Sadistical As Ever (Matrim)

[Doc Ternie]

Now.

Having a new job as a student would not be complete unless he decided to have a visit around said school. A tour if you will to get acquainted with his surroundings. It was a school like most others. Capital punishment, plenty of ouch factor to go around, people dating, kissing, probably getting laid too. Aternity simply chuckled to himself at the thoughts. Those days had gone by...what seemed to be quicker than normal. Like he'd slept through some of his years. And it was likely indeed he had. Interesting eh? Nah, not really. More interesting was the fact that Aternity had finally found his quarry, his best friend so to speak throughout high school.

Hur hur.

Matrim.

Walking down the hall. Toward him.

Oh perfect! Now was the time for an awesome brotherly greeting or show of absolute violence. Instead, Ternie would opt for a rather mix of the two, deciding to hide with his wheelchair in a perpendicular corridor to the one he was walking down. If he was lucky, and slow enough, that boy would be screaming for mercy, and there wasn't going to be a thing he could do about it.

Ohhh fun.

Too bad he couldn't just teleport on top of him or something.

[Matrim Gallagher]

*Mindless walking*

*Whistling*

I wonder what I should go do... kinda bored... class is too boring to go to. Especially English. Last time I took a nap there it felt like I was being watched... kind of hard to sleep when you're paranoid that someone will randomly jump out and attack you. Then again, that could have just been a dream too... kind of hard to tell when I'm that sleepy.....

*CRUNCH*

Huh, I wonder what that wa--- OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

"YEOUCH!" Matrim said, immediately snapping his foot back and lifting it up in his hands, hopping on his other foot, "Watch where you're rolling quadruped," Matrim said and then opened his eyes to the boy in the wheelchair. Or rather, man. He was older than.... wait.... green hair. Glasses. Sadistic ability to injure Matrim (most likely without any feelings of remorse).....

"Aternity?" Matrim said, and would set his bad foot down, and with his good foot he'd press the heel to the wheel and attempt to push him over onto his side, "Hehehe...... wait what are you doing here? And why are you in a wheelchair? Leg out of commission for awhile or something?"

[Doc Ternie]

BAHAHAHAH!

Mission accomplished. Matrim is wrecked for 1252 damage, critical hit, left foot! For a titanium framed wheelchair, it had quite the potential for running people over didn't it? Not bad, not bad at all. AND THE CRUNCH! It had been ever so satisfying. Rate about 8 out of ten or something...with Matrim's reaction to the whole situation definitely amping the rating to a solid 9 out of 10. The only reason the ten didn't come was because he failed to cause any collateral damage.

Such a shame.

"Who the hell are you calling a quadruped you twat?"

Calling your own half-brother a quadruped. What a punk! And then just now he attempted to shove over the wheelchair...of course after finally identifying his assailant. The wide flares of the chair helped a little...but on the other hand, this thing was made to maneuver. And he'd gotten very good at it. Taking the push, he spun around on his left wheel, pulling a full 360, and driving his knees at Matrim's back.

His fault in that you know.

"Indeed. Let's just say Enya didn't fix everything apparently. Had another swimming pool incident. And for the record...I'm one of your bloody professors."

[Matrim Gallagher]

Ternie swung around to kick Matrim in the back, his arm started to come back at the elbow to block but it still caused him to get hit partially at the back, and then at the arm where he blocked. He stumbled forward turned back toward Aternity.

"Indeed. Let's just say Enya didn't fix everything apparently. Had another swimming pool incident. And for the record...I'm one of your bloody professors."

"Not one of mine," Matrim said pointing to himself with his thumb, "I sure as hell am not taking a class from you. I mean, honestly, why would I ever subject myself to a subordinate position where you were the dominate power? I'm crazy but I'm not suicidal." He laughed and said, "Swimming pool accident eh? Are you talking about the whole watcha-ma-call-it?"

He thought about it, and tried to remember what all happened with that, "Didn't they find a way to fix you up?" He said, thinking about it, "I'm having some memory trouble from those times, you're gonna have to remind me of what all happened.

[Doc Ternie]

Hmmm, not quite as clean a hit as he was hoping for, but then again, it was better than what he was really expecting. Matrim probably far outranked him by now in sheer strength, but that was to be had. Ahhh well, not really a big deal. He got his hit, and they were done. Simply how it worked nowadays with him he thought. Feh.

"Oh? And why not? You've taken enough of my sisters courses that you might make a good assistant lecturer. And you've got the mind for it...remember?"

Indeed. One of Solly's frames, a couple of explosives and one blown up lake later, they were both still alive even after facing what seemed to be near impossible odds. Sure, they beat up on each other, but then again, they had also learned a few things from each other. One of his fighting styles was based around a couple of Matrim's old moves, and now he could solve mathematical equations like no other. It was a sadly, as much as he hated to admit, a symbiotic relationship.

