Society of Justice 3: Crisis on the Earth

[blaze96]

Richard didn't even bother responding as he immediately flew over and allowed his armor to electrify before giving Tyson an electrified kick which knocked him off the snake.

"I suggest you calm the hell down. I don't give a shit what your background is, you go through the training like everyone else. You may be a soldier, and you may be a fucking tactical genius, but we still need to test in a situation that is outside the norm of military combat. I also suggest you don't start indirectly throwing accusations around about our intelligence or integrity. Patriot may be an idiot, but he's a loyal idiot. Now I kindly suggest you put your dick back in your pants and calm the hell down." Richard said as he stood over him with a blade to his throat.

 

[Lizmichi]

Alex wasn't to far behind Richard and as soon as Richard was done she wrapped a water whip around his neck. "You try anything and I will snap your neck before Richard can cut it off." Alex said her voice cold.

"You pull this shit in the line of fire and you'll get not only your self killed but us. You want a real world application let me give it to you then." Alex said fed up with this shit.

 

[NeoAC]

Brian looked up from the ground. He was trying to get the awful taste out of his mouth and the dirt wasn't doing a good enough job. Seeing what was happening to the rebelling Tyson was doing it though. "Fucking Christ. Note to self: don't ever piss people off here."

 

[The Zango]

"The enemy is defeated and no longer a threat, you would waste your bullets and our time with your childish notions" said The Shadow as he walked forwards towards the gun-wielding hero by the snake, his confidence having returned for he was no longer talking for social reasons, he was back in 'hero mode' with all the appropriate emotional walls and barriers set up to protect him.

"The battle is won, stand down"

 

[elementsoul]

Tyson started laughing for a few seconds and stopped. "You all missed it by so far. I kno you will have no idea what I'm talking about so I'll explain. You test me in order to get excepted into your Society but that puts us on uneven footing. I needed to test you as well. Makes things more fair but I needed a good test mainly to judge how you react to things you are dealt with that you wouldn't expect. All of you failed terribly." Tyson announced mockingly.

 

[tsatoma]

"Tyson what the hell is going on? What are you talking about? I know about your stay with the military and the experiments but you're not making any sense!" Garrus called out with confusion, looking over at Patriot who shrugged with the same amount of confusion.

"Look you passed the test. You're a member now, so you should just calm down now and be happy you made it in!" Garrus added, still not sure what was going on.

 

[Lizmichi]

Alex laughed uncoiling the whip on his neck. "So you want to fight one of us to see if we're worth your time then. I can give you a fight but it's one on one." Alex said smirking some backing away from him. "What better way to test us then to see how we our selves fight." she said.

 

[RBMidknight]

Taryn sighed as the scene on the field became more intense. 'Well now I am getting flashbacks to the last training session.' she thought with a slow shake of her head. "What is going on?" she muttered quietly. Bringing her computer up to eye-level, Taryn typed a few commands to tell the various logging programs to compress and save their data then quit. Once all the programs were exited the data would then be sent to her main server. 'Hopefully there will be time later to review the footage.'

 

[elementsoul]

Tyson smiled and laughed a little. "Garrus I'll happily explain it in a second but I want to address Alex first. Alex you complete blew over what I was getting at. I'll happily fight you and beat you but that's because you forget the fundamental flaw of how my power effects the water your power controls. Now that I've addressed that tiny little thing I'll start to explain." Tyson calmly spoke.

"Let's start from the basics. You test new recruits to see if they have what it takes to join your team, which is the ability to work as a team for the most part. I however in order to know what type of people I am dealing with like to have a test of my own. This is rarely planned to avoid anyway of anyone knowing that I doing a test on them." Tyson explained hoping everyone was following along perfectly fine.

"Now for my actions. I was having fun fighting that snake. Actually the most fun I've had since the military. I was kind of sad ad disappointed that you ended it so soon. As Richard already mentioned the injured new recruits, but I figured that machine would likely have some countermeasures for not injuring the people it test after they were no longer able to fight. If I'm wrong then that should be clearly added but that's beside the point right now. Now I like to look over what I fight just encase I have to go up against it again. I saw the damage to the door, looked to see if it would open, and then tried to make a call about it using my gun as a tool to demonstrate my point of being able to get in." Tyson finished and took a second to collect his thoughts.

"Now all of you clearly missed what I originally said about shutting down the testing because a door into the machine opened and acted solely based on seeing me point a gun into the snake. Well, you acted rash and jumped the gun assuming I wasn't finished with the machine. I got my idea for the test to see how you would react to an escalation and how you would focus on everything a person said instead of just one point." Tyson continued.

