This is unexpected
chapter 11
I know it's very short, but I didn't have that much I could do right now. I will try and make the next one longer.
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(Alicia POV)
I ducked from Sally's punch and tripped her up with my whip. If this is what an alternate version of myself is, than this will be done in record time.
Sally grunted before she got up and tried to attack me with a rolling kick, which I evaded easily and then grabbed her leg with my whip before sending her flying to a building.
"Is that all?" I yawned with a mocking tone.
Sally glared at me before trying a homing rolling attack at me, but I merely kicked her aside.
She gasped and tried to catch her breath as I was feeling bored with this fight.
"So, are we done?" I asked as I yawned.
Sally wiped the blood from her lip and got back up. "You tell me. You came here." she growled out.
"Well, when you put it that way..." I grinned with sadistic glee.
Alicia charged as we find ourselves back in the Raiju Clan's fort.
(Tails POV)
I was right now making some maintenance on Auto-Fiona, who was currently deactivated, as Iron Nicole stood by and watched me from the side as told by her leader.
I tried to focus on the work at hand, but it felt weird with Nicole's gaze on me throughout the whole thing. Eventually, I couldn't help but look at her and ask, "Is there something you need?"
"I am merely keeping my focus on you. Please, continue what you are doing." she spoke with a neutral face.
I nodded nervously as I finished the maintenance and activated Auto-Fiona again.
"There. You should be operating a little better." I smiled.
Auto-Fiona just looked at me before nodding.
As she walked to the other side to resume her position, I turned to Nicole to start up some small talk.
"So how are you?" I asked.
"I am functioning properly. There is no need for a diagnostic." she replied.
I sweat dropped upon hearing that.
"I was actually asking how you were doing, but as a person." I clarified.
"Eh...how so?" Nicole asked quite surprised.
"Like, how do you feel? Is your day okay? Stuff like that." I replied.
"I-I...don't know how to answer that..." Nicole said with a gasp.
"But don't you have emotions and feelings?" I asked.
"I-I do...but..." She tried to say, but was frozen.
"What is it?" I asked in worry.
"I'm not allowed to reveal them around potential enemies..." She revealed.
"So, you can't show emotion in front of me?" I asked. That seemed odd.
"...At least until we confirm that you and the robotic fox are completely loyal..." She managed to say.
I understood that and nodded my head. Course, I had nothing to do now that the maintenance was done. Then I thought on what I should do.
'I could go around to understand the layout of this pace, but will Nicole allow me to leave?'
With nothing left to lose, I decided to ask her about it. "Hey Nicole. Is it possible for me to take a walk around the place?"
"...Affirmative, but I must go with you to watch over your actions..." She answered.
"Alright, sounds fair." I nodded. Then I turned to Auto-Fiona and asked, "What about you, Fiona?"
"I shall keep watch to make sure master is safe." came her automatic reply.
I nodded with a blush of embarrassment as I quickly got out followed by both girls.
As I walked down the hall, I saw the different sliding doors that one would find in Asian culture.
'Well, at least they have a nice place...' I thought with some surprise.
I kept waking and found myself in a training room with several raiju can ninjas pushing themselves to the limit.
I couldn't help but be impressed at how they trained to surpass their limits, which reminded me of the times Knuckles trained with Team Chaotix back at Angel Island.
It seemed my presence caught their attention as they turned their attention to me,
"E he he...hello?" I said nervous.
"You are the one Mistress Storm has paid attention to, correct?" asked one.
I could only nod shyly at that.
"It would seem you are not yet trained in our martial arts yet." pointed out another.
"E-eh? D-do I have to?!" I asked genuinely surprised.
"If you do not, I don't think our leader will accept you as her equal." spoke the first one.
"E-equal?!"
"Yes. You must earn respect from her in the clan. If you do not learn our martial arts, who knows what she might do."
I gulped upon hearing that. "You sure?" I squeaked with hesitation.
The ninjas nodded, making me sigh.
"Oh boy." I groaned as they formed a line to the obstacle course. I sighed before resigning myself. I stood with the others and watched what they did since I would need to do that.
Then I saw them take a battle pose, which I barely managed to copy.
Then one by one, they jumped onto the course and made their way dodging and ducking the attacks that came their way.
I tried my best to mimic their moves, but half way I tripped and fell. I had to go back to the back of the line to try and make it again.
Luckily for me, after a few tries I managed to do their moves perfectly. But the problem was I didn't have as much stamina as them. They seemed to notice that as well as they stopped their training.
"Perhaps we should start you off small." suggested one of them.
"Yeah..." I agreed. I felt embarrassed at messing up like that.
"Don't worry, after all, you're still new." Assured one of the ninjas.
I smiled at that. Seems this was gonna be easier than I thought.
"Thanks." I said. They all nodded before we resumed practice.
