Chapter One - Paint Balling
It was day 54 of basic training. The trainees were so tired they could sleep for 20 hours straight. "Wake up" shouted Mr Large for the 4 time. "If I have to say it again I will spray you all with my fire hose".
James Adams jumped straight out of his rusty bed. James's training partner Kerry was already dressed with her light blue cherub top and combat pants on.
"It is a special day today" said Mr Large. "We are going paint balling. "You will be paired up with your training partner. Shakeel and Mo will be blue, Conor and Gabrielle will be yellow and James and Kerry will be red.
Each team will be dropped at a different corner of the training compound. You will each have a paint ball gun, 3 stun grenades and 2 paint grenades. Every team will have 3 lives once a team loses those 3 lives they are eliminated last team standing wins. The losing team will have to run the assault course 3 times. The trainees all groaned.
Okay any questions. Kerry put her hand in the air. Yes Kerry said Mr Large. How long will the training exercise go for said Kerry. It will go from 0900 hours on day 54 to 0630 hours on day 55.
An hour later James and Kerry got dropped off at there corner of the compound by Mr Speaks. Shakeel and Mo had already been dropped off by Ms Smoke and Conor and Gabrielle had been dropped off by Mr Large.
Ok this the plan said Kerry we run to the middle of the compound and hide under the bridge on the assault course. We can have one person on top of the bridge and one underneath. The one on the top will be sniper and take out people from long range while the other person goes around them and take them out from behind. Good idea said James lets go.
When James and Kerry got to the bridge they found a few extra rounds of ammo, James took 2 rounds and climbed up to the top of the bridge to be the sniper. Bang! a bullet whizzed past James's arm and splatted into the wall of the bridge. The colour paint was blue meaning it was Shakeel or Mo.
James looked around just in time to see Mo stepping behind a tree 50 metres away. James lined his gun up to shot Mo when he heard a scream from bellow Kerry had been shot. James looked behind him and saw Shakeel coming from the other side.
James ducked down so Shakeel or Mo couldn't shoot him. He thought he would take out Shakeel first because he didn't know where James was. James stood up and fired 3 shots at Shakeel one hit him right in the stomach while the other 2 connected with the tree next to him.
A paintball smashed into James safety goggles blocking out his view. It was yellow. He could see out of his other eye Conor and Gabrielle closing in behind Shakeel. Getting hit in the safety goggles didn't count as a life but James couldn't see. He thought about wiping it on his shirt but then it would look like he had got hit.
So he picked up a leave and whipped some of the paint off. James didn't want to stay around and get hit again so he jumped off the bridge and started running into the trees.
James ran until he was so puffed he couldn't breath. He could see the training hut a few hundred metres away. He walked until he got to the door. He opened it and walked into the instructors room and sat on the couch.
In the meantime Kerry was lying under the bridge in pain. Her knee hurt so much. She had been shot by Shakeel. She heard another shot and saw Conor and Gabrielle approaching. She stood up and looked out from behind the bridge. There was James running towards the training hut in the distance.
Kerry was so angry with James for ditching her in the middle of a battle with Shakeel, Mo, Conor and Gabrielle surrounding her. Then the fight started there were paintballs flying everywhere. Kerry heard two screams of pain. Conor had been hit n the back and Shakeel getting shot in the stomach again.
Kerry knew it was time to move she pulled a stun grenade out of her backpack and threw it out into the fight. A powerful blue flash erupted from the grenade. Kerry made a run for the training hut. Next thing she new a yellow paint ball had smashed into her forehead. She fell back and hit her head on a rock and everything went black.
James looked out the window. Three bullets flew at his head. He ducked just in time and the bullets hit the instructors tv screen behind him. James picked up his gun and fired some shots into the dark. It was a pity he didn't have night vision goggles. Stop shouted Gabrielle, we can see your every move.
How shouted James. We found them next to a tree near our drop off point. James fired some shots in the direction of Gabrielle's voice. But none of them hit her. We warned you shouted Conor. James saw a grenade fly through the window. He couldn't recognize it before it exploded yellow paint flew every where smashing James off his feet. It hurt so much that James could hardly move. He was covered in yellow paint from head to toe. Yes shouted Conor. Winners screamed Gabrielle.
What said James. What happened to Shakeel and Mo and how are Kerry and I dead? We shot Shakeel in the stomach and he passed out in pain. Conor then shot Kerry and we haven't seen her since.
Then Mo ran away and we were chasing after him for ages. We finally corned him and finished him off. Then we went back to the bridge to search for you. We saw your footprints and we followed them here. Then we paint grenaded you so we win.