Training a new Titan (Ace, E, and ask)

Ace walked through the tunnels under the island, shuffling one deck with his hands and another in front of him with his powers. It may not be combat training, but it's the next best thing. he thought, flicking one card up to the levitating deck and catching it with his powers while dropping another one down to the top of the deck in his hands. Plus it's fun. So that always helps. As the teen continued walking and shuffling, he took a moment to think about the events that had transpired in just the last couple of days. Man...I'm really a Titan now, huh? That's pretty darn awesome! he thought, pulling out the communicator in his pocket and looking at it for a moment. Still, things aren't going to be all fine and easy moving forward. We're going to have to work hard to if we want to take down HIVE. Ace chuckled to himself. We'll figure it out though. The city will be back to normal before those dictators know what hit 'em! Ace jolted slightly as Riot's mechanical voice rang out, calling him and Ao to the monitoring room. "On my way!" the teen replied back into the communicator before pocketing it and the two decks and heading towards the room.

Shortly after the call, Spade would jog into the room to meet Riot and Ao. The first thing he noticed was Riot's outfit - it was significantly different from the massive armor the hero usually wore, with the arms and parts of the upper body exposed. Huh, he's fairly pale under there. I guess that makes sense though, he probably doesn't get much sun with all of the armor he wears. Despite that, Ace couldn't help but notice that Riot still had his helmet on. "Curious question - do you ever take the helmet off?" the teen asked jokingly, trying to keep the mood a bit light. Regardless of the answer, Spade would grin when Riot told him and Ao that the training room was ready. "So that's what you've been working on recently, huh? Sounds awesome, I'm ready to get started!" he replied enthusiastically, before stepping to the side and fairly dramatically motioning for Ao to go first. "After you!" he said, allowing his teammate to go forward before following after her and Riot.

Ao was in her make shift room and sat on a frame less mattress next to her sleeping puppy Lucy who was a yellow lab. She hadn't let riot in her room yet and had told him that she moved all hr belongings into it already and it looked like a full out room so he had no need to worry or get her anything. It was mostly a lie... she didn't want any hand outs so that's what she told him when all her room looked like was an unfinished room building wise with a mattress on the ground, a box of her equipment, a second set of clothes, a mattress on the floor, and a broken large dusty old mirror.

The only thing she had told him that was true was the fact that all of the things were the only things to her name. Ao pulled off her helmet and looked at herself in the mirror. She felt the horns on her head as she looked at her eyes with the white black. She swore every time she looked at herself she looked more and more like a stranger. She pulled on a neckless with a gem at the end that made her horns vanish. She stared silently at her eyes before looking down. Not even the neckless could hide her eyes that screamed what she had done.

She jumped as she heard Riot's voice looking to her communicator that sat on the bed next to her before looking back down as her puppy slowly woke up having heard his voice. She figured this was Ace's training time so she might as well get dressed for it. Lucy nudged her with her head noticing her sadness. Ao smiled softly and picked up the puppy and hugged her close. "Thanks Lucy..." She kissed her head before setting her down and standing up and taking off her suit. She took a deep breath in after taking it off.

It felt nice to feel it off for once. She left the tank top she wore under it on as she grabbed her pants. They were baggy and were far from the best thing to wear during training but they were all she had. She then pulled on her casual boots before looking down to her neckless. She sighed before taking it off and putting it under her mattress before grabbing her bow and heading down to the location she was told to head to.

She walked in then and eyed Riot for a moment, he really wasn't just a suit.... she knew this already but since he was always in it it made it hard for her to keep that in mind. For the moment he stood there before coming in Riot would see her near sad expression before she pushed the look away for a more casual one and walked in. She then nodded though she blushed slightly at Ace's motions to let her go first. It seemed that she let most of her talking and emotions speak through her face. "Uh thanks..." She said before walking first after riot and into the next room.

Ace chuckled at Riot's response to his joke. "Fair enough. Guess that'll be staying on then." he replied as he followed his two teammates. "Hey, anything's better than nothing. I'm just excited to start!". As Riot turned back to address him, the teen listened closely to his words. Besides my cards? Not much, unfortunately. Here's hoping I can put them to good use though. "Sounds good to me. If it's a show you want, it's a show you'll get." he replied with a smile. Spade then looked over to Ao. "Try not to impale me with an arrow, eh? I'd like to make it out of here alive." he joked as he pulled out one of his decks of cards. The hero then flicked five cards out of it and used his powers to levitate them around him as he walked over to one side of the room, facing Ao. "Ready when you are!" he called, getting into a defensive stance.

She looked around as Riot spoke after they entered and shrugged. "It's more than what I've really had in the past." She then listened to his instructions to Ace and then nodded as he said to prepare now before the fight starts. She then started to stretch a bit as Ace asked her to not impale him with any arrows. She smirked a bit as she stood up straight then and nodded. "I'll do my best though I doubt you will have as many arrows to dodge as I normally would have since I just came off my long shift at the monitors and missed my nap."

She then got into position and readied her bow which meant she held it in position and grabbed the string to form a light blue energy arrow. She then nodded to tell him she was ready as she held her bow as an odd angle while her arm held the bow off to the side as she drew back the arrow. When they were allowed to begin she swung her arm horizontally as she let go of the string. As she did so the arrow seemed to duplicate and fire off another arrow and another one after the other until a total of 6 fired off in the lie that he threw her arm.

The arrows would come at ace like a large horizontal wave. If they hit anything though they would turn into light blue smoke. She though right after firing off the first set notched another arrow that was deep blue and she aimed it like a normal arrow and aimed it where ever Ace was at or was headed and was trying to hit him in the shoulder as she tried to use the starting arrows as a distraction.

