Inside the Head of a Getter

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

[A string of Scottish-accented grumbling could be heard from the internals of the Black Getter as Flynn popped his head out of the, well head, of the practically slagged Black Getter. Thumping it with the end of his spanner, he cursed it again and called it something akin to the son of the motherless goat.]

This thing is going to take weeks to repair! Ach...

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[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

Hey ease up I think I only caught part of that.

[Mira's working on another part of the Getter and yeah in the same boat.] OW!

[Yeah that would be her getting shocked by one of the wires near her.] Please tell me this isn't a rush job because a week might be pushing it.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Ach... it'd better not be. Or I'll throw th' next person who tries to promote it as a rush job into a bucket o'somethin'.

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

Ask the rider that runs the kitchen for grease, might be worth that and finding some feather pillows. [She peeks out of the arm she's crawled into to repair] Not exactly tar and feathering, but hey, we can pretend right?

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Eh, we'll work on tha'. In the meantime, I think I'll 'ave ta strip some of the armor off and replace it.

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

That's if we have the parts... [She sighs a little] If you want I can see about fabricating the parts. Cause this arm... If I keep at it my hair'll stand on end for a week.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Aye there is tha'. Maybe we can take some of the parts from the old stuff we've got laying around.

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

Gimme a few to climb out of here and I'll see of the techs have the parts. If not, looks like one of us is going to be up most the next few days welding.

[She pulls herself out of the arm and stretches a moment.]

Well, I don't have anything planned this week. [She drops down from her perch.]

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Probably no one was expecting things like this to happen anyhow.

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

[She laughed] Actually almost glad this happened. I was going to probably spend it doing something silly like writing new music or trying to figure out how to modify my bike for a better power source. This, keeps me busy so I won't do something stupid.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Well whatever keeps you busy I suppose. You write music?

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say you could ask Scott about it, but he wasn't himself when he walked in on me.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Ah, that whole thing with the Imagin I take it?

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

That would be it. [She shrugged] still glad I didn't have a tool in hand, would have hated decking him and actually hurting him.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Scott's a big boy he can take it.

[sakurasblood.livejournal.com]

You've never been hit with one of my left hooks. [She chuckled reaching over for a datapad to check through supplies for spare armor bits for the Getter.]

[change-getta-1.livejournal.com]

Heh, I didn't think anyone would want to touch that thing...

[And there's Ryouma watching Flynn mess with it.]

Most people are scared shitless over a Getter.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Ffff. Getter. Doesn't bother me none. Ah've been livin' under the impression th' whole world was a barren wasteland wit' no communication outside o'Sri Lanka for a good couple o'years. This ain't enough to scare me.

[change-getta-1.livejournal.com]

Heh, got me there.

[He turns his attention back to the Black Getter.]

So, what do you think? Salvageable?

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Aye, but it'll nay be a rush job. Iffa going out again, take somethin' else. I'll probably need... 3 weeks, give or take breaks, repairing, gettin' mechanics ta actually poke around its insides aaaaaand... just cause I say so an' no one argues with me.

Seriously though, it'll take that long regardless.

[change-getta-1.livejournal.com]

...a shame we nuked Neo Getter, then. Aw, well, I'll just slug it out with Kei if I have to take Shin Getter.

I don't think I'll bring back most other machines in one piece.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Well say it now iffa want this thing repaired fully. It's going to take a long time an' all.

[change-getta-1.livejournal.com]

Get it fixed up. Gonna need all the help we can get so we can fix the rest of this world.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Right. Ah'll get things started an' grab a few of th' mechanics from th' Tower so tha' we've got a competent staff on hand that's familiar wit Getter.

[getter-class.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised it can be repaired at all.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

It's going to take a long time, at least three weeks by wot I told Ryouma an' that's if we push it. Even a rush job wouldn't get it done under that amount o'time.

Ye got any mechanics back from th' tower that survived that could help us on this one?

[getter-class.livejournal.com]

Just about everyone evacuated. Some of them were picked up by the other factions helping us, but I think we can scrounge up a few more engineers.

[im-scottish.livejournal.com]

Right, ah'll grab a few. Send them my way an' we'll get this worked on as soon as time allows. There's a lot of damaged mech this go-round but I'll make the Getter a priority.

[getter-class.livejournal.com]

Good.