[K-D08] Blind Date

[mccoyed]

Kawashita Embassy Manor

Angornal - 3185

Tags: Spying, Special Operation

Determined to find out what the heck was going on with the "suspicious" characters at the function, Koro tailed them when they went out on a nearby balcony. As if Bonnie The Mechanic was psychic or something, the woman put the data cube into a mediaplayer and stuck a pair of headphones on her face. The man was barely containing his excitement, but Koro could tell from the tension in her shoulders that the woman was not enjoying whatever it was she was hearing. Just when it was getting good, Koro heard a very chiding voice pipe in on his communicator.

" Koro. What the quasar are you doin' out there?"

"Shhh. Dude. I think he's playing recordings of some secret conversation."

"I would be three battleships, two mining asteroids, and a partridge in a pear-frickin' tree that he isn't. But for the sake of argument, tap into the 'player's signal and find out."

"Wait. I can do that!?"

"Ugh. I swear. I'm going to strap you down to a workbench and watch you read that manual."

Sure enough, Koro confirmed that the mediaplayer was indeed playing the man's new demo. The woman was a signer for a Kawashita recording company, one of the dozens the corporation included in its Media Division. The music was terrible and Koro felt a bit sorry for the signer. She had to listen to it for quite a while before she threw the data cube off the balcony and stomped back to the party.

Koro stayed in cover until they left. Eventually, Bonnie The Mechanic came out after him.

"So I guess I'm glad you got that out of your system."

"It's so weird. Maybe whoever the target was got wind of us and changed their mind."

"See? This is the problem with you "need to know" clandestine types. You don't actually know the who, when, why, or quasarin' what you're doing half the time."

"Beltar always says 'don't hate the player, hate the game'."

"There were no targets, Koro. This was a set-up."

"So what, we're going to get ambushed at some point."

"No, you idiot. Remember what I said earlier? I had a hunch this was some kind of blind date or something? Well while you were hiding behind the shrubbery stalking crappy musicians, I was getting to the bottom of the real reason we're here."

"Why's that?"

"It's a BLIND DATE, you ninny. You and me. Set up at a fancy place with fancy people."

The End!

Builder's Note:

-Guess I needed one more to get this out of my system. No more fancy Koro builds for a while after this. And you'll all just have to wait and see whether he gets his crap together and gives Bonnie The Mechanic a halfway decent response.

[pombe]

This might be the sort of pressure Koro can't handle! This is a different type of life threatening situation! How will he get out of this one?!?!

[EpsilonEta]

I think Bonnie the Machanic is the agent Koro was suposed to look for and she traded sensitiv data while Koro was spying on the songwriter. (Or it's just some of Raven's paranoya rubbing off on me and Narbilu and Bonnie the Mechanic actualy set him up so she would get a date )

[Graham Gidman]

Nice job!

[SpacerSteve]

You can just sense the fear in Korro's eyes in the last shot. This is was a great story. Sad that we have to wait to see the answer.

[NuckElBerg]

Great build! Reminds me of the of Episode 9, Season 2 of Sidonia no Kishi (alternatively Chapter 49 of the Manga if you were so inclined)!

(Note: Considering that Sidonia no Kishi is my favourite Anime/Manga, this should be taken as a compliment. )

[mccoyed]

Is that anglicized as Knights of Sidonia, NuckElBerg? I watch that crazy, horrifying show on Netflix.

[Andromedas Gates]

The judges awarded you 4 points.