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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 10, 2010 6:16:39 GMT
Young nodded "due to certain incidents I'm banned from carrying my gunblade in the mess room," he stated leading the way then. Mentally he was rather annoyed at himself for having to have a partner. It definitely meant working on his experiments in his free time had come to a close.
As they walked into the mess hall he already had to stiffen, hearing that loudmouth Reno no doubt bragging about some stupid adventure or telling some tall tale as usual. He just shook his head trying his best to shut him out heading to grab some food before he took his usual table seat in the corner with the comfiest chairs lounging into one.
He had to stiffen as Reno approached though looking up at the red head "Can I help you with anything," he asked with forced politeness, showing his obvious sarcastic intent.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 10, 2010 16:29:16 GMT
“Somehow… That doesn’t surprise me.”
Young seemed like the type who usually got his way. Then again, was there an actual necessity to bring a weapon to meals? Adrian pondered this as they entered a casual looking dining room. He could call it a mess hall, but the leather seats and clean tables didn’t make it look like the name would fit it properly.
Adrian started off by collecting as many water bottles he could carry in one hand. By fitting the neck in between his fingers, he was able to get three. He looked over his shoulder as he started collecting food. Old habits were hard to break. Food and water was rationed in Corel so that the prisoners never had enough energy to run away or cause a full-scale rebellion. The men that wanted to see that happen were inclined to steal food from the other inmates. Being aware of one’s surroundings usually assisted in keeping everything that was given to a person.
Adrian mentally sighed and attempted to remember what it was like to be a civilized member of society. Despite his hunger, he casually grabbed an apple and a few other small food items. His mother had told him, 'never eat much more than you’re used to or you’ll get sick'. Adrian wasn’t willing to test out her theory. The recruit followed Young to the table and downed his first bottle of water within five seconds, then he took up his apple and stared at it for a few moments. His posture was guarded and hunched over with his arms forming a barrier around his small food pile.
“Oh you delicious crimson nutrient, here I come!” Adrian completely ignored Reno’s approach. Normally he would have been watching the Turk’s every move, or any other person’s for that matter, but he was preoccupied with the rather grotesque mastication of his apple. Besides, Young looked like he could handle it.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 14, 2010 5:22:05 GMT
Reno gave a bit of a smirk sensing Young's testiness. "Who's the new one, yo?" he inquired with a bit of a smirk. Young gave him a scowl before kicking Adrian under the table "I'm sure he can talk for himself," he stated trying to ignore his presence before he started properly on Reno.
He'd rather eat first. That way he'd have the actual energy to deal with any aftermath more. Choosing for once in his life to ignore the red headed Turk, he settled down to eating trying to ignore the annoying presences of those around him.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 15, 2010 4:54:22 GMT
Adrian barely acknowledged Young and gave the pink haired Turk a lazy two-fingered salute and swallowed his apple. He had barely finished before speaking.
“I’m Shinra’s newest ‘recruit’, yo.” Adrian imitated. He felt some sort of empowerment from the fact that Rufus had recruited him directly. Adrian felt that no matter what happened, no matter what he said, nothing mattered because Rufus had some reason for hiring Adrian against his will in the first place.
“And apparently, he’s my partner. Isn’t that right? We should be going soon though, I believe I have a date with a training simulator.” Adrian kicked Young for revenge.
“Who’re you?” He knew who Reno was, but it was an excuse to pretend to be ‘ignorantly’ insolent.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 15, 2010 17:27:59 GMT
Young scowled at him before nodding then. He wasn't happy about the idea of being his Partner, but what could he do. As Adrian kicked him he gave him a glance as if to say 'was that meant to hurt'. He'd hardly felt it but that didn't mean that he wasn't going to make him pay for that at some point.
Reno smirked "You mean the gits not told you of me? Names Reno, yo," he stated with a grin "Pleasure to meet you," he added on before he glanced at Young "feel sorry that you have him as your partner," he added on.
Young scowled a bit giving a low growl itching for his gunblade before he stood up "Better to be the lonewolf then the idiotic loser," he retorted. Okay, not his best retort but better then nothing. He smirked at Reno's glare before he glanced at Adrian "You finished destroying your food yet or are we still waiting, I'd really like to get to the training room before tomorrow" he stated impatiently.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 15, 2010 17:47:23 GMT
“Yeah, I guess its up to me to make friends in this hel-.. er.. place. The name’s Adrian, by the way.”
He rolled his eyes at Young’s retort, almost ready to perform a facepalm. Technically, he wasn’t even a lone wolf anymore, which made him an idiotic loser as well. Adrian tossed the apple core over his shoulder. After bouncing off of a wall and almost clocking a scientist in the head, the core made it into a garbage bin.
“See you around.” He gave Reno a slight nod before rising from his seat and stretched his arms. Adrian waited for Young to get up and lead the way.
