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 Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:43 pm
The tech floor was quite during the early morning hours. Most techs wouldn't be getting in for another hour or two for work, save for the supremely dedicated and hard core... and most of them had spent the entire night on the floor, pumping themselves with caffeine and whatever else to keep themselves awake.
Seth however, was an early riser, and had summoned Faleen to the firing range for the experimental projects in the weapons division. She would find an email detailing that they would be testing the new long range rifle that he had been working on, and would need her assistance.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:08 pm
Early morning, late nights, all nighties, schedules like that were not at all unusual for someone with a tech's line of work. Faleen herself would pull hours like that when she got engrossed in a project.
Though this time it wasn't an all nigher, just an early morning that she was expected to report to the firing range by her direct superior, Elite Seth.
So making sure she had plenty of time, Faleen, dressed in her usual, Agent uniform and headed down to the tech department ahead of time.
Tugging lightly at the back of her short gray gloves, Faleen recalled the weapon that Seth had shown Lucas a few months back, that had been the only time she had seen it, but she was looking forward to seeing it work.
Once she had reached the shooting range that Seth had said in his e-mail, Faleen let her arm fall to her side as she entered.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:25 pm
When Faleen entered the room, she would see Seth standing there with his back to her. Although his attire was considerably different this morning. In fact it was a completely different color from the black elite uniform he usually wore. Instead this one was white.
The rifle in question was also there, positioned upon a tripod with its long barrel also supported and pointing down the long alley of the long distance firing gallery.
When he heard someone enter, he glanced over his shoulder to see the person he had been waiting for, then completely turned around to face her.
"It's about time. Final testing needs to be done promptly. Another agent will be arriving soon to try it out."
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:57 pm
She wasn't surprised to see that Seth was already here, and ready to get to work on the testing.
Letting the door close behind her as she crossed the room, over the Where Elite Seth was standing.
It didn't take a couple of steps into the room though when she noticed the difference in what he was wearing, it wasn't when he turned around that it hit her.
Looking taken aback for a moment, blinking quickly a couple of times. that... was an Executive uniform he was wearing.
"uh.. oh, yes sir." replied to him, continuing in and over to the... well, now Executive it seemed, and the mounted rifle. Wondering who the other Agent would be, she guessed someone from the weapons department.
As she stopped her eyes glanced over the weapon, taking a moment to examine it, before turning to her superior. There was no question, that was an Executive uniform.
"Your new colors suit you, Sir" She said, in a professional congratulations of his obvious promotion.
Knowing the comment would be sneered at, or brushed away, this didn't bother her though.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:34 pm
He noticed her surprise, but didn't let it on, Seth's expression remaining neutrally flat as she replied.
"You know how it works, right? Adjust the distance setting so that it will fire to the end of this gallery. And put one of your pokeballs into ball slot."
He had already tried it and knew how it worked, but now Seth wanted to see someone else actually use it and if they got the same results. The gallery was about 100 feet in length, not the most ideal testing area, but it would do until they could get it out into the field.
At her comment about his clothes, he paused to lift a brow, and just the faintest of pleased smirks crossed his face. "Heh. Get moving, agent."
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 3:53 pm
"Sir" She confirmed when he gave her the instructions, and told her to get to work.
Seeing that he was promoted greatly raised her own spirits, she couldn't think of anyone more deserving then Seth.
Reaching a hand down to her strap of balls, pulling one of the Pokeball's out and kneeling down in position on the weapon.
She had a little training with weapons, enough for her to figure her way around one, but it was easy enough when she understood the function of them.
Lining up a shot, using the score and sight to carefully set the distance before
Enlarging the pokemon capsule she snapped it into place where the slot was.
Faleen took posture again, butt of the rifle securely against her shoulder, hand placed properly, and here she held it, hand moving only to adjust the settings a little more.
"Ball engaged, distance set for 100 feet..." she reported once the setting were confirmed. "Set and ready for fire, Sir."
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:29 pm
Seth watched Faleen carefully as she prepared the gun to fire, and announced that she was ready. He nodded, glancing over the weapon to make sure she had set the thing properly.
He then took a few steps back and folded his arms across his chest to observe the agent's performance. "Fire," he then finally said.
This should prove to be interesting.
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 4:57 pm
She held position until he gave the order to fire. giving a voice of confirmation of the order, she pulled the trigger.
And the riffle went off, just like it should. As Faleen expected, what she didn't expect, was the amount of kickback this beast had.
Now, Faleen wasn't a weak person, working with machines, sometimes heavy gear, and staying relatively in shape, one in Rocket usually had to to keep at their best performance, but when the but of the rifle suddenly drove into her shoulder with enough force to knock her back, and completely off balance.
"AH!" the grip on the rifle was lost, thankfully it was still held by the tripod so it did not fall.
Tumbling back, knocked on her rear, landing hard on the ground with a strangled grunt.