"If you looked at everything I said you would have taken note of the sarcasm stating I had no intention of shooting into the snake. Seriously what could I possibly gain from doing that? No one picked up on this which was a failure right away.

Next I clearly stated what my previous sarcasm implied which was completely blow over by me stating that even if I chose to do something you wouldn't be able to stop me from doing it. I was also annoyed that no one stopped to think to ask what I had been saying previously and just made assumptions. Assumptions cost more lives than you will ever know. Missing the second statement made that a double failure.

Then I decided to throw a curve ball and make some comments about my past and use my general anger that the section eight there; *Tyson pointed at Patriot* had the best if not one of the best teams in his military be whipped out without notice of how it happened. I can't blame him, but I still get angry over it. This caused you to completely ignore what was said directly before it which constitutes a triple failure.

Finally I questioned why you had me do this and mocked you for it. You took an extreme focus to the last thing I said. That constitutes a quadruple failure. Then switching my gun setting was the start of the test. If you had paid attention to the start of what I said you would have let me be. You didn't and focused on the last things I said and attacked me for no reason. That is why you failed my test. You didn't pay attention and acted rashly without understanding the situation." Tyson concluded his reasoning and actions.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Jason sighed as everything unfolded before him. After hearing a good gist of Tyson's explanation, Jason calmly walked up to the heroes who figuratively had their hands around Tyson's neck, he pushed through them all, and simply helped him to his feet.

"We seasoned superheroes quickly tense up at situations like these. The same sort of situation occurred with last year's group, so now we kind of just, act on impulse, rather then talking things out." He answered calmly, dusting the misunderstood recruit off.

 

[Captainguy42]

"Hey Tyson. You're an A-hole." Was all Tommy said before he picked up the Mecha-snake. "Taryn, where should I put the snake? Can we tie it under the Merriweather and fly it back?" He asked as he dragged it over to her and lowered it near her. At this point Tommy decided Tyson was really just being childish, best thing would be to say his peace and move on.

 

[socialtangent]

Levi frowned as the conflict in front of him continued. I guess we were tempting fate with the whole 'calmer than the last group' thing, he thought. Never one for conflicts, he kept his distance from the angry recruit and the equally irritated Alex and Richard. Tommy gave him a very wanted distraction by asking him about transporting the MechaSnake. Levi took one look at the snake, then looked back at Tommy. "I'm not sure if the Merriweather can carry that much weight..." he said uncertainly. "...but maybe Patriot wouldn't mind taking it back to the Promenade with us, as long as he doesn't drop it on top of the garage".

 

[Lizmichi]

Alex rolled her eyes and walked back up to Tyson and slapped him across the face. "You have to be an idiot. I get you're trying to test how we are under fire but as heroes we learn from experience. Assuming someone is telling the truth can lead to death and if we left you be then who knows what could have happened. If you where a villain we learn to not let any action or possible reaction be done. Even if it means jumping the gun." Alex started.

"Further more, it's better to prevent an action than to let it happen not seeing it as a treat. Mocking and sarcasm isn't something you can honestly relay on from someone, even a hero. People lie and, as you just proven, use distractions to keep their true intentions hidden. I understand that you want us to think about what we're doing but fact is we wouldn't be alive if our way of thinking didn't work. We face far worse threats then anything you'll see on the front lines. try fighting the Union sometime." she continued.

"When I joined the Society a magic user joined with me and she was a loose canon. We weren't sure if she'd try to kill one of us or not and it showed in the training mission. She tried to kill me before for no good reason and Katie and I assuming the she would try to attack me. She did try to attack me and if it wasn't for our assuming I would be dead. If someone points a gun at your and says they won't shoot you and sounding like they mean it you don't trust them. You assume they mean harm. Your ex military and ex mill has be shown to have mental issues. I'm not saying you do but actions like this have saved more lives then not acting." Alex finished.

 

[RBMidknight]

"I second that uncertainty." Taryn added, turning her attention to Tommy and Levi. "I'd rather be sure that the Merriweather can make it back to the Promenade then to try to fit the MechaSnake in there." Taryn turned to gesture at the ship and then asked Levi, "How long will it take to get the ship ready to go?" She hoped that whatever was going on with Tyson and the others could be handled by the time they got back to the Promenade. Preferably sooner so that there weren't problems while they were all in the air. Taryn shook her head. Successful training was supposed to be followed by a nice time of relaxation and Dr. Pepper...'At this rate the Society's liquor supply might replace the soda.'