“Whatever you say, partner.” Every time that word was mentioned, he could see Young slightly cringe. This could work.
“I’m good to go, take me to the training room!” He pointed dramatically towards one of the room’s exits.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 15, 2010 18:00:20 GMT
Young sighed easily walking off, ignoring Reno, and Adrian. He'd not seen Hyun in the mess hall which meant she'd probably grown too irritated at Reno and headed to the VR Suite early. He sighed at that, he'd have rather had her company during meal then the idiot coming to bother him.
As he started to draw close to the VR Suite he heard the familiar sound of gunshots, and the occasional sound of metal off of metal, tensing a bit. He longed to bust in, regardless of Adrian's safety, but he knew she'd not thank him for it.
Still he was relieved when the sounds went quiet. As the door opened to reveal the one eyed member of the Turks Young gave a nod. Hyun smiled faintly nodding back glancing at Adrian before starting to walk away, ignoring Adrian.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 15, 2010 20:04:17 GMT
Adrian turned to examine the female Turk carefully. Despite missing her eye, the woman was extremely attractive and had a very serious air around her. The woman gave him a whole new appreciation of the Turk’s uniform. She reminded Adrian of a predator. He turned back to focus on the room ahead of him. Young and the woman had a special relationship, he could tell by the fact that Young’s posture had changed.
“That your girlfriend, or what?” There was a saying: Don’t dip your pen in company ink? He shoved his hands inside of his pockets and smirked. Adrian wasn’t going to even try and get involved with that.
“Are we goin’ or what?”
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 15, 2010 20:39:01 GMT
Young glanced at him almost ready to snap the answer out before he shook his head "this is just a preliminary test of where your weapon proficiencies lie, we'll start off today hand to hand no weapon combat, understood?" he stated as he walked in calmly.
He had chosen to ignore the question before a thought struck him. He walked outside, noting Hyun was still in hearing distance. He hadn't his gunblade on him at this moment. "Hyun" he called only just hiding his smile as she turned. "Can you act as safety net in case the idiot accompanying me messes up?" he called to her.
Routine really. Hyun nodded in response returning back, her gun resting on her shoulder. Young glanced at Adrian "This is Hyun, as you probably noticed her weapon is a gun. She'll be acting as the safety net, ensuring you don't get your sorry ass handed to you should you mess up," he finished.
"In other words she's here to make sure you don't die" he finished almost coldly.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 17, 2010 0:54:19 GMT
“Oh… well…” Adrian stroked the stubble on his chin thoughtfully. “Whatever you say, partner. Nice to meet you, Hyun.” He held out his hand and waited for the woman to blow him off. She just looked like the type that felt almost everyone was beneath her. Adrian could appreciate a woman who played hard to get.
He glanced nervously towards the training room. Adrian fought well with his hands considering quality weapons were hard to find in Corel. Most weapons either blew up or dished out more damage to the user than the opponent. The thing Adrian was worried about was his materia. The scarlet orb still lay dormant in his left arm, but for how long? Adrian had been in fights before, but he was back in Shinra, he had a history here, and he kept playing stupid. His biggest fear was if Young decided to push Adrian for revenge, it wouldn’t take too much effort for the materia to go off, or at least that was what Adrian surmised.
On second thought…
“No offense to the lady, and I have full confidence in her abilities, but… I can hold my own… unless you intend for this session to require her, Young.” Adrian’s violet eyes narrowed suspiciously at the Turk.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 17, 2010 5:08:41 GMT
Hyun just nodded before giving an almost lazy smirk. "You can't get rid of me for two reasons. During preliminaries its custom to have a second Turk overseeing, and also he has no weapon, should anything go horribly wrong for whatever reason it'd be him who'd take all the crap for being under prepared even if the fault was yours," she stated calmly.
Young nodded "I've faced the Presidents wrath once, and as much as it'd cause me great satisfaction to see you dead I won't risk his wrath a second time," He stated simply. "After these few preliminaries where I see just what you've got I'll need to collect my gunblade, see how much your going to hinder me"
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Post by Forzare on Feb 18, 2010 5:10:27 GMT
“Heh… Suit yourself… I wouldn’t want to be any more of a burden to you.” The recruit said facetiously.
Adrian yawned and stretched as he walked into the training room and stood where Young told him. He knew this place like the back of his hand, he knew how the simulator would start and he knew he would be recorded the entire time. He flexed his right bicep, which bulged from underneath the black arm of the suit jacket. Lastly, Adrian rolled his neck on his shoulders until he heard the popping sound he was looking for.
“Ready.”
He smirked. His body slowly started to relax, but Adrian still felt naked without his usual gauntlet to cover his right hand. Adrian was left handed, but he tried to avoid using that hand as much as possible.
