"Lieutenant Kanoko Tanegashi, Moore Brotherhood at Side 4. Special operations, but not Londo Bell," She joked a little, lowering the shield and beam rifle. She looked over at the GM Sniper and smiled, glad to have someone she knew was friendly by her side. "Pilot of the redesigned RX-78EVA for the liberation of the Thunderbolt Sector. Pardon the suspicion. We've all been...uh...introduced to some very strange circumstances only a few hours ago. Weird suits abound, none of us have had any luck with unfamiliar faces."

Keying off the comm and switching to the Feddie frequencies that MS teams normally used, she addressed Ray privately. "Libot Colony at Side 6? I always wanted to go there before I got drafted! Unfortuantely the Moore Brotherhood fleet didn't dock too far from the Shoal Zone most of the time...they were loathe to leave it at all."

She turned a bit serious as she looked back at the Little Gray, its rogueish visage illuminating the black void behind it. "So...what do you think of Mr. Pirate here? I mean, the Jupiter colonies always were a bit pompous thanks to them supplying all the helium the Federation and Zeon needed. If Captain Read is who he says he is and is trying to stop them, should we give him the benefit of the doubt?"

Ray flipped his comm over to the Federation frequencies as well. "Libot's not much to look at from the outside, but apparently there's techs working on something in there." he replied to Kanoko, "Then again, that's about all my unit was told. In regards to Captain Read, I'm gonna take a more cautious stance. It might be worth giving him the benefit of the doubt for now. I've got a hunch that he may be telling the truth, but I'm gonna keep my guard up for the most part."

Seeing as he now had permission to begin talks it was a simple task of heading onto the transport ship and heading to the other ship sitting down in the transport he let out a small sigh at how things was turning at least they were willing to let him talk on the ship Hearing the transmission he let out a smirk and decided to respond "You know I can hear you right? These codes arent exactly uncommon anymore" He stated over the radio using the same codes they were should so t hem to at least make sure they are a bit more discreet about everything. Arriving and docking the ship he walked out his hair hiding his left eye as a scar could be seen under his right. All in all his outfit probably screamed pirate more so than his way of talking or his ship did.

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"Wha! Shoot, I've got to change the encryptions..." Kanoko grumbled a little as she engaged her thrusters, rolling the suit over and motioning for Ray to follow her in. "C'mon, buddy. Let's get you docked and recharged."

The RX-78 jetted towards the Apollo Burning Star, initiating the docking procedures once more and following the guidance array into the hangar. Kanoko glanced around at the exterior of the transport ship, noting the complete lack of damage to the hull; the Zondo Geis were completely unable to pierce the nanolaminate skin of the ship, a detail that went far in describing how powerful the ship was in comparison to anything Federation-made. Whistling slightly, she anchored the Gundam in the dock and allowed the system to move it to a free port, pulling her helmet off and shaking her head to straighten her head out. "I've docked, Elizabeth."

Sarah returned to the ship as well. The fighting was over and 'peaceful negotiation' seemed to be breaking out so she didn't seen a need to stay out there. Plus she wanted to get out of the fight suit, it was normally pretty comfortable despite how tight it was but that comfort had a shelf life and she could feel it expire.

After docking and removing the fight suit, which is just a command to dissolve it, she put her normal clothing back on, which she'd had in a bag secured in the cock pit, then exited the Gundam. As she exited she saw that Captain Read seemed to be waiting, likely for Liz. Given it would be rude to just ignore him, she floated over, with marginally more control then she had the first time she boarded Liz's ship. "Captain" she called as she got near, and settled near him. "Welcome aboard."

Ray's GM Sniper II jetted towards the Apollo Burning Star, its pilot noting not only the lack of damage to the ship's hull, but also the fact that he had to change his comms frequencies. "Ray Aegis, coming in to dock." he radioed over the open comms. He then had his suit jet towards the Apollo Burning Star, initiating the docking procedures and maneuvering to head into the hanger.

Once he had the GM Sniper II docked, he opened the hatch, unbuckled his restraints, then removed his helmet. "I've successfully docked." he radioed, "Exiting my Suit now." With a quick bit of movement, he had exited his suit and had landed nearby.

