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Kat wasn't even sure why she had come. She didn't really care about the money, even if it was a good deal amount of it. It was possible that it was Xedis' strong influence to let him test it out. After all, its kind of hard to block out a voice in your head, especially when they want something this badly. With a sigh, the she tailed the already large lineup, occasionally glancing up ahead with a bored expression.

You better appreciate this. I hate waiting around in huge lineups. :I have to go with your everywhere you go. Its only fair that I get a turn too.: Fine, I guess that's true.

When it came her turn, Kat held her arm up for the tech, half grinning as he repeated the same line as he had to every other hunter that had been through. It was no wonder the guy looked so bored. Following his instructions, she moved on to filling out the forums given to her before heading into the room for her weapon.

So according to the lab tech here, she had to press the button on her bracelet to activate the golem. By doing that, she wouldn't be able to hear him in her head anymore, but as she would hear everyone else. Ready? :Yes.:

With his 'go ahead', Kat pressed the button and waited. It didn't take all that long for him to activate, or for Kat to start melting over the ears and tail he had. Within seconds, she was by his side, tugging at his ears, and petting his tail. "Oh my gawd! We should have come right away!" Of course she would say this, now that she knew just how cat like he was. "Unhand me already!" He grumbled, pushing Kat back a little. "Oh, we should take you to try coffee! You would like coffee! Well, not the cafeteria coffee, but it'll have to do." Giving him no chance to protest, Kat immediately started dragging Xedis out of the room.

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Eva was here the whole time, man. The whole time.

The rocked on her feet as she waited in line, glancing around idly at the other trainees who had shown up. Whatever this test was, she sure as hell hoped that it was safe...but considering how many people had decided to sign up, it was clear that she wouldn't be the only one around here to suffer the side effects (if there were any). Eva was always a little wary when it came to anything that the higher-ups had planned.

When it was finally her turn, she approached the lab tech with a small smile, obediently lifting a hand so that the bracelet could be secured around her wrist. Following the lead of the others who had gone before her, Eva moved on to go and pick up her weapon.

Her weapon...

Which was...

"What."

After following all the instructions, Eva eventually found herself standing in front of a slender girl with eyes that were a shade of bright violet. For a moment, she could only stand and gawk, and then she suddenly threw her arms up in front of her face in a panic. "Oh crap, wait! You're a gorgon, aren't you!? I'm not supposed to star--"

Sigh. "That won't be a problem, Eva,"

Woah. Peeking over her hands, Eva stared at the girl with wide eyes. It was...really strange to hear Chara's voice aloud as opposed to in her head, and to actually see her...well, that was a different matter altogether. She was actually a fair bit prettier than she had initially imagined (probably because Eva's mental image of gorgons were...less than flattering), and upon seeing the wry smile that was present on Chara's face, Eva's own lips suddenly spread into a wide grin.

"Awesome! Come on, Chara, let me show you around!"

"...? But I've already technically seen all of this befor--"

Unsurprisingly, Chara's protest fell on deaf ears. With a bright grin and excited chattering, Eva proceeded to lead Chara out by the hand.

[Exit]

Madison had reported for duty, as requested - the money didn't bother her, not really, and if this testing could help her and Kouki integrate more effectively as a team, or even improve the serpent-sword's abilities, she was all for it. She was expecting some sort of physical trial, a test of both of their abilities. Something scientific.

She was not expecting the ebony-skinned figure before her, a slight, scaled form clad in oversized Japanese-style robes, his long hands folded into his sleeves as he fidgeted. Kouki's head was his most striking feature - he had four faces, one on each plane of his head, with his hair in the very center of his skull tied into a topknot. "We were not expecting such things," the serpent-sword said, all four mouths moving in unison to produce the strange, quad-toned voice that usually spoke in her mind.

"Oh... oh gosh. Kouki," she said, staring at him, one hand coming up to cover her mouth. "Is this what you look like?" She'd seen the mental shape of a four-headed serpent, coated in nightblack scales with sharp fangs... but not this. This was something else.

"No," he said, smiling with all his mouths. "But it will do well enough, for us." He took a step forward, unsteady; after a moment Madison hurried to his side, touching his pliant, scaled skin uncertainly before supporting his weight in earnest. "Thank you. We are not used to legs any more. We will adjust."

