itsjustagamerp | Hate To Bring You Down [open]

Characters: Maes Hughes & Open
Content: Maes Hughes arrives!
Location: Deck 2
Time of day: Morning
Warnings: Angst and Death.

Gone. It was all gone. The only evidence was the tears drying on his face that the event had even happened. Maes sat on the floor of cold steel, his shirt lifted as he attempted to find any evidence of the wound. He knew it had been a fatal shot and he knew it was his own mistake. "Dammit," he cursed, pounding his fist against the wall he was leaning against, "Dammit. You should have been more cautious." He wiped the tears from his face, trying to forget the look on that monster's face...the monster that had taken the appearance of his wife. Maes was dead, he just knew it, but he didn't know how he was still...alive. There was no wound to speak of, though he could still remember the pain.

Maes took a deep breath. He need to calm down and assess the situation. He couldn't do that if he was freaking out. He rested his head against the wall and after a few more minutes to himself rose from the floor. "Okay, you're dead which probably means this is some kind of after life," Maes muttered to himself. Granted the metal panels and strange contraptions were not something he would have expected. What did it mean exactly? It was baffling to think about and he was sure if he thought about it too much he'd go spiraling out again.

Suddenly something flew by and Maes's head shot up to track it. It stopped at the end of the hall and turned back to him, floating in the air in an impossible way. It was round and had a lens like a camera he would use to take pictures of his daughter. Maes was a little surprised when it floated over to him. Again, this was not something he was expecting, but at least it was something to focus on. Maes reached up and grabbed it out of the air. The object actually seemed to struggle against his grip but he held tight, "Just hold on a second." He realized it was ridiculous to talk to it, but, well, everything seemed ridiculous now. He turned it around in his hand but he couldn't really determine much about it other than it seemed to have a camera-like function with this lens. Maes then realized something strange, there also seemed to be other people broadcasting from the strange spherical device. Stranger and stranger, and yet, Maes couldn't help but be intrigued by this. "All right, so how do you work exactly?"

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Ienzo hadn't really expecting to find a new arrival, on yet another exploration of the ship. Of course, there was the question of if it could really be called exploration if you already knew about what to expect, but Ienzo had already decided to call it that anyway. It wasn't like anyone had to know his thoughts.

So for a moment he simply watched this new arrival. Catalogued his thought process and where he thought he was, and very carefully began to formulate at least something of the world he must have come from. Nothing was gained without first observing, and so he did exactly that. Or at least, he did until one of the ever-present Cambots appeared. That question was one he could easily answer, and he quietly came over to Maes' side before speaking up.

"Broadcast."

Maes looked up from his musings and noticed the boy. Well, on the plus side he wasn't alone, however he really hoped the boy hadn't been nearby when he'd been having his little break down. Maes was usually pretty good about holding it together so if this kid had seen him losing it he wasn't sure what he was going to say.

Oh, but, the kid wasn't talking about that. Maes glanced at the round device, "So like a radio then? Only with visual, moving pictures as well." Well that was new. He'd never heard of something like that before and while Alchemy could do a lot of interesting things he was fairly certain this wasn't one of those things.

He could always say nothing about it. Ienzo wouldn't really think any less of him for it, and he wasn't about to make mention of what he'd seen. It wasn't important enough, and besides, it would surely have been embarrassing for the other man. Or at the very least awkward, and either way he wasn't about to take that route. It did tend to make things less than enjoyable all around.

"Yes," he answered with a nod. It was an admittedly crude explanation of the technology, but it worked. Someone else could explain the innermost workings later.

"Hmn." Maes muttered, before turning back to the device. He was beyond curious now because he had never in his days imagined something like this, let alone seen anything like it in person. He continued to turn it around in his hands, it seemed the the thing had a mind of its own because it was struggling against his grip.

Finally he sighed, "Oh fine," before letting it go. The device bobbed upwards, spinning around before directing its lens on Maes again. "What's it called?"

"Cambot," Ienzo answered simply.

