First Game

[break_the_nine]

Owwww....

[Well Leos certainly had a rough day. Right now he was being laid up in one of the Unity Group's infirmaries and his AC was... to put it bluntly a complete mess. This of course led to a severe ear bashing from both his operator Lana Nielsen as well as his sponsors. So all in all not a good day.]

Owww- Is... is that a pudding cup? YES! SCORE!I

[Or maybe not. Apparently someone decided pudding was a perfectly acceptable thing to give to recovering pilots on their food trays along with the rest of their meals.]

Mm? Oh hi!

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[3xmadder]

[That pudding cup is getting snatched or, if he's already eaten most of it, the convalescent pilot is just going to have another pilot try to grab his ear.]

[break_the_nine]

Wha- HEY! GIVE IT BACK!

[Katina, Leos is just going to flail at you now.]

[3xmadder]

[Nope. Holding it out of his reach.]

I don't know how arena fighters do things, but in the army, getting shot down is not rewarded with pudding cups.

[break_the_nine]

But I'm injuuuuured! I need that pudding to get better! Gimmieeee!

[Damnit! Too far out of reach! BUT! MUST! PERSEVERE!]

I'm only an arena fighter so I can brutally murder the reigning champ!!

[Ahahaha look at him flail- wait WHAT?!]

[3xmadder]

And throwing a tantrum like a five year old is helping you do that, right?

[Katina doesn't really care what this guy plans to do on his own time, although as someone who's threatened to murder more people than your average third world dictatorship she might not exactly be able to take the threat seriously.]

[break_the_nine]

No! I'm going to get stronger! That's why I bothered joining the Raven's Nest! Its why Lana set me up here! So I can learn while I'm fighting alongside the best!

This was my first time fighting and maybe I got my butt kicked... we STILL WON!

[3xmadder]

[The pudding cup is lowered slightly.]

Yeah, we did. You even managed to survive throwing yourself at a superior enemy like a moron. Normally it takes years of experience to live through that.

Goals are good. Excuses aren't. Are you gonna keep crying and giving excuses, or are you gonna pretend you're a soldier?

[break_the_nine]

[Leos expression suddenly changes. It was like a switch was flipped off. He was going to snatch his pudding back thank YOU very much.]

I'm not going to sit and cry and make excuses...

But I'm not going to be a soldier either.

[His hands tremble.]

Soldiers kill innocent people. I don't. I won't.

Leave me alone...

[3xmadder]

[Katina makes no attempt to get the pudding back. Or argue.]

Yeah, soldiers have done that. Soldiers will probably continue doing that. Not every army does much of a psych screening, and even without the crazies, mistakes happen.

But don't think for a second you're better than us. Not when you're here fighting the same battles.

[She turns and starts walking out of the room.]

Good job not dying, by the way.