There was really only one place left in the Fortrex that was worth showing off, and that was the holochamber. The holochamber walls were a colorless white, and Macy kinda hated it. The bright white… it was a bit too much like the halls of the castle. She watched Lance move to lean up against one of the walls, and looked around the room, waiting for Ava's face to pop up. A couple seconds later and she was rewarded with the brunettes head enlarged on the western wall. She giggled to herself as Kai jumped. The distant sound of a keyboard echoes through the room from Ava's microphone.
"So are you guys just showing off the holodeck or..?" She questioned, not looking up from another screen off to the side. Clay crossed his arms and looked at Kai, an eyebrow raised.
"Well that depends," he said, "Kai, you wanna see what this place can do?"
Kai blinked at Clay and rubbed the back of his neck absently.
"Uh, I mean, sure. I've got nothing else to do so-"
Instantly their surroundings changed to a woodland path, and Kai practically jumped out of his own skin. Tech definitely was not his thing, and this was either tech or magic. Probably both. Still, the entire thing was way out of his comfort zone.
After the landscape stopped shifting, and the knights were thoroughly amused, Kai calmed down. He laughed off any previous terror shakily, hoping his impression on the knights hadn't faltered. Lucky for him, the knights were now too busy with stretching themselves out to notice the single ninja. Kai frowned.
"So this is the holochamber," Lance started, "It changes to suit our training needs and wants, yadda yadda yadda."
He pulled his lance off from behind his back, extended it, then leaned against the handle.
"Listen, I know you really don't care about all this, and neither do I. So I'm going to do the righteous thing and sit out."
Clay and Macy gave Kai a resigned shrug as Lance when to sit down on the ground, weapon sitting beside him. Lance usually wasn't one for training, and since this wasn't a required or scheduled training session, he could do whatever he wanted. Though Clay made a mental note to push the white knight a bit harder during the next team activity.
Clay pulled his sword out from behind him only to find Macy's hand on his arm, stopping him. Her bright brown eyes were hardened. She wanted to take on Kai. Whether she wanted to test her abilities or just vent out her frustrations with her boyfriends against this poor unsuspecting soul, she couldn't decide. But one thing was certain. She was going to do her best to try and annihilate this overrated twunk of a ninja.
Kai meanwhile, was struggling to understand what was going on. Were they going to fight now? Is that what they were going to do? A mace being flung at his face answered the question. Yes. The answer was yes.
Frantically, Kai grasped behind his back to grab at the handles of his twin blades. Both had been made by his father, and had his name engraved into them on both sides. He knew these weapons better than he knew his own mother.
The two broke out into full blown fighting now. Macy was more heavy hitting, and Kai was always just out of reach. He lept back every time her mace got too close, and he occasionally would make a few fierce jabs at her as well. Those tended to land more often than not, and made a horrible screeching noise against the metal of Macy's armor. Yet Kai was letting his ego get to his head again, and as the battle continued, he started making snarky remarks here and there.
"Missed me," he crowed, dodging a heavy blow that had been aimed at his head, "Maybe you should be called 'Missy' instead of 'Macy', princess."
Macy grit her teeth.
"Where'd you get that from?" She hissed, "The back of a cereal box?"
Kai laughed, and jumped back a couple of times, directly into the trunk of a holographic tree that still felt rather real. A couple seconds later and there was a mace pressed against his chest, and a grinning princess gloating in his face.
"What was that about 'Missy'?" she taunted, "Maybe you should be called 'Loser', I mean, it's true."
Kai looked from the mace, to Macy, and then to Clay and Lance who were watching nearby. Then, a shit-eating grin broke his face like an egg. The smell of burning hair began to waft in the false forest.
It took Macy a moment to notice what was happening, but when she did she screamed. Lance and Clay rushed over and started frantically patting out the flames that had begun to burn from the tip of Macy's ponytail, Kai cackling like a madman the entire time.
"Holy shit!" The red ninja managed to gasp, "Your face! Your face!"
Singed red locks now made up the half of Macy's hair that was left. She was fine other than the fact that she probably needed a haircut. Kai was in the middle of another loud laugh when he felt eyes on him. Burning, revenge determined eyes. He choked when he saw Macy's face.
Oh she was going to avenge her hair all right, and she'd start with dunking this kid's head straight into a toilet when she was done with him. Lance stepped back from the two and shot a look at his wrist.
There was nothing there. No watch or fancy bracelet, but sometimes people need to lie to survive. Now was one of those times.
"Hoo boy would you look at the time," he said, continuing to step away from the pair, "I mean I'd love to stay and watch but I think I have a party to get to."
Clay gave Lance a look.
"Party? You said that you were free for the week just last night-"
"We should get going," Lance pressed, starting to drag Clay away by the arm, "Really now. We'd be late."
Clay was unable to give any protest before he was forcefully dragged away from the holochamber. Just in time too, Macy and Kai had started fighting again.
