/insert rose petals here

[incousinswithyou]

Who: Haruka, Michiru, and you!!
Broadcast: Two fleet-wide videos
Action: On the Marsiva
When: Now

01.

...in the reaches of space? How ironic.

[ This network station appears to have switched on of its own accord. That or the two people standing next to it wanted to only broadcast part of their conversation. And just their torsos. And hands. The taller person is making a fist. ]

That’s not the word I would use to describe it. [ The shorter one places a hand over that fist. ] They can look after each other.

...I suppose. [ Their fingers intertwine. The taller person’s thumb strokes the side of their companion’s hand. They chuckle. ] Space won’t be so cold. If you’re there.

[ That’s a quiet laugh, and the other one is leaning in and up.

...Better interrupt this sappiness before somebody gets diabetes and/or they magically pretend it didn’t happen on tape. ]

02.

[ Later this same day, from this same broadcast station, another message comes through. This time, there’s a pair of faces on display: a blond “man” and a green-haired lady. Both are way more attractive than they have any right to be. Especially when smiling. ]

Hello. I’m Kaioh Michiru. [ This is not the face of a person who was caught being all PDA on camera. ] If anybody can tell us what this place is, we would be most appreciative.

Tenoh Haruka. [ The blond sticks a hand into “his” pocket. ] Don’t take all day now. We’re busy.

[ And that’s a wink. Nothing to see here. Nothing amiss. ]

Comments

[limitstorm]

People getting split up? Yeah, it does. My friends usually never ended up on my ship, and I'm pretty sure their friends didn't end up on mine, either.

[actsmagnificent]

So pulling acquaintances is common.

[ Haruka looks thoughtful. Which mostly means she's staring into the camera as if it doesn't exist, sorry. ]

[incousinswithyou]

It certainly doesn't sound very random.

[if people you know start showing up too, out of an entire universe of possibilities. That could be troubling.]

Have many of your friends shown up here?

[limitstorm]

[ there's a flicker of sadness in his eyes but he schools it away, looking down and away as his shoulders hunch. ]

Three, but two are gone. Sometimes they're sent back--or, I guess that's what we all think happened to them.

[incousinswithyou]

[that's unsettling, being sent for and away at a whim. At least she manages not to glance at Haruka.]

That's a good thing, generally. [or at least it's the more optimistic of several possibilities.]

[actsmagnificent]

Has anyone left of their own accord?

[ That is almost certainly a no. But learning from other people's mistakes could be useful. ]

[limitstorm]

Not yet. Most people're trying, but there's not enough fuel in any of the ships or shuttles to take us far enough away from the fleet.

[incousinswithyou]

Unless we know how they got us here, it could take decades to get home anyway.

[they are definitely outside of their solar system and it doesn't feel like they're going especially fast.]

[limitstorm]

Ugh. [ don't remind him... ]

If it could take decades, wouldn't that mean they tried to pull us from when we were younger?

[actsmagnificent]

Their technology's likely superior to what we're given. Teleportation wouldn't be impossible.

[ Which narrows the options for the escape plan quite a bit, doesn't it. ]

[incousinswithyou]

[of course, using teleportation to get home would involve getting the other senshi involved, if it even works.]

Some of us aren't quite that old. [she's probably joking, judging from that lilt in her voice]