August 1, 2112
So I thought that the next time I'd make an entry would be after my first day of school, but surprise. This morning I was attacked, now I know that I fight a lot so it's not too surprising. No what was surprising is that it was a powered coming after me, and not just one. A squad of powereds from the law enforcement department, trying to arrest me. Which was a big problem for me, for a few reasons. One I have a certain emnity for those who tell me what to do, two I'm no worse than the other scum in the undercity I just like fighting, three if I was arrested it might fuck up my sister's training, and four I really don't like being treated like a bad guy for fighting bad guys. I will write down what I remember for the conversation.
Head officer guy: "Hey you're wanted for questioning involving some several instances of violent assault."
Me polite response: "You must have the wrong person, I only pick fights with barely sentient filth."
Officer 2: "Come quietly and we won't resort to violence."
Me: "Walk away, and I'll leave your faces pretty.
Head officer guy: "This is your final warning, come with us peacefully. Last chance. Come quietly."
So while they were telling me to come quietly I bolted. Which might've worked if they didn't have a speedster with them. Perhaps that's too strong of a description, she was fast, certainly faster than me, but she wasn't as unreasonable as some. So as this officer chased behind me I realized that I had little choice but to fight. As she got close, close enough to almost grasp me I dropped like a rock causing both of us to tumble. By re-upping on the ground I recovered first and sharply jabbed her in the right on her right side. I wasn't being a dick, I was aiming for her liver. A hard enough hit to the liver will cause the body to go into shock disabling someone without having to smash their face up.
What can I say, I'm a gentleman. Being a gentleman I also dislocated the speedster foot, I would hate to have to deal with her twice. I also decided to leave a duplicant on the floor near the girl just in case.
The group of four officers were unconcerned, that is until I knocked out one of their numbers. Now it was three and it seemed that I got their adrenaline pumping. Once more I'd tried running, unfortunately it seemed that they had brought a wizard who knew barrier spells.
"It's a shame. I wish I'd didn't lack restraint, because I don't think I'll be able to stop with just you're faces." I said barely holding in my glee. Perhaps powered would give me a good fight. It was better but not great.
The head office pulled out a gun and shot me in the knee as I was running towards them. Unfortunately for him with my constant re-upping, the bullet only pissed me off. When I didn't slow down the officer looked surprised, and shot again. And again. And again. He shot me 10 times. Before I got close enough to fight someone. Of the officers remaining there was shooty the head officer guy, hammer guy and mage. Hammer guy had some sort of magical glowing hammer, if you'd believe it. He was the one who I got into it with and he aimed straight for the head. Judging by the wind from his swing it probably could have killed me. Thankfully I ducked under the swing , dropping to my knees and sliding. When I slid close enough I punched the hammer dude straight in the nuts. As hard as I could.
God it was horrible, I have empathy pain just from the sheer agony on his face. I slid between the hammer's legs and I heard him thunk to ground groaning and moaning. I continued my dead sprint towards the wizard. Which caused his concentration to slip and I think he suffered some sort of backlash. Just as I was about to make a witty remark, the head officer shoots me again. I was just gonna flee, met up with my duplicant at our nearest rendezvous, but now I need to smash his face.
"Ma'am! Down on the ground or I will shoot to hit this time. I-"
Before he could finish I was sprinting at him now, as he unloaded another clip into my legs. It is strange he must be a marksman type power, otherwise I don't know how he could be so accurate. Also I'm made that he thinks I'm a woman, I get that I still have a preteen voice but come on. As I kept sprinting he kept shooting couldn't have been more than five seconds, and he emptied another clip into me. His face seemed caught between disbelief and anger. When I got too close for him to shoot he pulled a knife and finally I slowed down.
"What are you?! How did you dodge my bullets? Why do you blurr with every movement? Just what kinda Powered are you!?"
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I've fought people with knife's a few times before, and my recommendation on what to do is to try and run if you can outpace them, great. If not, don't waste all your energy trying to escape. There are a great many techniques on how to disarm someone with a knife, but they don't always work. I've found that trying to disarm an opponent early on usually led to one of both of you getting stabbed. Instead try to disorient them first. For example when they stab dodge to the outside of their knife hand grab it with your inside hand and instead of twisting the wrist and striking the elbow, try hitting them in the jaw several times. You'll find that in this position they can't defend themselves well and if you're fast enough you can end the fight before they know what is going on.
