srwug_alpha_rp | Ninth Light

[In the wake of the most recent mission, you'll find a disheartening sight if you enter the hangar. The HK-1138' Corona lies in a crumpled, ruined heap off in a side designated for unsalvagable wrecks, the entire machine nearly split in twain height-wise, a huge chunk of it just fucking gone. Those parts from before? Yeah, phoney. All of them. Danconias-Phillips imitation parts and completely incompatible. You didn't actually think they'd HELP Julia, did you?]

Come on... move... move!

[And elsewhere in the hangar, Julia has been trying as hard as she can to use other machines. Knightmare Frames. Mobile Suits. Everything and anything that currently isn't claimed by someone else just so no stone was unturned. But it's all for naught. Her hands fly wildly and clumsily at the controls. It takes all of her willpower and focus to just a machine to stumble awkwardly forward, and all too often her machine stumbles and falls. And finally after one failure too many...

[Well, everyone has a breaking point and Julia's just hit hers.]

I can't...

I can't pilot anymore...

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I don't know.

Getting depressed won't help anyone though, yourself especially. You say you want to lend your strength to the Chalice yet you're contemplating running away. Is your motivation really so weak that you're going to give up that easily.

Ichitaka...

I just...

These are the limits that separate humans and Irgelions, what made us lose the conflict! I made myself out to be a fool out there, nearly kill Kinkaid on top of everything else! I won't let myself needlessly endanger people any more!

[There it was, what Ichitaka wanted to draw out. Her honest answer.]

When we go out there everyone understands that we are putting ourselves into danger. Human, Irgelion, and everything else. Has losing the Corona really made you forget the reasons why you're here, why you've fought with us. Bairoft, Thaumata, are you just gonna let them continue what they're doing because you're afraid endangering everyone else.

[He pauses for a moment not sure if he wanted to continue or not.]

Are you just gonna abandon Mr.Herrera and let Thaumata control something that means so much to you.

Bairoft doesn't matter anymore. The Gyan was an old, discarded prototype, just like my Corona. He's facing the same problem I am...

And Thaumata's a dying group anyways. Other people, better people... they can be the ones to finally bring that group to an end.

[To say that he was disappointed in Julia was an understatement. There was a glare coming from Ichitaka that few ever saw.]

A dying group that's in control of a weapon manufacturing company that was able to buy out Herrera. So that's that then you really are going abandon the man who did so much for you. Your motivation to help and repay him is that weak.

[Oh God, Ichitaka, you had to actually go there? Julia just freezes up when he says that, stammering for a moment before just starting to cry again.]

... g-go away...

[Yup he knew that hit Julia quite hard but he wasn't going to go away or stop.]

I won't, I'm not going to let you fall apart and give up on your motivations because of something like this.

[Weakly she moved an arm out, trying to push Ichitaka away.]

Worry about your own problems...

[God, Ichitaka, can't you leave her in her failtastic peace?]

[No he cannot ever let anyone stay in a failtastic state ~~which is why he talks to Tohya so much~~]

My friends problems are my problems.

Then...

[She waved awkwardly in the direction of the Corona's wreckage.]

My flight log has Christine's gaffe on it. We're heading to Side 1, right? If you leak it... maybe it'll cause an uproar or something.

Ninth Light

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