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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 14:59:59 GMT -4
Tony was just finishing his steak at a restaurant. Unfortunately, he could not stay to finish the rest of his food, as his phone began to vibrate. Upon looking at the message, Tony raised an eyebrow. A meeting at a secret location? How intriguing. After paying the waitress for the food and leaving her a very handsome tip, he took the rest of his food to go. Centaurion would surely enjoy some steak. It was time to head out.
Getting in his car, Tony drove to the coordinates sent to his phone. A plain-looking building located just outside Tokyo. Parking his car at the nearby parking lot, Tony got out and began to head inside. However, he was stopped by an officer before he could head inside.
"Ah, Wildheart. Good of you to come. I've been given orders to give you these." He then handed him a tiny slip of paper along with a small card. "Don't lose either of those. You see that tree just in front of the entrance to the building? Head there, turn to the left at a 90-degree angle, and walk for about ten minutes to the nearby woods. Then follow the instructions on the paper. You'll know the place when you see it. I'm sorry for all the secrecy, but I've been given very precise orders, and no one else must know of your true destination. It's not a place meant to be in the public eye."
All of this seemed strange and excessive. And perhaps it was. However, Tony did not question any of it. He trusted the higher-ups and had faith that all of this was for a very good reason. "I understand. Gracias, amigo!" And after shaking the officer's hand, began to make way to the secret location. After walking to the specific tree and walking for about ten minutes, he found himself in the middle of the woods. Ah, nature really was beautiful! However, it was sometimes confusing. If Tony wasn't careful, he'd get lost! Fortunately, the small slip of paper was revealed to be a crudely drawn map. With this, he knew where to head to next.
At last, he reached it. In a clearing in the woods was a building. A government facility of some kind. At the entrance was an archway with thick metal doors. Just outside the archway was what appeared to be a camera, a red light, and a small block with a slit in it. Clearly, Tony was supposed to swipe the card here to unlock the metal doors. Before getting to take his card out, however, Tony heard the sound of someone approaching. With how remote this location was, as well as how much of a hassle it was to keep the existence of this place a secret, there was no doubt that the approaching person was a fellow pro-hero.
And sure enough, upon seeing the lady arrive, Tony recognized her as the pro-hero Witch Doctor. With a smile, he greeted his fellow hero. "Hola. I suppose you received a message to come here too? I don't suppose you would have any idea as to why we are supposed to come here, do you?" Well whatever the reason was, Tony looked forward to finding out. And maybe getting to know his fellow pro-hero a little better after this.
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Jun 19, 2019 15:31:16 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse Right so first of all she had to buy this expensive cab and get into the middle of nowhere where she only felt more lost. Now her sense of direction wasn't that bad, but it also wasn't very good. She simply stepped out of the cab, thanked him and paid, but had no idea how she would find her way back, surely it would be easier if she knew how to drive. She felt like she already started on this whole trip by being lost. She did not know who the message was from and so on. Next time she wanted someone to be absolutely clear on that because this was ridiculous. With a quick step she walked towards the guard who stood there and looked at the parking lot that looked dangerously empty. Now she was a pro-hero, she learned how to deal with a lot of things lately, had her daily training for martial arts every day from G and it only was a matter of time before she would be able to simply stand her ground without her insecurity. That's how she tried to convince herself.
She got a card and a mini map from the officer that greeted her as Witch Doctor, at least it might be considered the government and something that they wanted her to check upon. Which wasn't new, she had done that before, especially in Nakano. She followed the instructions that the man had given her, walking out of the building to the left, walking about ten minutes or what she thought was ten minutes. It was hard to pitch that considering she had no watch and she had forgotten to look at her phone when she started walking. She was absolutely not in her bubbly happy mood about this. If it was something about pro-heroes why was Siegfried not coming along? Or one of her colleagues.
Finally she noticed a building on her left, not too far from her and she quickly made her way through there. Before she could make sure if it was a door or a building that was rusted away, she noticed someone else stood there and she simply coughed. The person turned around and she wasn't sure if they met before, he seemed to know her or was just someone that seemed friendly to everyone and she tried to let go of her grumpy mood, which was easy for Nimue, and smile to him. "I already did not understand that the message told me to come as soon as possible with no more information." She looked over her shoulder, expecting someone else at least, but it would be just her and eh, "I am Nimue, nice to meet you." She decided to just say her first name, it did not matter, she would give him her surname as well, she expected that he was a pro-hero as well, maybe this was some sort of government test. "I wonder what they expect us to do. Maybe it's a test?" Was all she could bring up. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 15:50:43 GMT -4
Well it unfortunately seemed that Witch Doctor was just as much in the dark as Tony was. Oh well. He supposed that the two would get their answer of why they were called here pretty soon. In the meantime, he supposed that there was not much else to do right now than just accept it and go with whatever this was supposed to be.
With Witch Doctor introducing herself as Nimue, Tony smiled and decided to return the greeting. "I'm Antonio, but please call me Tony. And likewise, señorita." With that done, it was time to head on inside. Swiping the card caused the camera to emit a green laser, scanning all over Tony's body. "Well this seems very excessive, doesn't it?" Once the laser was finished scanning Tony, it then began scanning Nimue in a similar manner. Once that was done, the red light turned blue, a loud click was heard, and the metal doors slowly opened. Tony let Nimue go in first and then followed her inside.
