Stardust Academy

[Grrxmaster]

Seth frowned. His greeting was met with a cold response, at best. The girl had walked off, and the other two seemed rather uncomfortable with his presence. "Well, excuse me, then.", he said, trying to escape the uncomfortable situation. He figured that he could talk with some of the other students. Walking off, he pondered just what sort of place this academy was going to be like. If there was nothing else, there was Socrates. The machine was so old it hardly had an AI to speak of, but he was in the process of developing one. He was fairly good with the manual controls, but not having a full AI could cost him when he competed with any others.
Just then, the ship's horn rang out. 'Finally', he thought, 'Let's get this over with'.

[ShiroTenshiRyu]

For a brief moment Sorin's eyes lit up in excitement at the sight of the Academy. Taking it on himself he headed down below deck to get the Lizard he'd met earlier. After about an hour of searching he finally found her alone in a back room. "Excuse me." Sorin said softly. "I was just coming down to tell you that the boat has docked, but you probably knew that." Sorin blushed. He wasn't usually one to seek out social interaction but something told him this girl was worth talking to. "You know kid if you blushed anymore I'd think you liked the girl." Embarrassed even further Sorin was ready to just shut of the communication device he had built. It was small about a the size of a watch. It functioned as a communication device between him and his Mech. "Seraph! Excuse him okay. Anyway I thought maybe you'd like to head to the grounds together?"

[Oedipus Rex]

Sam was down in the hold of the ship, helping to treat some people who were feeling a bit queesy, when the horn blew. "That'll mean that we're almost there!" she said to herself, and started to head up to the deck with everybody else. She was wearing light grey cargo trousers, with the ends tucked into a pair of black boots. Her top consisted of a white button up shirt , which she wore a white trench coat over. A red cross was on her arm, signifying her as a medical unit.


When she reached the deck, she looked over the railing at the campus below, her long black hair blowing in the wind. "Wow..." she said quietly to herself, stars in her eyes as she surveyed the scene.

[Suzumibachii]

Suzumi was sitting cross legged and in a meditative pose on top of her mechs head the necklace pulsed a few times. "Incoming organic." Opening her eyes she looked at Sorin before standing up and stretching a little. "Thanks...I didnt notice. I guess I phased out a little."
"A little? You just spent close to an hour interfacing..." The feminine voice from her necklace rang out before giggling softly. Jumping down from her mech she offered another respectfull bow to the machine before turning to Sorin.  "Yeah I geuss we can...Its not like they will let me take Ghost out myself."

[Frost]

Julian jumps surprised by the horn, Causing D to berate him "Easy kid!, I really would enjoy not going over the side....go grab your bag and let's get out of here!" Julian nods and goes back to his room to retrieve his things. 

[ShiroTenshiRyu]

Sorin smiled at the Lizard. He started walking to the topside along side her smiling and over all enjoying himself for some reason. "I can't wait to finally start training with the others. Maybe someone will finally challenge me and Seraph. Oh, wait I never caught your name." Sorin waited knowing Seraph would chime in. "Sorin so rude no introducing me. I dear lady, am Sunset Angel, but you may call me Seraph." Sorin blushed as they stepped out on to the top deck hoping the Lizard would think he was too weird.

[Grrxmaster]

Seth emerged from below deck, things in hand. The ship was just about docked by this point, and everyone was slowly shuffling to the gangplanks. A few of the faces he'd already seen were scattered throughout the crowd, and he did his best to avoid eye contact with them, considering their awkward encounter. Looking around him, he saw a human woman, wearing a white trench coat. He hadn't met too many humans, but he decided to chat with this one. "G'day!", he greeted her over the din of the crowd. "My name's Seth, how about you?".

[Suzumibachii]

Walked alongside Sorin without really saying much, yet a small smile betrayed that she was for some odd reason enjoying the walk to get off of the boat.Her smiling curling up even more as she let out a soft giggle. "I cant wait til face all of the students and see their faces when me and Ghost get serious." "They better not dare limit me, I will be really angry if they try and modify our package." Looking at her necklace she brushed her thumb over the crystal that hung from it. "Dont worry I wont let em touch you.". Sorry about that Ghost sometimes forgets when she needs to shut up.
"Names Suzumi. My dad was a peacekeeper." She didnt really say anything else but did offer a small nod to the voice before stepping into the sun and moving her shoulders a little, several extremely thin wires running under her scales visible on her shoulders and back in the sun. "Lets get going, I am anxious to get Ghost out of that uncomfortable position."

