Debriefing4: Casefile1: A list of One

I understand that it is my job to replace the two students who were expelled from the program. It was requested of me to come up with a list, but I only have a single choice: Student #44. She had showed more skill then many of the other students. Also she is ranked one of the best in Academy. She is a hard worker and determined to be the best. That is why I think she'd be the perfect candidate for the HP program. Also on a side note, there is a young lady who was recently apprehended with a group of rebels. According to the reports she had demonstrated tremendous skill with a MT. I recommend that she is sent here to the Academy for training. I believe she has the potential to be some what good.

Report Submitted by: Instructor Albion

Chapter4:Brush in with Fate

With Inu and Azriel

The dynamic duo were walking the halls to Dr. SubAtomic's class. Azriel being as he is laughed. He knew something Inu didn't and that alone made Inu wonder. They walked the halls only to pass the staff of this hole in the ground.

"Yo, bro? I think you should down play being yourself for a bit. I mean your making some dangerous enemies, and we both know the only reason your still here is because of your combat performance only."

Inu did as he did most of the time and brushed it off, but he suddenly stopped in his tracks, and took a whiff of the air. Azriel stopped in response.

"What you smelling dog boy?"

Inu turned his head in a direction as almost to point. His usual calm demeanor was almost in shambles, as he took in another whiff of the stale air, and let out a slight whimper.

Azriel arched an eyebrow. He knew what ever Inu caught wind of was good. "What is it boy?"

Inu turn to Azriel and shot out the opposite way he had looking. "Psycho kitty!"

Azriel sighed, and shook his head before taking off after Inu. He hated to have to chase Inu because Inu was faster then himself and could run for longer periods of time. He started his walk down the path Inu had dashed off in, but as he was wonder what could spook Inu so badly?

About ten minutes later Azriel found Inu in the Cafeteria hiding under a table. Azriel had to drag Inu out and force him back on his way to class. Now there was only ten minutes before the next bell, but Azriel was confident they'd make it, and they did five minutes later.

Dr. SubAtomic was surprised to see that Inu had actually made it to class. He hold them to sit down, and Azriel did just that in his seat, but Inu sat down in front of SubAtomic. This angered him. This time he told him to sit in his seat, so Inu went to Dr. SubAtomic's desk and sat like a dog on his desk. He at this time had SubAtomic heated.

"No, no, NO! Sit in your own damned seat, InuAcosta!" Looked over to Inu had by this time had sat like a dog in his own seat. "Close enough, and now Inu. Who was Napoleon?"

Inu scratched his head for a second. "Dynamite, or the pastry?"

Dr. SubAtomic was ready to beat himself over the head in frustration, but was able to keep his cool as the final few seconds of class came to a close. The bell rang just in the nick of time, and he dismissed his class.

Now Azriel and Inu were heading out the door when Inu heard the familiar sound of cracking knuckles. His eyes went wide for a moment that is till he caught the scent, and relaxed. Azriel on the other hand had turned around to the new student to the HP class.

It was Emiko. She was of Asian decent and had short dark hair had a single hot pink streak. She was known around the academy to be an aggressive person, while her brother on the other was the opposite. Both were good, and together dominated the Academy tag rankings.

"So I see Inu is felling well." She sounded sarcastic and was stand with her arms crossed over her chest.

Inu by know had turned around and was smile his funny grin as he scratched his head before replying. "Well you know me. I just don't give up!"

She smirked at the remark before brushing past Inu and Azriel. "Oh and by the way there's a new student in the Academy."

Azriel of course didn't really care. He was confident that no matter who'd show up, no one could take his place as number one. Inu on the other had seemed a little shaky, but that was silence when Azriel slap upside Inu's head. Inu went forward a little and gripped his head.

"What you do that for?" Inu retorted.

"Because you idiot! You were pissing off the teacher again. Bad enough you got Albion, and the Head Mistress gunning for your, but don't get the guy who has the authorization to your AC. He could tune your AC to blow up in the middle of an exercise." Azriel took a deep breathe. "Now C'mon we need to get to Combat with Albion."

Azriel started off ahead of Inu with his hands in his pockets and only stopped when he noticed Inu was falling behind. Azriel turned to Inu and shot a look before moving on into the crowd.

Needless to say Azriel made it to class and Inu just before the bell. In this class Albion instructed them in the art of combat, but today was a little different. Albion was sitting down when be preferred to stand this was never a good thing when he had to sit down.

"Class? I'd like to introduce a new student." Albion got up and walked to the door, and took a deep breathe before opening the door. When he opened six guards walked into the room in formation around what was a person in hand cuffs.