The first thing the two would notice was that it was unnaturally dark inside. Of course, the fact that the metal doors quickly shut closed behind them almost immediately after did not help matters. Fortunately, the complete darkness would not last forever. A few seconds later, neon lights on the ceiling lit up. Shaped like several arrows, they seemed to point the way to go. Which was fortunate, because even without the darkness, all of the hallways and paths made the place feel like a labyrinth. "Is this a government building or a funhouse?"
As if all of this was not already strange enough, Tony realized that so far, there was no trace of any other person here. He and Nimue seemed to be the only people around. Of course, there was no way that this could actually be the case. Someone must be controlling the neon lights that were pointing the way to go. Tony had several questions, but figured there was no use in asking. For now, he would try to break the silence to break the monotony.
"I was always curious about Yuuei. I think it's admirable for the staff there to help raise the next generation of heroes. So if you don't mind me asking, what is it like to work at the hero school?"
About a minute or two of walking later, the two would eventually find an elevator. Thankfully, it seemed that this one only led to one specific floor. Cautiously entering the elevator, Tony was curious to see where the two would end up. Once both of them were inside, the doors would shut and the elevator would go down, seemingly to an underground floor. Hopefully there would be someone there who would explain just what the hell all of this was, and why go out of the way for something so seemingly over the top.
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Jul 2, 2019 5:01:49 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse He was a polite person for as far as she knew right now, introducing himself directly after she did. She had not met Wildheart before, she only heard about him but that was about it, it happens to help that you had a chat for pro-heroes to keep up with the work and discussion. Not that it happened often but the possibility to have it and to be able to was a good step towards what she found important. She watched how he swiped the card, she had not gotten one but after the scanner scanned Tony, it did with her, which meant that they expected them, whomever they was, to arrive together. She just had issues with trying to get a cab here and now the facility was hidden from the original one and it only made her mildly confused because the person who had texted her to come here came from the government and the officer outside and the guard it looked all that way but as she got inside before Tony, she surely waited on him and Uphondu was all hyped up, she wanted to have him calm down.
"Maybe it is both." She said coolly when Tony mentioned if it was a government building or a funhouse. "You never know how boring a governmental job can be?" It was a joke, not a very good one, and she noticed that rather quickly. She did not like the darkness, she wasn't afraid of it but she did not understand the invitation and now this, "Maybe that's why they made it a funhouse." She smiled shortly at Tony, if he could see it, it might be a miracle in this darkness even though the arrows were there, neon did not light up much. So she carefully continued walking. She looked left and right, she just wanted to prepare for anything, she was still convinced it was a set-up for a test. She looked up when Tony spoke to her, realizing that she had not said much either through the whole walking through the building following the neon light had absorbed her mind.
"Oh Yuuei. It can be very busy, especially with the classes given. I give biology and am the nurse of the infirmary." How much would she tell about the school, it was not like it was a secret or anything but she wasn't sure if he was interested. "I mean we have a lot of classes to have them prepared for any potential enemy but they tend to go overhead, the students that is for example we say not to bring down a platform and they do." She sighed and looked up to Tony with an apologizing look on her face, "I do love my job but it can be very tiring." She entered the small elevator and she felt the strange feeling in her stomach that they went down. "I really do not get it." She whispered, the whispering wasn't intentional but the lift was small it felt needed. When she stepped out it was still dark but it was much clearer than only the neon lights, it was a gray hue and looked indeed like some obstacle course. There was a tv at the wall directly opposite him that said they were having a test to make sure they up and running for their performance and license. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 12:01:36 GMT -4
Tony could not help but chuckle. Nimue had a point. A government job was not easy, and he could see it being boring at times. Honestly, he could not blame them if this was the case. Though this building seemed very excessive with all the darkness, neon lights that barely illuminated anything, and the maze-like layout of the place, Tony was okay with it as long as there was some good coming out of a facility like this. He did not like to think of the idea of taxpayers' money being used for something with no worthwhile purpose.
He then listened to Nimue talk about her job at UA. Although he had never really been a teacher himself, Tony had admiration for those who took it upon themselves to educate the next generation. With Nimue taking the role of both teacher and nurse, she was doing a lot to help the young heroes-to-be. Her job being tiring at times was something Tony could understand. Not only was she both a teacher and nurse, but she was working at a school filled with young quirk users. With how reckless teens could sometimes be, an accident or several was to be expected. "Sounds tough. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like for you. Still, at least the students are fine in your capable hands." He then gave Nimue a smile, though like hers from earlier, it would be a miracle if she could even see it.
Tony did not know what to expect once the elevator doors opened. Would it be a person or group of people? At this point, he was ready to be greeted by a clown. So he could not help but be disappointed upon seeing that it was just a TV screen at a wall on the other side of the room. At least the room itself was huge, like an obstacle course of sorts.
