Description: Their first meeting didn't go so well, but now they've been ordered to work together. How long will such a fragile alliance last? Alongside the Muay Thai Tiger and Jaguar ... probability approaches zero very swiftly. One of the few times that things involving Juri don't directly end in bloodshed.
Life has not been kind to Juri.
A meeting with Vega went rather poorly for her. Of course it was no surprise for ANYONE. Juri's irreverent manner and Vega's lack of patience with insubordination tends to cause friction. Fiction that creates a spark right next to a stack of TNT barrels soaked in oil. Still she received her orders, and she received a warning. That warning is still present in the form of her right wrist: Splinted and covered in a cast. So has it been for a while now. Such sensitive bone structures take a while to heal, especially since in this case they weren't simply broken ... but mangled. A Shadaloo doctor idly wondered if Juri had somehow fed her hand to a turbine.
That isn't the only apparent injury Juri has. She is currently wearing an eyepatch over her left eye, though in this case the injury is a decade old. The Feng Shui Engine has been left in the care of Seth15 and he is busy running calibration tests on it. Which is fine by Juri. She needs a bit of downtime anyway. Still annoying as Hell that she has to walk around with only half of her field of vision again. Oh well.
And so we arrive at Juri's current location: The Doll Chambers. She is wearing her usual outfit, and has her arms crossed over her chest while leaned up against the wall. Her eyes are closed and for the moment Juri is motionless: Totally quiescent. It'd be very easy to sneak past her, or sneak up on her. Or at least ... so it seems.
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Cammy has been out and about, beating up Angel, dealing with Russian mafiosi, reconning shacks in the middle of nowhere, making friends... well, maybe the last bit isn't on her list of tasks as provided but it's been keeping her busy if nothing else.
She's not actually been around the base much, anyway. Until now. She walks back into the Doll Chambers, which is, after all, her home ultimately, with a red cloak bundled over one shoulder and a small bag clutched in her right hand. She pauses, eying Juri momentarily, a little surprised to see her here and noting all the wounds, but after that moments pause she merely walks past, to settle down on the sofa which is her usual spot when lounging, expressionless throughout.
Reaching into the bag, she digs out a stack of paper plates, which she puts to one side, and then throws the rest of the bag in the bin, before closing her eyes.
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As Cammy does ... whatever it is she's doing with the paper plates, Juri stands quiet for a few moments. But moments are moments: Fleeting things that don't last long. So soon Juri's right eye slides open and stares directly at Cammy. Her arms drop down to her sides, careful not to bang the cast up against the wall behind her, and she stands up fully from the wall. A sarcastic smirk decorates her face, "Well hello there, kitten, busy day?"
The Spider of S.I.N. makes her way over to the couch and the table sitting in front of it. Her approach is casual: Not at all rushed, and it's fairly apparent she's not charging her aura in preparation for combat. Instead she comes to a stop a couple of meters away, rests her left hand upon her hip and tilts her head to the side.
A curious glance is given to the paper plate. Her eye then returns to Cammy, "Dinner? I understand you girls have to watch what you eat to wear those leotards of yours, but surely you can afford something a bit more fattening than air and a paper plate." A snide remark, as is Juri's usual. But with a sigh, and a slight twitch of her right arm...
Juri speaks in a serious tone, "Anyway, the two of need to chat. Kitten to spider."
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Cammy glances up when Juri pads her way over towards her, and stares at her blankly unil she's done saying her piece. "No, not very busy today, I am done with outside work for now. And I am not a kitten, I am a Doll." Cammy she says flatly. Indicating the plates with a finger, she explains, "I have already used the plates. There are some left, is all - I am saving those, for next time.".
And then, Juri cuts the usual crap and moves on to business, at least if there even is any business."You want to talk." she echoes, staying put on the sofa, however, and not making any obvious moves to leave it's comfort. "Very well. We are talking." she points out with a small shrug. "You can talk, I will listen.".
Her tone is flat throughout, but even more so than normal by Cammy standards.
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The slender, muscular frame of Juri Han shakes a bit with a barely contained laugh at Cammy's words. With a shake of the head, the crazed Korean then responds coldly, "Don't get cute with me kitten. I know what you are. I probably know better than you do." Thin, pale lips then split into a cruel grin, "And always so technical, but of course you are. Such a cute little plaything."
She laughs, briefly... before stopping herself. She looks again at the plates before shrugging her shoulders, "Like I care. That's not important." Her feet make soft, brushing sounds as she begins to pace back and forth. Half of the time Cammy will be treated to the sight of Juri's eyepatch, the other half to her cast hanging loosely from her right arm. And as Juri Han paces, she speaks:
"You and I, we're not exactly ... cuddly. Which is just fine. After all, I did threaten to kill your cat right in front of you." Heh, "But that doesn't matter right now. Because your oh-so-benevolent lord and master decided that it'd be a smart idea to have us work together." She pauses in her pacing, and raises her left hand to begin counting on her fingers. "In fact... it'll be you, me, Sagat, Adon, and probably some poor saps working clean-up."
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Ahhh, the cat. The cat vanished from the base some time ago. Most of the Shadaloo troopers probably assume it got it's neck wrung by someone, certainly there were any number of people gunning for it, from Vega on down, but in actual fact Cammy returned it to its home one night, before the inevitable neck wringing could happen. The base isn't really a good place for pets, too many violent psychotics wandering around.
