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Stand up

&& walk.

Keep moving f o r w a r d.

You’ve got two good legs.

Get up && use them.

i use the word fuck so excessively i sometimes forget it’s a swear word

Shadow watched her curiously as she started to move. It became clear almost immediately that she had no systems actually in place to help with her stealth, and that everything she was doing had simply been learned methods to work with what she had. It was less effective than his own, but admiral that she would put this much effort into it.

From what he knew of reploids, though, they were all like that. Some were built for specific purposes, much like how robot masters had been, but many hunters had been designed to be more… generalized. Specific skillsets had to be learned and worked towards and that was…

More impressive, and made them better warriors over all.

“Hmm.” He couldn’t hold her first movements against her; she hadn’t been prepared to show off her stealth skills and thus hadn’t been set up properly, but Shadow felt that it was safe to assume that she wouldn’t find herself caught off guard like that during an actual assignment. Not an assignment based around stealth, at least.

“Impressive. You do run the risk of getting taken by surprise if someone did catch you up there, or learned your habits. You’ll have a harder time trying to respond to a sudden attack while you’re trying to keep your signals low than you would otherwise.”

“Mhm. I haven’t been taken by surprise before, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future.”

She dropped from the ceiling with just a slight tap of her feet, huffing a bit. She had to work on falling silently at some point, but that could happen once she was better at actually moving around silently. Maybe her boots needed better shock absorbers.

“Thank you though. That’s really useful to hear.”

She nodded in agreement to the assessment. She knew she definitely needed improvement, and didn’t have everything down perfectly, despite her hard work.

She wanted to improve as much as she could after all. Getting up in arms or getting pissy about it wouldn’t help her in the least.

“Right now I’m trying to learn how to multitask while keeping my signals low too, but I’m also trying to work on my speed since that’ll help me too.”

Maybe working on just one thing at once was the smart idea right now, but learning how to keep her signal low while using her speed was at least a good idea in her book.

Swoops in for a kiss!

Kisses right back! Mwah!

@axleratiion

iiregularhunter:

It was a quick sign, but one that Zach easily picked up on. Oh– right. Xav had made mention of one of his kids being deaf. Or… apparently mostly deaf, if implants could help her.

‘Going out sounds so stuffy and formal-’ His signing was a bit rusty so Zach had no doubt he had made a few mistakes, but hopefully the general context would make itself known.

“Haha… yeah, I am, I guess?” A shrug as he reached back, nervously rubbing at the back of his neck. “I mean we’ve been going on dates so…”

Was he… was he really trying to explain and justify his relationship with Xav to one of his children?

Vibrant blue eyes went wide as she saw the signs the other used. She looked like he had made her entire day just by using sign language, even if he was rusty.

She softly squealed in excitement and delight.

“I’m glad! He’s been really happy lately!”

Rebecca was watching the shenanigans from inside the air vent and made her decision. This looked like it would be fun! So she sent a small message to Zero to get him to slow down for a moment so she could climb on.

She ended up clinging to his back as he walked along.

iiregularhunter:

brokenvariable:

Oh.

Really.

Really?

Kai felt an actual sense of– disappointment when he saw how quickly the boy fell. Just one shot, one that he didn’t even try to deflect or dodge, one that he just took.

And he was supposed to be one of X and Zero’s children. How was it that Wily had made his decision to back Zero when this was where the blond decided to put his pride.

PATHETIC!

A few steps were taken towards the fallen youth before Kai aimed a sharp kick at his side. No point doing anything else with him. He turned, red gaze falling for a brief moment on Zero’s form before locking gaze with Rebecca.

“… I told you…” He grinned before starting to stalk back towards her.

@iiregularhunter

There was something wrong with his arm. Yes, the obvious explanation was that the heavy weight of the wolf monster resting on him while idly gnawing one his shoulder. Of course something would be wrong then. But it was– the bite felt like it was somehow seeping further into his coding to erase and dissolve.

Oh well. It wasn’t something he could really worry about right now.

His working arm shifted into a buster as Zero ran through his internals. Something- electrified- Ah! It would draw a bit too much from him, especially in this situation, but it would (hopefully?) be more than enough to stun the reploid. (Hoping it would actually kill him felt like trying to cling to a fever dream.)

The energy for the electrified blast was pulled straight from his core. It left a gnawing ache behind as his power level dropped, warning lights flashing in his internal HUD to let him know that hey! guess what! you’re injured and you don’t even have the power left to kickstart self-repair!

The blast had, at the very least, nailed the other square in the back. Electricity arced out as his whole body seized, limbs and joints locking up and trapping him in place… for a moment.

“Rebecca!” He screamed out as her name as the wolf let out an angry howl before starting to drag his body back. “Get Aerin- RUN-!”

@deafenedchampion

This was all her fault.

All her fault-

“Aah-”

Zero’s yell broke her out of her self-destructing thoughts, and she launched herself to her brother, getting him up on her back. She was significantly faster than she had been before and she wasn’t going to question why.

Her only thoughts were that she needed to listen to her Papa. She didn’t want him to die, but there was nothing she could do to help him. And that fact burned at her insides. Her core ached.

All she could do was run out the door, her brother’s limp body weighing her down but not by much. She had to get out of the dome of interference so she could activate her armor’s teleporter.

She couldn’t do anything else.

It hurt, but there was nothing else she could do.

Useless.

She had to be better.

@brokenvariable

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