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[ The video feed opens with one Hana Song looking absolutely pleased with herself and decked-out in her signature plugsuit. With an undeniable, confident smirk on her face, she declares: ]

D.Va online! Finally.

First of all, shout-out to the guy from the Perimeter Guard who personally delivered the best present a girl could ever ask for—

[ Hana stretches her arm out, offering the feed an extended view of what's behind her: a large pink mech, whirring and glowing with lights. Its apparently pilot beams at the camera and flashes a victory sign at the corner of the screen. ]

Ta-dah! Riverview Quarantine, let me introduce you to my state-of-the-art armored battle suit, a.k.a. a mech unit for the Mobile Exo-Force of the Korean Army, a.k.a. my MEKA unit! Someone out there must really like me, huh? You guys are not prepared for what you're gonna get to see coming up.

[ The screen then flips back to Hana, looking very contemplative. ]

But I'm in a bit of a pinch here. None of my engineers are around, obviously, and I know some basics, but this baby's going to need a lot of maintenance. [ it is high-maintenance like its pilot ] I know there's a lot of new people coming in, and there's still a lot of you guys who've been here a while. Any chance any of you are mechanical geniuses who wanna help out? I'm looking only for the best of the best! Come down to the garage of communal housing if you wanna marvel at this beauty!

[ Does she mean herself? Or the mech? It is a mystery! ]

Oh, and one last thing? [ She seems to move for a little bit and then pans the camera so that a sign that reads: "MECH PARKING ONLY" is visible over her shoulder. ] This parking spot? Mine. If anyone parks in my spot my mech and I are stepping on your vehicle. That's all! Love, D.Va!

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[ Her smile went crooked at his compliments, naturally thinking them well-deserved. The cockpit of the mech was tiny, on account of the fact that the mech itself was probably at the lowest limit of what could be considered a mech, but Hana was a tiny person. Shiro probably wouldn't fit in there. Still, she knew how to be courteous, so— ]

Thanks, Shiro. I'm really glad my mech made it here. Maybe yours will show up sometime, too, then we can kick butt together!

[ There was a beat before she added, ] Who are the Alteans? Aliens?

[Of course they were well deserved. This was an amazing mech and Shiro thought she needed to know that from someone who had been piloting crafts all of his working life.

Whether he could have fit in the cockpit or not, he wasn't even going to try. It was hers and he knew the dangers of pushing random buttons without knowing what they did. After all they had ended up stuck inside an alien warship aka the blue lion with no idea what it was capable of]

Of course. If Black shows up, I'll give you the tour as well. Wouldn't that be one heck of a patrol for the Perimeter Guard? A lion and a bunny.

Yeah, they are an alien race who created the lions. Well, almost were. There are only two left now. Princess Allura is the one who pilots the castle.

[ She chuckled at the thought of a lion and a bunny on a patrol together; it almost sounded like a cartoon buddy cop comedy, or something. ]

It would be, wouldn't it? That settles it, then – when you get your lion, we're gonna go on some patrols together.

[ And, probably, race their mechs, because Hana always turned things into a competition. What she didn't know, though, is that would be one competition against Shiro she would definitely lose at.

What he said next, though, was a bit more loaded and Hana had to narrow her eyes at him, lips drawing into a thin line. ]

Wait— how come there's only two left? And how did you guys end up with alien lion mechs?

Definitely. We'll have to take them out together. A good way to go exploring.

[Yes, she would most definitely lose any sort of race against the lions of Voltron.

And now... story time]

So what we found out is that our enemy Zarkon was responsible for the destruction of Altean home world. Allura's father King Alfor saved her and one of his advisors Coran and sent them off in the Castle of Lions in cryogenic sleep so they didn't age.

We got the lions because someone apparently hid the Blue Lion on Earth to keep it away from Zarkon. We stumbled upon it and Blue chose Lance as her Paladin. At this point, Blue ended up taking us through a worm hole to the planet where the Castle of Lions was hidden.

