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Rapsigh: All Right! Updated! If you don't know already, the stars signal the end of a scene, and there's a name, that means that the main character is changing. I would like to say that the notes here are so that people who don't play pso can understand this stuff.

Chapter 2: battle training

Jinx log entry... begin

Jinx here again with some more news. I still can't believe that I finally got a level-5 access card! Not only that but principal Tyrell himself told me what was up with the planet called Ragol we were orbiting. I also learned that Rico Tyrell (a.k.a. red ring Rico) has gone missing along thousands of other on Pioneer 1. I'd better not tell bombshell about that. He thought greatly of Rico. And in rather embarrassing scenario in the past he tried to convince the Head council to have Rico's birthday be a universal holiday. Needless to say, that didn't go over too well. He isn't alone; Rico was hero of the people. I guess I should work on that note collection of mine.

Android: a well made robot with incredible A.I. so real it's almost human. They can't use techniques (known in some circles as magic) but they can set traps

Item boxes: small boxes that hold stuff. Green boxes meant they help expendable items like monomate. Orange boxes have weapons. And blue holds armor.

Diska: not sure exactly, but I've been carrying around one for a while now ever since someone gave me this as a bonus for completing a mission.

Hunter's license: a hunter's permission to accept hunters guild missions.

+1: If a weapon has a + at the end means that it is overall better craftsmanship (example: saber+3)

Dagger: a pair of small brass...err... photon knuckles that aren't very strong but are very swift.

*******Jinx

Jinx left the principal's office still with many questions on his mind. One of the many was still why he was chosen. He shrugged. Nothing could stop him now. He was given a mission, and he had to win no matter what. The only problem was, He had no idea what he was supposed to do! He looked down at the photon saber in his hand. On all of the other missions he had been on, he had been on he'd been good off using his bare hands. Shade always said that he couldn't keep on fighting with his hands. Shade always had to have the latest equipment. For the first time, Jinx noticed how busy the Central area was. It was so crowded that he could barely move around. He decided before he left he should get some more equipment. He crossed over to the store. On the way there, someone ran into him, knocking him down. "Watch out! Coming through!" the person yelled muscling through the crowd. "What a jerk!-"Jinx says "-who does he think he is?"

****** Bombshell

Bombshell took off his v.r. helmet and said to Shade who was sitting next to him "I can't believe you beat me again! I want a rematch!" Shade groans loudly and says "would you just shut up already? We have been 'rematching' all day! Just say I'm better than you already!" "Nope" Bombshell says grumpily. Shade shakes his head and looks at his watch and says "will ya look at that, you made me late for an appointment with the weapons shop-"his snaps his fingers and his MAG, Mist, comes up to him "-come on mist let's go." He left the room. A few moments later, Bombshell yelled as he ran after him "hey, wait for me! Come on Herk, let's get moving!" His MAG, Herk followed close behind him.

Bombshell ran out of the arcade. Shade was nowhere to be found. "He can move fast-"Bombshell said "-I'll give him that."

*******Jinx

Jinx rubs his head after that guy knocked him down. "Man, that hurt." He went into the store and saw several stands inside. There was a one selling armor, one selling expendable items, one selling weapons, and a forth he had no idea. He walked up to the strange looking man at the counter. Jinx asked "what are you supposed to be?" The man answered "I'm this area's tekker, need something examined? If you don't know already we can identify items." Jinx walked over to the weapons counter. The clerk was counting some meseta in his hands "850.... 950.... 1005! Yep, it's all here!" Jinx taps the counter and says "service please?" The clerk looked up and said "ah, yes, you're a new face around here. Whadaya want?" Jinx says mockingly "Whadaya got?". The clerk handed a list of inventory to him. Jinx looked over it a few times and said "how much does the photon handgun cost?" The clerk says slowly "uh... about, like, um.... 500 meseta!" Jinx says "one moment." He turns around to face Techno and whispers "Okay little buddy, how much do I have now?" Techno beeps and clatters for a few seconds and says on his screen "457 meseta". Jinx sighs, he didn't go to work very often, just enough so he can have bread on the table. He knew he should start working on more hunters' guild missions so he can keep affording weapons. He turned back to the clerk and said "I think I'll pass on this one." He walked over to the expendable item counter. If he was going to fight for real, he was going to need some monomate. He had to wait in line a few minutes to get to counter. He asked the clerk "got monomate?". The man at the counter answered right away, "Yes, in fact, we're having a sale right now, only 50 meseta each!" Jinx slaps 150 meseta down on the table and says "hook me up with three". The clerk handed him a green box and says "Thank you, come again!". Jinx had a feeling that he would soon enough.

