Chapter 5: Too bad soo sad
.Rule 7-NEVER ASK FOR A WOMANS AGE Rule 8-ALWAYS SMILE AT HER Rule 9-NEVER SLURP UP YOUR SPAGHETTI IN FRONT OF HER.
"Spaghetti? I don't think we're going to eat spaghetti Jean" I was overwhelmed, all these rules about women, and I was suppose to remember it in 2 hours, Jean was drilling me in her office about the do's and don'ts of dating. "Well too bad" she wheeled around her chair facing me, "you asked for my help and you're gonna get it" "But is this all really.necessary?" I thought we were just gonna eat and talk, Jean wanted me to set up a parade to go along with it "No but you have no experience once so ever Chris" she looked at me sizing me up, "we need to buy you some new clothes" "Why? what's wrong with this one?" I was holding up a pair of ripped jeans and a jacket, she promptly knocked them outta my hand "WHATS WRONG WITH YOU!!! ITS YOUR FIRST DATE YOU NEED TO LOOK NICE AND HANDSOME FOR HER!!!!" she was angry now, I always feared the red headed beast. "Its just a bite Jean, I don't even know where to take her." that did it, she erupted I had forgotten one of the rules (always know where your going to take a women out for dinner) "FINE THEN!!! GO OUT LIKE THAT SEE HOW SHE'LL LIKE YOU NOW!!!" and with that she shoved me out of her office and slammed the door, everyone in the corridor looked at me "uhh-she's uhhh" my mind only thought up one explanation, "having her period right now"
Some of the rules made sense like buying flowers, and being the one to pay for the date, so I brought at least 500 credits and bought a flower, I don't know why people buy flowers, I guess it's a tradition from the past. At 5:55 I was at the entrance waiting for her, I didn't have to wait long. She was wearing ripped jeans and a jacket (der.why'd I buy dress pants) and tied her long hair into a bun with a pencil holding it in place "nice pants" she said "yeah.thanks" I handed her the rose (thanks a lot Jean) "you look errr lovely" (I hope your happy) "why the stiff look?" she was eyeing my jacket, "oh so your Defect" I looked down, my emblem (which resembled a shield with a dent) was on my jacket "Yeah that's my handle" I replied, "ready to go?" "On that?" she motioned to my motorcycle, "I thought you'd never ask" letting lose a smile
Our first stop was to go shopping, if Jean likes shopping then I guessed she liked shopping too, she did and she saw an orange scarf that she wanted, I bought it for her and was rewarded with a hug, unlike Jean Renee bought thinks that I wouldn't mind having. She bought a copy of the new mech game, Armored Warrior, it let you create a mech out of 400+ parts and you got to fight each other with your creation. Very sweet. "Hey Chris" she paused to lick her ice cream cone, "I saw your fight today, it was really awesome" "Thanks Renee" we had just stopped by a street peddler and bought a cone "That was cool how your Machine gun could fire its rounds so fast, do you use it often?" "Yep, it help me win most of my battles so far, it's a import from Mars" I began to lick my icecream but it fell of my cone onto the ground "Really?" she giggled and took another lick, "hey what time is it?" I checked my watch and almost flipped "oh man its 8:43!!!" "Really?!?" she licked her icecream so hard that it fell right next to mine "oh man I'm sorry Renee I gotta go, my next battle is in like 15 minutes" "wait I gotta be somewhere too, come on lets get back to the nest" she was running with me to my bike, I cant believe I was with her for so long, I guess I was so absorbed with her that I lost my sense of time, which rarely happens.
When we got back to the Nest we rushed in, "Thanks Chris I had a really great time" she was holding my hand running in front of me "Yeah me too, lets do this again sometime?" we had just passed thru the entrance "sure!" she was smiling again I thought fast, before we split up I stopped her for a second and gave her a kiss, she was surprised but she knew what was happening and stood with me "what was that?" she asked after our faces separated, her face red her smile even wider "first rule of dating" I winked at her "always end the date with a kiss, see you later" then I turned and ran down to the loading bay as fast a possible, I didn't want to face the red haired beast again.
