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nitewrighter · 2 years ago

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Could we see Rei introducing Aedan to Midori Rider: Moonsaber? It definitely seems like it’d like skyrim or BOTW where it retains its popularity for YEARS after it’s release.

Referring to this fic, and continuing off of this ficlet, because I miss Marti and Jaime, too.

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Marti was pulling holo-processors out of her backpack and setting them up at the dining table as Jaime pretty much inhaled the last of the soup. Both had shed their heavier coats and boots, but were still in their snow pants, making soft 'sszzh' sounds as they walked.

"So I take it we're delaying the Grand Mesa recon until the weather lightens up?" Aedan was holding up his own comms, wondering if Marti's gear could amplify a blizzard-smothered signal.

"Can't have a recon mission if you can't see anything," said Marti.

"What's the word from Ashe?" asked Rei.

"Talon's been arming some rival biker gangs to try and elbow Deadlock out, but it seems more like a 'keep them occupied' move than a real threat." said Jaime, scraping brothy lentils from the side of his bowl with his spoon, "Null Sector's been a little too quiet for her liking, but it's not like you can really act on what isn't happening so..." he shrugged before sticking the spoon in his mouth. "And she still says no to a full-on alliance, not that Dadsidy would be too keen on that, anyway."

"Dadsidy," Marti repeated.

"As opposed to Dadzo, we've been over this," said Jaime, taking his bowl to the sink.

"Well yeah, but I just call my aunties 'my aunties' and I was adopted way earlier than you so I don't really get how you're jumping to 'dad'--"

"'Dads plural. They know which dad by context."

At this point Aedan was busying himself with washing out the saucepan, and now Jaime's bowl, at the sink while Rei was digging around for bedding materials.

"--even though you've only been here--" Marti cut herself off as one of her processors pinged and she leaned over the holo-screen, "Contact with Gibraltar re-established," Marti muttered, tapping at a keyboard, "Sending the message about the weather delay on the recon now."

"I mean I'd say it's 50/50. Or maybe just 33% all around. They're both really into the dad thing," said Jaime, but Marti was only half-listening as she tapped at the holo-keyboard.

Marti's holo-console pinged again and she typed a few keys in. "'Sit tight, sending satellite data'" she read.

Rei glanced at the window rattling with the wind.

"Soooo sleepover, then?" she said, glancing at the others, already holding a pile of well-worn crocheted blankets and comforters.

"Looks like it," said Marti, "At least until the weather clears up."

"Someone's gotta keep an eye on you two," said Jaime.

Aedan swore in Irish as a bunch of water splashed up from a spoon in the sink and Jaime snorted.

"Jaime--" Marti started, exasperated.

"What? Are we going to act like this isn't the fuck-cabin?"

"Oh my god--" Rei threw the blankets on the couch and huffed off out of the living room.

"Did you have to say that?!" said Aedan.

"I thought it was obvious," said Jaime.

"For the sake of professionalism and the mission I'm ordering you both to call it the supplies cache," said Marti, pressing her fingers to her forehead.

"Yes ma'am," said Jaime, sullenly, but then he perked up, "Wait did something happen?!"

"Nothing happened--" Aedan rolled his eyes.

"We literally walked in with her on top of you--"

"Yes, and she was groaning about how much she hated that people called it the Fuck-Cabin."

"Hence why I'm ordering you two idiots to call it the supplies cache!" Marti snapped.

"Sorry, Marti," Aedan and Jaime said at the same time.

"Well, if you're all quite done, it's time to stake out your sleeping spots," said Rei, walking back in with pillows under her arms and tossing one at Jaime, "Then we can get a bit more settled in." A half-smile tugged at Aedan's mouth. For the most part it was clear Rei took after her dad more than her mom, but she definitely had her moments where she seemed like a younger Mercy.

"...you took the best bunk again, didn't you," said Jaime.

"Mm-hmm," Rei blew some stray hair out of her face.

"...Fair," said Jaime.

"Satellite data says the blizzard won't blow over for at least another seven hours," Marti murmured. She rifled through her backpack and pulled out her spider drone. "Guess I can refine Ebo's code in the meantime."

"Do you ever relax?" Jaime was shimmying out of his snow pants at this point.

"If we're stuck somewhere, I'd rather be productive," Marti shrugged, "What else are we supposed to do? Play cards?"

Jaime pulled a small card deck from the snow pants now around his ankles. Marti rolled her eyes a little and pulled down her goggles over her eyes as she plugged her spider drone into the holo-console's projector and got to work.

