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 Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 7:30 pm
Tom sighed as he wandered back to his apartment after soccer practice ended towards the evening. Lately he had been trying to find different ways back to his apartment where he hadn’t been targeted by anyone from the negaverse or the other side and so far this route seemed to work the best. Though that was probably because it seemed to have the fewest number of alleyways or other places to go and pounce on innocent civilians.
Not that he was one of course, but he did wonder what it was that always caused him to be targeted by other agents. Maybe he looked too innocent? Perhaps he was just that easy of a target? Either way, he wished he could just walk home in his powered form, but that would attract the attention of senshis and knights. Hopefully he wouldn’t run into anyone tonight either though he had a strange feeling that he wouldn't get what he wanted.
He sighed and adjusted the soccer bag back onto his shoulder and moved his hat up a bit so that he could see better. He would spot anyone or anything that decided to attack him. Hopefully at least.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:56 pm
The day was fulfilling, but not done just yet. While in the daytime Eithan had managed to get himself a decent bit of change in his pocket and find a nice steak place. He'd trudged through some classes too, though that was the worst part of his day and he cared not to remember.
The night was his friend. Stalking helpless halfwits and prey were some of the most fun he had. Tonight he proved impatient, powering up to his agent form behind a trashcan, working swiftly to stake out a target. Yet, with how much he wanted to find someone... there was a lull.
Altaite paced, walking around until he could hear the footsteps and he slinked back into the shadows, looking for the source. Impatiently he stayed still, staring out with his pale eyes until a shadow appeared. A smirk crossed his face as he slowly moved behind the figure, walking in step to match his noise. Whoever it was seemed oblivious enough. If he could get a strike in quickly, he'd be down and he could gather the energy or worse.
He smirked to himself, waiting for him to let down his guard. He seems distracted enough. It wasn't an alley, or somewhere beyond the view of others. But if he got the person down quickly enough he could be done before anyone noticed. How long would he have to follow though?
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:14 am
Tom thought he heard footsteps behind him and looked around, but saw no one. Of course, that didn’t mean the street was empty or that he wasn’t being followed, so he quickened his pace slightly, hoping to get back to his apartment before anything happened.
He didn’t need anything to happen tonight, all he wanted to do was sit down and play some video games for the rest of the night. It was too late to eat at this point unfortunately. He looked around him again, trying to see if anyone was following him. He wasn’t too worried about other fellow agents or senshis and what have you get to him, but there could still be plain human serial killers out there and he did not want to be a victim by being jumped on. Never Crazy Altaite can totally jump him, even if he recognizes him as a friend, otherwise I'm not sure how to get this to go down since I'm not sure we can just have random senshi come up or whatever
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:46 am
His prey seemed alert suddenly as he turned and twisting, looking behind him - which meant Altaite had a lot of maneuvering to do every time. Though, he had closed the gap and was close, nipping at his heels as he walked. A hungry gaze was on his face. He craved to get that energy, or another star seed, anything he could to help.
There!
An opening came up and he rushed back as soon as he looked forward again, his arms moved around his neck and he pulled back with all his might to try and wrestle him to the ground. Though almost immediately it was difficult, meaning the person had some wits about them. And some muscle. Straining, he pulled back more. Just go down!!
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:50 pm
Unfortunately Tom heard the footsteps too late and his neck had been nastily pulled back without warning. At least he wouldn’t be likely to die from his neck braking though he could die from suffocation. With the few remaining seconds of oxygen he had left, because not only was he being slightly choked but having to waste it on fighting whoever was grabbing him, he tried to come up with a plan.
**** **** ****! Why do these things always happen to me?! He silently moaned in his head as he still tried to fight off his attacker. Deciding he wouldn’t go down that easily to… whoever it was, though he was hoping it wasn’t a serial killer, he tried to kick one of the legs of his attacker. Hopefully he would hit, though he wished he still had his cleats on, they would pack more of a kick than just his regular tennis shoes.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:07 pm
CRAP!! Whoever it was wasn't going down easily and there was a twang noise as the metal in his shin was hit and he grunted at it being hit. It didn't particularly hurt, but the noise was unnerving as he could feel it in his body and he tried to pull tighter, but found his grip slipping. Altaite had to change tactics fast and kicked at the back of the man's knee, trying to get him to fall forward.
Though in doing so, his headlock was weakened and his arms were barely holding now. It was a gamble, but that was what he loved to do best. Now if he'd go down, then he'd be easy to hit into the pavement, knock out and that'd be the end of it. But things didn't always go so easily. Especially not for him.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 4:48 pm
Tom heard the metal sound when he kicked the person who attacked him. And it didn’t feel like a completely false leg either. Could it be…? Sure, there were plenty of people who probably had some metal in their legs, whether they be plates or false ones, but there was only one person whom he had met that had told him about it. And he did seem like the type to go and get himself into trouble.
