I walk along the corridors which were now blazing with light, I could hardly see. Then I strayed towards the huge hangar like doors, of which no-one leave without a good black bruise. Today it was mixed teams. me, Kearin and Eleanor vs Bradley, Katie and Marcin with poor James our comm specialist, Luke the spy, Callum weapons spec, Ellie our pelican pilot and never forgetting joe's best virtual friend (fellow AI assigned to Pelican 10O-MMQ) Liam standing in the room overlooking the training area.

"Match begins in t minus 5 minutes" like I said Justine, he's got a visual unit near the door he looks really strange for a AI, he would stand there and just ask sick questions, well he controls the ship and well sees everything so you know. yeah.

"Hey don't start being twitchy!" Kearin said

I get called twitchy by Kearin because when I get in a fight I shake my head every couple of seconds, a bit like Robbie Madison the old x fighters rider, like him I've had so many injuries, cuts, scars, bruises, broken bones, muscle damage, internal bleeding in one case, don't mess with Marcin in a CQC fight, punch so hard broke 3 ribs and bust my lung.

"unplug me Brad please I'm begging you"

"shut up man joe I need you to help me, you know weaknesses and all"

"buddy, I can't bear the sight of George kneeing you in the balls again" Joe is the only AI assigned to any of us, Bradley just got it before me, he was sucking up to the boss but Joe is canny, we get full AI's the other programmes don't. We're special. We're kids.

"2 minutes people, remember you don't have to kill each other" Ellie said sarcastically over the intercom.

I felt an admiring stare from Bradley, he looked at me head to waist and cracked his knuckles,I could still hear joe pleading, I shuddered I hate it when he does that. His EVA helmet looked like a golden fish bowl in the light.

Round one... Round one... Round begins in 5...4...3...2..1.

"here we go!" Eleanor said then chuckled.

kearin went straight for Bradley, Eleanor for Katie and well that left me with the EOD headed, black armoured, white striped pole.

"chodź suka następnie Geordie"

"Georgina, he just called you a Geordie bitch" Justine said

"thanks for the translate Justine" we just tangoed, slowly circling, eyes not leaving to see what injuries friends had acquired. Then smash I take a blow from Marcin.

"haway man that was a bit below the belt!" I gasped, he was fast but not fast enough I swipe round hard and catch him in the side of the head. All at once Bradley came flying out of nowhere and landed on Marcin.

"thought you needed a hand" Kearin nodded in acknowledgement

"I was just getting started" I replied

Bradley groaned and got up, Joe came out and said "I suggest you pick a easier opponent, preferably not the wolf"

Eleanor and Katie were just sparring, no hard stuff they would never hurt each other.

"Eleanor!" Bradley shouted, he was right behind her, crunch! his fist connected with her visor smash! glass everywhere and she was still standing. We all stopped and looked in her direction. She pulled her rouge helmet off and her purply-black hair slid in front of her face. complete silence engulfed the room, not even the marines wowed at this.

"hey are you..." before I could get words out of my mouth Bradley intruded my sentence,

"are you really gonna take advice from a girl who can punch a decent target?"

Eleanor looked pissed. glass was embedded in her face then she spoke "yeah... yeah... I am" as fast as you would run from a elite zealot with a energy sword, her knee smashed into Bradley's crotch plate crunch, he was on the floor crying with pain, I looked at Eleanor's knee pads scuffed, and well dented whistled through my teeth and told her "pointed pads are the best for the job" but to be positive about it I couldn't have done a better job myself.

"I imagine you think you need them more than what I need my eye to see?"

he began to laugh, Joe butted in "ha ha ha, guess what his armour has went into a total lockdown, the gel layer took most of the impact hopefully they won't be rendered inactive. but tremendously black and blue, right Brad just look out for girls in general." everyone had a good laugh, even the medics. To the lounge we went, but honestly the position Bradley was in when his armour locked was enough to reduce anyone to tears. Eleanor came in with a couple of stitches, kearin a cut, Marcin torn ligament, me badly bruised left side and Bradley would be on crutches for the best part of 2 weeks. just sitting reading and minding my own business when a brown curly haired, glasses wearer tapps my shoulder.

"pssst George... hey"

"What d'you want James?" I leaned over James's computer chair, staring at a screen

"wanna see some classified stuff, me and callum found?"

"go on then, better be something good like"

"check...this" he had found classified above top secret files on project freelancer not just ours, others too like 40 of 'em "haven't looked through all of them yet, but this one stands out" he touched the screen and all these files came out.

"I wonder what this alpha thing is, or that Leonard church dude, or... wow..."

"George. are you seeing this?"

"the hell? she... what the... eh. James where did you get these from?"

"aw I asked Justine, he gave me them. don't worry i'm giving info on how to be more human in exchange for the data"

"Justine who is that, coz she looks like me? I mean like she is a spitting double"

"external files... accessing... mother of invention... ship Paris-class heavy assault frigate... securing connection... this woman is the one you may have heard of as em"

"guys sup" Joe said "special stuff, I know i'll tell Bradley"

Justine continued on speaker so everyone could here, it wasn't such a big deal "the one you know as Agent texas"