Lady Kurisho's gunboat lands in the main hanger bay, where she is met by the Chief Mechanic.
Soon an argument breaks out between The Lady and the Chief.
The Chief insists that the gunboat is unsafe and the main structure framework has seen it's last days.
Lady Kurisho argues back, stating that the gunboat is fine. That is needs a few repairs and even if the repairs are great, it should be no problem to remove the outerskin, expose the framework and weld new struts inplace. She futher implies that the Chief would not know a 'good piece of metal if it bite her in the butt!! '.
The Chief flips out and calls Lady Kurisho's actions "Something that a KNF agent would plan"
Soon the two are screaming at each other. Then the weapons come into play --The Chief tries to swing a hammer at Kurisho while she , inturn , stabs the Chief with one of her steel pointed hairpins.
Security is quickly called and dogpiles the both of them, forcefully separating the two.
Lady Kurisho is shoved down the hallway leading to the bar, where is is advised to go 'have a drink and cool off for a while' . The Chief is dragged off to medical.
Back in the tea house
Steve was now attempting to open the box, which by it's bulk, weight, and the high quality of packaging, was extremely difficult to get into. Attempting to use scissors, a tanto, and his bare hands failed quickly.
Several bystanders were curious toward this, gathering around (but not volunteering to help) to watch Steve struggle.
"What's that? Bansai tree?" One of the GC asked?
"I don't know what this thing is, I didn't order it. But We're going to find out... eventually..." Steve grumbled.
Giving up on sensible ways to open a box, he proceeded into the pantry and started going through the cutlery to find something sharp enough to open the box with.
***
At that point, Naomi entered the bar. Dressed in nothing but the robe, drawing a number of glances and giggles from the patrons.
"Where is Lady Shikyo? I need to have a talk with her?" She said, looking around.
"...and what is that box?"
After a loud string of explatives from the hanger, Kyosuke walked into the tea house, his hands caked with a combination of a blood, grit, and metal shavings. He'd spent the past 3 days trying to get his Charon fighter back into action. It flew, but only in the broadest sense of the term, considering the right half of the fuselage was torn open, the right wing half missing, and the dorsal engine chopped off and cannibalized for spare parts.
"Can I open the box, Steve?" He asked in an odd tone, eyeing the knife in Steve's hand.
"Sure, why do you ask?" Steve replied cautiously.
"Because I need to rip something open in the most violent way possible."
This said, he snatched the knife from Steve's hand and began slicing furiously at the box...
Steve sat back and watched Kyosuke happily ruin the box with a knife. Bits of cardboard and packing peanuts flew across the tea house. He continued slicing until a clang ran out, as the blade hit something solid and metal.
As Kyosuke backed away, the remaining bits of the box and peanuts collapsed onto the floor. Revealing that within the box was...
...another box.
The box was metallic and white, with stylised pink hearts on each side. It did not appear to have any openings, looking like a solid piece of metal. A note and the remains of an instructional manual were on top of it, the manual ruined by Kyosuke's onslaught.
Steve picked up the note and read it.
Quote:Use cube on moldy daemonic box. See manual for instructions and do's/do nots'
~Watsas
Steve glanced at the confetti which was once the manual, and back at the box.
"Kyosuke, glue the manual back together please."
She quietly walks into the tea House until she stumbles against a patron who turned to say something sharp, then got a goos look at Shikyo before backing off, pulling his friend with him to get back from her. Having lost her keys to her room since she'd somehow forgotten them in Naomi's jacket, she is wearing old clothing scrounged from the mechanics lockers, but that was not what backed the tech off, it was the cold blank look in her eyes and the old looking hand gun she held loose in her hand as she headed for the Bar.
It seems like the bar has been busy, with bits of packing matierial scattered here and there, cardboard bits everywhere else, and what looks like pages of a booklet of some sort. She scoops a couple of them up, tried to focus her eyes on it, then shrugs when it makes no immidiate sense to her. Stuffing the pages into a pocket, she saw that Steve was busy with Kyosuke, another box of some kind and was holding some card in his hand reading it.
A slight 'hmph' from her and she just reaches across the bar for what ever hard liquor is handy and easily reached. Once she has something, and she did not even bother to check the label, Shikyo turns and finds her way to a corer table where she drops the gun on the table top rather ungently before popping the cork off the bottle and taking a deep drink from it.
