Amber swung from pole to pole, easily maneuvering through the obstacle course as her trainees watched on in slight amazement. She swung to the first mobile platform and waited a second to regain her balance before walking across it steadily. Then she leapt to a pole and slide a third of the way down before stopping herself at a thirty foot long balance beam. She got both of her feet placed precisely on the bean before walking along it heel to toe before swinging down to a tension wire helfway along the beam. She bounced along the wire until she was right above a shallow pool filled with water and she just leaned back slightly before falling gracefully into the water. Afterwards she got out of the pool easily and looked at her squad of military recruits.
"So which one of you pipsqueaks are first?" Amber asked them.
A leopard walked up and he leaned down slightly since he was a good head and a half taller than her.
"I'll go first sweetheart." The leopard cooed at her.
Before he could react Amber grabbed his wrist, twisted it hard behind his back and slammed her foot into the back of his knees; easily taking him to the ground. She kept his arm pinned behind him as she crouched beside him; her face expressionless.
"I am not your sweetheart, so don't call me that or you'll suffer worse embarrassment than this." Amber told him. "Got it?"
"Y-yes ma'am." The leopard squeaked.
Amber yanked him back to his feet before tossing him back into the crowd.
"Anyone else have anymore bright ass comments?" Amber as them as her blank stare ranked across all of them as they backed up slightly. "Thats what I thought."
Amber turned her back to them and sighed in annoyance as she thought about all the things she wished she could do to the incompetent bufoons that stood before. She just took a few deep breathes before turning back to the horrendous group that she was forced to call her squadron.
"Who can say that they believe that they won't be irredeemably terrible at the coursr?" Amber asked them.
No hands rose and Amber groaned as she pace around the room; with her natural speed letting her lap around the room about three times in the two minutes it took for someone to raise a quivering hand.
"Ah, finally a lily livered crybaby raises their hand." Amber purred slightly.
The crowd parted so Amber could see the little weasel who rose her hand.
"So are you brave enough to traverse the course." Amber asked her.
"I was just wondering why are so harsh on us." The weasel muttered.
Before anyone could blink Amber appeared in front of the little weasel from her previous position from across the room.
"Me?! Being harsh?!" Amber laughed. "I'm not being harsh! I'm being realistic."
The weasel backed away from Amber quickly with tears in her eyes.
"Oh don't you dare start crying now." Amber hissed. "The enemy won't care if you're crying, so I don't care if you cry either."
The weasel ran out of the room and the rest of the squadron just at Amber.
"The hell are you all looking at?" Amber growled.
The squadron looked away and Amber shook her head.
"Everyone is dismissed." Amber told them as she walked out of the room.
She decided that she might as well as head to the bar for a drink to dull her anger and muddle her senses slightly. When she got there the bartender quickly fixed up her usual; a vodka tonic with a slice of carrot. She drank some of it; enjoying how it burned going down. With the second sip she let the vodka sit in her mouth before swishing it around in her mouth before swallowing it. Once she finished her drink she picked out the carrot wedge and nibbled on it slowly as she looked around the bar. A buffalo leaned against the bar and grinned at her.
"Hey there sweetheart; how about we get out of here?" The buffalo asked her.
"How you eat a bag of dicks." Amber replied.
As the buffalo grabbed her shoulder she swung her fist back; catching him in the throat. As he coughed Amber reached around to the back of his head and slammed him facefirst into the counter of the bar. She looked around at everyone else in the bar and they all avoided her glare. She got up from her seat and as she walked towards the door the rest of bar tried to get as far away from her as possible. She walked back the to the base and walked straight to her room; collapsing into her cot once she got there. Tonight she once again welcomed the blank darkness of sleep as it wrapped itself around her.
