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[kree_soldieress]

WHO: Lauri-Ell and You
WHERE: All Around
WHAT: A Day In The Life of a Security Woman
WHEN: Mid April
WARNINGS: small possibility of a structural collapse and getting trapped under it.

1. Queen of Fitness | Civics Center Fitness Rooms

Dawn. Lauri-Ell returns from her patrol routine to the specific place she always to be found in the early morning. The former soldier had been taking care to restore the fitness focused areas of the Civics Center in the past months, and the space definitely showed it now. The time on Coruscant had been helpful in fitting her place better to her tastes. Now instead of worked stone weights for training, she had a few sets of heavy, plasticized dumbbells for people to work with. Nothing compared to the massive wooden log, almost three feet thick and five feet in diameter that she had worked into a shape meant for lifting the edge and flipping for core training, but they were useful anyway. And while there weren't workout machines, she had managed to weave ropes into grids for agility training, long ropes for resistance, and she'd even started the process of building an obstacle course. There were plenty of options for fitness.

The pinnacle of her creation, though, was a room she had taken over off to one side of the main space. The whole floor had been covered with sand hauled all the way from the beach, carefully run through a mesh sieve to keep the larger particles out of. The whole place had been worked down into a nice, relatively soft area for sparring, and there was even a few bags of sand hang from the ceiling for punching. Now if only she could figure out how to make proper mats instead for her sparring space.

Anyone entering would be met with Lauri-Ell there, smiling widely and waving at them.

"Welcome. Do you wish to work out? Spar? I would love to provide assistance."

Billy had said she should find something she wanted to do, wanted to be. And protecting others in every way she can come up with had won out.


2. A Glownie In Need Is A Glownie Indeed | Area of Pink 4

Part of life for Lauri-Ell had always been patrolling Temba. Part of it had come from the fact that, when she had arrived, she had her future Emperor and his Prince-Consort to protect. The rest of it came down to the fact that she was a genetically engineered soldier, and she really just didn't know what to do with herself if she wasn't walking patrols. Which was what she was doing, fully clad in her Accuser armor, the Universal Weapon in hand, and one of the Agrii Security Point guns hanging from a strap at her side. Surely she was kitted out for battle.

What she was not expecting was the distressed noise she heard while walking toward the hangar, or how the noise grew louder and more distressed noises buried under some rubble of the less stable buildings in the area. And that's when she realized what she was hearing.

"A glownie!" the woman gasped, shocked and moving toward the rubble to try and get to where the source was. "I will save you little beast!"


3. Exploring The Ghost of the Past | Pink 25 - Transport Station

Lauri-Ell loved plants, there was no denying that. There was beauty in the fragility of a flower, there was strength in the twisting of a vine, and there was wonder in the wash of green. But here, this place, it was wrong. Lauri-Ell's patrols often led her through this part of the city, eyes watching out for dangerous creatures encroaching in. Today, though, the silence and overgrowth was too much. Too like what she had seen in that New York City where her sister had hidden her during the war. Like the beautiful structure of glass and metal that housed plants where a Cotati had taken a captive little girl named Kit.

It was wrong here. It hurt her to see.

With a sigh Lauri-Ell moved further into the overgrowth, working her way through it. She wanted to see what this structure was, and the plants did not seem to want to let her through.

"I am not your enemy," she told the plants around her. "I wish merely to explore and see what this place was. What it could be. Please, i do not wish to damage you."

They weren't likely to listen.

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3.

[hooliganstatus]

Aeon, meanwhile, was exploring the ruins but keeping her distance from the plants, avoiding touching them at all. She jumped from point to point in the ruins, using outcroppings and bent girders to swing on where she could, her footing sure and sound even as she moved quickly.

She came to a stop somewhere above the massive blue woman, whose skin and hair reminded Aeon of the Demiurge, and she wondered idly if they were of the same unknown, almost mystical origin. But this woman wasn't glowing or floating, or making her hyperaware of her emotions, so ... more likely not.

Even so, Aeon was still curious about her for a number of reasons. "Do you think they can understand you?"

[kree_soldieress]

"No," Lauri-Ell said, lifting her eyes to the new arrival. Interesting woman. Reminded her almost immediately of the Spider Woman. Alas, Jessica Drew was no more here than Carol was, so it was only a passing thought. "I do not. There are no Cotati here, to manipulate the plants to their will and seek to do us harm. Nor are there any more Skrull who might take this form to hide. They are just plants. That does not mean I should not offer them respect, though."

As for the word Demiurge, man that would be a complicated word to bring up around Lauri-Ell. She might actually direct Aeon to one she was aware of, and what was the chance that anyone here would believe that title fit the man she would gift the title.

[hooliganstatus]

"Hm." She made the sound light and neutral, in a way that didn't really pass any judgement at all. "I'd have to agree with you. Where I'm from, the plants aren't only to be respected, but some of them are definitely to be feared. The ones outside my city walls are vicious."

Now that she'd seen someone walking amongst them safely, though, she did a backflip down onto the ground, straightened, and smiled. "My name is Aeon Flux. I just got here a little while ago."

