Unbreakable much? (Open)

[Matrim]

Matrim had gone to the gym, he had sent out the texts to the four he was going to train with. He had a mission for them, well two really. One that they would be working on today, and another they would be working on until Matrim and Reira got out of here.

"Yo Matt, we're here!" Eric said walking in. Matrim waved to the four who entered, they all were wearing the bandanna's they were given when they joined the gang. It was a cool design and Matrim was glad that they were using it, "What did you call us out for?"

Matrim had three things laying by him, a bench press bar without weights on it, a 50 lbs. hand weight, and a wooden baseball bat from the sports equipment closet.

"Eric, I want you to not use any of these. You're using your fists. Rina, grab the bat. Isaac, I don't trust you with that metal bar, so you're getting the hand weight. Steven that leaves you with the bar."

"What the hell is this about Mattie?" Asked Rina. She was an average girl, no Qi, same with the rest of them, but they were solid people who believed in the cause, "Are we about to get into a gang fight or something? Who are we supposed to use this stuff on, and why?"

"You're using it on me. All four of you. This is a direct order from me as your vice captain. You are not to tell a soul about this mission, Alex himself has given me permission to keep my privacy, even with this. So the only thing I ask is that you follow my orders to a T. This is your first mission for me." Matrim spread his legs to shoulder length, and lifted his arms straight outward, exposing his ribs, he was topless and only wearing gym shorts, "Attack me, attack me until I am either unresponsive or order you to stop. You got that?"

"Umm...... no way, this is stupid." Chimed in Steven, "This makes no sense, this isn't a spar match, this is just brutal beatings!"

Matrim looked at Steven, "If you aren't going to listen to me, perhaps you'd rather have my spot while I take the metal bar? Now attack me, all of you!"

Matrim activated his shield. He needed to know the limits, he wanted to make it stronger, he wanted to make himself stronger.

"NOW!"

Isaac came in hard with the 50 lbs. hand weight, straight to the right side, a hit that would have cracked his rib if he hadn't had his shield up, he was looking at a bruised one if he was hit in the same spot twice.

"Isaac's got the idea! and I'm thankful I didn't give you the metal bar. NOW COME ON!"

One after one they each began to give in to the orders, at first they didn't do much damage, they were holding back.

"IF YOU HOLD BACK I WILL KICK YOUR ASS! COME AT ME LIKE I OWE YOU MONEY!"

They came harder, "Take out your aggression! Think of all the kids in this school you hate, the ones who make this place a real hell hole, the trash, the scum, take your anger for them out on me!"

It wasn't long before Matrim was bleeding from certain areas, the sharp corners of the 50lbs. weight, the bench pressing bar did the least damage over all, Erics punches and kicks were no laughing matter over time, he went for the already weak spots. He was fighting smart. Rina was definitely going to be in the home run derby one day, and eventually Matrim started reacting to the pain, dropping sometimes, other times seriously just coughing blood. He kept his shield up as long as he could, but he began to lose focus, and it went down.

"ENOUGH!" Matrim said, holding his hands up, Rina nearly got him in the head with a bat since he had dropped down to his knees and his head was where his side used to be. "You are all free to go."

"Don't you need help back to your dor-"

"YOU are all free to go. Meaning leave me. Now."

The shield lasted long enough...... he took several attacks from four people, no qi. His shield prevented him from getting any cuts, but there were times when his shield went down momentarily that the cuts occurred.

The bullets from the first time I used my Qi stung, but they didn't pierce me.... I just had welts from them.... so maybe objects cant cut my skin unless they cut through the armor.... like a second skin.... but I'm still susceptible to blunt force trauma, and if my shield goes down all bets are off. The good thing is the shield also blocks Qi's as long as it isn't something mental or spiritual. So there's always that.....

Matrim tried to stand up, but instead he fell to his knees. He knew that nobody would be up except for those he texted.

"Shit..... I guess I shouldn't have sent them off......"

[Solaris Awren (Chronos)]

"IF YOU HOLD BACK I WILL KICK YOUR ASS! COME AT ME LIKE I OWE YOU MONEY!" Man, this boy was something else. Solaris had placed himself in one of the hundreds of seats in the gym, after catching a glimpse of a blue haired boy getting pummeled by several of his classmates. He'd first been informed of the beating by Matrim's AI core chip. He was only recently out of the trauma center...and as such, the core hadn't been locked from Solaris' outside interference yet. The little chip sent back not only Matrim's physical status, but also that of his Qi, which was draining at a rather fast pace under all that stress. Solaris came to the conclusion that he had a shield for a Qi.


