trinities | 001. [ RL: backdated to physical regression ]

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001. [ RL: backdated to physical regression ]

Nena was not happy.

She had arrived at the designated coordinates to meet with Celestial Being, but no sooner had she landed Throne Drei than found herself suddenly drowning in her pilot suit, clumsily falling from the cockpit as she tried to fumble her way out. A quick look in a nearby stream established that something was definitely not normal, as she realized she resembled a six year old child. After a few minutes of frustrated screaming, she realized that either no one could hear her or no one was coming to find her ("Stupid Miha-nii and stupid Johann-nii and their stupid mission, leaving me all alone!") and began to shove her way through the undergrowth, searching for the others.

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Meanwhile, an approximately 12-year-old Lockon was leading an expedition to find Tieria, since he was the only one who hadn't shown up to join in the confusion of the virus' onset. Since he wasn't in his room, the only other place to check was the Gundams.

Of course, moving through the forestry around the base was harder when you were kid-sized, and it was difficult to make any progress without making a lot of noise. "I don't remember them being so far away," he grumbled quietly.

Lockon was followed closely by an Allelujah who looked to be about 7 years old, give or take, although if he was finding moving through the admittedly seemingly much denser forest difficult, he wasn't saying anything about it.

"It probably just seems that way 'cause we're smaller," he said thoughtfully.

Setsuna followed behind them...quite a way behind, as he had regressed to 4 years old and was having problems keeping up with the two older boys. He was dressed in a t-shirt borrowed from Lockon, with his belt wrapped around his middle twice. He had however insisted on keeping his scarf on, which perhaps hadn't been the best idea as it now hung right down to the ground. As he trotted after Lockon and Allelujah it wound itself around his ankles, tripping him up and sending him crashing to the ground.

"A-ahh!"

Hearing the crashes, Nena began running in their direction, stumbling a little over her suit; she'd tied the legs off so she wasn't so encumbered, but it made it rather hard to move. "Hey! Hey, I'm over here! Is that you, Setsuna?"

Lockon didn't hear Nena's cries, but it would have been difficult to miss Setsuna's fall. He turned back in surprise, and seeing Setsuna it was fairly obvious what had happened. He ran over to help him up.

"Are you okay, Setsuna?" He asked, and then noticed how far behind he was. "Can you keep up alright on your own?"

Allelujah whirled round when he heard Setsuna fall but half way through going to help him out stopped in surprise - he was sure that his ears had picked up something else out there.

He stood, frozen mid-step and looked uncertainly off into the distance. "... Did either of you hear something?"

Setsuna rolled over and sat up, pouting, although he wasn't badly hurt or anything. "You're going too fast,"

He looked up at Allelujah and shook his head; he hadn't heard anything unusual, but then he had just fallen over.

Haro caught up to Nena as she crashed through the undergrowth, still shouting.

"You left me! You left me!"

"Shut up, Haro, I'm in a hurry!"

"Hate you! Hate you!"

She caught him with her foot as he flew around in front of her to trip her up, and he went flying forward, sailing through the air across the path of the boys, still yelling.

Lockon grinned sheepishly. "Sorry." Then his face lit up. "Hey, I've got an idea! Here, look -" he crouched and turned around so his back was facing Setsuna, and looked at him over his shoulder - "Why don't you let me give you a piggyback?"

He looked up at Allelujah too. "No, what was it?"

And that was about when Haro came crashing towards them. Startled, Lockon yelped and automatically tried to move backwards. Unfortunately, his crouch made that difficult and he overbalanced, falling to the floor with a thump.

"It sounded like - "

Allelujah didn't get any further before Haro crashed through the trees and caused him to duck with a cry, his hands going over his head instinctively to avoid whatever it was.

"Chto bylo jetim?!" he said, slipping back into Russian without realising.

Setsuna had been about to climb onto Lockon's back when Haro suddenly appeared, startling him and causing him to fall backwards and sit down with a hard bump. He frowned, but it lacked his usual teenaged grumpiness and just looked pouty.

"Isn't that Nena Trinity's Haro?" He said, watching as the robot zoomed around.

Nena came stumbling along after Haro, stopping clumsily in front of them and resting her hands on her knees, panting. "I finally found you!" she exclaimed in between breaths. "Geez, didn't you hear me yelling?"

"Oh," Lockon frowned as his breathing returned to normal, "it's you. You're a kid too." Then he grinned a little, mischievously. "You know you've got loads more freckles now, right?"

He stood up and turned to offer a hand to Setsuna to help him up again.

Allelujah looked up and then hastily straightened back up when he saw that it was Nena, not wanting to look too stupid.

"Was that you shouting?"

Setsuna took Lockon's hand and let himself be pulled up, although he realised too late that he was standing on the end of his scarf again which pulled against his throat before he quickly sorted it out.

He stared over at Nena, not saying anything. In the confusion of regressing to a child he had forgotten that the Trinitys were meant to be coming to the island. At least if she'd been affected too she should be more harmless than usual.

She pouted and crossed her arms, stamping one foot childishly. "Of course it was me shouting! And you're not allowed to make fun of my freckles, got it!? Now someone tell me what's going on and why I'm a little kid!"