[kree_soldieress]

Oh, there are ones to be feared for her as well, but it always has to do with the Cotati. And that was a story she would rather not fell. The woman flipped and landed and yes, she seemed even more like Jessica. Interesting.

"I am Lauri-Ell. Do you have spiderpowers?"

[hooliganstatus]

"No," she said, smiling a little. She reached out and rubbed a leaf between her gloved fingers, then leaned in to sniff it.

"Why, should I?"

[kree_soldieress]

Well, she thought the answer was obvious.

"You were sort of hanging from a place that didn't make any sense. Spider-Man and Spider-Woman do that."

[hooliganstatus]

"They sound like fun people." She smiled a little. "And it makes sense if you're not trying to touch the ground. ... Like I said. Ruins like this are dangerous where I'm from."

She paused, then realized that she should probably introduce herself. "I'm Aeon Flux."

[kree_soldieress]

Fun is a thing to say, but she was not entirely certain. But a name is offered and Lauri-Ell nods.

"I am Lauri-Ell. Ruins like this are dangerous all over the city. Which is why I came prepared."

is she in full Accuser gear here too?

[hooliganstatus]

"What else are you prepared for?" Aeon wonders, having inspected the plants to her satisfaction (aside from trying to lick one, which even she's not brave enough for given how toxic wild, unengineered Breen plant life is).

Yep. Always for patrols.

[kree_soldieress]

"Whatever may happen," she answered, pointing her hammer at a tangle of vines blocking her. And a burst of energy blasts from the hammer, burning the vines away. Then she strode forward.

Thought so but didn't want to assume, TY!

[hooliganstatus]

"Impressive," she says in regard to the hammer's performance. The armor isn't like anything she's ever seen - it's form-fitting like what Monicans wear, but heavy-duty like Breen soldiers. She can't help wondering if that's what the future would look like if peace could ever even be possible.

"What sort of things have happened so far?"

[kree_soldieress]

This was no doubt not a future she wish to avoid. To see a Kree accuser would mean that one was likely conquered by the Imperium. Which wasn't a good choice.

"Attacking giant spiders."

[hooliganstatus]

It was more the visual merging of her homeworld's two cultures that had gotten Aeon thinking, but the spiders put that thought right out of her mind.

"Did the spider men and women let them loose on you? Their pets?"

[kree_soldieress]

Lauri-Ell laughs, shaking her head. "No, they are from Earth. They are super heroes that my sister knows."

She keeps going forward, hammer still in hand. "Spider Woman is very pleasant."

[hooliganstatus]

The word ‘super heroes’ is a new, strange one to her. She knows of war heroes, and that the only thing which really makes them heroic is that they died. Does the fact that they are super mean they died in some very unique way, Aeon wonders…

One of the patches of wall that was cleared has some sort of faded advertisement on the wall, and she walks up to it, tracing the figure of the pale pink Agrii with her fingers.
“Limited time offer,” she quips. “Act now, before it’s gone.”

[kree_soldieress]

Lauri-Ell approaches to look at the paper. How strange. Very human too, advertising.

"I believe it is now too late. Everything is gone but us."

[hooliganstatus]

"Even whatever they offered. Or what it was." There's a sympathy in her eyes as they linger on the faded drawing of the Agrii.

"Even if we can fix it, would there be enough of them left to start over?" It reminds her so much of what happened back home. "They might need genetic labs."

[kree_soldieress]

The world here was destroyed. How were they ever supposed to fix it? Lauri-Ell didn't know. And so didn't try to think about it.

"Cloning technology is easy enough to create, and there are likely those that can provide them assistance in that."

[hooliganstatus]

She gave a soft, thoughtful hum of agreement. It wasn't her venue, and therefore not her problem. Whatever cloning facilities they might end up with would be vastly different than the Breen, anyway. Or at least, she intended to make sure they would. Even if she had only begun to scratch the surface of what had been going on before the Agrii had brought her to Temba.

"So for now, we just see what we can see. Is that the plan?"

She nudged a thick shrub out of the way, inspecting the ground to see if it had grown over anything of interest.

[kree_soldieress]

"I do not know that there is a more active plan to propose. And if there is, I was not developed to have the tactical mind to propose it. I am trained in warfare, not solutions in the world such as we require here."

She wished it was easier for her to take charge of many things. Anything really.

[hooliganstatus]

"Then you and I are in the same boat." She glances around. "Or we would be, if there were water. I can be tactical enough when I'm on my own, but ... I couldn't tell a group what to do, not one like this."

[kree_soldieress]

"There is water. Have you been to the ocean yet?"

Oh, she could show Aeon the ocean. It made her smile to think he could show someone that.

[hooliganstatus]

Given that she has never seen an ocean in her life, Aeon would be just the person for Lauri-Ell to take delight in ushering there. "What? No... is there, really?" The question held more skepticism than excitement.

[kree_soldieress]

"There really is. I go there to gather food at times. And there are caves there. With hot water. Springs of it."

[hooliganstatus]

"That sounds like a lot more fun than a ruin full of plants." She smiled, absolutely buzzing at the mental picture of it all. "Is it far from here?"