Fortunately, the reason for the two heroes being here became apparent very soon. In truth, Tony found it confusing. He could understand why he needed to be here. After all, he was still relatively new. But why Nimue? Was this something that all pro-heroes needed to get done? Regardless, there were more words from the TV. EXERCISE 1. Tony raised an eyebrow. So there would be multiple exercises the two would need to do? SURVIVE. From out of nowhere, many robots of various sizes armed with various kinds of weapons appeared from seemingly out of nowhere. The area was completely swarmed with robots, who quickly surrounded Nimue and Tony. The robots did not attack yet, but for how long that would remain the case was anyone's guess.
"I guess they want to start things off easy for us, eh?" Tony grinned. If beating up a few robots was all they needed to do, then this was going to be easy. He doubted that things would remain simple for long. There would probably be something else that would make their objective not so straightforward, like avoiding damaging any of their surroundings, rescuing hostages, protecting civilians, or not using lethal force. Something along those lines. Well whatever it was that he and Nimue would face, Tony was confident that they would clear this trial with no issues.
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Jul 11, 2019 8:07:45 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse Their society was a new one, even if Quirks were around for now potentially 40 or 50 years, it was known that still not everyone understood and accepted. In this world she tried to shape of positivism, and of finding the silver lining it was highly so that she was the first to experiment in a righteous way if she was allowed to say so herself, to find solutions in the medical field for the students and citizens with a mutation quirk. Not that the doctors before her sat still or did nothing but if not every other minute of your day you had the ability to work with mutation quirks it surely became a lot more difficult. She had that lucky streak that she could try and that there were students interested in helping out and so on.
But the concept of heroes was already quite new and so the concept of having a hero-school was even more new. It was interesting to see that most pro-heroes that she spoke to, who had no connection to the school asked her about it. She thus loved to talk about her job, also showing that she loved what she did, even if it was a small influence on the daily lives of the children, to be able to teach them something was her calling, she loved to do so. "Well you can always step by to visit, the students love to meet new pro-heroes." She smiled to Tony as she invited him, no idea if that was allowed but as far as she knew many of the other pro's had stepped by for a visiting and she had Siegfried help her with a class so it made sense if Tony would step by too.
Once they arrived at the ground floor or so Nimue thought she wasn't sure what was happening, there was again no one but the lights were on. There was a television screen that told them what was happening, "Pff primitive." She muttered, the human beings in the world once figured out technology and now it was everywhere that it became old fashioned, it would be more modern if there was someone waiting here with cards in their hands or so. She rolled her eyes and looked around. She noticed the television pointing out exercise one and that made her raise an eyebrow, mirroring Tony in that case but she did not see it. Survive? She tilted her head to the left and heard sounds of opening and closing quick doors and before she could blink another time, many soldier robots showed up. She turned to look at Tony, who grinned at her and that made her chuckle and shake her head. "Probably." Her eyes switched to red and Uphondu heaved his head, ready to fight. "Let's do this." Her voice sounding a little different but she dodge a robot that saw it as a starting sign and jumped aside while swinging her leg to the next one to connect it with her foot, channeling her quirk of strength and using her martial art lessons from G. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2019 0:15:24 GMT -4
Sometimes, Tony would wonder what it would be like to be a teacher. He hoped that he would be at least decent enough at his job if he ever did decide to teach. He would not mind telling the youth of his own experiences and helping them excel. At least, those who were willing to learn. Tony was not very fond of delinquents and slackers who didn't care much about learning, and he would not want to have to deal with students like those if he ever became a teacher. He was curious as to how the staff at UA handled those kinds of students. Perhaps he would ask Nimue about it some other time.
"That sounds interesting. Perhaps I could stop by one day." Tony began to wonder what it would be like to visit UA. Would the students ask him various questions about the work he did as a hero? Would they like Centaurion? Would Centaurion like them? Would the beast choose to be stubborn at the worst possible time? Tony did not want to think about such a disaster.
Back to the training exercise. With the robot lunging forward, it was time to start. As Nimue kicked the robot, Tony began to run up to another one, aiming a punch at its torso. Upon being hit, the robot was sent flying into the group of robots behind it. As they all tumbled, Tony began to cross his arms. Was that it? Surely they could put up a better fight than that! Thankfully, they were not going to be defeated so quickly. Already getting up, the entire group of bots began to charge at Tony. This time, Tony decided to not engage the bots directly. Instead, he would let a certain beast do it.
¡Despiertate!
Tony's eyes glowed red as he summoned the red sphere in front of him. The sphere then expanded and changed shape, becoming the lion-faced centaur beast. Upon seeing what was happening, it did not take long for the beast to figure out what it was summoned for. Galloping toward the robots, Centaurion let out a roar as it charged right at them. "CENTAURION SMASH!" Many more robots were being sent flying as the beast charged in and started punching whatever got in its way. With the sheer number of robots in the room, however, it would still take a while for even Centaurion to take them all out.
Of course, Tony had his hands full too. At least a dozen robots were surrounding him, all armed and not showing any signs of relenting despite being punched, kicked, and thrown to the floor repeatedly. It seemed as though this exercise was testing how long the heroes could last against an enemy that did not tire.
Speaking of heroes, with how busy Tony was with trying to avoid the robots' attacks, he could not see how Nimue was doing. He was not worried about her, though. She could undoubtedly hold her own just fine. Still, Tony would not have minded being able to see just how Nimue fought and what she could do.
