Stacy had didn't seem to affect it any. "So what kinda stuff can ya do? I've heard there are all kinds of people here, fighters and engineers and that."

[haruno]

"I hear there are a few places, if you know where to look. Supplies are limited on that front." She shrugged her shoulders, watching Allenby move. "Not unexpected, all things considered."

Her question was curious, partly due to the fact Sakura wasn't sure how much she wanted to say. They were all supposed to work together, in an ideal situation (and world); but old habits died hard. "Hand to hand combat and healing, mostly." She was being honest, if not very in depth in her explanation. "I'm trained to use various weaponry, but nothing like some of what I've seen on the other crewmembers."

Guns were unheard of on her world. "What about you?"

[nobel_berserker]

"I'm a Gundam Fighter!" Allenby raised her fists with a proud grin. She really had very little sense of secrecy about the job. After all, the Finals were broadcast all over Earth and space, so there really was no reason to hide anything about it. "So my fists are my first weapon, and I'm pretty good with 'em. But if you can run up walls too, I bet we could have a pretty even fight between us."

She herself was quite curious about the healing Sakura mentioned. "So you're like a medic too? That's pretty useful!" Sounded kinda like Rain, actually. She was really good in a Gundam, but her first job seemed to be patching up Domon--or anyone else that needed a hand.

[haruno]

Yet another mention of this Gundam business. Was it some sort of country? A specific style of martial arts? A summons? Sakura hadn't worked this out yet; nothaving been near the hangars, she also hadn't had her own epiphany to correct her growing confusion. "Is gundam the style of hand-to-hand combat you practice?" Best to cut to the point and ask directly, rather than get more confused as time went on. "I'd be more than happy to spar at some point, if that's what you're looking to do. Pending we stay in the city limits, or ask Stacy to officially recognize our intent."

Violations weren't something Sakura was actively look to earn.

SHe then nodded, again glad that the term 'medic' was understood and used on other worlds. "I am, yes." Sakura offered a hand to the other woman, smiling. "Sakura Haruno, from the Land of Fire. I'd say who I trained under, but I have a feeling her name won't mean anything to someone not from my world. As far as I can tell, she hasn't been here before." Yet. Maybe ever.

That was a sobering

[nobel_berserker]

"A Gundam's a special kind of mobile suit," Allenby said, and paused. "Uh--those are kinda like big robots that people use to fight with. You can see 'em if you head down to the hangar! They're pretty awesome." She rubbed the back of her head in a bit of confusion at the limitations the gal mentioned. Allenby really hadn't bothered acquainting herself with any rules of the ship. She'd basically assumed that it didn't matter, because she wasn't about to do anything that was actually bad. "Why'd we have to ask Stacy? She doesn't like people fightin'?"

Unlike Sakura, it was only a matter of time before Allenby broke some kind of regulation. She tended to treat things like that as a difference of opinion.

"It's nice to meet ya! I'm Allenby Beardsley from Neo-Sweden." She shook the offered hand. "The military trained me. You had your own master?" That was pretty neat if she had.

[haruno]

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Allenby Beardsley." She smiled, partly out of ingrained politeness. "I did, past the Academy. If you're looking to improve yourself beyond what you learn before you graduate, you end up finding your own masters. Tsunade-shishou was willing to keep me on after I all but forced her into it

[nobel_berserker]

"Well that's pretty cool! Sounds like you must be a real fighter to get your trainin' like that." Her smile softened into something more sad. "Hope she hatches out of one of those pod things. There are too many people stuck in there." Allenby just couldn't make herself think that Domon and the others would be gone like Earth was. Surely any good fighters from other worlds would be in there too. It wouldn't make sense for Stacy not to get them.

She pulled a face at the rules Sakura described. "Well that's dumb! What happens if you just get into a fight on the spur of the moment? There might not be time for all that permission stuff." She glared up at the sky projection. "I'm grateful for bein' saved and all, but that doesn't give her the right to watch me."

The next question was a little more complicated now than it had been before Allenby had arrived on this ship. "Well, on my Earth, each country gets one Gundam and we fight in those so we don't need armies and navies fightin' huge wars and killing millions of people." Her face

[haruno]

There was something horrifying in hearing at the sheer effectiveness of the human population in producing weapons of massive destruction. Machines, things of that nature hadn't been the norm for her world, or the shinobi nations. Yet they'd made their own "weapons" to hold each other back from war, misused as they tailed beasts were over the decades. "It's strange to think the same thing can be used for such different purposes across the universes." Even more so when those universes used the same names, around the same planet, for similar purposes -- in theory, if not practice

[nobel_berserker]

"It's weird," said Allenby, "and I don't like it." For all she loved fighting, there were some things that she did take seriously. The idea of using a Gundam to actively kill other people? There were not enough words in any language for her to describe how bad it was. She'd seen some pretty horrible misuses of Gundams on her own world, but that wasn't as bad as designating Gundams as war machines right from the start. All the damage they did to Earth just by accident, and people were using them that way on purpose elsewhere? And the idea of more than one Earth was just too strange

[haruno]

"I'm sure we could," she said, grinning in turn. The positive focus was one she appreciated. "Though you'll have to settle for one demonstrator until that happens. As for your friends, I look forward to that. I'll do the same for you when the people I know start getting woken up by Stacy." It was bound to happen, sooner or later.

The rest was thinking material. Giant vehicles of destruction... things out of a fictional reality that hadn't been all that interesting to her back home, only real now that she was here. With everything destroyed... "You could say that about a lot of things here," she said, in response to Allenby's statement against the weird nature of other Earth's use of Gundams. "Expectations are different than the reality."