A ship was docking within the Magna Musai. As the door opened and the stairs lowered, she walked down, waiting for nothing or no one. Determined to have her way clear as she walked, her face was placid, almost mad. Her head turned as she spotted a certain pink mech. Then she smiled.
"Snipe!" called Gerbera, when she was getting out of her ship.
"Ger!" She exclaimed while hugging him tightly. She was able to hear the hum of Gerbera's Soul Drive and unconsciously pressed herself closer to the sphere, a slight blush came over her cheeks. When he set her down, he lifted her chin with his finger. That contact made her face even more hot.
"Snipe, you look a bit warm. Are you alright?"
She jerked away and shook her head to get rid of the blush. "I'm fine, Ger. I just missed you guys, that's all. Where's Stale?"
"In his office." He grabbed her arm, making her immobile.
"Ger?" She raised an eyebrow. He'd never grab her this securely before and it made her, not uncomfortable, but nervous.
He looked at her intently, making her blush once more before he spoke once more. "You need a diagnostic. Who knows what could've happen in Ark."
Snipe groaned internally, rolling her eyes. "Nothing happened. It was just a recon mission."
"For two years?"
"You try going over every inch of the planet. Now if you'll excuse me," she whispered as she slipped her arm away to go and meet the Stale.
Sazabi growled over his desk. Papers were strewn all over his desk, a deed done by Gerbera no doubt. He was just reaching the edge of having a rampage when a rapping was heard from his door. "What is it now!?" he yelled at the door.
"Well if that's the way you're going to treat me, I'm looking for a new brother," called a femme behind the door. The Commander couldn't believe his audio receptors. He hurriedly opened the door and saw the femme.
She was an organic. She had short dark red hair that barely reached her chin. She wore a black, sleeveless trench coat that covered her entire body and finished just before the heel of her black knee high leather boots. Dark green sleeve covered her arms and she had a black glove on her right hand.
"Snipe?" His red optic widened from shock.
"Hey Stale." She smiled, standing there. A few seconds passed and she looked at her brother confsed. "Don't I gonna get a hug?"
He grabbed Snipe and hugged her, lifting her off the ground. "I haven't heard from you in years. How was Ark?"
She barely had enough breath to talk. Primus, when he gives hugs, he gives out death hugs, she thought. "Devastated, pleased to say. How are things in the Dark Axis?"
That made him freeze mid squeeze. "That's right. You don't know do you?" He set her back on her feet. She gave her brother a quizzical look while he grabbed her hand. "Come with me." Through the halls in the Magna-Musai, they went up to the training room.
"I miss this place. Still has that spilled oil smell," she said, smiling. Some of the others troops stopped and stared at her. Some shivered with fear. "I love my job" she giggled when seeing their reaction to her arrival.
"Chronos, I want you to meet someone!" Sazabi called out when they reached their destination. Immediately, a white based mech stopped training and started walking towards them. "Snipe, this is our new member in the Dark Axis, Captain Chronos." She gave the mech a once over. And didn't like him at all. Snipe felt the hair on the back of her neck rise. Her mouth was filling with bile and it was just as nasty when she swallowed it back down.
"Stale, he's a Gundam," she whispered low enough for only him to hear.
"I know. Now, go introduce yourself to him." He nudged her closer with his elbow.
Snipe grumbled while walking up to the white Gundam."Hello, I'm Snipette, special weapons keeper." She held out her hand, which the Captain took. Snipe then shifted her weight, used the Captain's own momentum against and made him land on the other side on his back. She took a few steps and bent to see his bright blue optics. "And I don't like Gundams," she whispered before leaving the room, ignoring Sazabi's orders to return.
