Lunar Boot Camp

[Ebiris]

Rei sighs. "I don't think I want to stay on the Moon any more, Mako-chan..." the dispirited Princess says softly.

[Halbarad]

A long blue air-car pulls up just outside the gate to the library grounds. A young blue-haired girl darts out of the back seat and tries to reach the door to the library itself, but is restrained by one of the emergency workers. She begins to struggle with the man. "Please, you've got to let me go in there! All those books, burning..." The child looks ready to burst into tears.

[Corwin]

A grown up man begins crying along with the girl. "I know how you feel! We missed it too!"

[Brian]

"Aw... Rei-chan, it's gonna be okay," Makoto soothes, having no idea what happened once Rei ran out of sight. "Um... look, let's get to our rooms, so we can get cleaned up and see what we can learn from the book you saved, right?" Makoto tries to give an encouraging smile to Rei.

[Ebiris]

Rei shudders, thinking of how very not okay she feels right now. "What rooms? Genkai said she changed our accommadation, remember. I think she's putting us in the barracks."

[Halbarad]

Ami continues to try to get past the emergency workers guarding the door. "You have to let me in there to get those books out!" When her struggles prove useless, she douses the two guards with several gallons of ice-cold water out of frustration, causing quite a bit of teeth-chattering.

"LET ME IN!"

[Corwin]

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" the guards exclaim, shivering.

Then, one of them turns to the other. "Say, Tenchi, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

"I dunno, Lalchi," his companion replies. "But it could be, with the Fire and all."

Turning to glare at the little girl, Tenchi asks, "You're a spy, aren't you?"

[Halbarad]

Ami stares at the two guards in shock for a moment. "Me? A spy?! How dare you!" After another dose of ice water for the pair, she draws herself up haughtily. "I am Princess Ami Hermesia of the planet Mercury, and I DEMAND that you allow me into this library at once!"

Privately, Ami wonders how anyone could be stupid enough to think that someone would use a seven year old girl as a spy.

[Corwin]

"Now look here, girly," Lalchi says, his teeth chattering. "Come with us quietly, or we'll have to spank you!"

Tenchi disappears into the guards' booth for a moment, before emerging with a paddle.

The Emergency Services people stare at the developing confrontation quietly, before nodding as one at an invisible sign and gathering wood for a small fire, a few meters away.

[Halbarad]

Ami sees the paddle in Tenchi's hand and backs away from the entrance. "You wouldn't dare..."

Turning towards the car she arrived in, she shouts at the top of her lungs. "FILIA! HELP ME, QUICKLY!"

[Corwin]

A golden-haired young woman rushes out of the car, giving a strange glance to a pair of girls covered in foam, before heading straight to her charge. "Oh, no," she groans, seeing the paddle and the shivering guards. "Mistress Ami, did you do something naughty again?"

[Brian]

Makoto blinks, some of the foam on her dribbling to the ground. "Um, it's not so bad, Rei-chan. We've still got each other, right?" she says as cheerfully as possible. "And, um, look, another princess. Maybe if we show her the book we found, she'll agree to give us a ride to... um... I know! We should ask for Eiko-chan. She'll know where we're staying!"

[Halbarad]

Ami turns to Filia. "They won't let me inside! Who knows how much information has been lost in there... I've got to try to save whatever I can!"

[Corwin]

"You shouldn't worry about adult books, Mistress Ami," Filia attempts to calm her down. "I'm sure I have something in the car you could fingerpaint with."

[Halbarad]

Ami points an accusing finger at the blonde. "Don't start that with me, Filia-I'm in no mood for jokes at the moment. Are you going to help me talk these simpletons into allowing me inside this library or not?"