224 meets 006 - Curse of Bad First Meetings

224: She still has an interest to meet 006.  As she has worked for him and nearly seen him die.  She felt that entitled her to meet once.  But she's not sure how to approach the Top of the Pilot class.  She had no interest in vehicles so she wouldn't go to the hanger... and she's got too much of an Ego to just go to an office without a reason.  She sat and pondered this in the common room, lightly chewing on a usb to see the video inside...paying zero attentions to her surrounding.

006: Strolling through the common room in just jeans, a grey t-shirt and a leather jacket, the pilot boss swirled his keys mindlessly on his finger. He was well on his way out after checking the kitchens, counting off his shopping list till he spied the little hacker sitting by herself and a smug smirk crossed his lips. It must be her lucky day~  A shadow soon loomed over her as 006's smiling mug hangs over head "Well hello 224~" cooed the pilot smoothly.

224: Thankfully, the USB was not one of those micro ones as she would have swallowed it when she jumped at the sound of the sudden smooth greeting.  She spats the thing out and rubs her eyes, to clear out the image of the video she had been watching.  Then she turned to look at 006.  "Hello Sir." She gave him a thumbs up to let him know she was OK.  Also, did she have an ability to summon people she was thinking about?  This wasn't the first time this had happened in the common room no less.  And last time it was a pilot too.

006: Clearly the pilot class where great on honing in on more than run ways. He seemed amused to see her startled and leaned back still swinging his keys about. With the low collar if his shirt the long knife scar on the right side of his neck was etched red and deep into the skin.  "You looked a bit lost there... are you alright?" grinned the pilot

224: She looked up at him.  Now, she KNOWS that the WRONG thing to do is to look at the mans neck.  She knows it’s wrong, yet her brain can't help but steer her eyes to there for at least a second before looking back at his face to answer. "Ummm, uh somewhat.. sorry sir.  I... my ability lets me read and write data to storage devices... annnd.... I was watching a movie." She held up her USB to prove her explanation. "Anyway... how have you been sir?  I haven't seen you around that much...." Well of course he wouldn't have, Niz, you dolt.  They were classes that almost never interacted with each other.  Don't be dumb.

006: His coy smile seemed to widen a bit as he noticed the lingering look, but if he were the type of person to be bothered by it, it was more likely he would be upset by the massive ugly scar down his forehead.  "Well that's convenient~" chimed the pilot pleasantly, he could imagine all the ways that got abused "Aside from that close shave..." he scratched at the scar on his neck "... a flu--" it was that point that it became noticeable that his nose was a little raw from far too many tissues for the last week "-- I've been well." He grinned "I heard from some little birds of my you sold me out though."

224: She blinked. "Sold you out?  What do you mean?"  Oh she knows.  She had worried about that once she found out 236 didn't know about 006's injury.  She was afraid she overstepped bounds, but what else could she have done?  She was worried.  Soooo.... was she in trouble?  Best play innocent until proven guilty.

006: "Ah ha~" he was smirking rather than seemingly angry, then again when was 006 ever not smiling, even when upset? "I suddenly had a bunch of people visiting me in medbay when I hadn't told a soul." Grinned the pilot not unkindly "I didn't know so many people were so concerned for me. Luckily I didn't get too chewed out for nearly killing myself." He paused a moment to let her squirm before he waved a dismissive hand "Should have come visiting if you were so worried."

224: Squirm she nearly did.  She stared at him for a few seconds.  He didn't look upset at least.  And she obviously wasn't fooling the man.  "....I didn't know you that well and I wasn't sure how to approach you." There.  Excuse.  And Honesty.  "...and I thought your class would have been told, so I asked some big pilot lady if she knew anything"

006: "She freaked out I bit I suppose..." he thought of his pilots, they had all different reactions to his injury, worry, sadness, shock and fury "I'm not all that scary am I?" Questioned the pilot with a long face before breaking back into his usual smiles. He wasn't like the most of the top ten, Milo had such a 'common man' appeal to him that if you weren't aware of his number you wouldn't have expected him to be so far up. Besides that he didn't seem to like being the intimidating type and it could bave only be complete if he didn't have his sharp eyes... perhaps that was why he always smiled "Ah, yes I have a nasty habit of keeping things to myself. Bit selfish I know, but I don't like upsetting anyone. Especially when I was there only shortly. But..." he trailed off "I suppose you're right, we don't know each other really." In fact that weren't even introduced properly. He offered a hand for a shake "Lets fix that..."

