Marie... Marie... MARIE!
Allelujah woke with a start, drenched in sweat. He frantically looked around, panicked at these new surroundings. 'Am I in a tent? How did I get here? Where's...'
He glimpsed the gently sleeping body next to him, and it came back to him in a flash.
He and his friends had been engaged in combat with the A-Laws when he had sensed Marie's presence among the enemy. But no matter what he said, she kept insisting that her name was Soma Cruz and that they had never met. Desperate to bring her to her senses, he had ended up crashing both of their machines on a remote island near the battlefield, effectively stranding them.
Afterwards, she got out of her cockpit and attempted to kill him, only to suddenly collapse.
Worried sick, he had erected the camping gear Tsumeragi had packed into his Gundam (that woman was prepared for everything) and holed them up in the tent as it started to rain. Resolving himself to watch over her, he had promptly fallen asleep.
Some protector he was.
Damnit, he couldn't do anything right! What was he thinking, taking them both down like that! If they had hit the water, they would both have died!
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
If only I was stronger... no, it's not me, it's that stupid Gundam! All of the other Gundams have incredible destructive power. What can Arios do? Transform into a jet?! Even Kyrios was better than this piece of shit! If it had been stronger I might have been able to capture her instead of stranding us both on this god-forsaken rock! Damnit, Damnit, DAMNIT!!!
He curled into himself and began to weep.
Damnit... Marie... What if you never wake up? What if I killed you? What will I do? What can I do? Nothing... I can't even save the girl I love...
Nearby, a glowing jade rock gently rolled towards him. It could sense his despair, his overwhelming desperation. It knew that in this, his darkest hour, he would make a request to the heavens above for strength, salvation, or possibly love. And while the heavens will continue their blissful ignorance of the creatures below it, the rock will grant these desires, for no price other than the corruption of his sexual mores...
Unaware of the ultimate power currently touching his foot, Allelujah made his request to the uncaring heavens...
Wed Aug 11 16:15:50 2010