Shit, sorry Jon. Even Trevor winces when the books come crashing down around them.
He darts back opposite Zack, exhaling, and waiting for the next attack. He makes to dodge, butis knocked down when the feint catches him off guard.
And inexplicably he's delighted to find this out. Zack is a smart fighter.
He takes the fall like a champion and rolls with it, using his environment to his full advantage. Books are winged at Zack's head, one after the other as Trevor scrambles to his feet. He spies the bookcase leaning partially against its brother and runs up it to the next. Time to lead a merry little chase.
Zack dodges them all, a brief flicker of annoyance on his face. If this keeps up, the entire library is going to be trashed. Jon doesn’t need that kind of headache so when Trevor runs up onto a bookshelf, Zack refuses to follow him.
Trevor also feels a bit bad, but if it's between wrecking a few books and staying away from Zack's hits, he knows his choice.
He ends up standing on a bookcase, before realizing he doesn't hear footsteps behind him. Trevor turns back around - can Zack teleport? - only to find that he's still on the ground and staring at him.
He stares back, and after an awkward beat, calls down:
"This is usually the part where you would come up after me. But if you're scared of heights, I understand if you want to call this a draw."
“What and encourage more destruction of the library?”
Jon has enough bullshit on his plate. He doesn’t need this.
“I’ll make you a deal. We stop fighting now and walk to the Enclosure. No funny business or fighting on the way. After we get there and program the settings, we settle this. Sound fair?”
He considers this, surprised. Trevor doesn't want to cause more trouble to Jon either. It doesn't take him long to decide.
"Fine." He says, short and sweet. "I'm coming down. Don't punch me when my back's turned."
Trevor makes it down to the ground and before he starts walking out of the library, holds up his hands to Zack.
"Hang on. Can we..."
He gestures to the bookcase he knocked over. They might not have time to right the books but the case is heavy; the two of them can push it back in place before they go.
“I said no fighting until we get to the Enclosure, didn’t I?”
He’s a man of his word. Even if he would like to strangle Trevor right now.
As for the matter of the bookcase, Zack sighs.
“Yeah, sure.”
It’s the least they can do, really. Zack gets on the opposite end of the bookshelf to help lift it back up. With both of them, it’s not too hard to get the thing back the way it should be.
Once it’s fixed and upright, Zack gestures at the door.
"Yeah, no fighting. Not 'I won't suckerpunch you.'" Trevor can't really bring himself to trust anyone at first glance.
"Especially when you're saying you're taking me to a cell." He says, after shoving the bookcase back in place. Trevor's using his shoulder instead of his hands, careful not to injure the healing bone. "Makes me not want to trust what you say."
He snorts. So serious.
"Hang on."
He seizes an index card from a free pile and a little pencil, scribbling a note for Jon;
Oh gods. It's another Adrian. Good to know he can fight dirty and really upset Zack later.
"Oh, am I keeping you from the absolutely fucking nothing on this ship?" Asks Trevor, who follows after. "My deepest apologies, didn't realize I was in the company of the admiral himself."
"That would be nice. If Death were permanent, which it's not" He says, rocking a little on his heels as he goes. Trevor illustrates with his hands, thinking aloud to annoy Zack;
"So not just one person then. What's the minimum number of attacks before one is locked in a cell on a prison ship? Just so we're clear."
“All you need to know is you’re already well over it.”
At least as far as he’s concerned.
They get up on the right level, finally, and Zack enters the settings he wants.
He gestures at the door. “After you.”
If Trevor goes in, he’ll see a large, sprawling city, unlike anything he’d have seen in his own time period. It’s Midgar, of course — what it looked like before Meteor fell.
He gives a bark of laughter. “You don’t actually know, do you? All right.”
Trevor enters, looking around with some curiosity. He hates the Enclosure on principle but at least he’ll get something of a fair fight out of this. Probably.
He turns on his heel, unfurling his whip and holding one of his daggers in the opposite hand.
“So I hear Zero isn’t really a “cell” in the sense that I know it.” He says, rolling his shoulder to get it back into condition. “If you’re going to threaten it, it should come with some bite.”
Everything on the Barge goes on a case by case basis. John, for example, was someone Zack just sat on for a few weeks until their pairing was up. And that was good enough to keep him from trying to attack anyone else.