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Jul 21, 2019 11:57:05 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse As they talked about the school, she offered for Tony to step by one day, if he wanted to. "Most students are inspired to see pro-heroes that are not simply their teachers, and we are always open to use some experience from the daily life of pro-heroes out there to help our classes, I had Enforcer help me in a class once and I heard RedHorn and Blacktooth helped out from time to time as well." It was mostly of course a school to teach them what they needed to learn but they added extra curriculum to those who wanted to do and train more and to be fair, most students were enthusiastic. But there was not much time to talk about all that right now, at the moment she simply wanted to make sure she was well, sure about what she was doing here. She looked around, left and right once they got out of the elevator and so on and that was right before the exercise got known and they had to fight.
Her eyes turning red and the top of her head covered by a centaur skull that was from the ancient tribes of her country. That was before she noticed that the person or well summon that Tony brought was a centaur as well. This was gonna be bad! She took a better stance, her hands and feet smashing into robots, one after a time, dodging, rolling, moving aside, doing it again, one step at the time, Uphondu seemed to enjoy it, Nimue found it pointless but she let it be. She felt a sharp pain in her upper left arm and her shirt was cut thanks to the robot, but nothing she could not handle at first, she just had to get rid of the robot, finally after what felt like twenty, she could catch her breath. The transformation disappearing, including the skull and her eyes turning back to amber and she leaned on her knees with the open palms of her hand to catch her breath. "I am a healer, not a fighter." She muttered annoyed at the government forgetting that important issue. It surely was something.
"Are you okay?" She got up to ask Tony if he was hurt, like that was her job, not that she assumed that they took her here to keep an eye on Tony being hurt but it surely felt like she was at the wrong place at the wrong time but there was nothing else to do but just continue whatever she was doing. She tore the sleeve of her shirt as it was cut already and looked at the wound on her arm, with her transformation inactive she could not use Nkosi like that and she better kept her stamina for now, she was sure there was no buffet for her waiting at the end of the day. She wrapped a bit difficult, the sleeve around her arm to make a make-shift bandage. She had her bag full with first-aid stuff still with her but when it wasn't necessary yet, it would not be needed. It wasn't deep, it simply bleeded from her moving around. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2019 13:41:05 GMT -4
It seemed as though there was no end to these robots. They just kept on coming! Even when one was broken beyond repair, another one would drop down from various spots in the room, such as trapdoors on the floor or vents in the ceiling. But no matter! Tony would not allow himself to succumb to training robots! Centaurion felt the same, continuing to SMASH robot after robot. Tony could not help but chuckle at the enthusiasm the beast was showing. At least he's having fun.Of course, neither Tony nor Centaurion were invincible. A robot with a drill arm appeared behind Centaurion and attacked before the beast had enough time to respond. The beast growled loudly in pain as it felt the sharp drill hit its left shoulder. Fortunately, it was not a deep wound. Unfortunately, the bond that the beast and the pro-hero shared caused Tony to receive an identical injury in the exact same spot. ¡Coño! Tony gritted his teeth. It was not a painless wound. As Tony looked over to Centaurion to see what had happened, he was pleased to see that the culprit had received a swift punch to the torso, shattering it into pieces. "SMAAAASH!!"As the last of the robots were being taken care of, Tony noticed Nimue coming over and asking if he was okay. She had no doubt seen the bleeding on his left shoulder. However, he simply smiled and gave the heroine a thumbs-up. "Nothing to worry about, señorita! A minor injury such as this is nothing to be concerned with." Perhaps he would ask her to heal it if the wound was more serious. But Tony thought that it was fine and that no action was needed. Of course, if Nimue wanted to treat this minor injury anyway, then he would not have a problem with her doing so. At last, the final robots were dealt with! As soon as the last one was taken down, another message appeared on the TV. EXERCISE 1 CLEARED. SUCCESS! ONE MINUTE UNTIL NEXT EXERCISE. Tony was curious to see what was next. It was a shame that there was barely any time to rest, but it made sense. There would be times when one disaster would quickly follow another, and in those cases, there would be no time to rest. Meanwhile, Centaurion walked over to Nimue, staring at her with a curious expression. Tony looked over to the beast and smiled as he spoke to Nimue. "Ah yes, this is both my quirk and my good friend, Centaurion. He may look fierce, but he's quite the loyal partner. Plus, he's like an adorable perro." The beast rolled its eyes and scoffed. "Shut up. Centaurion is no dog."Sadly, there was not a lot of time to converse, or more importantly, rest. EXERCISE 2. As the words appeared on the screen, Tony was curious to see what he and Nimue were up against this time. Fortunately, it would not take long to get an answer. RESCUE AND PROTECT. Like last time, the exercise began almost immediately with no warning. However, things would be different for this exercise. This time, only five robots appeared. However, three of them seemed to be surrounding the other two, and these three all had weapons. One of the robots in the middle was blue in color, rather than red like the other three were. This one was carrying another robot. This one was unique in two ways. First, although it was also blue, it was much, much smaller, being around the size of a newborn infant. Secondly, this one was playing a very loud and very annoying audio of a baby crying constantly. "¡Coño! ¡Demasiado ruido!"The objective was clear. Stop the villain bots from kidnapping the baby and drive the red bots away while protecting the blue ones. Even if that baby crying was so loud and annoying, it took Centaurion everything it had to not just go over there and smash that thing into silence. It recognized that not all of the robots were meant to be attacked. Despite it being wild and sometimes unruly, it knew not to attack civilians. Even if this one was threatening to rupture its eardrums. "Let's finish this one quickly! I don't think Centaurion can handle the loud noise for long! And honestly, I'm not doing much better!" With how loud the crying was, it would be a miracle if Nimue actually heard Tony. WC 744 |