Faleen's hand reached up and gripped the shoulder that was currently burning with pain, eyes wide in surprise as she stared at the gun.
On the other side of the room, Banette stood with a confused look on his face as he started around the room, blinking when he spotted his master and Seth aaallllll the way on the other side. what the heck?! what was he doing over here! "Ban banette!"
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:04 pm
Seth watched stoically as the gun went off, doing as it should, while Faleen ended up on the ground. The newly promoted executive merely watched her go, his line of sight following her to the floor without so much as batting an eye. He had expected it, for Seth knew full well of the kick back this thing had, and he didn't warn her on purpose.
"Hn, I'll have to improve on that in future models," he told the agent while looking down at her.
"Now recall the Pokemon. That is, if you can."
Now that she knew exactly what this thing was capable of, he expected Faleen to be able to handle it much better the next time.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:40 pm
The initial shock and pain of being struck and knocked back passed quickly, jarred back when Seth spoke.
Faleen looked away from the gun, and over to the executive, before she quickly got back onto her feet, her face turning a little red from embarrassment.
She couldn't feel her arm, or hand, so she moved it to try and get it to start working properly again, flexing her fingers a few times.
"I can, Sir."
She replied, without a second thought, she's wasn't about to back down, especially not with a machine... or in this case a gun.
... Her shoulder was not going to like this though...
Once she had enough feeling in her hand, she walked over to take up position at the gun again, a small frown playing on her lips.
Sparing a glance out toward her Pokemon who was starting to drift toward them.
"Banette, get back to where you were and remain there." she called to him, causing the ghost to stop and start going back, confused.
Faleen placed one knee on the ground once again, and slid her arms up, once again taking the rifle up, adjusting her stance to make it more stable,
"... Distance set, target in sight, ready for fire Sir."
She waited for his order, finger lingering on the trigger, and letting out a long silent breath through her nose, getting as ready as she could for this.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:19 pm
Good. He really didn't want to have to take over for Faleen after just one shot. The main reason he was having her do it, was because of his still healing ribs. The kick back from that gun would likely cause him more damage. But there was more to it than just that. He'd been testing Faleen ever since he made her agent, and this was an opportunity to toughen her up a little. So far she was doing quite well.
Seth watched as she got herself up, commanded her Pokemon to stay put, then repositioned herself to fire the gun again.
Once she was ready, he nodded again. "Fire."
His eyes then went to the Banette, to see if she could successfully recall the Pokemon.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:43 pm
She tensed, and pulled the trigger, expecting the kickback, and yeah.. it still kicked back, and it still hurt, even more s since her tender shoulder already throbbed and ached.
The beam hit Banette, but just barely, the pokemon flinched back in surprise when a fast bean of light was frying at him from a rifle, it managed to clip his arm and he was enveloped into the red beam, that flew back toward the rifle, to tuck into the pokeball.
The rifle going off was accompanied by a stiff grunt from Faleen taking the hit, she didn't fall this time, but the was jerked back, and her arm once again dropped off of the rifle.
With her other hand she caught herself, leaning back up quickly so she could finish her job, checking the settings, and the pokeball hooked into the port.
"Withdrawal was successful sir."
A hand placed over her stinging shoulder joint just for a couple of seconds before she lowered it and turned back to the Executive.
"Settings have also been maintained" She was worried of the possibility that that might have been affected from the lack of dampening.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:58 pm
"Hm," Seth hummed to himself as he observed the proceedings which appeared to be successful. Which was soon confirmed by Faleen and answered with another nod. "Good."
The Executive then turned away from her for a moment, letting her take a short break as he stepped away to retrieve a couple items that were sitting on a shelf nearby. One was a live trap, which held a very frightened and weak looking Rattata. The other was a Nest Ball which was tossed to the agent.
"One more test," he told her, while proceeding to walk down the length of the gallery. Once he got to the end, he turned back to her.
"Ready the rifle. When I release the Rattata, try to capture it."
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:11 pm
Faleen frowned a bit when she saw the Ratata, having quite the... dislike for that particular Pokemon.
The Executive didn't explain at first what they were doing, but Faleen could easily guess, especially when she caught the Nest ball that was tossed to her.
Looking it over for a moment before watching as Seth went to the other side of the firing range with the cage.
... This made her a little nervous, but she didn't show it as she stepped over to the rifle once again, pulling Banette's out of the slit, and clicking the Nest Ball into place.
She lined the scope, and readied the weapon.
"Rifle ready sir" She called when everything seemed in order
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:27 pm
When Faleen announced that she was ready, Seth bent down with the live trap, and glanced up to make sure that the agent was prepared to fire.
Satisfied that she was ready, he then reached for the lever that would open the trap. Once the door was lifted, the Pokemon darted out of its confines and into the gallery. Unfortunately... it didn't really have anywhere to go.
He paused as it looked around, ears and tail twitching, before it started running along the walls, trying to find a way out.
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