Kaneda looked up and saw that Walter had arrived late, wearing his PT garb instead of his regular uniform. He thought that the captain would discipline him in some way, unfortunately that is the way it was, if you were late you had to deal with the consequences. From what he had heard about the black company they weren't treated the greatest in the first place, for what they had to go through made Kaneda unsettled. It drew feelings of his parents back home in the internment camps even though he knew in his heart that Walter had it much worse than he ever did. And he wanted Walter to know that in this group, that wasn't going to happen.

[color=fff200]"Hey Walter, too bad we didn't get to see you at the run today, captain offered a prize for breaking the track record today and I bet you would be the only one that could have matched or beat me out there. We'll have to test that out sometime before we get deployed..."[/color] He said issuing the challenge before a thought popped into his head, [color=fff200]"better yet, how about this? You and I are done eating here, your powers work with the sun and won't require the energy of this [i]wonderful meal[/i] here and neither does mine, let's say you and I go out right now and get that run in, winner is the one that makes it to where we usually meet up outside the barracks. The loser has to deal with the punishment that you might receive if the captain feels so inclined to. The only rule is that you have to touch the base of the mountain on the way up and on the way down. It's a win, win you get the run in, the captain should be somewhat glad that you did it and you also have a chance to get out of toilet cleaning duty if he still wants to punish you. Also, you might not have heard and this is to the rest of you as well but the next chance we have I would like to meet up with everyone who wants to by the light pole closest to our barracks, I like to call it a team building exercise. I know the duo are in but what about the rest of you?"[/color] He asked, waiting for his response from the others and from Walter about the challenge, he could only smile as he waited.