Tension Rising - Main thread [Fight or Flight]

"Yeah...sorry about that, I figured that a swift kick there often angers people the most...trust me, it's true for both genders and different reasons." He said. "I don't know about the fighting though..."He continued before adopting a thoughtful pose. "When you use you're power, is it actually you or does something seem to be helping?" @Alex Phalin
 
"It's fine. Let's just hope you don't ever have to fight anyone that can remain emotionless, right?" he teased with a grin. He thought for a moment before shrugging. "I'm pretty sure it's all me. My brain processes information at a much higher speed than normal, so in a fight I see things like they're in slow motion while I remain at my normal speed. As for the speed, I'm not sure. It just came along with my reflexes. Why do you ask?" he asked him, quirking an eyebrow. He wasn't really sure if questioning like this was normal behavior around here, but he figured he'd answer anyways.


@Metaphysics
 
"Oh nothing...just curious." He said as deep within his mind he filed away the information on a folder that says 'In Case of Needing to Pull a Batman.' He then smiled. "Yeah, emotionless people pretty much beat me." @Alex Phalin
 
Gray gave him a bit of a questioning look, though the little smirk on his face suggested that he knew exactly why he asked. "I see. So, this your first year here?" he asked, back to his normal, friendly self. "And what was the deal with the attack on the school? I was in my room when it started, and I just stayed there. I haven't really heard much about what actually happened."


@Metaphysics
 
"Well, that is far more eventful than I was expecting." Dex mustered his most authoritative voice to bellow at Thomas (@Metaphysics) "No! Just... No. That is not okay under any circumstances. Even if the guy murdered your dog, raped your sister, and sold your parents into slavery, that is too far!" Dex seethed. Turning to Gray (@ProcFailures) Dex said, lapsing back into his insane oblivion. Dex seemed to be growing worse by the hour; his mind was failing and he knew it. His walls were falling, and once he had seen the outside, there was no crawling back from reality.
 
Teru

He had noticed quite the spectacle at work going on here. Teru successfully concluded that a lot of people are completely and utterly insane.


He sighed as he came forward and supposed next was for him to demonstrate to Nikolas. The objective was to only destroy the target.


Easy enough.


Teru walked to in front the dummy to avoid dummies being around him accidentally being in the line of fire, lest he injure an innocent.


For Teru it seemed simple enough. With a click of his fingers 14 0.45 hollow-point magnum rounds exploded into trajectory around him into the target.

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The rounds upon entering the dummy expanded into 6 pointed stars, designed to avoid penetration and to maximize destruction of tissue upon entry.


Safe to say, the dummy wasn't appreciative of having been torn to shreds from the inside and fell apart in front of him.


Teru walked back, feeling his job was done.


Kojiro

Kojiro took no regard who's turn it was, he just wanted to go next. Especially after some annoying runt made the hall explode with the fire of bullets.


"Right, me next!" Kojiro sprang forward to the dummy, which was rather human-like. He felt punching it would just cause mass destruction and he was explicitly told to avoid that. It sounded dull to him, but went with it anyway.


Instead Kojiro ripped the dummy out from where it stood and between his hands compressed it into the size of a tennis ball, which didn't take long at all.


With now a tennis ball of fake flesh in his hand rolled up, Kojiro tightened his grip and crushed it in his hands. It was safe to say it was no pleasant 'death' and students were probably already dreading going ever against him.


"Done now!" Kojiro exclaimed and strode back to where he stood, towering over pupils.


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The instructions were pretty clear-cut: hit the mannequin, don't break the school. Kiara considered the task for a while as others from both groups commenced with their attacks. Naturally, Teru shredded the dummy with what seemed his typical aplomb. Kiara could sense his confidence from where she stood and her brow furrowed as she wondered if Teru might be overly confident. The ease with which he shot up the target certainly made it seem so.


When a lull ensued in her group, Kiara pressed her way to the make-shift firing line. She stared at the target for several heartbeats as she thought about how she might best affect it. Finally, the idea came to her.


Kiara took a breath and held it as she reached out to her talent. Instead of the shielding dome that she had used the other day to defend against Teru's ballistic assault, or the wall of force that she had earlier demonstrated to him by lightly pushing him, Kiara created a small, localized field that was centered in front of the dummy's head. Her posture never changed as she stood, arms crossed and one hip cocked to the side, while she plied her craft.