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Aug 7, 2019 3:41:01 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse She wasn't sure if some people considered themselves brave or polite if they ignored having an injury and not wanting to get it fixed up. To be fair, she herself had a cut on her left arm and simply had tied her shirt a little more around it. She did not consider Tony to be arrogant and seeing wounds as some sort of victory over what he had accomplished, but maybe she was wrong. She did not heal him because he said it was nothing but they had no idea how much more exercises were happening and if they would be in a disadvantages with their wounds. However, she probably should be able to take a little more and she was sure Tony as well. So she did not heal him and just give him a kind smile. She was slightly frustrated with this training which seemed to be about smashing, slamming and hitting and she wasn't for that. When she signed up for her license she had clearly said that she wanted to focus on the healing aspect and they had been excited because there had been no other pro-hero healers but they first had thrown her into a ballpit of a fight, they now gave her a training where she had at least (or that's how it felt) knocked out twenty robots because they kept on coming.
She looked over at Centaurion and realized for the first time in her life she really bumped into a magnificent creature of the centaur and her eyes started to twinkle and a smile broke on her face even if she was grumpy and tired. Hopefully he wasn't offended by the skull on her head, there was no way to just take it off, "Oh it's really nice to meet you, you are amazing." Well technically him and Tony both, else he would not be here. How peculiar that it was a centaur, those creatures were not seen on this Earth for ages and even if Nimue thanks to the story of her tribe believed they really exist instead of only in mythology, she really felt like it was an honour in some way. She had not much time to catch her breath, which meant there was not much time to talk either when the next exercise happened, she heard a small ping on the board and looked up to it while taking a step back to stand next to Tony and read it, RESCUE AND PROTECT. Oh well that sounded more like it in a way, she wanted to believe she could at least do rescue, but let's not go into detail about that too much.
Her eyes had to quickly take in what they would see, the five robots in a red colour and two from which one was small in blue and she understood that the blue ones needed to be rescued, they were the same robots as she had used during the exercise for her biology class, that had turned into a disaster. Before they both could dash off to do what they had to do, Nimue understood for herself that she needed a plan. "I could sneak through and try to protect the two from harm, my quirk works for that as well, could you take on the three don't worry, I can be a distraction as well." If Tony would agree, her eyes would change again from red to blue, Iwayo finally took the stage again, but that meant she immediately turned her face away from Tony and Centaurion because she was shy and she hurried forward, activating the quirk in making her skin very tough to handle, she simply dodged, distracted and so on before she stood in front of the two as a shield that would protect them. Either she would have to do that still, depending on what the red robots would do or she would have to take a few minutes before switching back to Uphondu, but she hoped she could depend on Tony and if she could, she would turn around to try and shush the baby robot as the two had told her before they did not like the noise, that was team work as well, she took the robot and tried to pretend it was a baby, not trying to find the off switch. But it seemed the baby was made for that, at first it started to cry more because of course she was a stranger but Iwayo was a family woman and she shushed the baby, spoke to her albeit in Xhosa with sweet little nothings and the child finally stopped crying so loudly, it hiccuped a little, did not entirely stop but it was something.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2019 16:05:19 GMT -4
Centaurion seemed to recognize the shape of the skull on Nimue's head. Rather than feel insulted, however, the beast felt more intrigued. It bent one knee to kneel just a bit, almost as though it were bowing. "Centaurion happy to meet you too. Nice skull." Tony chuckled to himself. How rare for Centaurion to show manners like that when it was usually more interested in either eating steak, galloping at full speed, or SMASHing something.
Despite how loud and very annoying the crying robot was, Tony did his best to try to focus on the task at hand. Hubiera traído tapones para los oídos si hubiera sabido que esto iba a suceder. Despite Nimue having a plan, Tony could barely make out what she was saying. Fortunately, he got enough of what the lady said to get the gist of it. "Sounds good! Leave those three to me!" Signaling to the beast to follow him, Tony began to approach the red robots.
As the two heroes got closer, the trio of villain bots looked at them before rushing in to strike. One robot was holding a sword, one had much larger fists that almost resembled hammers or wrecking balls, and the third had what appeared to be some kind of blaster in place of a right hand. The sword bot approached Tony, ready to swing its blade at him. The giant fist bot went after Centaurion, leaving blaster bot to shoot energy projectiles at Nimue.