True, that was perhaps more of a name that an indicator of what it was, but it was what people called them. Not to mention the name was a fairly simple portmanteau of 'camera' and 'robot.' It was obvious to him, therefore, what the name meant. That the same might not hold entirely true for people from other worlds was a fact that he was still working on getting his mind around, and as such, the point went unaddressed.

Shepard was never comfortable sticking around in just one spot, especially when she was forced there without any warning or idea where that place was.

For now, she had just explored what she assumed was the first deck of this 'satellite' and had managed to find a stairway leading to downwards to the deck below. Everything still seemed pretty archaic and it was a little curious how it all seemed to stay together. She had heard that human development in space construction had jumped in the past century, but it was hard to believe there wasn't much standing between a small meteor and the very corridor she was walking around it.

But enough depressing thoughts, back to more exploring. She had just stepped off the stairs when she started to hear voices. Not wanting to interrupt the ones who were talking, she waited quietly behind a corner. So there were children on board? That was news though not totally surprising given there were multicolored and sentient ponies running about. Why wouldn't there be children.

She waited a moment longer until satisfied that the conversation was winding down before walking around the corner to approach the two. The uniform certainly caught her eye, but didn't want to draw to it just yet.

"What else do you, kid?" She asked politely.

He felt better knowing the name, even if it was still strange to him. Cambot, based on its functions and what the kid had told him, was obviously meant for communicative purposes. He doubted he could contact home with this thing as there did not appear to be anything to 'dial out' with, but perhaps he could contact other people around here. The kid was a sign that there had to be more people around right?

Maes paused when he thought he heard footsteps. He released the bot, a hand moving towards his pocket before remembering he was weaponless. Paranoia was CLEARLY getting the better of him though as instead of an attack it turned out to be just another person wandering the ship. True, that's what had got him into this mess in the first place but she wasn't carrying any weapons or anything. He kept his guard up for the moment, at least until she spoke and asked about more information. Huh, maybe she was in the same predicament after all. Maes looked from the kid, offering a slight smile, "If you don't mind telling us more that is." He could tell the kid wasn't much of a talker.

Ienzo blinked at the question, although it was more out of confusion that it had been asked in the first place than anything else. The phrasing of the woman's question had almost made it sound as if she was assuming that he 'did' information, and while that wasn't entirely incorrect, he wasn't exactly sure he liked that being defined as his primary purpose. Still, as long as it didn't get around much, he supposed he could make do with it for now. Especially in light of the other question that had been asked. This one didn't look like he was going to get by with his usual short answers, and he repressed the urge to sigh. Why did people always ask him the hard questions.

"I'm a scientist."

It was only until after he answered that Shepard realized she missed a few words when she asked the question, which was a little odd for her. It wasn't like her to have her thoughts get ahead of her words. [Though this is really to be blamed on her mun for missing the typo just now. >_<]

Thankfully, the commander saw an opportunity to recover from the mistake. Not to mention it gave her some additional information as well. It was a little hard for her to believe that this human-looking kid could be some sort of scientist, but then maybe that's what the kid hoped or imagined to be while living around you. Might as well play coy for a little while until she got more information. She folded her arms, giving Ienzo a small smile.

"Oh yeah? Do you happen to work here?"

Maes might have had trouble believing the small boy was a scientist...if he hadn't been a friend of one Edward Elric. True, this boy was probably half Edward's age, but Maes knew Edward had to have started his studies in Alchemy at an early age to have done what he had done. Maes gave Ienzo a once over before deciding that he would buy the fact that he was a scientist for the moment.

He had not thought of the boy working here though.

While the smile was encouraging (probably intentionally so, or so Ienzo was going to catalogue it for now), he couldn't much say he liked the implication of him working here. Yes, it was an interesting place. Yes, the world to which this was no doubt associated was bound to be worth at least a cursory look. However, that hardly meant that he wanted to be associated with this place. It wasn't really anything that he cared for.

"No," he answered simply.

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