AriamisMine and LHG's First Collab. Introducing Past Bros!
Koehler was in the messhall, looking just a tiny amount of sad, not being able to show much emotion due to 'his little condition'. He watched as Yeshua seemed to be deep in thought again, before abandoning him for now to sit back where he was. He checked his little 'Supply drop' again, smuggled in by one of his 'friends', and confirmed that he still had everything he asked for. NUKE NOODLES, Murdersauce, and a final bottle of... Orange juice.
Why did Koehler like orange juice so much anyway? That was strange in comparison to the 'extremes' of what else was in there. In any case, he crackd open that bitch and began slamming it down, before hearing footsteps and an odd feeling of familiarity come behind him. He turned around, before going back to his drink, then turned around again, unexpectedly. He quickly put his drink down and jumped up.
"IT'S YOU!", he yelled, "Holy shit! I swear to god if you don't remember the handshake!...", he threatened, fist and pinky extended.
]Orion easily remembered the handshake, he did the starting pinky and through each step all 25 individual steps they made up for this specific handshake that they had perfected, and it all look so.. manly. True Bro's with an epic handshake, and it ended with a little digital spark from Orion's hand, it was actual lightning from his glove's. He picked that trick up whilst in his few last weeks of training, and was waiting on a reaction.
"Hey Koehler, I'm in a hurry to go check out the God of Olympus. I wanna be alone with mah Zeus for a bit. But, I decided to check on you first, can't wait to see Roxy in action, checked over the recordings.. Definitely liked the fact that you went in on that A-hole Miles, as soon as you got the chance. I swear if he underestimates my childish demeanor.."
Koehler responded to his old acquaintence, a bit sad, "Oh... him. Well... he's a vegetable now. He was an asshole, but I don't think anyone really deserves that. He isn't here anymore even, think he was sent back home."
]"No, no they don't. Oh Darn, I wanted him to see me in combat, how's Roxy handling?"
"The old girl is still going strong. Pretty damn quick still, if not a little faster now that I kind of know what I'm doing. Piledriver is still probably a one-hit-killer."
"You've always been faster than me, heheh. My Lightning storms, they're getting pretty hectic." Orion pulls up an image and ushers Koehler to walk with him, "I'm gonna go to the hangars, are you going that way?"
"Well, I wasn't. But I am now, I guess. ...Hey? Can we talk in semi-private? The recreational areas have a quiet room, mind if we do a detour?"
"Yeah sure"
The two then went for the hangers, before stopping about halfway to get to the 'Recreational Areas', which as aforementioned still featured the little 'main area' with the ability to play some sort of training video game, whatever, and after that a little quiet library, and the empty room that was effectively sound-proofed. Koehler went in that one, and started talking again in private.
"What's up?"
"You saw that guy I was talking to?"
"Who? Yeah, whats his name? And Framwerk?"
"Yeshua. I'm worried about him. Something's wrong with him. He pilots Anzu, a sniper."
"Alright, what's up with him" By now, Orion figured Koehler was used to Orion bringing his bag everywhere he went, especially since Orion decided to put a new shirt on, after wearing this same old shirt for like 10 hours.. it was getting irritating. "Keep talking brah"
"Well, you remember when we met? How did we become friends? We just talked and it sorta sprung up, right? What did we talk about?"
"Yes, definitely."
"I think, it was after my training session, you were kinda disturbed of me going psycho. Then again you kinda liked it." Orion makes a psycho face.
"Yeah, har. Well anyway, we critiqued eachother, but did you ever call me a 'sweaty drug addict' or a 'fucking idiot', even if I said that kinda shit about myself, myself?"
"I honestly can't remember.. I remember snapping at you once trying to give me some shit. I kept explaining, I get off on insanity.." he spoke as if it was a casual thing, and chucked Koehler some orange juice, yet it wasn't just any Orange Juice.. it was Rogue Orange, something that was hard to get your hands on. "look what I got!" Orion grabbed his glass of Rogue Orange and grabbed a straw, sipped it like it was a casual drink, though he loved it.
"Holy fucking shit, ROGUE ORANGE!? The most BRUTAL OJ for the most BRUTAL people? That's BRUTAL."
"Well.. anyway. I'm being serious though.. that Yeshua guy needs help. I kind of hate him, but thinking about him calmly.. He's just scared I think.
"Yeah, I understand.. I might have a chat with him. I know for a fact he's probably noticed that ZEUS's files are up. You can finally look at all his specs!" Orion needed to get tot he hangar as quick as possible, but he needed to tell Koehler about the Lightning. So before he changed shirts, he made sure Koehler saw the Scar down his back, that mixed in with a weird ass scar. Koehler probably already knew about the Mount Olympus tattoo on his left shoulder though... that wasn't something new.. or something unseen.
"Well... don't talk to him. Just be careful if you must talk, y'know? He's very... volatile. And scared, I think. To me, he seems like the kind of asshole who's only an asshole because that's all he knows, maybe. Y'know?". Koehler then noticed the scar. Finally. "...Holy fuck, wht the hell is that?"
"I purposefully did that." He laughed, "I've been meaning to tell you a ironically funny story, yet a weird one"
"You know how I was the last on my evac ship?"
"Eyup?"
"Well, before hand like 8 hours or so beforehand, did you see a lighning bolt? It wasn't.. definitely wasnt from the actual planet itself. It come from far above, hit me like a truck."
"Yo, numbnuts, I wasn't even on the same planet. Yeah, I saw something a solar system away."
"I got hit by the lightning bolt, just as the cruxi gave me this scar.. then they literally stopped as if they had better things to do. They wandered off and I escaped, sort of like a hesitation of killing me than actually deciding not to kill me. Odd."
"That's some weird ass shit."
"But, the funny thing is Lightning.. Zeus.. Ironic.." Orion laughs every time..
"it gets me all the time.. I'm like meant to be piloting Zeus.." He laughs as he gets up.
"Are you sure that's actual irony? Wouldn't that just be 'oddly fitting'?
"Well, enough's enough. I'll go talk to the Yeshua guy later, I'm gonna go to my Hangar Bay and see Zeus.. GUHHH, Must see his beautiful chassis"
"Dat Chass, huh? Well anyway, just a heads-up, they apparently want us doing some sort of 'Star-Fist' martial arts tomorrow, with a 'Sergeant Ken'. I can't wait, that should make me a complete bad-ass when I get back on the field, since my Framework relies on punching the shit out of things?"
"That's cute.. I'll be fine remember, I kinda know too much Taekwondo, as you could remember. Lol, you were in some deep-shit, and I decided to help you"
"Odd, I don't remember you saving me on any occasion. AND YOU KNOW TAEKWONDO?! Why didn't you train me then? Fuck, I've been doing goddamn 'street fighting' shit, without any technique at all! You could've trained me or something? Dude..."
"It was the day before you left, I didnt save you really. I helped you get back up. And then we both kicked the shit out of those two guys who were baggin us for being 'Framers' I only did it because they were trying to beat you up.. and i mean it they were 'trying' "
"Ah right, right. That didn't... Look like taekwondo though."
"Yes, I can teach you some stuff.. It's ancient, these days.. this has been used for since freaking 1998, all the way back then! It's History dude, you should check it. Aight im off" He commences handshake of awesomeness before he leaves for the Hangar Bays, to finally see Zeus.
Koehler finishes with the handshake as well, but stays in the room for a few minutes by himself.
