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Lost in his own thoughts, Unks' was the voice he needed to jolt him out of his daze, although his face was still completely blank. It was usually blank these days anyway, a defense mechanism, but anyone who could so much as feel the tension in the air would have known he was not completely 'alright.'

However, rather than insult Unks' intelligence, he chose to remain silent as he lifted his eyes to meet the ice cold blue eyes of the purple haired Saiya-jin. Leaning back he turned to notice his milk had gone warm. Dammit! It was such a nice glass too. Just the perfect amount of chocolate syrup, no residue settled at the bottom. Damn Unit 97.

Returning to Unks though, he decided saying something was better than nothing, grim though it may be. "You and your wife had better be in the best shape of your life." It was a rather vain thing to say as all the couples in Orion save he and Ichi kept each other in shape. Nonetheless, they were gonna need a lot more than speed, stamina, strength, ki, or mana for this fight. Outside of the box. Just how far from the box could any of them fight? How far would they need to be? Dammit, the questions again.

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Jade reached out and placed a hand on her brothers shoulder, squeezing it gently as she looked into his amber eyes.

"Ano, Nii-chan.....calm down." She searched his eyes, and easily found what she knew would be there. Even though he likely wouldn't admit it, Keno was very much like a Saiya-jin in his own way. He thrived at the thought of a challenge. It had been a while since she'd seen that fire in his eyes, and a dangerous one it was.

Jade was thankful for the knowledge Kirra craved. While Jade was constantly training, her counter-persona was constantly pouring herself into books, and took up the Japanese language, the knowlegde serving them both.

The young woman remained silent for a moment, reading Keno's eyes. ".....do we know anything to prepare *us*?" She stressed the last word. As Deity had thought, Jade was not going to let anything happen to Keno, no matter what the cost. And no matter what anyone said.

97 might be after Keno, but they would realize they had bitten off much more than they could chew. Unks arrival distracted Keno for a moment, but her hand was still on his shoulders as a comfort and a connection.

Even the Jedi had arrived. Quite a crowd, these strange powers had drawn....

Feeling Jade's hand on his shoulder, Keno's concerns are lowered to a whisper in his mind as he looks up at her. He nods at her advice, accepting it as best he can. Still though, this was not likely to be good news in even the least. The more people - friends - this involved, the worse for him. He always left them to their own battles, or was never around anyway to interfere, but he would need them no matter what and that bothered him. For all his ideologies of fighting your own battles, he was caught in a situation where he could not.

"I don't know anything. They're stronger than me and I guarantee despite their appearance they're all stronger, faster, and more skilled than any of us. How they trained I cannot say. Where they have been I do not know. How seven such beings could exist undercover..." It was getting to him again. All of a sudden, traditional practices didn't sound like the best approach.

The Jedi, three monkeys, and call it what you will, but he knew even Deity was aware of their presence. That meant Jade would find out and if Sato stopped by any time soon, she and Tali would be in on it. Ichi of course had to know to watch herself. This was spreading too quickly, and that was just Orion. If anyone at Deception found out, that would lead to five more obligations. None of them could fight.

"From today on, we need to step outside of our own little worlds and experience everything we each bring to the table. Jade, no more Deity. Unks, no more Pith. Valin, no more robot. User and I will have to renounce solitary training. We need to become aggressive and ready for anything from all angles." Something was missing from the formula, but it was a good start. Everything needed to be changed up.

"Keep Red out of it if you can. There's no way she can stand up to them." He didn't mean to sound as though he were under estimating the kitsune, but she couldn't even stay toe to toe with Orion. 97 would slaghter her like destroying a sand castle. He didn't need that on his conscience.

.....[OoC]: "Hey, where exactly about Canada would y'all say Club Orion is located? I'm tired to pointless role-plays in the FFA with my character, and I wanna' try and get into the Club Orion scene."

"You mean for us to switch sparring partners, am I correct, Keno?"

It was Jade's voice that spoke, but anyone who knew her at all, knew that she always called Keno 'Nii-chan', and never by his name.

While on the outside, she appeared the same as always, there were subtile differences in her demenor. She leaned back against hte bar counter, her hand pulled away now from Keno's shoulder, and both arms crossed over her chest, with one leg crossed over the other. The tone of her voice was different as well, the concern that was there formally replaced by seriousness, and a bit of bitter harsh truth.

"While I see your point, what good will come of it..? It might add some variety to our styles, but nothing like this new group that has shown up. We will hardly any better off than if we just trained harder."

<<@Niitsy: If you Google/have a map of Canada, position Club Orion between Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake. One day, Deity'll perhaps bother to cook up precise coordinates...but for now, go by that. =O >>

User grunted. He knew this was a rather iffy plan, one designed by his personal enemy, "And just who would I train with? You? Indeed. I will do just what I want, such as work with these idiots. So long as they don't hurt anyone but you, I could care less KenoTao."

The last part was a rather obvious jab at KenoTao, User attempting to poke at this new wound against his mortal foe. In some ways, User was still quite evil and he loved to try and hurt KenoTao in any way possible. Even if the man showed no reaction, the warrior still loved doing it - even though he knew the others didn't like it when he did try hurting KenoTao like this. It didn't matter. User would do anything to hurt the man, to even just provoke him to shout out in anger.