I was gone for a week. was at a usmc camp tour. gonna have to go through that in a few years. anyways
The snow pattered on the metallic beams of the strider, the hydraulics making a soft shriek as they tensed and released. The surroundings around Hiro became emptier and emptier, vast lands of nothing but snow, debris, and destruction of past fire fights. Devastated buildings and frozen remains layed the landscape. Hiro looked around inside the cockpit, his expression changing. His eyes looked around in horror, darting around. Every corpse seemed to be marked with the AMR insignia. Hiro looked away and marched on, gaining a large few meters only to see an ally encampment. His face lit up however his strider decided otherwise, as it's hydraulics gave and it collapsed onto the floor, sending a dying Goro and Hiro into the snow. Hiro slowly lifted himself up only to feel a sharp pain hit his side causing him to fall over. Hiro coughed, holding the right of his abdomen, the flektarn on his body melding into a dark red. Hiro slowly attempted to push himself up with his right hand while he held his abdomen with his left. The soldier rubbed his wound around, then grabbing a fragment of the strider which was impaling him. Hiro grabbed the object and yanked it out of his abdomen shouting in pain and then falling over once more. He took a few seconds to breathe and then stood up and strode over to Goro, who was barely breathing at this point. Hiro slowly lifted his comrade over his shoulder and started to limp, his vision becoming blurry.
"I'm coming…" Hiro whispered to himself. "I'm coming home…"
Hiro looked up from the ground and saw an ally convoy and his eyes opened. Hope stood in front of him, causing him to move faster, however exerting his body and causing blood to pour out of his wound. The convoy was moving slowly in the snow, and it bore the American flag across it. The bloodied pair moved across the wasteland like no tomorrow, only to reach the side of the convoy and Hiro's body gave in, collapsing in front of a United States marine. The last thing Hiro heard was the marine calling for a medic.
"Tha--" Goro looked down towards the sand. "--t's what happened, huh…"
"I don't understand how I'm alive, hell, I don't understand how we're alive, but…" Hiro stopped and looked towards Zero Two once more, who was wading around. "I guess we just… Continue on because we have something to live for."
"I guess…" Goro closed his eyes.
Hiro glanced over to Goro, he couldn't help but feel pangs of sadness within him. The black haired man chugged the rest of his lager and stood up.
"I'm gonna go for a dip." The man said as he walked over to the warm water.
As Hiro entered the emerald waters, only to get a hug from behind.
"How nice of you to join me, Darling." Zero Two spoke, peeking her head around his arm.
"I'm quite glad I did." Hiro replied, looking of his shoulder at the pink haired girl.
Hiro turned around and spotted Goro and Ichigo in the bay, having their own fun. He watched as Goro smiled, and Ichigo sending her own. The image caused Hiro to smile softly. Zero Two caught onto this and spoke up.
"It's nice to see them having fun." Zero Two smiled up at Hiro.
"It is nice." Hiro replied, patting Zero Two.
The day quickly ended, the two pairs having dinner at Setsukaya, which started out as just some random restaurant off the road near Kabira, but has evolved into a high end restaurant, serving exotic foods, including, are you ready for this, beating snake hearts. The group wasn't here for beating snake hearts however, which I would assume is a good thing. Hiro ordered himself a beet salad appetizer, and a main being an eighteen ounce ribeye steak cooked medium rare. Zero Two acquired herself the same thing except for an appetizer… She doesn't believe in those. Ichigo ordered shrimp shumai as an appetizer and "Chicken Katsu" which essentially is just breaded chicken. Goro ordered small amount of scallops as an appetizer and nut crusted yellowtail.
The two pairs sat at their table, Zero Two excitedly admired the grand interior, as she has never been to something high end. Ichigo sat at the table, asking Hiro a barrage of questions to catch up. Goro sat there, listening to the two, sipping on a glass of water. The questions would be cut off when their dishes came out. Zero Two stopped Hiro from cutting his steak, and started to feed him.
"Say aaah~" She'd smile and fork a cut of steak into his mouth.
"A-Aaa…" Hiro replied, his face turning a soft red.
Ichigo and Goro stared at the couple, unable to fathom the idea.
gonna go get sleep now. imma actually do the schedule from today on. sorry for this week.