Day 13

Lounged out on the huge couch

I was watching Takuya and Ringo playing some video games. Takashi poked his head up then jumped over the couch right next to me. “Whatcha doin sport?” he asked me. “Just lounging out, what you up to?” “Oh nothing, you wanna take a walk?” Seemed like a good idea so I went with him. “I wanted to show you this room. It’s were we train when we need to let off steam or for missions or whatever really,” he said. He brought me down to a room that had a huge glass wall looking into another room. It was a huge empty metal room. “Kay’s in there training now. She asked me to help her out but I figured I’d come get you first, so you know what to do and how it works. So pay close attention, and learn her moves so you know who she is and how she fights,” he told me. Her back was facing towards us and she was dressed in a tight black suit. “Ready mumbo jumbo,” she said to Tak. He put his fingers on all sorts of buttons. “T minus 30 seconds and counting down.” “Put it on free for all,” Kay demanded. He turned a knob and a flashing light started to go off. “Begin.”

     She was jogging in place getting all warmed up for what was to come. “Bring it!” she shouted. Robotic dummies appeared in the room. She flew up and rolled in the air and came crashing down on one. The second she landed her foot she jumped again and round housed a kick to the head and knocked it right off. Sparks were flying everywhere. Two platforms came shooting up from the ground and stopped in mid-air. She ran for them and jumped in the middle. She climbed all the way to the top and then took out her gun. With a single shot, she blasted the limbs off of every dummy there was. For the next hour, there were so many sparks flying everywhere. I could really see how she worked. In the real world, this made it look like she played unfair- which she did. Then she landed on her feet and said, “Done.” “Pretty good Kay,” Takashi complimented. “Pretty good?” I looked at him like he was nuts. “That was great. How is that pretty good to you?” I asked. “Please, that was nothing,” he said. She walked in and looked surprised. “Hi there. Didn’t expect to see you here,” she said. “Yeah Takashi came and got me. He wanted me to learn the controls of the room, so here I am,” I said. I looked at her closely and not a bead of sweat was anywhere to be seen on her. “Huh, okay,” she said. “You wanna go?” she added. I tilted my head and said, “What you mean?” “Common, me and you. We’ll go right now,” she said with a huge smile on her face. “Uhm…” I looked at Takashi for an answer and he nodded his head with a huge smile. “Sure,” I said.

“THIS IS TAKASHI IN THE CONTROL TRAINING ROOM. KAVRONI AND THE NEW GIRL ARE GUNNA FIGHT!” I heard on the loud speaker. I turned around and shot him a look. “It’s gunna last all of five minutes Tak. Don’t get yourself too excited,” she said. One minute later, everyone came rushing into the room to watch. Even Riggs was there, standing with her arms folded as usual. They pushed me in the room and I fell right to the floor. “Change the gravity back to normal,” Kayvroni ordered. She’s been doing this whole thing under pressure, I thought to myself. Which made it ten times harder; I was surprised she could even breathe. When I felt like I wasn’t being pushed to the ground anymore I got up. “You’re pretty quite. Why is that?” She asked me. “Observing,” I answered. “There is full contact training. If I knock you out I apologize in advance. Ready?” “Ready.” She lounged at me with a roundhouse kick towards my head but I ducked. I think she knew somehow I was going to do that because she stopped her kick before it hit my face. So she knelt down on one knee, spun around, and kicked me in the back of the other knee. It gave out and I fell to the floor. I rolled over and tried to kick her foot so she would loose balance, but the second I did she flipped onto her hands and dodged my kick. I got up and she spun and kicked me right in the face. I went flying onto the floor. I laid there thinking, what just happened. I did that pretty often when I was with Her. I heard “Oooooh shit!” over the loud speaker. Still on the floor I moved my head to look behind me and I saw all of them with their mouths open and surprised faces through the window. I looked back up and saw Her face looking down at me. “Four minutes. I was close; I said five. How’s your face?” I licked my lips and tasted blood. “By the way, your lip is bleeding. Sorry.” She smiled and turned around. I thought to myself, four minutes? Are you fucking kidding? Common Al, get your head in the game. So I took a deep breath and I knew I was in for a world of hurt with what I was about to do. I got up and ran towards her. I went to kick her back but she blocked it with her hands behind her. She swung around and at that moment, I used her hand as a step, and lifted myself up in the air. I came crashing down with a kick to her face but she blocked that too. She grabbed my ankle and flipped me around and kicked me right in the chest. It knocked the wind out of me but I got up and did knuckle to knuckle punching with her. It went on for about 3 minutes, and then we did kicks, each of us blocking our next move with our next move. Finally, I did a tornado roundhouse right to her shoulder and she blocked it with her hands. She took my leg, spun into me, and elbowed me right in the chest again. This time I couldn’t breathe, so I just fell down and stayed there for the count. Trying to catch my breath, I heard over the loudspeaker “Dam, she’s pretty good. She’s a feisty little one.” She walked over to me and looked at me with one eyebrow up, biting her lip. A smirk appeared on her face and she nodded her head in approval. She turned around and walked out of the room. I managed to get to my feet and walk to the door to the control room. I saw everyone clapping they’re hands and congratulating me. “We haven’t even lasted that long with her. And when we do, we don’t get back up for more. You can be something else kid,” said Takashi with Ringo behind him agreeing. I looked over at Riggs and she was still standing there with her arms crossed. She looked pretty disgusted, and then she walked out of the room.