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It was starting to get chilly at night and thank goodness for that as far as Halle was concerned. Pulling out a pair of dark sweats from his pocketspace, he put them on over his pastel beacon of a uniform and shoved his feather hat into the space. "I already got our last gym records out of mom's office. If we're stronger now, we need to know exactly how strong she meant. And in what ways."

A couple bottles of gatorade, a stop watch, and a clipboard all appeared in quick succession. Someone was clearly already enjoying at least one perk of their new....condition.

They were on the track field of the nearby middle school, a school that was currently closed due to reconstruction. Halle felt it was pretty ideal for their current needs, and it was thankfully empty. No security personnel in sight.

Giving his brother a dry look, Halle drawled, "Yeah, it's way smarter to just throw ourselves at a monster in a state of total ignorance. "We'll call her when we're more ready to fight something, okay?"

He gave a gusty sigh and handed his brother the timer and clipboard. "Right now we don't even have any idea of what our base stats are here, and that's a big problem. I'll need you to do some of this too, Lisse." Man, it was so weird to use these names. "We should know if we have the same strength and speed as one another. Like..." he rolled his shoulders before beginning a series of stretches, "...just do the 100 meter dash. If ours are different, we can assume we have a difference across the board, okay?"

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Five minutes later and he was at the starting line, fingers brushing the track, ready for Lisse's shout from his place by the "finish line" made up of orange cones.

Halle nearly fell at the start form the sudden, unfamiliar speed of his body. It felt like basically nothing and then he was crossing the finish and huddling up next to his brother, to look at his time. "Holy...that was..."

Squinting at the results, breath even like he hadn't run at all, Halle gave a wolfish grin. The sort that meant someone's life was going to be hell soon, and they'd never see it coming. "That's twice as fast as my old time, Lisse."

Not too long later and he was the one with the clipboard, coaxing his brother, "Come on. It's hardly any effort, and just this once, okay? I'll get you something at that comic book shop. A figure or something." He paused, and then amended, "Nothing over thirty bucks, though."

See his brother at the ready, Halle shouted GO! and clicked the stopwatch.

Trying not to smile too smugly at Lisse's newfound enthusiasm, Halle gave the other a head start, jotting down the time first. The point was collecting data, afterall! But he still caught up to his brother enough so that both of them were leaping at the same time. And it felt...small.

Arms crossing, he surveryed their surroundings, eye moving toward the school building. Normally the more cautious of the two, he didn't think twice when jerking his chin toward it. "Let's go higher. The school roof!"

And when they were both looking down from on high, he couldn't help a little laugh, "Everything feels like...feels like a playground now." He knew there were serious things looming but this was just, fun.

Pulling the clipboard out of his pocket space again, Halle rolled his eyes. "Nice try. Let's go down to the construction area, there's some things i want data on."

Arm strength for one, which had him lifting an increasing pile of 20 pound sandbags, and, when he didn't see any cameras nearby, switching back to normal and lifting as much as he could while normal. Peering over Lisse's shoulder he gave a little frown. "The strength increase is definitely smaller than the speed increase. Don't try beating up the football team or anything." At least not directly.

Rope climbing followed. And then it was back to the track for a long distance run that tried both his endurance and his brother's patience. Collapsing on the bleachers next to Lisse, sweaty and gross and pleased with himself, Hall finally relented, "Okay I think....I think that's good for tonight. I'm gonna do the math, set up a training schedule, and test again a month from now. See if it makes a difference."

He turned his head to get a good look at the other's expression, then broke out laughing. He was absolutely serious. But torturing Luke with things that would be good for him was always a joy.