--Building a New life --Tech x Reader Bad Batch

Chapter 14 -- Teaching, just like I used too--

The following morning just as the sun was rising Hunter came over to you as you descended the small ramp from your ship. The preceding night you had done a grip test discovering your surprisingly consistent and strong grip, as well as Wreckers incredible capacity to eat burnt marshmallows.

You brushed your hair back from your face, trying to comb it into some respectable shape even as ends stick up rebelliously. "Good morning Hunter" you said sleepily, "what can I do for you".

"Morning, straight to the point I see" He replies, the sleep still present in his voice causing it to be lower than usual. "I'd like to ask if you could take over teaching Omega to climb"

You gave Hunter a confused look, they had been making great progress already and you didn't understand why he would ask you to take over now. "Is this because of my almost superior grip?" you jested.

"No," Hunter chuckled, "She listens to you, and you're clearly a skilled climber. She's starting to wear on my patience with her questions and risky experiments".

"Ahh," you reply "You need me to give some perspective on risk?"

"Yes" he sighed holding his palm to his forehead "before she hurts herself"

You smile, "I can do that".

"But, you're also trained differently than we are, your climbing seems to be more adaptive and .. as a woman... it would be more beneficial for Omega" he continued explaining.

"Did Tech tell you that last part?" you ask, starting to laugh and patting his shoulder "I've got no problem training Omega, but that means you've got to work with the boredom I've been chipping away at".

"Sounds like a deal" he laughed and you both went over to the main area for breakfast.

As the usual routine has established you all met here to have breakfast and have some discussion about your morning before the heat. Wrecker is bleary eyed, but he got up for food. Omega is chipper but clearly sleepy. Echo was still inside, and Tech leaned in the doorway on his holopad with a hot drink in his hand. Tech apparently always drank it every morning, but you hadn't seen him do so because he drank it so early in the morning. Omega had told you it was a hot drink called 'coffee' at one point, but you had never tried it or heard of it.

You came into the circle, caught a ration pack tossed to you by Omega and sat down to eat. Hunter went inside to get Echo, so it was a few more minutes before they both came out to get the day started.

"Are you ready to climb with me today?" you had said to Omega as you both finished up your rations. Immediately Omega had turned to you with an excited glow in her eyes "with you?! When do we start?"

"Once you get your gloves on" you reply, slipping on your own. "Meet me by my ship".

Omega is very fast to oblige and disappears into the ship.

"Have fun" Echo chuckles at you while you head over to your ship.

"Ready!" Omega declares, pushing past Tech and running up to you.

"Alright," you begin "I need to know everything Hunter has already shown you and then we will go from there".

Omega began to show you a few stretches that Hunter had shown her and a climb-dismount drill to help with jumping around. In all reality these techniques did work, and if drilled they would result in a strong climbing ability. But the boredom seemed apparent to you, these were very physical means, and if you could engage her mind more she would improve even faster. Not to mention if Hunter had asked you because you were a woman, using techniques based off only arm strength would not help.