He left the store and went over to the bank and said to manager "I would like to make a deposit of 307 meseta and one item please" He deposited the rest of his money and an item called diska:zonde. He knew that if was knocked out on the battle field, his MAG would send a signal to the hospital to pick him up. Unfortunately there was there was the ever looming chance that someone would rob him of his possessions when he is unconscious. So he always puts his stuff in the bank before going on missions. All right, finally, he was ready! Jinx ran right over to the hunter's guild and went up to the counter. The last time he remembered going down on a planet was about a year ago they stopped at a swamp-like planet when he had to guard a scientist group inspect plant life down there. Finally, after all this he finally gets to go on another mission! "I want a mission now!" He says to the woman at the counter. She responds "ah yes, your name is Jinx, correct? You need to re-inlist your hunter's license-". Jinx gropes down in disappointment. "-Yes-"she continues "-it's been so long since you've been down on a planet you need to re-enlist your license.". Great, just great, now he was going to have to wait longer. He slinked off to the row of chairs against the wall. He sat down in the chair and twiddled his thumb nervously. Jinx looked to the seat next to his left, and there was an old man, asleep and snoring loudly. He tipped over and landed on Jinx. Jinx pushed him back, but he fell back on him. Jinx gave the man a hard shove so he fell over the way (Rapsigh: that guy is a heavy sleeper, eh?). Jinx looks to his right and sees a girl about his age reading a newspaper. He Thinks "god she's cute". He shakes his head to snap out of it. He looks at the stack of outdated magazines next to the chair. He picked up the one on top and read the title: TIME Magazine the Man of the Century: Bill Gates. "sheesh-"Jinx says sarcastically "-must have been a pretty short century!"

******Bombshell

Later Bombshell was in the central area of the ship. "Where did shade say he was going again?-"He thinks "-oh yeah! The weapons store!" He ran over to the store pushing people aside. When he got in he ran up to the weapon counter and asked abruptly "where's Shade?" The weapons clerk looks at him and says calmly "he's come and gone already today, but may I help you with anything?" Bombshell looks at the HUGE display of weapons behind the weapons counter. Uhh...-"He says "anything new today/?" The clerk makes the ahem noise and points upward. Bombshell looks up and see the obscenely large neon light sign that said "new: extra long sword!" right above him. "oh" He said (Rapsigh: certainly observant, isn't he?). "Great!-"he says "- I'll have one of those thingies.". The clerk says annoyed "well those 'thingies' cost 1005 meseta." Bombshell hands him a little bag that says '1005' on it. The clerk Hands him an orange box. He said to bombshell "nice doing business with you! Make sure to come back soon to see what the latest gear is!". "Believe me"says Bombshell "-I will." As soon as he left the store, the clerk presses a button on the bottom of the counter, and the sign changes to "New: extra long sword+1!"

Bombshell couldn't stand much longer; he really wanted to try out his new super powerful sword! He pushed though the crowd saying yelling "watch out! Coming though!" When he was about half way to the hunters guild he stopped and made Herk give him a different orange which held his old daggers. He snorted and said "well I won't need these out-dated pieces of junk anymore!" He threw it over his shoulder and someone behind him said "ouch! Who threw that?"

Bombshell ran up into the hunter guild office and said to no one in particular "I'M WANT A MISSION!" everyone in there stared at him. "Umm... please?"

After waiting for a loooong time in line he finally got to the counter. The woman says "enrich your life! This is the hunter's guild, welcome! We can assist you in finding a job if you registered. Searching identity.... Name: 'Bombshell' here is our recommendations right now" She says as the screen on the counter fills with choices of missions. Bombshell says without even looking at the choices "I don't care, anyone will do okay." The lady at the counter pauses for a moment, than says slowly "well, that is a.... usual request, but I guess I can do that. Computer selecting random mission.... Here is your mission. Your client will arrive shortly.

A young man appeared before Bombshell and said "ah there you are hunter. My father disgusts me. As soon as we arrived, he ran off saying, "I'm off to stake out land." staking out Ragol? It's too early for to do that. We don't know much about Ragol... it's dangerous. Please! Please find my father! His name is Racton." Bombshell waited for a while to process that all in his head "uhh... whatever. How much am I being paid for this?" The man answered back "700" Bombshell rubs his hand together; He couldn't believe he was getting paid so much just for bringing back some old man! He ran out of the building and went over to the area where the teleporter was. He showed his access to the guards card to reach it. "All right-"he thinks "-here I go!"

