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Danny caught his breath a bit as he walked back towards the observation room. She he had stretched his powers a little by using them to do mundane activities everyday, but he still felt rusty when it came to battle. Not that it showed against a bunch of constructs with limited abilities. But if he had to go one on one against a real enemy from the old days, he wasn't quite sure how it would turn out.
He would need to work is stamina back up to snuff. That and he seemed to have a weakened awareness on his right side that almost got him hit. He'd have to think of a way around that hole in his defenses.
Though all and all... it felt good. It felt so good to be swinging around his strength. To feel the rush of combat and to know that nothing is certain. It was a thrill to cast aside his act of trying to be just a normal little boy of age twelve and to just let lose; not thinking about social norms or how he is supposed to act.
By the time he had gotten into elementary school, he had been nineteen years old, and he had to hide that fact. He had to hide that he knew his addition and multiplication before the teacher went into it. He had to hide his understanding of physics and biology that went beyond what any child could know. He couldn't share his opinions on ideology and his personal tastes in music and literature that wouldn't be shared by children. Having to deal with them day after day had been driving Danny to the edge of is wits.
But out on the battle field, none of that mattered at all. He was free of all of it. Secretly, he felt a lot more kinship to Warp, the grief maddened terrorist than he had ever had with any of the children at his schools.
But eventually, the doors to the observation room slide open and the world were Danny had to pretend to be a twelve year old child crashed down onto his shoulders, smothering his warrior's heart.
"You did well. There won't be any problems certifying you as a field agent with these kinds of results." Kiritsubo said, nodding his head towards Danny. A friendly enough smile on his face.
"Thank you, Taichou." Danny said politely, giving a small nod of his head.
One of the men Danny had seen just a little bit the day before walked up. He was a tallish man, though not as big as the taichou, with a brown mullite like hair cut and a pair of glasses. He was dressed in a professional like business suit and was giving Danny a look that screamed adult talking to a child. "Hello Toshiro, I didn't get a chance to introduce myself yesterday. I'm Kouichi Minamoto, I've been assigned to be your and your sister's temporary supervisor." Minamoto said, extending a hand.
Danny had to surprise a twitch in his right eye. They were giving him a babysit? That was just so uncool. He was just as old as this Minamoto guy. Danny rejected the idea of needing this guy completely, but even so, he had to play the part of the obedient child. "I hope we won't be too much of a burden, Kouichi-sensei." He said, forcing a smile as he took the man's hand. He used as high of a honors as might have been necessary, giving the impression that he thought more highly of this man than he actually did.
Something that came easy to him, since he had never had much respect for his 'senseis' at the elementary or middle school.
Minamoto laughed. "Just Minamoto will be good enough." The man said, not suspecting for a moment that Danny was anything but sincere.
"Huh... so this is the new guy?" A girl the same age as Tsubaki with burn orange hair stomped up in front of him, holding her hands on her hips. Danny wasn't exactly sure what to make of her, it was clear enough that she was one of the three 'Children' but... she was wearing a long sleeved bright blue blazer and a... white miniskirt.
'Please tell me that isn't the uniform. Regardless what people say, I don't look good in a miniskirt.' Danny thought as he wondered what the proper way to talk to someone who might be able to blow up the entire tower would be.
"It actually is the uniform on our team. So if you want to stick around..." Danny turned, pulling his sleeve out of the grip of a girl with snow white hair who had been reading his thoughts. Definitely something to be avoided when she had her limiter turned off. "Who exactly told you that you would look good in a miniskirt?"
The girl with red hair burst into laughter as a third girl with glasses and long black hair walked up holding out her pinky and pointer finger, her hand glowing blue. "I think their was a spare uniform around here." She said. Feeling danger, Danny teleported back three feet just before a copy of the girl's uniform ported in where he had been standing, to fall to the floor.
"Hey no, don't run away." The red head said with a grin, using telekinesis to life Danny off of the ground. Danny was about to counter with his own when Minamoto started shouting.
"What do you girls think your doing!?" He shouted at them, causing them to stop. "This isn't how you are supposed to greet people! Now stop clowning around and introduce yourselves properly!"
"Hai hai..." They chimed together in disappointed voices.
"I'm Kaoru." The red head said crossing her arms. She had a sort of pout on her face, like a child caught with her hand in the cookie jar, but expected to get away with it anyways.
"Aio." The black haired girl with the glasses said with a smile as if she had only been playing the entire time, so it didn't count.
"Shiho." The white haired girl said with a cute tilt of her head, holding out a hand to shake. One that Danny didn't take.
"And we are, the Absolutely Lovely The Children!" They shouted together and giving a pose. Danny managed to hold down a snort of laughter.
"I'm Toshiro. Haven't been assigned a code name yet, though if they let me pick, I'd go by the Phantom." Danny said with a smile of his own. Though he didn't like that the girls had openly used their powers on him without provocation, he would let it slide. After all, most ghosts ways of saying hello had been to try to murder him. Trying to force him into a miniskirt seemed relatively harmless. "Nice to meet you."