She shrugged one arm around his shoulders, making him stagger. "I... wow, Kouki." She wasn't sure how to feel - should she hug him? Kiss him, even? She had no idea how to react to this, her partner being physical in a way that didn't involve blades or beads. "This is going to be interesting..."

He grinned, more easily this time. "We believe so, yes."

Harrison arriving with what had to be B0nez in tow was enough to jar Rep and Tracey out of distraction. Rep had never actually seen B0nez in the flesh, he wasn't sure what he'd expected, if he was honest with himself, maybe he'd expected someone closer to himself in appearance. But he quickly realised that was more him projecting than anything else.

"Eh. Aye, its Tracey." he stated gruffly, giving the angel an embarrassed look - it was still pretty hard for him to admit that the tiny excitable figure was his weapon to anyone, even people who already had a good idea what he was like. Tracey remained oblivious to his partner's embarrassment, his expression lighting up as he waved to the moon hunter with gusto. "Hey Harrison! Nice to meet you properly!"

Rep cringed at the volume of the outburst. "He's kind of friendly and loud and s**t." He offered his best apologetic shrug as the fallen angel chose this moment to skip over and hold out a hand demandingly for a handshake. Rep's attention was elsewhere, looking vaguely uncertain as he eyed the other weapon.

"Sup B0nez bro?"

Bix had only been promoted like the day before but upon returning from his BANKAI inner quest, he'd found everyone wandering their halls with their weapons in tow.. and from what he could tell there was a fat monetary compensation involved.

Mina was eager to have legs again and also eager not to ruin her sexy form with something as base as battling.

He stood in line, followed the directions, and before he could even registers he was once more being draped in slender pale limbs and the hissing pleased noises of his feather haired weapon.

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"Guess it's only fair, " Harrison laughed, "Last I saw you were about twice my size. Maybe for Christmas I oughta get Rep a keg of polish."

"Maybe if Harrison would try more Life/Moon coop," B0nez said this a fraction louder than necessary, "we'd get more runic tech besides a bandaid tin. He won't let me rightclock Clarice's station."

"I've got it writtten in the budget," Harrison said grudgingly. "He wants me to get a laptop, but I ******** told him we'd have to get one special from the labs. We don't even have furniture yet. We always used the public ones before."

B0nez gave Rep a look. He had also, over the course of the handshake, given Rep the keys to Clarice's office.

"Fat? Hell, even I know the difference between lard and steel. It's like comparing a seal to a shark." Harrison returned the look. "And when I say furniture I'm not talking about ottomans." Jordan had DIYed their current setup, but something that wasn't held together with nails and duct tape would be nice.

"I don't mind helping. ...Should have been the first thing he did after you got that cuff off, Harrison said indignantly, then revised, reddening slightly, "Well, second thing."

"The labs!" B0nez said, "We're already there, we don't have to go far. We won't bother anybody, they're all focused on the Beta Release..." And if anything isn't where they left it, they won't miss that either.

"Sure, he's been near twisting my arm off trying to head that direction anyway. Just don't let him do anything...funny to the webwork." He added, hedging, "I wouldn't mind taking Tracey in the meantime." He addressed Tracey, "Unless you wanted to play Scario Heart, or whatever."

"Aye, they'll probably be glad to have us out of their hair." He agreed with B0nez. "Won't even notice we are gone." Rep had to put on his most innocent face as Harrison warned them against mucking with things, it was probably ultimately more suspicious than if he'd done an evil villain cackle. "Gottit. And nah, feel free to chill with Tracey, he doesn't understand computers anyway. He'd be bored." Within the space of a few moments he'd managed to develop an elitist streak a mile wide.

"Lets go dude." And without so much as actually waiting to see if Tracey was okay with being abandoned, he turned to head off.

"Webwork." he repeated with a long suffering "no-one-understands-anything" sigh.

Tracey watched him go, his lips set in a thin line before shaking his head. "He's got such a short attention span." he confided idly. "Bet he forgets about me the minute he gets around the corner. Silly man. " He looked back to Harrison with a smile. "You don't forget things though." Tracey paid more attention than even Rep gave him credit for. "You take care of him." Before there was even time for it to get awkward, he had all but skipped over in the direction of the door. "Do you know if we can go outsiiide?"