Our arrival woke up Allura and Coran. Then each of us had a lion that chose us, which Hunk, Pidge, and Keith had to go find and bring back to the Castle because Black wouldn't awaken until the other four were inside the Castle.

[ That

was a lot to take in at once. Her eyes widen in undisguised amazement at his story, words of worlds she's never known and probably will never know, and— lions. She supposed there really was such a thing as destiny, after all, if those sorts of things happened to them. It all sounded so vastly different from anything Hana would ever experience at home and it filled her with a sense of awe. At length, her surprised expression gave way to something softer, with a smile. ]

That's amazing! I never would've thought that there would be so much going on out there. Where I'm from, we've only really made it to the moon... and I never would have been able to go out into space like you did.

[ Not with a war ravaging her home, she couldn't. ]

Still, though... I'm kinda jealous! Robots that think for themselves, where I'm from... that's not good. But the lions sound incredible.

We've only recently started going further than that. We had gotten as far as Pluto...

[He paused a moment at that, seemingly a little uncomfortable with that thought. Well, of course, it reminded him everything that had happened, but he avoided it]

The lions though have an incredible range they can travel, even away from the castle. There doesn't seem to be a limit to their power except when they get knocked out.

On Earth, robots thinking for themselves would be bad too. But the lions thinking for themselves has helped us. Red has saved us several times because she wanted to protect Keith.

[ She remembered Shiro telling her that Pluto was where everything had changed, or seemed like it, back when they first met. He didn't seem like he was ready to talk about it then, and he certainly didn't seem ready to talk about it now, either. So when Shiro avoided it, she commented on something more lighthearted about what Shiro said instead. ]

So the Red Lion is what, like a protective mama cat or something?

[ She had to chuckle at that. ]

Edited (i forgot that he mentioned pluto to her gg) 2017-08-19 22:20 (UTC)

[That does get Shiro to grin when she says that. Definitely a much better topic]

Yeah, seems to be. Red is the most particular about Paladins but bonds hard with them when they gain the lion's trust. We were on an alien ship and they were essentially testing Keith and wouldn't allow me to help him or even call it off so he kept pushing himself. Finally Red decided enough was enough and started trying to tear into their base without someone piloting.

[ Her eyes go wide at that story. ]

Holy crap, that's intense. I can call my mech to my location kinda in the same way, but I don't know that it would try and tear into a base like that!

[ She had to laugh. ]

Yeah... Red is an interesting lion. Allura said that lion's the most temperamental and difficult to master, but once a Paladin bonds with Red, Red will apparently be loyal beyond what we thought they were capable of.

[And now back to hear mech]

So you can call this one?

Yeah.

[ She lifted her left hand and pointed to her wrist. ]

I have something there that let's me call it to my location. So it's got a tracker, then the mech engaged autopilot to get to me. I haven't really tried it out here, though. I'll probably have to download maps of the Quarantine or something.

Huh... interesting. We don't really have that. However Allura was able to lock onto the lions' locations so I guess that is as good a tracking device as we have.

[He nodded]

Probably a good idea to download maps so it doesn't fly through a building.

[ She had to chuckle at the image of her mech flying through an ill-fated window or something. It sounded like something out of a cartoon. ]

Kinda feels like it'd be funnier if I didn't, but yeah, I should! I guess I can't get away with as much here since I'm not all that famous. [ Yet. ]

Well, probably funnier for the bystander than the one who had the mech fly through their building. And unfortunately your mech is a little obvious that they would know whose had done it.

[ She grinned wide, trying not to laugh again. Why is the thought of property damage so hilarious to her? Who knows. ]

Yeah, well, being subtle and sneaky isn't really my style. I'd rather be watched by everyone!

[Who knows]

Well with a pink mech, I'd say you definitely do like people to see it.

Anything else I should know about it?

[Since this was a tour of the mech]

[ Head tilted to one side, she hummed thoughtfully. ]

That just about covers the basics, really. The rest you'll just have to see when we're in action together!

Sounds good then. Then I'll see you later. Let you get any maintenance you might need to do on this done. Let me know if you are going to practice with it at some point. I'd like to see it in action.

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