Mayumi Hina!

[Bean Bandit]

Motoko frowed, thinking of the commercial she'd seen. "Tokyo isn't exactly rough terrain..." she observed tentatively.

Out of the corner of her eye, Tsuruko could see a short, humanoid sillouhette in the trees...

[Asrana]

"This won't necessarily stick to Tokyo, and Tokyo's terrain might get...rearranged. This clothing isn't the best for urban warfare, either, though," she answered, eyeing the silhouette in the corner of her eye.

"Whoever's back there can please come out now, it's impolite to eavesdrop..." she said, loudly enough that they should've been able to hear...

[Bean Bandit]

Motoko started her eyes opening wide. "Ano...I don't sense any---!!"

The familar (To Tsuruko) form of Remy stepped out from the trees. "Quite so, but I had no wish to alarm young Motoko..."

Motoko simply stared in slightly disturbed astonishment...

[Asrana]

Tsuruko blinked, eyeing the man for a moment. "Oh, you," she answered simply, humming. "What's happening? Know where any of the others are? Know anything about our bodies so I can begin plotting battle plans? How'bout some help in the outfitting department? Ready to hit me to make me stop asking questions yet?"

[Bean Bandit]

Remy smiled. "Not as such. I'm still in the process of gathering the lot of you. You've been scattered fairly effectively. I've come to you, though, with a problem..."

[Asrana]

Tsuruko raised an eyebrow, glancing at Motoko briefely. "What about?" she asked, trying to suppress her overactive mind and its paranoid pessimism.

[Bean Bandit]

"I didn't get a chance to learn your names." Remy admitted. "But it's about the boy you were sitting next to...Chaos has placed him into a bit of a problematic situation..."

[Asrana]

Tsuruko's relaxed posture seemingly vaporized. "Bean? What's wrong with his position?" she asked, all attempts at suppression of her worrying gone now. "I didn't see the whole commercial...agh, what's going on?"

[Bean Bandit]

Remy made a soothing gesture. "Relax, please. He's fine for the moment, and I've already pointed some of the others in his direction, though I think you'll have the best chance of waking him up." he replied.

"The problem is, if someone else with mystical or spiritual talent awakens him first, he could be easily subverted to the other side..."

[Asrana]

Tsuruko shivered, glaring at nothing in particular. "Spare me the details, how the hell do I get him out of this situation, and where is he?"

[Bean Bandit]

"You'll find him in Tokyo." Remy began slowly, sighing. "In the bomb shelter of the Shizakura shrine, and sealed inside a giant Buddha statue."

[Asrana]

Tsuruko nodded, her eyes flashing to Motoko. "Do you know where that is and how to get there?" she asked, trying to soften the urgent jerkiness of her voice, though she was already turning back to Remy. "How do I wake him up?"

[Bean Bandit]

Motoko blinked "I think so-?" she said, trailing off as Tsuruko turned back to Remy.

Remy grinned suddenly. "Kiss him...her, actually. He's currently occuping the body of a 'Steel Angel'..."

Motoko's eyes were large, sweatdropping at the strange surrealness of the conversation...

[Asrana]

Tsuruko sweatdropped, unable to stop herself from snickering softly. "Figures...never could keep himself from getting stuck in a female body by chance..."

Shaking her head, she shrugged. "I can do that..." Taking a slow breath, she turned back to Motoko, smiling warmly. "Gomen, I'm a little...twitchy when it involves my friends..." she murmured, shrugging.

[Bean Bandit]

Motoko nodded seriously. "Time is of the essence, then...Ane-ue, where did he go?" she asked, startled back into her habititual speech.

Indeed, it seemed Remy hadn't stuck around to dispense any more information, and had vanished into thin air...