07-06-2018, 12:53 AM
He hoped that he wasn't going insane. That's what he was wanting to tell himself but he wasn't sure if that was even entirely possible. He knew that it was probably a good thing that the Counselor wasn't here to constantly ask him questions about how he felt about certain things. Or him to explain a situation because the other would have just analyzed his mental health and probably would have told him exactly how horrible he was. Washington didn't have time to really worry about his sanity in a time like this when everything was basically going to hell. It was hard to keep two animals that wanted to rip each other's heads off to keep them from doing as such. Especially when he was trying to hold back someone that was a lot stronger than he actually was. Even if she didn't have any armor she was more than capable of kicking his ass. Something that she expressed the moment that she caught sight of him. Washington still wasn't sure why she had decided to attack him in the first place, although he knew she had her reasons. All of the Freelancers did. He wondered how she would react to seeing Agent Texas again. They would probably try to kill each other that was for certain.
The two didn't exactly leave off on a good note. Especially since Texas had basically been the one to have crashed the ship in the first place. She had been the one to start the downfall of the program that he had belonged to. However, when he had gotten attacked by Carolina and actually figured out it was her, he didn't bother to try and fight back against the stronger female. It wasn't uncommon for fellow teammates in the program to attack one another. Of course, threatening to break his arm had been a little drastic in his mind but it was better than her trying to actually kill when they just met each other again. They were both part of the program, and he knew that even though that they couldn't completely trust each other they didn't have a choice if they wanted to go back to being a human. Washington had even told himself almost from the very beginning that he couldn't work with another Freelancer after what Episolon had done to him. He had thought that he was going to be the only Freelancer to land in a place like this so he was prepared to go at it alone.
He asked the simulation troopers for a little help here and there, but all he had ever had them do was go out and look out for anything that should be considered to be interesting. It also kept Caboose away from him as he needed as much distance as possible from others. He had never been good at the social aspect of others, and dealing with other talking animals was hard for his mind to really comprehend. Since Carolina had decided that she was going to stay with him, well, at least in this outpost, the smilodon didn't get any sleep that night. The schedule that he had been following all the up till now was thrown completely out of the way. He didn't prepare for another Freelance to come in and flip everything upside down. If it had been York he wouldn't have had to change his schedule. York was far too laid back to give orders back and forth. Carolina, on the other hand, was more than willing to give him something do. He felt like he was back in the military, which was a nice and familiar feeling despite how it was affecting his health right now. He would rather be working his ass off than trying to figure out how to be an animal.
Which he didn't plan at being forever and planned on becoming a human again. He had been awake for twenty-four hours now, not something he hadn't done before. There had been plenty of times during missions that Washington would be a force to keep watch and wouldn't get any sleep. The same happened during his time in the UNSC. Nothing changed when it came to being military. There was a lot to get done as they needed a secure place to work. Carolina brought up the idea of creating a base. But out of what? The only thing that they could work with was trees, and the last time he checked he was just a smilodon and didn't have an ax that he could use. He doubted that he would even be able to hold it. So that meant they were going to have to brainstorm a couple different ideas if they were going to create their own sleeping quarters. Which sounded a little bit extreme to Washington, but he wasn't about to argue with Carolina had have her paw jabbed into his throat for not listening to what she was saying.
For right now though he had a little bit of time to himself. He was near the observatory during this time of day, at least he tried to be. It was during this hour of the day that he was due to clean his armor. Something that was almost therapeutic and calming to him because he could just turn off his mind and clean. He kept a cloth in his current sleeping quarters, which was completely bare as he didn't have any belongings other than the ones he wore. Agent Washington had managed to take off every piece of armor except for his helmet. The extinct animal had then placed out in obvious sections on where he was going to start with first. Not having his chest plate on made him feel weird. Open. Naked. He didn't like it so he was going to get it done as quick as possible. All the lights that had once been on, turned themselves off once they were no longer touching his body. His flank that was seen being covered his scars wasn't the only scarred portion of his body. The top half of his body was decently scarred, which said scars weren't exactly natural either. He remembered getting shot in the shoulder, and the scar left by the bullet was on his exact same shoulder. The smilodon didn't really care about all of his scars that much as Carolina probably had just as many as he did, but her fur was a little bit longer than his so they were probably hidden.
He blinked his golden eyes as he looked down at one of the arm pieces of his armor, specifically the shoulder pieces that were put together. He grabbed the left shoulder piece and began to use the cloth to clean the dirt that was in certain angles of the gear. Considering that the armor was all that he had meant he needed to take care of it. He had learned very early on his military career that he was going to need to take care of his equipment, especially when his equipment was worth more than he would ever be. He wasn't about to let his armor get damaged to the point of disrepair. That would be irresponsible. What confused Washington though was why Carolina didn't have her own set of armor like he did. They had suffered the same explosion that took them here. And the simulations had a different explosion that only allowed their helmets to be brought over toward this world. Although it wasn't a different world he was still on Earth. An Earth that he didn't even remotely recognize. Washington let a tired sigh escape his jaws and he was glad that no one could see past his visor. It meant that no one would be able to see how tired he actually was. Washington continued to sit there off to the side in the shade as he cleaned the various parts of his armor, leaving the chest plate for last. "speech"
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