Chapter 01
Meet the team
As it stands the four agents of the Atlas Specialist team number 16, were sleeping very comfortably in their bunks, thinking they passed the previous days tests no problem, well that's about to change for them.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! That was the alarm.
Then four pairs of eyes shot wide open, and they started to stumble out of bed.
"COME ON LET'S GO!" said one of the male students.
"Moving as fast we can move Reese." said a female.
"Well we gotta get going, we don't know what's going on Crystal, it might be a grim attack or something worse." Reese says back.
"Well then here is your armor." Crystal says back as she tosses Reese his plate armor.
Then running out of their room the squad took a right where they found the armory and started to gear up.
"Just pack light team." Reese says to everyone.
"Wilco." said Crystal.
"Wilco." said Jack.
"Wilco." said Kathrin.
Soon all four of them then left the armory with the Atlas Vmr-65 automatic rifles and night vision goggles, and made their way to the roof where they heard guns going off.
"Sounds like they are putting up one hell of a fight, lets go help them." Reese said.
"Yeah!" the other three said.
But as they were making their way to the roof something crashed through the wall in front of them.
"Beowulf light him up!" Reese ordered.
"BOOM! BOOM! CRACK! CRACK! BOOM! BOOM!" the rifles said as the hallway lit up from the muzzle flashes.
Then with in a few seconds it was dead.
"Keep moving they need our help." Reese said as he step over the corpse.
Then after what seemed like forever they found the door to the roof, as they entered it was a full blown Grim invasion, and a lot of men were dying in front of them.
Reese then ran over to the nearest Atlas soldier.
"WHATS GOING ON HERE?" Reese asks over the sounds of gunfire.
"GRIM HAVE BREACHED THE PRIMARY PERIMETER, AND HAVE MADE THEIR WAY TO US, WE ARE THE ONLY LINE OF DEFENSE FOR THIS OUTPOST." the Sergeant said.
"WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO." Reese said.
"YOU BETTER REINFORCEMENTS WILL BE HERE IN….." The Sargent was about to say until he got hit with a nevermore feather that killed him instantly.
"Son of a.. Sarge?" Reese says but no response.
"Ok take positions and open fire, aim for the heads squad." Reese orders.
"Roger that." the rest of them said.
Then came the hard part waiting while still firing at the oncomeing grim, for Reese it felt like an eternity but as Reese was reloading his rifle he then looked over the ledge again then saw that they were outnumbered, Reese then knew it was time to make a stand.
"BACK UP SQUAD!" Reese ordered.
Then the rest of his team started backing up while maintaining fire at the grimm, and as far as anyone of them could tell they were the last men and women standing.
Then one sound came to them that was bad to hear in a combat scenario.
"Click, Click,Click,Click" that was all of them running out of ammo at the same time.
"Shiii." Reese was about to say when a grim tackled him to the ground.
Then Reese heard something new.
"END TEST SHUTTING DOWN SIMULATOR." a computer voice said as VR headsets were removed from their heads.
"I wonder what grade we will get this time." Crystal said as she got up from the chair she was in.
"Well we did better last time." said Jack.
"Yeah we didn't get to the armory last time." said Kathrin.
"Well i'm not to concerned, as far as i can tell we got pretty far." Reese said.
"Well let's go to the mess hall for some food i'm starving." said Jack.
"I'm with him." said Kathrin as she grabs Jacks hand and ran to the mess hall.
"HEY NO RUNNING IN THE HALL and they are gone." Crystal says.
"Well let them have their fun, who knows how long we will get to be like that till we are deployed." Reese says.
"Guess your right." Crystal says back.
They then made their way to the mess hall where it was diner time for the whole facility they were living in for the time being.
The facility in question was a black site it was not known where it it is except for a select few, like Gen Ironwood and others, and contained in the black site was where training is taking place for 40 new recruits for the new Predator program, that is to train the next generation of huntsman and huntress that can perform more dutys than the other academies could ever dream of.
With in the 20 mile compound there are areas for different training areas to hone the body's of the recruits from hand to hand combat to firearms training to other skills like first aid,survival and undercover and infiltration tactics.