224: She was... Well, she was more surprised than anything.  For one thing, this was her first top that she had met outside of their office.  For another, he seemed like a generally nice guy... But no matter how much she looked 'common man' was not a description she could fit to him.  "Sorry for freaking her out..." She want sure how to respond to the intimidation question.  She had seen him severely kick butt.  "Keeping things to yourself isn't always a bad thing.  I just didn't know that you did otherwise I would have been more discreet". And then a hand was offered and she gave him a smile back.  "Yes, Let's" She put the USB back in between her lips as if it were a cigar and then shook his hand.  "Agent 224, But you can call me Niz if you want."

006: "That's alright. It was nice in the end to be reminded people care." He dismissed and gave a good firm handshake happy with her response. Niz seemed like a genuinely nice girl, though a little shy by his account (expected of her class) "006, I don't go by my name in here but outside you can call me Milo." He grinned "Yes like the drink." He laughed lightly under his breathe. Milo lifted a hand up, his thumb pointing to behind him "I'm just heading out for some things, mainly groceries, do you need anything? Or did you want tag along?"

224: What drink was named Milo? "Hmmm..... sure, I'll tag along if you don't mind."  Why not?  Getting in friendly with a Top is never a bad thing.  She picked up her tablet which was sitting in her lap and stood, ready to follow.  "I don't have anything to really pick up, but I do need to get out in the fresh-ish air from time to time."

006: It was always better to have a driving buddy "Excellent." he grinned nodded towards the nearest elevator that'd lead to the hangar "Lets go then unless you want to slip into something more comfy and meet me there."

224: She looked down at her clothes.  She always wore what was comfy to her... She checked the temperature on her watch... it wasn't a bad day out.  "I think I'm good as is" She nodded as she followed 006.  She was curious what Tops did all day.  She knew they were like everybody else, BUT STILL.

006: "Alright then." he started off towards the elevator, making sure she was keeping pace "Feel like a smoothie? My treat." he grinned down at her. When they had gotten to the hangar he'd lead down towards the garages with the cars. The roller doors opened to the 5th lot down to show a electric blue 2016 Chevy sports, his favourite. The car's lights and engines revved on automatically as he clicked the button to it "Dibs on driving~" he laughed opening the drivers side door.

224: Oh this car looked cool.  "Welll.... unless it's got auto pilot, I don't think I'd want to drive it in New York.  So for now, I'll call shotgun"  She laughed as well and opened the door, sat inside and carefully closed the door.  "Annnd, I won't say no to a smoothie.  Though, I will admit I prefer a simple soda."

006: “Oh it’s not all that bad…” he waved off “… when there’s no traffic.” He added closing the door and buckling his seat belt, ushering her to do the same “Alright, soda it is.” The car rolled forward as the shutters began to close, heading to the nearest vehicular exit “Oh—“ he fixed his rear view mirror before shinning a smirk at her that surely suited the ‘smog devil’ “No barfing in the car.” Suddenly the tyres of the car screamed loudly before it violently kicked forward tearing up the tar mat in a plume of burning tyres and fuel. The lights of the tunnel began to flicker one after one after one, and soon enough they started blur into just one. A red light shone ahead on the dead end tunnel, a thick black foreboding wall that the pilot boss didn’t even seem to notice, or rather in fact accelerated toward in one terrifying rev of the motor! Almost last minute 006 had clicked a button on the dash and the light had turned green and dropped away a heart beat before the car shot through and suddenly the tunnel was gone, and street lights shone from the bridge above. With one violent jerk the boot of the car swung sharply around to turn narrowly away from the water body below before shooting off again. Finally Milo started to drive more reasonably finally, merging onto the high way with a pleasant hum on his lips “I take it you don’t drive at all?”

224:  She had popped a USB in her mouth and pulled out a tablet after buckling up.  She wondered if she should bring up a GPS to check available routes.... but that was dumb, this was the Pilot Top.  Honestly, she wouldn't be surprised if he knew what the traffic topside was constantly.  At the smile and warning, many things went through her mind.  Such as, why did she agree to get in the car of the leader of the class that almost had 'adrenaline junkie' and 'daredevil driver' in their qualifications?  Yup, she's just gonna put the tablet safely back into her bag.  And as soon as they start going at that pleasant speed of 'unnecessarily fast', her hand automatically zipped up to grab that nice little handle thing that's right above the window.  And she instinctively tried to cringe up in her seat as the wall was rapidly approaching.  Don't scream Niz, look cool for the top.  Look cool for the top.  Look cool for the TOP WHOS ABOUT TO RUN INTO A WALL.  Yeah, she screamed for the half second it took for the garage to open and them to exit. But REALLY?  Was that necessary- OH GOD EDGE OF BRIDGE EDGE OF BRI- Ok.... Ok.... She did manage to relax her legs back into a proper seating position before 006 looked over at her.  Tho, she still looked like she was pulling on that handle like her life depended on it and her other hand was pressing her bag down to make sure it didn't fly off through a wall or something.  There might just be a handprint in both of them.  And then he asked the question.  Her first word comes out as "I uoo"  She gave a short once or twice to ensure that all her organs decend back where they belong before answering properly  "I do drive, but not much traffic in Arizona."

