Quote:Just one thing now: Your new tenants will be very disoriented, because the last they knew that shuttle bus they're on was in Tokyo-3.
Funny you should say that BA, this is my first paragraph for their arrival.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Shinji opened his eyes and found himself surprised, had the
entire thing been a dream, a nightmare would be a more accurate description of
what had happened, but instead of finding himself looking at the ceiling of his
room, or more likely another hospital room, he found himself looking out a bus
window as the vehicle pulled into a small parking lot in front of a wood sided
building surrounded by sand dunes. Sitting up straight he stretched and looked
around and then blinked owlishly, everyone that was important was here. Granted
they all seemed to be asleep, but Toji was sitting across from him with
Kensuke, Asuka and Hikari were up at the front of the small bus across from
Misato and Kaji, and next to him Rei stirred slightly causing him to blush
furiously. His last memories of her had to have been some kind of dream,
because there was no way she would have done those things to him, and she
wouldn’t have asked him to make that decision, a decision that could have ended
the entire world. Looking behind them he found Doctor Akagi and Lieutenant
Ibuki slumped against each other asleep as well.
Slowly the bus came to a full stop and with a hiss of the
air brakes the door to the compartment opened allowing in the local heat
against the cool of the air conditioner. This seemed to wake Misato who looked
around for a moment and then realized they were no longer in Tokyo-3. “What the
hell?” she almost screamed jumping to her feet. “Where are we?” This outburst
of course woke the rest of the sleepers causing a small tussle between Kensuke
and Toji which Hikari almost immediately put a stop to. The rest of the group
simply looked around, a building with rooms, sand dunes with a single two lane
road, the road signs printed in English, and now Shinji was seeing a large Caucasian
man in shorts and button down shirt walking across the parking area between the
bus and the building with two large dogs following him.
“Um, Misato” Shinji called out getting her attention, “someone
is coming out to us.”
“Oh good, then maybe we can get some information.” Misato
responded turning toward the bus’s door just as the man made the two dogs sit
and stay outside the bus.
“Hello everyone,” the man said stepping up the bus’s stairs
with a smile on his face. His face was round and merry and while he was
probably overweight, he carried it well on his stocky frame. “I hope you had a pleasant
journey and enjoy your time here at the Gulfside Rest, if you will disembark
from the shuttle bus you can meet my girls here and then we’ll get your luggage
unloaded and moved to your rooms. Major Katsuraki?”
“Yes,” Misato answered him with an arched eyebrow.
“I have a message here for you,” he said handing over a
folded piece of paper. Taking the paper Misato started to read as he continued
to speak. “Now, who’s ready for some beach time fun?”
Shinji watched as Misato having read the message at least
once, probably twice, plopped back down in her seat and handed the message to
Kaji who also read it. “Alright kids, you heard the man, unload and see if you
have any luggage below, Rits, Maya, I need you to come with me after we all get
settled.” Turning to the man she continued, “I assume you are James Bostwick.”
“I am,” he answered, “but please call me either James or
Wolf, I haven’t been Mister Bostwick since I was in college, and just Bostwick
since I was in the Marines.
Misato nodded, “Then I’m Misato,” she said still in a slight
daze. “Can you at least tell us where we are” she asked?
James smirked a bit before answering, “As close to heaven as
we can make it, or as the majority of visitors call it, Pensacola Beach.”
i think i have Dartz on the fence leaning toward possibly joining this, and i might have caught ecs05norway's attention for it as well, don't know for sure, but we'll see.