As Tony avoided the blade and punched the robot, one thing would soon become apparent. Unlike the bots of the previous exercise, these ones would not be taken down in one hit. They were far sturdier. Not even a direct impact from Centaurion's mighty fists were enough to put a noticeable dent on the robot's body. Okay, this is not good. Seeing that these robots had a much sturdier metal body, even punching these things would hurt quite a bit. That wasn't even counting the fact that Tony and Centaurion shared pain, so when one hurt their fist, so did the other.
Still, it was not all bad. The robots were all incredibly and surprisingly lacking in weight. This meant that while damaging them was exceedingly difficult if not almost impossible, even the weakest of hits was enough to send them flying off. Even if the robots just got back up and would charge forward again, knocking them back repeatedly would prove to be relatively simple. This meant that it would not take very long for Tony and Centaurion to push the red robots back enough so that Nimue could focus on reaching the blue robots.
Once Nimue got to the civilian bots, the blaster bot tried to open fire on her. However, a swift punch from Centaurion sent it flying across the room before it had the chance to get a shot in. With Tony and Centaurion's combined efforts, they were able to buy Nimue enough time to calm the crying robot. "¡Ay dios mío, muchas gracias! That's much better!"
The exercise was not over yet, as the villain bots were far too persistent to stop. Still, with no more aggravating noise getting in the way, it was much easier to focus on the task at hand. Centaurion was dealing with both the blaster bot and giant fist bot at once, knocking them back repeatedly as they tried to charge in at either it, Tony, or Nimue and the civilian bots. Meanwhile, Tony was able to disarm the sword-wielding robot. "Oh, did you want this? Too bad!" Tossing it over near Centaurion's hooves, the beast grinned as it SMASHED the surprisingly brittle sword to pieces.
The robot then surprisingly began to throw a tantrum. Yes, it actually began to stomp its feet, shake its fist in apparent anger, and even played an audio of a screeching angry man. "WRYYYYYYYYYYY!!" Wow, whoever built these has way too much time on their hands, Tony thought to himself as he rolled his eyes from seeing this absurdity. He sighed as the 'angry' bot began shaking its head, looking back and forth between Tony and Centaurion as though trying to decide who to attack first. Tony just began punching the bot back again.
How much longer are we supposed to keep this up? It was as though someone had the power to read minds, or maybe it was just a coincidence. Either way, a voice came out from the TV. "ALERT: LAW ENFORCEMENT NOTIFIED OF VILLAIN ACTION. PROTECT CIVILIANS UNTIL POLICE ARRIVE. A timer then appeared on-screen. Two minutes and counting.
But then it seemed as though the robot's AI was cranked up to eleven, as they were now moving much faster, attacking far more aggressively, and were no longer being pushed back as far. Despite this (and the blood on Tony and Centaurion's bruised and injured knuckles), it would take more than that to discourage Tony and Centaurion. ¿Dos minutos? ¡Eso no es nada! He and Nimue just needed to keep on protecting the civilians until the timer ran out. He assumed that once the timer was done counting down, the robots would either just go away or self-destruct to symbolize their defeat. Or who knows, maybe some more bots would show up dressed as police officers and take the villain bots into custody. As ridiculous as that sounded, pretty much anything seemed possible at this point. This whole exercise seemed rather silly.
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Aug 21, 2019 13:22:02 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse It was a rather impressive sight that the centaur would sort of bow towards her. She looked at Tony, than back at the stallion and back at Tony as she had no idea what to do or say, she was rather happy that the creature was happy to meet her and that no one was insulted, she absolutely did not want to insult anyway it was just her heritage line from what she understood from her mother. She smiled though, rather happy now that the stress seemed to fate away from her as it was no longer an issue of insulting anyone. "I am happy to meet the two of you as well." That was right before the second task would happen and they would have to do team work, it fitted her already better than the complete fighting of before.
Iwayo would not look at the two others but did her job as Nimue introduced to the two before, going to the baby and the mother to protect them and with that to make the baby stop crying. She was afraid that it would go wrong and what she could do to help, would she have to be the shield or would she fight, she would not be able to do so at the same time but it was of essential to make sure what to do or would she be in the way if she would make the third, one robot for each? IT would make a way. As she made her way through the battle, she knew she could no longer consider switching to Upondu as if it was nothing, so what she could do was just stand there and take the damage, but an engery blasting project against her clothes was not something that those were made for and the lower part of her shirt was simply away, her almost white skin shining right through without showing any damage. Oh joy. If it would continue like this, she would not have any piece of clothing left. What should she do, she had no weapon or anything to defend herself with, stupid that she had not thought about that before, she should make serious work of that.
She did try to hit the bot, but without Uphondu his strength it did not go as hard as she wanted albeit she was able to hit it, hissed between her teeth as that hurt her more than it seemed to hurt him. Before she needed to call out for a second hit, Centaurion seemed to have picked up on the issue and basically thrown the bot away, now she could focus on her job. She was glad to know that Iwayo was the woman of her word, being able to calm down a child even if she spoke rather her native tongue than the language of Japanese.
She turned her attention shortly to the mother and baby bot again to make sure it was all alright, no suffocating problems or anything, you never know if the government would throw in something random else in this fun house. She quickly looked over her shoulder when she heard a noise that she could not place in her head, the bot was having a tantrum and she simply stood up straight to look at it with a raised eyebrow. She also looked up not much later, herself also wondering what the point of the exercise still was when the announcement was made.