It was at that moment though that his leg was kicked behind his knee and he started to fall forward. However, Tom managed to maneuver in a way so that when he hit the ground he would roll out of the way, probably onto the street though luckily there weren’t many cars out at night, and see who it was. When he hit the ground, trying to brace his arms so that they would catch him and wouldn’t break or fracture, he moved out of the way and to look up at his opponent. His eyes widened in surprise, even though he had guessed at who it was already. “Eithan?!”
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:08 pm
When he rolled and broke free of him, Altaite growled, watching the man move out into the street. He took two steps... and froze. Hearing his name made his eyes go wide and he stared back at the figure who came into focus now, under a streetlight which had flickered back into life.
Stunned was only a word, but his feeling made him feel like he was completely frozen internally. Normally he was able to pull back, but it slipped out...
"Tom?!"
A rush of emotion hit him and his pale blue eyes focused on him. Yes, that was him. He could recognize him now that he got a good view of him. A knot was tightening in his stomach though. That stupid metal plate in his leg... not only had it made him relatively slower, now there was this. What should he do? This wasn't something he'd asked about before, if a friend happened to figure it out. But he had a feeling about what he should do and his stomach twisted again.
If I take enough energy maybe he'd forget this ever happened. Eithan wasn't great at making friends, but after getting hit by the wayward ball he seemed to click with Tom. Even had a free meal out of it.
Grumbling, he slowly walked over to him, hand itching to take energy. It was interesting that he had been able to take a starseed so easily, leaving a cold corpse somewhere. Yet now facing this... the young negaverse agent was at a loss.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:20 pm
Tom felt a bit relieved that his friend had recognized who he had targeted, but why the attack? Tom had to look Eithan over before realizing that he was an agent too. He probably should have been surprised at that, but considering that Eithan probably would be the type of person to go into the negaverse, he wasn’t. It was more Tom who was the strange one being recruited.
But Eithan didn’t seem to want to stop and in fact was walking towards him. Tom’s eyes widened a bit before he tried to stop his friend from, hopefully just a draining, by holding his hand up in front of him. Though he was in a bit of pain and had to stifle a groan he managed to say, “Wait! You’re an agent of the negaverse aren’t you. Lt. Altaite right?” At this point Tom felt kind of stupid for not recognizing that his friend was the same as that agent he had had a bit of a fight with considering that his full face was showing.
Maybe Superman was onto something with that glasses disguise.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:31 pm
Eithan stopped again and put his hands down, staring at him. "How...?" He asked but shook his head, walking over to help him up slowly and pulled him back to the sidewalk, staring at him again. It was something that was slowly dawning on him. There had only been 2 other Negaverse agents he'd run into. One was his General, Benitoite, who he had seen in his normal form.
And the other...
"...Aresnopyrtie....?!" He felt himself shout and he groaned, pulling back from Tom. "You're one of us?" He wasn't sure how to feel. He was happy that he wouldn't have to do anything to him now, though he had been ticked off about the fight they had before. Anxiously he rubbed at the back of his head. "Crap, do you have any idea what I was going to do?! Why are you walking around alone?!" He grunted, somewhere between relief and annoyance. "Damn it." He cursed and shook out his hands.
"Well this is awkward." He said after a moment, staring back at Tom again. He could see it now, the hair and the eyes at least. Though... "You look way different without a mask."
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:46 pm
Tom nodded in thanks when Eithan helped him off of the sidewalk, or he should say Ataite considering the other guy was in his powered form. Well, at least he had been correct in guessing who his friend was, and couldn’t help the grin that spread over his face. “Yeah… I’m not the typical negaverse recruit am I?” Tom said, looking around to see if anyone was there before powering up himself. He wasn’t sure if a captain or general happened upon them would be happy about an agent talking to an unknown civilian.
“I’ll have you know, I usually walk home myself. No point in taking the car when it’s only a mile or two away from my apartment.” He didn’t like driving or using the car when he could just as easily do something on foot. Tom sighed and looked at the other. “Well I hope it wasn’t a starseed steal, that would have been pretty bad.” He replied, chuckling a bit. “And yeah, hard to remember a face when it’s half-covered, though I’m more annoyed with myself for not recognizing you. You don’t have anything different going on dealing with your face when you’re powered up.” He huffed slightly at himself for being so bad at recognizing his friend. “I will say though, this isn’t the first time I’ve been targeted by one of our own. I think I need to get a sign on me or something.”
