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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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!"

Suzaku normally would agree with Cain, but he wasn't exactly sure how to get out of this situation without using violence. Unless the blonde haired man managed to calm the silver haired man down, an effort, which didn't seem to be working. Taking advantage of the slight pause while the silver haired man shouted at the other Suzaku tried to grasp onto the side again, grabbing hold of Abel's leg. His aim was to throw him into the water to give Suzaku enough time to escape.

Cain might not use his abilities to fight, but he was hardly some wilting flower unable to do anything. As Suzaku tried to grasp onto Abel's leg, Cain pushed up on the side of the pool in one lightning fast movement, as though he were just getting out of the water... except he tripped and barrelled into his twin clumsily.

Whoops.

He was about to give a little incredulous smile at the program's audacity as he saw that hand reaching for his leg--

...But any effort to pull him into the water was negated as he was abruptly sent sprawling onto his back with the weight of his twin atop him, instead.

"C... ain!! Get the hell off me!"

Suzaku when given the chance didn't want to fight with the others in this tower, after all whatever that silver haired man thought they were all in this together. He used to opportunity to scramble out of the pool and made his way to the door.

"I'm afraid it is real," he said to the man, "And I suggest you don't go round beating up any one who tells you that, there are many non combatants who have been brought here." Though Suzaku wasn't impressed at being attacked himself he could fight back, he would not condone this man attacking those that couldn't.

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