"...you just carry cards on you at all times," Aedan said flatly.

"Yeah, to practice," Jaime demonstratively held the card deck next to his face, snapped his fingers, and the four of hearts seemingly magically flipped to the king of clubs.

"Impressive," said Rei.

"Why, though?" said Aedan.

"In case I ever have to go undercover as a magician--because it's fun, Aedan," Jaime rolled his eyes before glancing back down at the deck. "I wish Samir was here..." he murmured, shuffling the deck mindlessly "He could hard-light us up some poker chips."

"And you'd cheat," said Aedan, toweling his hands off.

"You wouldn't know it," Jaime gave that wolfish grin.

"I've got a better idea," said Rei, briskly walking off again.

"I'm not doing board games," Jaime called after her.

"It's not board games!" Rei called back.

"It's board games," Jaime said looking back at Aedan, "Probably one of those board games that takes forty minutes to explain and then you're still explaining while you're playing..."

"I like those board games," said Marti, not looking up from her drone, her eyes obscured by glowing goggles.

"Wait, seriously?" Jaime looked at her.

"Ahhh! Yes! I knew I still had this!" Rei hurried in with a video game console under one arm, dusting it off with her sleeve.

"Oh, so you donated your console to the fuck-cabin before giving it to your beloved adopted orphan cousin," said Jaime, folding his arms.

"Jaime!" said Rei, exasperated.

"Supplies cache, whatever," Jaime shrugged.

"Yes," said Rei, "Because we switched to the newer console before you came, and also, I knew the day would come when I could introduce a lucky few to... Midori Rider: Moonsaber." She held up the game's box displaying the titular sentai hero against a post-apocalyptic landscape.

The other three looked at her blankly.

"Midori Rider: Moonsaber?" Rei said again, gesturing with the box, "Midori Rider's greatest video game adaptation?"

"It is?" Jaime tilted his head.

"Okay maybe it got panned because some old school fans thought the post-apocalypse thing was too much of a departure from Midori Rider's usual adventures--but that's what makes it a cult classic!" Rei insisted.

"Ohhh that's right! I think you've mentioned this a couple times," Aedan folded his arms. "I'd love to play."

"Yeah, fire it up," said Jaime plopping down on the cabin's well-worn couch.

Rei connected the game console to the cabin's very outdated holo-projector and an excited breathy laugh fell out of her as the screen lit up with the familiar console launch screen, then the Midori Rider: Moonsaber title screen. Marti glanced up from her work on her drone, pushing her goggles up onto her forehead with some curiosity. Whether it was for the game, or cannibalizing the console for her own tinkering, it wasn't clear.

"Aedan made dinner so he gets 'going first' privileges," Rei tossed the controller over to Aedan, "Also boyfriend privileges."

Aedan gave a short snort as he selected 'New Game' on the screen. Rei sat very close to him as the opening cutscene and music started playing, her head swiveling quickly from everything happening on the holoscreen to looking back at Aedan to try and gauge his reaction. Aedan reddened a bit under the scrutiny. Marti watched the opening cutscene, then after a few minutes pulled her goggles back down and resumed fiddling and coding and poking at her drone. Jaime resigned himself to a third wheel position on the couch, occasionally practicing with his card deck when Aedan and Rei got a bit too involved with each other. Rei was caught between backseat driving Aedan and eagerly talking about all of the Midori Rider lore easter eggs hidden throughout the game, and sometimes steering Aedan towards a lore easter egg. The cutscenes were interesting enough to draw Jaime's attention up just to keep up with what was going on, and the stylization of the environment had aged pretty well considering the game was over a decade old. It really was one of those games that was as interesting to watch as it was to play, and honestly, he was so used to Rei being sick of his shit or assigning herself the role of older-cousin-despite-being-the-same-age, that it was kind of fun to see her get all passionate and geeky--even if it was tinged with her being annoyingly clingy with her clone-boyfriend.

But finally Aedan seemed to remember that Jaime existed, even with Rei lavishing all this attention on him, and at the next cutscene said, "Hey---you should have a turn."

As he said this, a massive explosion happened in the cutscene, and Midori Rider achingly pulled himself up from the dusty ground, his pained coughs muffled by his mantis-like helmet. "Oh no..." Midori Rider staggered a few steps forward to look at the shelled-out wreckage of his motorcycle.

"Guess I'm on foot from here..." Midori Rider rasped.

"Oh come on, you can't give me the controller after losing the motorcycle!" Jaime started.

"You get a better one later?" said Rei with a shrug.