006: He seemed to smile more the more panicked she had panicked but out right laughed at the scream with as little effort as someone would to be polite to a bad joke. He shone her a toothy grin at the sloppy mumble of an answer she gave him, well at least this hacker didn’t piss herself in his seat, and improvement he was sure “Oh you do! That’s good, you should show me what you’ve got one day.” On the high way, though he was driving a far more reasonable pace it didn’t stop the lunatic pilot from swerving in and out of cars in his way by a hair width “Maybe I can steel another one for the pilot class—oh woop!” a alert came across the windscreen that had been converted into a HUD screen before the car made a sudden gut wrenching jerk slowing down with the gears of the car grinding loudly “The fuzz, 50 metres ahead.” Just as he said that a police cruiser had drifted by on the other side of the road without the foggiest of what 006 had been doing “Haha~” he laughed “By the way, are you very busy these days? I imagine with the off and on appearance of 004…” he seemed to down play her disappearance “… there would have been.”

224: Oh god, she had a hope that a highway full of cars would slowed him down.  But why on earth would she think that?  "Sorry... my skills tend to be between the lines and closer to the speed limit.  I'll stick to computers."  And then the screen had popped up.  That was a nice feature... and she would of appreciated it more if she hadn't closed her eyes at the sudden use of brakes.  She wondered if it would be rude to ask to take the subway back?  Yeah... probably would be... dammit.  "We are pretty busy... with work and our own little projects.  Like simulation trainings for other agents."

006: He chuckled under his breathe while he was busy watching the copper drift out of his rear view mirror “Oh of course…” he muttered “I’ve had a few reports done on my subordinates, I should thank you all for keeping them on their toes.” As if the pilots weren’t on their toes before with how many hits the class had taken “Though I can’t help but think how your time could be used in more effective ways.” The car began to drift between the cars again though he was more than a little mindful of the bikes and motorbikes he past and gave them at least two car widths distance.

224: Hey wait a sec.  She felt accused here.  She felt she need to defend her reason for doing a sim.  "I haven't been involved with the Simulations before this one. I've just been making my first one in my free time...." She looked out the window... her hand was still on the handle, but it was somewhat more relaxed now.

006: "Oh I'm not picking on you." he glanced at her through the rear view mirror as he adjusted it shortly "I do have a request for you though... I'm not all that clever with research. You on the other hand well you almost eat tech." he waved a hand about as he rolled towards the tunnel towards the inner city.

224: She wiggled the USB in between her teeth.  She wanted to say it was more like 'sucking' but she knew that would end badly.  "....I'm sure you're clever...."  Pft.  No.  She didn't believe that, but she had to be nice.  This man could probably kick her out while driving.  "But sure, whatcha need?"

006: "Look into the Doctor." he answered a little quieter with a faltering smile "We need more resources on him, and its bothering me that we haven't delegated people to him when he knows so much on us. Information is so much more deadlier. Our key is Abedah but his body is long gone."

224: "Doctor?  The zombie guy?  I can do that, sure."  She looked over across the ocean.  She remembered seeing the report of Abedah's fate.  That had concerned her as well.  "You know... for a lot of movies, TV shows, and video games that deal with Necromancy of any sort, there's always a rule for the viewer watching at home.  Never count somebody gone unless you can see confirm it at any point in time.  And I know it's unprofessional to use that as a reference, but I still don't think we've seen the last of Abedah.  Especially if zombies were so close when he fell..."

006: He raised a brow and glanced at her shortly before exiting the tunnel "A lot of them got eaten by sharks though... or got blown up by yours truly." he added the second part in a little quieter and sighed, there were a few times he wished he hadn't, he'd left 4 AGENTs bodies behinds and had taken empty caskets home to their families "..." he shook his head "We don't have access to the body now anyway... it was in the middle of the Atlantic too. We may have access to his family, they had suggestions that he is a Theodriss Mokilia that died during a accident but the body was never uncovered. If the doctor had just procured bodies it would have been far easier to steal from any morgue than find a body in the middle of no where in a accident... seems to co-incidental. I think he maybe choosing bodies. How and why I don't know." he turned for the nearest car park to a shopping centre "But he seemed intent on finding out about us as well, makes me wonder if he's picking of those with unusual abilities." he pondered and bit his lip "You know we have another Mokilia in our ranks?"

