Solution

Juliet peeks into the marshal's office suite looking for Chantell and perhaps a dinnermate. 
Success! 
Chantell sits at her desk, leaning back in her chair with a sheaf of papers over her face. 
Juliet knocks. "Yo!"
Chantell uncovers her face, breaks into a watery smile, and says wetly, "Hey."
"You okay?"
"Heeeeh." Chantell wipes her eyes. "Read this." 
Juliet sits in the visitor's chair, fluffs the papers, leans back. "'Transcript, landline phone call'." Addresses Chantell, "Want me to give them little voices?"
"Would you?"
"You bet!"
From Sydney Shatterdome to Hong Kong Shatterdome
14 January 2019, 20:43 AEST
XIONG LI-HUA, MARSHAL: Good evening, Thomas. What befalls your Shatterdome this time?
THOMAS NGUYEN, MARSHAL: Team Vulcan's—
Chantell giggles.
Juliet preens, fluffs the transcript anew.
—little brother is the Squire for Team SE.
"Heard about that." 
"Yea." Chantell sags. "The universe suuuuure likes us."
XIONG: The two Hansen brothers?
NGUYEN: The Hansen /kid and Lightcap's Hypothetical.
XIONG: Aha.
NGUYEN: I haven't heard this much screaming since Chantell was born.
"You were a screamer?" 
"Apparently I didn't stop for two days after I was born." 
Juliet whistles.
XIONG: Is the Squire instigating or the—one moment. Yes, Nang?
LO NANG, EQUERRY: J-Tech's making ice cream in /Brave 3's cryo cannon.
Juliet whines. "I wish we had a /Brave," she pouts. "I miss CryoCream."
"I do, too," Chantell sighs. "And then I think of the person-hours it takes to clean one of those canisters and I'm like, 'I'll just wait for Thursday'."
XIONG: Fei Yen may have a bite if she's been good and a scoop of chocolate for me, please.
LO: Yes, ma'am.
XIONG: Thank you. 
"Omigosh, Marshal Xiong's /adorable." 
"Hashtag life goals."
"Seconded."
Xiong: Thomas, who's doing the fighting?
NGUYEN: The Rangers and the Cadets.
XIONG: I seem to recall the Jones boys have made a hobby of this.
NGUYEN: Same problem, same target, just worse.
XIONG: I would encourage you not to scold them back-to-back; that just leaves room for more squabbling.
NGUYEN: Got it, thanks. Have a good night.
XIONG: Same to you.
"And with that," says Juliet, handing back the papers. "I am goop."
Chantell smiles, heaves herself to her feet, and goes to the filing cabinet. 
"Was that the moral of this story or did I take a detour at 'babies!' and miss the point?"
Chantell grumbles—"About life, not you."
Juliet offers her best sympathetic vibes, asks, "Where's your dad?"
"Tearing his hair out somewhere." 
"Over the fight?" 
"Right!" Chantell swivels. "So, this—" Waves the transcript, digging for the correct folder. "—happened, and so did that—the fight—but we also found out that the hydraulics for the SE's feet are delayed and they were supposed to come tomorrow and they didn't tell us about the delay and the tubing's showing up next week and it wasn't due until February when we would've had the hydraulics installed so now we're just gonna have a load of crap sitting around tripping people!" Slams the drawer. 
"Storage?"
"It's full of all the other parts which've come early that we can't fucking install!"
"I can see why the Marshal's tearing out his hair."
"Seriously." Chantell deflates into her chair. "Honestly, this damn thing is more fucking trouble than it's worth—I swear to god, I'd actually /welcome the Kaiju at this point because then I wouldn't have to deal with this shit." 
"This is literally the worst." 
"And—" Eyes flick to the hallway—vent—marshal's office. 
Juliet leans close. 
"/Lucky's getting a little slow—like, we're talking /Vulcan slow—"
"And with the massive patrol area ...."
"Dad's kinda worried." Concedes. "Lots worried."
"So maybe you don't want a Kaiju."
Chantell slides lower with a glower. 
"Would bad fanfiction help?" 
"What've you got?" 
"You may regret this."
"I regret my life."
"Good point." Juliet thumbs on her mobile. "Lets see ...."
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