Kanoko waited for her head to stop spinning. The initial crash into whatever place she existed in now had done a number, and as the adrenaline died down she was starting to feel lightheaded again. Checking the bandage and feeling that the gauze was secure, she unbuckled the harness and launched herself out of the Gundam's cockpit. It didn't take long for her to drop down to the deck with Sarah and Ray, Captain Read standing next to the Mobile Fighter.

She put a hand up in greeting toward Sarah, glad that everyone was pretty much safe and sound from their sortie. "I see you made it back. How'd you get your Gundam to move like that? I've never seen any of those preprogrammed into the computer."

Her eyes traveled over to the good captain's flamboyant, pirate-themed outfit and she was floored by how brazenly fantastical it was, raising her eyebrows a little before giving him a crisp salute. "Welcome aboard, sir. I take it your get your inspiration from 18th-century Earth?"

Elizabeth unhooked herself from the AV system and moved through the halls down to the hangar. She flew down from the upper level to join the group on the ground. She seemed to be but a girl herself however, carried herself like an experienced soldier. "Greetings and welcome to the Apollo Burning Star. Deaths of your crew are regretable and the situation has no doubt sullied smooth cooperation between our ships. a discussion would be beneficial. We all wound up here in one way or another and the world seems to be fubar at the moment." she said, holding out a hand for him to shake.

Alice stayed in the deathscythe looking out in the distance making sure no surprise enemy was inbound with a soft sigh she let out a baited breath things was odd to say the least she never would have believed the day would come where she would say she missed hte old missions she was assigned. Looking out she narrowed her eyes swearing for a brief second she saw a dark colored flash in the distance bearing resemblance to the gundam made by Trieze. It was here than that means the lightning count was here as well. Surely he would know what to do in a situation like this. Though before she could even open the radio channels it was gone leaving behind nothing but shattered hopes for her. With that done she quickly went back into the ship and opened the hatch to the deathscythe just leaning back thinking on what should be done.

"Tis a pleasure to meet you" Edward said grasping the offered hand. "Not to sound contrived or that but like the greeks I come bearing gifts." He said opening the hatch to his larger than average shuttle revealing frame parts that was unfamiliar to him but to Elizabeth it was easy to tell what they were parts for a gundam frame lacking the torso sure but the head was in perfect shape as it could be all things considered. Ran into this scrapped gundam like mobile suit a while back and figured we take it along with us but sadly it would do use little good maybe you can find use for it. "Alas most was beyond saving beyond the head and a arm and leg though." He said as he looked the fellow captain straight in the eye.

Sarah waved back to Kanoko as she approached, though gave her a funny look when she asked about her moves, in relation to 'programing'. "There is no 'program', it's all 'pilot ability'." she said, giving a look to the two Captains a moment, seeing all seemed well, motioned Kanoko to follow her.

Sarah lead Kanoko over to her Gundam and popped the hatch, revealing, what was probably the strangest cockpit Kanoko had ever seen. "It's called the Mobile Trace system. In the simplest terms, it's a motion tracker, with almost zero 'input lag'." she explained. "It takes a certain level of physical training to use it effectively though, but when mastered, you can literally develop the reflexes dodge bullets, and beam rifles, and I mean 'you', alone, walking down the street to Burger King, could dodge a bullet, not 'you while piloting the Gundam'." Sarah stopped there, letting Kanoko process that little bit of information.

"So...you're a martial artist with that kind of ability?! That's really the only kind of person I could imagine with the reflexes to pull off such things..." Kanoko gawked, staring at the inside of Shining Gundam's cockpit. There was almost nothing there save the Mobile Trace receptors and the Trace suit rig; compared to her Gundam, the Shining was far and away the more impressive suit! A motion-tracker, able to translate a person's moves inside the cockpit directly to the Gundam, and able to utilize the raw skill and physical power of the pilot...

"You guys must've had older mobile suits though! Ones that had sticks and pedals like we do! The Gundam's OS has a preprogrammed list of maneuvers which is really quite expansive and activated by certain gestures in the cockpit, but this? This is insane! If I could put this system into the RX-78, who knows what I'd be able to do!" She stammered on, wholly impressed by Neo Japan's second most advanced mobile suit. She didn't dare step a foot in lest she activate it by accident, although Kanoko figured that Sarah probably had an activation code or key of sorts to boot the system.

