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Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Zel-Ghin

Zel-Ghin held his hands in his pockets, leaning against a nearby pillar. He had not expected to be split from his older twin, as certain as he were that he could defeat him in a straight up fight, he felt that his chances of coming out on top against the other team despite his confidence in his skills were... less because of the absence of his brother, who had always been a bastion or piece of ground for him to stand on.

Without his brothers suggestions and command in battle he would have to make up his own mind on the spot. To heed his own instinct and pursue them or to listen to the suggestions of people he didn't know.

He had momentarily seen Bug, the moment of their arrival and Sparks when his brother had approached the blue haired young man. Neither of them were of interest to Zel-Ghin however. He didn't have his older brother's curiousity for all humans nor the patience to deal with people who could prove to be trouble. Even if he could be prone to bring it out in others himself.

Zel-Ghin's observation of his own team was interupted by the raised voices on the other team which now housed his brother. Some glasses wearing but otherwise cute looking girl had tried to gather their team up, then there were some seemingly idiot looking blond who was far too eager, it had some small non-human female aswell, now that was someone he could teach some human vustoms to, and then his eyes landed on Elora.

She had forgotten her lollipop, he would return it to her, but first he threw a glance over his own team.

Bug and Sparks. Minerva. She was a pretty one but seemed like quite the challenge, then there were Ava. He couldn't help but feel that she could possibly be a waste of effort, his eyes continued and landed on Stella. He rolled his eyes, he had no patience dealing with something like that, it was definitely not a kissable option. His eyes then came upon Serah.

'Another cute kittycat. Meow...' He thought to himself, pushing himself off the pillar and shrugged.

'Amusing. This will be enjoyable. I will be looking for you, kittycat~ Let's play a game...' Zel-Ghin mused, sticking his hands into his jacket again as his eyes landed on Elora in the distance

He didn't care if his team had a plan or not, if he would follow it or not, what he did care about were having a good time. Wasn't thst what life truly were about? It had not always been such, and he'd rather not think about those times. Whomever wanted to be teamleader, he wasn't going to fight over it unless somehow they made the machine do it. He wouldn't take orders by something like that.

He had observed the machine that robot woman had been assigned however, alongside all the others, his brother having done the same. But that unit was impressive in it's sheer bulk and raw power, but like every boss in games, it could be dismantled with the right approach. He wasn't dumb when it came to tactics, but strategy and long term planning wasn't his field, that was his brothers hobby.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Mema-Ka

The time for the virtual training mission had come, and with it lieutenant Ritsu Kaname. Mema-Ka saluted her and remained in a formal pose for the duration of the explanation of their task, the only thing moving were his mouth a little bit to form a smile to the lieutenant when he thought none would see, giving her a soft nod.

To be split from his brother in even a training mission brought back memories he would rather have wanted to keep buried. The cold sterile lab. The training rooms. The white lab coats. Their own bland attires. Then the experiments. To be compared to someone else physically for most of your earlier years had left a mark, he knew he could never compete with his younger twin at physical training , so he had to make do at the areas where he could.

His younger brother was instinctual... living in the present, neither dwelling in the past nor looking past the current day. He was different alltogether, he could never forget the past nor srop thinking of the future.

Most of what he knew of the project were that his brother were the precious one, while he was expendable up to a point. He was simply a basic version, incomplete and used as a way to compare just how stronger his brother were. To compete with his brother again. He didn't like the idea.

His younger brother, despite all his strengths had always relied on Mema-Ka's choices and followed his guidance. To put him with individuals that did not understand his brother, was not only unwise...it was dangerous. He was a young man carefully conditioned to be as docile as he possibly could, holding back much of his aggressive and instinctual feelings.

There was little that could be done about the matter now, Mema-Ka would see where the flow would take him for now. His eyes wandered over the team he had been assigned. He had only met one of them, the other two pilots he had met. Bug and Sparks were on the other team along with his brother.

Mema-Ka's lips formed a smile on hearing Aurora speak up, and so did an esger blond young man eho seemingly also knew Elora from before. How had Zel-Ghin's moments with the female pilot gone? Not even he knew, but regardless he stepped forwards giving Elora a salute.