"Chris, you made it!" Jean was waiting by my AC, I was out of breath by the time I got to her "huff.huff.yeah" I had to rush to my room and put on my suite, I forgot I didn't have it on when I got the loading bay and had to run all the way to the barracks to get it. "well your battling against really skilled pilot" she looked worried "be careful" "I always" I put on my helmet and slipped into my cockpit, turning on all the switches as my AC was being prepared to rise up to the Arena "Well Steve couldn't fix you rockets in time so your gonna have to deal with a pulse cannon" "A cannon?" I never liked stopping and with cannons you needed to kneel down to use them unless you had quad or tank legs. "Couldn't be helped, good luck" she sounded nervous for some reason, "hey Chris your opponent is." "Don't sound so nervous Jean, its gonna be a quick battle ok?" "Ok take care" "Tell you what I'll take you shopping tomorrow ok?" I was in a really good mood after the date, "so don't worry" I turned on my vid and faced my opponent.
QUITE PLESE.THANK YOU, THE COMBATANTS FOR TODAY ARE YURI AND DEFECT
I was up against Xerox's sister, I hope she won't have a grudge after what I did to her brother
BOTH ACS ARE READY
. BEGIN!!!
The AC I had to challenge was completely made of Martian parts, seems that both Yuri and Xerox favored Martian parts as opposed to Earth's. Her AC was all orange, the same one I saw fighting when I was in the lounge, this time she changed the leg piece into a quad. She had the ZWG-HC-IR/K99 plasma rifle as a right hand weapon and the ZWM-M24/IMI missile launcher, d*am, I thought, that missile launcher was banned on Mars, looks like anything is far here. She even had a left hand rocket launcher, looks like I was gonna have to work for this win. "Lets get this started" I announced "Lets" I heard her respond I switched to my machine gun and boosted toward her, ready to show her what I got, she merely stood still and took aim with her plasma rifle. I was in range to unleash hell when she fired 5 blasts of her rifle "WHAT THE HELL?!?!" I shouted over the com link, with 3 blast my machine gun was toast, with the last 2 it knocked out my core well away from her. "too bad soo sad" she replied I switched to my missiles and began to flank her, the energy blast from her rifle almost completely drained her energy bar. Seeing my opportunity I boosted above her to let loose a blade slash. Her left arm rockets tore my right arm to shreds, my blade stuck her but she continued to assault my AC with rockets. I had to overboost out of the path of her rockets, I switched back to my missiles and let volley upon volley damage her core. It was a bad move, she turned on her missiles and fired back. Almost immediately after the first wave another set were launched, and another and another. I turned on my overboost and weaved left and right dogging the missiles toward her core. I did another blade slash on her orange core, boosting back. I turnboosted and fired my missiles again. She didn't have the same amount of experience of dogging as I did, nearly all my missiles hit her while only 1 missile per volley hit mine. "Is that all you got?" I was getting pissed for not being able to use my machine gun, this battle would have been over but I refused to use the pulse cannon on my back. She had only 732 AP when my missile storage were empty. "d*mn it" I said I looked at her rockets and remembered what it did to my right arm. It also seemed that her energy bar had finally refilled because she began boosting toward me. All I had was a laser blade, the pulse cannon forgotten on my shoulder, I boosted toward her. She fired her plasma rifle again in conjunction with her rockets. I tried to raise my AC above her but I was too low. The attack intended for my core was dealt to my legs. My overboost fell short and I landed infront of her, my legs not functioning I crashed into the ground hard, my cockpit shaking violently with every roll. "ughh" I said as my AC scraped against the ground causing sparks, I was still moving thanks to the momentum from my overboost, my AC flopped around like a rag doll. My core was facing her AC, the orange in my eyes, I hoped Renee wasn't watching this. The core just sat there infront of me not moving. "What's wrong? FIRE!!!" I wanted her to end my humiliation already when I got an idea. I grabbed my control stick and switched to my pulse cannons.heh they did have a use after all. She aimed her plasma rifle at me when I fired. Because my Core was laying on the ground I didn't have to worry about the recoil from the cannons, I let a flurry of pulse blast at her core, reducing her AP to 0. I was more surprised then she was. Her AC groaned and leaned forward when something hit me "I've seen that emblem before." I said
Yuri took off her helmet, the battle was over and she wasn't the victor. She was surprised at the sudden attack made by Defect, if she hadn't hesitated earlier she would have won. She looked into her helmet, she knew there was something stuck in her hair. She pulled out a piece of carrot and smiled, remembering her first kiss.
