Svalin Thorsdottir (shield_maiden) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-01-09 01:07:00

Entry tags:

A Little Practice
The training room at the Defender's compound had been designed to withstand all that the inhabitants could dish out. Today Svalin was inside and pushing the room and the program to its limit. The enemies she faced were just holograms, but force fields gave them the ability to hit and be hit. It also allowed the creation of unlimited enemies at unlimited power levels.

Sweat ran down Svalin's face and soaked her clothes. Her arms felt heavy and Vigfrior seemed to weigh more as time passed. She didn't know how many enemies she had face or how long she had been in the room, but she didn't feel like she was ready to stop just yet.

A troll charged at her and she ducked beneath the swing of his club and jabbed at the back of his kneed with the end of staff-Vigfrior. The troll stumbled and Vigfrior shifted into a war hammer and Svalin brought it down on the back of the troll's head. The troll went down and Svalin spun on a heel and swung the hammer at the troll that had been coming up behind her. It connected with the thing's stomach and it doubled over. Svalin spun the hammer around and brought it up in an upswing connecting with the troll's chin. The thing was lifted off its feet and went sailing through the air.

With the brief pause Svalin glanced over at the control room. Solver's carrier sat on a shelf next to the control panel and he was fast asleep sitting inside of it. Svalin smiled and turned back to a new batch of enemies.

(Post a new comment)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-09 05:38 am UTC (link)
	Vernique sashayed into the control room, running to quietly over Solver for a moment. "Hey, hon," she says over the intercom. "We've got visitors." (Reply to this)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-09 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	Svalin lopped off the head of a troll and then gave the command to end the program. She sheathed her sword and headed toward the control room. She was wiping the sweat from her face with the back of an arm when she entered the control room. "Who ist here?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-09 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	"My dad's stopped by, with a few of his junior colleagues. He's getting a quick bite, but he can't pass up a chance to see Solver." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-09 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	Svalin smiled. "It wilt be good to see thine father again," she said. Svalin respected the man as a warrior and enjoyed talking to him about battle and adventures. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-09 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	"It's always great to see him. And I think you'll like talking with some of those junior colleagues, too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-09 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	"I doth enjoy talking with thine father about his adventures." Svalin eyed her wife with some suspicion. This sounded like a setup of some sort, but Svalin stayed quiet on the subject. "Mayhap. Shall we?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-09 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	Vernique smiles as she gathers up Solver and off they head to another part of the compound. "And here's the Little Guy!" Paladin says cheerily as he comes over. "Good to see you, Svalin. You're certainly keeping on your toes," he said, noting that she's working fresh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-09 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	"It ist a pleasure to see thee again, Mr. Denning," Svalin said and respectfully bowed her head to him. "Art thou in town for business?" Svalin asked hopefully. Maybe he would invite her to go along with him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-09 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	"Just finished a job offshore. We'll tell you all about it over dinner." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

shield_maiden
2012-01-09 11:35 pm UTC (link)

Svalin grinned. "I art looking forward to it. I wilt inform Sarah that we wilt have thee and thine men joining us for dinner."

Svalin hardly noticed the other two men until now. Both were tall, for mortal, both over six feet tall and one was even close to Svalin's height. Both had the look and body language of warriors. Svalin wondered what kind of tales they could tell.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-09 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	"But where are my manners?" Vernique says after nodding. "Nolan, Rory, this is my wife, Svalin. Svalin, these are Nolan and Rory. They work with Dad." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 12:30 am UTC (link)
	"Nice to meet you, ma'am," Nolan said with a nod of his head. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-10 03:13 am UTC (link)
	Svalin went ahead and procured some weapons from the armory and configured a program. She knew her wife's battle prowess, but she didn't know about the men. There was a program that would start out relatively easy and then adjust itself to the participants as time moved on. She was warming up against a dozen orcs when Vernique and the guys came in. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 03:14 am UTC (link)
	"Wouldn't have planned to be using 'realistic' and 'orcs' in the same sentence," Rory mutters, looking the place over. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 03:16 am UTC (link)
	"They look almost as ugly as you," Nolan teased. "Now we can say we fought some orcs." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 03:19 am UTC (link)
	"Ah, junior high wit. You never disappoint, pal." And Rory grabs some close-combat weaponry and goes at it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2012-01-10 03:20 am UTC (link)
	Vernique, shockingly, goes for something more ranged. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 03:23 am UTC (link)
	Nolan grabbed a sword and charged after an orc. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nextgen_baddie 2012-01-10 03:29 am UTC (link)
	The holographic orcs charged and swung massive clubs at the newcomers. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-10 03:33 am UTC (link)
	Svalin hadn't meant for them to fight orcs, but she wasn't about to stop if they were joining in. Her sword came down in an overhand strike and cut through an orc from neck to waist. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 04:05 am UTC (link)
	"And another one for the lady. At least--" Rory says slices the arm off another orc, "I vaguely recall keeping count is traditional with orcs." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 04:15 am UTC (link)
	"You watch too many movies," Nolan said as he went for a hamstring of an orc. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ng_wildpack 2012-01-10 04:39 am UTC (link)
	"I watch what's worth watching," Rory mutters as he continues to fight. "Hope we're not being too disruptive, ladies." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-10 04:42 am UTC (link)
	"Nay, not at all. Those art mine favorite movies," Svalin said as she sliced off the arm of an orc. Her sword turned into a hammer and she brought it down on the orc's head. "There art great battle scenes in it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shield_maiden 2012-01-12 11:09 pm UTC (link)
	end (Reply to this)