She only glances up once when the Station Security shove the Lady Kurisho into the Tea House rather ungently and giggles. She can tell, even in her semi-drunken state- that the Lady is pissed off at some one today and condsidering that one of the Lady's hairpins is missing with her hair in a bit of a mess at the moment.
Shikyo leans back into the booth a bit to watch and drink the bottle dry, waiting to see if something else interesting will happen, since for some reason, Ainu keeps attracting all sorts of males and strangers. She smirks rather stupidly as she thinks that maybe taking a shot at some one with the Casaul .454 will start a bar fight or something else just as interesting.
Lady Kurisho sucker punches one of the security staff as she is being shoved into the Bar.
One of the Security staff is heard saying to the other ''Don't do it. Let just get out of hear before she kills us all !"
The herd of Security staffs retreats back down the hallway in a hasty manor.
Lady Kurisho then glances around a bit before spotting the box that seems to have a few people attention.
"Let me guess. ANOTHER ******** Box !. No Shipping Label, No traces of HOW it got into the Base. No Delivery notices and OF COURSE....No Security Inspection Passing paperwork.
Why the ******** ********* ******** do we even bother !!!! Lets just paint a big ol' ATTENTION KNF : HERE WE ARE sign, in bright Yellow Paint on the side of the station while we are at it"
Lady Kurisho then makes her way toward the bar, grabbing a Sake container and pouring herself a good size drink.
Somewhere..................in the far front of the main lobby is heard:
"Because we are out of yellow paint???"
As Lady Kurisho suddenly spins herself around, in an attempt to spot who ever said that, she screams out : "Who the F*** Said that? Who's the slimy communist s*** twinkle-toed c********* down here who just signed his own Death Warrent !!!!"
Before she can complete her about-face, some crew person manages to haul tail out a door at record breaking speed.
"Kurisho? Want another drink?" Steve asked, noticing her slightly-angrier-then-normal demeanor. As he awaited her reply, he went over to inspect the box sitting about the bar.
He knocked on the box with his knuckles, the sound not indicating it was hollow. This was consistant with it's weight, which indicated the box was probably a solid block of titanium. It's purpose was unclear, aside from the small indentations and the pink hearts, it didn't seem at all useful...
...the hearts... enchanting yet subtly terrifying...
***...Daisuke...***
Steve felt a shiver go down his spine. Had the box just TALKED to him, using his actual Kusarian name... was it in his head?
"What?" Steve asked arbitrarily.
"What?" Naomi replied.
"Did the box just talk?"
Naomi shook her head in frustration and went and sat at the bar, wanting none of the drama which usually ensued whenever something new appeared in the Tea House. This indicated to steve that the box was only audible to him...
"*sigh* Not again..." Steve mumbled under his breath. "I swear, if this is another joke... or this thing is possessed..."
***...they don't respect you...you are their slave...***
"Kyosuke? Manual?"
On request, Sayuri Asuka walked into the teahouse for the first time... Not so nervous now as she had once been when she first joined, but still a little nervous.
Rumors about the teahouse... were somewhat... frightening.
Lady Kurisho, unable to find her target, now makes her way back to her favorite corner table.
Ryu Saiba enters the tea room...looking around, he sees beautiful women lying and drinking...
He sits down next to them, take a tea and join the conversation...after a while he remembers his conversation with Kuroto, and asks himself how can someone as blind as him...by the way, what does Iron Watsas want to do with him?.... torture him? naah Iron isn't like that, ask for informations? I don't know that he know anything, and even if he does, he would likely die before saying so ...
"RYuuuu !!!" as stopped thinking as one of the girls called him....
"yes lady?..."
"I'm soo tiiiired, can you take me hoooome? (she puts her hand on his leg...) "
"...Yes, off course, wait for me in the car, here is the e-card..." (Ryu hands her the Car's e-card)
Ryu finished the cup "See you some other time, Ladies, and if you see Watsas, tell him Ryu says Hii "
He gets up and starts walking outside the tea house, the corner of his mouth perked in a crooked smile....
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Edited for some mistakes, thanks Jazzy