"YOU are all free to go. Meaning leave me. Now." Incredible. He was still stan...oh wait...

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Nope. Dropped.

"Shit..... I guess I shouldn't have sent them off......"

Solaris appeared standing in front of him. "You're damn well right. Maybe next time, use two or three guys instead of four?" He suggested jokingly. "Really though. You're probably lucky I'm here." Solaris walked behind the boy, stuck his hand where the chip was, and manually turned it on. Nanites would begin to seal the more critical injuries as Solaris kept talking to him.

"Really now, you're just out of surgery, and you're falling part, almost literally. What the hell is wrong with you?"

[Matrim]

"Gotta train. What can I say? It's bad enough I'm in a prison school where we have to worry about gang violence or random punks, but I have a girlfriend to watch out for. A bunch of bruises and cuts are the least of my worries. Especially since Jeremy got shanked. Gotta stay tough, ya know."

Matrim kept the real reason to himself, it was similar, but mostly it had to do with them breaking out. And the possibility of coming against Jordan, or even worse, one of the gang members that might be after Samara. He knew he'd have to protect Reira.

"It's funny, I was going to ask those guys for something else, but I forgot to do that.... oh well. I'll get around to it." Matrim said, he managed to crawl his way to the bleachers, sitting on the first row he looked up at Solaris. Part of him disliked Solaris, but another part appreciated him, "So what the hell is this chip thing doing, I feel sorta funny...."

[Jay Tsang]

"Yeah, just what the hell is that chip?"

Jiao emerged from the shadows, his eyebrow cocked in curiosity, arms crossed across his chest. He had witnessed the entire thing; as a matter of fact, he was practicing his ba-ji form before Matrim himself had even entered the gym. One could say it was habit. Ever since Jiao was a child, his grandfather had him rise before the sun even graced the horizon with its life-giving rays, in order to practice and perfect his stance and form. Eventually, his internal clock adjusted and had him wake up before dawn without being roused, and had stayed that way ever since.

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While Jiao was doing a few drills, he noticed Matrim enter the gym, but thought nothing of it. What happened next, however, greatly piqued the Sino's interest, causing him to halt his routine and observe what was about to happen. He had already perfected his bajiquan anyway (or so he thought), so what harm was there in taking a break in order to be entertained? And entertaining it was; Matrim yelled out, and three other students, who Jiao assumed to be his goons, given the gang paraphernalia tied around their arms and Matrim's tone with them, began wailing on him with wood, metal, and fists.

Dude's pretty tough, though it should be impossible to take that much punishment without.. well, dying, or at least being severely injured. Not even I, Jiao Tsang, could admittedly take a beating like that. Matty must be one of those qi freaks that seem so common around here.

Matrim's three goons abandoned him at his command, and he collapsed onto the ground, visibly damaged. The Chinese freshman had dwelled on whether or not to help him for a few moment, fingers rubbing his hairless chin and all, but before he could make a decision someone -- Jiao assumed a teacher by the looks of him -- stepped in and did something to the blue-haired student, apparently patching him up. It appeared as if Matrim wasn't patched up enough, because he had to crawl his way to the bleachers.

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Following his little question, Jiao would turn his attention to the blue-haired student. "Looks like you've seen better days, Matty. Just what the hell are you?" he glanced at the luminescent light emitting from the boy's chest before speaking again, "I noticed that thing during that lunch we shared, but didn't bother asking about it. First that, then the mentioning of chips.. and now your eyes. I always thought you just had heterochromia or something, but now..."

Jiao grinned. "You a fuckin' cyborg or something?"

[Matrim]

"Long story short, this asshole decided to save my life." Matrim laughed, and wiped the blood from his mouth. "I was being poisoned my entire life by a man out to kill my family, well, the poison made it so that if I had a moment where I panicked too much, my heart would would stop working and begin to deteriorate. That day happened about a week or so ago, the Doc made an artificial heart, it needed a battery."

Matrim pointed at the blue light emitting from over his heart, "This is an energy source, a power core, it makes the fake ticker tick. The chip Solaris mentioned, keeps the core stabilized. Sadly that means Solaris also has a nice home inside my brain where he can hear my thoughts and if he really wanted to, he could see what I see, hear what I hear."

