Chapter one: Selection and the Facility
I was the first of the children taken. They found on my home-world, Raxus. I don't remember much of Raxus. Just the day I was offered the opportunity of a life time. One day when I was playing with my friends after school, some random woman came up to me, and asked if i was Luther. I looked over at my friends, thinking "who is this crazy nut?". If only I had known. I said yes, then she asked me the question that changed my life. She asked if I wanted to serve in a program that would protect the free. I didn't want to look like a complete snark rabbit to my friends at the school, so I said, "sure why not?" At the time I was only 10, and little did I know that I would be whisked away and taken to a training facility. I would never see my friends, or my home again.
The woman looked down at me and smiled, saying, " I thought you would say that. Come with me then." I never should have followed her, should have stopped and thought, "Wait this is a woman I don't know, telling me to come with her. Run away and tell someone," but the thought didn't even occur to me. I got into a car with her and she said, " Thank you for not freaking out, and running away. You will fit in perfectly with the others. Here, eat this," handing me a sweet. I ate it without thought, because I was from a poor area, and rarely had sweets. In fact, I'm an orphan, and I figured anything would be better than being back in the orphanage with kids half my age and height. I didn't know that was the exact reason they selected me. No one would care if I was gone, until it was too late. After swallowing the sweet, I passed out immediately, not to wake up until I was off the planet, and in a USPF carrier.
The cot that I woke up in was triple stacked along the aft wall of the compartment. I was startled awake by the sound of other kids my age giggling, and sounded like it was right above me. Because i had lived in an orphanage for all of my life, i had learned that when people were standing over and giggling, it's not exactly for a good reason. I bolted awake grabbed the nearest kid's shirt and pulled them close to me. "Alright geniuses, what'd you put on my face!? C'mon! Now! So i know who to beat the living snot out of!" I threatened them all. Obviously i wouldn't do that, but none of them knew that. Before anyone could respond, the door to the chamber opened and CPO Bowerson marched into the room.
"Alright you maggots! Line up, quick-like!" he yelled at us, in an Irish accent.
"Yes sir!" I yelled back, knowing all about this type of behavior from older "gentlemen" from the orphanage. "Permission to speak, sir!"
"Permission granted! This is a fine specimen of how you all should act, everyday. No brown-nosing will be accepted from anyone! Especially from you mister know-it-all! Now speak your mind before we strip your identities from you!"
"Never mind sir! you just answered my question, sir!"
"Good! Then move your skinny little butts out this door to the gym! Double-time it, ladies!