"Hello again miss Elora, I hope your time with my brother was well spent? Afraid I couldn't join you for the videogaming at the time. I am looking forwards to teaming up with you for this assignment. Chin up and gaze ahead, young miss. My brother is a merciless combatant even in a mock battle such as this. Also I am more than willing to also hear your request." He explained, allowing his doubts about their chances of victory seep through before turning to the rest of the team

"Pleased to meet the rest of you, I am newly assigned to join you alongside my brother who is currently on the other team. I am Mema-Ka Ezqess Degadraz. I am the pilot of the raptor, the white, black and yellow framewerk. I would love to shake each of your hands and know more about you, but as we are hard pressed for time, to my outmost regret, that will have to be postponed. I second the suggestion proposed by the beautiful young lady here and the young gentleman." Mema-Ka said softly, holding one of his hands at his chest, then other motioning towards Aurora and Arrish.

"I didn't expect to see one of your kind here, Tevranian. I shall look forwards to learn more of your particular culture, if you have the time later down the road." He gave a soft smile as his eyes momentarily wandered over to Rhylaen. Walking up closer to her and trying to motion for her and the others to walk off to plan their next cause of action.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

Griff ears perked up as if dragged our of a jaded haze of too long math sessions when he heard the magic words.

They would be having a team workout session with their framewerks and split up into two teams. It was like a massive tag team fighting game tournament...or like wrestling royal rumble match.

Griff's eyes sparkled, he couldn't contain his excitement.

"Aww yeah!" He exclaomed loudly and made a victory arm pumping motion before seeing what the teams were.

'Ahh hell no. Shiiiiiit.' He lamented in his head when he realized that Rhylaen were put on his team. Why did he have to put up with something lik- Suddenly a mental image of Minerva with her arms crossed and looking at him appeared in his mind.

'I mean... right.... fine... whatever... I guess..' He pretended to kick some imaginary pebble before his eyes wandered over who else he was teaming up with. Arrish?

'Luvey Duvey! Well could have been alot worse, hope the girls won't distract him.' Griff tapped his chin, momentarily considering blindfolding the man or showing him a magazine with old grandmothers in swimsuits to strengthen his fighting spirit.

Then he smiled on seeing Aurora had also ended up on his team. 'Allright! That huge monster machine is on our team, victory is assured!' He gave a broad smile.

He loved winning. Then he saw Elora was there to. His apprentice as he liked to view her.

"Woohoo! Same team Elora! All-right! Don't worry about the fight, stay behind me and I'll protect you from the enemy!" Griff smiled broadly and gave a thumbs up.

Then finally his eyes landed on Mema-Ka. His eyes blinked a few times. Another new pilot? Looking over the guy gave him the same impression he had gotten looking at Ava or the lieutenant. That guy was no doubt the type that would throw him in the brig or get some promotion while using sweet talk and brains. Griff then realized that he had to be the brawn on the team, the wall of impending victory against the evil forces of....

Minnie! She was on the other team. His prayers for justice had somehow been answered, his ridicule at the incident that came to be known at the weightlifting challenge was still fresh in his mind. A moment of shame and loss, but worst of all he couldn't hate Minnie. She was a fellow enjoyer of abs! And he did think her smile did make hrr look more cute, he of course wouldn't tell her that, she would become even more unbearable to him.

Griff then spotted Serah and Stella. 'Ah shit.. it's the cute girl who misunderstands everything! Crap! But... she didn't tell anyone of his shower room chaos mission or what followed.' He had to be thankful then. Griff raised his hand and gave an uncertain wave to Serah and smiled. Waving and smiling at her would surely fix things between them. If not then he could suggest for them to go look at bodybuilding videos.

Griffs hopes vanished as he noticed Stella. 'Ah the stupid robot mother of hers. Hey.. wait... if I defeat the mother in combat I can prove myself as a suitable martial arts master to her little kid!' Griff connected the dots.

It did seem like Arrish buddy buggyboy were also on the other team, he had to remember to keep his eyes out for a vomit green frame in the battle. Nothing like meeting new people and then beating them up!

Then he spotted sparks. Griff's eyebrows furrowed. 'That stupid nerd! Fricking coward! He must not be allowed to win or we'll never hear rhe end of it. I am shooting him down!'

Finally his eyes landed on Zel-Ghin. Griff blinked. Had he seen this guy before? He looked back to his team and concluded. The other team had cloned their teams pilot! It was probably that damn nerds idea.

But he had to give credit where it was due, thst teal haired guy had some fancy sleeveless jacket. It made Griff grin as he thought back to some ancient movies. He had seen movies about martial artist, but also where wrestlers and bodybuilders were involved.