Two minutes. Right, with a blaster, an angry swordless-man and the punchbag man. This was going to be amazing. Shielding the two civilians, Nimue tried to keep her eyes on everything, taking a punch when someone came close to her as her body had to shield. Had she been able to take the energy shot from before, now it left a burning red mark on her skin and it did itch as her body wasn't sure if it should hurt or not. God and she wouldn't have time to change to Nkosi, it would make her nauseous to switch to everyone is such a short time.
"What do we do? I can't help much." First she thought maybe she should have had the sword when Tony got rid of it, but remembering how brittle it was, it would not work with the robots now! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2019 22:49:05 GMT -4
In all honesty, the two minute timer was a bit of a relief. Otherwise, the situation would be rather dire. Both Tony and Centaurion had bloody knuckles, the robots refused to ease up on the offensive and were only getting harder to push back, and it was proving to be more and more difficult to keep the villain bots away from Nimue and the civilian bots. In addition to all that, the two were beginning to get tired after fighting both these robots and the ones from earlier. Tony was much better off, seeing as his stamina was a lot better than the average person. But Centaurion's stamina was nowhere near as great as Tony's.
"Centaurion... must... continue... to... SMASH!" Despite the stubborn beast refusing to give up, its panting made it clear that it could not hold out for much longer. Tony was well aware of this, and wanted to do whatever he could to ease the burden on the beast. "Amigo! Go to Nimue and help her! I'll take on two of the bots! You just keep the blaster one away!" Tony figured it would be easier for Centaurion to deal with the ranged shots. The beast would not tire as quickly. That way, Tony would take on both the swordless bot and the one with the giant fists. Seeing as now was hardly the time to argue, Centaurion nodded and galloped towards Nimue and the civilian bot, gritting its teeth in pain as it punched away one of the robots that tried to rush towards Nimue at that moment.
With that done, it was time to grab the bots' attention. It was easy to do for the robot whose sword Tony had sent to Centaurion to SMASH. It still had a grudge of sorts, so it was more than happy to attack Tony. Taking advantage of this, Tony grabbed the bot, threw it with all the strength he had at the bot with the large fists, and chuckled upon seeing the two bots collide and both rushing after Tony in apparent anger.
While Tony did his best to block, dodge, attack, and keep the two bots focused on him, Centaurion stared at the blaster bot. Despite it being obvious just how exhausted the beast was getting, it refused to let even a single blast from the bot's gun get past it. Whether it punched the shots away, blocked them with its arms, or failed to block and subsequently get hit, Centaurion was performing its role as the shield that refused to let the civilian bots come to harm.
Finally, after what felt like a brutal eternity, the timer reached zero. Suddenly, a very loud and blaring siren began to blast across the entire room. ¡Maldición! More unnecessarily loud noise! But what came next had to be seen to be believed. An actual police truck drove to the scene from who knows where, several robots dressed in police uniform rushed out, and they literally began to taze the villain bots before beating them repeatedly with their batons. ¡Tienes que estar bromeando! And after that, the villains put up zero resistance as the police bots handcuffed them, took them to the truck to lock them up, got back in the truck, and then drove off back to where it had come in from.
The look of sheer confusion was written all over Tony's face as he looked at Nimue. "Did... did that just happen? I'm not just imagining things, am I?" But just as he was about to say anything else, he heard a robotic voice speak. The civilian bot holding her baby went to both heroes and the beast, bowing to the three and thanking them all for saving them. Then the robots walked off a certain distance before falling inside a trapdoor that had just opened underneath it.
Tony could not take any more of this ridiculousness. Just what kind of insane maniac was running things here? And just what else did he and Nimue have to suffer through before they were finally done with this madness?
Then words filled the TV screen, ones that made Tony sigh a huge breath of relief. "TAKE A BREAK BEFORE THE START OF THE NEXT EXERCISE." "Finally! Sounds good to me!" Seeing the tired beast, Tony smiled as he pet Centaurion. "Very well done, amigo. You deserve a good rest." And with that, the beast's body became red, shrunk to the basketball-sized sphere, and then returned to Tony's consciousness. With the beast now gone, Tony's eyes returned to their usual violet color.
Now that the two were allowed a break (though Tony really wished to know just how long this break would last, as that was never specified), it was time to do something about the bleeding. So Tony went to Nimue, showing her just how bloodied his hands were. "Could you please help me with these?" If she asked about Centaurion, he would assure her that there was nothing to worry about, then explain to her that the two shared pain. So one getting healed meant that the other would as well.
Tony was a little bit on edge, however. There was an announcement marking the start of the first two exercises. However, he and Nimue were told to take a break without being told just how long they could relax for. Did this mean that the start of the next exercise would come unannounced? Would the two be taken by surprise? At this point, Tony could see that happening. After all, crimes and disasters often did happen without any kind of warning.
Was he merely overthinking things? Or was there really something that would try to take Nimue and Tony by surprise?
