2023-03-13: New Wings
- Log: 2023-03-13: New Wings
- Cast: Neo Getter Team
- Where: NISAR Headquarters
- Date: U.C. 0097 03 13
- Summary: Sho Tachibana returns to Earth from Tsutsujidai Prom.
<poem>BEEP.
"Clocking in: Tachibana, Sho. Welcome back, Squadron Leader," the synthesised voice announces as Sho scans her NISAR ID on headquarters' lobby access keypad. Stepping into the locker room, she shucks her jacket and tank top and starts changing into her reinforced flight suit.
The synthetic fabric is comfortable and familiar against her skin, and the pilot of Neo Jaguar stretches - dressing up for Tsutsujidai Prom was fun, but falling asleep in her kimono has left her feeling stiff.
Brushing out her hair and doing it up in a professional ponytail, Sho heads down to the hangar to check in with her teammates.
So lost in thought is she that she somehow misses Gai Daido appearing at her left, a long, smug "Soooooooooooooooo?" leaving her wingman's mouth.
"Shut it, Daido," she shoots back, glaring.
"Usually you're barking orders the second you come out of the lockers, Sho. Something on your mind? Maybe someone?" The big man is wearing the biggest, most-shit-eating grin she's ever seen on his face. Sho elbows him in the gut. "I said shut it."
"Hey that's weird." Go Ichimonji opens one eye from where he's crashed out on the break room table. "Usually it's me you give that shit to, Gai."
"Oh, well," Gai says, smugly, heedless of his commanding officer/best friend glaring daggers at the back of his head, "Last time Sho was like this was when she came back from training on Texas Colony. Something about Ensign King...?"
"Gai Daido I will gut you like a pig" Sho threatens, pointing dramatically, and Gai relents, though his grin gets all the broader. Go smirks a little, but doesn't join in when Sho turns her glare on him, putting up his hands in faux-helplessness.
Authority restored, Sho glowers for a moment, then gets back to business. "Anything happen while I was clocked out?"
"Seems like there might have been some kind of action in Hong Kong," Gai answers, "But nothing came down the pipe for us so it wasn't Saurian-related." Go grunts. "Starting to feel like that one attack was a fluke."
Sho shakes her head. "If Captain Jin's right about Emperor Gore - and we trust his judgment - he's not gonna just roll over and give up. He's up to something, for sure."
"Yeah, but." Go grunts again. "We're gonna get rusty and blind if we only respond to Mechasaur attacks."
"Go Ichimonji, thinking about things other than punching dinosaurs?" Sho smirks. "Alright, let's hear it."
"It's about Liam." Go frowns. "This whole thing with the Crucible is really startin' to itch at me. I wanna help him."
With the conversation turned towards their friend the pilot of Gundam Neo-Helios, Neo Getter Team spend the next three hours talking strategy.