Flips and Suits

the next morning early around 430am, Yonghwa felt movement in the bed and woke up sleepily seeing Jhaesun getting up he put a finger to his lips and pushed his head back down

"sleep some more ill make breakfast"

Yonghwa drifted back to sleep and Jhaesun got up and did a hearty breakfast leaving some for his snoring dad in his room he took the food and warm mugs of hot porridge up to his bedroom

he woke Yonghwa then and he washed his face and ate breakfast then Jhaesun unrolled exercise mats on the floor

"to prepare to wear the new bodysuits we must stretch," Jhaesun said

speaking in whispers with his hands he guided Yonghwa on the mats helping him stretch his limbs and massaging his body that just woke up

"Yonghwa youre really lucky in some ways," he said softly

"because your body hasn't developed yet your joints and bones are still soft and flexible youre supple you can move well, stretch well,

I think its really good for you to start training martial arts now especially if you want to learn having a small flexible supple body like yours will actually be to your advantage"

Yonghwa was presently being made to stretch while doing a split on the floor Jhaesun was helping him carefully so he wouldn't hurt himself

he brought him back up again slowly

"ohh that actually feels good" Yonghwa groaned

stretching the other way he leaned down to his other leg

with Jhaesun also seated the same way but he was better at it because of his martial arts training his splits looked like a powerful stance with his toes facing up in the air and his body making perfect T shape

as Jhaesun held his shoulders as he lowered himself on his stomach stretching his hands above his head to make the T too he could not go all the way down yet the way he could not split perfectly as Jhaesun but it was still a start he would work on it

"good Yonghwa" Jhaesun said softly "let's try a basic tumble see if you can do it here on the mat"

Jhaesun showed him how to do a rollover like a ball

Yonghwa soon did it easily with Jhaesun's help and he got it like playing it was enjoyable he next learned how to do a handstand

Jhaesun held him up he needed to see if his arms were strong enough to hold his weight his back was soft causing his legs to bend over his back to touch his head he looked like a scorpion almost

"Yonghwa are you okay does it hurt?" Jhaesun asked

"no it's comfortable I can feel better balanced like this" he waved his legs above his head giggling while Jhaesun held him up by the waist

"youre like a circus performer," Jhaesun said "there are people who have soft flexible bodies and joints are like this they are called contortionists they can bend themselves up and do all sorts of weird things I saw performances where they balance things on their bodies while doing this I really think it's suitable for you to learn martial arts"

"can I can try moving like this?" Yonghwa asked,

"ok wait let me get ready!" Jhaesun cried

Yonghwa giggled Jhaesun held him up helping him walk on his hands taking one step at a time

"My arms are tired," Yonghwa said Jhaesun let him down back to sitting position he rubbed his arms for him

"When you eat more you can work on your muscles to build your arms strength we will do it little by little by little every day okay," Jhaesun said

"yes" Yonghwa agreed "until I can do it I bet the bodysuit will help"

"most likely," Jhaesun said "the bodysuit will make it easier and I have training manuals gymnastics books and beginners tricks in tumbling hold on"

he got some books off his bookshelf and brought them to him

they looked at them showing visual pictures of how to do basic gymnastics tricks

"tumbles, cartwheels, walkover, handstands, somersaults, these are basics," Jhaesun said

"let's try a walk over first its similar to tumbles," he said "you arch you back up and then kick over"

helping Yonghwa into the position Yonghwa kicked over Jhaesun helping him his feet hitting the floor with a thump the two went quiet listening to see if the general woke up he didn't seem to so they continued

Yonghwa's flexibility allowed him to learn walkover forward and backward easily as well as basic handspring and cartwheel with Jhaesun's help also somersault off the bed with Jhaesun there to catch him

he loved that jumping off the bed grabbing his knees to make the turn in the air and have Jhaesun catch him in his arms so he wouldn't fall

Jhaesun loved playing with Yonghwa this way feeling Yonghwa's trust in him letting him teach it made every part of his heart sing

they played letting Yonghwa try these tricks until they were both warmed up and sweaty for a while and then Jhaesun said they would take quick showers to not put sweat in their bodysuits

so he went for his turn first Yonghwa while waiting he was a genius he should be able to get this skill pretty easily he thought

hmm he went to Jhaesun's training manuals again he pulled them out and looked for the one on acrobatic skills it was gymnastics training book

Yonghwa began to read the book memorizing its content front to back

he could learn walkovers cartwheels somersaults handsprings backward and forwards the basics other than this

they were several more complex variations it explained martial arts tricking that involved a combination of kicks and flips of acrobatic skills that were used in martial arts

and dancing called b-boy break dancing skills spins and jumps used in figure skating

including a sport called parkour free running that enabled users of acrobatic skills to leap over rooftops of buildings and other obstacles using acrobatic running and also barehanded climbing skills

turning the urban city rooftops and environments into a playground requires the use of the full body and core strength to be able to swing one's body through the air on your own momentum

the subject was quite cool Yonghwa lay on the floor on his tummy in the T position again letting himself stretch until he finished the book

it was really comfortable to stretch himself it made his body feel good in a weird way he curled his legs right over his back holding onto his own ankles next to his head a position from the book

Jhaesun came out of the shower to find him like this startled at his bent over backward position