*******Vixen (Rapsigh: this starts the day before)

Vixen was hanging out at the gym. She was hitting around a small punching bag rhythmically. She stopped and inhaled deeply and took a long drink of her bottled water. It was Monday; she always comes down to the gym. In fact, every other day she hung out at the gym for a while and ate low-fat foods. The other days she spends time with her friends. Everyone in their residential block thought that one of the boys was her boyfriend. That was untrue; she just hung out with them because most kids on their residential block were mostly snoody rich people. Her friends were okay, she guessed. They had their problems though. Shade was too up-tight. Ace always used like, fifty time the words that he should. And bombshell acts he fell down the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. And Jinx? Ahh... she couldn't think of anything wrong with him, he was just your average guy. She snapped out of daydreaming and continued to exercise. She went over to a bar and did pull ups with relative ease. Bombshell always said "It's just plain unnatural for you to be (almost) stronger than me! Shouldn't you be uh... playing with Barbie dolls or something?" Like Vixen said, stupid tree. She told Bombshell that he shouldn't rely on stereo types. Bombshell thought she was talking about music. He at least he has common sense, but it's hard to carry an intelligent conversation with him. She stopped and sighed, she couldn't concentrate on her work. She went sat down on the bench and started to take off her sparing gloves when a hand stopped her and a voice said "Hey, don't take those off just yet!" She looked up and saw a boy looking over her, with a childish looking face and a very light blond hair. His name is Casey. Vixen hated to ever be around him because everyone thought he had a crush on her. Vixen says in an angry tone "Casey what do you want?" He said "you want to fight a round?' Vixen said back "please, even after the last butt-kicking I gave you? ". Casey responded "I Just let it easy on you okay?" Vixen said sarcastically "oh, sure you did! I've heard better excuses at a-". "how a bout'-"he interrupts "-let's settle this now? What kind competition do you prefer? Race? Fight? V.r.? Thumb wrestle? Insult? Or-". "Yeah yeah-"Vixen interrupts "fight already! Let's get this over with!" "-cribbage? Swimming? Pole vault? Playstation 7?"

********``

"Basic spar rules-"The judge annoces "-1 round sudden death, be downed for 10 seconds and your out, If you touch the ground outside the ring your out.". She kept explaining the rule while Casey and Vixen prepared for battle.

"Ready? 1.... 2.... 3.... Go!"

******Jinx

"Paging a Mr. Jinx to the counter, A Mr. Jinx?" Said the loudspeaker waking Jinx up. He pulled the magazine off his face and stumbled over to the counter "wha?" she asks half-asleep. "Here's your hunters license.-"The woman at the counter said "-Now searching for jobs... one found, do you accept?" Jinx says with a smirk "do nerds go blah?" The woman continues "very well, your client will arrive shortly."

*******

It barely took a minute for his client to show up and started explaining imedently "My name is Ziid/ I asked a young hunter, Ash, to do some research on Ragol. He's supposed to be done with the job by now, but he hasn't returned yet. Perhaps he got himself into trouble... So I want to ask you to go to Ragol and rescue him. Not by yourself. Please go with that hunter over there. First of all, can you bring him here? I'll talk to you later." Jinx shrugged. That sound easy enough. He walked over to the exit and saw an android loitering by the entrance. He had pretty much never seen an android up close. It was amazing how life-like androids are. It breathed, and feels pain... Most robots are created with a sole purpose, but androids are allowed to decide their own fate. This one had dark purple and black armor. He had shining yellow eyes. There was a small blue jewel on his chest. When he sees Jinx he puts himself back on his feet. He said in a dark voice "Are YOU Jinx? This is the first time I've had a partner. Zidd asked me to do this job first. Unexpectedly, he told me I'd have to work with someone else... I HAD to say yes as he is my client...." Jinx had a feeling that he wasn't the best person to work with. They walked back to Zidd and he started talking very fast again "Hello again Jinx. He's Kireek, your partner for this quest. He is a HUcast. He's a pro; perhaps you can learn a lot from him. Kireek, I know you are unhappy, but I need two hunters for this. One has to retrieve the data disk that I asked Ash to get. The other is to help ash return here if he is injured. This is my personal agenda. It has nothing to do with business. Ash is my cousin. I don't want to lose him, please understand....... I have no choice." Jinx could relate. He knew what is was like to lose someone close to him. No human should feel that pain. As and Kireek left the building and started toward the teleporter Jinx whispered "Kireek? What kind of name is that?"

"Shut up."

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