The Spoils of War

[Droid]

Outside the small village of Angelia, a group of pre-teen boys and girls were running around and shooting at each other with plastic pellet guns. Their toy guns were fashioned to look like the real guns the soldiers of Eisengrad used in actual combat. They were pretending to be in the Eisengrad military and were pretending to have a war with whatever beings the 'bad guys' they heard their parents call the U.E. were.

"Ha! I got you you evil space alien!!" A brown haired boy shouted with glee when one of his rifle's pellets pinged off the back of a blonde girl's head. "You can't stop the Eisengrad Army!!" The boy shouted as he shot at the blonde girl again, this time hitting her in the shoulder.

"Ow!! Stop it, Tommy!! You got me the first time, you didn't have to shoot me again!" The blonde girl shouted back at boy who shot her as she rubbed the back of her head. "That really hurt! I thought we said no headshots!!" She yelled at him, casting an upset glare at him.

"Well, how else am I supposed to make sure a U.E. alien is dead? I have to shoot it in the head." Tommy retorted.

"The U.E. aren't aliens, stupid! My daddy said that they are probably robots just like Mr. Cypher!!"

"Oh yeah!? Well, how would he know that, Katie? No one knows what the U.E. are for sure."

Katie looked down confused and blushed. "Well...I...I don't know for sure. But Daddy said that he met Mr. Cypher and I know my daddy wouldn't lie to me!!" Katie spat back in desperation as the other kids started to ignore them and continued to play army with each other.

However, a sudden rumble caused all the kids to quickly stop what they were doing and to look in the direction they heard the noise come from. Another rumble made them drop their toys and run for the nearest grouping of trees so that they could hide. Something was coming and they were a little frightened.

Soon, a lone Genoace came into view and was making its way to the children and their small hometown at a fair clip. "You think it's gonna attack?" Jimmy, a red haired boy whispered. "I don't know, but I'm scared..." Matt, a black haired boy and the youngest of the group replied quietly with an almost inaudible squeek.

"Well, I'm gonna try to get back to the village and tell my dad. They can try to see if they can stop this guy." Tommy said as he tried to be brave to impress Katie. However, a sudden tug on his collar from Katie made him turn his attention to her. "What are you doing!?" He nearly shouted, confused as he watched her squint her eyes and take a harder look at the rapidly approaching mobile suit.

"I...I think...Oh my God! It is!! That's Mr. Cypher's mobile suit!" Katie shouted with a schoolgirl squeal as she quickly climbed back down the tree they were all in. All the others were out of the tree by the time she was already on the ground and well on her way to running towards Cypher's Genoace.

Cypher was working his way across the grassy green expanse that separated him from Marie's place. He enjoyed the scenery out here and the quiet peace that this country like environment offered. If he could actually feel emotions, he imagined he would be feeling calm and tranquil right now.

Suddenly several biological non-combatant contacts popped up on his computer's display. Stopping his mobile suit, Cypher's Genoace moved its head and looked down at the group of pre-pubesent children quickly making their way to the feet of his Genoace.

Moving his unit to wave at the children, they all screamed and shouted in delight as they waved back up at him. Beginning to continue his route to Marie's house, Cypher couldn't help but to mechanically laugh to himself as the group of pre-teens attempted to run along with him, doing their best to try to keep up with the much larger strides his mobile suit took in comparison.

Making sure to not mistakenly trample one of them underfoot, he quickly began to out-pace them, forcing them to give up their friendly chase and to go back home.

It wasn't long afterwards for Cypher to arrive at Marie's place. Getting his Genoace down on one knee, Cypher gently laid the object his mobile suit held in its hand on the ground. It was his body, and shortly after setting it on the ground, Cypher moved his Genoace to the nearby mobile suit service station Marie had at her place and began to power down.

Moments later, Cypher's main body came to life and he got himself up off the ground and made his way to the front door of Marie's place. Knocking three times, Cypher then opened the door and make his way in. Inside, Marie was nowhere to be found in the front room. Setting the strange components he and the rest of the people he worked with recovered on the large table there, Cypher scanned the area looking for the pale mysterious woman.