Without warning or other visible sign, Kiara shoved her small, panel of force violently forward against the target's head, the speed and impact of which knocked the head back with a sickening crack. Against a human target, Kiara would have easily snapped its neck.


She exhaled and released her hold on her power. The result of her attack on the dummy made her slightly ill; Kiara preferred to use her talent for defense and the idea of killing another person with such violence and ease troubled her.


A hint of rotten eggs drifted in the auditorium's air as it gently wafted back towards the group from the mannequin. Kiara turned to her instructor and flatly asked, "Is that what you wanted?"


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Gray jumped a bit when Dex went on his verbal rampage, scratching his head a bit in embarrassment. He forced a small smile and spoke with respect.


"I'm sorry sir... I lost my cool and things got a little out of hand. It won't happen again." he explained. He spared a glance over at Thomas with a sympathetic smile before turning his attention back to the demonstrations.


He jumped a bit when there was a barrage of gunfire, his eyes going wide. "Whoa, cool..." he mumbled. Then the muscle-bound guy went up and turned one of the dummies into a tiny ball. He made a mental note of both and stepped up to the dummy, calming his breathing a bit.


There was a sudden flash of steel, and as quickly as it appeared it vanished. The dummy fell apart in dozens of pieces, cleanly sliced apart.
 
"Heh. Finally." Julian was fairly unshaken by whatever destruction occured around her, and the teach's outburst. It was none of her business. It was the food chain, nature's way of selecting survivors. Those who died were the weak ones. This trend would keep going unless someone put a stop to it, and the only way that she knew to stop anything was to put a fist through it. She ran a tongue over her teeth, some of them resembling incisors rather than human teeth and grinned. As she took a step forwards, a hulking bulk of muscle charged past her and crushed the dummy. The change in her face was instantaneous. A ray of light seemed to shine on her as she recognised that gleaming body of pure power and strength.


"KOOOOOJJJIIIIIRRRROOOOOOO!" Julian let out a howl of twisted joy at finding the one person that made an impression on her, in more ways than one. She was at the peak now. She can't crush things like he could but she'll show him! She'll show them all! With a snarl and a roar, she pounced on a surviving dummy. Her fists struck the human torso, hammering it repeatedly, denting it heavily. A laugh began to form at her lips, and she released a hyena's cackle as her fists flew at the speed of sound, slamming against the defenseless dummy. Slowly, the meatbag began to crumple from the force, and then flatten, before the contents of the bag began to spill over the floor. Shards of rubber and plastic scattered throughout, as the girl continued to savagely attack it. She reached around to the metal leg of the dummy, wrenched it apart, and continued to slam it against the now-rather-ruined dummy, until half of it snapped. The broken half flew across the room and bounced with a few clanks and settled.


Breathing heavily, she looked up at the teach, then at Kojiro, then at the teach again, her chest rising and falling with each breath as she straightened up. "That was...that was a good release of pent-up anger. Much better than sticking around and talkin' 'bout my problems."
 
"Welp, I go then." He said as he approached the dummy. "Alright anger, do your thing." He said as he he channeled the absorbed anger. He gave it a left and right hook that looked painful if it were used on a human before ending with a swift crotch kick that sent the dummy flying. Each of his attacks left a red smear of light and he felt exhausted. "That's all." He said as he turned and wearily walked back. @Godman873
 
Kojiro

There was a second of silence, where it just about anything could happen. No crickets, no nothing.


"...BAHAHAHAHAHA, well if it ain't you Julian ye crazed bitch! Well, I ain't arguing with that logic, I'd do the same thing myself!"


Kojiro spoke with a giant grin on his face the entire time. He respected the girl, mostly for having a similar mindset.


He also remembered training the girl when she was younger, the girl hitting away at his spectacular abs as a training target. To think she had grown to someone still of the same mindset, it made him smile wider than a Cheshire cat.


Kojiro stood with his arms crossed and with one hand ruffled the girls hair, as though in appreciation of them.


"Remind me for us to spar later, it'll be fun!"


