Both Cassie and Caitlin nodded to the idea of following Tyler, since he said he knew the way. Both of them didn't exactly know the way, so anyone who knew the slightest bit of directions to where they were going was better then nothing. They both proceeded to jog after him. They weren't the quickest, especially Cassie, but they weren't exactly slow either. All they knew is they wanted to avoid this "Midget' at all costs. But due to Cassie's injuries from the car accident, her leg still tended to hurt and cramp up, even though the accident was months back. It was likely one of those injuries that would likely trouble her for a very long time, if not for the rest of her entire life. But it only bothered her here and there, and she hadn't really had the chance to give it a chance with running, so she was a little concerned. They both kept up with Tyler well enough when he looked behind to them that they were fairly close to him, and when he turned around, they didn't feel a real need to stop running, and continued.
Cassie didn't really notice much related to the midget because she was busy focusing on the task of running, but Caitlin had glanced behind with Tyler. Her only response was "Oh shit", and she managed to start running even faster, surprisingly for her. She knew that once she stopped, her breathing would be very heavy and there was even the possibility she might collapse from exhaustion at this rate. She had practiced running, but not this fast. If anything, she seemed more worried about Cassie then anything, since she was clearly not as fast as pretty much all of them. "So much for him being a midget!" Caitlin shouted as they ran, pretty much right after Tyler said "Hurry up!". Cassie nodded, and was truly scared again, but kept her pace up as well as possible.
"One thing I hate about giants....THEY CAN FREAKING GAIN ON YOU WITH LITTLE EFFORT!" Caitlin shouted again as they ran, and were approaching the helicopter. In a lot of movies, it was acknowledged that giants could gain on you without really trying, because each foot step of theirs took up about as much distance as you had just ran, without them even running themselves. If the giants ran well, it was much more likely you'd be smooshed into flat pancakes then getting away safely. And Caitlin had watched her fair share of movies.
Cassie hesitated for a second at the idea of Tyler staying behind, tempted to grab him and drag him along, but decided to take his word for it and kept heading off to the helicopter. So did Caitlin, obviously. And eventually they all got to the helicopter safely as well. From the 'safety' of the helicopter, they watched what Tyler did, and seemed thoroughly impressed. It was obviously a good technique at stopping the big ass 'midget', and it at least delayed him enough for them to hopefully get out of here alive.
"Good job!" Caitlin enthusiastically cheered Tyler, patting him on the shoulder. Until her happy, cheery successful tone suddenly changed to a look of "Oh shit" when she realized the 'midget' had recovered that damn quickly. She was tempted to shout at the helicopter pilot to take off, but it was already taking off by the time she was about to say that, and she didn't really want to look like a complete fool by shouting at a helicopter pilot to take off that was taking off. But when they barely escaped doom, Caitlin cheered again, and Cassie just silently sat there smiling at their success, though she had a clear look of distaste at how loud the friggen helicopter was without any real protection from the sounds. She did let out a sigh of relief that they made it.
Right as the simulation faded back into the white room, and the teacher was there. She expected a 'beat down' from the teacher in words, due to their mostly failure. She didn't really feel like she was part of the failure itself, but she didn't feel like she exactly helped by not saying anything and letting everyone argue and bicker, and blabber about unimportant things instead of just saying "Just up and make a plan!", but she didn't feel absolutely terrible about their mostly failure to do it properly. Neither did Caitlin, though she had similar thoughts to Cassie. Cassie was actually slightly worried that the teacher might actually give them a real beating, but then shook her head and realized that this wasn't home, and her parents were dead and were no longer able to beat her down for her failures. Literally. Heck, her father did it with a mixture of words and physical pain, and they were terrible memories. Her mom was just as useless as ever.
Caitlin smiled slightly for some unknown reason to everybody else. She was proud of herself for not really wandering off on random unimportant speeches while on the mission, and mostly staying focused on a plan when she actually spoke up and added her '2 cents'. But she was disappointed at herself for not speaking up as much as she probably should of, like Cassie was. Cassie's problem was just being shy, though. She had no excuse herself. They both nodded to the rest of what he said, understanding what he was saying and pleased that he accepted them running.
Once the simulation ended, Caitlin and Cassie both hopped out of their pods, and Cassie rubbed her head absentmindedly. Caitlin was obviously going to see if she was accepted for the mission, but Cassie wasn't, because she had never signed up in the first place. If she was on the list for some unknown reason, she would definitely have something to say so someone, because that was the last thing she wanted to do right now, was go on a mission.
Both Cassie and Caitlin knew that Scott was glaring at them for their over all failure. Cassie however was thankful that she wouldn't have to return for a likely 'beat down' from Scott with words. She really didn't want that either, because she had endured that enough in her short life span from her dad, pretty much in the last couple of years alone. Even for the stupidest and smallest of things she did 'wrong'. For her, she would just move on to something else, and likely finish up some writing and then go to bed. Caitlin on the other hand, knew she would be back, and honestly didn't mind the fact she would be back one bit. She knew she needed more training, and was completely up to coming back for more training, despite the fact she knew it would be rough.
Cassie had gone straight to her room, skipping dinner, while Caitlin checked to see if she was on the mission and to eat. To her excitement, she had made it on the mission. But to her disappointment, she noticed it seemed like Tyler didn't, which she really didn't understand at all. He was sort of the guy who saved their ass after all, so she felt it was a little wrong why he didn't get to go on the mission. But she was trying to be quick, so she couldn't talk to him about it, and just went over and got some food, and ate it rather quickly.
