Training Montage

*Music Play — Eye of the Tiger - Survival*

The scene starts with Amelia, with her Stand Locked Away and Rodeo in a testing chamber. 

"Now Amelia, your Stand is a capable fighter in close range and given her locked ability it can be very useful in strategic fights as well." Rodeo explained as he stared at her Stand Locked Away who looked at him happily. "But I have doubts whether you've been training her or not."

"I'm a scientist, Rodeo. Do you think I get enough time to do anything with my Stand?"

"Then let's fix that shall we. I trained you in firearms." He then takes an out boxer stance beside him, "So why not combat?"

Amelia sighed, "Here we go again."

Standing in front of Amelia, her Stand Locked Away took a fighting stance. 

The scene switches to Evan and Jacob, as they check out the gear, one of the researchers explains to them.

"Now this gear is state of the art tech. Holographic map projectors. Environmental scanners. Heat-"

Cutting his sentence off, Jacob spoke out in annoyance, "Yeah, yeah. We get it, mate. But it's best if you demonstrate to us rather than explain to us. I absolutely hate that type of shit, that's why I always complained to my school teachers!"

"...Ok."

Shifting to Carlos, he was being outfitted with armor platings by the tech engineers. The armor was of high tech nature and dark gray in color. One of the engineers placed armor platings on his head which had the foundation logo on it. Meanwhile, Michelle was observing all of this from the sidelines. 

"That is so awesome! Carlos has high tech armor now."

Spotting one of the researchers approached her with a helmet of dark gray color and surprisingly, the helmet was shaped perfectly similar to her own head."

"Put this on." The researcher said, raising the helmet at her.

Putting the helmet on, the helmet's two LED eye visors glowed green and were blinking. While she was wearing the helmet she could see the high tech helmet giving her information through small screens and giving her a camera feed of another helmet and giving her stats on her own health conditions as well.

"When wearing the helmet you are given different camera feeds from the other helmets, showing enemies as red dots on a small screen being projected inside the helmet and showing stats of your own health as well and much more." The researcher explained to her.

"It's like a science fiction video game and movie armor and gear." Michelle said excitedly as she looked around with her helmet active.

"You can see it that way."

Shifting to Green with his Stand Cerberus beside him, he was looking at multiple bullseyes while Evan was observing him. His Stand, Cerberus created six flame spears and threw them at the bullseye, managed to hit them perfectly. Snapping his fingers,  the spears exploded, destroying the bullseye targets completely. 

"😉👌 Nice-o. Nice-o. Very nice-o, Green." Evan said.

"Thanks."

Shifting back to Locked Away, she does a forward punch but when Rodeo blocks it with his arms, Locked Away immediately goes for an uppercut but he backflips and dodges it. 

"There's some speed in your Stand's attacks but they need more precision to them. Again."

Sighing once more, Amelia nodded, "Alright."

Rushing towards Amelia, Rodeo went for a superman punch but Locked Away manifests in front of her and blocks the punch with her right elbow. Locked Away placed a lock on his knees, preventing him from moving his legs. 

Getting this opportunity, Locked Away does a fast jab but Rodeo quickly moves his head to the right and in a blur, he does a left hook right away but immediately stops. Feeling the wind went past her, Locked Away saw Rodeo's fist was inches away from her face. 

"Damn it."

"No, this is good. Amelia, your Stand being of a close range type is more fast and powerful when fighting in close range and if your Stand moves far from you, the Stand loses more power, speed and precision." He stated.

"I'll keep that in mind. Now let's continue."

Shifting to Miguel, he is holding two shadow katanas on each of his hands with dozens of crash test dummies surrounding him in a testing chamber.

"Let's go."

Once he says that, Miguel instantly slashes on one of the dummies with his katana cutting it in half, he does a crossed slash with both his katanas on the second dummy which got cut into four separate pieces. 

Jumping into a shadow of one of the dummies, he emerges from the shadow of another dummy in the next instant and quickly swings his katanas horizontally and cuts the heads of three dummies at once. 

With a loud whoosh, Miguel shrew five shadow shurikens towards the heads of five dummies and with full force and strength, he swung his katana which sends out a slash made out darkness towards ten dummies in the distance, cutting them in half, even cleaving the wall behind them, leaving a slash mark on it in the process. 

Feeling a massive strain on his right arm, Miguel felt the pain as well. 

"Creo que me excedí un poco." He mumbled.