Adrian blinked. Then again, he was a controlled environment after all, and he was working with ‘professionals’, maybe it was okay to test out his power here. Did he even remember how to use it? He licked his lips and focused on the task at hand. A good fight would jog his memory.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 18, 2010 8:06:17 GMT
Young just shook his head nodding to Hyun as she followed Adrian in, waiting till she'd taken up a concealed spot chuckling as he noticed it was one of the same spot he liked to use to keep an eye on her in late night practises. Then he focused his mind on doing the final program configurations. "Hyun, he's in your more then capable hands to protect him from dieing," he stated.
Hyun just nodded in response. "I'm ready," she stated calmly. Young nodded at that. Good.With both having affirmed they were ready he initiated the program, this one was a simple one that'd test close range adaptability. After this one it would test adaptability to a number of various other scenarios, including long range and stealth missions.
Time to see how the recruit'd react.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 20, 2010 3:46:08 GMT
Adrian frowned as a lightly armed mech appeared a few yards away from him in the simulator. It was a bit bigger than a regular security bot. It automatically began to initiate its conflict mode and extended its gun arm to shoot at Adrian.
He furrowed his brow and looked over his shoulder at Hyun.
“This is starting off a bit too light.”
Sure he still had to get used to the idea of shoes and had an injured leg, but he wasn't completely incompetent. Then again, he hadn’t informed Young of his experience and he was starting to believe that Shinra hadn’t either. Maybe this was some sort of sadistic experiment for Rufus.
The sound of the short bursts of gunfire the mech let out rang through the room. Adrian sidestepped just in time.
“Hey!”
The prisoner dodged another round as the mech came closer. It sprung into the air and descended directly above Adrian. Adrian followed it and extended his leg to execute an axe kick. It was a good thing that the shoes he wore had a reinforced heel and steel toe or else Adrian would have broken his foot. He grinned as the mech fell to the floor in a burst of sparks. Adrian landed shakily almost on top of it. In all fairness, he was a bit rusty. After recovering, he struck a pose while planting one foot on top of the bot.
“Heh. I told you I didn’t need the nice lady to babysit me.”
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 20, 2010 6:57:35 GMT
Young gave a smirk then "That was one, you won't always be in situations where you have to deal with just one," he stated calmly "stay alert," he added on as he adjusted program parameters to set up a multiple combat scenario.
Hyun kept quiet, just there as security net when needed. She was also there to act as witness that Young kept to all standard procedures.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 21, 2010 18:10:01 GMT
"Alright." Adrian readied himself for another wave of attacks.
This time the wave contained simulated SOLDIER infantry men and another security bot. They didn't charge at him this time and instead waited for Adrian to make a move. There was actually going to be a fight here. He attacked the security bot first. It resembled a brown spider which just seemed to slide around the floor. Its large antenna was used to receive transmissions from around the building and to shoot out lightning magic. Adrian felt the shock as he ran towards his first opponent. It caught him a little unprepared but he managed to continue and delivered a swift kick to its underbelly. He looked like a foot ball player that had just scored a goal as the robot went flying into the wall. It released a small burst of sparks which was probably from the wall and the bot.
He stopped as a SOLDIER threw him into a full nelson. Another enemy took the opportunity to ready his gun and aim it at Adrian's chest. The other infantry men swarmed him. He delivered a headbutt to the SOLDIER that had him in a lock and maneuvered out as the other infantry man opened fire. The first enemy disappeared after filling up with bullet wounds. Adrian landed behind another enemy and twisted his neck to break it. The third enemy only allowed for a messy half break and engaged Adrian. He dropped the one enemy and moved to the other and delivered a round house kick to the SOLDIER's temple. After grabbing the gun, the rest of the fight was over in less than ten seconds.
"There."
The recruit smirked and threw down the gun.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 21, 2010 18:21:28 GMT
Young gave a chuckle "Impressive, see how well you handle this one," he commented as he set up the next scenario parameters. This time the attacks would be multiple direction with the direction at random. There would also be a variety of units. He was getting curious as to just how far Adrian could cope before he snapped.
He knew there had to be a breaking point. A limit. Somewhere. He was determined to find that. Hyun glanced over at Young giving a frown before she just resettled her position. So he was adaptable, that was potentially a good thing.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 22, 2010 1:40:01 GMT
Adrian smirked.
“This is just a regular Saturday night get together in Corel!”
He placed his hands on his hips as the first wave of enemies surrounded him. They all rushed at him at once. Adrian kicked a few out of the way and dodged some others but the masses had managed to outflank him and left no room to doge without hitting another enemy.
When animals feel threatened and backed into a corner with no escape they can become desperate and will do anything to get out of the corner. Adrian didn’t feel much better at the moment. He was armed with no weapon and the dead simulations simply disappeared after he killed them, leaving nothing behind. The odds weren’t great at the moment.
