Author's Note: Well, my first war story, but just to explain how the characters look in this, they look like they do in the Movie. Except they are standing 'upright' like people. They act like people, but they are still wolves. Hope it helps you visualize this better.
A green camouflaged Bus drove across an unpaved trail, every so often hitting the rut of a previous bus, or an eroded dip.
Inside of the bus, dozens of wolves sat in wait of their destination. Every wolf had their own vision of their selves.
One of these wolves was a younger, thinner, gray wolf wearing a camo jacket and matching pants and boots.
This is Humphrey Winters. After years of people calling him 'weak' and 'spineless' he decided to join the military. He hoped that it could make him stronger and smarter. Much like every other wolf in the bus.
The bus continued going down the dirt road.
After five more minutes the bus stopped. The driver picked up a clipboard and read off the names of wolves that are supposed to get off.
"Aaron Sargent."
A white Wolf stood up and walked out of the bus.
"Calvin Rogers."
A tanish wolf stood up and got off the bus.
The driver pulled a lever, which closed the door, and the bus took off again.
The driver made a right turn into a smaller, thicker trail. The bus bounced and rocked in almost every possible way.
After about twelve more minutes, the bus stopped again and more wolves were called off.
"Shaun Rue."
A white Wolf stood up and brushed off his camo vest and walked out of the bus
"Jonathan Edwards."
A brown wolf got off.
Every name called made Humphrey's stomach do a cartwheel. He knew that any one of these stops could be his.
The bus continued for nineteen more minutes before it stopped once more.
The driver held up his list to the light so that he could read it clearly.
"Humphrey Winters." he called out.
Humphrey gulped and stood up, it felt as though every one was watching him even though in reality, every one was too deep in thought to notice.
As he walked out, the driver held a multi way radio in his paw.
"You'll need this for basic training." he explained. Humphrey nodded and took the radio on his way out.
Humphrey stopped and looked around at his destination. Forest. Solid, dense forest.
There was a loud hiss and the bus took off.
Humphrey looked around, desperately hoping that he was in the correct place. He jumped when the radio in his pocket crackled on.
"Private Humphrey, it is time to commence your field training review." a male voice cracked from the radio. "Pay attention, and you may actually stand a chance of getting into a decent squad on the battlefield."
Humphrey pressed the small 'talk' button in the radio.
"Understood." he called into the radio.
"First, I need you to look at each of the four guard towers." the radio piped.
Humphrey looked at the tower to his right.
As he looked at it, a wolf standing in the tower nodded and spoke into his radio.
Humphrey did the same for the remaining three towers.
"Good, now move to the table to your left and pick up the objectives tablet." the radio piped.
Humphrey looked to the left and saw a tablet. He walked over to the table and picked up the tablet. He looked at the tablet.
It had no skin in the back, instead it was covered with a camouflaged mesh. The screen had a green matte coating, to apparently block reflection.
"When you complete an objective, it is checked off this list. Your main objective is highlighted in yellow." the radio hissed.
Humphrey noticed the list had tick marks next to a few items:
X -Arrive
X -Face towers (0 Remaining)
X -Receive Operations7 Tablet System
_ -Approach Tower #3
"Now notice that one of the arrows on your compass on the tablet is pointing towards one of the guard towers. The arrow points to your current objective." the radio explained.
Humphrey nodded and raised the radio to his muzzle.
"Roger."
"Now, go to the tower marked by your arrow."
Humphrey looked down at the screen and began walking in the direction the arrow was pointing. He quickly avoided nearly tripping over a barrel. He finally made it to the tower.
"Good, now look back at your objectives tablet again and notice that the completed objectives have been marked off. Now head towards your new objective." the radio buzzed.
Humphrey looked down at the screen and noticed that an arrow had appeared over the previous item and new item was added.
Humphrey walked over to a wooden wall, which was being pointed at by the compass.
"Climb over that wall." the radio piped.
'Well duh, how else am I going to get over it?' Humphrey thought as he dug his claws into the top of the Wall and swung over.
"Good, now advance under that barbed wire."
'Barbed wire, what barb- oh.' Humphrey thought as he saw the array of metallic sharp wire that loomed over him.
He got down on all-fours and crawled through the wire.
At the end of the wire, Humphrey got up and saw two doors in front of him.
"Now enter through the door. Some doors may be locked, the motion and sound will clue you in."
Humphrey twisted the knob of the first door and, to his surprise, it was locked.
He quickly opened the door next to it and walked in.
"Good, now approach the table and pick up the USP forty-five handgun."
Humphrey looked at the table and saw the pistol.
'Now this is more like it.' Humphrey thought as he loaded a clip into the handle.
"Now move to the firing range."
Humphrey walked over to the only window. When he got there, he saw that there were hundreds of rusty bullet casings were scattered across the area.
"Shoot the target with your forty-five." the radio said.
Humphrey wrapped his fore paws around the handle of the gun.
He hit the target dead-center with each shot.
Humphrey had already passed basic training with flying colors, including weapons basics.
He emptied the whole clip into the target. He heard a small *click* and long *creak*. He looked over and saw a new door had opened across the room.
He walked through the door and heard something that made smile.
"Approach the table and pick up the Maverick Four Alteration One assault rifle." the radio piped.
Humphrey grinned and walked over to the old concrete table and picked up the large, black, and heavy metal firearm.
"In the range fire into the target. When you are ready, enter through the red blast-door to conclude your review and receive your results." the radio crackled.
Humphrey was still grinning as he aimed the rifle down the range. He slowly squeezed the trigger.
The tip of the gun began to rise as the rate of fire increased. The recoil was increasing rapidly.
Humphrey was smiling widely at the sound of sound breaking and the smell of burning metal.
After a few more seconds of bullets screaming, the rate ended with a *click*.
'Ah, always a good time.' Humphrey thought happily as he lied the gun onto the table.
He walked over to the large red door and pushed it open.
On the other side of the door, and older wolf was waiting.
"Winters." the wolf greeted as he held out his paw.
Humphrey nodded, grabbed the wolf's paw and shook it.
"I'm Sargent Rollins, the one you have been communicating with over the test." he said.
"Hello." Humphrey greeted back. "So how exactly did I do?"
"I don't have your results, they do." Rollins said, pointing towards a group of wolves wearing uniforms.
Humphrey nodded and Rollins led him towards the wolves and his results.
End Note: Well, hopefully this was a nice chapter, because I am no longer the only one writing this. So, let me introduce Mojotheamoroq. This guy will most likely be doing every even chapter, since he'll be doing chapter 2. So make sure that you give him some credit on what he does... And hopefully, this all made sense.