"I was only stating a fact." Cammy says, still toneless. Though it really isn't hard to imagine her being petulant. "And if you don't care, don't ask." she shrugs, tilting her head a little to listen as Juri actually talks about something important, finally.
She nods when Juri goes quiet again. "Master Vega wishes it.". There is a slight pause, as Cammy contemplates working with Adon and Juri, neither of whom she likes. At all. But the hesitation is over almost immediately. "Very well.". Simple enough! The Doll is not one for much analysis of orders when Lord Vega is involved.
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Juri's left eye stares, and stares hard at Cammy after her response. So simple, so direct, and altogether positive. And yet from the way Juri is grinding her teeth it's clear that she's not pleased with it. Not one bit. Finally she turns to face Cammy fully once more, her face raising to just below a yell: "Is that it?! Really? That man says jump and you just say 'how high'?!" Her left hand is balled tightly into a fist, and before long the Taekwondoka is stomping the ground with one of her feet! "It's stupid! So fucking stupid! Seriously! What the FUCK is wrong with you!"
Before long though, Juri settles down. She speaks, coldly, "You may be fine with this, but I'm not. Still. We're going to be working together whether I like it or not." A funny turn of an old phrase. "After all, that new body of his is ... amazingly strong." She states this with a distant tonal quality: It's no longer clear if her comments are directed at Cammy, to herself, or to some unseen third party.
With a shake of her cast-clad wrist, Juri just shakes her head and sighs, "Well, whatever. If you're satisfied then I guess I'm done here. Gotta go grab Sagat and Adon and have a sit down with those two sweaty musclebound dipshits as well."
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Cammy is brainwashed! She can't really do much else. In actual fact, all things considered, Cammy is actually quite rebellious, really, not that she considers herself to be even remotely rebellious. "Lord Vega is our leader. He runs Shadaloo. He made me and all the other Dolls." she explains doggedly, though knowing that with Juri it'll only fall on deaf ears. "He made us to serve him. So I serve him. What would /you/ have me do?". Not that she's planning on following Juri's advice, mind, but she is curious.
"I do not see what is so bad about working with me." Cammy goes on. "I will work with you as needed. You don't want to serve Lord Vega?" she asks, a little curious, and still wondering why Juri is even here. "I did ask the Master why you were here given all this, but it was above my station." she freely admits.
"I need to talk to Sagat as well. Maybe you could tell him, if you find him, but he is a hard man to find lately. Adon, well.". She shrugs, and her lip curls a bit. "He is probably making trouble somewhere." she says, a bit sniffily.
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Not exactly interested in listening to Cammy's spiel, knowing full and well that she's brainwashed and that she's fairly unlikely to become anything BUT in the immediate future. However she stops when Cammy mentions that she asked Vega about her. Cammy won't be able to see it, no, not with Juri's back turned but a cruel grins splits the insane woman's lips. Once again her left eye can be seen glancing over her shoulder and back toward the Zero Doll.
"Funny. For the first time, I think, I'm actually thankful to him."
The soft scrape of bare skin against the reinforced concrete floor follows Juri's quarter turn. Her left hand rests against her hip while the violet colored eye stares directly into Cammy's. "You could say I'm here because it's more fun than the alternative. There aren't exactly a whole lot of people looking for someone with my unique skillset." Though those that do pay a LOT MORE than Shadaloo does, so perhaps she's not telling the whole story?
Regardless, Juri just shrugs her shoulders and begins to walk out of the room once more. "Whatever, I'll tell them both you're looking for them. No promises on getting them to actually come to you though." Her left hand raises up to wave lazily, "Anyway, you can tell cute little Marz that I stopped by, but I'm still working on that thing we talked about. I'm sure she'll know what I mean."
"Enjoy your plates, Kitten."
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Cammy hmms quietly at that. "So I assumed. Your skillset. And presumably because Lord Vega will kill you if you try to leave. I think Adon is here for the same reasons, and he seems very angry, too.". Brainwashed, true, but she's also very curious, it seems.
"I will tell Marz, if I see her." she agrees. "Though I have not seen Marz for some time now unfortunately. The plates will keep until next time, and... I hope your hand gets better soon." she says finally, while allowing herself a thin smile.
Doll Zero bitched and moaned to Vega about Juri, Vega seemed unhappy with Juri, and now Juri shows up with a hand that looks like it's been jammed into a piece of industrial manufacturing equipment. You really don't have to be a psion to join the dots there. Such a little daddy's girl. And a grass.
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Comically, the response Cammy gets from her last words to Juri is that instead of simply waving Juri is now waving her middle finger at the Zero Doll. It doesn't take a psion indeed. She knows Cammy doesn't like her, and that there's enough of a personality to her to do independent things like keep cats.
Also, Juri is just a coldhearted bitch who doesn't need an excuse to be mean, so there's that too.
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Cammy blinks at the middle finger, the thin smile lingering until it's out of view... and then slowly turning into a brief smirk. She's sure that her own input into Lord Vega's course of action wasn't all that decisive, after all, Juri has been begging for a slapping from him for a long time now. But that doesn't make seeing the results any less sweet!
Log created on 18:38:43 11/05/2010 by Juri, and last modified on 18:58:25 11/08/2010.