 

[blaze96]

"You're a fucking idiot, no doubt about it. You were willing to endanger an entire team by thrusting them into the unknown to test our reactions. How about I tell you the last time the unknown was encountered and I trusted it for even a second. Every non-magical male member of the team attempted to kill all the others because it took control of our minds. I'm not about to trust in someone I have no experience with to not do something malicious or stupid. So excuse me if I'm not in the mood for your cocky attitude and brash actions. Besides which, none of us have jack shit to prove to you. I've been through world conquest scenarios, world destruction scenarios, and multiple smaller crimes across multiple years." Richard said to the man, clearly furious at his rash actions for no purpose at all.

"For all you knew that snake would have reactivated and gone right back to attacking you because it would deem the simulation not yet over, for all we knew you were about to attempt to put a bullet into the damn snake when your team needed the battle to end, and don't you try and feed me any of your bullshit explanations. If I had my way, your reckless actions would get you kicked the fuck off this team." he retracted the blades and immediately stepped back.

 

[Pm0n3y]

"So yeah Tyson. Long story short: We've been through a lot of shit in the past few years, so reacting on impulse'll be second nature for the lot of us. We aren't used to talking things out, because evil won't talk things out. They'll just start shooting, and try to kill you. People are crazy like that. Now can we please wrap this up? Not trying to sound like a whiny *****, but I really want to get in the pool now." Jason said quickly, simply, and yet tiredly, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.

"They were doing so well. Why did this one guy (out of the whole bunch) have to test our morals?" He thought.

 

[elementsoul]

Tyson took the slap as he was expecting far worse. No one likes tests. Everyone hates test they don't understand. Even more so if its a test that forms an opinion about them. Tyson responded to Alex, "If I had no clue who the person is then I would go on gut feeling or assume. However if the person removed my close friend from a giant mechasnake while he was getting electrocuted to death. I would give them some liberty. If the person wasn't even aiming at anyone and would harm no one if they shot I'd leave them alone if they said they weren't going to do anything because even if they shoot it doesn't kill anyone. You don't try to see through the gray and only want black or white answers. Life isn't like that and I need to know who I can trust to see through the gray when needed. If my mental health was in question I would have kindly submitted to psych evaluation before joining. I'm still open to one now if you would like."

Tyson turned his attention to Richard and started going at him "News flash! I'm not huge on the whole trust thing either. You had an unknown turn on you. I had the government I swore to protect. You have just as much to prove to me as I have to prove to you. Additionally, the only person who I put in danger was myself. Even if the snake started up again I would draw it's attention while Taryn shut it down with an override code or the group of you seniors would step in and take it down. And if you want bullshit, I'll tell you bullshit. You were born with a diamond covered gold spoon in your mouth and apparently another one up your ass. You act high and mighty but where are you without your armor? Where would you be if your father wasn't rich?"

Finally Tyson turned to Jason and spoke, "It was the fact that questions weren't asked and answers were assumed. Paying attention and thinking about what is happening will prevent more problems than it will cause."

 

[socialtangent]

Levi considered Taryn's question momentarily. "I'm pretty sure we could get her powered up and ready to go within a few minutes," he said, turning to face Taryn. "But of course, I'll need my copilot," he added, flashing a grin. "The sooner we get back, the sooner we can celebrate. Let's get the ship started". With that, Levi headed for the Merriweather and ascended the boarding ramp. Making his way to the cockpit, he took his place at pilot's chair and started with the preflight diagnostics. They weren't completely necessary right now, but better safe than sorry. In any case, they weren't in any kind of rush to get back.

 

[RBMidknight]

Taryn smiled and followed Levi as he walked toward the ship. As she stepped inside and approached the cargo area Taryn put her computer back into her inner jacket pocket. She zipped the jacket partway closed before stepping into the cockpit. Taryn noticed that Levi had already begun the flight preparations so she sat down in the co-pilot's seat. She spun the chair slowly in a complete circle. Then deciding to be somewhat productive Taryn leaned forward to check the dials and readouts on her own console.

 

[tsatoma]

Patriot was about to ask what was going on for the fortieth time but Garrus simply told him no and to carry the snake back to the Promenade.

"Carry the snake. Not throw," Garrus said, hoping Patriot would get it.
"Not carry, throw it! Gotcha!" Patriot replied as he walked over to the tail of the snake.
"No! CARRY. As in you hold onto it all the way to the Promenade and drop it off gently where you found it in the garage!" Garrus shouted, Patriot getting a sad look as he waved goodbye and floated away with the snake, no spring in his flying step.

Garrus called out to everyone else that they'd be leaving in five minutes before heading over and into the Merriweather. "You guys can meet that five minute deadline right?" he asked with a slight chuckle.