Pouting he stuck his tongue out at them. Nothing bad happened in the end so they could have just let it go. It was only one little incident. (A complete lie, because there have been numerous instances where he came close to hurting someone). It was so bad that Kathy assigned him to do the less demanding tasks. Another word for cleaning up the place or running errands. Nothing dealing with potential weapons or hazards. One hazard along with another one made a greater hazard.
Fritz was just learning how to use a gun, after all, so he only managed to hit his target half the time. There were other factors that he needed to account for, but for now, simply knowing how to handle the recoil was important. The stance too. He couldn’t just hold the gun weakly unless he wanted to hurt himself. Danny told him guns were capable of hurting its user, if not used correctly. He didn’t do too bad for his first time, but it was clear he forgot about the task. Finding more pleasure in simply firing the weapon. “Not bad, right?”
Sadly he had to hand the gun back to Danny since he didn’t know how to refill a gun. In fact, he wasn’t even supposed to be learning how to use a gun. Captain Kathy forbade it. Saying it was best if he didn’t use it. The real reason being he was a hazard and could potentially harm someone or himself when handling a gun. Watching Danny refill the gun he looked back at the target.
“Hey, Danny? Do you have any tips or things I need to work on, so I can get better?”
“Eh,” Danny said, taking the gun back, refilling it with bullets. “You did all right, I guess.”
That was an understatement. Yeah, it looked like he’d only hit the target about half the time, while Danny would have been able to hit it pretty much every time. However, when Danny had first started out, he couldn’t hit anything- not on his very first round, at least! Already, Fritz was way better than that…
It was hard not to say something mean out of pure spite. Even though Danny was first mate, it was frustrating to see the amount of potential that Fritz had as second. It made him feel like if he wasn’t careful, he’d lose his position. After all, was Kathy really one to care about who joined the ship first? She’s probably say ‘skill is the most important thing’, or something like that.
When Fritz asked him what he needed to work on, it was all too tempting to give him an answer that would actually make him worse. Fritz was pretty gullible, after all. He’d probably swallow any lie he got… It would be so easy…
“…Well, I guess if anything, you looked just a little too trigger-happy,” Danny said, snapping the barrel of the gun shut, handing it back to Fritz. “In a real battle, you’ll have to worry about reload time. If you fire off all your bullets without taking the time to aim, you’ll run out before you hit anything, and that will put you in a tight spot.”
…Yeah, a lie would have been easy. But he hadn’t come out here to teach Fritz a bunch of nonsense. Going back on his original intention would be pretty stupid, wouldn’t it? He was jealous. But that just meant he’d have to try harder, too.
In any case, Fritz didn’t need to know just how good he was already. That was the one bit of satisfaction he could take out of this.
“Anyhow, want to do another round? See if you can actually hit the target more than half the time?”
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