Super Robot Wars: Original Original Generation

When she first heard the door knocks, Fay jumped and gave a small "eep", thinking that Sanger was coming by to be scary and intimidating and tell her how terrible she'd been doing recently...but she relaxed when she heard a woman's voice.

Yelena, maybe? Fay slid the photo she was holding face-down on her desk under some of the pile of robot schematics. "Just a moment..."

She opened the door to see who her visitor was. "Oh, Yelena... Did I forget something in the cafeteria again?" she guessed, scratching her cheek embarrassedly.

"Not this time," Yelena smiled a little. "Can I come in?"

Fay blinked. "Oh... Um, please," she said, nodding and standing back to let Yelena in, "...it's not as clean as I'd like, but..."

Fay's room was extremely well organized, the bed neatly made, clothes nowhere to be seen, with only the clutter on the desk looking untidy. Something about the pile of military information and guides and texts sitting there looked like it had been shoved to the side.

After the excitement of the battle had left him, Yusuke crashed into his soft new western style bed. After what seemed like a far sorter time then in actually was, Yusuke was ready to get to training. After a few days, Yusuke fell into a routine. He got up, jumped into a simulator, ate in the cafeteria, jumped back into the simulator, had dinner, and then went to his room for some serious college enterance exam studying. At the cafeteria he tended to sit byself, and tried to finish a few sodoku puzzles while eating. Occasionaly he would be joined by others, but he tended not to say much. I wonder when they will actually let us run real sims against real targets instead of having our butts fall asleep in the simulators? The enemy front seems to be rather quite too. I wonder what they are up to? Best leave the worrying to others for now. Now, where did I put my japanese-english dictionary and my collection of english poetry books? Maybe I should go find someone to help me study this. It's hard to study a foreign language just from a book. Maybe I can find Fay. She might give me a hand. Yusuke headed down the hall hoping to find someone he knew.

/OCC: If you are busy, Minako, then if Albright or someone wants to run this scene with me then contact me over IM.

"Not at all." Yelena entered. "May I sit down?"

[I'm going to take a liberty for the sake of speed and assume that Fay says ok.]

Fay sat down on her bed and Yelena sat down in the desk chair.

"You seem a little down lately. Of course it's understandable. You were dragged out of a completely different life. You must not be used to the military." She touched one of the military guides on top meaningfully. "Is there anything I can do?"

Fay didn't know what to say. "...I..."

I need to finish everything here, and get back to my own life!!

She slumped her shoulders a little. "I don't think you have the authority to send me home, Yelena," she said, pushing the hair out of her face as was a habit of hers, "...But I know. I just need to do this while this war is going on..."

This is only temporary. This isn't my real life.

"Really... How can they expect so much out of rookies like me?" she said, a hint of scorn in her voice.

"You're right. I can't just get you out of this." She swiveled the chair to fully face Fay and her face got a bit more serious. "But think about it this way: the fact that they are asking so much of you so fast shows how bad the situation is. How bad they need you. You're a natural T-link user, I can tell that's why they chose you. You may not like it, but that ability makes you a valuable asset to our side of this war. You keep talking like you just have to put up with this war for a little while--like if you close your eyes it'll all be over soon--but we need you here in the moment. If you're going to be here--and you are going to be here--we need you here 100%. We need you to give it all you've got. For the sake of the team." She paused and took a breath, and her face lightened a little bit. "Please understand, Fay."

A soft, female voice is suddenly projected onto the intercom system and heard throughout the base.

"Will all ATX Team members please report to the hangar please? I repeat, will all ATX Team members please report to the hangar."

When he heard the announcement, Albright had been slowly nursing a cup of American coffee, silenty wishing that it would become real coffee. As he was called away, he finished the second half of the cup in one gulp and headed off for the hanger without another word.

Fay stared back in Yelena's face, worry still showing in her eyes. "...Yelena--"

"Will all ATX Team members please report to the hangar please? I repeat, will all ATX Team members please report to the hangar."

Fay blinked, her thoughts interrupted. "What... What is that? Is there an emergency going on?" she said, standing up.