Shifting back to Jacob and Evan, both time manipulation Stands were currently in a battle of speed that had started between them. The time stopping Stand and time erasing Stand unleashed numerous attacks in seconds, clashing against each other repeatedly.

As he dodged and parried Jacob's attacks, Evan was having a harder time getting a hit on Jacob due to his Epitaph supporting him on predicting his movement. 

As they continued, the two finally unleashed their power.

"ZA WARUDO!"

"KING CRIMSON!"

The battle between two time manipulating Stands then used their powers, the power to stop time and the power to erase time, who will win...

At the next instant, the winner has already been decided.

And surprisingly, in the end, the time stop gets skipped to ten seconds and Jacob was right behind Evan. 

"Oye mate."

"Nani?!"

"So, I guess the King Crimson fans were righ-"

Jacob couldn't finish his sentence when Evan elbows him in the gut, taking a few steps, Evan immediately throws hundreds of knives at him but Jacob erases time, causing a lag with the knives hitting the wall instead. 

"Damn it!"

"To your right."

Looking to his right, Evan saw a fist heading towards his face but he quickly ducks from the attack and goes for an uppercut but Jacob side steps to the right due to him predicting the attack with Epitaph and spin kick on Evan's face, knocking him down on the floor. 

Giving him a helping hand up, Evan accepts and takes it which Jacob pulls him back on his feet. 

"If I had a requiem then I would have beaten you by now." Evan said to him.

"Yeah..." Jacob rolled his eyes, "But still, you can use stop time on me but given my ability to predict, I can strategize ahead."

"I know. Let's continue then."

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In the deserts of Nevada, Finn was testing out his soap bubbles. He sends the bubbles towards the cactus and once the bubbles pop, they make multiple punctures on it and drain the water off the cactus as a result.

"Yep. Getting the hang of it."

Meanwhile, Robert and Nikolai were doing push ups while McQueen in his bipedal form was using his arms and legs to do well in combat, something which Finn strictly instructed him to do. 

Using his right arm mandible, he stabs a cactus, rips off the ground and throws it in the air, before it could hit the ground he spinned kicks it and sends it flying towards Finn. 

"Heads up!"

Spotting the cactus heading for him at neckbreaking speeds, before it could hit him, he unleashed a barrage of punches on it.

"ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA! ORA!"

After sending hundreds of attacks in seconds, the cactus breaks into countless pieces. 

"Well that was nostalgic to yell out. Anyways keep training lads, then we move out for Vegas again to get a damn Wi-Fi connection."

"Got it."

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Shifting back to Site-17 where the team were checking out some firearms and testing them on the shooting range. 

[So you always use revolvers only?] Kreig asked Spy as the two only video game characters converse with each other about Spy's primary weapon.

"More simple to use, carry, handle and perfect for a stealthy gentleman like me."

"Good point."

"Spy, heads up!"

Called out by someone, Spy turns to see Michelle throw a weapon towards him which he swiftly grabs, and surprisingly it was his revolver, the Ambassador. 

"Hello there." 

As Spy said to his weapon in an elegant tone, he coldly fires a shot at one of the bullseye targets and the shot hits perfectly. 

"Thank you, Michelle." Spy said to Michelle by his side.

"Don't thank me. Thank the O5 that they are allowing you to use your gear again, so long as we keep an eye on you." Michelle replied coldly, still mad about what he did.

"Why am I not surprised?" 

Meanwhile in another area, Rodeo takes an assault rifle, but once he holds it for a second, his hand starts shaking until it stops in the next instant. 

Letting out a sigh, Rodeo starts firing at his targets, but then in the corner of his eyes, he notices Jeff standing next to him. The two looked at each other until they looked away in an instant and continued their firearm training without uttering a word to each other. 

"How long are those two going to keep doing this?" Carson asked near the entrance of the room, doing his usual guard duties.

Simmons beside him only shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know. Maybe months? Years? Centuries? Eons?"

"I see. Um what are you doing, Dr. Buck?" Carson asked once he noticed Amelia holding an assault rifle.

"Just testing."

"Do you even know how to-"

Aiming down the rifle's sight, Amelia suddenly shot the targets almost precisely. 

"-to use... it? How?" He asked, a bit surprised and shocked by the fact that a researcher learned how to shoot perfectly faster than him when he was in bootcamp back in his days.

"I had a good teacher." She said, looking at Rodeo in the distance.

Rubbing the back of his head, Rodeo continues firing at the targets. Carson noticed this and mumbled. 

