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[i]Everything was finally in place… those who were chosen for the project have all finally assembled. 

“It’s so good to have fresh cadets… especially those who hold have such great potential, wouldn’t you say so, Cedric?” spoke the long white haired and rather thin scientist with a smirk as he looked over the papers.

The other man, whose build was bulky and who looked rather stern in comparison simply shrugged. “My duty is simply to look after you as you are the XO here. I technically don’t have the right to voice my opinion.”

“How dull… I’d expect you to at least be a bit livelier in my presence.”

“Sir-“

“Just call me Lorenzo, that’s an order,” spoke the scientist as he looked over the ‘thing’ being forced to kneel before them.

“…Lorenzo, are you sure we can be casually discussing things in front of ‘it’?”

“Why not?” grinned Lorenzo as he stared at his prized possession, “I would like to see what it has to say about us. Wouldn’t you like to know that, too?”

“…”

The thing kneeling simply continues to hang its ‘head’ as wires and tubes are protruded from… or into its body. From anyone else’s point of view, one would assume that the being is simply dead, but from what was heard from the conversation between Cedric and Lorenzo, it is clear that isn’t the case. After bit of silence, Lorenzo simply laughs to himself.

“Nothing as usual… So this is what our little companion sees of us.”

“What do you mean…?” asks Cedric.

“Even like this, it still sees us as nothing more than insignificant nuisances.”

“You’re saying that this thing, despite its condition, still believes it can win?”

“No, it knows it can win.”

“What?!”

“We’ve probed it, interrogated it constantly, and done so many unethical things to it that even serial killers of old would be disgusted at… yet this thing hasn’t flinched or winched once in pain. Hell, we’ve wasted so many truth serums that this thing should be a drugged mess, however, you can see that it is perfectly fine, yes?”

“That’s true. It’s still fine… Why is that?”

“Hard to say, Cedric my friend… but this is the difference between them and us… We would break easily as human beings were we to be enslaved, they however… I believe they would never break if we were to capture them.”

“So… what’s the point in keeping it alive if we aren’t getting anything from it?”

“That’s where you are wrong! We are learning from it despite its reluctance to cooperate. They are the perfect soldiers, but their lack of emotions is something that holds them back. They don’t particularly seem to have much of anything that they’re fighting for from what I’ve noticed… they’re just fighting to kill us. We all have our reasons to fight and that gives us strength.”

“I never thought those words would come from your mouth, Sir.”

“I told you to call me Lorenzo.”

“Sorry… but still, what we learned from them isn’t much.”

“I suppose… but we have learned something interesting… and that is that they are capturing humans, and I’m sure that this particular Cruxi has all the answers. I also intend to get those answers out of it one way or another.”[/i]

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"Welcome Cadets, to Solaire," [url=http://imgur.com/V9QVTYW]spoke the woman in a Framewerk suit in front of the group.[/url] "I am Lieutenant Ritsu and as of this moment, you are all officially government property and will be taking orders directly from both myself and-"

"Oho! So these are the Cadets!" blurted another voice as a tall white-haired man practically shoved her aside. "Sorry Ritsu, I didn't notice you were there! I was so excited to see the new Cadets that I could barely contain myself!"

"-a-and our XO Lorenzo," mumbled Ritsu as she tried desperately to regain her balance and giving a salute. "Attention! XO! Shouldn't you have more pressing matters than to welcome the new Cadets?"

"Not at all... It would be rude of me not to. Besides, I'm interested to see what they can do already."

"I see... Anyway, Cadets, this is our XO on the base Professor Lorenzo, most of his work is classified so don't bother asking about it. Just know that he'll be observing our progress periodically from time to time to see how well we do. Also, we will be holding a mock battle in an hour to determine who will be squad leader... so do perform admirably, that is all."

"Hoho, so soon?" grinned the XO as he looked at the Cadets. " Nonetheless do well and try to get along, introduce yourselves to each other why don't you, I'm interested to see how this'll go..."

[i]With that... the two seniors left you all to yourselves. Only an hour to determine who will be Squad Leader so might as well get to know one another while you can. [/i]