(Yay for invented backstory)


@ProcFailures


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Gray watched the other demonstrations with interest, hands slid in his pockets. He seem strangely riveted by the displays. When Thomas came back over he grinned a bit. "I'm just glad you kicked me before you powered yourself up. Otherwise I'd probably be firmly stuck in the roof." he joked with a small laugh.


"So, is it just anger? Or any emotion?" he asked, tilting his head a bit in curiosity.


@Metaphysics
 
"Haven't tried any others yet." He replied with a casual dismissive wave of his hand. "I think different emotions would have different effects." He continued as he sat on the floor. "But it sure takes a lot out of me." He commented as he rested. @Alex Phalin
 
Gray crouched next to him, resting his arms on his knees. "It'll be interesting to see how your power develops over time. That's what I think is so interesting about Metas." he said with a little smirk. "When I first found out about my abilities, I'd spend hours letting my little brother throw things at me. At first I thought I just had insanely fast reflexes, until he threw a baseball a little too fast and it nearly hit one of our windows. I was pretty shocked when I traveled sixty feet and stopped it before it hit." He grinned a bit, obviously proud.


"Anyways, it's cool to see what everyone can do. Really gives you an idea of the array of powers people can have."


@Metaphysics
 
Boris had walked towards the power testing area. Although perhaps 'walked' wasn't the correct word, as that usually meant reliably moving forward. Boris stumbled in every direction, before finally arriving (perhaps on accident) to a place where everyone seemed to be testing their powers on a dummy.


"OK my turn now!" Kojiro yelled. He'd recognize that voice anywhere, as that fucker had decided to break his face to see if he could once. He distinctly remembered how the modified taser had connected with Kojiro's neck, and how the muscled man had fallen to the ground afterward.


Right now, however, Kojiro had destroyed one of the dummies... Which left three others. Boris decided to sic his robot on one of them.


His robot swung around, shooting one of its arms at the ceiling and embedding itself there. The other one was shot at the dummy, held on and was quickly retracted. Robot shot towards dummy, and dummy shot towards robot, in what was to be an epic confrontation. It became less epic when the robot drenched the dummy in a glinstering fluid, which was quickly set alight by a spark originating from the robot's arm.


Still swinging, it chucked the dummy to the ground. The robot released its arm from the ceiling, and landed feet-first on the dummy. It then put the now slightly-charred dummy back where it stood, and returned to Boris.


"Well done Mannequin. Tonight, extra oil for joints!" He said, even though the robot didn't seem to respond.
 
Hmmmmm Fox thought How should I destroy these? Then when the idea came to her she grinned. This'll be fun!


"Going Now!" She shouted as a warning to anyone stupid enough to be between her and a target then shifted to her hawk form and flapped to the ceiling. She then shifted again, this time into an elephant and let gravity take it's course. She landed, feeling the dummy collapse underneath her, and shifted back winded. "wooo!" She cheered weakly, "I'm going to go sit down a minute.


@Anyone in the target range
 
All who paid attention to Julian then would realise that she was almost akin to little puppy who had not seen its owner for an extended period of time. She let the giant man ruffle her hair; the look on her face showed nothing but pure, unadulterated joy at meeting Kojiro again. She gave a girlish, and completely uncharacteristic giggle and threw her arms around the giant man's neck.


"Kojirooooo~" her usually thuggish drawl was replaced with a more kid-like cheer. "Don't worry, I'll look you up before long. If this boredom keeps up, I probably might just try to satisfy my urges on you....not that I'd even put a dent on you." But that's the fun of it. She was a hundred percent sure that Kojiro could keep up with her punches, and he himself wouldn't pull any. She was no equal of his, that much she knew, and that was what she liked the most about challenging this guy.


@PicaPirate
 
"Lucky you..." He said solemnly as he looked away, remembering what he did to discover the full extent of his ability. "Some emotions are very annoying, like surprise, it's like fireworks right at my eyes and love, I don't know why but it feels dangerous." He said. "Also east you have self-control when I didn't." @Alex Phalin
 
Gray tilted his head a bit, listening. He combed some of his silvery hair from his face with a small smirk.


