[Megaolix]

Originally Posted by Yasanagi

A new offering for the FFT on 10-10-10!

Spoiler for MD Again:

Sette had to admit to herself that for someone chewing on a chicken patty in a confined kitchen, the female intruder managed to defend herself adequately against her initial attempt to keep her locked down. At the moment, the Combat Cyborg had the upper hand and was able to at least limit her opponent’s movements by getting behind and locking the arms and legs with her own.

But she didn’t seem to react… at least in an expected manner. Sette thought that she would have struggled to get free from her grip but instead, she struggled to get back to the container containing those chicken patties. “Um… shouldn’t you be getting out of this hold first, Ma’am?” asked the device.

“Chicken patties await!” growled that strange blue haired woman as she inched closer.

‘… she certainly has strange priorities.’ Nonetheless, this was an opportunity. “Doctor, can you call in security?”

Miura managed to pull out a communications device from the unconscious body of Garn but saw that it wasn’t functioning properly. “No can do. Her com radio’s fried and I’m sure I drained the battery on my own radio.”

“What about… telepathy?” grunted Sette as the other woman started to close her gloved hand around the box.

“I’m a doctor, not a mage!” Unknown to him, it was a somewhat poor choice of words on his part as the intruder suddenly reacted to his statement.

“McCoy Moment!” With a surge of strength, the blue haired woman managed to throw off the Combat Cyborg right into the dish rack where pieces of cutlery were still drying out in the air, causing them to fly everywhere. But it didn’t stop her from slowly approaching the doctor as he blindly scrambled for something to protect him and the guard.

“Stay back! Or prepare to taste the wrath of my…” His hands closed around something and he whipped it out, hoping it would be the device that had been carried by Garn but instead… “… butter knife?”

She just merely giggled. “Hehehehehe! What next? You gonna use the Force… er, forks?”

“…… maybe.” Not a dignified answer but considering what happened a second ago, he may as well try to roll with the flow. Maybe he could get everyone out of this particular mess without having any bloodshed if she got easily amused.

“Now if we’re going to get another McCoy Moment, then I have to finish her off! Then you can check on her and say ‘She’s Dead, Jim’. The only problem is who’s gonna be Jim? I can’t do it so I guess it’ll fall to…” The blue haired woman paused for a moment before pointing dramatically to Sette, who had shook off the earlier disorientation. “… you! Your name is now Jim!”

“Incorrect. My designation is Sette. It has not been and will never be ‘Jim’,” replied the Combat Cyborg in a tone that bordered on irritation but not quite. “Identify yourself.”

The disappointment of not having a Jim quickly vanished as the crazy female mage began her speech. “I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the flatulence that you get from eating one too many chicken burritos! I am Material-L… but you can just call me Rai-chan!”

“Rai-chan? I didn’t expect someone like her to have such a simple name,” mumbled Miura as she quickly moved to chow down the last chicken patty in the container.

“And I didn’t expect that she would be intelligent enough to use a term like flatulence.”

“For someone who sounds like Kevin J. England, that was awfully snarky of you, Vulnificus,” said Rai to her device.

“…… who’s Kevin J. England?”

“That’s the question! Nobody knows who the guy is aside for having 15 minutes of fame in some anime production! I totally bet that he’s a big retard or plays a retarded role!” She whirled towards the Combat Cyborg. “What do you think, Sette-chan?”

“What is your purpose here?” demanded Sette, ignoring the question just fired her way. “And why do you bear such a resemblance to Testarossa?”

“…… Testarossa? What do you know of that name?” The tone used by the Lightning Assailant just now was a complete switch from her earlier goofy antics. And her red eyes held a rather unnerving glint which disturbed Miura.

‘What is this? She mentioned that name and… all of a sudden…’

Before Rai could approach the Combat Cyborg, she heard a familiar royal voice echo in her mind. “Material-L, respond!”

“Yami-chan?”

“Call me ‘Your Majesty’!” replied the irritated telepathic tone of Material-D. “You haven’t checked in for a while! What are you doing? Do you have everything yet?”

“Ah, no… actually I finally found a fridge to raid from so that should solve the food thing but no luck on the map! Oh… and that teleport spell you gave me? It fell apart like a Jenga tower!”

“That’s because you probably burned out the core matrix by using it too often!” growled the Lord of Darkness. “Whatever… just get back to the ship as soon as possible with what you have. Those cloaked objects orbiting that world are starting to act funny. It’s best if we leave quickly.”

“Aye-aye!” The telepathic connection was broken before Rai moved towards the fridge. “Vulnificus, Sealing Mode.”

It didn’t take long for the device to figure out what exactly she was doing. “Oh, you have got to be kidding me. You’re sealing a bloody fridge.”

“Yes. Now get to it!” One second later and the fridge vanished from their sights. “Now only one more thing… Sette-chan, you’re coming with me!”

“…… what?” said the Combat Cyborg in a flat tone.

“Yep, yep! After all, you said that magical word back there, meaning you know some stuff about her. I really want to hear about it which is why I want you to come with me. Besides… you know that you’re wasting away here in this place.”

Sette frowned. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Your manner of speech, the calculating look in your eyes as you went through every single possible scenario that you could conceive to meet victory conditions… you’re a soldier, Sette-chan. Like Heero and Sosuke and probably half a billion other characters that are out there. Right now, you’re without a mission. Your body language practically screams it out loud regardless of how well you may try to hide it.” The Lightning Assailant held out her hand. “I can give you a mission objective and it won’t be a one shot deal. It’ll probably be a mission that will last a life time as it deals with something that has vast influence in this universe. It’s bigger than you can imagine, Sette-chan. Bigger than the Bureau and Ancient Belka…”

‘What could she be talking about? Is this a trick?’ She wasn’t sure what the Fate replica was up to. “I need more information concerning the details of your mission.”

“There’s no time to tell the whole story now! I have a ship out there waiting for me and we’re going to be leaving soon. If you want to find out what I’m talking about, then come with me.”

“W-wait a second!” protested Miura. “Sette, please think about what she’s offering! I don’t know what type of life mission she’s talking about but I can’t guarantee that it will be as you expected!”

“And what if I refuse to go with you, Material-L?” responded Sette.

Rai merely shrugged. “Your choice I guess. I won’t be too happy about it though meaning that when I make my way outta here, I’ll be frying every single person I meet on the way out. Guards, prisoners… you name it!”

“Is that so…?” She carefully weighed her options. On the one hand, she could stay and try to continue her treatment although there was a chance that the transfer order could still go through later in the future and increase the odds of dying a meaningless death. Not to mention that at the present, Material-L would most certainly not hesitate to use extreme force on anyone she saw while making her escape.

It appeared that she had only one option if she wanted to prevent any unnecessary deaths. “Very well… I shall accompany you. On the condition that you do not kill anyone else while in this facility.”

“Sure, whatever! As long as I got my new sidekick with me!” cheered Material-L happily before she grabbed the Combat Cyborg’s arm to drag her along.

“Sette!” Miura wanted to move but his body didn’t seem to respond, most likely because of exhaustion from working such a long day.

“I shall be fine, Doctor. And…… thank you,” said Sette softly as she got yanked away.

Well, Sette will have a good excuse for being out of jail. However, Yuuno is definitely going to get a panic attack on this now. You know, on the fact that Rai killed guards and then took a prisonner out. It's going to be a bit harder to not have the TSAB lock them up.

Then again, that's what he think. If he had any idea what was going on back home...