A slightly smaller Mess

Hakken: "Y'know. Defensible."

"...Against what?"

Gideon: “Good, Astartes is will make this far easier”

Hakken: "Pays 't be prepared dun it? Fuckin, traitors n xenos n shit all about the shop."

Serah: "Make sure the ship is prepared."

Charles: *looks at lucy* He's telling the truth?

Gideon: “It will be”

Lucy is sat on a crate, part of the half dismantled barricade. "Most of it."

Hakken grins wide "See?"

Serah leaves the hangar, to seek the deathwatch.

Gideon gets to preparing the lander

Deathwatch are, as usual, sparring

Charles: most?

Lucy: "I pitched the idea, I don't particularly trust you or you toy soldiers."

Serah knocks politely with an armoured knuckle at the doorway

Charels: there it is.

Lucy: "What're you on?"

Charles: It was what I expected to hear. And I was right.

the door to the deffwoch boys slides open

Lucy: "Nice to know you're validated, is that all?"

Serah takes a knee, and bows her head.

Charles: no. *he removes his hat, looking a hell of a lot more humble all of a sudden*

Quintis: *the ultramarine*...that is not necessary ma'am

Serah: "In the presence of the emperors angels..." She takes to her feet before finishing the sentance, and meeting his eye. "Nothing else is appropriate."

Lucy's eyebrow raises.

Quintis: if you say so ma'am. *he steps aside so she may enter*

Charles: *sits down* Alright. You have...concerns, to say the absolute least. I am here to hear them.

Lucy: "Really?" *eyebrow is raised still*

She steps into the room proper

Charles: really. All of it.

the blood angel is sparring with the imperial fist, the wolf is drinking with his cyberwolf, and the executioner is silent in the corner

Lucy: "Starting with that." *She gestures at the I on his coat*

Serah: "I have something to ask of you, noble astartes."

Charles: go on.

Quiintis: name it.

Lucy: "Genocidal maniacs."

Serah: "The enemy have captured a knight, i intend to free it."

"I have never carried out a single exterminatus or similar action in my entire life."

Quintis: Is that so?
*the executioner is already grabbing his assault cannon*

Serah: "Yes my lord. I would beg your aid."

Lucy: "But you keep the company of that kind of person."

Quintis: what do you think boys?
Raphael: *the blood angel* looks like Sagor's already picked for us.
Erik: *the wolf* You itchin for a fight ya dirty great git?
Sagor: This silence bores me. To war we go.
Erik laughs

Charles: I do?

Lucy: "That man, that creature that hunted Hera's parents. People call him a butcher."

Serah: "Thankyou my lords."

Charles: ah. Laurence. I will concede, he is...less than favourable company. But neither I, nor the people who would be caught in the crossfire can afford conflict between us.

Erik: I'll fire up the blackstar. Get ready to fly, boys.

Lucy: "Seem pretty chummy to me. You're sponsoring him."

Serah bows out from the room

Charles: I am trying to....better him.

she notices the cyberwolf following her

Lucy: "Better him? Maybe you weren't watching him rip people in half not so long ago? Then the guy pops off into throne knows in the middle of warp travel?"

Serah: "Hello..." She reaches out a hand to it

Charles: I cannot eliminate him. And I cannot simply allow him to continue as he is. So slowly bettering him is the option that remains.

it lets her nuzzle it, tail wagging

Lucy: "Know where he is then?"

Serah: "You're quite beautiful, aren't you?" She speaks with a motherly tone

Charles: back on the paradise world, preparing to defend it against an iron warriors attack. I was planning on going there next to help defend it.

the wolf is very happy and just lets her make a fuss of it

Lucy: "Hmn... Well, get us there, and we'll do our thing. No need for all this shit."

Serah: "Will you be coming with us?"

Charles: as soon as we are finished here, we will.

the wolf nods, panting a little

Lucy: "Right you are."

Serah: "They'll quake like yellowed leaves at your steps, and the emperor will smile..." She smiles behind her helm, rubbing under the great wolves' chin

Charles: now, what else?

happy wolf face

Lucy: "You've lied to us before. How do we know you're telling the truth from now on?"

Serah points the wolf back towards its master, and goes to find jax.

Charles: what can I do to prove to you that I am being sincere?

*it follows after Erik*

Lucy: "Don't lie, We might get around to trusting you in a few months. Maybe."

*A jax is found, and brought to the hangar*

Gideon has now “appropriated” a valkyrie, as Aquila landers are too small

Serah and jax walk over

Serah: "There is no need, knight. The astartes have a vessel."

Gideon: Who was leaning against its hull “What have they got?”

Serah: "A blackstar, as they called it."

Gideon: “Are we all using it? Or just the astartes?”

Serah: "Perhaps it is safer to keep this craft available."

Gideon: “Perhaps, it is a good thing the techpriests have finished appeasing the machine spirit”

Charles: is that all I can do?

Jax: "A full load of missiles never hurts."

Lucy: "Any other ideas to make someone trust you? I'm all ears." *sarcasm drips from her words*

Charles: alright, fair enough