Spider is lounging near the fire still, having got a decent night's sleep. Luckily, Reploids lack hangovers.

Ekkusu says 'You always lounge by the fire these days?'

Spider says 'Well, it's comfortable here.'

Ekkusu smiles a bit while stretching.

Ekkusu says 'Just curious.'

Spider says 'The others should be up soon...'

Valkyrie slides down without a word and starts adjusting her boot.

Ekkusu nods while his arms lightly fold over his chest.

Ekkusu says 'It'll be good to see them again.'

Axl half-shuffles in, gaze initially looking past the ground as he approaches the Candle. He stops several feet off, completely stiffening as soon as he decides to look up. "...ah... X?"

Ekkusu glancing over in Axl's direction, he smiles, his head nodding a bit while brushing himself off. His emerald eyes seem to enjoy the look from a friend and he quietly waves.

Ekkusu says 'Hello Axl. How have you been?'

Spider grins and leans back, letting the Class-S hunters reunite...

Brushing back tendrils of gold, Valkyrie glances between X and you, making a face slightly as she feels a tender moment coming on.

Axl stands still for a few awkward moments, fighting off disbelief in favor of near-storming towards X and landing a soft, but not unfeeling punch on the other's shoulder. "You should've -told- me where you were! You don't know the crap I've been through trying to find you!

Spider blinks at Axl. "...How did you excpect him to tell you where he was if he didn't know where -you- were, kid?"

Valkyrie shakes her head again, glancing between Ekkusu and you, seemingly put-off by the scene, her eyes travelling to the west to stare. yeah, trying not to pay attention.

Ekkusu blinks slowly, before continuing his smile, bringing a hand behind his head as he looks over the would be younger reploid as he tries to come up with something.

Ekkusu says 'Well... Axl I've only been here for a few days. I just got here pretty much. How long have you been here?'

Ekkusu he looks genuinely curious, time and dimension were hard concepts to grasp, even for Reploids, and the fact that Axl had been there for.. who knows how long. Spider as well.

Axl bites back a snide retort in Spider's direction, keeping his gaze on X. He starts to voice his answer, but catches himself... how long -has- it been? "...Well, longer than you!" /But... she said he was here before.../

Axl suddenly looks very confused, sparing the others the expression as he looks at the ground again...

Valkyrie pushes herself up and dusts off her thighs and chest, making a face at all the residue building up on her form from the dust and grah in the air.

Ekkusu shakes his head lightly and reaches over to tap Axl's shoulder. He offers a reassuring smile before speaking.

Ekkusu says 'I know I haven't been the greatest friend to you at some points Axl, however in our current situation, I'll be looking forward to your and Spider's wisdom in this area.'

Valkyrie says 'And then it rains. What in the hell is wrong with this world. I'm going to look like a handicapped roll.'

Spider says '...I have wisdom in this area? Since when?'

Valkyrie brings her hands up and tugs her hair around, wringing it out as she shifts around to the other side of the fire, deciding to let the tender moment carry on with the three old friends without her intrusion.

Axl looks up to take in X's reassurance, not noticing his head dropping again soon afterwards. "...Yeah. Sure thing, X." He forces himself to look back up again, trying to give X a smile with some degree of assurance

Spider looks annoyed as his hat starts to get drenched. It doesn't seem to be his old hat... made out of cloth rather than metal, for one.

Ekkusu letting his hand drop from Axl's shoulder, he places his hand on his hip.

Ekkusu says 'Well you are my commanding officer now, and Axl's pretty much my ...senpai.'

Ekkusu sure, that sounds weird.

Coraveda arrives rather suddenly, rushing towards the warmth of the Cosmo Candle to avoid the thick downpour of rain!

Spider looks up at the sound of footsteps, then breaks into a grin. "Lotus-girl!"

Axl doesn't even seem to notice the rain threatening to tame his unruly shock of red hair...

Valkyrie gets plowed into by a girl running in. Because I think it's funny.

Coraveda shrieks hysterically!

Coraveda rolls across the wet floor.

Valkyrie says 'THOMAS TAP-DANCING LIGHT. WHAT THE HELL?!'

Ekkusu blinks very slowly and looks over to Valkyrie.

