Pedro munched on his muffin. He'd always been more partial to donuts and bagels, but this was actually pretty good. The girl was a hell of a summoner. Granted, the tactical significance of summoning muffins could be called into question, but then again, so could the tactical significance of sitting in a room altogether waiting to die. But hey, free muffin!
"Arhra*," he asked, "are we sure we should be using Ecurt's portal to bring him and the hobo to us? Granted, the more the merrier, but I was looking forward to the idea of having an escape route."
Arhra nodded slowly as she ate her own muffin, "Meh. I'm sure someone's got something up their sleeves. Might even save Inbred, too. We NPFers are a notoriously clever bunch. And by 'clever', I mean 'explosion-happy'. That tends to work out well enough for us in the end."
Her optimism calmed his nerves a little, but no more than could be reasonably expected. He looked over at the Mashirosen, sitting there, all blue and glowy. POS started to think that it should come with a sign that reads "The Mashirosen Core: It will get you killed!" Taking the worst case scenario into account, he started contemplating the best ways to destroy it. Hell of a way to throw a kink into Raiden's plans, after all. He could always dig up Rei's scans of it later and reverse-engineer a suitable replacement.
I wonder what the market for a POShirosen would be...
*Pedro knows Arhra's name now because he asked her. This deleted scene and many others can be found in the "NPF Avatars Special Edition" DVD, out this May at wherever fine videos are sold!
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Last edited by POS Industries; 03-30-2006 at 06:00 PM.
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