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Characters: Zack and Rikku
Progress: In Progress
Summary: A panicking ex-SOLDIER looks for a way back to his friend, and meets one of her friends.
Location: The Clockwork City of Goug
Date: November
Warnings: None yet.



After a little bit of disorientation, the ex-SOLDIER had managed to get accurate directions to the blonde girl's pile of broken down machines and stuff. His sword was about the biggest identifier he could have had, besides his glowing blue eyes, which darted here and there, taking the sights and sounds of Goug and the Al Bhed working. They were speaking a language he didn't understand, but Zack's eyes were fixed now on a blonde in a bikini, the very same young lady he'd been speaking to on the MoogleNet. Zack was pretty relieved by the sight of someone familiar, even if the idea of an afraid, alone Lulu giving birth in a strange place had a vicegrip on his chest.

"Rikku? Rikku!" he waved wildly, grinning a bit, his fingerless gloves stretching along with his hand, to be very conspicuous. The man picked up his step, jogging the rest of the way over to her. Sure, some blonde folks with green eyes were giving him weird looks, dirty looks, appraising looks.. all kinds of looks. Some even looked ready for a fight, considering how the armed man had simply barged on in. "It's me, Zack Fair, remember?"

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Rikku was sitting ontop of a pile of junk when Zack appeared, hunched over slightly, working on what seemed like half a tiny robot that sat between her knees. She didn't seem to notice the shouting at first, so intent on getting an arm-joint shoved into a tiny frame, but when the Al'Bhed around her seemed to be getting restless she glanced up...and saw the boy from the moogle machine running towards her. Well armed. Several of the Al'Bhed nearby had begun moving forward to block Zack's path, in fact.

"Ed'c ymnekrd, ra'c hud tyhkanuic!" She called out to the Al'Bhed, and after a moment most of them returned to their jobs, though a few continued standing nearby warily. Rikku was, in some ways, the closest thing the Al'Bhed had to an 'heir to the throne' as it were.

She pushed herself to her feet, carefully setting her half-finished little junkbot aside as she waved to Zack. "Hey, yeah, I remember! It's not been all that long, ya know." She smirked at him, her hands settling on her hips. "You should be more careful where you go runnin' around with that sword though."

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Zack grinned at her, and shrugged, "Well, I ain't leavin' it behind. Besides, it ain't like I was swingin' it around or anythin'. Good hustle on these guys though," he nodded to the ones still warily watching him, "If yer gonna have someone guardin' ya, ya gotta have the ones who're suspicious." he paused, getting his thoughts in order, as they had a remarkable tendancy to bounce around lately, like they were restless. Or something like that. He wasn't crazy!

"You know Lulu." he didn't say it accusingly or anything, as much as he stated it, "Anyway.. yeah, it's nice to meet you, Rikku." he held out a hand, figuring on shaking the girl's. "I know it ain't been all that long, it's just.. well, stranger things have happened, right?"

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"Oh, they're only protective of me 'cause they don't wanna piss of my dad," Rikku shrugged. She didn't really like the way many Al'Bhed did that with her, and was always thrilled to find some like Buddy or Gippal that didn't treat her that way. Of course, the downside was when buddy or Gippal were around, they were more likely to just watch Rikku do something stupid and then snicker about it later. As long as it wasn't too dangerous.

"Yeah, I know Lulu. I'm kinda worried, actually. I mean, I don't know where she is but she's gotta be crazy far away if these moogle things aren't workin' right, ya know?" She shook her head, as she reached out to shake Zack's hand with her own moderately smaller one. "Yeah, considering we've lost months of time and nobody knows how we got here, I guess you're right about the weird stuff."

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"Heh, well, you won't mind if I don't worry about yer Dad." Zack had faced worse things than an irate father, and indeed the man seemed capable enough. "Anyway.. yeah." he rubbed at the back of his head, and gave a soft sigh, "Yeah... I'm worried too, y'know? I mean, I know she doesn't really wanna admit t'needin' a hand from time t'time, but I figure that she could use a friend right about now.." Zack seemed well and truly worried about the black mage.

"I guess they don't have communications equipment out that far.. but that kinda gives me -something- to go on.. Not enough, but I know she ain't anywhere around Alexandria, or anywhere else I can reach effectively on the MoogleNet.."

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"Oh, he's not even on Gaia. I think they're just worried if he turns up like we all are and they let somethin' happen to me he'll be mad. And he's scary when he's mad." She grinned at the thought of it, really. It was rarely an anger that was directed at her.

"Well, I was thinkin' about that, with the range thing. The moogles have towers all over the mist continent, and where we are, whichever continent this is. So, if they aren't gettin' reception, they're aren't here. Anywhere near here. At all." She shook her head. "Other than sayin' 'go west and pray', I really don't know how to find her..."

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"Yeah.." he looked so down and out for a moment that his spikey hair might have drooped, but then he perked up and put on a brave face, flexing one hand into a fist in front of him, "Bah! No use gettin' damn sad about it, I'll just hafta find 'er, won't I?" he nodded, psyching himself up to kick the bad mood.

Zack tapped his chin gently, thinking to himself, "I read on the MoogleNet that you can get a general idea of location.. or at least direction, by reading the signal.. Then again, it seems pretty choppy.." he just didn't know enough about this stuff! How frustrating was that?!

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"Oh yeah!" She tugged out her mooglenet phone then and started fiddling with it, bringing up her conversation with Lulu from before. "But I mean, if she's real far away..." Rikku shrugged, then pointed west. "She's...that way! No idea how far or anything, but I guess we could start walkin'. I think there's a city or something near that big tree..."

She shrugged apologetically. "Sorry, I'm worried about her too, I just...don't really know what to do."

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"Yeah, me neither.." he sighed and laced his fingers together behind his head, looking up at the sky. Wait a minute.. the.. the sky!! "Rikku!" he grinned and pumped a fist, "I've got a plan! We'll get an -airship-! Then we can book it out west and see if we can't get a clearer signal and find Lulu!!" get? Steal, more likely..

It sounded like a great plan, even if his fist pumping had those moody Al Bhed on edge.. "Just.." he scratched at one cheek, "Where the hell do we find one of those?"

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"Lindblum," Rikku might not have been that familiar with Gaia, but she'd been here long enough to learn that almost all the airships were in lindblum. The girl was drawn to machina, after all. "It's on the continent south from here though, we'll have to figure out how to get there.

The Al'Bhed were indeed rustling around them, and Rikku tossed one of them a bit of an annoyed glare. "We should leave right away! Just lemmie get this stuff gathered up..." She began picking up all the bits of the little robot thing she was trying to build.

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"Awright, I got nothin' keepin' me here!" Zack grinned at Rikku, and nodded as he waited, "Anythin' I can help ya carry? I mean, we can figure out how t'get t'Lindblum on th'way." he rather liked this blonde girl's spunk and impetuousness.

Really, Zack wasn't thinking this whole thing through, but luck favours the bold!