Trophaeum City

[Bloodedge]

Beneath the island of Trophaeum, there is a massive underground city which features all forms of Air Treck technology, including scrapped ideas and prototypes. This is where all ideas are tested, and where all unreleased technology is stored and utilized to avoid the public eye. It is also the location that powers the 72 Trophaeum Towers across the world, and can be linked directly to each one through the planet's mantle. Here, the legendary individuals that have been given the epithet "progenitors" have a place to call home. The city is otherwise occupied by scientists and the like, all of whom have been given a new, underground life for the purpose of testing and maintaining the structural balance of the city. As for why... only the progenitors have been told.

[Apollymi]

Akiza finished her meal and the glass of wine, though she was not very pleased about it. When they arrived at this place called Trophaeum Island the girl's eyes widened as she stared down into the tunnel they were visiting underground. "Sugoi. I mean... skeptical but... amazing." she mentioned of this kind of place. She still had no idea why on earth she'd been brought to such a place, but given the fact that Shoichi's eldest sibling as involved she could only assume it had something to do with whatever had taken the Ice Queen away from her studies and managing her own team. Akiza was rapid thinking but right at the moment her face was flushed. The reason the young Thorn Queen was in general opposed to drinking, wasn't because she didn't enjoy the activity, but instead because she was a bit of a lightweight.

[Bloodedge]

"Here we are," the blonde man said when the helicopter finally landed at its destination. They seemed to be within a large, vertical cylinder of a chamber with a panoramic view of the giant city around them, both on floor level, and upside-down on the ceiling. Outside, there were many smaller tubes which people seemed to float through in either vertical direction, and floating around the city were a few hovering vehicles akin to ships. "Congratulations, by the way. You are the first Gravity Child from your generation to enter Trophaeum City." These were the final words of Shigeru, who then exited the helicopter and offered Akiza a hand in stepping down. Once outside the vehicle, one would find Takeuchi Roze being the only other inhabitant of this chamber. She sat alone in a steel chair, right leg crossed over her left, with her eyes focused on the younger Thorn Queen. "Izayoi. Welcome home~♥" the white-haired woman said with a smile.

[Apollymi]

Akiza had a look at all this place seemed to offer, and was a bit stunned. When it was mentioned by her journey friend, Shigeru that she was the first member of her own generation to come here she shrugged. "Hm, well, that's pretty interesting, but I don't see why that's worth congratulating." she seemed to be a bit stunned by what she was seeing here. But soon enough she was taking this young man's hand as she exited the air craft they'd found their way here in together and soon after facing Roze. This was surely a woman she'd only seen twice in her entire life. Still a little pink faced the young woman looked to the elder woman sitting in the chair and smiled. "Konbanwa, Takeuchi-san...you had me kidnapped, saying welcome home like that is odd. " she said those golden eyes of hers suddenly rather serious.

[Bloodedge]

"Oh, wow. Shig, did you give her the whole bottle, you snake?" Roze asked both rhetorically and in jest upon seeing the state her successor seemed to be in. "You're free to go, doll-face." Once he'd been given permission to leave, which was more of a demand to do so when coming from Roze, Shigeru bowed to the woman, then to the younger woman he'd escorted to this place, before taking his leave via helicopter. While the rotors were turning to lift the machine above ground again, Roze shared her words with Akiza. "I didn't have you kidnapped. I had you reigned in. This is where you belong... where all Gravity Children belong, technically. This is where we're made. Oh, and don't listen to Shig. You're not the first to be brought here, but you're the first of your lot to come here while conscious. You'll also be the first to leave without having your brain overridden, so buck up, sissy."

[Apollymi]

"Ja ne~ Ito-san." Akiza mentioned to the man as he bowed to her. If they'd still been on the helicopter she'd have had an argument about why that wasn't necessary, but.. given the way Roze spoke to him in that moment, she was almost certain he'd be having nothing she had to say. Beyond this point the man seemed to leave. "He's nice." she commented after the man had left, and it was something she didn't imagine thinking when she was first grabbed off the street. Akiza was left alone with her predecessor who seemed to have a lot to say about the nature of her visit here, and how different it was from the others. "Sou ka, Sho-nii, Chi-chan and Ciel-chan... " she said thinking of the members of her generation with the personality problem. But Akiza wasn't really that interested in such things. Beyond that she couldn't really imagine a gravity child wanting to live underground after spending their formative years stuck underground the idea of doing so for any extended period of time would likely have driven them to madness. "Really, I'm glad I'll be leaving as me, but... what do you actually want? Like why am I even here..." the girl asked, because to be honest, she couldn't imagine any reason for her trip to a place none of the rest of her generation seemed to know about.