I could hardly wait to put this out my good friends, here is the start of a brand new journey, on to the show.
"Stay sharp!" Dean yelled as an energy blast whizzed by his head. The rookie Guardians could be found wandering through the back alleys of a city, and where currently under attack by an unknown foe.
"You don't have to tell me that every time we almost get hit!" Jack hissed as he began looking around for the source of the energy blast. Kristie began looking around and spotted their attacker hanging off of a building above them.
"Super Kick!" she shouted as a swirling ball of energy formed on her right foot and she kicked it towards their attacker, only for their attacker to kick off the side of the building and drop down in front of them.
"Guardians stack up!" Dean ordered as he, Kristie and Jack formed into a triangle formation and each took up a fighting stance. The attacker in front of them made a taunting 'come get me' gesture with his hand.
"That's it!" Jack growled as he broke formation and ran after their attacker.
"Jack, no!" Kristie yelled as Jack reared back a fist an tried to attack their assailant, only for their attacker to catch his fist and kick Jack in the face while performing a back-flip that gained some distance between him and the three rookie Guardians.
With a growl Jack staggered back to his feet and this time tried kicking his opponent in the chest, only for his enemy to grab his foot and twist it, and send Jack spinning through the air and crashing into a solid concrete wall, where he lay moaning painfully. The attacker then jumped into the air and threw a smoke bomb into the ground, and when the jet black smoke cleared, both Jack and the attacker was gone.
"Crap." Kristie muttered. "Now what the heck do we do?" she asked her leader. In response Dean raised his NFL-R and a holographic display that showed a red blinking dot was quickly moving away from them.
"We follow them." Dean answered as he activated his flight-app.
"You know this is most certainly a–" Kristie was cut off by Dean.
"No doubt in my mind it's a trap, but we have no choice." Dean said as he took flight, and with a sigh Kristie activated hers and took flight as well.
"This is it." Dean whispered as they landed on the rooftop of a warehouse that had multiple sky-lights on top of it, and upon looking through one they not only found Jack, but also the rest of their fellow rookies restrained and powered down, they had gone in a separate direction once the mission has started.
"What's the plan, Dean?" Kristie asked. But before he could answer they heard a whizzing sound reached their ears and they whipped around just in time as a lightning bolt screamed right between them and hit the roof between them, causing that part of the roof to give in and the two Guardians to fall to the concrete floor of the warehouse. They barely had time to recover as their attacker calmly descended to the floor and hovered above them both.
"You go low, I'll go high!" Dean ordered as he took flight again and began circling with his enemy mimicking his movements.
"Super Kick!" Kristie yelled as she once again kicked another energy ball at her enemy, only for her attacker to catch it with his right hand and direct it back at Dean who had began flying towards him, and due to his momentum he collided with Kristie's attack, and Dean crumbled to the ground.
"Dean!" Kristie yelled as she ran over to her injured teammate. Suddenly the lights in the warehouse went pitch black, and Kristie's armor began glowing in order to combat the darkness, but even her dim blue light did little to combat the encroaching dankness. She heard a noise to the left of her and she fired an energy blast into the darkness, only for it to strike the metal wall. Another sound behind her caught her ears and she fired another energy blast, only to once again strike the wall.
"Where are you?!" Kristie shouted in both fear and anger.
"Here!" she heard a voice whisper and she turned around and received an energy blast to the stomach which made her hunch down as her attacker stepped out of the shadows and began walking slowly towards her.
"Mercy?" Kristie asked in a hopeful tone.
"Um... No." her attacker said as he fired an energy blast to her face that deactivate her armor, and the last Guardian has fallen.
"Simulation Terminated!" echoed all around them as the hard-light warehouse and city vanished, leaving all the Guardians and their attacker in the training room of the HOK.
"Well that sucked!" Hunter moaned after the hard-light chains that had been restraining him at vanished into oblivion.
"Tell me about it." Juniper groaned as she shakily got to her feet.
"What happened to you guys?" Jack asked as he was helped to his feet by Amara.
"We where led to the sewers, where we where ambushed, it was over quickly after that ambush." Amara said with a groan.
"You all are lucky this was only a simulation." their attacker said in a serious tone as he powered down, revealing Joseph. "It this had been real, you most likely would not see your friends or loved ones again." he said as he handed them each back their NFL-R.
"Wasn't really a fair fight!" Jack grumbled, which Joseph heard.
"It was nine v one, what's not fair about that?" Joseph said in a joking tone.
"You have the ability to copy every Guardian's abilities, so it's really like sixteen against one!" Jack hissed.
"I might have that ability." Joseph admitted as he and the rookies walked out of the simulation room. "But you have more than enough combined strength to take me down." Joseph admitted as he began flexing his right knee.
"How the heck do we do that?" Layla asked the veteran Guardian, which made Joseph laugh.
"I can't reveal all my secrets." Joseph answered with a snicker as he and the rookies walked into the HOK's main room and went before RZ.
"You improved from last time." RZ answered with a smile upon his face. "You lasted fifteen minutes, that's nearly double from last time." he congratulated.
"I don't consider defeat an improvement." Dean said as he hung his head low.
"That is what training is for Dean." RZ lectured. "You can learn from your mistakes, and learn how to improve." RZ said wisely, which earned head nods from all the rookie Guardians.
"What do we do now, RZ?" Aaron asked his leader.
"Go home for the night and get some rest." RZ said sincerely, and with a head nod, all the rookies quickly left the HOK, leaving Joseph and RZ alone.
"They are way to hard on themselves." Joseph said to his leader.
"You sound like your talking from past experience." RZ said with a small smile.
"I was once like them, I got my butt handed to me a few times starting out." Joseph said with grim smile. "But I did get better, just like they will." he said with a pure smile.
"They are the next generation of Guardians, and with you and the other veterans help, they will reach their maximum potential." RZ said with a big smile.
"I hope so, 'cause Endgame is out there somewhere, and she will be the toughest test they ever face..."