Inu caught an eye of the person and quickly ducked under his seat in hopes of hiding. Azriel caught this in the corner of his eyes. Azriel turned to Inu as the guards separated three to each side to reveal a young lady. She was of average high with cat-like eyes, and back hair with dark blue streaks. She had a scowl on her face, and was shooting aggressive looks at anyone who'd look at her.

Azriel arched an eyebrow. "What are you doing?"

Inu sat there almost shaking a little. "I know her. She's gonna kill me!"

Albion looked around the room and saw Inu hiding and smiled. "Ok class. This is the newest member to the academy. Her name is Sarah Simmz, and I have great hopes for her here. Will you saw anything Ms. Sarah?"

Sarah looked towards Albion and spat at him. She next gave a round of fingers to everyone before saying anything. "You can all get bent!" She looked over to one of the guard. "Hey, you small fry. Get these damn cuffs off me!"

Azriel after this display could under stand why Inu would want to hide, but he grabbed Inu by the collar and lifted him into view. Inu was somewhat kicking, and noticed Sarah trying to focus on his face.

Sarah pointed in anger at Inu. Her eyes went narrow like a cat's. "YOU!" She seemed to have worked herself into a frenzy.

Inu not knowing what to do waved back at her. "Sup Sarah? How you been?" This only infuriated her more. Inu gulped hard and Albion was smiling.

Albion looked over at the guards and nodded. They looked back at Albion as if he had two head. Now a nonverbal battle was being waged whether or not to let Sarah loose. In the end Albion won, and slowly the guards un-cuff her. When they were off she gripped her wrists for a second before looking over at the guard. "It's about freakin' time!" She turned her sights towards Inu, and literally pounced on him!

Inu struggled to keep her from clawing him, as no one did anything to stop them. Inu eventually lost out and Sarah had her hands firmly around his neck! For no reason he began to laugh as she strangled him. Inu started to cough as he tried to get back his breath. He looked around to see Azriel still trying to restrain Sarah and mouthed "help me."

Azriel didn't react quickly in fact he waited a second before pulling her off Inu. He held her kicking. Inu quickly tried to run behind something so he could catch his breath. Now everyone in the class was laughing, and Sarah was huffing and puffing.

After a bit Albion took control of his class and told Inu back to his seat. After things got settled down He had to get her a seat. Albion had Sarah stand next to him as he looked at all the available seats. He spotted one next to Inu.

"Miss Sarah take the seat next to InuAcosta. I think this would be acceptable." Albion watched as Sarah took her seat and just looked at Inu for a second. She pointed a finger at him.

"I thought you were dead you bastard!" You could see it in her eyes. "I was so happy when I heard you died…" You could see the fire in her eyes as she told him this.

Azriel arched an eyebrow in surprised and this peaked his curiosity. "So why you hate Inu?"

Sarah closed her eye and sighed. "Well he and I were in the same anti-corporation group. The two of us worked together and he just got on my nerves with that freaky laugh. It was just annoying."

Azriel looked over to Inu still wondering what was happening. "So how you died?"

Inu scratched his head and thought it over. "Well I was recruited to this program by Crest. They even arranged as so I would go missing and my MT completely demolished to the point my remains were totally incinerated."

Albion was standing before the class arms folded over his chest and right foot tapping. "Are the three of you done, as so I could go on with our review of the exercise that took place not so long ago?" Azriel nodded, Inu shook his head and Sarah had her head down and gave Albion the finger.

Albion brushed it off and went back to his lesson, or argument depending on your view of it. It wasn't too long till it sounded more like he was just yelling at Inu for all the mistakes he made. Then of course the bell rang and it was a rush out the door.

Outside the door were the security guards who had escorted Sarah in. She was compliant and let them cuff her, but she had to give them the only thing she knew how in a case such as this, and so she gave them the finger.

"Miss Sarah your next class is mechanics with the good doctor SubAtomic." Said a guard to her left as they began moving down the halls.

Sarah hated being in the Academy, but she had a choice and she choose this over prison, and now she was wondering if this was the right choice, and her angry disposition has yet to earn her any freedom.

Well they made it to mechanics and she was placed this time with the normal students. She did pretty much the same introduction as she had the last class minus the attack on Inu.

This was the class Sarah was to receive an AC form and a portable device which will store her simulator data. The AC simulators where located three doors down from Dr. SubAtomic's room. In Fact she was scheduled there next. She hated being under the weight of the administration.