"Well, love's always dangerous, so you're not far off there. Trust me, I don't have nearly as much control as you think. You know how many poles I run into when I'm zipping around?" he asked with a small grin. "Nearly smashed my own face in once. I end up getting, like... this tunnel vision when I get up to speed. Sometimes I'll move too fast for even my reflexes to keep up. That's why we're all here, right?" he asked. "To keep building up our abilities. We may not start off great, but we'll get there."


@Metaphysics
 
"Yeah...though I'm curious to what would happen if I drained some love and channeled it." He said as he continued to rest. "Do you even trip when you're moving that fast?" he asked as he looked to him. @Alex Phalin
 
Kojiro

He could see the girls figurative tail wagging behind her, before the lil puppy decided to bound onto him and wrap around him. He was honestly not surprised with someone as impulsive as she was.


She then started talking in a cheery child-like voice only he usually heard. He was about to question the point of 'satisfying urges', but then realised she meant punching him. He should have known, the kid was a punch-nut like he is.


He did like the idea of the sparring, giving him fun stuff to do.


"Well you better show me how much you've improved since then! Last time you couldn't even scratch me!"


Kojiro laughed out loud. He was expecting a blow he could feel at the least from her if she didn't want to disappoint him. The girl hanging on him was of no burden to him with his strength.


@ProcFailures


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Malcolm stayed back and watched the students aproach on this dummy. He got to admit some of them are very creative. He couldn't help but chuckle. To think he was doing this seven years ago, although he can't remember that far back. But there was one thing he was sure of, and that's there people back then that could completely destroy that dummy with minimal effort. But him? No way, or atleast with minimal effort.
 
Gray thought for a few moments. "Well... There was this one time that I tripped. Ended up skidding a hundred feet right into the back of a parked truck. That one really hurt." he said with a laugh.


"I can still be a bit clumsy, sometimes. I'm getting better about it, though." he explained. "What about you? Any embarrassing power mishaps?"


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Zach finally made his way to class, stopping just inside to lean against the back wall. It looked like everyone was doing power demonstrations. Again. He sighed a bit and looked around, noticing Sen off in the crowd. Pulling out a cigarette he let it hang loosely in his lips, feeling sharp stabs of pain even with such a small movement. He'd participate, but not only had he demonstrated his abilities the day of the attack, but he was in no condition to be using his powers. He was hardly in condition to walk.


With a small sigh he went back out into the hallway and lit up the cigarette with a small spark, taking a long drag. He was starting to wonder if it was a good idea to come to this school or not.


@Metaphysics @anyone who noticed Zach move out into the hallway.
 
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Alec shivered as she left his body, and supported himself on his arm further. He looked across the room at Claire as she got up and spoke to him. His face broke out in a smile as he looked at her. He finally got to put a face to the voice in his head. There probably wasn't a lot of people who could say that. He staggered from the wall towards her with his right arm extended for a handshake. "That's pretty cool! I guess I should properly introduce myself now!" He said, before his legs turned to liquid and he fell down onto the floor face first, with Pandora jumping off his shoulder and chirping loudly. He grunted, and the got back up on his knees, with a bruise on his forehead. "Tsk, I'll have to get used to my injured body now, as I don't have you supporting me." He said, still smiling.


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Claire laughed, finally out loud this time. This boy was just as much as carefree and amusing on the outside as he had been inside of his mind. Alec held out his hand to shake hers, and she had reached for it, but he seemed to stumble over his own feet onto his face. "Oh! Are you alright? Come here and sit down," she said this while patting the bedside, then reaching down to give him a hand up from the floor. "C'mon, I'll still support you, at least until you get back on your feet again." Claire stroked the kiwi's feathery little head, "It's cute, Pandora, was it? A he or a she, if you don't mind my asking?"


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"Yeah, I'm alright." Alec happily accepted her hand and pulled himself off the floor. Pandora spitefully accepted the patting, and glared at Alec for not stopping her. He looked up at her with a confused-like expression when she asked about Pandora's gender. He leaned in close to her, and whispered "Physically, it's a she, but he wants you to respect his life choices. Just refer to him as a he." He looked down at Pandora, who'd joined them on the bed. "He seems to like you though."


(Something or other happens, sorry, haven't been able to read everything that's happened. @Godman873
 
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