REBELS OF ETERNITY: welcome to camp Maria

EP 1

Some insight
The Maria training facility was located east of killamond station, a small military base with a huge gun built into it. It was used for new students and cadets to train for battle and tactics.

Connor woke with a start, he smelled smoke. He jumped up, and sprinted to the door and looked outside, his regiment was having a barbecue.
Damn, he had overslept again.
"What's up lazy?" A tall and muscular soldier by the name of Tom asked.
"Why the heck didn't you guys wake me?" Connor said
"Cause it was funny," Replied Tom.

Connor stumbled over to the food and grabbed some.
"Any training today?" He asked.
"Are you kidding? It's Saturday, no practice on Saturdays, dummy!" Clint said, "I wonder if all of you are just incompetent morons."
"Watch it mate, you may be smart but I'll smash your face in!" Tom said, and at this clint backed away, "your life is with books."
Clint frowned and glared at Tom.
Connor headed to the training site, and Scott asked, "where you going?"
"Just because there is no scheduled practice doesn't mean I can't train in my spare time," Connor answered.
Scott shrugged and looked back at the group.

When Connor got to the Simulations room in the training lobby he found that it was in use, so he walked in. He found a tall girl with dark long hair in the middle of a hand to hand combat simulation. She loaded in some AI opponents and kicked one in the
shin as it spawned in. It fell onto one knee and the girl proceeded to throw it into a wall, the next ran at her she grabbed a knife from her side. The enemy had an axe and was running towards her. She threw the knife and it stuck into it's head.
Upon noticing Connor she said "pause program," and everything in the simulation came to a complete stop.
She walked over to him and said "if you haven't noticed, I'm using this room, so move along to the next."
"I'm sorry, I'm just wondering where you learnt those moves, they are amazing. How come I've never seen you before?" Said Connor.
"My father taught me everything I know, and I'm not new, so I'm surprised you have never seen me here before, since I come here a lot, how good are you?"
"I'm ok, I guess."
"How about a fight then, see how good you are, then maybe you'll be better than you think you are."
"Alright then," Connor said, unsure of what he would get out of it.

The girl stepped back, steadying herself, she knew that Connor was going to sprint forwards because she recognised the stance he was in, something the instructors taught them in their second lesson. This move was easy to counter, but she was going to
use a more unusual move. He ran at her and she stepped to the side. Connor tripped and she spun him and he landed flat on his back, winded.
"Again?" Asked the girl.
"Sure" he gasped.

This time he tried nearly the same tactic, but he was going to jump up and avoid her foot when she tried to trip him. Connor ran and as the girl tried to trip him he dodged her foot by jumping, and he hit her in the back on the leg, and she stumbled to
the ground.
"One all," she said.
"Whoever wins the next round wins all," Connor added.
"Agreed."

This time Connor ran at her and dodged to the right, and she leapt up. She kicked him in the stomach and then in the chest, sending him flying into a pile of crates, crushing them. He lay there, panting, as the girl walked up to him, and held out her
hand. He took it and she pulled him up.
"Impressive, but not good enough," she said.
"Yeah, I've mostly fought the AI in the simulation." Connor agreed.
"I'm Sasha Atterson."
"Connor Sanders."
"I'll practice again, and the lets have another battle tomorrow."
"Sure... Wait, actually, I don't have much spare time tomorrow, but maybe in a couple of days."
"Done."

The next morning, Connor was woken by his alarm, and found the rest of his bunk mates asleep. He walked over to the wall and whacked it loudly with his palm, creating a loud noise. The rest of the cadets in his room woke and walked up to him.
Tom punched him in the face for waking them all and said, "I think I act for all of us."
The rest nodded in agreement and glared at Connor.
Fifteen minutes later they were lined up at the training grounds.
"All right, listen up," spoke the trainer, "I know your still relatively new here so I'll let you off for some lazy mistakes but if you screw up even more, your done."
"He's all talk," Tom said.
"I don't listen to a word you say, but you can go on if you feel obligated to," clint replied.
"Forget it."
"Soldier," the trainer said, towering over Tom, "Do you have feel that you have a higher rank than me that you have the permission to chatter among your Acquaintances? How about you try and prove your so called authority."
"Are you challenging me to a fight sir?" Replied Tom.
"Yes you idiot, now hop to it."

Tom stood in front of the trainer and thrust his leg forward into his opponents thigh, and his leg cracked against it.
"Aaaaarrrgghhh!" He screamed, "what is your leg made of? Metal?"
He stood back up and tried to lung at the trainer, but he picked him up and threw him across the grounds.
"Perhaps we should try something a little more your speed," said the trainer, "you! Come here!"
He pointed to Sasha, and she stepped forwards. Tom got up, and stared at her, 'easy' he thought. Her ran at Sasha and she hit him across the face and broke his jaw. Tom lay motionless on the floor in front of her. The trainer laughed as he felt thought
that this trainee was worthless.
"Hey! Mop top! Over here!" He said, pointing to clint.
"Uh... Yes sir!" Clint replied, making his way to the trainer.
"Name?"
"Clint Irwin sir!"
"What evil people would have given you such a laughable name?"
"Uh, sir, this is a little unnecessary." Said clint, offended.
"No, it's not." He said and slapped clint across the face.
"Ow, get off!" Clint said. He was pathetically trying to hit the trainer.
"Moving along..."

Three hours later, Connor was lying in his bunk. He looked over at Tom.
"You awake?" He asked.
"Yeah, I don't think the painkillers they gave me worked." Tom replied.
"How so?" Inquired Connor.
"My jaw feels like it's just been cut up and then has been scrappily glued back together," answered Tom.
"Oh"
Connor lay back, chuckled a little and fell asleep.