Caitlin had literally finished her 'meal' the instant they were all called back to the simulation room. She knew that a big mouthful was likely to come, and a lot of training. Which, strangely, didn't bother her all that much. Especially the last part. More training was good in her mind, especially for a mission that was a day away. So she quickly hopped up and headed off towards the simulation room, arriving rather quickly. By now, Cassie was relaxing in her room and writing more of her stories at a casual, slow pace while looking up various things on the internet.
Caitlin knew all too well what was going on. That they wouldn't be able to leave, which again, strangely didn't bother her. The fact he was about to bombard them with criticisms, and the fact he was acting very, well, much like a Commander or Sergeant. She had seen plenty of war movies and such that 'taught' her about how people acted when in authority sometimes. Based on some movies though, she expected he would lay off the bombardment of swearing on the students. Sure, students swore enough themselves that it wasn't a big deal. But if this place was as censoring as the United States of America seemed to like to be, he would forbid too much swearing, despite the fact there was plenty of swearing in schools every day.
And boy was she right on her thoughts of what was about to take place with him acting like some angry Sergeant, because he definitely was disappointed with them and angry, and rightfully so in her opinion. She didn't exactly add much to the plan herself, and just more listened to them argue for a while. And talk nonsense. Strangely enough, despite the seriousness of what Scott was telling them, she was having a hard time not laughing. She agreed with everything he was saying, but still had a hard time not laughing. Based on what she knew of Cassie and how she reacted to certain things, she was honestly happy that Cassie wasn't here for the bombardment from Scott, because it might hurt her feelings more then he intended it to, since Cassie seemed sensitive about these things. If she knew what the poor girl went through, she would likely understand as well.
Caitlin nodded in understanding, and smiled slightly at the idea of practicing the simulation over and over again, to make sure they were 'pitch perfect'. "Sounds reasonable and like a plan to me" She said, clearly not minding at all about doing it over and over again, even though she knew it would be very tiresome after a while. With that over with, she instantly got into the pod when Scott told them to, because she was interested in getting back in, and definitely interested in seeing what fighting Scott instead was like. She bet some of the Vigilante's here who were stupid probably just liked the idea of killing Scott, even if it was in a simulation.
One time during the long training in the simulation, she had managed to phase when he started to incinerate all the students around her, avoiding getting burned.....At first. In the end, she got incinerated anyway, once her phasing faded off. It only worked for so long, and she couldn't just sit there in phase mode for minutes and minutes on end. It was only really used for going through solid objects briefly, not long-lasting pretending to be invincible ability. At least this early in her training of it, that is.
Caitlin was pleasantly surprised with her improvements over the duration of the simulations, and the group itself. Yes, she was tired, and yes, she had gotten frustrated a few times as well. But in the end, all the training was well worth it and needed, and she was thankful for it. Surprisingly she didn't seem to ever really get that angry during the whole duration of the simulations, and went along with getting incinerated repeatedly. Death in a simulation was the best way to learn after all. When they were told they could go to bed and to wake up in about 6 hours, that was exactly what she did . She didn't even change out of her likely now stinky clothes, if what you did in the simulation managed to surpass to you in real life. All she did was instantly plop down on her bed and fall asleep. Cassie had fallen asleep long ago now, likely being very thankful she didn't go on the mission.
Caitlin had gotten up even earlier then told, at exactly 6 AM. She quickly showered, brushed her teeth, and changed into some clean clothes, along with her costume that she had brought with her that she had never worn yet. Little did she know that she wouldn't be allowed to wear it, and would have to change once she got to the Docking Bay. She wanted an opportunity to wear it on a mission, but this was clearly not her opportunity right now.
Cassie had also gotten up around that time, but not on her own will. She had jolted awake due to a very vivid and bad nightmare. A almost-perfect replica of the crash she had been in a few months back, something she really preferred not to have vivid nightmares of. Due to this nightmare, she had woken up, and instantly started crying at the memory. It would haunt her for a long time, especially what caused it. She knew that she couldn't fall back asleep, and just got up and did the typical morning things, and trying to make this bad start of the day not feel so gloomy.
Caitlin headed off to the docking bay the instant she was all dressed and ready, and got there around the same time as a good chunk of the students. She seemed more nervous then yesterday in the simulation, because there was a big difference to getting fried repeatedly in a simulation and the real thing. But at the same time, she was remaining much calmer then Cassie would be reacting right now if she had chosen to come. When she heard something about them having outfits already and that was what they were supposed to wear, she could of easily been the student who whined about it. Though, she wasn't really vocal about her whining, just complaining in her head. So she did what was required of her, and changed into her uniform reluctantly.
Cassie had eventually wandered off to the Cafeteria, looking rather solemn today. She went straight to some food, being quite hungry and all because of her lack of eating last night, and grabbed a bunch of assortment of food. With her food done, she went over to Tyler's table, noticing he seemed a little down as well. She went over to his table because she knew him from the simulation, and felt like talking to someone she knew better. She could use a good talking with someone right now as well. But she wasn't going to be rude and just sit down without permission, so she asked, "May I sit down here?", in a quiet, shy sounding voice. It also sounded like she might of been slightly upset as well, but it was hard to tell.
Once Caitlin was done changing and everything, she got back out to see everyone else getting ready to head into the shuttle. So she decided it was time to do the same, and followed them all in. Once she was in, she sat down somewhere in the shuttle, and awaited the ride and whatever was going to be told to them. She looked forward to the trip, but at the same time was clearly more nervous then she was yesterday during the simulation. No matter how prepared you felt you were, nothing could prepare you for the real thing, that could easily involve a student dieing, or you dieing yourself. But she pushed those thoughts back, and focused on what was about ready to take place instead of making things worse on herself.