Ekkusu says 'You okay?'

Ekkusu offers out his hand to her to help her up.

Spider runs over to Coraveda. "You alright?"

Coraveda quotes 'Valkyrie says 'THOMAS TAP-DANCING LIGHT. WHAT THE HELL?!''

Valkyrie reaches up and grabs the hand, bracing herself as she tugs up and nods, brushing the slight mud off her rump.

Valkyrie says 'What the hell ran into me, and can I blast it?'

Coraveda says 'Yes I'm FINE, thank you, except for tripping over someone's discarded tin can on the way here.'

Ekkusu blinks slowly and lets his hand drop out of her hand when she gets herself together.

Ekkusu says 'Dunno... seems Spider knows though.'

Ekkusu casts a glance in his direction, emerald eyes slowly fixating upon him.

Valkyrie twitches visibly.

Valkyrie says 'Who are you calling a tin-can you bag of flesh?'

Spider says 'She's... Swaying Lotus, I believe. A fellow operative here. You guys are -not- permitted to fight, alright?'


Axl just kind of settles for sitting in the 'what the hell is going on' part of the audience of all the drama going on around him...

Valkyrie says 'she's the one who ran into me.'

Valkyrie looks at Coraveda.

Spider is still kneeling by Cora's side. And wet. Hooray!

Coraveda puts her arm around Spider's shoulders. 'And you're exactly the person I was looking for.'

As Valkyrie coughs, 'coughslutcough'.

Spider grins and wraps an arm around Cora. "It's good to see you again..."

Spider says 'What exactly happened with the wolf... thing...?'

Coraveda says '... We chased it out of town.'

Coraveda says 'It won't be coming back.'

Spider nods. "Alrighty then." He grins. "Glad to have you back. Meet X."

Coraveda bends her left leg, bringing her foot to her knee, and stands up on her right toes in passe position.

Coraveda says 'That's all the greeting you get, I can smell metal from here.'

Spider says '...You never complained about me smelling like metal...'

Coraveda jabs Spider in the side.

Valkyrie says 'Stop being such a self-righteous flesh bag and say hello to him.'

Spider looks rather annoyed.

Ekkusu blinks slowly at the exchange, glancing over to Valkyrie and Axl for some sort of reply, before looking back at them, waving a little bit.

Valkyrie says 'he doesn't care of your fancy-pants bending.'

Ekkusu says 'Uh... hi...'

Ekkusu piku piku.

Spider says 'If you have a problem with Reploids, you might want to consider parting company with the militia, Lotus.'

Coraveda says 'That wasn't even fancy in the least. It's good to know that I'm working with a clearly fresh and uncultured audience.'

Ekkusu brings his hand behind his head, wondering where his mind was during this whole exchange...

Valkyrie says 'You smell of wet dog and you call us uncultured? I'm sorry I don't feel the need to shove my gullet full of fancy foods and try to bend my way around in some kind of messed up greeting.'

Valkyrie says 'But I am -not- uncultured.'

Coraveda shrugs helplessly.

Axl looks about as lost, just kind of digging a boot in the ground and waiting for things to settle down.

You are thirsty.

Valkyrie says 'You ran into me, called me a tin-can, and are now insulting all of our intelligence and culture? That's beautiful.'

Spider glares at Coraveda, although he's having trouble trying to keep his gaze from sliding downwards...

Ekkusu quietly moves beside Axl, whispering quietly, 'What just happened...? I don't think my neural net was here the entire time...'

Coraveda says 'Well if you're tasteless instead of uncultured, that's beyond my help. At least I could have tried. Anyway,'

Coraveda turns to Spider.

Valkyrie says 'Tasteless?'

Valkyrie says 'I'll give you a taste of my fist in your mouth.'

Valkyrie twitches and makes a motion towards Coraveda.

Ekkusu lightly grabs the back of Valkyrie's back plate armor and keeps her from trying to rush the Saiyan.

Spider looks at Cora angrily. "Listen, Lotus. I like you, but if you're going to break our team apart..."

Ekkusu says 'Hey settle down Valkyrie... reacting this heatedly isn't helping anyone...'

Valkyrie says 'No, Spider. You see, girls like her have a HUGE problem. They have to be the center of attention. Someone needs to knock her down a peg.'