"Marie, are you home? I have something I need you to look at for me." He questioned flatly, assuming that she was in one of the other rooms and within earshot.

[Usam1981]

If those kids had been able to keep up with Cypher, they would have run off long before Cypher reached the Small house with the Junk Yard in back. The house that Cypher had arived at is one that the local kids were afraid to go near, because of the rumors of the person who lived there, who the kids called the Old Mummy.

In a back room of the house, looking over the screens of her computers, Marie stood. Sporting a rather Goth look, marie appears to be younger then her real age, appearing to be a young woman.

When Cypher enters the small house, she hears him, and leaves the small room, with a slight smile on her face.

"Cypher, It has been a while. I see you have brought me a present."

She goes over to the table, and inspects the contents on the Table.

"These look like components that are in you. Where did you find these."

Marie had a part in the repairs of Cypher, as his tech had been a bit more advanced then the Mechanics of Diggin's rock were used to repairing, so she knew something about Cypher's workings.

[DovenWolf]

Charlie having had nothing to do at the time while the others were resting up from their last missions had decided to accompany Cypher on this trip in the rare event something occurred. However he had arrived a little bit later, Cypher as a droid didn't have to stop for "human issues" and as such had arrived sooner. Also Charlie couldn't help but be distracted, it had been awhile since he had been to this area and he was enjoying the sites, once he had arrived he hid his suit near where the genoace stood proudly and walked into the house of Marie.

"Makeup is still working wonders I see Marie, or do you still insist you are as young as you look?" he laughed, he was familiar with the woman and how the children and teenagers from the nearby village and orphanage would tease the woman. He hadn't realized though he was interrupting something when he said that and soon felt a little embarassed

"Ah there you are Cypher. I figured you had gotten here already. You don't seem the type to go explore the town first"

((I do hope I am not intruding lol. I just recently started playing MS Saga again on my PS3;s PS2 player. So I wanted to get in on this))

[Bozz]

Brad and Verdandi had arrived at this village for an entirely different reason. "Brad look Mr Cypher is here and so is someone else." Verdandi squeaked over the com. Brad looked up from his musings when his sister radioed him. He had been content to allow the auto pilot to take control. "Hmm it seems you are right." it was several more minutes before they arrived. the two siblings approached the house and knocked on the door. They would allow her to finish her business with the others before they entered.

[Droid]

"Yeah, about those..." Cypher started. "...We found them among the ruins of the leader mobile suits we destroyed in both the South America G System and in Diggins Rock. I think they might be a few of the missing components the reports about my repair and reactivation mention. I would like you to examine them and, if need be, install the--"

Cypher was interrupted by the door to Marie's place opening behind him. Turning, Cypher saw that Charlie finally managed to catch up. Waiting for him to finish his sarcastic quips and playful insults, Cypher tried to study and understand the point and humor humans derive from insulting one another. That is, until Charlie turned his attention to him.

"Didn't have the time Charlie. I urgently wanted to have these components we recovered studied. I had to know if they really were parts of me. My initial studies seem to have indicated that they d--" Again, Cypher was interrupted by a series of knocks on the door. Glancing over at Marie, Cypher nodded his head in the direction of the door. "Getting an awful lot of company today, huh?"

[Usam1981]

Marie turned with a small frown to the further intrusion into her house.

"Well, this is getting a bit crowded in here don't you think."

She turns back to Cypher.

"Ok, I will study these in my workshop. Sinse you are here, there are some items in the back that are being sent to Diggin's rock's weapons division that you can help me finish up. Why don't you take the others back while I work. It should not take very long for me to get this done. I will tell you my findings when I am ready."

Marie motions to the back door to her house, back to the junk yard in back, where she had been when Cypher had arived. In the back were a number of weapons and pieces of equipment that she had been asked to work on by Diggin's rock.