"I thought they did, but I suffered another heart attack a couple months ago. Once again, the quacks say I'll be fine after repairing the damage. And I'm actually prone to believe them this time. They rebuilt my nervous system. From scratch. I feel like a toaster."

Ternie chuckled. They could probably both relate to that joke well.

"And yourself, I heard you've been married to...Sara of all people?"

[Matrim Gallagher]

"I thought they did, but I suffered another heart attack a couple months ago. Once again, the quacks say I'll be fine after repairing the damage. And I'm actually prone to believe them this time. They rebuilt my nervous system. From scratch. I feel like a toaster."

Matrim laughed a bit at that, he knew the feeling. Matrim was like the million dollar man, only horribly improvised at one point. And then finally back to being normal he was less of a machine and more of a person. Though he often associated the term 'toaster' with Solly since he was the king of all toasters. He was completely machine where he was once completely human.... well as complete as he could be.

"And yourself, I heard you've been married to...Sara of all people?"

"You haven't even met her," Matrim said, "But yeah, Sara. She's the love of my life. I mean yeah sure you were there for when I was with Rei and everything but... things changed you know? I changed. And I am better for it in my opinion. So yes, of all people I chose Sara, and she chose me back."

And to avoid getting all sentimental he said, "You're still completely useless you know. And you're going to be teaching Qi?" He asked, recalling his statement that suggested that Matrim be an assistant lecturer since he took Lunari's classes, "I'm surprised you aren't teaching physics or something like that... then again physics might be completely lost on this school. I'm partially convinced the only reason they might take anatomy is to know how to punch better, so maybe if you did the physics of fights they would join in a heart beat."

He thought about it...

I'd have been tricked into that class for sure.... even probably ignoring the fact that the name Awren was plastered onto the professors name.

[Doc Ternie]

"Don't need to meet her. Family ties you know."

But you know, that was good thing. Ternie had Enya, and Matrim had finally found someone for the lot of them. Sure, he was there with Reira, but damn, with all that hell that happened with them, it was actually, sadly, unsurprising. I mean really. Lunari and a GUNSHIP of all things that went after them? Something had gone to hell right about then...and it was all downhill from there until hitting the brick wall.

"Well good stuff...anyway, fight physics has been done to death. I may do a supplementary lecture, but Qi is still very much a theoretical science...not even my sister knew everything. Shamanistic tendencies tend to limit your view point...but at least its broad enough to encompass a lot of other things."

That and she focus more on practical applications. It was Ternie's job to let theory induce creativity in his students. Boring? Yeah, maybe. But only in his research.

"You'd be smart to try it. Besides, I need a little help right now. Can't exactly do much in the form of teleportation right now. Don't know why."

[Matrim Gallagher]

"You'd be smart to try it. Besides, I need a little help right now. Can't exactly do much in the form of teleportation right now. Don't know why."

"Yeah and I ain't exactly bouncing bullets off of me either," Matrim said, "Be prepared for that, I think it has something to do with the mass amount of users collecting in a small area, but things with Qi are constantly mutating and changing, so you should just hope yours doesn't mutate too far."

He laughed and cracked his back as he stood stretching with his hands to his lower back, "UGH, not to mention I've ran across a few people like Toby. It's been awhile though, haven't seen him around in quite some time. As for helping out, sounds good to me. I've taught a few people Qi before, my methods just tend to be more... violent. I find it brings out the more violent Qi's. Which, in a place like this, you sort of need in order to survive."

After a small pause he added, "Oh but don't worry, I'll go along with your curriculum. If students want to learn my way, they are going to have to ask me outside of class."

[Doc Ternie]

"Nawww, really?"

It had been some time since Matrim was able to block bullets, but then again, he didn't quite understand. Ternie didn't have a mutated Qi, he didn't HAVE a Qi. But fair enough and to each their own. Ternie's Qi had already mutated a couple times of all things. And its probably why he was now biologically older than Matrim. Huzzah?

"And so I've read. No...I think a little violence is good when applied to the right areas. Besides, it seems to be a universal language that is well read by students. Particularly you interestingly. If that's the case, lets just say I'm glad you're bilingual."

Hopefully he'd retained much of the knowledge that Lunari had taught him, would make things much easier.

"You remember most of your basic theory?"

[Matrim Gallagher]

"You remember most of your basic theory?"

"Oh yeah," He said, "Life energy, if there is indeed a soul, it either is or governs our Qi flow. That Qi is usually close to a persons personality, and that Qi can be formed through several means. Either by training hard or in a time of most need are the two most common of which, blah blah blah. In any case, it's the flow of life energy within the body being used for extracurricular activity."

