David was lost in thought at the moment. He had been staring at nick Daniel's for the past two minutes. His face reminded him of someone else.
Ace grabbed him by the shoulder. "You good? I know we gotta figure out a way to take him down but don't waste your time now, we can stand out later."
David removed his hand. "I want to go and say hello."
David walked over to Nick, occasionally bumping past a few others on the way.
Ace was close behind, trying to make sure his acquaintance didn't get beaten to death.
Along the way, Ace took note that while most kids looked at that display as quite disturbing,
Their were a few who, while a bit creeped out by the display, didn't seem scared of nicks capabilities.
Three to be exact. He'd keep an eye out, those were probably his main contenders.
As David walked up, Nick stood up from his bench. "Look, I get it. You see a leader in action and think it's time to suck up and gain brownie points. Not happening."
David keeps his seemingly upbeat attitude.
"Far from it actually. I'm just here to ask, if you had to scope out any contenders to challenge your victory, who would it be?"
Nick scoffed. "What are you paparazzi? Whatever, since a fan club is clearly forming I guess I have to entertain it.
Don't look at her, but one of the girls behind you has the ability to create these weird bubbles that might cause even me some trouble.
The next one is probably Cameron, I don't even know how he beat his enemies. They just fall over. Everyone else is light weight to me."
David put a hand on his chin and rubbed it.
"Good to know"
Ace sighed 'I thought he was gonna say something insulting.'
David nodded looking at Nick for a bit. At The moment he saw Nick had become disinterested, looking elsewhere.
David swung his fist, clobbering hum and sending him falling over the bench.
When Nick wasn't in use of his powers, he was just as vulnerable as anyone else.
David had cashed in on that fact.
Men in military outfits surrounded the two immediately. Nick gave David a hateful glare.
"Ill Tear you apart for that."
This didn't appear to bother David however.
"I thought you might say that. I don't have a high opinion or tolerance of bullies."
"I want him as my next opponent."
Nick yelled to the guards who kept him held down.
"Wow. You must more angry than I thought.
I'm terribly sorry." David put a hand over his mouth.
Ace was watching this with wide eyes.
Shortly afterwards, they heard footsteps, obviously from mr Baron. He was here and now someone was in trouble.
As his polished shoes clicked against the floor, everyone made space for him to walk through.
As he made it, he stopped and turned to David.
"What made you do such a thing child?"
David looked at him before looking Nick directly in the eyes. "I don't like him simple as that. I think ingrates like him who punish those given less purely for that reason should be purged."
Mr Baron nodded. " An admirable way of thinking, but views dont matter here. Higher ups say punishment should be given out to those who disobey simple instructions like "don't attack others on safe zones."
"Exactly." David already had a punishment in mind.
"Nobody has seen me use powers. Why not throw a powerless person in the ring with someone who does? It seems quite the punishment does it not?"
Mr Baron smiled. "Why yes it does. Unfortunately due to the incident Nick caused earlier, some of the Students are a bit shy at the moment, so the tournament will be delayed until four days from now. Everyone, the tourney is done for tonight."
As everyone was walking the hallway trying to get back to their room, Ace turned to David. "Why the fuck did you do that?"
David turned with furrowed eyebrows. "What do you mean? I hit that guy because I don't favor the cruel. I apologize friend Ace, I couldn't put it behind me."
Ace pointed past David to where he saw Nick
Staring at all three of them furiously. He was talking to a few others near him. Something bad was brewing and now they were apart of it.
Ace was getting a bit angrier as time passed.
"Don't give me that self righteous bullshit. You knew this could happen from the jump and you did it anyway. Why?"
"Can a guy not make a mistake anymore? It was my bad. Whatever happened I'll take the fall!"
Alex wrapped his arms around both of their necks and pulled them closer. "Relax, the both of you. How about we go and play rock paper scissors and forget this?"
Ace was still a little mad, but he agreed. "I'd love to actually. But I'm also aware someone else isn't willing to give us that luxury."
Alex: "Our lives are already not great. We will not lose more stressing. I wanna get out more than anyone, but we're staying a team and leaving a team."
David sighed and nodded. "Thank you Alex. It is a great thing to not let this environment crush us."
After a 30 minutes of beating up children in rock paper scissors, Ace went to bed, Alex repeatedly calling him a cheat. As he lay down, the smig smile disappeared.
He thought about earlier.
'Why was i so mad at that kid?'
More and more visions popped up about the dukb things he did in his past life and it soon became obvious. 'Hes just like me. He wantd to brute force everything.
If I would've acted like I believed Mantacorp didn't kill my sister, I could've cozied up to everyone, potentially had the potential to get into a spot of influence where I could do some real damage. Instead i let rage take over.'
'I got so mad at him because he and i are the same. Pretending and placating to tyranny even for the moment is exhausting. But not doing so gets you killed. I was trying to tell him that but even at my age it seems im still a dumbass.'