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Post by albatross on May 25, 2011 6:56:39 GMT -5
When the team, minus Kris and Akane, makes its way to the proving grounds building, they don't have long to wait for the first test.
The three candidates are shuttled to a hanger on the base in a different building, as are the trainers. Inside the hanger are three power armor suits with no controls.
Rock, Dancer and Peacemaker have to try to make the power armor move using only the helmet links. It would be impossible, except Tiger did get them a little simulation training on power armor.
It takes a couple hours before they can get the power armor to move. First a wiggle, then a twitch, until slowly but surely they master the trick. Rock takes the longest, and his control is jerky even as the test is concluded. Dancer and Peacemaker are a little clumsy in the power armor, but they can do it.
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Post by shiivster on May 25, 2011 10:05:12 GMT -5
*Jeckle hears the odd tone and for her comment, a verbal slap on the wrist, suddenly feels the fruit turn to ash in her mouth. only the paling of the face shows it's affected her. 'wasn't talking about him Roan, excuse me, i need space to think'
*she stands up and as she passes the guys, drops her breakfast with the box of cereal in front of her brother and wanders off. the schematics of a motor now in her thoughts as she wanders off and away from the others.
*she can understand how her comment was taken out of context, but she was refering to her brother's body being discovered, not any other tricks or tests for him. once again she wonders if she and her mind are suited to be in mixed company. she is clear across the testing grounds and settles down by a tree to stare out over the landscape. she figured she was past this stage of double tier thinking and comments and discovered once again she isn't. for her, this just cements her belief that she's bad company and better off alone under the hood of a vehicle instead of trying to be pleasant and endearing. her mind focuses on tearing down a rifle and reboring it for a larger caliber and distances itself from humanity once again.
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Post by sasqaricious on May 25, 2011 10:53:43 GMT -5
(OOC sorry for not responding)
"If it means getting off the base I could not almost care who I was teamed up with. Not saying I don't want to be teamed up with you, more of getting out of here is far more preferable!" Akane responds to him.
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Post by shiivster on May 31, 2011 16:18:21 GMT -5
Jeckle will remain where she is. under a tree deep in thought as her hands splice and solder wires from small chips to some odd contraption. going back to her safe zone, she has retreated mentally to doing something she knows how to do. build. who knows what it is yet, but so far its a mess of wires and chips but it could become something special.
her only regret is the fact the suit is missing and no report on how it worked or what needed inproving was given to her. she knows that the brother from before is gone, and some biological brother is back.
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Post by albatross on Jun 2, 2011 7:02:34 GMT -5
As Kris and Akane travel to the airport, the second day of the Division II trials begins.
After a short wait, the kids and all the available trainers are loaded into buses and driven across the base to several recently constructed hangers.
The kids are lead into a hanger while the trainers watch from a covered balcony. Inside the hanger is very little aside from three suits of power armor. The three EX-9 Super USA Exoskeletons and divested of weapons and ready to put on.
The only unique thing about the test is it appears there are no manual controls on the power armor. Dancer, Peacemaker and Rock received a little simulator power armor training at the Omega Shield base. They get into the power armor and try to make it work.
It takes Peacemaker about two hours to make the exoskeleton move just using the helmet. At first she gets a robotic limb to twitch and soon she is moving the arms and legs in a jerky fashion. Dancer takes longer, but her movements are slightly less jerky when she gets the machine to move. Rock takes quite a while, and struggles to get the power armor to do what he wants.
It is four hours before the trial is completed.
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Post by albatross on Jun 2, 2011 7:07:06 GMT -5
At the airport, Kris and Akane find the coffee shop. Inside a grey haired man sits staring into his coffee, wearing a business suit.
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Post by dakota on Jun 3, 2011 4:50:45 GMT -5
Spotting the older man, Khris looked at Akane," That must be him." He reached out with his powers here, safely away from the crowds that were overloading his abilities. He walked towards the man casually, asking as he got close," Ghost?"
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Post by albatross on Jun 3, 2011 6:18:12 GMT -5
There were a few other people in the airport, but none of them were metas like Ghost.
The grey haired man stood up and extended his hand to shake. His eyes were grey ringed by crows feet, and he smiled broadly. "I haven't been called Ghost in a long time. The Captain must've sent you."
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Post by dakota on Jun 3, 2011 14:51:31 GMT -5
Khris nodded. " She said you might have some information that might help us." He kept his curiousity why an old timer like this would even refer to Tiger as Captain, knowing it was just another puzzling part of a past she wouldn't share with him.
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Post by sasqaricious on Jun 3, 2011 18:01:25 GMT -5
Akane sits back and lets Khris handle the entire thing, mainly there to keep an eye out.
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Post by shiivster on Jun 4, 2011 21:20:58 GMT -5
*only when Jeckle feels the tightness in her throat vanish, does she know that she's removed herself from her 'human' side. her mind has sealed off anything that made her talk. now? she's withdrawn and sombre.
she just seems to appear out of nowhere to stand by her brother. but her hands are busy with the wires and chips as she stands there. once she's content with the thing, its slid into a ziploc bag and its slid into one of hte many inner pockets of her overcoat. she sits beside him and picks up a magazine and is reading it when the others finally notice her. Roan might notice that the mind is oddly quiet and still
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Post by albatross on Jun 6, 2011 7:22:03 GMT -5
Ghost gives Akane the once over and smiles at her, then he turns his attention back Kris. He sits back down and invites them to do the same. "About five months ago, before any of this mess started, I was on a retrieval mission in Thailand. I was pretending to drink - heh, the Captain will probably be dissappointed to hear I was fakin'- but the people around me were stumbling drunk. One of them mentioned somebody named Heckle. They were babbling about some plan they had. It didn't make much sense to me. But I knew I had heard the name Heckle before. When I got back to my hotel room I checked and there was a note months before that from the Captain to look for a guy named Heckle."
"So I went back to the bar, but those guys were gone. I remembered they had mentioned Kennedy a few times. I remember thinking they were probably talking about the airport, but now that I've thought about it, their discussion was so strange I think think they meant the space center in Florida. I tried to contact the Captain, but she was hard to find. I finally got through to her a week ago and we agreed to meet here. Heard someone found Heckle shot up. Hope he's Ok."
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Post by shiivster on Jun 6, 2011 11:52:02 GMT -5
Jeckle puts the magazine down when the kids show up and stands near the exit. she lets them talk to their instructors. she had nothing to do with the training and even less with the instructors.
she watches out the door to ensure they are still 'private', even as she wonders if there is a place she can start working on the exo arms she's got on her mind. everyone else and their worries have faded from her mind. even her concern for her twin has faded from her mind. that is a part of that pesky 'human' that has been squashed into a barely accepted tolerance in her mind.
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Post by albatross on Jun 6, 2011 17:09:25 GMT -5
Lt. White stops next to Jeckle and says, "Didn't see you at the power armor test. Would've figured you'd want to see that. Are you working on something?"
The kids and the other trainers are talking things over waiting for the next trial.
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Post by shiivster on Jun 6, 2011 22:40:47 GMT -5
Jeckle studies the Lt's face for a while before speaking.
'no point in me being there. i wouldn't be able to give them any pointers. you were chatting with my brother, no point to stick about. needed time to calm my mind. i'm fine now. yeah, sorking on something to work with the exo-skeleton legs i already have . . . '
*her tone is fairly nuetral and not really showing much emotion for anything other than her work. her gaze turns to her boots and then bends to tie the laces up
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