Ray quietly observed the goings-on from behind the dark, polarized visor of his flight suit's helmet, his green eyes taking in as much as he could even with the limited field of view his helmet provided. At the same time, a pain in his left shoulder started to flare up from being bounced around during the shift over. He was thankful that the visor of his flight suit's helmet was darker than normal, otherwise anyone would see that he had some signs of being in pain. He was able to spot Captain Read and Elizabeth talking, and he tried to pick up on the conversation as best he could.

Elizabeth was almost borderline freaking out internally at the sight of the gundam limbs and a head of all things. However, externally, the girl held herself together, the whiskers on her back for anyone to see and take notice of, metal protursions. "Dont look a gift horse in the mouth, as they said back on earth. The gifts are appreciated as to any other info about mobile suits of similar design or energy signatures. Called ahab waves." She added, wanting to see if he could help her further.

"Anyways, do you wish to stay and chat captain? I can get the mess making some food need be so we may talk." Elizabeth hopefully suggested. "Same with the rest of the crew, you people need your strength."

"I can send the information we gathered on this mobile suit we found from our understanding it was a gundam though it is definately one I never seen before." He stated the gundam was a odd thing to him it was foreign to him and to find it even damaged just floating was odd definately not something that one would just leave in most cases. "We got some info on what we scanned if thats what you mean." Edward said once more sending over more data. "Still I would love to join you for a meal a warm meal in the stomach does wonders I learned so shall we" The captain taking of his hat showing his messy brown hair for all to see.

"We still have the 'stick and peddle' cockpits actually.I actually first piloted a Mobile Suit with stick and peddles, granted, it was just a construction MS, and not one built for combat, but still." Sarah said as she floated near the cockpit entrance. "The Mobile Trace System is reserved for Gundams only so far as I've heard and seen, and the Gundam's them selves are custom built for the fighter that will be controlling it." she continued.

"And no. The Shining Gundam was not built for me. I'm not Japanese for one, I'm American, and this Gundam was built to represent Neo Japan in the preliminary's of the 13th Gundam Fight, I was just chosen to operate as it's test pilot while we repaired, and two, I am no where near the level of the Representative Fighters. If you thought my clumsy and uncoordinated motions where 'impressive', then you should see some of the pro's in action." Sarah floated into the cockpit area and grabbed her bag.

"Come on, I'll show you a few fights while we get something to eat."

"You're not even the chief pilot of this unit...what can the original do?" Kanoko breathed as she continued to look in awe around the interior of the Shining's cockpit, almost oblivious to Sarah floating in and grabbing her pack. As the mobile fighter test pilot flew past her, Kanoko snapped out of her trance, floating away from the hatch as well. "S-sure! I may not be into martial arts and stuff like that, but I can sure as heck enjoy a good show! Lead the way!"

Propelling herself forward, she followed after Sarah, turning back and motioning for the others to follow. "If you'll come with us, we can show you to the galley."

"I'll have to pass on food for now." Ray said as he began popping the seals on his flight suit's helmet with his right hand, "Instead, I should probably visit the infirmary because my left shoulder's been bothering me ever since I got sent here." As he spoke, he finished popping the seals, then pulled the helmet off. "Hopefully the damage to my shoulder isn't too bad." he uttered to himself.

Elizabeth nodded and stopped for a second. "Pardon me... the suit can get a bit stuff at times." she said, undoing her front zipper and sliding her torso out of the normal suit, tieing the arms around her waist. This left the girl in a grey tank top and the four whiskers protruding form the back of her shirt. "Much better, i'll show you the way." said the woman, gesturing for him to follow her as the girl kicked off the deck and floated up to a hallway, grabbing the railing and flying down it. As the two moved, the captain could see the implants on her back. Soon, they would transition to about two third's earth gravity. comfortable but not too heavy. "Care for eggs and bacon? we had shore leave about two weeks ago and i was able to pick them up. unfortunately... never got a chance to share them with my crew..." said the woman, sighing a bit as he could see she had lost some members as well, probably before she got to this place.

Sarah fallowed Liz back to the Mess Hall with Kanoko in tow. Once there she set up her Laptop, and loaded a fight. "This one is from the finals of the last Gundam Fight. Dragon Gundam VS Burning Gundam. Burning has Shining's original fighter in it." She said as she turned the screen toward Kanoko. "And Burning is the upgraded form of Shining."

Sarah then got up. "I'm a get some food, you want something?"