[Oedipus Rex]

Sam was caught off guard by the voice adressing her from behind. She snapped back to reality and turned to face the Ibex. She had never quite seen anything like him, being from a rich human family she rarely ever saw any anthro's except in pictures. "Oh, Hello there Seth. I'm Samantha Edinbura, or just Sam." she shifted the bag on her back and stuck out a hand expecting a shake. "Pleasure to meet you."

[Grrxmaster]

"Sam," Seth repeated, with a warm smile, extending his arm to accept her handshake. "Nice to meet you too." As he shook her hand, he noticed the badge on her sleeve. "Medic, huh? I've got a lot of respect for the medical profession, keeps the rest of us from falling apart!", he stated with a laugh.

[ShiroTenshiRyu]

"Suzumi." Sorin said with a smile. "It's a beautiful name for a beautiful girl" Sorin continued with her to the front of the Academy. "Maybe we can be each others first opponents." Sorin said optimistically. "So what do you know about this school anyway." "Sorin would you calm down you are going to talk the girls ear off." Seraph complained much to Sorin's embarrassment. "What my rambling friend here means to say is that he is eager to face you in battle as am I. Besides I'm most intrigued meet Ghost." Seraph always had been a help to Sorin in social interactions.

[Suzumibachii]

Smirked a little as they reached the entrance to the campus "Not much, my old man never spoke of what goes on here. Simply told me to work hard and get chosen. Typical peacekeeper."  Stopping dead in her tracks as he said her name was beautiful an uneasy feeling filling the air around her. Her fists clenching tightly. "I am not here to make friends...I am here to prove to my entire family that I am better than my dad and that I have what it takes to be a peacekeeper nothing else."  Taking a few steps forwards she let out a sigh, before continuing to walk off. "You really should work on your people skills...You cant always fly solo you know." She did feel bad for reacting like she did but she had always done things on her own and wasnt used to people getting too close.

[Oedipus Rex]

She smiled. "Yep! That's what I'm here for! My father's a surgeon, so I grew up around medicine. He always wanted me to follow in his footsteps, but I want to get out and see the world. So, I figured that I'd do a bit of both and join the ranks of the great Peacekeepers."


She looked over his shoulder and saw the other students leaving the boat and entering the academy. "Come on, we better get going. You can tell me what you do while we walk."

[Grrxmaster]

As they walked their way off of the ship, Seth regaled Sam with the story of how he acquired his mech. As a child, he marvelled at the huge machines people would use to keep the peace in the movies and television shows he watched, and he was never as excited as when he saw them in his local town's parade. From that point on he was determined to have one of his own, and be one of the peacekeepers. Unfortunately for him, though, his family was relatively poor, and were unable to afford a single nut or bolt for him to get one.
Undeterred, however, he performed many hard labour jobs to get enough cash for a rusting hulk in a nearby scrapyard. How the old police mech wound up there, he never knew, but he was determined to have it. For a measly 1000 in credits, it was his. Of course, it wasn't any good in it's condition, so a few more years of scrounging for cash and spare parts (as well as some crudely self manufactured bits and baubs), he was able to bring it up to code. It was heavy and comparatively slow to most other mechs, but it was able to hold its own. With it, he was able to secure a place on the Stardust Academy registry.
 "With the amount of scratches, dents and holes in the old frame, I'm at least not worried about the unloading crew scratching the paint!", he said with a laugh.

[Oedipus Rex]

"Really?" Sam said, as they walked down the ramp and off the ship. "My mech is a new Logistics model combat medic, complete with new prototype nanites. I got it as a going away present from my uncle. I've never really had to work hard for anything, I mean sure I've had jobs in the past, but if I ever really wanted something that I couldn't afford myself all I had to do was ask. I had no idea how hard the real world is."
She chuckled nervously "Well, that was kind of depressing and unnecessary. We should get to the main gates, I hear the induction ceremony will start soon!"