David Jackson
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As Akash's story came to a close I felt nothing but sympathy for the tree-like alien, but I fought to keep any of that off of my face. He hadn't just been tortured by Lara, he'd been tortured by another group of humans… and I wasn't just going to let that stand. I'd had enough of the humanity of this universe. They were nothing but a bunch of pillagers, running rampant throughout the universe and doing whatever they wanted to whoever they wanted. After I dealt with Lara and her little hybrid army, they…-
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"I don't know where your sensory organs are, but if you can taste my foot, I'm sorry," The voice of Lara drew Akash out of his unconsciousness. "Well, I would say sorry, but that would be quite funny." Akash's body was so wracked with pain that he could barely make sense of what the woman was saying. "Whargh thaying?" Akash tried to speak, but all that came out were garbled words that didn't make sense even to him. "Whargh do tho megh?" He couldn't see properly, it was like one of his vision bulbs…
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"You seem to be doing well for someone who is meant to be dead," Akash said offhandedly. He'd never interacted with Lara one on one, but thanks to her presence on Prespian City as the one who managed the yearly recruitment events he was well aware of who she was. "Oh, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated," Lara replied sweetly, leaning against some piece of equipment in the brig. "A shame the same can't be said for the rest of your species… Oh well, who's going to care about a few trees,…
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Akash was very much glad that he didn't have to work alongside the human yet after all. The fact the creature had even been allowed entry into the Guard, let alone the fact it was being trusted on life or death missions such as this one was completely beyond him. Didn't Squadron Leader Belana know that humans were just lowly backstabbing creatures that would turn on them all as soon as they got the chance? This Jacob Lyre was likely going to be no different at all, and the sooner everyone saw that the…
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With the admission that we were all planning on leaving the guard together after the tournament had concluded, we downed our drinks and began to relax. There was still a sombre mood about the four of us, but our spirits had been lifted somewhat by the news that we would all be sticking together no matter what. There was something that I didn't quite understand, though. "If we're going to be leaving the Guard, how are we going to get off-world? Don't we need a ship or something?" I asked the group. Fal…
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I let Fal's statement hang in the air as I absorbed the weight behind her words and the implications that they would have going forward. For a start, I had already begun to consider the idea that perhaps staying with the Guard after this disaster had cleared up wasn't the right move for me. I had the feeling that I would be able to get much more done on my own than I would by taking orders from some stuffy Squadron Leader like Belana, in fact, I'd already proven as much by ruining Lara's plans in the…
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With Fal having what was basically a full-blown breakdown, my mood had been worn down somewhat. I had been running high, both due to rescuing Pax and Akash as well as my victory against Yr'Arl in our training battle. But learning what Fal had just told me, it took me right back down to a hard level of focus. Lara was a threat. She was already making plans to move against the Guard. In fact, she had already made major moves against the Guard, not that Belana was planning to do anything about it…
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While I had gained some experience from the fight, it hadn't been anywhere close to enough to actually level me up again, and by taking a cursory glance at the system readout that let me know how much my abilities were gaining their own levels of experience so that I could use them by themselves, without the assistance of BB, I could tell that those had barely gone up either. Whether it was because the fight I had been in was just a friendly spar, or if it had something to do with the debuffs that were…
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My debuffs still hadn't come to an end, and this was set to be my hardest fight yet. Yr'Arl had been a surprising physical powerhouse even without the armour that was now covering his body. With it, I had no idea how intense the augments to his strength and speed would be. Fighting the armour on its own had been a pretty intense experience too. The enchanted armour set had been strong and agile even without a wearer. I was almost certain that, now Yr'Arl was wearing it, those insane levels of strength…
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"You've changed up your fighting style, I see," I remarked now that there was some distance between us, "That was a pretty unexpected turn of events." It was completely contrary to everything that I had seen of Yr'Arl's fighting abilities so far, and it led me to believe that I had been seriously underestimating the cat-like alien for as long as I had known him. "When I took on the knowledge of Squadron Leader Belana's teleportation ability, I realised that the best way to make it my own would be to…
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