Trevor, though? Even though Zero is just a time out feature, really, it’ll be good enough to buy some time to actually get plans in place. Because clearly, he needs quite a lot of supervision.
In the meantime, Zack pulls on his gloves and armbands — for protection, partially, but there’s a faint glow coming from a few slots in one of them as well.
He looks at Trevor and his whip but doesn’t seem fussed that he personally doesn’t have a weapon. This fight isn’t worth putting any wear, tear, or rust on the Buster.
“Guess you’re just going to have to find out when you get there, aren’t you?”
He assumes a ready stance this time. Liberated from the confines of the library, he doesn’t have to restrain himself.
Trevor adjusts his own armbands, noting the glow in his opponent’s - probably magical, a shield of protection or something.
“Unless you concede.” He calls back, and starts to flail the whip. It isn’t anywhere near Zack but it’s building up stronger hits as he goes, using his body to strike the air between them.
Trevor strikes suddenly. Zack has superhuman speed so he watches to see where he’ll move: the nice thing about the whip over the knives is that he can adjust where the strike will land after he’s already attacked.
“Is this your home?” He calls even as he’s aiming to strike Zack in the chest
He's moving the moment Trevor strikes, dodging neatly when the whip comes hurtling towards him. He runs towards the nearest vehicle, and though he gets clipped briefly in the side, it's just a scrape.
"Nope!" he calls out cheerfully from behind the car. "Worked here a while, though!"
It's only a split second after he says that, that he knocks over the car and starts shoving it across the pavement. Metal shrieks and sparks, and Zack just comes plowing towards his opponent.
Trevor's never seen anything like a car, or indeed anything at all like the place he finds himself in now. But he's a simple man, built for fighting - he knows it's all really just new glamours placed on age-old things. And now he gets to play around in a huge environment full of things to be picked up, thrown, or leaped on. He doesn't let homefield advantage or his inexperience here get him down; he looks instead for things to be thrown, used, or pried up as weapons.
He barks a laugh when Zack starts to move the iron monstrosity. Superhuman strength too. Going to be a fun fight.
He spies a lamppost and uses his whip to get him clear of the path of destruction, swinging his body around to get another shot at Zack from behind.
"It smells awful." He calls back, clearly enjoying this. The smell he's referring to is the sewer grate but he has no context for an industrial city.
Trevor isn’t wrong about that, really. Midgar, for all its bells and whistles before meteor fell, isn’t nearly as glamorous as it seems on the surface. There’s a lot of ugliness lurking under the surface, but he chose to come here because it’s a place he knows that he can get creative with. He also doesn’t feel bad about trashing the place, especially with no one here.
Zack ducks when the whip comes snapping towards him, but instead of letting it get away, he launches himself after it and fastens both hands to the end it. He can’t quite help the grin on his face, either. For all that he is here on serious business, he’s a fighter by trade, and it’s been a long time since anyone has tried to give him a run for his money.
“You get used to it.”
At that, he gives the whip an experimental yank - not hard enough to really pull Trevor over, but testing the waters to see how determined he is to hang onto it.
"Guess you'd have to." Trevor likes having weapons but he's not stupid enough to hold onto the other end of one, with a superstrength opponent on the opposite end. Feeling very much like his first fight with Alucard, he runs closer to Zack and lets go of the whip as he's pulled, using its momentum to gain some speed to that run.
He's taking out one of his throwing knives as he gets closer: throwing them won't do much good except as a distraction with Zack's speed, so he's going in for close range fighting for the moment.
Snapping the whip towards him so Trevor can’t get his hands on it again, Zack sidesteps the knife neatly and aims to kick the other man hard in the gut.
He’ll follow up that attack quickly, too, a sharp glow at his armband precipitating a burst of flame directed at Trevor.
He backs off to avoid the hit and gets clipped by the boot, coughing. Trevor swipes back at the boot but he’s caught off guard by the flames.
Instantly he brings his arm up to shield his eyes, letting the brunt of the flames hit his arm guard. Some of his face might be tender but his arm gets the worst of it.
He grins and makes a few daring stabs at Zack, slimming his body to the side to avoid a bigger target as he moves, ducks, and strikes like a viper.
