MISSION: Stop the Pirate Ship [Marco/Rose/Zabala]

[commanderzabala]

[1800 hours Friday evening finds the Commander waiting patiently at-ease in the Garden Garage. Written in the tense lines of her jaw and neck is the quiet anger that she otherwise keeps hidden behind calm professionalism.]

[She believes, though she won't admit openly, that Marco purposely selected a cadet of all people to join this dangerous, top-tier, ordinarily-Zabala-would-do-this-alone mission simply because she had not directly and explicitly specified that the mission party should be entirely SeeDs.]

[But as much as she's irritated at Marco, she's irritated at herself in turn. She'd know that the SeeD would test her. In this case, they'd outwitted her. So she would play the cards as they'd been dealt.]

[...For that matter, she also didn't expect either of them to be quite on time for the departure, but she'd enjoy being surprised.]

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[fierybluebird]

[Marco's early actually, clearly anxious to go.]

Commander. [He nods when she gets near, though he continues to lack a salute. Oh yes, taking a student along? He's proud of himself. He'd go it alone if allowed, but if he's going to have non-familial backup, he'll bring Rose. Someone even more irritated at the way things are run than him. Not to mention, she's good with direct paramagic as the Commander requested. Marco just hopes Rose doesn't go grimdark like she did when he visited John's memories with him. That would be weird, and Marco still hasn't had the fortitude to ask how Rose snapped out of it, or even whether she was at that point in time yet. OOPS. Ah well, he's completely doing this Whitebeard style, and that is worth all the points to himself, if nothing else.]