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jigxjitxku:

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.

jigxjitxku:

“No, you haven’t.”

It may have sounded like an over-confident and full of himself statement, but Shadow simply saw no reason to try to deny the truth. He wasn’t of earthly origin and, in turn, neither way his ability. Even Wily hadn’t been able to truly understand it, something that had frustrated the insane scientist to no end. There had been attempts to duplicate it, experiments and studies done on Shadow to try to see how it worked…

Those were… not memories that Shadow enjoyed dwelling on, nor were they ones that he had ever brought up to another individual. Blues included.

“It’s unlikely you ever will again.” There was a slight cant to his head as he looked down at her. Knowing where her curiosity laid now simply meant he would be extra careful to not ‘show off’ in front of her, if only to help keep her from becoming too curious.

Shadow didn’t want to be rude, even though his words quite easily sounded so. “… I don’t doubt that you have your own way of simply vanishing, though. You should show me.”

Rebecca blinked at the blunt statement, but accepted that. Some reploids had very unique abilities, ones that Engineering couldn’t seem to replicate. So she figured this was more of the same.

“Ah, okay.”

Though now she was being put on the spot a bit, she tried to not be nervous.

“R-Right, um-”

She had to concentrate for a moment to turn off every single one of her trackers, dampening her core’s power signal, before climbing right up the wall after flashing on a pair of gauntlets and boots.

She then looked down at him from the ceiling and grinned a bit sheepishly. To anyone going by just their signal detection, she would be absolutely invisible. It was a talent that she had picked up from acting as a human. A mechaniloid or Reploid would have to use a deep scan to even pick up that anything was amiss.

Barely a sound to get up there though, she was proud of that much.

“Not a lot of people think to look up, so I hide myself from signal detection and rarely anyone figures out I’m up here. Then I travel by air duct using a map. It’s not so much ‘disappearing’ as ‘hiding in plain sight’. I’m still working on it though!”

jigxjitxku:

As the girl moved more fully into his visual field, Shadow found himself blinking his eye as a slew of information regarding her seemed to suddenly spring forth. They had never met before, but- her name was Rebecca. Rebecca Light, an illegally created reploid based off the original blueprints of X Light.

He shouldn’t have known this. Why-

“Curious?” Pushing the strange informational burst out of his thoughts, Shadow turned his full attention to the young– reploid. “About what?” He had a few guesses but… at the same time, what was so curious about him? He was an outdated robot that should have been discarded decades over. Finding parts to repair him was more expensive than simply building a new body from current robotic models. 

She was the far more curious one. Far more advanced than he was, at the very least.

She looked a little nervous about actually saying this, but built up the courage to do so.

“How you meld into the shadows and stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before…”

So she had wanted to see how he did it by observing, and wondered if she could do the same. But she wasn’t arrogant enough to think dropping into the shadows was in her range of abilities. And trying would probably get her hurt.

She was simply curious about it right now though, and personally she thought his ability was far more interesting.

jigxjitxku:

@deafenedchampion

Hunters was far from Shadow’s favorite place to be, but it was the only place that held the proper equipment needed to perform the repairs on the ‘bot. The pieces needed weren’t ready, but Blues still spent a fair amount of time working on them. It left the ninja with the choice of lurking around to ensure he was okay or leaving, and in truth it was hardly really a choice.

He stayed in his namesake, appearance also partially masked by the trench coat he kept on, but that didn’t mean that Shadow didn’t find himself gaining a smaller, blond-haired shadow that seemed to think she was being crafty and unnoticed. The result was a slight raise of a brow as he watched her from the corner of his eye; she was trying to be stealthy and she wasn’t… bad at it.

But ‘not bad’ was hardly good enough to confused Shadow.

“I can see you there, you know.” His voice was soft and surprisingly gentle as he spoke. “I’ve been seeing you. You’ve been following me.”

“Eep-”

She was caught! She thought she had hidden really well that time! Well, that was more for her to work on, she supposed.

“I’m sorry. I was just curious…”

Quite curious about how he had been doing that, blending into the shadows so well. Rebecca didn’t think there was anyone in HQ who could actually do that, probably not anyone in the 00th unit.