.Rule 7-NEVER ASK FOR A WOMANS AGE Rule 8-ALWAYS SMILE AT HER Rule 9-NEVER SLURP UP YOUR SPAGHETTI IN FRONT OF HER.
"Spaghetti? I don't think we're going to eat spaghetti Jean" I was overwhelmed, all these rules about women, and I was suppose to remember it in 2 hours, Jean was drilling me in her office about the do's and don'ts of dating. "Well too bad" she wheeled around her chair facing me, "you asked for my help and you're gonna get it" "But is this all really.necessary?" I thought we were just gonna eat and talk, Jean wanted me to set up a parade to go along with it "No but you have no experience once so ever Chris" she looked at me sizing me up, "we need to buy you some new clothes" "Why? what's wrong with this one?" I was holding up a pair of ripped jeans and a jacket, she promptly knocked them outta my hand "WHATS WRONG WITH YOU!!! ITS YOUR FIRST DATE YOU NEED TO LOOK NICE AND HANDSOME FOR HER!!!!" she was angry now, I always feared the red headed beast. "Its just a bite Jean, I don't even know where to take her." that did it, she erupted I had forgotten one of the rules (always know where your going to take a women out for dinner) "FINE THEN!!! GO OUT LIKE THAT SEE HOW SHE'LL LIKE YOU NOW!!!" and with that she shoved me out of her office and slammed the door, everyone in the corridor looked at me "uhh-she's uhhh" my mind only thought up one explanation, "having her period right now"
Some of the rules made sense like buying flowers, and being the one to pay for the date, so I brought at least 500 credits and bought a flower, I don't know why people buy flowers, I guess it's a tradition from the past. At 5:55 I was at the entrance waiting for her, I didn't have to wait long. She was wearing ripped jeans and a jacket (der.why'd I buy dress pants) and tied her long hair into a bun with a pencil holding it in place "nice pants" she said "yeah.thanks" I handed her the rose (thanks a lot Jean) "you look errr lovely" (I hope your happy) "why the stiff look?" she was eyeing my jacket, "oh so your Defect" I looked down, my emblem (which resembled a shield with a dent) was on my jacket "Yeah that's my handle" I replied, "ready to go?" "On that?" she motioned to my motorcycle, "I thought you'd never ask" letting lose a smile
Our first stop was to go shopping, if Jean likes shopping then I guessed she liked shopping too, she did and she saw an orange scarf that she wanted, I bought it for her and was rewarded with a hug, unlike Jean Renee bought thinks that I wouldn't mind having. She bought a copy of the new mech game, Armored Warrior, it let you create a mech out of 400+ parts and you got to fight each other with your creation. Very sweet. "Hey Chris" she paused to lick her ice cream cone, "I saw your fight today, it was really awesome" "Thanks Renee" we had just stopped by a street peddler and bought a cone "That was cool how your Machine gun could fire its rounds so fast, do you use it often?" "Yep, it help me win most of my battles so far, it's a import from Mars" I began to lick my icecream but it fell of my cone onto the ground "Really?" she giggled and took another lick, "hey what time is it?" I checked my watch and almost flipped "oh man its 8:43!!!" "Really?!?" she licked her icecream so hard that it fell right next to mine "oh man I'm sorry Renee I gotta go, my next battle is in like 15 minutes" "wait I gotta be somewhere too, come on lets get back to the nest" she was running with me to my bike, I cant believe I was with her for so long, I guess I was so absorbed with her that I lost my sense of time, which rarely happens.
When we got back to the Nest we rushed in, "Thanks Chris I had a really great time" she was holding my hand running in front of me "Yeah me too, lets do this again sometime?" we had just passed thru the entrance "sure!" she was smiling again I thought fast, before we split up I stopped her for a second and gave her a kiss, she was surprised but she knew what was happening and stood with me "what was that?" she asked after our faces separated, her face red her smile even wider "first rule of dating" I winked at her "always end the date with a kiss, see you later" then I turned and ran down to the loading bay as fast a possible, I didn't want to face the red haired beast again.