He went behind Aternity's wheelchair and started pushing, "Point me toward your office, wheels," He said and would keep talking as he did, "And that it also has it's downsides. No Qi is completely pure, not one. And therefore, there is always a cost of some sort... always. Without exceptions. Neutral Qi is somewhat pure being it is untarnished by personality, most everyone has the capability of using it despite what their ability is."

He then would add, "Blah dee blah blah.... in any case yeah, I remember basics. And I'm more than just some bilingual translator when it comes to violence here. If fighting were a language, I'd be a well renowned public speaker."

[Doc Ternie]

Before he could stop him, it looked as though that Matrim was now off on the main theory and tangents that might or might not be touched during his first classes here. People tended to know about their own Qi, but not others, nor how it worked. And if you knew how it worked, then you could do ever greater things with it. Luckily, Matrim knew how it worked.

"Up the lift, 3rd floor, office on the northwest corner."

It was quite amazing what his sister could ingrain in peoples heads, including Matrim's to be honest. He was at first, supposedly one of the most hard headed people on the planet, but if she could do it, that meant he could do it to the rest of his students should he fail.

"I think you've got the gist of it yeh. As for translating, I'm sort of expecting you to be my voice should anyone decide to do something stupid. Also, as I've no Qi right now, I need you to make sure you can pull some neutral Qi off. Might not be needed, but should we need a demonstration you know."

[Matrim Gallagher]

"Well," Matrim said, "I know for sure I could light a cigarette with my finger... not sure about the ball of light and wall walking. Bit out of practice, haven't needed to do it you know?"

He lead him to the elevator, and got in. Pressing the button for the third floor. Once it opened he pushed Aternity toward the area he had indicated, "But yeah I'll make sure the crowd doesn't get too rough. And I'll help with whatever demonstrations you need." He said, "You just have to say that one magical word...."

Oh I'm going to enjoy this....

"In fact, in sentence form would be much appreciated," Matrim said, "Along with slight groveling ... if not I think I can settle for the magical word being in the form of a sentence."

Hehehe....

Matrim was grinning from ear to ear waiting to hear Aternity say 'Please'. After all, it wasn't often that Aternity needed his help with something. Usually he was always needing Aternity for one thing or another. Whether it was to help him with saving Rei back in the day, to getting rid of the core, to Visions, and pretty much everything else. This would finally be the day that Aternity asked Matrim for something... which was going to be pretty sweet....

[Doc Ternie]

"It's good enough, I think Luni kept a couple balls o' light in a few mason jars. She was kinda weird like that."

Aternity understood his reasoning behind neutral Qi, as he hadn't used it much either. To be perfectly fair, the ball of light was just for show, just as a demonstration to show someone their aura, and the wall walking was for fetching the neighbors kids' frisbee out of the gutter when it had gotten stuck. The whole teleportation thing even made that point moot. Now...one more problem to address.

"Uh huh. I should really write you up for blackmailing a professor. But considering my dilemma..."

He thought about it. Aternity had in fact changed a little, and Matrim? Well, alright, he deserved a bone.

"I admit, I do need your help for this."

Yes, he completely had avoided saying please, instead finally admitting that he couldn't do everything himself, and did need a students help. All things considering, Matrim wasn't much of a student to Ternie, and probably never would be. He far outranked any actual student.

"Oh and...after I get these fixed..." He added, pointing to his knees. "...I'd like to know if you'd help me learn to fight again?"

Oh God, ego inflation. What had he done?

[Matrim Gallagher]

"I admit, I do need your help for this. Oh and...after I get these fixed... I'd like to know if you'd help me learn to fight again?"

He was about to remind him that he hadn't said the magic word but got distracted for a moment, "Oh fighting? I can help you learn how to get your ass kicked again. But otherwise not all too sure on that. Learning to fight will just have to come as a survival instinct once I've kicked your ass enough times."

He laughed and then grabbed the top of Aternity's head with one hand, pulling back so Ternie was forced to look back and up toward him Matrim added, "You have to say the magic word by the way," He said, "Stop admitting facts, and ask the actual question, using the word 'please'." He laughed and let go of Aternity's head.

"Or I could just throw you down the stairs and see how much fun you have on them....."

Oh that would be a ton of fun.... I should do that anyway... I still remember being in a wheel chair for awhile. God Lunari kicked my ass when I was still in a wheel chair didn't she? Ninja attacked me and everything...

[Doc Ternie]

"Oh goodie, just like old times."

Sarcastic and cynical to the last. Matrim had traditionally been the better all around fighter while Ternie had specialized more in hit and run attacks on peoples internal body. Needless to say, the phrase "he fought like a girl," came to mind since while his attacks weren't so spectacular, they did the damage. Kinda like Cyrus in a way. And when Matrim pulled his head back? Let's say that didn't go over so well.

"You'll get me to say please in a context befitting when you deserve it...for example, would you please let go of my head? Your hand smells funny."

The stairs? Hell, bring it you twat. Stair runs in a proper wheelchair were fun!