What a day.

When Nate had woken up, he had only planned on a leisurely day of coffee and coming up with a name for his business. Instead he had encountered Eli Craigh and Ruby Greenfoot, met a kid with a pet gorilla, been confusingly weird and familiar to a perfect stranger and he had even been recruited by a superhero to train someone in self defence. He didn't see his day going this way at all.

After Light had escorted both Nate and his new pal, whose name he learned was Cer, to an auxiliary office, he had found himself in the obnoxious hell hole of existence that was paperwork. Nate had never enjoyed this type of thing. He was a man of action and the tedium of paperwork made him want to punch someone in the face. The only thing that saved the experience was the realisation that Cer seemed to hate it even more than he did. He had watched her as she filled out her forms with an undercurrent of rage that seemed odd coming from her. He had watched her with an uncommon silence and a slight smile on his face. It felt strangely good to know that someone hated this stuff as much, more so even, than he did.

Of course he still had to fill out his own forms and after a short while of deciding how much real information he wanted to give these people, he handed the documents over to the nerd in the suit who had come to collect them. Due to the nature of his previous work, Nate had formed a number of different aliases with all the relevant paperwork to back it up. He was surprised when no one ever decided to force him to hand those covers over when he left the military. He suspected that someone in power hadn't lost their trust in him and decided to allow him to keep his false I.D's just in case he ever had to get out of the country sharpish. After all, he had made more than a few powerful enemies during his time as Legion and there was always a chance that one of them may decide to take revenge.

He decided it was best to be more or less honest with these people and gave them the relevant information, making sure to not give up anything that they could possibly use against him in the future. It was in his nature to be at least a little paranoid and these people hadn't given him any reason to trust them yet. Of course they hadn't given him any reason not to trust them either but it was better to be safe. Basic details he was happy to provide but he made sure to give them a false address, just to make sure no one knew where he really rested his heads at night. He wanted to keep his personal and professional life as far apart as he possibly could.

After the drudgery of paperwork came the time to take an ID photo. Nate had an uncanny ability to take a great ID photo which pissed off more than a few people. He didn't understand why everyone elses came out looking so terrible. But it made the life of the people taking the photo much simpler, Or it would have, had he not insisted on taking several more for his duplicates to use.

After finally being released from the tedium of bureaucracy, he was allowed to go. Much less gracious than Cer after departing from Light, Nate didn't even bother saying goodbye and as he left. He simply waved over his shoulder without looking at her and said "Stay crazy."

He decided to send a pair of duplicates to gather his gear from a lockup not far away. He, meanwhile, would make his way to his new place of business, unintentionally following Cer. As he went, he scanned the documents he had been provided on the kid he was supposed to train. At first he was almost offended by the job he had been given. Self defence coach? But the more he thought about it, the more he understood. If he had been the one in charge, he wouldn't want to send the new guy straight out on a mission either. Better to get a bearing on who he is first. It made sense, even if he didn't like it.

As he flipped through the file, he realized that there wasn't a whole lot of info about this kid. He did however recognize this kid. He had seen him earlier in Lattetude, pulling off a neat little trick with some action man's rifle. It would be interesting to know what that was all about. Reading through the file, he came across a section outlining Jackson's powers. It was a weird one. Reality shifting? Nate didn't want to even try to think about that one for fear of hurting his brain. But what stood out was the section that described the kid as a power replicator and more specifically that it stated he couldn't replicate powers that had anything to do with the body. Nate actually stopped walking for a moment as he wondered whether or not Jackson could replicate his power. It was, after all, the ability to duplicate his body and mind.

He started walking again and began reading the section that described Jackson's split personalities. That was something Nate knew all about. Fortunately most of his duplicates were exactly like him, down to every thought process but every now and then one would spring up that thought differently. His earlier conversation with his duplicate about accepting this job had proven that. More disturbingly however, occasionally a duplicate would develop a wildly different personality. This was thankfully rare however and it was something Nate wanted to keep to himself. The more he read on Jackson's other personalities, the more he hoped the kid couldn't replicate his power. The last thing anyone wanted was a split personality as powerful as this Mu character bleeding through into a duplicate body and running free.

Before long, Nate found himself looking up at the HQ building. He wasn't the kind of person to truly appreciate buildings. He had blown up a number of them. If he spent the time admiring them, he'd feel a lot worse about destroying them. Hopefully he wouldn't have to blow this one up though. Even he had to admit that it was a pretty cool building. His favorite part was probably the attached airstrip though. He wondered if they'd let him borrow a jet.

He eventually made his way inside and began to make his way across the spacious lobby towards reception but spotted his new buddy Cer talking to the very kid he had been assigned to train. He initially thought he'd go over and join the conversation but decided against it. Nate had been obnoxious enough today. Time to be Legion. While Nate was a weirdo douchebag at times, Legion was all business. He knew when to switch off his obnoxious side and get to work. He was trained well enough to know how not to be seen in the busy lobby and decided to hang back. The spot he chose meant that he couldn't actually see Cer or Jackson but he was close enough to hear everything they said. He wanted to get a bearing on this kids personality before he decide on the best way to train him.

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