Chapter 24 - Lets get out of town! (1/2)

Not many teams were playing Team Capture the Flag as it started to take longer and longer to find a match each time for Gray and the rest. After 4 hours they only had played 5 matches. They won 3 and lost 2 so at least they had a winning record at this point.

"Gray, don't forget that each of us was assigned a trainer AI to help us get better, while it isn't a replacement for actual experience, it does help you by storing your matches and other combat encounters and give you pointers based upon professional soldiers advice." said Caleb.

The rest of the team looked at Gray not surprised at all that he forgot to use something, but he got a little agitated and said "Oh come on, I'm pretty sure Caleb is the only one that has used it so far out of us!"

The rest of the team feigned innocence but Gray had a feeling that even Caleb just remembered it.

Gray started to focus his mind trying to summon his AI trainer, but sadly nothing was happening.

"Hey Geoff, how do you turn on the AI trainer?" asked Gray.

"T-That is easy, but it's hard to explain... uhhh... Yurika, can you explain it?" said Geoff nervously.

"I could, but uhmm, mine is special, can you explain it Stacia?" stammered Yurika.

"Yes, you open up Training in your HUD then turn on AI assistant, after that it works just like a regular personal assistant AI and you can get it's attention by calling its name." said Stacia calmly.

Gray smiled at Geoff and Yurika as something as simple as that wasn't hard to explain and suddenly said "Oh, well, if that is difficult to explain for you Geoff and Yurika, I'll make sure to explain future orders in very very basic terms to you guys so you can understand with your limited minds."

Geoff and Yurika laughed shyly as they got exposed for not having remembered the AI trainer either.

Gray turned his AI trainer on and heard a feminine voice that said "Please assign me a name player Gray Wilhelm"

Gray thought for a moment, he really wanted to name it something stupid like "Baby Punter", "Mike Hunt", or even "Lord Sputnik". Fortunately he had a little bit of self control and ended naming it "Tiara" as the AI sounded like a she and that she was also a little bit stuck up like most royalty. Granted, Gray has never met any, he's judging purely off of the stereotype like a normal person.

Tiara, Gray's new AI replied "Name set, how shall I address you?"

Once again, Gray went stupid and thought of using things like "Milord", "All Powerful One", or just "Master". These thoughts made Gray kinda zone out for a bit but everyone else staring at him as he zoned out brought him back to reality. "Just Gray is fine"

"Very well, Just Gray is fine, it is a pleasure to meet you." replied Tiara.

"No, I mean just call me Gray."

"Understood, Gray." said Tiara.

"Tiara, what can you recommend to me for training?"

"Insufficient Data for assessment, need more data from your mech. Currently I have 0 minutes and 0 seconds of piloting data stored."

"Why do you not have any? We've been through around 2 dozen matches total."

"I was just activated approximately 1 minute ago, I can extrapolate data from your combat logs, but live data is best. Please ask me again after a few more battles or training sessions." replied Tiara

Gray thought that it made sense anyways since he had just turned her on... his childish mind of course thought. "Only took me a few seconds to turn her on, that's gotta be a record"

"Well, let's take a break anyways, this game has so much potential that we're never going to discover it all if we just stick to matchmaking and the simulators." everyone nodded in agreement and split apart.

Stacia and Yurika both felt like signing off so they returned to their quarters and logged out for the day. Caleb said he wanted to try something and left without adding much else to that, but Gray and Geoff wanted to explore a little bit so they went up to a NPC attendant and wanted to ask what their was to do for fun aside from matchmaking.