Pushing It Hard

[fire_dancer]

Fort Alhambra

Raquel was was actually tired, very tired really when it got down to it, her mother had been throwing her through brutal training even by her own standard and she was wary in both body and soul. It been hard and she couldn't fully get what had got to her mother? She just makes her way into one of the lounges .

Worse the memories of the battle with the beta were haunting her, even if she had the Amazon it would have only stemmed the tide a bit more. What were those things where did they come from she slumped into the chair in the lounge and just slumping in she's not out of sorts like she was after the mysterious south American fight. No she just looked very wary if one were to observe here.

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[jianai]

Hello.

[An unusual horned person approaches the chair Raquel's resting on.]

I couldn't help but notice, you're very tired. Working hard? Or exhausted by the worries of the world, maybe?

Is everything alright? I hope I'm not asking too many questions, am I?

[They kinda are.]

[fire_dancer]

Raquel looks up at the stranger with horns like some sort of demon. She takes a good hard look at the other person for a moment as they rattle off questions like a machine gun.

"You might want to slow down Yes training very hard more so than I done in my life and I have to ask before I answer further whom /are/ you? It seems I have missed a lot while I was out training."

[jianai]

Ah, right! Please excuse me.

[Ren takes a step back - literally and in terms of conversation.]

My name is Ren Ubuntu. While you were gone, I was found by Unity Group and given protection against my own kin, who want to hunt me down. In the meantime I've decided to pay back by doing a little piloting of my own... though I'm not sure how well that worked out.

[That everpresent smile takes on a slightly apologetic look.]

Anyway as you probably noticed, I am not a human.

[fire_dancer]

"Raquel Manora. You were found humm seems we're always taking in strays like myself it seems. Not that I think it's back. Humm what are you looking to pilot if I might ask and well your not the first non human I seen. We had a few throw in."

[jianai]

It's nice to meet you, Raquel. The pleasure is all mine, as it was when I talked to some of the other non human members of Unity Group. But please, don't get the wrong idea - it's not that I had nowhere else to go.

I'm not worried for myself, only for people who are around me. The fact that I am targeted means they are threatened too. This is why I am with Unity Group - you're not afraid of my kin. To put it bluntly, you can take them.

[fire_dancer]

"Humm I understand that, I won't fault you fot it at all and they are gunning for you? Do you have any idea why?"

[jianai]

They want to eat my flesh.

[ugyuuya]

Hey Raquel, you seem to be a bit drained. Been keeping late hours trying to figure out your martial arts?

[fire_dancer]

Raquel was about to say something, there's a stunned look on their face. She stares for a moment before her mouth open unable to form words. Finally it seems to work again as she speaks.

"Wait what?! Why!?"

[fire_dancer]

"Try my Master's gone beyond throwing boulders at me and has been laying into me harder than I have ever /seen/. It's like Satan himself is trying to kick down our front door..."

Raquel shifts a little bit and looks over to her friend.

"She still won't tell me what's up which is the oddest thing..."

[jianai]

That ties to what I said earlier. You see, I am... not technically immortal, but for the time being I cannot be killed.

[Ren says it like it's no big thing.]

My kin are afraid of death, so by eating my body they hope for this immortal-like state to transfer to them. They're not wrong, either.

[fire_dancer]

"Everyone fears the reaper and people have been driven here to do horrific things trying to defeat it as it were. I see ... they wish to kill one person to preserve many? That ... still is not the sort of logic I like I admit."

Raquel shifts about a bit more uncomfortably thinking of beings alien or not who'd attempt to do such.

[jianai]

No, I do not like it either. Especially since, well, it may be a selfish desire but I would rather stay alive myself.

[Smile, smile.]

Are you training for a reason in particular, Raquel?

[ugyuuya]

Maybe she's worried you'll go looking for trouble before you're ready? Or it could just be that she's spooked and unsure of where to begin with the history of what's happening.

[Tarisa takes a seat across from Raquel.]

I'm pretty sure from what you've said and the way things have gone that there's some connection, we just have to hope they don't try using you as leverage to make it.

[fire_dancer]

"I have been training most of my life to be honest. My mothers always been like that. It's more something happened, our martial art style so far as I know has no name, no one else I ever have seen have used it."

Raquel shifts a bit uncomfortably before she carries on.

"During an operation in South America we were attacked by a force of unknown machines who seemed not only to know the style but how to utterly counter it."

[fire_dancer]

"That could bit it, but I never seen her clam up on anything like this other than asking about my Father. Which is strally strange."

"The question is what and I'm concerned where it goes, why is my mom connected to them if they are this raise questions about her, and me..."

[jianai]

Oh? It sounds like your style is known by more than just two people then. But that's obvious by now.

The question is, where did those mysterious machines learn it from?

[ugyuuya]

You're actually a half-shura and your mother stole an heirloom elite machine that used to belong to your dead father. Now the Shura want it back and have tracked the two of you down to get it.

[Tarisa pauses for a beat.]

You know that was inspired by those bad cartoons they made decades ago but re-ran when we were kids but now it actually sounds feasible enough with everything else going on that it's really not funny as a joke.

[fire_dancer]

Raquel takes a look at he friend for a moment and stares at her for a moment not saying a thing.

"Ya a lot of that stuff is starting to come out as actual truth these days it's ... nerving."

[fire_dancer]

"That's a question I have been asking and our resident Shura has vanished so I have no idea whom I can ask."

She shifts about a little bit thinking.

"I'm not even sure if I can get something out of my mother on this. She's being locked down harder than a lawyer's soul."

[jianai]

If the situation becomes really serious, perhaps your mother will change her mind? I would like to meet her anyway - she must be an extraordinary person.

[fire_dancer]

"That's what I'm hoping she does maybe she will. Maybe she won't it's hard to tell. Also yes she could break me in two in a fight to be perfectly honest."