Valkyrie: 224: "I understand, but we don't know he was eaten.  I will search for a Doctor, but I will also search reports of if bodies wash ashore.  An enemy who had dealt with us before and is resurrected against its will could prove a bount of information against us.  But you are right...it's lost for now"  She didn't want to say it, but a revived Abedah would mean information on 006's skills, 193's, 169's, and her own to say the very least, not to mention all the other encounters.  "Mokilia?  I do not know of another one... who?  Are they confirmed an ally?"  Its a sucky question, but it has to be asked.

006: He nodded at that though he had his doubts anything would turn up at all. At her question he smiled dully "He's another Agent. A medic, ironically." the coincidence given how much medic class had recently to answer for was almost too much "I'll engage the Mokilia that's the Agent, but I'm giving you authorisation to look into the Mokilia's and report to myself only, and..." he pulled up into a car space "... Please be careful who you mention the information to."

224: She nodded.  "I... haven't had many meetings with Medics before now.  But the fact that there is one in the Medics worries me."  She looked at 006 at his request of secrecy, so she felt she should lay down a point as to why she's gonna be extra careful.  "I'll tell you a secret why this worries me.... my ability allows others to hack into my head if they ever get a chance to plug into my ability." She tapped the side of the USB in her mouth.  "As a precaution, I gave 005 a back up to my brain in case something happens.  I trust 005, but if there's a medic that's that close to my back up, I will check everything I can to ensure it's safety."  What she doesn't say is that was the second copy.  And the first copy was left with 004.  "So I will use the utmost discretion in regards to this task."

006: That seemed to honestly surprise him as he shut off the car his smile actually disappeared for once "... I'm starting to worry I may be putting you into too much danger requesting this of you." it was the same for 002, information was deadly, and a inside job access to such vital items worried him "If you don't feel safe doing this I'll understand."

224: She returned his lack of smile.  "I'd feel safer if I was doing it.  I don't have connections to the Medics besides 005.  So I can pass the excuse off by saying that I am just getting to learn my colleages a bit more.  And they won't see me coming anyway... I'm not that high ranked so me with access would be strange and not considered.  And that means I can probably get more than others."  Nope, you're not gonna distract her after laying this info down.  This was as much for personal safety as well as the safety for the Agency.  Which though she won't openly say it, she liked the Agency more.  She saw one snag and looked to the side.  "If 004 catches me.... or 005.... or Zero for that matter, I won't be able to lie to them.  Mostly because I'm certain they're much smarter than me.  So I will have to send them to you.  Is that fine sir?"

006: He sighed again and pinched his nose "005 won't be a problem." he acknowledged before looking up at her "I'm definitely fine with it, just tell them it was my orders. Besides all we're doing is researching a enemy isn't that right?" he grinned at her again "What are you hackers for if not to research?"

224: She nodded and returned the grin at his little comment.  "To Blackmail of course!" Hackers are dangerous.  "Oh yeah...that brings up a thought.." She took her USB out of her mouth, set it in her lap, unlatches a second USB from her necklace, and puts that between her teeth.  Then she held up the USB she just removed.  "Should I delete you're request from my memories on this USB or am I allowed to keep it?"

006: "Keep it for now," he rubbed his shoulders like he had a chill and gave such a awkward smile "I feel so uncomfortable manipulating your memories. It's giving me the heebee gee bees the way you talk about it so easily."

224: She clasped the USB to her necklace.  "They're just a copy.  I still have the original in my head.  I can see how it's weird, but I've grown up seeing my brain as just another Hard Drive... a downside to my ability, I suppose.  So it only creeps me out if I have a black out.  Then I will get worried."

006: "Ahh fair enough still." he was so strange to him, then again, he was someone that could burn alive again and again "Whatever precautions you take, I prefer for you to base safe than anything else. If you need help come ask me." he insisted smiling at her though he was still clearly uncomfortable that he'd to scratch the scar on his neck "Alright I believe I owe you a Smoothie." he nodded out the door as he opened it and put a foot out "Come on."

224: She gave the Pilot a nod.  "Will do, so don't worry.  Annd yes you do own me a smoothie....or a soda... depends on what they got."  She'd hop out of the car.  Switching to alias's once out. "So... Milo.  I have a question for you.. as my boss.  How come every boss I've spoken to so far has had an awkward dark shift in tone?  Am I cursed with eternally awkward first impressions?"

006: "A what?" he laughed a little "Have I done that too?" he pointed at himself as he walked with her towards the mall.

224: "We did go from happy cheery with a rather sharp turn into a dark tunnel and back again.... figuratively and I think literally considering the drive."

006: "Oh true but then again, I'm fairly certain our first meeting was when I nearly had my head taken off." he ran a finger across his neck

224: "As I said... dark first impressions."  She chuckled.