Lunar Boot Camp

[Corwin]

Standing on a balcony and looking at the night sky, Queen Serenity sees a spaceship burn in the Moon's atmosphere, leaving a trail of flaming wreckage on its course to the Royal Spaceport. "Most ominous," she says, murmuring a quick prayer for the ship's insurance company.

Meanwhile, at the Royal Spaceport, Princess Makoto, Eiko and Luna see the Millennium Frog at its final approach from the relative safety of their private liner....

OOC: Go for it, Rei, Makoto.

[Ebiris]

As the Millenium Frog shakes itself to pieces on its final approach to Serenity Spaceport, Rei tears her gaze away from the window where she can see pieces of the hull flying past her view. "I can't believe it ends like this..." she moans piteously, before turning a furious look on the cause of her current troubles. "If I die, I'm going to haunt you forever!" she hisses at Genkai, incidentally bracing herself on the ruined seat in front of her.

[Corwin]

Genkai laughs. "It'll take a lot more to kill someone like you, Girl." She scratches her chin thoughtfully. "Though facial scarring is not out of the question...."

[Ebiris]

The Princess pales at Genkai's words. "Not the face!" she cries, bringing both hands to cover her cheeks, and incidentally causing herself to smack her chin on the ruined seat as she stops bracing herself against it. Shooting the old crone a dirty look, she resumes bracing herself, whispering a prayer as she awaits their inevitable meeting with the Lunar surface...

[Corwin]

The Millennium Frog impacts against the runway, and then leaps up, before Lunar gravity takes its toll again. It descends again, only to bounce, rising to a lower height than previously.

Ten bounces later, it stops, having dug itself into a trench of Lunar soil and concrete.

[Ebiris]

Incredibly shaken by the experience, but still miraculously alive, Princess Rei of Mars proceeds to show her appreciation for her continued existence by vomiting her lunch all over the seat in front of hers.

After evacuating her stomach, the thoroughly shaken (not to mention filthy) young woman takes off her seatbelt and staggers towards the nearest emergency exit, rudely pushing anyone foolish enough to get in her way. After opening the door and activating the emergency ramp, she slides down onto the surface of Serenity Spaceport and begins kissing the ground fervently. "I'm not dead... I'm not scarred... but I still hate my life..."

[Brian]

Makoto watches from the sidelines, rather surprised by this turn of events. "Erm... I guess our pilot was better than I gave him credit. I thought he was making up that 'turbulance' stuff... should we see if they're okay?"

[Corwin]

With eyes wider than Makoto had ever seen on her before, Luna stares at the young princess, gaping. "Th-- th--" she tries saying, her mouth opening and closing.

[Brian]

"I'm going to take that as a 'yes'," Makoto decides. Throwing caution to the wind, she scrambles towards the smoking flaming ruin, slowing only slightly when she sees the Princess of Mars kissing the ground.

[Corwin]

"Princess Rei?" Luna finally asks, still gaping at the scene of the crash. "What could possess her to travel so dangerously?!"

Eiko shrugs, and scoops Luna up, following Makoto.

[Ebiris]

Hearing Luna's voice, Rei looks up with a start. 'How could she recognise me?' the Princess thinks, confirming that she is still covered from head to toe in that strange white crap from the spaceship, and her face is still covered in... whatever the hell that stuff from Genkai's feet was. About the only distinctive feature the cat could have picked up would be her hair... but the style wasn't that uncommon on Mars...

"Uh... er... Princess Rei? Where?!" The incognito Princess makes a show of looking around, deciding that retaining the Rika alias would most definitely be in her best interests until she can get cleaned up. She didn't fancy explaining how the Crown Princess of Mars had been bullied into going on that flying deathtrap by her geriatric tutor, to say nothing of simply not wanting anyone to see her in such a pitiful state as she is currently in.

[Corwin]

"You poor dear," Luna croons in Eiko's arms. "Did you hit your head and forgot who you were when that thing crashed?"

[Ebiris]

Rei's facial muscles tick slightly, but under all the crap she is covered in, it's not all that noticeable. "Oh, what a cute kitty! Can I hold her?" she then proceeds to grab Luna from the redhead without waiting for a reply. Turning away from the two girls, she leans down to whisper in Luna's ears without anyone else overhearing.

"Luna, I'm trying to preserve my dignity here. Do you really think it's a good idea for it to get out that the Crown Princess of Mars arrived on the Moon to see Queen Serenity looking like... well, like this?" she indicates her filthy and bedraggled state. "Think of the scandal!" she whispers in a shocked tone. "Do you want a scandal Luna? A scandal that could tarnish both my reputation, and by extension Queen Serenity's, since I'm coming here as her guest?"

[Brian]

Makoto slows to a halt, peering between the two beings she sees nearby. "Well, if she's not the princess," Makoto muses to herself, glancing at the white...stuff...encrusted young girl, "then _she_ must be!"

Makoto turns to Genkai, who is at the moment the most presentable, stately, and dignified looking of the survivors. "Er... ah... you must be the... Princess, then," Makoto manages. "It's... nice to meet you!"

[Ebiris]

Hearing the other girl's words, Rei spins round, still holding Luna. "No! No one here is the Princess! I'm just a humble peasant girl, and that's my dear old eccentric grandmother!"