[b]Ayaka[/b] Ayaka was somewhat surprised to see another girl enter the room. Generally, unless they were troublemakers who had all banded together to perpetrate the same 'crime', students didn't get lumped into the same room if they had to stay after class. This girl didn't exactly look like some kind of troublemaker any more then Ayaka felt she did, even if she had apparently mastered the skill of asking about the completely obvious. "Of course I did," she replied, her tone short and irritable, "Why else would I be here? What are they even doing, sending us to stay after class like this..." Then [i]another[/i] girl came in. What the hell was this? It seemed like she was totally confused as well, asking if they'd been told to stay behind too. Really, Ayaka usually felt like the school faculty did pretty well, but this was just plain stupid. More and more, Ayaka started to realize there were other people here. All girls, too. A girl tapping away on her phone, some foreigner playing a game(idiot, did she not even get how irritating this all was?) Some other foreigner who looked like she was too young to be here(thought she could just be a late bloomer, Ayaka guessed) and way too excited, and a final foreigner who seemed a lot more sensible then the other two at least. And then... a man came in. There was something strange, a feeling that something had changed, the moment he entered. Ayaka couldn't put her finger on why, but she did notice that his arms didn't look the same as the rest of him. They were almost... too perfect? "I'd rather find out why we're here then stuff my face," she said, simply, her tone still carrying the air of absolute irritation, "Besides, your candy just got stolen." There was someone else under the table, apparently, as the box had vanished beneath it. Ayaka couldn't quite see who it was from this angle, but that meant the room was packed full of even more people then she thought. What was with this? Why all girls? Little did Ayaka know that they'd soon be picked up. Little did she know that they would indeed learn just why they were here. And from that point on, all their lives would change. ---- [b]Yuki[/b] Silently, Yuki shut her book. In the bustle of the control room, she had not once looked up. Even when the commander entered, she did not move, quietly reading from her book. And then, finally, when he stopped, she had shut her book, placed it beside her seat, and rose to her feet. She quietly crossed the room, crimson eyes laser-focused on one specific spot, disregarding of all else around her as she walked through the control center. Finally, arriving at her spot directly beside the commander, he gaze shifted to look up at him, fixing on him. Her mouth opened, the utter silence usually kept by her broken. "It's starting soon." With that, she quietly turned and walked away without another word. No explanation of what she had said. She paused for a moment only to grab her book off of the seat, before leaving the room entirely. ---- Across the hanger, nearby a certain engineer, there was quite the bustle of activity. A set of highly-advanced equipment was being brought out, transported to a nearby chamber. The chamber would be under the direct scrutiny of Doctor Kawaguchi herself. Word had it that the Doctor was excited, no, ecstatic to meet the candidates. Some even said her excitement bordered on the obsessive, though hopefully that was just the Doctor's strange attitude getting through. Even with her excitement, she was careful about warning of the Nephilim's attack potentially starting at any time. They needed the candidates now. So really, there was no question of what each piece of equipment could be. Entirely unique, each and every one... It was the MagiGear. ---- The censor was old. It had been down there a while. SEED had wanted to cover their bases, but it had been difficult to keep maintaining something so deep under the water. So it only began to respond when the shape was right on top of it, and had snapped the silvery pole in half. It would show up as a brief, but terribly noticeable blip on the monitor in SEED headquarters.