Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20190918134951/@comment-24736819-20190920053921

"Oh, she's gonna do it...", Flery let out, excitedly, "She's gonna do it!"

The group watched the small screen with unwavering attention, cheering every turn, twist and loop the ship performed in the simulation.

"No way, man. Look at the timer, it's not possible!", the elven rookie crossed his arms, dismissively... although his eyes remained glued to the screen.

On the small display, one rather large asteroid accelerated towards the ship, which meant that Kahyla had reached the point where the belt begun. Most pilots crashed a couple of dodges after that first big one, but not her.

The first time the Academy's fleet supervisors made the koth girl go through the sim she managed to beat the record by a few thousand miles and ever since then Kahyla set up a new record every week, which forced the computer technicians behind the simulation to add new layers and challenges to test her skills and of those which the pilot passed her knowledge on. The asteroid belt had been their latest addition and even Kahyla was having a bit of difficult to finish it.

The Kothringi girl smirked, "Ok, here we go."

The first asteroid, despite its huge size, was rather slow and easily dodgeable so Kahyla spun the vessel out of its way quick and masterfully, however as the second one came upon the visor with an unsteady course and accelerating speed near simultaneously with the third asteroid in different trajectories her piloting skills would be truly tested. Kahyla slowed the ship down to a near stop and waited for a couple of seconds before punching through the small gap between the asteroids that opened once both of them were within only a few miles of the vessel.

"Did you see that?! Did you see that?! Did you see that?!", Flery chanted in awe, "How does she do that?!"

"Ugh, could you be less of a suck up? She had already passed that part several times before...", Astreux, the breton newcomer, attempted to shut his friend up so all of his attention could be focused on the screen.

"Well, have you?", the young pilot's smug remark was enough to get an eye roll and utter silence from his fellow man, "Thought so."

"Shut up, you two s'wits! She's getting to the cluster!", Raza snapped.

And indeed she was. After a few easy dodges and predictable turns, Kahyla's ship faced the incoming cluster of asteroids, a rare occurence even inside asteroid belts and no doubt a small tweek in the program done by the technicians with screwing her run in mind. Confidently, she accelerated her ship and jumped into the trial of the cluster, with barely any time to think about her moves Kahyla simply allowed her instincts to take over.

The ship was tilted sideways, dodging the first wave of space debris, then tilted back so she could avoid a larger chunk of rock flying towards it. Kahyla was forced into spinning her vessel +-30 degrees continuously as she advanced through the cluster to prevent the larger rocks from hitting the ship while allowing the small, less damaging ones to scrape the hull of the vessel. The koth girl felt like she had been there, dancing amongst the asteroids, for hours before the ending of the cluster finally appeared on her visor giving her a jolt of energy to finish it.

"Oh my Gods! Oh my Gods!", Flery's words now truly echoed the feeling of all the pilots watching the simulation, albeit he was the only one annoyingly vocal about it.

Suddenly, as Kahyla brought the ship to the edge of the cluster, the little screen turned black as if the whole system had turned off.

"What?!", it took them a couple of seconds before they all realized what happened and the image of a smug and cheerful Kahyla opening the door of simulation machine came upon their view.

"...and that is how it's done!", the kothringi girl opened her arms and jumped down from the machine to be welcomed by her friends' praise and cheers as she had once again beaten the simulation entirely, giving the tech guys a headache for the next weeks.