He mentally said the line as best as he could recall it

'Your clothes. Give them to me.' He then decided to go with Aurora, she probably had some training montage in mind. He quickly moved up next to Aurora and said in a loud whisper

"Hey! Foureyes. I say you set sleepy on that other nerdy guy, he said something about your tech being worse than his tech. Just target that walking 2d dating machine of his and kaboom! Don't worry about anyone getting close to sleepy, they have to go through me and my metal baby first!" Griff gave a thimbs up and grinned broadly at Aurora. He wasn't sure what the plan would be, all he knew were that he would try bonk as many on the other team as possible.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

He grinned and gave a thumbs up on hearing Bug seemingly thanking him for his insight. "Wait what? There's a vomit green framewerk? Hmm. Well if you need some help modifying it, I am sure everything can be fixed with a hammer if you just hit it hard enough. Or you could ask Sparkles, he even has a girlfriend in his, but he claims he's more interested in guys! Yeah right! Good cover! Just how dumb does he think I am? Maybe he could get some good tips on how to properly talk with girls if he has to talk to some stupid 2d girl. It's like one of those dating.. uh.. stimulators?" Griff walked with his arms crossed and nodding to Bug and Arrish as they walked, regardless of what might have latched into his already cramped thinking space.

"Wingman? So like fly beside me? Gonna sprout some wings?" He gave a wide grin and then looked towards Arrish.

"Oh so old geezer did talk about mostly useless shit. Well, I am not gonna make any exceptions to the enemy no matter what they look like! Shoot first and ask later if there's some alien left. But hey.. you know.." Griff said and scratched his cheek with his fingers.

"That supplies-cation and con-figure whatever stuff does sound like something a robot would say. Hey! What if those aliens are robots or controlled by some super computer or some bullshit? That's sneaky if that's the case. Imagine if old geezer's little helper is a spy or that weird one who picked up cute girl, uhhh… pilot of Atty. Heck what if Sparkles is in fact the bad guy all along? Well of course I could be overthinking and be wrong about this. But it's better to think abit extra sometimes." Griff nodded his head and stretched his arms. "Well thank you for telling me about the boring lesson anyhow, Duvey. Oh by the way! Do you like any of the girls? Maybe I can put in a good word for you." Griff gave a chuckle and grin, placing his both hands at his waist. "Sounds good, right, Buggyboy? Oi! Let's go check out that vomit frame."

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

Griff looked at Bug and then to Bug's hand, then back at Bug...

"Hm. Bug? Like an insect? That's an odd name. Holy shit. Have you noticed how your surname also have Bug in it? Bug-atty! It's like the cute girl's machine and that winged thing put together like one mean sandwich. But you don't look like a framewerk or an alien. So you are Arrishs' buddy? Oh oh wait! Or Buggy? Haha! Now that was a good one!" Griff grinned and exited his room and tried to jab Bug in the side with his elbow. "Oh yeah, we can skip handshaking. I shook Arrish hand earlier and you are his friend so... it's like indirect handshake right?" The blond said aloud as if his thoughts were verbalizing as they popped up.

"Wait a second. What do you mean with filling me in? You make it sound like I am some bakery thing. Ah shit. I don't have to read right? I mean you can tell me. Besides I think that old geezer's little machine girl is his granddaughter or kid. I mean… I heard robots can adopt humans, maybe he did the opposite? So you got a framewerk too Buggyboy? Mine is the Shiva. Most awesome one in the hangar. Well, Sleeping-whatever is pretty cool too. Seen the weapons on that thing? That is gonna be making Cruxi into Cruxi soup. Minnie's look fancy too. But I think she has the edge against her framewerk. Have you guys seen her abs? They are huge!" Griff explained and motioned with both his hands. "I mean for a girl! Imagine if we dated and made miniature Griffs. Imagine the amount of potential of the kids! That would be Cruxi-bye bye time. Heh. Might be a good backup plan if you guys all die." Griff smiled widely and fake-punched Arrishs' shoulder.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

The blond heard the knock and put down his magazine, he wasn't reading it, he was looking at the pictures of the various martial arts athletes featured. There were alot of competition to be had for those looking for it. But those stupid Cruxi had put a temporary stop to his career, so it couldn't be helped until they were dealt with. He had already re-dressed in his red jacket and wide black pants as he walked over to the door.

"Ah shit just when I got to the good parts. Allright, what did I do now?" He went over and opened the door. "Oh it's you. What do you need Luvey Duvey? Training advice? Wanna borrow some weight? Also who the heck is this?" Griff asked and pointed with his whole arm at Bug, momentarily looking him over if he appeared to be a fellow enjoyer of training. Griff's first impression were that this was probably not the case. Well as good a reason as any to begin.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Mema-Ka & Zel-Ghin

Mema-Ka finally caught up with his brother, who has strolled on ahead away from Sparks and deeper into the hangar area.