"I was only kidding! Calm down already, don't yell at us!" Lockon raised his hands placatingly, but his tone was miffed. It wasn't their fault this had happened. "We think it's probably one of those community thingys again - a virus, right, Alle?" he asked, turning to Allelujah for confirmation.

"Uh, yeah, a virus," Allelujah confirmed, slightly distracted by Nena's tantrum. "We'll be stuck like this for about three days, I think."

Setsuna ignored Nena's tantrum, but stuck close to Lockon, half standing behind him. Nena was bad enough when they were older, he didn't want to think how she would act around him when he looked like this.

"Like when Haro went nuts and started flying around? Geez, this is so annoying!" She showed all signs of flying into a tantrum to suit her current childish looks-- and then she caught sight of Setsuna.

She gasped and clasped her hands to her mouth, staring at him wide-eyed. "Setsuna! Is that you? You're adorable!"

Confused crossed Lockon's face for a moment at the mention of Haro's antics - was she confusing them with a computer virus? - before he thought that it didn't really matter as long as she had the general idea. "Yeah, kind of like that. Alle's right, anyway, We'll be alright in"

At Nena's squeeing, he moved protectively in front of Setsuna. Nena had provoked a bad enough reaction in him when the boy was old enough to defend himself, and at this young age it would be more difficult for him to do so.

Lockon wasn't the only one who moved closer to Setsuna when Nena started squealing. The memory of Nena's completely uncalled for kiss was still fresh in his mind and he really didn't want to see what would happen if she tried to jump on him while they were all stuck as kids. He knew that it couldn't end well.

"Do you have to keep on shouting...?" he said, sounding a little more pouty than he usually would have. Really, it was just slightly irritating.

"'m not." Setsuna insisted, sounding sulky as he glared at Nena. It was difficult to take him seriously like this though, what with the way he was pouting.

He reached up to tug on Lockon's sleeve. "Are we gonna go find Tieria now?"

"I'm not shouting!" she started to complain, before blinking at what Setsuna said and giggling suddenly. "Hey, is Tieria a kid too? I bet he's pissed!"

"Well...we don't know. If he's a kid or not, I mean," Lockon said, with a small frown. "The last thing we heard was that post he made, and we haven't seen him since then, so we're going to go check Virtue 'cause he wasn't in his room."

"We should go and find him..." Allelujah said quietly. "I'm kind of worried."

"It's not funny Nena Trinity!"

He tugged on Lockon's sleeve again, holding his arms out to him. If they wanted to get to Tieria any time soon, he would need that piggy back.

"Course it is! Let's go look at Virtue," she said decisively with a cheerful grin, almost as if she was excited about seeing Tieria rather than gleeful at the chance to see inside his gundam.

Lockon nodded at Allelujah. "Yeah, me too. Let's -" He was interrupted by Setsuna's tugging at his sleeve. He looked at the younger boy curiously for a moment, before realising what he wanted and crouching down to let him clamber onto his back.

Then he stood up, regaining his balance as best he could. "Right. Now let's go find him."

Allelujah smiled briefly at his fellow Meisters before he pointed in the direction that they had been walking before Nena had arrived. "It's that way... isn't it? Everything looks a little different." Or at least, it seemed to look a little different.

Setsuna wrapped his arms around Lockon's neck and clung to his back tightly, not saying anything. He turned his head slightly to keep an eye on Nena; he didn't like the idea of her walking behind them where he couldn't see her.

"If it's that way, then let's go!" Nena said cheerfully, falling in line behind the boys, right behind Setsuna.

Lockon was so focused on watching where he was going so that he didn't fall over, pushing foliage out of the way with one hand and holding onto Setsuna with the other that he didn't notice Nena's position, and was further distracted when the trees began to thin out and the containers began to be visible through them.

"There they are, there they are! I knew this was the way!"

Allelujah looked sidelong at Nena occasionally but didn't say anything, content with watching where he was going (and besides, he trusted Lockon to keep Setsuna out of any Nena-related mischief). When the trees started thinning out, he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Alright. Let's go look for him."

Setsuna didn't speak either, although he kept twisting around to glare (again, it looked more like a childish pout) at Nena.

"Tieria!" she started shouting as they made their way into the clearing. "Hey, Tieria, stop being lazy and get out here!

When Tieria hadn't replied, the group had made their way into Virtue's assault container, and into the Gundam's hangar.

As they moved along the walkways up towards Virtue, Lockon squinted and craned his neck to get a better look at the darkened cockpit.

"I think - I think he's there!" he said excitedly to the others, when he caught a glimpse of the purple flightsuit. "Tieria! I see you!" He'd have started running if he wasn't sure he'd overbalance with Setsuna on his back.

Allelujah wasn't weighed down by having something (or in this case, someone) to carry like Lockon did, and so he was free to rush on ahead to get a better look at the opened cockpit. Pretty soon, though, he skidded to a halt, a look of worry on his face. He could see Tieria in the cockpit but something... really wasn't right, here.

"Lockon, I don't think he can hear us..."

Allelujah was correct, he couldn't hear them. Tieria was unconscious, and slumped over Virtue's control panel. When he had passed out, he had collapsed with enough force to smash his nose into the panel and make it bleed.

However, most noticeably, he was still himself. He had not turned into a child, like the others.

Setsuna stretched up, peeking over Lockon's shoulder and trying to see what was wrong.

"What? Why not?"

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