Zack has to give Trevor credit; he's a hell of a lot better at fighting than Shinra grunts ever were. Which he expected just from what he gleaned about the man from Dracula's file, but words on a page can only tell you so much.
Blocking those thrusts with the handle of the whip he confiscated, Zack continues the back and forth for a bit. That he's starting to have fun may not be the best sign, but fighting is in his blood.
Dropping down to avoid broader swipe with the knife, Zack abruptly snaps back up in an attempt to headbutt Trevor. Hard.
If this were his actual family whip, Trevor might be pissed it were being used against him. But right now he’s having too much enjoyment trying by to find an opening Zack might leave him. He senses Zack is having just as much fun as he is and lets it show on his face, sweating but happy.
His teeth clench loudly as Zack’s headbutt crashes into his chin: that caught him in the tongue which is going to swell. His fist comes up to take the opportunity to get his opponent in the side of his ear.
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He darts back opposite Zack, exhaling, and waiting for the next attack. He makes to dodge, butis knocked down when the feint catches him off guard.
And inexplicably he's delighted to find this out. Zack is a smart fighter.
He takes the fall like a champion and rolls with it, using his environment to his full advantage. Books are winged at Zack's head, one after the other as Trevor scrambles to his feet. He spies the bookcase leaning partially against its brother and runs up it to the next. Time to lead a merry little chase.
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Zack dodges them all, a brief flicker of annoyance on his face. If this keeps up, the entire library is going to be trashed. Jon doesn’t need that kind of headache so when Trevor runs up onto a bookshelf, Zack refuses to follow him.
He’s not going to play this game.
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He ends up standing on a bookcase, before realizing he doesn't hear footsteps behind him. Trevor turns back around - can Zack teleport? - only to find that he's still on the ground and staring at him.
He stares back, and after an awkward beat, calls down:
"This is usually the part where you would come up after me. But if you're scared of heights, I understand if you want to call this a draw."
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“What and encourage more destruction of the library?”
Jon has enough bullshit on his plate. He doesn’t need this.
“I’ll make you a deal. We stop fighting now and walk to the Enclosure. No funny business or fighting on the way. After we get there and program the settings, we settle this. Sound fair?”
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"Fine." He says, short and sweet. "I'm coming down. Don't punch me when my back's turned."
Trevor makes it down to the ground and before he starts walking out of the library, holds up his hands to Zack.
"Hang on. Can we..."
He gestures to the bookcase he knocked over. They might not have time to right the books but the case is heavy; the two of them can push it back in place before they go.
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“I said no fighting until we get to the Enclosure, didn’t I?”
He’s a man of his word. Even if he would like to strangle Trevor right now.
As for the matter of the bookcase, Zack sighs.
“Yeah, sure.”
It’s the least they can do, really. Zack gets on the opposite end of the bookshelf to help lift it back up. With both of them, it’s not too hard to get the thing back the way it should be.
Once it’s fixed and upright, Zack gestures at the door.
“Let’s go.”
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"Especially when you're saying you're taking me to a cell." He says, after shoving the bookcase back in place. Trevor's using his shoulder instead of his hands, careful not to injure the healing bone. "Makes me not want to trust what you say."
He snorts. So serious.
"Hang on."
He seizes an index card from a free pile and a little pencil, scribbling a note for Jon;
Broke this. Sorry. Be back later to fix.
-Trevor Belmont
"You wanna sign this?"
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“First- trying to sucker punch you counts as fighting. Second- I was taught better than that.”
Dreams, honor, etc.
He looks at Trevor’s note, takes the pencil, and adds, Yeah, HE broke it. Gone to Enclosure, then Zero. - Zack
With that, he starts walking towards the door.
“Come on now. I don’t have all day.”
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"Oh, am I keeping you from the absolutely fucking nothing on this ship?" Asks Trevor, who follows after. "My deepest apologies, didn't realize I was in the company of the admiral himself."
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“Just because you can’t find anything better to do besides start fights with people, wreck things, and nap doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t.”
The Enclosure is only a few flights up, but damn, this is gonna be a long walk.
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“Oh yeah, I’ll just let you go free with all those weapons so you can kill somebody next time. Sorry but no.”
Just dripping with sarcasm.
“If he was the only one you’d attacked, locking you up wouldn’t even have crossed my mind.”
