"...!"
Geno was quick to tighten his posture as soon as he heard the girl's voice suddenly spoke out of thin air. Like a shell-shocked soldier hearing a gunshot, the star warrior raised an open palm towards the source of the sound, his hand shifting apart into little more than wooden plates that would reveal a smoking gun barrel embedded within his arm.
Geno's dull wooden eyes took a few moments to register the girl's face and voice. They widened once he'd put the pieces together in his mind, though fittingly, he didn't find it necessary to lower his arm cannon.
"... Shelke? You're alive? But, you--"
The memory was hazy and unclear, as he'd been confined to the sidelines during that battle, but Geno couldn't help but remember the last image he'd seen of that great battle before he'd blacked out along with Mallow.
There was silence between them. The girl has blades, and the puppet has guns. Of all the people from that incident for Shelke to announce her grand return to, Geno was just about the last person that needed to know that information. If only that cyborg guy were here, he'd probably drop his moody act to be happy about something for once.
"Are we going to do this 'hold our weapons at each other' thing a second time?" Geno blurted out, motioning to the space between their weapons with his free hand, but gestured his gun hand to Akihiko.
"Ease off his throat. We're not here to cause any trouble. I just... I do not recall much from that battle, but my memory doesn't fail me - I saw you jump in front of a laser and get vaporized to save all of us."
"What are you doing in a jungle with this fellow?" Geno motioned to King Hippo.
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