Coraveda raises an eyebrow.

Valkyrie glances at X and frowns.

Coraveda swoons.

Coraveda says 'Oh Spider, defend my honor!'

Axl sighs, muttering briefly before raising his voice. "Alright, can we all just -settle down- for five minutes?!" (Wow, Axl being mature. o.o)

Spider just puts his head in one gloved hand. "Can we at least do this -inside-?"

Spider says 'My hair is going to rust out here.'

Ekkusu looks at Axl blankly for a moment.

Ekkusu says 'You're growing up.'

Coraveda isn't getting wet a bit, despite 'rushing in to avoid the rain.' oO(Rustbuckets, all of them :/)Oo

Axl glances at X for a moment or two, then quickly averts his gaze again. "...Yeah, I guess. Time tends to do that."

Valkyrie glances at Axl and X again, making a face as she jerks her armor from his fingertips and turns to walk into the tavern'ish place, seeming upset.

Coraveda says 'Well if SHE isn't touchy.'

Ekkusu smiles and nods.

Ekkusu says 'It's quite an improvement. Means I don't need to worry about you so often.'

Ekkusu blinks after Valkyrie and begins following after her.

Ekkusu says 'Best to try damage control huh?'

Ekkusu stands up.

Ekkusu leaves nw.

Spider grins at Cora for a moment, then turns to Axl. "Go join X, kid, K?"

Axl makes a face and half-jogs after X at Spider's tone. "Yeah, yeah, I get it..."

Ekkusu sighs halfly, his eye half closing.

Ekkusu says 'You're angry.'

Ekkusu says 'You know not -everyone- likes us.'

You are thirsty.

Axl stops just inside the doorway, turning to face the wall as soon as he realizes what's going on. /Wow, everyone's in a crappy mood tonight.../

Valkyrie says 'I'm not angry. Look, you said you'd be following me around until you found your friends, right? You found them, you don't need me anymore. And I could give a buster less if that girl likes me.'

Ekkusu sighs slightly, bringing his hand to the back of his head, rubbing the back vents for his helmet lightly.

Ekkusu says 'Valkyrie, you said you'd be working with us as well right? We can't get along with everyone and I'd like you to stay on with us.'

Valkyrie shakes her head and turns, knocking back the beer like it was nothing, then slams the can down in the trash bin, frowning.

Valkyrie says 'And why do you need me? None of you even known me from Rock.. I could be some psycho'

Ekkusu lightly raises his hand to the bartender, 'Water please.'

Coraveda winks at Malystryx and slams down a free Starlet Fire.

Valkyrie pours whisky from a whisky bottle into a bottle for refreshing water.

Ekkusu drinks water from a bottle for refreshing water.

Coraveda says 'Hi kids!'

Valkyrie glares at Coraveda.

Ekkusu glances over to Cora, blinking slowly.

Ekkusu says 'Hello again. Where's Spider?'

Axl sighs, going to hide himself on the furthest end of the bar he can find, just trying not to get involved...

Valkyrie bares her teeth and hisses spitefully.

Valkyrie drops to the floor, defiantly, and settles her back against a wall.

Coraveda says 'Spider had some other business to attend to.'

Ekkusu glances over to Valkyrie, and finds Axl out of the corner of his eye. He looks back to Cora, nodding.

Ekkusu says 'I see. Valkyrie?'

Valkyrie says 'Ya?'

Ekkusu makes a small motion with his head.

Ekkusu says 'C'mon. I still need your help, and while we're at it we can talk.'

Valkyrie frowns and tugs herself up, looking indignant.

Valkyrie says 'I guess. Where are we going, and who else is coming?'

Coraveda sits down and thinks deeply.

Ekkusu glances over to Axl, giving him a small nod of goodbye before heading towards the door.

Ekkusu says 'Just you and me. Is that okay with you?'

Valkyrie says 'I suppose so, not much I can say, is there? '

Valkyrie shakes her head and follows him to the door, giving a slight nod to Axl, though she wasn't even introduced.

Axl offers a little nod of his own, waving over the bartender...

Valkyrie hisses spitefully at Coraveda through bared teeth.