Unfortunately for me this guy knew how to use a knife, most just lunge and go for a big stab. This guy went for small cuts trying to wear me down. I'd lunge in trying to grab his wrist, and he jerked away, cutting me a few times. Finally I thought of a really dumb way to end the fight. He went for a gut stab expecting me to dodge, but I didn't. I let him stab me and while he was in shock I roundhouse kicked his leg and heard it dislocate. As he fell to the ground I felt the blade slip from my gut completely free of blood leaving only the memory of pain. Before I could make the right choice I was slamming officer Shooty McStaby into the concrete floor, and scraping back and forth. Thankfully I stopped myself before I did any real harm.
I looked to the cowering wizard, and asked, "You don't mind if I go now? Right?"
Vigorous nodding is all I got in return. I turned and walked towards the downed speedster. The fight barely lasted 3 minutes so she was still groaning on the floor. I reabsorbed myself and went on my merry way. When I tried to leave the undercity there were officers at almost every exit. Finally I found a cracked sewer pipe and was able to get out near an abandoned lot. From there it was a very smelly run home where I could finally shower and think. What would government officers want with me? Was it just because I was stirring up trouble, or was it something more? It's probably wishful thinking, but maybe they wanted me to help fight crime? Maybe.
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August 2, 2112
Holy fuck. I beat up a whole bunch of trainees, and their commanding officer. It was all over the new today. Training mission gone wrong, three officers injured one in shock. The goal was to pick up some low level criminal to show the rookies how an arrest should go. They didn't expect me to get violent, or rather for me to be that dangerous. To be fair the commanding officer wasn't trying to kill me, that was actually the last thing he was trying to do. Apparently the knife he had was supposed to cause someone to get sluggish and pass out at the slightest nic. Re-upping feels like cheating now.
In other news, apparently I scar. I have a big knife scar in my gut now. It's like it healed perfectly, but there is a thin silver line marking where I was stabbed. I checked my legs, and sure enough it looks like someone took a hole puncher to them. Silver circles as big as my thumb nail riddle my upper thighs. I think I'm going to take it easy until school starts, draw, push my physical limitations, and play videogames. I need to let the undercity cool down.
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August 15, 2112
Well I finally made the right move. A five days after I stopped going down to the undercity they raided the rats-haven. Which is where I spent most of my time picking fights. No news yet on a new power, but I am getting pretty shredded. Stranger yet I'm getting taller, like three inches in the last few weeks. Almost like I'm going through puberty, but faster. Or perhaps by pushing myself so hard, my body needed to grow up faster? I'm not sure but I'll keep an eye on it.
In other news I started school, and made a friend. I hope. Today started out with an entrance ceremony for the new students overlaying all that we could learn at this school. Then after about ten minutes we were sent on our way to find out what we would want to learn at this school. There were plenty of booths around with teachers explaining their subjects. I was interested in biological chemistry, regular chemistry, psychology, a combat class, and a magical artifice class. I wanted to understand how physical powers work in the body, and perhaps learn how to augment my powers with artificial means. The friend I may have made is named Darah, she is a few years older than me, but is about the same height as me. What's more she took almost all the same classes as me.
She actually thought because of my size I might've been part gnome like her, but I unfortunately had to tell her otherwise. Well as far I know I'm not, my Dad might have been dwarvish, but again never asked. Anyways she got really embarrassed when I told her and I think a little mad, but I told her how I could double my time and how with my duplicant and that seemed to appease her slightly. After we signed up for our classes, we had the rest of the day off, or rather we were free to do whatever on campus. Darah went off to the artifice lab, while I went to the sparring rings. None of the older kids wanted to beat me up while none of the other kids posed a challenge.
Side note I thought I'd be the youngest person there, but I wasn't. It made me feel even more like a slacker.
Finally an instructor came to test my skills, and gave me a good fight. Although I can't say the same for them, since I didn't use any of my duplicants it ended pretty lopsidedly despite my extra training. Just goes to show there is always someone better. Thankfully nothing dramatic happened, even though I was half expecting the instructor to claim me as their personal disciple. They just congratulated me on my excellent form and that I need to work more on negating my tells. Which is to say that when I fight my movements give away what I am going to do before I do it.
Overall I had a really good first day, let's hope it can stay like this...
And let's hope I didn't just jinx the shit outta myself.