[Zakera, Citadel] Out For Lunch

For a diplomat, I'l say! That sounds delightful! Daisy said with enthusiasm. The pilot waived the waiter over.
Would you like a desert menu? I would recommend the Black Forest Cake.
Daisy raised an eyebrow at the coincidence, but said nothing, instead substituting with a smile.

"That sounds wonderful suggestion, please do." Albert said to the waiter before turning his attention back to Daisy. "They know their strengths."

"Always a good skill to have."

So, what did you have in mind for the rest of the day?

Daisy took a small sip of her wine, starting to feel a buzz from the alchohal.

"That's really up to you, the Citadel has a lot to offer. What catches your fancy?"

Is there an arcade around? I used to be pretty good at the crane games. The smile on her face seemed stuck in place, she had to admit, she liked Albert.

"I don't rightly know, let me do a quick check." Albert said with a grin, as he searched on his omnitool the waiter came with two plates, on each of them a large piece of delicious Black Forest cake.

"Well there's one nearby, only a couple blocks away and a few levels down." He had already forwarded the address to his car navigation system. "prepared to be chocked, but..." he leaned as if he was going to tell a deep dark secret, "I've never been in an arcade, I know what you mean with 'cranes' but I've never played with those things, never even seen a machine in real life either."

He let daisy think about this revelation as he attacked the cake in front of him.

The pilot sat there, shocked still with her mouth partialy open and fork hanging low over her cake. Y-your shittin me. It was a statement more than a question. She slowly took a bite of cake, seeming to break out of her shock. well were gonna have to fix that.

"Gladly," he said between bites, "I always forget how good their cake is."

"So apart from the cranes what else might there be at this arcade? I'm guessing video games..."

Not much, the crane game is the only game I ever really got into The pilot said, taking a few more bites of the cake This is really wonderful...

After some more chit-chat while the pieces of cake were eaten to the best of their ability the bill came, which Albert paid without even thinking about it. "Well I think they want us to either order again or vamoose." He said with a grin, let's get to that arcade... "would you like to drive? I know the car isn't a fighter but I've seen pilots do some neat things with it."

A mischievous smile spread across Daisy's mouth. Ok, Il drive.

The pilot sauntered out of the restaurant, diplomat in tow, headed to the sleek air car. The doors hissed open and they slid into it. She started the machine and felt it rise. Navigating it off the level slowly, she turned to her passenger and said, Hold on to something

The car wasn't to far off from her falcon, and Daisy was sure she could make it perform the same. Suddenly the car dropped like a brick. She let it free fall for a moment, only angling it so it became nose down, then jerked back sharply, evening it out and hurtling into the flow of traffic. That earned them some angry honks from other drivers, but the pilot paid them no mind, instead turning to her passenger, So, which way am I headed?

Albert had to withhold a chuckle as he saw Daisy almost skip her way back to the car. She had told him to hold onto something and he did, by Jove he held on for dear life. Still when the pilot looked at him she saw a big grin on his face.

"Oh right," he tapped something on the screen, an overlay on the fronscreen flickered into existence and showed the path towards the arcade. "I will have to remember that trick. Just follow the path."

Daisy had a smile ear to ear as she weaved through traffic, pissing off commuters, even going so far as to put the caar into a wide roll, soaring under the main stream and flipping over it upside down. They finally came screaming into the lot beside the arcade, screeching to a halt right where they were landing. The pilot expertly set the aircar down without even a lurch, letting it purr for a moment before killing it and stepping out.

well that was fun, wasn't it? I think I might have to get one of these for myself. She said, the smile never leaving her face. She waited for Albert, then strung an arm through his and let him lead her into the blinking neon palace of entertainment.

"Yes it was." Albert nodded, as he led her into the arcade.

A veritable wave of sound and light bursts over them as they enter the place, innumerable games of luck, skill and strategy line the walls and cover the floor. "wow" were the only words Albert expressed as he was confronted with sensory overload.

The cranes were further inside the building, forcing the both of them to brave the mass of people crowding around medal games, coin pushers, some alien kind of wack-a-mole, Pachinko and all kinds of video games.

"aren't that the crane games over there?" He pointed further towards the back.

Yeah, I see them. the pilot led them back to the machine, a large version, as tall as the aircar they rode there in long. Ooohh, Look at all the prizes! There were plushies of all shapes and sizes, plenty of cute Varren pups, the ever popular Pokémon franchise had a few denizens, a couple of quarians hiding in the back, toy Avengers, Several miniature Krogan warlords, and even a Sovereign plushy, square in the middle.

Daisy eyeballed the machine, closing her right eye and letting her left turn tactical. She checked the angles and swiped her chit over the game's reader, then set to work maneuvering the old fashioned three pronged claw around. She went for the big prize, the Sovereign in the middle. Claw in place and time dwindling, she pressed the switch and the claw dropped, grabbing the angled toy by its leg thingies.

after a few slips, the claw held and pulled the comical depreciation of the vanguard of destruction from his palace of plush, dropping it in the prize chute. In the shift of prizes, Daisy saw what she wanted, a lone, beat looking stuffed teddy bear. The pilot unkindly pulled her first prize from the chute and turned to Albert,

You see that teddy bear in there? Can you get it for me? Pretty please? She asked him, a faint smile on her lips.

Albert kept a close eye on how Daisy had gotten herself a Sovereign.

"Okay, just give me a bit to get used to this I'm new to this."

His first shot ended in complete disaster, the claw had overshot the target and he grasped a whole lot of nothing.

"Darn, okay let me try again here," another credit was put into the machine and this time he managed to get closer but still didn't get anything. His third attempted did end with the claw on the bear but the grasp failed.

"This is way harder than it looks, and it looked hard."

Daisy swiped her chit and expertly maneuvered the claw over a quarian, pulling it up and dropping it into the chute. She added the red and gold suited toy to her soon to be pile of toys. Its real easy, all you have to do is line up your target and fire, like target practice, try again, Il give you a surprise if you get it the next shot. The pilot said, giving him a mischievous smile.

"Well... if you put it that way." Albert said with a cocky smile as he once again looked the situation over, he ran his chit through the machine and started to maneuver the claws just like he saw her do.

For a second when he thought he had overshot the prize, but to his relief it was still safe. The claw slowly descended and grabbed the bear head-first and pulled it up. It started to slip as the claw carried it towards the chute. The claw didn't need to open as it's stopping motion was enough to let the bear fall down the funnel and into Albert's waiting hand.

"There you go," he said handing her the bear, "I perform best under pressure, or maybe I just needed some motivation, either way, you got your bear."

She hugged the bear then pulled Albert in close and kissed him, long and lingering. I love teddy bears. Do you like your prize? The pilot asked, turning back to the machine and easily winning a stuffed Urdnot Wrex, complete with toy shotgun and creepy smile.

Albert placed his hands on her waist as they kissed and just like the kiss let them linger there.

"I very much like it, so do I get one for toy I get or just the bears?" There was friendly smile as he leaned in, "or do I get another prize if I nab another one?"