"yah! what are you doing you'll hurt yourself!" Jhaesun said concerned

"I was reading your training manual properly" Yonghwa replied like it was no big deal getting up from the floor "I memorized it and it had visible demonstrations inside telling you how to learn them"

he did a backward walk over and then a forward one and then a cartwheel

he climbed up on the bed jumping on it lightly to get the momentum to make a leap in the air grabbing his legs to do a somersault through the air landing on the mat on the floor

"yea" he cried punching the air "I can do it!"

he went back to the bed and did it again sticking his somersault more confidently this time

"that book is legit" Yonghwa said "those visuals that demonstrate how to do each move"

"you just memorized how to do them and now you can do them?" Jhaesun said in surprise

"yes that's sort of how my brain works I think" Yonghwa said

"for me to understand how to do something properly I must acquire the knowledge of it from a book or somewhere as some sort of medium and then once I read it well I can't forget it ever

I would pass all my classes this way just easy-peasy memorize all my textbooks for every subject no matter what test I'm doing I have all the answers in my head it's like I'm cheating but I'm not it's just something my brain can do" Yonghwa explained

"That means you learn at an exponentially faster rate than the rest of us and you can store vast amounts of data like a computer hard drive!" Jhaesun said

"Not exactly but pretty much sort of I don't memorize randomly only things I want or need to keep in my head" Yonghwa replied

picking up his towel and toiletries he went to the shower washing quickly so he could come back in his underwear to try the suits out

Jhaesun took the suits out the armory they zipped up in the front to make things convenient they got into them like jumpers and zipped them back up again up to the neck

"Okay let's try activating them now," Jhaesun said pushing the eagle button in the middle of his chest the suit came on with a soft technological sound

and the tracks in his suit like veins lit up blue they started to glow and then as they watched wide-eyed

it did transform like Jhaesun thought it would the geometric patterns on the suit began to move and activate all over the suit from the feet up the suit encased his feet in armored boots and come up in a beautiful ripple effect up his body

all the way up to his head where a helmet came up out of the compartment in the back of the suit near the nape of his neck the helmet had a full face glass display that some kind of system was immediately coming online

giving him visuals and audio on the screen right before his eyes he didn't have to look behind him to see behind him he could see it on his helmet's screen in front of him moving across the glass so his visual seemed to revolve

but always keeping his main view directly in front of him so he could navigate as he always did it was very cool this kind of panoramic vision was needed because the suit could fly

"wow you look awesome Jhaesun," Yonghwa said softly excited he could hardly keep from jumping up and down as he touched the suit with his hands the geometric shapes were hardened panels now

over his muscles and body impenetrable armor he knocked one of the panels on Jhaesun's chest with his knuckles it sounded solid like a metal titanium plating

"they don't play when they were saying this thing was a body armor for war and this is just the light training suit I cant wait to see what the heavy-duty one will look like in action," Jhaesun said hurry up put yours on" he urged Yonghwa

while he found the compartments in the suit that it came with each geometrically shaped compartment was marked by a special symbol to indicate what was in it the first aid kit pack had a red cross on it

the weapons like the staff and throwing knives were inside compartments in the arms for easy access

give the image a tap and the compartment would open you could takeout whatever you needed from them

in a compartment on the wrist was tether cables according to the system they were used with the spider legs strong powerful retractable cables with small claws on the end to be used like webbing or ropes to assist with climbing like those of a real spider from which the spider legs was derived

on his back, the gear pack was strapped on like a backpack that fits into a Geometric shape in the middle of his suit on the back straps came out into a harness that strapped over his chest in special tracks

between the geometric shapes on his chest plates and plugged into the eagle on his chest by what looked like USB ended cables

the blue eagle logo emblazoned on the chest seemed to be the control center of the suit that had the computer motherboard that controlled the suit under it the gear pack came online with a technological sound and it appeared on his screen in his headset

he would activate it from his headset hands-free with his eyes were mouse and fingers of his screen that would allow him to choose what he wanted to use it was incredible how it was controlled it seemed by his thoughts but it was really movements of his eyes to be able to make the selections he wanted

Yonghwa was soon suited up and online like Jhaesun was

this is so dope Yonghwa whispered excitedly the two boys grinned at each other feeling like badass superheroes in their suits

"put on your gear pack don't forget it has the wings and spider legs if youre not wearing it no flying or other fun stuff for you," Jhaesun said with a smile

Yonghwa put on the gear pack warming up had really done the trick

the suit had conformed to give Yonghwa a sleek black cat-like look to his slim small body

while Jhaesun looked more like a ripped superhero even the muscles under his arms and along his armpits that made his chest and abs look tightly packed

yet when he breathed it flexed and stretched as his chest rose and fell it didn't look like it was covered in armor it looked like it was made of a stretchy shiny metallic fabric

"what is it made of?" Yonghwa asked Jhaesun

"I'm looking at it right now and my brain can't put the two things together it's made of a really hard metal alloy," Jhaesun said

he said touching it with his hands "but it feels warm when it should feel cold though it feels extremely hard it's still soft it's a metal that behaves like fabric can you understand?"

"whatever this was the result of experimenting with things its really amazing" Yonghwa breathed

"Let's go test these out," Jhaesun said "we should wear our training sweats over them take the bicycle as normal do not do anything that will look different from when we are going to regular training"

Yonghwa nodded they got their training sweatsuits on and backpack with the usual things they slipped out of the house Gregory wouldn't be up for another hour or so