towerofanimus | Seeing Double

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Seeing Double

Characters: Abel Nightroad, Cain Knightlord, and YOU!
Setting: Hallways around the tower
Format: Either, will copy what you do
Summary: Cain and Abel go in search of answers. Potentially violently.
Warnings: Bad language, possible violence (with permission, of course).
Notes: Both twins will reply to each commenter, so please wait for both terranicidal and terranities to reply <3

Cain wasn't sure what he was seeing as they moved into the corridors; from the tone of the letter he had expected a post-apocalyptic scenario, not this well-maintained building they were in.

Perhaps this was a check-point for the simulation and they wouldn't go any further until they had unlocked its secrets and learned their mission objective. He had to admit that it unnerved him not to know the end goal to strive for, it made it harder for him to achieve the desired result in a swift time, thus ending this uncomfortable situation and allowing him to return back to his life, such as it was, and his duties.

He possibly would have remained in the room he had awoken in for a while longer had he been alone, pondered what could be happening and strategised all the various ways it could turn out. But he hadn't been alone, of course, and to let Abel wander off alone was a disaster waiting to happen.

So anyone walking down the hallways (of any level, they have been exploring), might see two very identical twins walking along, the only difference in their hair colour and the look of murder the silver-haired one is wearing.

[ooc: Open to all, and we'd love to meet everyone. However, Abel is prone to violence, so there's a permissions post here for all your lovely violence needs.]

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Military robotic technology. Abel immediately loses interest; the name was different than any he'd heard the like referred by, but it was possible it were just another element added to throw them off -- or created in an effort to make this believable. Nonsense; all of it equated to nonsense.

"'Britannian Knights.' I've never heard of this rank before. What military faction are you speaking of?"

It certainly sounded like a fictional military group, which meant that he was likely part of the solution to this mission. Military factions didn't exist in simulations just for decoration, so at least they were talking to the right person.

Hopefully.

"The Britannian Empire, they probably don't exist in your world." So far the only other person in the Tower that knew what Britannia was was Lloyd, most people came from different worlds. He sensed that they wanted information though.

"The current emperor is Lelouch vi Britannia, I am his Knight, he has disbanded the empire and given it's territories their freedom. He is currently at war with Prince Schneizel, a member of the former Britannian aristocracy who has joined with the Chinease federation and the Black Knights, a terrorist group which now rules Japan."

They were not so out of touch with Earth that they wouldn't have noticed some sort of... political usurp of that degree in China and Japan -- it was totally implausible. Then again, so had been everything since they woke up in this fucking Tower, and Abel's patience is close to snapping.

"...I'm tired of this."

He snaps his hand out, grasping a handful of Suzaku's shirt and jerking him toward the edge of the pool, not quite tossing him in, yet, but certainly threatening as much.

"You have five seconds to tell me something I give two shits about. How to get out-- how to stop this worthless simulation, or I swear to your God... I will make you deeply regret it."

The attack was sudden but not unexpected, Suzaku looked remarkably calm. He could cope with people like Abel, he found it easy to understand those that always resorted to violence. "I recomend you let go of me, I am a trained fighter." Of course he didn't want to hurt this man, unless he seemed like he was going to hurt him first, and even then.

Suzaku often didn't bother defending himself when it was only him at risk. "I told you this is not a simulation."

ooc: HI! My AIM is Jipaltara and my plurk is damua if you wanted to talk about/plot anything here. Suzaku will at least try to fight back, he is fast but still human speed. Trained in hand to hand fighting but Abel will still be stronger than him. However if he tries to do anything drastic (that would kill Suzu) then his 'live on' geass will kick in. This is of course if Cain doesn't manage to stop them first :P

Cain could see this heading down the path of violence, especially when the stranger calmly informed them that he was a trained fighter. That didn't surprise him, most programs tended to be trained in fighting in order to either try and goad Cain to exercise all the lessons he had been taught, or to try and teach Abel a better handle on his temper and respect for humankind.

"Abel, let go of him. He obviously has no idea what's going on either, we'll look elsewhere."

"All the data goes back to the very same place, doesn't it?"

Abel seemed utterly unconcerned by his brother's attempts to talk him down, giving the 'A.I.' another shake, before forcing him down to knees. He was going to try to drown him, in a moment...

[ooc: slkdjf I am pretty sure Abel will stop before it gets too serious, but I'll be sure to hit you up on AIM if anything looks like it's getting too heavy handed! <3]

Suzaku laid his hand on Abel's, he was stronger than Suzaku but Suzaku refused to kneel, using most his strength to stay crouched but upright. "Let me go." He was still calm, ready.

Cain knew from experience that deterring Abel from his chosen course of action, was like trying to turn the tide with sheer willpower alone - practically impossible and a miracle if achieved.

Still, he had to try, taking one of Abel's hands and pulling it firmly from Suzaku's shoulder.

"Stop this. Now."

Abel merely gives his brother a firm shove when his hand is displaced from the boy, displeasure sharp in his eyes that snap toward his twin.

"I told you. I'll kill every single one of them until they wake us up! Do you think I'm going to sit here and play games with these ridiculous little shits? Collared like an animal?"

Suzaku's eyes flashed, annoyed at this man, both for the violence and for the calm way he spoke about killing. Killing everybody. Then he seemed to assume that Suzaku was part of this, part of the kidnappers and Suzkau stepped forward.