Matrim looked up, "I'm human though, don't get my wrong, I just have a hell of an insurance apparently, the little show over there where I managed to keep my face intact, I have a qi ability, a shield. It's like a second skin, I was testing it, and hoping to make it stronger."

Matrim looked at the several cuts and bruises, the bleeding seemed to stop, "Although what Solaris is doing now I have no idea, I guess this chip can heal me or something. I know I can't activate it, so it's probably something that happens overnight, not instantly like Dani. I could probably still be killed after all is said and done."

What is this thing...... Solaris, whats that tingling feeling.....

"At least I'm hoping thats what it's doing, what is it doing Solaris?"

[Solaris Awren (Chronos)]

"Long story short, this asshole decided to save my life." ...That was a low blow, Solaris sort of wanted to clock him just for that mention, but of course, in Matrim's weakened condition, had good sense not to. However, he did make note of the boy that had come out of the shadows. Solaris hadn't really taken heed to this boy, at least, not until now.

The boy was identified as Jiao Tsang by the signal given out by his MAC, the one Lunari had told Solaris about...the "Problem" so to speak. However, to the AI, it was just another student. "Yeah, just what the hell is that chip?"

"I'll get to it in a minute."

Solaris was still working on making sure his cuts were healing up. The nanites were doing their jobs, sealing the cracks and lacerations that Matrim received in his little test so to speak.

"Although what Solaris is doing now I have no idea, I guess this chip can heal me or something. I know I can't activate it, so it's probably something that happens overnight, not instantly like Dani. I could probably still be killed after all is said and done."

"Give the man a prize. The chip is configured to dispense nanites into your bloodstream to seal up critical wounds quicker. I just did it this time cause I don't want any blood in my Gym. You know how I am. Oh, and sorry about me being in your head. You'll be happy to know that you should know when I'm there. You'll probably get a cold headache for a few seconds. That's me. Any other Awren's face just shows up in the corner of your eye...like a computer sort of. Useful really."

[Jay Tsang]

Jiao hopped up onto the bleachers, climbing a few sets until he was two above Matrim before laying down on one, resting the back of his head in his arms. "I guess that explains a lot," Jiao said in after Matrim's answer about his cybernetic heart, or whatever it was. Though the Chinese boy had not mentioned the little beatdown he had witnessed just moments ago, Matrim also had an explanation for that, which confirmed Jiao's previous assumptions. So I was right, he is a freak. There's advantages being on good terms with qi users, I suppose, but I don't see how his protective qi would aid me in any way. Oh well, his good sense of humor is viable enough reason to keep him 'round.

"Nanites? Is that some Japanese technology or something?" Jiao said in response to Solaris' lesson on how the chips healed Matrim's wounds. "I was born and raised in Beijing; I know nothing of the outside world. Especially since as soon as I stepped foot in Japan I was sent to this goddamned place," with a sigh he rose into a sitting position, piching the bridge of his nose with the index and thumb of his left hand in frustration. "I didn't even do anything to deserve going to prison. How about you, Matty? What landed you in this shit hole?"

[Matrim]

"It was none other then my very powers that landed me here. Turns out the first time I ever used these things to my advantage, it was out of desperation. Had no idea how to use this stuff, fight teachers across the world kept trying to teach me about inner energies, but I thought it was all nonsense. Just people trying to make kung fu greater then it really was. Well, I was wrong. Kids shot at me, this shield came out in desperation, it was stronger at that moment then it is now though, their bullets became sorta return to sender. I'm an idiot so I pick up the guns they drop thinking more might come, and that's when the police decide to show up."

Matrim leaned his head back on the bleacher behind him, his eyes shut, he was completely tired, but talking was something in his genes, he could go for days talking. He didn't like to, he found it annoying when his father did, but he was able to do it, "I think nanites is a fancy word for an extremely tiny machine. So basically I think I'm sorta..... being repaired by tiny machines.... if you think it sounds weird, at least you don't feel it happening. I'd take Dani's healing process over this any day of the weak, although I couldn't say how that feels, but she seems to enjoy it."

Seriously...... two witnesses..... one's bad enough..... two people saw this shit. It's a good thing they don't know Reira. Or else I'd be a little worried.

"If a pink haired girl happens to walk in here, I fell down some stairs, thats the story, you don't even have to say anything if you want. But I doubt she's going to be in here anyway."