"I wonder what's on the menu tonight Crystal." Reese says.
"Well if I remembered correctly its roast beef and potatoes." Crystal says back.
They then entered the line where Jack and Kathrin were standing.
"That smells so good." Kathrin says.
"Well we are the best of the best."Jack said back.
"As long as our scores hold we are the best of the best, right squad?" Reese says.
"Yes sir." The three of them said.
They then were served their food and made their way to a table where they can eat in peace but sometimes things go wrong.
"Hey a-holes!" Someone shouted.
"Oh great." Reese thought.
"Not them." Thought the rest of the team.
"Hey I'm talking to you." said the bully.
Reese then turned around to see who it was.
"Ah Stark what can I do for you and your cronies today?" Reese asks while his squad is snickering.
"Well you can give us your servings of food so we can bulk up more." Stark replies.
"Why? Took to long in the simulator to get any decent serving?" Reese asks back.
"Yeah just got done we held off the grim with our bare hands when we ran out of ammo." Stark says back with a grin.
"Well congratulations for holding out that long, and missing the best time to get food." Reese says back as he puts a potato in his mouth unimpressed at the feat.
Then Stark grabbed Reese by his shirt.
But Reese's squad didn't move an inch.
"Well tough talk for a leader who's squad doesn't come help him." Stark said with a grin.
"No they are just waiting." Reese says back calmly.
"What do you mean?" Stark said as his smile fades.
"Waiting for my command to move. So put me down so that nobody has to get hurt today." Reese says back.
Then Stark brought back his fist to strike Reese, but instead Stark heard a sound in front of him.
SNAP! That was Reese snapping his fingers together.
Stark and his team was ready for a verbal command not a silent order.
Then without warning the rest of Reese's squad got up from their chairs and engaged the rest of Starks squad.
For Stark his only target was Reese, take out the commander then the rest of the squad will surrender to them and get the rest of the meal that they were eating right, that was Starks objective.
For Reese it was different, subdue that's all.
Snap,tap fist to palm of hand.
That sound was a command for knockout no further harm.
Then within a 30 second time frame Starks team was on the ground drooling, then Stark only had time to see Reese make his move around him and put him in a choke hold.
"Tap out Stark and save yourself from the humiliation." Reese said.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" someone said with a commanding voice.
Reese then stood up and looked right at who said it.
It was captain Winter.
Winter was holding a clipboard, and from what Reese knows it holds scores for each team so that they can take note for who should go on the next mission.
"All I want to know is who started it?" Winter asks.
For a few moments nobody spoke.
"It was team leader Stark's fault ma'am." Kathrin said to Winter.
"Can you elaborate for me?" Winter asks.
"Well we were sitting here eating our rations and discussing the latest test we completed, then Stark came up and started threatening Reese and the rest of us were waiting for his orders, then when he gave them we acted, that's it." Kathrin said as she finished her story.
Winter simply nodded wrote something down on her clipboard and walked away.
"By the way Stark you and your whole team will be cleaning the machine and welding shops by yourselves so get to it." Winter commanded.
Then Stark's team left to get started cleaning while Reese's team finished eating.
They then went back to their room to get some early sleep for tomorrow's training exercises.
The room in question is a standard size for all four of them, with four beds two bathrooms on either side, lockers to store their armor and guns they own, the desks also serve as work benches to work on their weapons and to modify their armor.
"Ok squad I want to see everyone ready for bed in 40 mikes wilco?" Reese says.
"Wilco?" The other three said.
Reese was the last to get ready after a hot shower he found the rest of the squad standing at the foot of their beds waiting for Reese to get done.
For sleeping everyone had shorts on with short sleeves shirts so that if an attack was to happen they can get the body armor on faster, but Reese didn't think that was going to happen any time soon.
Reese then picked up the clipboard that was outside their door.
"Ok for tomorrow's training we are getting the firing range for the whole day. That's it let's get some sleep." Reese says.
Then the squad got into bed without another word and turned out the lights.
End.