[Bozz]

Verdy looked over at her brother as he shifted uncomfortably. And she sighed she had been horribly surprised to see the pheasants rags her brother was wearing. And tho it had been a hard battle she had convinced him to start dressing like the noble he was. "Verdy I cant stand this suit Marie won't care how I am dressed. " Brad said as he adjusted the ice blue cloak on his shoulders for the umpteenth time. He was unsure of where Verdy had even gotten these clothes and he really wished she hadn't. "You are the lord of Eisengrad now it falls to you to look the part she" said giving him a glare

With a sigh he said "Fine I will deal with it" as he once more adjusted his cape in his family's colors and on the collar was the sigil of the wolf his family's crest as well as the symbol of the white knights. On his finger was the ring of Eisengrad that his sister had delivered to him and on his side he wore the deep red sword Of Eisengrad his family's most treasured heirloom and another sign of his new rank. He looked over at Verdy in her cyan dress. And wondered how she could be so comfortable in those clothes. She was absentmindedly playing with the wolf pin on her dress.

With a sigh he walked into the building to look at Marie " Hello Marie I am here on Eisengrad business. I have heard Rumors that my father ordered a pair of suits built before Eisengrad fell and I am here to claim them as the new lord of Eisengrad" Brad said kind of stiffly with the formality he seldom used in the years since he had left Eisengrad and showing her the ring he now wore. Seeing that she was about to enter the junkyard with Cypher and that Charlie was also standing nearby he looked at Marie and said. "Tho I am in no rush and can wait my turn. Also I am concerned about the state of things inside the city and figured you would be the one to ask." But for now we will simply sit here and wait. Brad said as he sat in one of the chairs in the room after giving Cypher and Charlie a nod and Verdy running up to them giving them both a greeting. She was still gave the droid a bit of space tho her reaction to him was a lot friendlier then when she had first met him when the sight of him had caused her to faint. "Hello Mr Cypher nice day isnt it?" She asked excitedly "My brother says you use bits just like me. Also um I would like to apologize for my reaction to the sight of you last time we met. No one mentioned you were a Robot." She said turning bit red faced at the last part.

(OOC the part about her fainting i was going to use in the Diggins rock battle when the two groups meet but no posting has happened in that thread in a while so I am posting it here instead. tho if we continue the cd part of the Diggens post mission i would rp it in game as well.)

[DovenWolf]

Charlie saw the siblings enter and gave a nod back to them before he put on the sunglasses he had in his pocket in preparation before going outside. Since he had been sent to a school in America, he hadn't spent much time in his native Eisengrad, but this didn't stop him from also wondering how his birthplace was doing. Seeing the appearance of the siblings he felt a little put off, in the time after the Fall and with the recent UE invasion, now was no time to try and point out the differences in one's class. This could also be from his time in America, where such things as nobility and ruling families weren't around and it was the will of the people that chose the leader.

He said nothing about all of that however as they were allies and he knew Brad wasn't really the type for such things. He left the room walking outside to the junkyard, leaving them in the house. Once outside he placed himself in a position where he could see his suit and the junkyard pretty clearly and stayed there.

[Droid]

"Alright, Marie." Cypher said flatly as he nodded to the others before stepping out the back door to the scrap yard. There he found loads of scrapped mobile suit parts, in various states of decay, just cluttering the ground, waiting to be repaired and used. Making his way through the maze of parts, Cypher grabbed different weapon component parts as he passed the various piles before making it to Marie's workshop where the weapons she mentioned waited for his inspection and finishing touches.

"Let's see...We have a prototype beam rifle and a Zaku bazooka." Cypher said as he pulled the cover cloths off the giant weapons before moving to the third item. "What do we have here?" He questioned himself as he pulled the last cloth off. The item appeared to be shield of some sort. Searching his database, he managed to get a match to the item in question. His search results informed him that this was a shield from a mobile suit called a Gouf. Cypher loosed a robotic chuckle. "Ah, I know just what to do with this." He exclaimed as he left the lab and started searching the piles for a certain weapon.