Kuroda yawned and cracked his neck as he waited through the rather tedious process of watching all of the other Gundam Fighters take off, as he had ended up at almost the total back of the line. Neo New Zealand's previous Fighter had been taken out within the first two months of combat, of course, so their country was ranked one of the lowest. It was no wonder they had been so eager to hire someone from the outside who they thought actually stood a chance, then.<br/><br/>It didn't help that his waiting companion (who had arrived before him, of course) wasn't the easiest person to have an easygoing chat with. It wasn't that she never spoke or that she had a particularly poor attitude, but he had very little idea of where to even begin with her. If she had any interests beside her mercenary work, she didn't try to express it. Not to him so far, anyway.<br/><br/>Fortunately, it didn't<em>too</em>long for him to be next in line and for the Core Lander from his own Gundam to arrive. Stepping up with Isabel in tow, he smiled as the door opened and its pilot, youthful-looking brown-haired man (http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/L/LU/LUN/LUNAR678/1232470775_9165_full.jpeg), gestured for them to enter. "Hope ye both had a nice day tagether while we were down there workin'," he teased in an unmistakably Irish accent, making Kuroda roll his eyes as he climbed in and slid over to make room for Isabel.<br/><br/>Taking off from the Flame of Unity, Declan flew the Lander down to a heavily wooded area of the terraformed Martian wilderness, where the Break Gundam was well-hidden among the trees while it was being worked on. It was a temporary location until they could set up a more comfortable base for themselves, of course, but hopefully it would keep too many other eager Fighters from detecting them until Kuroda was ready.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Among the earliest to take off from the station was the Neo Japan Lander, which, strangely, appeared to have little interest in immediately going where its Gundam had landed down on the planet. Instead, the little jet made a beeline for one of the larger cities on Mars, the Chinese-controlled colony of Sei Ben. At the center of the city, atop a small natural mountain, sat one of the most impressive man-made sights on the red planet, a grand Shaolin Temple. If anyone from Earth had business going to Sei Ben, especially a Fighter, it most likely had to do with the temple...