The Hood System is unusual, but effective.

Jervale clapped his thin-fingered hands together, then rubbed his palms. "Hold tight, Fighters. I'm deploying the Hoods right away. Once they're on, you should be able to free your eyes and mouths by opening them."

Allenby didn't like the sound of that, but she wasn't in a position to be picky. Still, she almost immediately regretted granting the permission when a latex curtain shot up from the neck-ring of her suit, seemingly connecting into and forming a cone with the outer ring of the Mobile Trace system. Before she could object, the ring began to spin...

In her own dangerous situation, Rain saw the same. The latex pulled in tightly until it was wrapped tightly around her head: for a second, the fighter had a horrible vision where she risked being asphyxiated if she couldn't apply the same amount of **** freeing her head that she normally had to with her arms and legs. Luckily, it really did seem to be as easy as opening her mouth in a gasp. Even her blue eyes fluttering open and her nostrils flaring seemed to be enough to tear open ports in the latex. She couldn't imagine what it actually looked like... She felt about her head and became aware of two prongs on top, seemingly the same kind that were included across her pilot suit to connect with the Gundam. "This is the Hood, Doctor Umjervale?"

"Yes," the mysterious doctor responded from the radio. "How does it feel?"

Allenby was the one to cut in and respond. "It feels just like latex fetish gear, and I'd bet my spot in the Gundam Fight that if I had a mirror, I'd see it looks that way, too. It doesn't feel like anything else has changed, though!"

"That's because I gave you the equipment, but I haven't turned it on yet. Engaging in three, two, one..."

Both of the fighters definitely felt that. Allenby was bracing herself for a feeling like losing control to the Berserker system and being overwhelmed by ****, but it wasn't anything like that: mostly, she felt her senses sharpen. Most of all... "This is amazing, Doc! I think... I can actually enjoy the fight with this!" Experimentally, Allenby attempted the motion she'd failed earlier, which now came naturally to her. She clenched her fists, pulled her arms to her sides with the forearms up, then bowed her legs and squatted: amazingly, this seemed to be the correct set of gestures to pull the Jester Gundam's limbs in, and when she rose again and threw her arms upward, the suit lifted into the air in its agile Top Mode. "I feel so light! I think I can actually fly circles around these big birdbrains now!"

Rain, meanwhile, was less trusting of the new control she'd been granted, but she could definitely feel it. "Now, I think I can... break free...!" With her new understanding of the Matador, it wasn't even really a challenge. She braced her legs against the ground, then, balling her fists, began to pace one against the ground like a bull preparing to charge. The Matador mimicked her movements, pacing its powerful leg with no regard for the **** Army soldier holding it, lifting its fish-like body from the water. In a sort of power-walk in place in her cockpit, Rain began moving her Mobile Fighter forward, dragging the soldiers helplessly onto the land. Those two quickly released her legs and began trying to flop their way into the water. "Oh, no you don't!" Flaring her nostrils again and letting out a shout, Rain surprised herself, leaping into the air to execute a wrestler's elbow drop inside her cockpit. Some logical part of her told her that she was surely going to break something, performing a move like this... Instead, only the enemies were broken, erupting into a series of chain explosions below the heavy body of the Matador that didn't seem to damage it at all. "This is... incredible... I feel like I gained the strength and ferocity of a bull. I'm guessing Allenby is also-"

Rain finally got a look at her ally, spinning through the air in the Jester Gundam. As the top-shaped Gundam placed itself between the two Birdies, they tried to fire, only to end up hitting each other when it nimbly descended at the last second. "Ahahaha!" the Neo Sweden Gundam Fighter's laughter rang out as she disengaged the Top Mode, stretched her Fighter's arms to grab one of the two enemies and slam it into the other, sending both in a flaming scrap meteor into the ocean. "Two Birdies in hand are worth one in the sploosh!"

Rain turned on her camera and radio with Allenby, giving her a smile in spite of their strange circumstances. "We did it! And if you're feeling well enough to make strange jokes, I'm guessing you're okay..."

Allenby's laughter didn't stop as she saw her friend on the display screen, turning on her own. "Ohoho , w-what the heck?! It really does look like fetish gear!" The younger lady couldn't hold back, seeing her friend appear with a tight-fitting cream-white latex hood over her head, which even had a black spot over one eye and a pink pattern imitation of a snout at the nose. The prongs Rain had felt earlier were set up like a cow's short horns. "I'm having a cow...! Or you are, or something! But gee, Doctor Umjervale really milked it with your design! Heeeheehaa!"

Rain immediately felt something was off, seeing her ally moved to tears by her own laughter. Allenby had a continuation of her purple and orange stripe pattern up her head, now, but a center oval at the face of the hood was white with a pattern of purple stars over the eyes, a red spot at the nose, and a curled red smile at the lips. Her prongs took the form of large arcs at the sides of the head, imitating a jester's cap similar to the Gundam. Rain had never seen Allenby laugh so hard at such a dumb joke, and she knew there was something wrong about it... She thought there ought to be an obvious connection to make, but... for some reason, she just couldn't think of it... "Mrrrr... Mm... Allenby, something's wrong... D-Doctor Jervale, we need to m-move the platform back down. Can we... re-m-m-mooove the hoods?"

"Oh, yes. They've served their purpose. I'm bringing you back down, and I'm looking forward to seeing you two in just a second... We'll talk about returning you to your countries."