"And now were going on to the art of energy conservation. It is a must! Your energy supply is what keeps your AC from being a sitting duck or even defenseless. Now you all should be familiar with Kale and his AC Vector. This is an excellent example of power and conservation. His AC uses almost all energy base weapons except for a micro missile pack and solid EO. Well it seems that his AC has limitless energy, but in fact it is a combination of low drain parts with high output generator. Now let's look at a very different kind of design. You all should know who our resident head ranker Azriel and his AC Symphony. It uses high drain parts with the FUDOH generator and the gull boosters. Now this is a good generator but it has a slow energy recovery time with his parts." He paused to pull down a chart of parts to help illustrate his point. "Now the key to Azriel's design is its weapon selection. It uses orbits and the RAIJIN blade as its energy base. It also has micro missiles, missile extensions and a high attack machine gun. Because of the recovery speed Symphony needs a quick kill. So it uses a powerful close-range assault in which it unleashes a rapid combination of its weapons. In theory an AC that can keep it's distant and survives its orbits run a good chance of victory."

Sarah had met Azriel not too long ago and didn't care how good he was supposed to be. In fact she cared not to be here. She rather be anywhere then listen Dr. SubAtomic drone on. She was just looking around the room. She was checking out the competition more or less and concluded that they all weren't worth her time.

Sarah ten minutes later was fight off sleep as Dr. SubAtomic tried to explain the mechanics of a generator and how condenser and caloric value can diversely effect the out come in battle. She was ready to rip her ears off her head when the bell rang.

Sarah was met by the guards and moved to the simulator room a couple doors down. She was un-cuffed and let into the room. There was a lady at the desk by the door and man by another door towards the back. The lady had auburn hair and light eyes. She was sitting behind the desk tapping a pen and holding a clip board.

Sarah figured that she had to sign herself in, which she did. Now she head towards the man who was an older man with grey patches along the sides of his head. He looked at Sarah with a hand extended.

"AC portable drive and ID please." Sarah was confused and didn't understand and the man could see she didn't. "Let me guess you are new here?" She nodded. "Hold on and I'll get you a drive and see about your ID." The man went behind the desk and started typing on a monitor. He printed out a card and had the drive in hand. He handed it to her. "Your ID is HP-07, and the drive is where you'll store all simulator data and it will act as a blue print for your AC. Now follow me through this door."

He opened to door to a dimly lit room with six pod things in the center with cables in every direction. He walked her to one pod and looked around. He knocked on a pod and it opened up to reveal a student. "Hey Nixie. Could you walk her through this? It's her first time here." Nixie nodded and the man left.

Nixie was slightly taller than Sarah and she had short white hair. Her eyes were full of life and the color was a soft grey. She looked over Sarah before getting out the simulator.

"Hi! I'm Nixie, oh and I'm the second best AC designer and mechanic. I'll help you get the best design. Take a seat."

Sarah was in slight shock at how perky Nixie was. She didn't want help but she sat down where Nixie told her to. She looked at the set up and some of the controls looked familiar to her. Nixie stood over Sarah and point to a port for the drive.

"Please put your drive in there, and we'll get started ok?" Sarah nodded and they started the process. "Select a leg type, then select weight class, and finally input a name for your AC.

Sarah selected bipedal, mid-light, and she named her AC Gato. Then Nixie started to play around with some of the parts till her AC had a HORNET head, the EO light weight core E2, LEMAR2 arms COURGAR2 legs and the BIRDIE boosters. The weapons were a GAST AST rifle on the left arm and a high attack machine gun on the right. She had on her back one HYDRA2 multi-missile pack and five usage extension missile and MEDUSA2 decoys. The AC had a navy blue base color with hot pink detail and everything else was black.

"Well I think this is some of the best work I've done in a while." Nixie exclaimed once she finished the part tuning and optional part selecting. "I'll take this up to the AC shop and get the mechanics to start on the construction on your AC Gato, ok?" Sarah nodded no sure what was happening anymore. Nixie reached over and took the drive leaving Sarah to run test with the design.

About a half hour later Sarah was still in the simulator practicing with a grin on her face as she ran the AC simulator with some of the other students who had come and gone. She was now 23 and 0. It looked like no one could stop her till she lost the match she was in. She was heated and had to know who it was.

She got out of her simulator and knocked on simulator No.1 and was ready to bust some heads when Azriel came out of the simulator as if he had done nothing. He walked alongside Sarah and said. "Better luck next time." Then walked out of the room, like he was all big and bad.

A/N: What will happen next? Why did Albion want Sarah in the program, and why is Azriel the so good? Can anyone beat him?

N/C: The Crimson Wolf vs. the Blue Wolf