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[shiro2hero]

--ome in! Anyone!

[Yikes, man, tone down the yelling. The voice is frantic. Rightfully so, considering the last thing he remembered was being ejected into space. This is not the planet he thought he'd wind up on. There are humans here, and it looks like Earth.]

[But there's weird animals here. And no one seems concerned about a yelling, very upset man who just appeared out of nowhere.]

I don't know what's happened! I -- I need pickup, immediately!

[Yeah, he maybe only half listened to the explanations, but seriously, things were bad a minute ago.]

Pidge! Coran! [And then, almost grudgingly:] Lance -- someone pick up! This is Shiro and something's gone wrong! I don't know where I am -- I don't know what's happened, but I need someone to answer me now!



[Give him a few minutes to calm down. To pace and refocus himself. To listen and read up on the situation. Anyone who happens by the area sometime after the basically panicked broadcast can find him in New Bark Town. Under a tree, just...]

[What is he supposed to do now?]

[There's an Aron huddled up by his leg, but he doesn't seem to pay it much attention, right now.]

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[shiro2hero]

[okay maybe they did but unexpected didn't mean aliens and abduction and space lions okay.]

... Does anyone have any proof of it?

[Because while it doesn't make it better, it makes it a little less awful.]

Only fifty? Is this a planet or a... what is this?

[thatwasours]

Not that I know of. We're on a continent, or one of two. If you're in New Bark, you're in Johto. If you're not, you're in--

[wow, this is weird]

--Kanto.

[shiro2hero]

New Bark. That's what it said on a sign.

[A place name. That's a start. But none of those names are familiar. And that means this place is uncharted.]

[Great.]

Thanks. For what it's worth.

[thatwasours]

It's nothing.

[shiro2hero]

... Do I get a name to go with the info?

i cannot beleive he's been here a month and hasn't officially introduced himself to anyone

[thatwasours]

Miller.

[then, belatedly, as he realizes this isn't a military environment, and thus a given name is probably appropriate--]

Kaz Miller. You going to return the courtesy?

i feel so honored omg

[shiro2hero]

[He feels himself draw up automatically, at the tone, before belatedly realizing, this isn't back home -- old habits die hard.]

Shiro. That's all I go by, these days.

no one asked and everyone else had their name somewhere in their other network conversations?

[thatwasours]

[interesting. what had provoked that reaction?]

That's Japanese? Or are you from someplace that doesn't have a country by that name-- some other planet, maybe?

now he is the chosen one

[shiro2hero]

[Way too long at a pseudo-military school, that's what.]

Yes.

[OR SO WE'RE ASSUMING UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.]

It's Earth, if that's what you're asking.

[thatwasours]

Yeah. Turns out not everyone's even from Earth here-- a bunch of people from a planet called 'Pandora', in particular.

What are you, JSDF? U.S. military? Or am I way off the mark in guessing what you do for a living?

[shiro2hero]

It may come as a surprise but... people from other planets don't really faze me much anymore.

[Well, now the hard questions.]

None, anymore. You're off the mark but the mark is -- honestly unbelievable.

[thatwasours]

So what's the mark, then?

[shiro2hero]

[That's the question. Does he go with the obvious or... Yes. Because somehow, that's easier to talk about than the Garrison.]

Ever heard of a giant robot called "Voltron"?

[thatwasours]

Not that one specifically, no.

Does it have nuclear capabilities?

[shiro2hero]

Not... that anyone ever told me about.

[thatwasours]

Seems like a thing you should know for sure.

[shiro2hero]

I don't think anyone knows its full capabilities for sure.

[Or if they do, they're not talking about them.]

[thatwasours]

Who the hell designed it, then?

[shiro2hero]

...



An extinct race of aliens.

[How did he say that with a straight face.]

[thatwasours]

And so you jumped in it to pilot it-- I'm assuming what you're getting at is that you're the pilot --without any specs? Did you even have engineers look it over to take a guess?

If you did, I'd assume they'd have found a nuke, if it existed.

[shiro2hero]

We were the only ones who could. I'm not the only pilot -- there are others.

And yes. Either Pidge or Hunk would have found a blatant nuclear device if it existed.

1/2

[thatwasours]

[...so, a decision made out of desperation...? a survival situation? that or a careless one, in the same vein as the people from Pandora throwing open vaults full of alien technology.]

[it does not occur to Kaz that not everyone has a team of a hundred or so engineers and scientists on call outside of a survival situation, a means to pass it up a chain of command, or some other way to get alien technology investigated.]

And there was some immediate need to--

[thatwasours]

...

Are you saying that the mech has multiple pilots?

[shiro2hero]

Yes. There was. There still is. And there will be until we win.

[Said with conviction he might not feel completely -- because there's always the notion they might not win. They might not make it out. But he has to pretend they can. He has to act like they can.]

[They need him to.]

Yes. There's... two arms, two legs, and... me. The head.

[And torso somehow.]

[thatwasours]

How does that work? Wouldn't you be fighting one another for control?