Young Heroes (Open, see first post)

[Madcat]

With a shrug, as no one else seemed at all interested in what was probably the most advanced VR Sim she had ever even heard of, Aimee made her way back to the elevator and, to see if she could, spent a few moments mentally navigating its systems to see if she could control it "wirelessly". She was not particularly surprised to learn there were a few floors that it went to that she'd not seen yet, but decided against visiting them just yet, as she was certain those were probably for administrative or maintenance functions, so of no particular interest.

Soon, the doors hissed shut and the button for the floor housing the VR Sim lit up. Rather pleased with herself, she leaned back against the elevator's rail as it descended. She was going to see what else she could do in the VR, and see if she'd gotten any better at conjuring those various programs she seemed able to dream up on the fly. She could handle one or two basic programs at the same time, so long as their functions weren't particularly complex, but she had never had a system like this to work with, and was curious if it would help, or hinder, her talents.

[NoiselessKnife]

Kei continued with her homework while Aimee went off, she sighed, man she hated homework but either do it or... She shook her head, those bastards would not fucking touch her again. Frowning she focused on her notebook, bueh, great place, but for what? To "guide" kids, guide them how? Put them to do something so they would not be criminals, that sounded doable, but put them to do something so they would not be "villains"?

Her mentor had once told her about how without supers society would only have to fear humans that went rotten, and would see for their education, but at the same time they would not be able to do so due their desperation of fixing present problems and humans having children like rabbits, which in turn demanded for new education, but the generations would go on so fast that young adults that are still kid would be facing a new generation in their charge, due this society would go lower in quality. He had laughed hard when telling her that, because supers now took care of crimes, so society didn't bother in preventing them, just pointed criminals to the heroes and society had the same troubles but on top of that they had now to worry about villains while cheering for heroes and not caring because supers were always there, they were for granted.

Also villains had come, but, according to him, they were scum villains, planning stupid things that would bring their own end, they wanted richness, power, control, and that ended up making them easy targets. She remembered his words:

"A Villain's work is to ensure the future of the place he lives by doing what the heroes, in their "morality" would never do, and by doing what the humans can't do due their twisted ways of thinking. Crimes, overpopulation, corruption, is all due those two faction's actions." He had said. "If we got rid of those who live to corrupt society, those whose lives are over but who are kept alive, those who have made such bad choices that have just ruined their lives, those who weaken society, if we wiped them off, society would start growing, but we can't, heroes won't allow that, because if they did then the humans would see them as villains, funny thing is that heroes need all of that, they need criminals, so they don't solve the problem, they are just there when it manifests, they need villains, so they can be heroes, they need people, so they can be cheered"

She frowned a bit as she kept writing her math's homework and sighed. One of his sayings were "Children are the future", she could see where the heroes were trying to get this but she doubted it would work as they wanted.

She snickered then, remembering how the man who had guided them here had done a "rage quit", just like her mentor had once said, heroes were pretty stubborn, they expected everyone to believe what they say and do what they order, if faced an opposition they either turned away or ignored it or, if allowed, destroyed it.

Still, for a hero or a bunch of heroes, this was a pretty much sneaky and low-life plan, get to know their weaknesses and their powers, know how to control them, she wondered if the Trevor-man was aware of this or really believed his own words, if this had not been due the government then this was quite creepy, who was controling this center then?

It was logical, freaks as they were, still with no alliance in the humans and heroes' "Black or White" vision, would want to stick together and if they were like her, just wanting to be left the hell alone, would be convinced by others, parents, friends, teachers, counselors, they all would be glad to push the kids away to a place where they would make them less dangerous or at least be able to control them if they wanted to go stray, even if their powers were not damaging they still could make some ruckus. Who wouldn't want them on a leash?

Oh her mentor was a genius, she realized, go there, see things, realize things, prepare.

She kept doing her homework, it was a freaking bunch of it but she hated to be hit, only her mentor had that right and he had never even hit her for real, so better to finish this crap, she was unaware that her realization was just part of it, for her mentor wanted her to see if she could find a friend among the "freaks", but if she didn't then she would know the other kids weaknesses along with the heroes' personality for if something big came.

[Madcat]

It did not take Aimee long to find her way back to the VR Sim. There was, pretty much, only a single hallway to follow, after all. Once inside, she rezzed up a default user console, which seemed to float in the air before her. This was not actually her own doing... well, not entirely, anyway. The system was equipped to interact wirelessly with various augmented reality systems, she had just tapped into that capability using her own eyeballs and hand-gestures, filtered through the nanites coursing through her body.

She spent quite awhile just menu-diving, trying out various commands, sub-routines and executables, basically taking the VR Sim for a test drive, as if she were any normal user, seeing what she could create, what limitations the systems had, the environments and actors, scripted scenarios and pseudo-AI routines. She was, she had no shame admitting, incredibly impressed by what the system offered.

She also did this at what would appear, to an outside observer, to be unnaturally accelerated speeds. Her fingers merely twitched, eyes darting this way and that as she took in the information the system was providing. Ever since her nervous system had been rewired by the nanites, and her brain turned into a semi-organic computer, she no longer thought like a regular human, nor did she process information like they did. Her brain now operated like the CPU of any computer, calculating millions of lines of data every second. Though this did mean that she now possessed super-human reflexes, since her brain could detect, analyze and react to new data impossibly quickly, it did not mean she could run faster than anyone else. It simply made her seem twitchy at times, reacting to events long before anyone else was aware there was anything to react to.

Thus, in just an hour or so, she had learned absolutely everything there was to learn about using the VR Sim, at least from the data sets that were available to someone of her standard clearance level. Still, this normally took someone days to assimilate through the various tutorials and tests. This was why her grades were not as high as they could be... she was easily bored in class, with things seeming to move at a snail's pace. She did note, however, that she couldn't actually speed-read. She'd tried, but only ended up with a brain full of photographic memories of each page, while retaining none of the information contained on those pages. She'd had to go back and concentrate on each "image" of each page, one after the other, to actually get anything out of it. Still, being able to perfectly capture an image in her mind, and then perfectly recall it later was nothing to sniff at.