This is the Neo-Swedish engineers' fault, okay

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Allenby rocked back and forth on her heels, frowning at the Great Wall for a couple of reasons. One, apparently the Daligig or whoever had yanked out a big chunk of the Great Wall (or one of them, given how many Earths there were) and slapped it into the City like a cheap bookcase. She wasn't big on cultural heritage preservation, but sheesh.

The second reason was that she was thinking. Next to her feet was a bag of toys: jacks, a gymnast's ribbon, a kite, spinning tops, and a few superballs. Believe or not, she was going to use these to develop a new specialty technique--just as soon as she figured out where to begin.

"Man, Nobel Gundam... I knew I shoulda asked Chibodee and George what they did to figure out theirs." She winced when she caught herself talking to her Gundam yet again, and she wasn't even in the Hangar this time... oh well. Allenby picked up the ribbon and began running, executing a technique she already knew well from piloting.

[ooc: So anyone in the Water Cooler post who wanted to do sparring/training stuff, this would be a good place to do it! :3 Or anyone else who'd like to pop in, of course.]

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[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Oh hey!" Allenby slowed down when she saw Einhart, grinning. She hadn't run into that kid in a while--pretty long while, in fact. "I'm training!"

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart looked over at the toys. "What type of training is this?"

Because really, Einhart was having a hard time figuring out what Allenby was supposed to be training with all this stuff.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Ah, well! I'm trying to develop a new specialty technique to use in my Gundam," Allenby explained. She twirled the ribbon. "Since I use a beam ribbon as my primary weapon and my current technique is based on the motion of a hula hoop, I figured I ought to stick with the theme."

Hence the jacks and things. It might look silly, but there was an odd sort of logic to it.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart blinked at that. "Oh. That does make sense. But... will you have those type of things for the new technique for the machine?"

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"When I figure out what I wanna do, I'll program it into Nobel Gundam's systems," Allenby explained. "Then I can pull off the attack with beam energy instead of just this stuff." She gestured at the bag of toys.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart blushed. "Oh. That makes sense."

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Yeah--guess it does look kinda weird just seeing it for the first time, though." She didn't mind the assumption that she was just goofing around if it came from someone Einhart's age. "So what are you up to out here? You aren't training too, are ya?"

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart nodded. "I was planning on getting some training in, actually."

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Really? How 'bout we train together, then?" Allenby suggested. "We could help each other out."

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart nodded. "That sounds like it'd be... alright."

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Great!" Allenby pumped a fist. "You said that you use magic and martial arts, right? I haven't ever fought against someone who can do that kind of thing before--can you show me somethin' so I know what to look out for?"

1/2

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart nodded. "Alright," she said, closing her eyes as magical greenish light started to swirl around her body.

2/2

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

And within a few moments, Einhart's body changed, shifting into that of an adult woman.

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[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Whoa!" Allenby gaped at the transformation. Add another thing to the list of things she'd never seen before. "Is that really you? Holy cow!"

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[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart smiled. "It is. It's easier to concentrate and use magic in this form, so for the few of us that know how to do it, we use if when we need to. Since most real fights we get in wouldn't be the type where we can afford not to use our full power, well, it's definitely easier to just train like this."

"Besides, I'll have to work harder to dodge now."

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[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

"Heh, good thinking," said Allenby. She raised her fists, deciding that she'd let Einhart have the first move. Different form or no, the kid was still a kid and Allenby didn't want to start pummeling without seeing if she could keep up. "Show me what you got, Einhart!"

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[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart actually smirked, before she ran forward, moving to send a punch right towards Allenby's stomach as quick as her body could manage.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Well, it looked like Einhart had quite a bit. Allenby turned her body to the side to let the punch go by, but she was impressed by the speed. She countered by aiming a punch of her own at Einhart's face.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that punch was blocked pretty easily.

How about another punch, this time to your face Allenby?

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Sounds good! Have a similar block and then a knee towards Einhart's stomach, just to mix things up a bit.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Well, Einhart didn't managed to block that knee strike, feeling it in her stomach as she went heaving back a bit, but it didn't take her that long to ready herself and send another punch towards Allenby's face.

And then another punch towards her stomach for when that one got blocked.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Allenby evaded one but not the other. Oof. Nice one, Einhart--so they were one for one. She jumped back a bit, one arm loosely in front of her gut. Then she stepped forward, twisting to do a quick side-kick.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart managed to see that kick and jumped out of the way of it. But because of that, she didn't really have any opportunity to attack that Allenby wouldn't just block again.

So she waited for the woman to make the next move.

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Allenby's next move was up. Well, why not? She was practicing to fight in outer space, after all. "Hey, how high can ya go?" she called cheerfully.

[hegemonstratos.livejournal.com]

Einhart blinked, looking up as Allenby jumped up. "Don't know. Let's find out."

And there she was, jumping up to follow after Allenby. Without using magic to fly, obviously.