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 5:57 pm
He had his arms tightly wrapped against each other and he was staring at him, letting out a deep exhale. At least it was a sigh of relief and he watched as he powered up, staring back at him. The features were far better to see now, the same hair and eyes and he shook his head. "Even so, it's a good prowling area." Altaite shifted again, unsure of how to address him but wanted to err on the side of caution. "Areseno..." He began, staring at him. "That was going to be the end result, yes." Altaite was no stranger to it and had wanted to practice more, but he shook his head.
"If it happens a lot then I think you might want to let others know. Or at least carry a weapon. I could have jumped you at least 10 times over before we hit this point!" It was coming from a place of concern, at least. He managed a smirk back at him. "Maybe you shouldn't look so innocent."
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 6:19 pm
”Well, I’ll try to avoid this area then. Shouldn’t take too much longer to go to my apartment if I do a different way.” Arseno would strike this route off his list when he got back home. He frowned a bit at the other though when he said his starseed would have been taken. What was with these agents and possibly killing civilians? Sure he didn’t think civilians needed that much protection, but starseed stealing was more than likely to result in death. Surely you would only have a limited supply of that before you ran out.
“I still just drain energy, though I suppose that gives agents like you more targets in the long run. I feel like we’ll hit a wall one day though if we just go about stealing every starseed.” It reminded him of another agent whom he had met who would have been the perfect plot to a horror movie, only this was real life and it was super creepy.
“Yeah, I’m sure pepper spray will do a lot to an agent.” He rolled his eyes, sarcasm coming off of him. He wasn’t making fun of Ataite, but he doubted any real weapon would work against an agent unless it was a gun. And he refused to carry one of those. “Although I do probably look too innocent. Don’t know how I would change that though. I just have one of those faces.” He replied, smiling a bit underneath the mask. “At least this meeting didn’t end in a bad way.” He said, looking around for his bag which he must have dropped during the struggle.
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Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:56 pm
"Sounds like a plan." Altaite stared back at him, his friend and comrade now, and he tilted his head as he mentioned starseeds. "Perhaps that's true, but since we're low now we need them." He wasn't going to make a big deal out if it though, he was already well aware that they had differing methods between agents.
Altaite laughed at his comment. "You sure about that?" He turned back and blinked, looking around and he grabbed his bag, handing it over to him. "...Look, I'm not good at this whole thing yet. But since we ended up being allies maybe it would be best if we worked together?" Altaite frowned. "Last time I was out on my own and ran into one of those damn Senshi I got smashed by a wall in my face. Took 3 weeks to heal the bruises. And your weapon at least seems useful."
The teen hesitated for a moment. He had a reputation, but he did also know that working together was a better idea for the Negaverse as a whole. But there was something about Arseno that seemed different. Maybe it was the look in his eye, or how he spoke, but it was off. Not like talking to Benitoite.
"Perhaps we should patrol together?"
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 8:04 am
Well, Arseno still wasn’t up to stealing starseeds yet. He didn’t want to be a killer after all. Though he did wonder if there was some medical way to keep them alive after starseeds were taken. He might have to study that a bit…
No NO! You are NOT going to do that Tom! That is sick and cruel! He pushed the idea out of his head for a bit, trying to ignore it. Lately he had been having these sorts of thoughts and it was starting to freak him out a bit. He wondered if it was the chaos that was pushing him to think about it…
Arseno nodded in thanks as Ataite handed the soccer bag to him. “Well, I’m glad to hear you’ve gotten better. I haven’t had anything that bad happen to me… yet.” It was weird, most of the senshi’s or knights that he had faced seemed to want to talk to him more than beat his face in. Though it was probably because he didn’t seem to be the average negaverse recruit and they were trying to get him to switch sides, or at least make him think about doing it.
Arseno nodded in agreement to Altaite. “Patrolling together sounds good, and hopefully we could beat any senshi or knights that come our way. Two is better than one right? Though I should probably get to my apartment first. Just so I’m not hauling this soccer bag around the whole time.” He replied with a chuckle, re-gripping the bag again. “My apartment isn’t far from here, we should be ready in no time.”
Well, at least he had someone he could trust in the negaverse besides Benitoite. He hadn’t felt too welcome as of yet, though nothing had been done that really felt as if he didn’t belong. Just the interactions with various other members and what they were like. And although he didn’t agree with Altaite in taking starseeds, he couldn’t really stop Altaite either and wasn’t planning to.
Arseno turned towards his apartment. “I better drop this off quickly then, unless you want to see where I live?” He didn’t mind if the kid knew his address, he trusted Eithan enough not to steal from him. Or at least Arseno would keep an extra eye on his stuff.
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