"Well now."

Shifting back to Carlos in armor, he stomps the floor with his right foot talon and multiple large ice spikes emerge from the floor and impale one of the dummies. 

Heading to Miguel & Green, they were in a room with multiple high platforms and high grounds. Perfect for those individuals who have acrobatic and parkour skills. But Miguel and Green were swinging from one platform to another using a shadow and fiery chains.

"Try to catch up!" Miguel called him out.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Green shouted as he and Miguel kept on swinging till they let go of their chains and landed on top of a platform catching their breath. 

"Good. Now we have mastered the way of using chain weaponry in swinging." Miguel said.

"Yeah."

But then, not far from the platform, Green noticed Amelia was observing Jeff who was wearing high tech armor and testing out it's features. She turns around and noticed his gaze, letting out a small smile, she waves at him and he waves at back at her with a smile.

Chuckling lightly, Amelia continued her observation. This didn't go unnoticed by Miguel as he spotted their little interaction. 

"I see a good future for you two." Miguel commented.

"Depends if this world doesn't blow up on our faces anytime soon."

Patting his back, Miguel says, "Let's hope it doesn't come to that, amigo. Even in a world filled with monsters and anomalies, there is still beauty in it."

Green chuckles "Your right, Miguel."

"....Do you think her father might see her as a monster due to her having Stand?"

"I don't know, Miguel. But as long as he doesn't show up on this site and we keep our mouth shut about knowing his connection to O5-1, we'll be fine. Does the rest?" 

"No." Miguel shook his head, "Only you, me and Rodeo."

"I see."

"...I will say one thing though. One way or another you have to face your past monsters rather than staying away from them."

"....I know."

Shifting back to Spy and Krieg, the two characters from two different games were dueling with each other using their primary weapons. Krieg was using his buzzsaw axe while Spy was using his rapier sword. 

"THE DEPTHS SHALL SWALLOW THE METAL!" Kreig's psycho side shouted crazily.

Rolling his eyes, Spy, at extremely fast speed tries to slash down at Kreig who in response swung his axe upwards, causing both of their weapons clashed with each other, creating sparks.

"Your, good mon ami. Seems like your world has taught you well."

[On Pandora, you have to learn yourself, because believe me it's absolute hell, but it's home nonetheless.]

Both of them backed away from each other and in the next second, both charged towards each other once nore.

Shifting to Rodeo, he was wearing his dark gray armor around his body, checking its features while the engineers were making some adjustments to the armor. 

[IMAGES]

Clicking a few buttons on his armor gloves and by doing so, a small holographic screen appears showing a map and layout of Site-17 in a tridimensional view.

"Depending on which location you are, the map and layout of the structure will change. But you can manually set it as well if you want to."

"Noted." Rodeo nodded in response, then he asked, "Also, do we need to regularly wear it or only in certain missions?"

"In special type missions only which require this type of gear. Why do you ask?"

"Well I was thinking whether or not you can add more heavier armor plates on my arms or legs and for some of my team members as well. To increase physical strength."

"Interesting idea. We'll see what we can do." 

"Thanks."

The scene finally shifts to Rodeo facing Amelia's Stand Locked Away but he didn't have his MTF armor on for now. 

Staying close to Locked Away in order to guide her Stand a bit better. Locked Away tries to put a lock on Rodeo's chest but he grabs her arm and judo slams her to the floor, Amelia could feeel the damage her Stand received. 

As Locked Away stood back up, she suddenly saw Rodeo ready to punch her, but she quickly rolls out and he hits the floor instead, digging deep into the ground. With this, Locked Away found an opportunity and so she quickly did three fast jabs to Rodeo's face, stunning him for a couple of seconds. 

When Locked Away tries to give him a right hook, Rodeo suddenly blocks it, but Locked Away tries to do an uppercut but Rodeo side stepped to the right but seeing an opening, Locked Away quickly swept his legs making Rodeo fall on the ground on his back. 

Immediately, Locked Away placed multiple keyholes on his body, immobilizing Rodeo from his movement and locking his body in place. 

"How did I do?"

"You did great. You saw an opening, which you took advantage of it and caught me off guard. But I was holding back a little because you're still new to the whole hand to hand combat thing, still you did great."

"Thanks."

Removing the locks from his body, Locked Away helps him get back on his feet. 

"Thanks." Rodeo thanked her.

"Knock." Locked Away responded with a sweetful smile.

(Training Montage & Music Ends)