Parallel-grades? Side-grades?

[turningyaponese]

[[King Gainer managed to drag in another Overman... However, it's not...

Well, it's empty. Very empty. Setting down the black Overman, he eventually dismounts King Gainer to go over and investigate it himself.]]

Wow... what in the world is this thing...

[[And as Gainer climbs into the cockpit, it closes up around him. XAN boots up with Gainer at the controls! This... cannot be good! Gainer's in a mysterious Overman that just ate him inside!


PANIC?]]

Comments

[glemy_magnet]

...what in the world?!

[Roux had went to see what this mysterious new machine they just dragged in was, only to watch as Gainer got swallowed up and activate]

Hey! Hey! What's going on?!

[turningyaponese]

[[Gainer's kind of freaking out, but, it seems like it's just giving him a tour of the inside. XAN moves like it's checking itself out; old brain in a new body kind of thing.]]

I-I'm alright! It's just showing me the view from the inside!

[glemy_magnet]

What...? It's showing you... it's alive?!

[Okay, this was creepy!]

[turningyaponese]

I don't know about alive but... it's aware. It's some complex AI... it even fought against me.

[getter_class]

[Hayato shouted for a security team, stepping back from the Overman. There was nothing he could do on foot, but in a minute or two, some of the remains of his army would be here to contain any damage the Overman might cause.]

[turningyaponese]

[[And this would be Gainer/XAN waving it's hands.]] Don't shoot! It's just showing me the inside! It operates exactly like King Gainer!

Only... I think it has some say-so in what it does as well. The controls are kind of stiff...

[getter_class]

[Since it seemed like XAN wasn't going to start any immediate trouble, the security team didn't attack.]

So it's some sort of AI?

[turningyaponese]

[[XAN tells Gainer, via the view screen, that it is.]]

Yeah, it says it is. It could probably take control if I tried doing something it didn't like.


...Yes, yes he would.

[getter_class]

It's talking to you?

[turningyaponese]

Yeah. It's putting words up on the view screen. I suppose it would be weird if it was just talking out loud like it was earlier when I'm inside of it.

[getter_class]

What's it telling you?

[turningyaponese]

Mostly about itself... And that it can talk. Nothing cryptic really. Is there something you're expecting it to say?


[[Probably something about the OverDevil really.]]

[getter_class]

About what you said, but considering its unusual arrival it seems smart to take nothing for granted.

[turningyaponese]

I suppose so. But... I think it's only because I've run into the OverDevil before it came after me.

It's... It seems to prefer a pilot if it can have one. It's different from King Gainer, but, not by much.

[saikyocivrobo]

That was fast. Taking the new Overman on a test drive already?

[turningyaponese]

I think it's the other way around Werter. And it's still damaged, so I'm not really going to take it anywhere anytime soon.

[saikyocivrobo]

Hopefully King Gainer won't get jealous.

[turningyaponese]

I haven't discovered that King Gainer has an AI...

[saikyocivrobo]

And hope it doesn't have one, because imagine how'd it feel. You even named the robot after yourself, and now you're ditching it for a better model? Awkward.

[turningyaponese]

I'm not ditching it Werter! It was just sitting open like it was inviting me inside, and it was. Though it was talking out loud before, now this is the only way it's talking.

[saikyocivrobo]

Maybe it's XAN that feels offended, then?

[future_kaiju]

It's hard to believe that just a little while ago this was an enemy and now you are trying to pilot it. Though I know that feeling all to well myself.

[turningyaponese]

I don't think it meant to be an enemy of ours to begin with. It's just because of something else we fought before.


Man, I wonder how many other groups think that. We're they're enemy because we were around something else at the time...

[future_kaiju]

It is a sad thought but I'm sure there are a few. I think it is best not to dwell on a thought like that...I must say things in this world are much more complicated. The main concern in my world was Kaiju and alien invasions. There isn't too many groups fighting each other because of all that.

[turningyaponese]

Maybe if that had happened here first, but... I can't imagine that would last once the aliens are monsters are done... Then it's an arms race because someone has the better gun.

Rinse, repeat.

[future_kaiju]

(Emmy nods thoughtfully.)

That's part of the future I originally came from. Kaiju were no longer problems so an arms race started and Japan became the greatest super power in the world. No one could oppose it.

[zaku_for_xmas]

"HEY! What that..."

Bernie rushed up the Overman; he's never seen something as bizarre as...well, there's been many bizarre things.

"HEY!"

[turningyaponese]

But there's a white version of it not too far away!

"It's okay! Stop freaking out people! It's not doing antyhing wrong." Geez, everyone is panicing.

[zaku_for_xmas]

"W...are you sure?" Well,, Gainer did sound fine. Bernie scratched his head, "A new model..."

[turningyaponese]

"Something like that. It's probably actually an older version. It knows something about the OverDevill."

[zaku_for_xmas]

"An older version? You're not planning on using it are you? It's probably obsolete."