She wished she had some of her ice bombs to pin him in place but since they would get disenchanted the moment they got close to riot they would just become dangerous weapons that could actually hurt ace and not actually work as a passive binding agent on Ace. Though since this was his first time sparing with her she figured this just gave him another handicap to allow his first time to a bit easier on him and allow this to be training for her so she could fight even better when at a disadvantage.

Ace chuckled at Ao's response to his request. "Oh, good. Hopefully that handicap'll help me out a bit then." he replied. As the two prepared to fight, Ace noted his teammate's stance, and in particular how she was holding her bow. Figuring the girl was planning to level it at him as they began, the teen shifted his stance slightly to allow himself to dash out of the way as soon as the match began. Sure enough, Ao started her attack by bringing her bow around, however instead of lining up a single shot, she swung the bow across, apparently firing multiple shots in an arc along the way. Seeing this, Ace shot three of his readied cards towards the arrows closest to him as he dove forward, hoping to go under the arrows in the event that his cards failed to stop them. As the teen dove his cards collided with the arrows, turning them to smoke while the less accurate ones flew by. Huh, that wasn't so bad. Maybe this'll be...Oh crap! Ace thought, glancing up just in time to see Ao's next arrow fly towards and collide with his shoulder. Spade grit his teeth and hissed as a rather painful burn appeared where the arrow had hit him. "Alright...not bad..." the teen acknowledged painfully before getting back up. "Well you didn't impale me, so I'll give you that and try to return the favor." he called, launching his last two cards towards Ao's arms, aiming to deal glancing blows. At the same time, the teen's hands moved quickly, one pulling out his deck and readying another ten cards behind him, while the other pulled out and dropped his magic die. Could really use a quick heal... he thought, watching the die settle on a number: 2. Sighing with relief as the pan and burn faded from his shoulder, the teen refocused on his sparring partner, ready to deal with what she threw out next.

Ao smirked as her move worked and he said not bad. "Dont worry I'll help you wrap that up after the match." She then chuckled at his next comment. "Thanks I appreciate it." She then saw the cards coming and tried to move out of the way but on of the cards still hit some of the spikes that were sticking out of her right forearm making her wince slightly but she tried to shrug it off. She eyed the cards he got ready and got into a running stance to ready herself. She then saw him heal himself and smirked.

"I'm sure villains must loooove the fact that you can heal yourself when you fight them." It seemed that he was playing the waiting game... which meant ao couldnt do that without making it a stale mate. Which throws out her plan to try to wait for him to attack and try to counter his attacks better to use her powers in smaller bursts since any major movement would eat at her energy this also lowering her arrow supply and the over all things she could really do. She eyed the walls and how close he was to them.

It was a wide area with a wide open space... which takes out any major things she could do... she could run to a wall and back flip off it to do a more aerial attack but over all that would just kill too much energy since shed just be wasting energy just trying to run to one. That and he wasn't too close to one to really throw him off with a wall jump to get over him to his blind spot.... At this point she would have used her ice bombs to try and freeze him in place while making large platforms that she could use to her advantage but she didn't have any on her....

She closed her eyes sighing as she muttered in german. "I hate handicaps...." She though eyed the cards he had at the ready before starting to straft run around him in circles. She then let off multiple arrows at him as she ran around him in circles though she made sure to make them as weak as she could to lower the energy they took from her.

Ace chuckled at Ao's comment. "Yeah, they don't tend to take it too well. Then again, that usually bodes well for me - a bit easier to fight them when they're angry." he replied. The teen then waited as his teammate surveyed their surroundings, doubtlessly looking for a new angle of attack before muttering to herself and beginning to circle him, bow at the ready. Spade watched her path and maneuvered his cards into a barrier, keeping it between him and Ao as she moved around to use as a shield to protect himself. This will hold for now, but I'll soon be a sitting duck. My die still won't work for a few minutes, not to mention I probably can't get through this just by playing defense. Time, methinks, to gain a little altitude. Making sure to keep his barrier between him and Ao, Ace dumped the remainder of his first deck of cards onto the ground, forming a platform beneath himself and levitating upward. I don't exactly have a lot of space to maneuver with, but it'll have to do. "I hope you can hit a high-flying target, because I sure won't be standing still for a bit!" Spade would then pull out his second deck of cards and open it, before aiming it at Ao and firing five cards out of the top towards her. Hopefully this doesn't hurt her too much - I'm guessing it wouldn't be great to severely injure my teammate during day one of training.

She chuckled nodding "It usually does, though there is still the possibility of them becoming better at the fight due to anger. My cousins become a scary force when angered in battle so be careful who you anger when you fight." She said with a smile. She eyed the barrier of cards and started to fire less arrows to make him keep it up but to where she wouldn't lose as much energy. She smirked seeing him move and stopped firing arrows but pulled one back.

"With ease!" She then saw the cards flying at her. She ran at them as her eyes and stripes on her horns glowed brighter as she did so. As they were about to hit her she dropped to her knees and leaned back arcing her back a bit. She rose her bow and shouted as she let off an arrow that was 3 times the size as her normal ones. She then shouted "Lean forward!" The arrow as timed out based on how fast she saw him going to where it would hit him in the shoulder if he didn't lean forward.

She didn't want to really hit him since it was 3 times stronger than her normal arrows but she also wanted to tell him to lean forward to point out that she knew where it was most likely to hit if he kept his speed up and his height. So in other wards she wanted to show off the attack and that it was likely to hit him without really hitting him since it would probably hurt him really badly if it hit him.