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"So not just one person then. What's the minimum number of attacks before one is locked in a cell on a prison ship? Just so we're clear."
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At least as far as he’s concerned.
They get up on the right level, finally, and Zack enters the settings he wants.
He gestures at the door. “After you.”
If Trevor goes in, he’ll see a large, sprawling city, unlike anything he’d have seen in his own time period. It’s Midgar, of course — what it looked like before Meteor fell.
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Trevor enters, looking around with some curiosity. He hates the Enclosure on principle but at least he’ll get something of a fair fight out of this. Probably.
He turns on his heel, unfurling his whip and holding one of his daggers in the opposite hand.
“So I hear Zero isn’t really a “cell” in the sense that I know it.” He says, rolling his shoulder to get it back into condition. “If you’re going to threaten it, it should come with some bite.”
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Trevor, though? Even though Zero is just a time out feature, really, it’ll be good enough to buy some time to actually get plans in place. Because clearly, he needs quite a lot of supervision.
In the meantime, Zack pulls on his gloves and armbands — for protection, partially, but there’s a faint glow coming from a few slots in one of them as well.
He looks at Trevor and his whip but doesn’t seem fussed that he personally doesn’t have a weapon. This fight isn’t worth putting any wear, tear, or rust on the Buster.
“Guess you’re just going to have to find out when you get there, aren’t you?”
He assumes a ready stance this time. Liberated from the confines of the library, he doesn’t have to restrain himself.
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“Unless you concede.” He calls back, and starts to flail the whip. It isn’t anywhere near Zack but it’s building up stronger hits as he goes, using his body to strike the air between them.
Trevor strikes suddenly. Zack has superhuman speed so he watches to see where he’ll move: the nice thing about the whip over the knives is that he can adjust where the strike will land after he’s already attacked.
“Is this your home?” He calls even as he’s aiming to strike Zack in the chest
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He's moving the moment Trevor strikes, dodging neatly when the whip comes hurtling towards him. He runs towards the nearest vehicle, and though he gets clipped briefly in the side, it's just a scrape.
"Nope!" he calls out cheerfully from behind the car. "Worked here a while, though!"
It's only a split second after he says that, that he knocks over the car and starts shoving it across the pavement. Metal shrieks and sparks, and Zack just comes plowing towards his opponent.
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He barks a laugh when Zack starts to move the iron monstrosity. Superhuman strength too. Going to be a fun fight.
He spies a lamppost and uses his whip to get him clear of the path of destruction, swinging his body around to get another shot at Zack from behind.
"It smells awful." He calls back, clearly enjoying this. The smell he's referring to is the sewer grate but he has no context for an industrial city.
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Zack ducks when the whip comes snapping towards him, but instead of letting it get away, he launches himself after it and fastens both hands to the end it. He can’t quite help the grin on his face, either. For all that he is here on serious business, he’s a fighter by trade, and it’s been a long time since anyone has tried to give him a run for his money.
“You get used to it.”
At that, he gives the whip an experimental yank - not hard enough to really pull Trevor over, but testing the waters to see how determined he is to hang onto it.
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He's taking out one of his throwing knives as he gets closer: throwing them won't do much good except as a distraction with Zack's speed, so he's going in for close range fighting for the moment.
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Snapping the whip towards him so Trevor can’t get his hands on it again, Zack sidesteps the knife neatly and aims to kick the other man hard in the gut.
He’ll follow up that attack quickly, too, a sharp glow at his armband precipitating a burst of flame directed at Trevor.
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Instantly he brings his arm up to shield his eyes, letting the brunt of the flames hit his arm guard. Some of his face might be tender but his arm gets the worst of it.
He grins and makes a few daring stabs at Zack, slimming his body to the side to avoid a bigger target as he moves, ducks, and strikes like a viper.
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Blocking those thrusts with the handle of the whip he confiscated, Zack continues the back and forth for a bit. That he's starting to have fun may not be the best sign, but fighting is in his blood.
Dropping down to avoid broader swipe with the knife, Zack abruptly snaps back up in an attempt to headbutt Trevor. Hard.
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His teeth clench loudly as Zack’s headbutt crashes into his chin: that caught him in the tongue which is going to swell. His fist comes up to take the opportunity to get his opponent in the side of his ear.
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