Adrian received a blow to the jaw as he continued to fight his way through the waves that continued, later he received a deep cut to his mid section. Half way through the second wave Adrian was starting to feel the effects of fatigue. He was slowing down. Adrian’s adrenaline was starting to kick in and it was hard to feel the pain and even harder to preserve his energy. He constantly shifted his weight on his toes to keep moving.
An electric shock delivered by one of the larger ShinRa bot weapons knocked Adrian backwards and into the wall. It followed him there and was accompanied by several simulated ShinRa infantrymen. They got down on one knee to open fire.
“Oh Shi-” He threw out his left hand without even thinking and released a burst of kinetic energy towards the enemies. All were blown back and dispatched upon contact. Adrian withdrew his hand quickly and frowned.
“Now it works…” Adrian sighed. He didn’t want to use the materia yet. It was unstable at best and worked at random times. For some reason he was feeling more in control of it now, more so than he had ever been. He dispatched the last few members and looked out towards Hyun and then to Young.
Adrian wiped the sweat from his brow and breathed heavily.
“I’m still good to go, you know.” What he wouldn’t give for a decent weapon. His limbs ached from delivering kicks, blocks, and punches. He wasn’t going to let Young see any weakness.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 22, 2010 2:26:40 GMT
Young glanced at him "Take a break while I retrieve my weapon from my room," he stated. He wasn't going to exactly compliment him yet. Hyun just shifted out of her low crouch position stretching fully to ease any dead or stiff muscles. She glanced in Adrian's way "Don't mind Young, he's normally like this," she said quietly as she too was awaiting his return.
She sighed, she couldn't explain why. She knew that she'd been trusted with that bit of information. She'd promised she'd tell no one else. She weren't gonna break that promise.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 22, 2010 6:58:38 GMT
Adrian nodded at Hyun. He had decided to take Young's advice and rested. The recruit took off his jacket and folded it into a square to use as a pillow. He spread out on the cool floor of the simulator and closed his eyes. He could feel the small surge of power still flowing up and down his arm.
"So.. he's always been like this?" Adrian said with his eyes closed.
"What's his deal anyways?" Adrian yawned. "I'm not going to lose to him, you know."
Well.. he wasn't planning on losing to Young any time soon. As long as his materia continued to operate on some normal level, he could see himself almost being on Young's level within the week. Adrian wasn't the burden that Young thought he was.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 22, 2010 7:51:16 GMT
Hyun glanced over at him. "He's always competitive yes. He's also a perfectionist," she added on with a slight smile. "On a mission though he's the best person for the job of protecting your back," she smiled a bit. "Even if he don't like you he'll act totally professional," she added on.
"So what's with the interesting powers?" she enquired, honestly curious. At that point though the conversation was cut off as Young walked back in carrying his gunblade easily. Silently he checked along the blade before he looked around.
"Shall we continue?" He inquired as he stretched a bit.
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Post by Forzare on Feb 22, 2010 18:34:56 GMT
Adrian was about to open his mouth when Young walked back in the room. He jumped to his feet in almost one movement. His breathing had slowed immensely by this point but his muscles still ached.
"Ready." He threw his jacket to the other side of the room and nodded at Young.
"So, what's with the gunblade? Did you want to play too?"
Adrian was already in his fighting mode and half expected Young to attack him next. It wouldn't surprise him, but Adrian still preferred to fight the robots for now.
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Post by Natzy24 on Feb 23, 2010 6:27:35 GMT
Young looked at him "If we're gonna be Partners then we'd best start to get used to fightin alongside each other," he stated before he tossed a case at him that he'd also been carrying. "Got a present for you," he added on.
He wandered over to the console starting to set it up. "Remember this isn't a competition," he cautioned to Adrian fixing him with his blue green eyes waiting for him to be ready. "Hyun. Should either of us start to get competitive to the point its dangerous, turn the simulation off,"
Hyun nodded at that "Understood Young,"
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Post by Forzare on Feb 27, 2010 16:59:30 GMT
Adrian watched Young carefully until he threw the case at Adrian. Inside was a sword, it was nothing fancy, standard issue, and a lot of SOLDIERs carried around the same sword. He didn't care though, at least it was something to fight with. It had been forever since he held a weapon. It took Adrian a few seconds to adjust to the weight and make it an extension of his arm.
The recruit looked up at Young again and then to Hyun.
"Wait.. you'd actually go all out to try and prove a point by beating me?"
Adrian twirled his sword and waited for the simulation to start.
"I'm just some bum they pulled out of Corel. I have nothing on you."
The last sentence was exaggerated and dripping with sarcasm. Adrian would almost have no qualms about killing them if he had to. Forget a little friendly spar.
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