"Chris, you made it!" Jean was waiting by my AC, I was out of breath by the time I got to her "huff.huff.yeah" I had to rush to my room and put on my suite, I forgot I didn't have it on when I got the loading bay and had to run all the way to the barracks to get it. "well your battling against really skilled pilot" she looked worried "be careful" "I always" I put on my helmet and slipped into my cockpit, turning on all the switches as my AC was being prepared to rise up to the Arena "Well Steve couldn't fix you rockets in time so your gonna have to deal with a pulse cannon" "A cannon?" I never liked stopping and with cannons you needed to kneel down to use them unless you had quad or tank legs. "Couldn't be helped, good luck" she sounded nervous for some reason, "hey Chris your opponent is." "Don't sound so nervous Jean, its gonna be a quick battle ok?" "Ok take care" "Tell you what I'll take you shopping tomorrow ok?" I was in a really good mood after the date, "so don't worry" I turned on my vid and faced my opponent.
QUITE PLESE.THANK YOU, THE COMBATANTS FOR TODAY ARE YURI AND DEFECT
I was up against Xerox's sister, I hope she won't have a grudge after what I did to her brother
BOTH ACS ARE READY
. BEGIN!!!
The AC I had to challenge was completely made of Martian parts, seems that both Yuri and Xerox favored Martian parts as opposed to Earth's. Her AC was all orange, the same one I saw fighting when I was in the lounge, this time she changed the leg piece into a quad. She had the ZWG-HC-IR/K99 plasma rifle as a right hand weapon and the ZWM-M24/IMI missile launcher, d*am, I thought, that missile launcher was banned on Mars, looks like anything is far here. She even had a left hand rocket launcher, looks like I was gonna have to work for this win. "Lets get this started" I announced "Lets" I heard her respond I switched to my machine gun and boosted toward her, ready to show her what I got, she merely stood still and took aim with her plasma rifle. I was in range to unleash hell when she fired 5 blasts of her rifle "WHAT THE HELL?!?!" I shouted over the com link, with 3 blast my machine gun was toast, with the last 2 it knocked out my core well away from her. "too bad soo sad" she replied I switched to my missiles and began to flank her, the energy blast from her rifle almost completely drained her energy bar. Seeing my opportunity I boosted above her to let loose a blade slash. Her left arm rockets tore my right arm to shreds, my blade stuck her but she continued to assault my AC with rockets. I had to overboost out of the path of her rockets, I switched back to my missiles and let volley upon volley damage her core. It was a bad move, she turned on her missiles and fired back. Almost immediately after the first wave another set were launched, and another and another. I turned on my overboost and weaved left and right dogging the missiles toward her core. I did another blade slash on her orange core, boosting back. I turnboosted and fired my missiles again. She didn't have the same amount of experience of dogging as I did, nearly all my missiles hit her while only 1 missile per volley hit mine. "Is that all you got?" I was getting pissed for not being able to use my machine gun, this battle would have been over but I refused to use the pulse cannon on my back. She had only 732 AP when my missile storage were empty. "d*mn it" I said I looked at her rockets and remembered what it did to my right arm. It also seemed that her energy bar had finally refilled because she began boosting toward me. All I had was a laser blade, the pulse cannon forgotten on my shoulder, I boosted toward her. She fired her plasma rifle again in conjunction with her rockets. I tried to raise my AC above her but I was too low. The attack intended for my core was dealt to my legs. My overboost fell short and I landed infront of her, my legs not functioning I crashed into the ground hard, my cockpit shaking violently with every roll. "ughh" I said as my AC scraped against the ground causing sparks, I was still moving thanks to the momentum from my overboost, my AC flopped around like a rag doll. My core was facing her AC, the orange in my eyes, I hoped Renee wasn't watching this. The core just sat there infront of me not moving. "What's wrong? FIRE!!!" I wanted her to end my humiliation already when I got an idea. I grabbed my control stick and switched to my pulse cannons.heh they did have a use after all. She aimed her plasma rifle at me when I fired. Because my Core was laying on the ground I didn't have to worry about the recoil from the cannons, I let a flurry of pulse blast at her core, reducing her AP to 0. I was more surprised then she was. Her AC groaned and leaned forward when something hit me "I've seen that emblem before." I said
Yuri took off her helmet, the battle was over and she wasn't the victor. She was surprised at the sudden attack made by Defect, if she hadn't hesitated earlier she would have won. She looked into her helmet, she knew there was something stuck in her hair. She pulled out a piece of carrot and smiled, remembering her first kiss.