"We should take the time to get to know everyone in the squad. I would have liked to spoken to the one that were with us with the lieutenant, but it seems he didn't come with us to the hangar. What a pity." Mema-Ka said softly, his gaze wandering to the various other frames in the hangar.

"That guy seemed like trouble if I ever saw it. Heh. I do hope our squad have at least a cute girl or two. So far we've just met two guys. How dull." Zel-Ghin blew some air through his mouth, taking out his lolipop for abit, then tossed a glance to his taller brother.

"Regardless if they are male or female, we should make certain to getting to know each and everyone of them if we are going to win this war, we need capable allies. Aid them where we can so that they will become stronger. There's a rot in this world that needs to be dealt with after all, before it consumes everything. We cannot win this war just the two of us." Mema-Ka smiled softly, he reached his right hand up to his chin in thought.

"As you heard. I might get a private meeting with the Lieutenant later. That is some initial good fortune for our stay here. I shall ask her some questions which are very prudent to know the answers to, providing ofcourse she knows the answer to them. So you may possibly have to be on your own for at least one evening and possibly night." The forest green haired young man said in a soft tone of voice, his eyes wandering away from the framewerks.

"These creations to wage war. They are similar to something don't you think?" He turned his head to Zel-Ghin.

"Heh. Now when you mention it. Yes." Zel-Ghin replied in a slightly amused manner, his lolipop slipping back into his mouth as he put his hands at the back of his neck, his fingers interlocking with each other as he stretched his back abit.

"As for the borderline E-sized lieutenant, I didn't think she were your style. Perhaps I don't know everything about you after all, brother. In my case, I want to go and find someone whose a lot of fun myself. But we should probably check out those simulator machines." He gave an amused smirk before laughing out loud, causing Mema-Ka to stop in his tracks momentarily before answering.

"You are indeed correct, little brother. Perhaps I have a few traits you have yet to fully discern. But you don't strike me as worried for that training matter. Then again. When have you ever?" Mema-Ka stated as he resumed walking.

"That's because I ain't. I would hate steamrolling through whatever program they put us into. It's probably not going to compare with the hardest difficulty in space invaders 34. If it does… then we are about to have a good time. You remember who you are talking with right, brother?" He slid his hand into his jacket and took out the handheld video game again and began to play as they went ahead on their walk. Mema-Ka gave a slight upturn at the corner of his mouth. Soon they would likely encounter more of the squad, the taller of the twins was looking forwards to it very much so.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

What the heck just happened? One moment he was acting, next moment some woman had pried open the door then he was being the target of what he could recognize as a Taekwondo kick. He had spent gods know how many hours watching martial arts videos, that he could identify most martial art styles by watching how their bodies moved. The woman had seem very precise. Griff didn't try to dodge the incoming blow, he was too wrapped up in seeing martial arts happening right in front of him, and was curious how hard a hitter she actually were. Besides he had a thick skull! But she stopped her kick right before landing it.

'Huh? What? What did it try to tell him? Oh she's a machine? If it talks like one it has to be one. Probably a sparring bot! Man! I thought it was real martial arts for a moment. Boy did that trick me. Eh? Where's the ga- Oh she's being carried away. Did that robot just call her a child?' A grin formed on his lips as he began to laugh out loud, his both hands planted by his waist. "She called her a child! Her child? So her mother is a robot? Cool. That explains why she didn't get my situation. Computers are dumb. Ah man! I better get the heck out of here and to my private quarters, good thing I got a good shoulder for bashing a door in. Thank goodness for being human."

Griff looked outside the room and made a run for his private quarters. Wasn't there someplace important they were supposed to be anyhow?

Somehow he had made it out of so many deathtraps for the day. 'One more proof that when there's trouble! Use your head, tackle it head-on!' He mentally cheered himself on.

Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

"Ouch! My hand- Why you!" He gritted his teeth, with drawing his hand momentarily to have a look at it. Then she began to scream, which made Griff blink but keep his grip. 'Pervert? What? Where? Wait a mom- How dare you call me that!' He thought quickly, he had not been so insulted since… since… he couldn't quite remember. Creep? Him? Well wasn't creeping something that tigers did before pouncing on a prey? Creeping and crouching. That part was right at least. Unless.. she meant in the creepy alien bug way. His ears perked up on hearing someone on the other side of the door.

'Ah shit!' Then as Serah screamed for help he placed his hand over her mouth again. How dared she lie! He was just putting his hand on her mouth not everywhere. But he needed to explain things quickly or some other woman would get the wrong idea. Why did people have to misunderstand everything! He had no choice. He had been given ten seconds, he had to tell the long story in a short way.

