Another Drabble. What can I say? I'm having one of those weeks... There's a possibility this may become a part of another fic I'm doing if I later feel it fits. For now, however, I just wanted to show you this. It's rather pointless, but then, isn't EVERYTHING in my Datastream Apologues?

Disclaimer: Oh, please. Would I BE here if they were?


Simulator.

Scarab Dynasty.

He knew she was part of the team now. In fact, she had been for weeks. All the same, he didn't quite know what to think of her.

Ace just smiled when he mentioned that while watching her in action in the Holobubble, trying to decide whether or not to intervene. After all, it was only a simulation... and there weren't that many Harpix.'Oh, come on, Random, she's not that bad.' Random cast him a withering glance.

'She wrecked my prototype without even trying,' he said blankly.

'That was an accident. You shouldn't have left it lying around in the first place,' Ace pointed out.

'I know, I know…' Random sighed. He watched as pink lightning burst through the air, frying a Harpix into holographic ashes. He was pretty sure she had the simulation set too high.

She veered on the Flash, turning back to face the remaining enemy, grinning.

'Is she playing chicken with that Harpix?'

'Apparently, yes.' Ace winced slightly as the figure they we're currently watching hurtled straight towards her holograph-enemy's face. This surprised it. It wasn't programmed to take high speed charges (most people wouldn't even vaguely CONSIDER charging a Harpix–not even a holographic one.) And Random watched as it burst into particles. He heard Ace audibly let out a breath he'd been holding.

'So… how long is she staying with us again?'

'About thirteen cycles, I think… six months or so. Some flyer, isn't she? She doesn't have unmanned flight capability, but she can handle a jet better than most. They found her eating up the tracks in the inner city racing sims.'

Random shuddered. 'They actually HIRE flyers like that on a team level?'

Ace laughed. 'You've been living under a rock, Random. Well, in an engineer's lab. I hear the wilder the rider the better their chances of getting on a team.'

From playing chicken with a Harpix she'd turned to playing it with the hard floor below, allowing herself to fall and snatching up a second before hitting synthetic dirt. He winced without realising it. It was as if she'd entirely forgotten the other Knights were watching. He wouldn't be surprised. It was easy to forget where you were in the simulator.

'Yeah? In that caseI'll bet they were all after her…'

A few seconds later there was a screech as a Harpix finally got a claw in. The flash jolted backwards and smashed into a wall, as Sparx lost her grip and fell to the ground. She never actually hit it. Sensing the drop, the failsafe kicked in, and the wall came alive, electromagnetic wires bursting free and reaching out to snatch the falling knight in midair. The Flash wasn't so lucky and crashed into a wall. The failsafe held on tight, half-visible wires now holding the cadet against the wall as automatic scanners checking her vitals for damage. Random heard her swear in annoyance.

Random sighed. Him and Ace, he thinks, and now this… this…

'Yeah, um… guys?' Sparx was struggling to make the failsafe wires let her go again and ended up tangled in the signal readers. 'Um… A little help over here?'

…This tearaway.

'It's going to be an interesting six months,' he sighed.