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Post by Nimue Nakahara on Sept 21, 2019 13:00:41 GMT -4
Nimue Nakahara Yuuei's Nurse You could probably say that she was in a pinch, all she could do was protect, be a shield but those robots seemed to be way too tough for her to withstand but she had nothing else to do and that blast would come oh god and help. She closed her eyes, ready to take the impact, but it didn't come. It still did not come and she opened one eye to look and noticed Centaurion standing in front of her, shielding her from the problem and she immediately stopped her quirk, mostly to save her own energy for if she needed to do something, whether that be protecting or healing someone so Iwayo her power left her skin and her mind and her blue eyes turned back to amber and she looked at Centaurion, making sure that the robots as well as the centaur would be fine, she had not much to say, she just, she would just stay here, not being able to do much but play the double shield.
What a noise came at one point and she was almost tempted to put her hands on her ears instead of doing what she actually should do but there was a police car and with big eyes she stared at the robots that came out of the car that went to taser the villain robots and eventually arrest them, she jumped up when the civilian robot spoke to her and bowed and she nodded and stammered a: "Don't worry, it's our job." as she watched them go to Tony and eventually walk off and disappear by falling through or disappearing into an open door in the floor, which made her jump a little bit more. Centaurion disappeared as well and she looked up as Tony came towards her. "It's-it's very weird here." She actually started to hate it a lot, but this was part of their job, their training, anything, so she did not say much about wanting to go home and not liking it but she quickly perked up when Tony asked if she could help, finally something she could do. "Of course, will your friend be alright too?" To which Tony explained that if she healed him, Centaurion would be healed too and she nodded, that made sense, she wondered if that would be the same for Goliath and G, for now she would just let Nkosi take the stage, her eyes turning bright green and she held his hands in hers, focusing on fixing the wounds, making sure her power would pull out any dirty grub or anything else the robots and the situation could have left so no infection would happen. The little bacteria would not be seen but either his hands would bleed a little and something of the dirt would come out or if not necessary, it would slowly close, become a bright red line until that disappeared as well. "There, that's a lot better, anything else?" She asked, because well it seemed they were fine, her own arm still had the one cut but that was still doable.
In the opposite thought of Tony, Nimue simply appreciated the break, not thinking they would show the next exercise as a surprise as everything up till now was announced, every attack, every job even the break, she hoped the break meant they were halfway done because she started to feel very useless, oh well, at least she could fix the wounds Tony got from the robot fight. She looked around, "I brought a granola bar, want to share?" She mostly brought some small pieces with her in case she needed them to keep her quirk active, after not having done much, she basically did not need it. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2019 23:41:15 GMT -4
In a far-off hidden room of the facility, a young man was giggling. It was as though he was having the time of his life playing the most fun game ever. Naturally, this man was an employee of the government, and the one putting Nimue and Tony through their ordeals. As he picked up a donut with one hand, he used the other to press the rewind button on his remote, watching a replay of the exercise the two pro-heroes had just finished. "Oh man, such power! Such determination! I'm so glad I was the one who was tasked with testing these two!" As he took a bite of his jelly-filled donut, his mind began racing with possibilities. What to put these two through next?
The man noticed just how powerful Tony and Centaurion were. While their strength was admirable, the man wanted to put them in a scenario where raw physical power would not be enough to secure victory. Perhaps even detrimental. After all, heroes were expected to do more than just punch criminals into submission. Strength wasn't everything. In addition, he felt like Nimue had not had enough chances to truly show what her quirk was capable of outside of pure combat. He needed to make some sort of obstacle that would put her abilities to the test as well. But how to do both at once? Well this was one of the reasons he gave the two pro-heroes their break. He needed time to think of the perfect exercise for the two.
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Meanwhile, Tony was fortunate that he could keep Centaurion in check. He was beginning to lose patience with these exercises, but at least he had some patience to begin with. The poor beast probably wanted to either take a long nap or SMASH everything in frustration with how fed up he was. Hopefully there would only be one or two exercises left before he and Nimue could finally get to leave.
Fortunately, things could have been a lot worse. Being a healer, Nimue would help out by making the injuries Tony (and Centaurion as well) obtained a non-issue. Sighing in relief upon looking at the now healed fists, Tony smiled at Nimue and lowered his head a bit in gratitude. "Gracias, Nimue." He hoped that she would not need to use her quirk too often with whatever exercise(s) came next. If things were going to get tougher with each trial, then her healing would prove to be even more invaluable than it already was.
Being offered half a granola bar, Tony nodded. "Sure thing. Thanks." But now he felt bad because he did not bring all that much with him. Just a water bottle that he never got to open yet. "Here, you can have this if you want. I already had a drink, so I don't need it." A blatant lie, as he was starting to feel a bit thirsty. But if Nimue needed a drink, then Tony would rather she get it.
"So what kind of hell do you think we'll have to endure next?" With what the two had to face so far, it was really anyone's guess. But what exactly it was the two would have to do wasn't what Tony was concerned about. It was how long this break would last. He hoped for a suitable amount of time to recover, like at least half an hour, or fifteen minutes if whoever was running this crazy show insisted on being stingy. Not just to rest, but to get to talk a bit with Nimue to pass the time. But only the crazy person putting the two through this knew just how long their reprieve would last before it was back to the grueling trials.
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