It had taken about a week and a half, but Crazy Apple was beginning to feel like she was in something approaching fighting shape again. Ringo's usual schedule of AirTrek runs had meant that there wasn't actually that much work to do. Speed, endurance, strength, and flexibility were all excellent, so she'd mostly spent her time focused on the ( Read more... )

If anyone had been keeping track, they might have been surprised to find that Ringo actually spent even more time on AT workouts when Crazy Apple was calling the shots than she normally did. And after a week of being out among the warehouses for almost every waking moment, she was starting to feel like she was almost back in shape ( Read more... )

It was like a miracle. Kathy didn't use that word much--or at all, really--having given up on the idea of miracles years ago. But here she was, awake with a full belly (courtesy of Parker), the weak sunlight shining down on her face. Even for December sunshine, it was thin and cold, but it was more sun than Kathy could remember shining down on this ( Read more... )

The fight between the new Fandom-folk and some of the biggest bosses on the island had disturbed something. That was Kathy's best guess for why there were more hollows out tonight than normal--that, or they'd realized the glut of new people led to easy pickings. Kathy had had to change direction multiple times to avoid hollows prowling about ( Read more... )

Spark held his breath as he crouched down by the access panel to one of the seemingly abandoned warehouses in the dirtier, presumably even rainier part of town. Of course it was raining. It always seemed to be these days, and that suited Spark just fine. After all, if people weren't inclined to be out in this weather in a neighbourhood like this ( Read more... )

Just because the weather was cooling down was no reason to stay indoors. At least as far as Ringo was concerned. That was doubly true since she'd spent a good chunk of the weekend working on her drone. The past three or four months of watching drone repair videos and occasionally learning some tricks from Jalian meant that Ringo had finally ( Read more... )

Ringo had handwavily spent the weekend back home. And riding with her sisters, seeing how the AT scene was developing, just cutting loose and having fun had firmly convinced her of something that she would never have noticed on her own ( Read more... )

Ringo showed up at the designated meeting place a bit early. She was wearing ATs, of course, but not her usual pair. Today it looked like she was trying to make a fashion statement of some sort, as the ATs went all the way up her calves and looked more like high fashion footwear than something you wore to run around town for fun ( Read more... )

Ringo had been intending to do this, well, forever ago. But she'd basically spent weeks getting distracted. This morning, though, she'd woken up, remembered she had no classes today, and decided that today was the day.

She'd taken her drone for a couple of test flights after she'd finished repairing it, and it seemed to be working just fine now ( Read more... )

The warehouse Ringo had picked out really was the best one of the lot: everything was intact and reasonably clean, just empty. The ground floor had a huge empty area that Dante had immediately claimed as the site of their party. Between him (and okay fine, his StuCo experience) and Ringo, they'd gotten a sound system set up and repurposed a ( Read more... )