"That's right, everyone just do there best to get along. I knew that our Children would be the prefect angels." Kiritsubo said, tearing up at the sight. Guess Danny knew who spoiled them.
"Tsubaki-chan, come over here and say hello!" Danny shouted to his little sister who was still standing over by the window. She didn't react at all.
"Did she fall asleep on her feet?" Kaoru said, crossing her hands behind her head and flouting over Tsubaki.
Danny moaned as he realized what was going on. "Oh please tell me she didn't."
"Didn't what?" Kiritsubo asked confused before his phone rang. "Hello?.. What do you mean the Tower has been hacked!?"
The monitor on the simulation's control computer went out before a second later, Tsubaki's image appeared in the monitor. "Onii-san! You won't believe how big it is in here! I can see the whole city! Every single street camera! And they got satellites to! And a helicopter!"
The entire room just stared at the computer for a second. "Did... all of B.A.B.E.L. just get hacked by a little girl, and now she has access to ALL of our nations most guarded secrets?" Shuuji said, sounding just a little bit scare.
"We keep the biggest stuff on a separate drive... but she has close to everything." Oboro said, swallowing a little.
"No, I've got access to those to. You need to use a proceeder to deconstruct the memory after you delete it from the main files, or else it just sits there in the main memory until that memory is reassigned." Tsubaki said with a sly grin. "So what is this Angel Counter thing about anyways?"
"Ah! Don't talk about that!" Kiritsubo shouted in panic, leaving several people confused as the grown man paled.
"Tsubaki-chan, what have I told you about moving your entire consciousness into a machine?" Danny said crossing his arms.
"But Onii-san, its a SUPERCOMPUTER..." Tsubaki whined, hundreds of windows flying by behind her image. "I can see and do so much in here. Just a little bit of my focus isn't enough for it all."
"You shouldn't be doing anything in there!" One of the older men said, walking forward. He had a thick mustache and a professional haircut and suit, another 'supervisor'. His name was Tanizaki Ichirou, if Danny remembered correctly. "Now stop being such a unruly little girl and get our of our systems."
That was a bad choice on that guy's part. Tsubaki scowled, never haven't liked being ordered to do something. Danny could convince her to do what was in their best interests even if it wasn't what she wanted to do, but he had never openly demanded much from her. Looking back, he had probably spoiled her quite a bit, trying to make up for how their parents acted.
"Oh, now Ichirou-san, I wasn't going to say anything, but while I was running through the files I found that someone had programmed one of the satellites to follow around a certain high school girl." Tsubaki said. Behind her image on the screen flashed up several dozen images of Naomi, Ichirou's charge. Most being of her walking home or talking with friends, which would be creepy enough, but some were of her at the hot springs or at the school pool. "Now I wonder who did that?"
Before the creepy old man could say anything, the effect of gravity on his tripled and he was pressed hard against the ground. "You dirty old man!" Naomi growled. The previously gentle girl was giving off a murderous intent, and with her increased anger, her power increased too, bringing her from level six to a low level seven. Still only level four with her limiter on, but more than enough to cause some serious pain to the stupid supervisor. "Delete them! Delete them right now!"
"Will do!" Tsubaki said cheerfully, before a garbage can icon appeared in the screen and all the images got pulled into it.
"No! Not my collection!" Ichirou shouted, not realizing when he should just keep his mouth shut.
"Shut up!" Naomi shouted, sparks of electricity flying from her finger tips to zap the man unconscious.
"Alright, you've had your fun, now come on out and introduce yourself." Danny said, making a mental note to kill Ichirou if he ever got too close to his little sister.
"Hai hai." Tsubaki said before her body turned to everyone and bowed. "'I'm Tsubaki, and I can control any electronic device with my mind. It's nice to meet all of you.'" Both her body and the bit of her consciousness that she left in the computer echoed together.
"That seems like a useful power." Naomi said, suddenly back to being the gentle girl now that her supervisor was out cold.
"How well does that work with video games?" Kaoru asked her as the red haired girl looked from computer, to Tsubaki's body and back again.
"'Really well.'" Tsubaki said with a grin.
"Sweet!" Kaoru said with a wide grin.
"Hey Minamoto-san. Since the new guys have shown us what they can do, how about we give them a little demonstration." Aio said, giving Minamoto a wink.
"Aio..." Minamoto said in a warning voice.
"No, that's a great idea. We are all here at the training room anyways." Kiritsubo said, gesturing to the large empty room.
"Yeah! We'll show them how strong B.A.B.E.L.'s number one team really is!" Kaoru shouted before flying over to her teammates.
Minamoto looked unsure but her pulled out a cell phone and turned off the girls' limiters. The three teleported into the arena behind the glass and waited for the simulation to start.
Danny briefly wondered what the three level seven girls could do, until the simulation started up and they showed just how scary they were.