"What are you talking about sir? I've been kidnapped same as you, see," He tugged his collar as he said it.

It was a clumsy attempt at making Abel show compassion for part of the program, making another collared as they were. The scientists must realise that Abel wouldn't care if all of the programs were collared like animals, he would still slaughter them just the same.

"Please don't." His voice was low, half a soft plea only Abel ever heard and half still a command. "Real or not, I can't stand to see you lash out like that."

"You show compassion for them, still? When is your patience going to expire, Cain?! They could care less what happens to us -- isn't that clear?"

His temper is tested and rapidly reaching the point of no return. Blue eyes snap back to the hapless Suzaku, and he looks on the brink of irrevocable violence.

Suzaku was still not completely sure what was happening, but the silver haired man was getting more and more determined and seemed to think Suzaku was an enemy. Suzaku's patience was wearing thin, he was no enemy of theirs but he was not prepared to be treated this way. He took another step forward planning walk past the two men and leave.

The step forward was probably a mistake on Suzaku's part, his plan may have been to walk past the pair of brothers, but Cain knew that Abel was liable to see it as an aggressive mood.

Keeping his hand on his brother's shoulder, eyes refusing to stray from their mirror, he nodded. "If I stopped showing compassion for them, would I still be me?"

The advance was, indeed, taken the wrong way -- or perhaps Abel was simply looking for an excuse to move toward violence.

He's abruptly coiling fingers in the front of the boy's shirt, before roughly jerking a foot forward and behind Suzaku's ankle, pushing him backward to try and trip him up, force him down to his knees. His intentions are to take him down and force his head under the water if successful.

"I'm tired of these games! Let us the hell out of here!!"

Suzaku growled angrily as he was taken down, tired of this. He had been doing his job, he had been perfectly polite to these two and this man was still intent on believing Suzaku was his enemy. Suzaku tried to lean his weight forward even as he was forced to his knees, aiming a punch at the mans face.

He had been holding back until now, now wanting to fight with another victim of this kidnapping, but he wasn't going to let the man take him down without a fight.

Damn. Damn.

Cain knew the way this was going, and if it escalated into a fight then he had no doubt that Abel wouldn't hold back and Suzaku would not end up in a good shape at all.

Inserting himself quickly between them, wiggling in at an odd angle so he was half suspended over the pool as well, he managed to take Suzaku's punch to the back of his shoulder as he was getting in. Facing Abel, but addressing them both, he smiled as though they were actually having a nice civilised conversation instead of separating two brawlers.

"Stop this now, alright? I'm sure none of us want to get bruised, it will just ruin our handsome faces."

And Cain, in rather short order, finds himself unceremoniously shoved into the pool without further adieu.

Abel understands his brother's pacifistic outlook, but he knows it isn't shared -- and the fact that Suzaku had offered a strike back meant in his eyes that there was absolutely no turning back, now. The addition of that strike hitting his brother... whether intentional or not, sealed the deal.

Soon as his twin is out of his way, he's pulling his fist back to all too eagerly swing right for the 'soldier's' face, and he isn't exactly holding back.

Suzaku cursed as his fist hit the other man. Suzaku hadn't wanted to hurt him, hadn't wanted to hurt either of them actually but he wasn't going to stand around and let the silver haired man grab him. "Oi!" He shouted seeing the boy being pushed into the water.

Then the punch hit him and he fell backwards, falling into the pool with a splash. Fumbling for the side his face furious.

Splashing into the water, he resurfaces with a gasp and a glare at his brother, just in time to see poor Suzaku go splashing in as well. Swimming over to his side, he looked him over to make sure he wasn't too injured - after all, it wasn't unheard of for the Commander to break bones with his punches.

"Are you okay? Do you need any help?"

Abel isn't letting up as easily as that. He stands at the edge of the pool, lifting a booted foot with every intention of smashing it down into the annoyance's face. He's running through the course of things in his head-- he'd hold the fucker's head under when he was dazed, and wait til he was on the fringes of blacking out before easing up to question him.

Either he'd say something useful, or it would go on til he lost consciousness, and he could enjoy a wet and lonely grave.

"Get away from him. Now." The order is for his brother, though he's not been particularly good at following directives the other way around despite Cain being his literal superior.

Yes, pain. It hit him at Cain's question as the shock wore off. He thought his nose was bleeding, but nothing was broken. Well nothing was broken before Abel's boot slammed down on his face.

"Yes... get away." Suzaku had to get out of this pool, he understood his mind and body and knew there was a high chance the curse of his Geass was going to activate any moment, he didn't want to hurt the blonde haired man. He hadn't done anything.

Cain wasn't about to back off and just let Abel beat up someone who had done nothing to them, even if there was the strong likelihood he was just a programmed set of binary numbers.

Swimming over to Suzaku, ignoring both of them, he grasped the other man's arm and started to pull him out of reach of Abel's booted foot.

"I'm not the one who should step back here; both of you, calm down and think this through, violence never solves anything."

Abel crouches down, looking about ready to pounce atop his prey in the water-- but his eyes are burning with furious rage at his twin.

"Move. Do you think I'm going to let you protect some worthless program? They're playing with us, Cain! They're fucking playing with us, and you're giving them exactly what they want by doing it by their rules!"

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