"But I just watched Aedan get to ride around slashing people with a sword from the motorcycle!" said Jaime.

"Oh..." Rei said quietly, "Well um... this part gets you way more used to the crafting system, at least."

"Crafting system?!" Jaime huffed and flopped back against the cushions before drawing in an inhale through his nostrils. "Okay, clearly we're stuck in the 'grind' portion of the game, and if Marti said we only have seven hours here, I'm just going to load up one of these other save files," said Jaime, saving and exiting to the title screen.

"Well, the first save file is just the save point before the final boss--" Rei started, "And--and you don't want the second save file. I..." Rei seemed to think for a second, "I totally botched that one. No health packs and you're stuck in a totally shitty area of the map--"

"Eh I can handle a challenge," Jaime shrugged and selected the file, "Just run like hell until you make it to a slightly more salvageable area, right?"

Jaime hit the second save file and Aedan couldn't help but notice that all color drained from Rei's face as he did so.

"I'm tired," said Rei at the loading screen, "Is anyone else tired? We should be well-rested when the blizzard lets up--"

Her words died in her throat as the game opened on Midori Rider standing in what appeared to be a bunker.

"You know what? You can fast travel right out of here--" Rei started.

"I thought you said you were stuck at this part of the map..." said Jaime, already moving Midori Rider forward.

"Wait--" Rei started but Midori Rider passed through a doorway and the screen went dark with a triggered cutscene. Jaime gave a skeptical glance over his shoulder at Rei, whose face was frozen in horror.

"Lu!" Midori Rider hustled into the room, "Lu?" he turned around desperately.

"Don't try to stop me," Lady Lunaria pushed past him with several bags under her arms as she walked to a purple motorcycle and strapped them to the motorcycle.

"I'm trying to stop you because what you're planning is suicide," Midori Rider walked after her.

"You don't understand--" Lady Lunaria whirled on him.

"Losing the place you're supposed to protect?! Losing everyone you care about?! You don't think I understand that?!"

"It's not that simple--" Lady Lunaria's voice was stiff, "Don't act like I've ever--like we've ever been--"

"Lu--" Midori Rider touched her shoulder and she flinched inward, her head turning to the side.

"Look, just because it's the end of the world, that doesn't mean you can do something stupid--" Lady Lunaria started.

"You're already doing something stupid," Midori Rider spoke gently and a helpless, furious breath fell out of Lady Lunaria in response as she shot a baleful glare at him but couldn't seem to sustain it, her brow crinkling as she made eye contact. "I'm not asking you to give up the fight--" Midori Rider went on, he pressed a panel at the side of his helmet and it phased off his head, revealing a handsome, dark-haired man with one scar notching his eyebrow and another two grazing his jawline, "I know I couldn't do that if I tried--I'm asking you to choose to live."

"So what, we fix the world so we can go back to--to..." Lady Lunaria was looking down.

"I don't know yet... I just..." Midori Rider gently brought a thumb up under her jaw to make her look up at him, "You're insane. And selfish. And petty. And dangerous. But you were never as evil as you wanted the world to think. But I know all this changed you, and all these people are looking to you now, and you can't--"

She suddenly kissed him hard and the music swelled. Midori Rider flinched with some surprise at first, but then his fingers wove into her purple hair as he returned the kiss.

The entire cabin was dead silent as Midori Rider and Lady Lunaria embraced tightly and desperately on the holo-screen. Rei was beet red, her mouth hanging open slightly. Even Marti was looking up from her drone with some amusement.

"Wow," was all Jaime said.

"F-for the record you skipped over a LOT of other cutscenes building up to this part! Like--like they save each other's lives and stuff and there's a whole section of the game where Midori Rider gets captured and you play as Lady Lunaria to rescue him! And then she's a co-op NPC! So if it seems stupid--I--" Rei was stammering. You could practically feel the heat blazing off of her face.

"Rei did you... make a save file specifically to re-watch the romance cutscene over and over again?" Aedan blinked

"It's an open world game! I--I could do other things!" Rei blurted out, "I--I was eight when I started playing this game!! I was a kid! AND THEY NEVER KISSED IN ANY OTHER MIDORI RIDER MEDIA! So--so what if I did?!"

"That's adorable," said Jaime.

"You always were a romantic," said Aedan with no shortage of admiration.

"Can you guys go back to calling it the fuck-cabin?" said Rei, burying her face in her hands, "I think I liked that better than this."

#reidan #fankid ensemble #yeehan kid #spiderbyte kid #moiraspawn #mchanzo kid #atlantic mercy x sentai genji

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