"Okay listen! I accidentally walked into the wrong shower-room after having trained in the brig after old geezer's lesson, some dumb girls came in and I hid, then one of them stole my bag with clothes! I got shampoo in my face and a headache about make-up and clothing! Now I am stuck with this and everyone will know! I beg you, my pride as a warrior is on the line! Help me. Help me! I do anything! Anything! Please help a fellow athlete out! I own you! I mean owe you! I didn't mean to grab- Oh shi-" He spoke as quickly and hushed as he could before completely releasing her and shoved a paper into her hands. "Pretend we are rehear- fuck it. We are actors!" He pressed his hands together in a begging motion before picking up a paper with some weird symbols on them. He thought it could possibly be numbers. Not math. Not now. The situation was bad enough as it were.

"Oh Hamle- ancelot! How he punched and slammed the stupid door...uhh.. so he could ride away on his stupid... fourlegged animal with Guin- whatever the heck nerd guy's frame is called! Ohoh hah!" Griff placed one hand upwards pointing to the ceiling as if it were the sky, he raised his leg up on a chair and held the paper in the other. Throwing a final glance to Serah, his eyes begging for her to play along. He had always wanted a shot at acting like they did in wrestling, but this was completely different and there was no one to tag out with. 'Come on! Small cute girl whose name I can't remember!' He mentally called out. 'I am sending tele- phonetic- pathetic waves to your mind!'

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Nerves In Carbonox Reforged: A Roll-Your-Own Giant Mecha Roleplay

Griff

"Watch where you are walk- Ah?" Griff blinked as he had managed to sneak out in his new attire, gracing the first empty corridor with his abs fully on display just to have someone bump into him. Seriously were people blind? How hard were it to watch where you would walk? Then again… he had entered the wrong shower room. But surely that wasn't his fault. Right? His face grew abit red when he saw who it were. 'It's the cute looking little trainee in weightlifting need! Shit!' He cursed inside his head as he decided on his next finely chosen words as Serah was addressing him by his actual name? Were she also to tell it was indeed him? "Don't be stupid! It's not me." He gritted his teeth together and tightened his hands into fists the more she was laughing.

'If I knock her out she might forget what she saw. But… no self respecting warrior would hit a woman. WHAT SHOULD I DO?!' He lamented as he considered his options, the girl before him was laughing to such a degree that he wasn't sure if to blush or if his boilers were about to burst. Then he heard the words that made him decide on his course of action, and he was all about action. The cute little girl was going to tell Elora, who was basically his disciple after the great fighting tournament. He didn't care if Ken simply called it training or sparring or whatnot. Stupid star fist fake kung-fu. Boxing was the path to enlightenment. Take enough punches to the head and you become invincible.

But it wasn't just Elora she would tell, but Aura... who the heck was Aura? Wasn't aura some spirit mumbo jumbo stuff? She was going to tell everyone that she had seem him in this attire, in a girl attire. Well, he had to admit it actually could have been alot worse, the short shirt really accentuated his abs- but that was beyond the point!

The blond sprung into action the moment she turned around, there was no chance in hell she would get away from him! Cardio was one of his strongest traits! He ran after her, she was quick, surprisingly so but Griff went all gears and caught up, stretched out his left hand over her mouth and the other grabbing her arms as he joinked her into what appeared to be the closest room nearby and closed the door, still holding her grabbed with hand over her mouth and the other grabbing her arms behind her back.

'AH! Why did I grab her?! Fuuu- Shit! What now? I need to somehow explain myself! What to do, what to do!' His mind scrambled as best as it could, scrambled as eggs. They were now in a dark room with alot of calculations on the walls. A math and science room. How typical. Just how bad could this day get.

'I need to explain to her about the situation at hand, that this has all been a big misunderstanding! That's right! But first I need to calm her down and tell her I didn't mean to do this! This stupid! Stupid cute girl showing up at the worst of times!' He cursed inside his head when he leaned in with his face towards her ear and shoulder.

"Just be quiet and stop resisting." He said in the most badass way he could, stern and serious. He saw it in a movie once where that happened and that line was used. Wait. Wasn't that something the villain did? Oops. 'She is really struggling? What to do? Maybe singing would work? It does calm down wild animals I heard. But I am not a singer… ARGH CRAP! She is making my hand all moist- Oh I was holding it over the mouth and nose...' He removed the hand momentarily from her mouth and nose as he began to think of his next course of action.

What in the world was the next right course of action?

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