Oh shit, how to start this chapter? ….v.v nothing as of yet...V.V still nothing and my 'v's can't get and smaller or bigger, sigh. Ok I got, it's Avery's chapter. If you don't know Avery is my female Oc that I pair with nearly any and everybody.

Silently she sat in the back of the large crowd of people claiming to be medics. Most of these people had probably never been out in the middle of a battle fighting to save lives. They probably never had to watch friends go out and die while they saved other lives. That was why Avery stopped being a field person. She had lost one too many friends and couldn't handle it. At first the Joes recruited her for her medical training, but once she had made them see that she had given that up they kept her because she was a good fighter too. But now seemed like the time to come back, the time to once again save people rather than kill them.

Avery could hear Hawk talking. He was telling them all why they were here today. She couldn't care less. Hope had left her a long time ago and now she was trying to get it back. "First off, if you don't know any extensive medical training then there is no hope of being able to help Alpha Team, so please leave." Avery saw a few men groan then get up and leave. "Next you must know how to fight, and defend, if not you are better put at use here on the base." A gasp left Avery and her eyes bulged, nearly half of the medics in the training rooms stood up and left. "If you can't fight hand to hand and with weapons please follow your comrades to the exit." There were five people left now including Avery, all guys except her. "One last thing, it doesn't affect if you stay or go, mainly because I can't risk it, but how many of you know sign language?"

No one raised their hand immediately so Avery knew that none of them did and slowly her hand raised. Suddenly the black clad man that had been next to General Hawk was right in front of Avery. He asked her how much she knew. With her hand still in the air she signed with her other hand and spoke at the same time. "I know enough to communicate." Snake Eyes approved of the girl.

"Alright, each of you will have to prove that you are strong enough to be on Alpha Team. Only one of you will be accepted." He seemed to think about what had to be done. "First, Each of you will spar with Snake Eyes. If you can survive five minutes then you can continue on to show off your skills. Alright, you. Get over there." Hawk pointed to biggest of the male medics. His muscles probably mad up half of his weight.

Avery moved over to where the other medics were. Not being able to keep her mouth shut she spoke. "He won't survive a minute. His muscles may be big but he won't be able to dodge, especially with Snake Eyes' speed." Look at the other medic with the corners of her eyes she saw most of them nod. She still had to look up at even the shortest one though, her four feet eleven inches was dwarfed by them all. The eye that they saw looking at them was green.

"Oh." A new voice said. "Down and out." This man avery recognized as Sergeant Stone. He was always fun to have at a mock battle. The little comments and sounds he made were hilarious. A tiny bit distracting but funny all the same. "You, blueberry." He motioned with his head to where Snake Eyes' was. He was referring to the guy that had died his hair blue.

"No." Avery said as soon as the man was in the ring. "First hit he is out, he's too brittle looking. Like his bones will snap like a twin. They may not but first hit he will be too stunned to defend." And just as Avery predicted as soon as Snake Eyes hit the man he wasn't able to defend. "You guys will have a better chance I'm sure." Avery turned fully to look at them and they saw her jade green eye. She could see that the fact her eyes didn't match shocked them.

"Who's next?" Stone was making them chose who would fight next. Avery stepped forward but the man next to her held her back.

"I will, just give me uh moment." He turned to Avery. "Don't take this the wrong way but ah don't think ya will survive one hit. But please, let me know how ya think ah will go down." his accent was obvious.

"Smarts, you got smarts. But in the end that will be what makes you fail against the ninja. He will attack with no pattern and that will make it impossible to follow unless you throw out the want to know what's going on next. I hope you make it." He nodded and went to mat. The last guy looked at her. "You are scared. Don't as long as you think that you can it just might be possible, your fear will distract you and he will get you. Good luck." The two watched the fight. The man that had asked for help was what one would call a ginger. Scottish or Irish defiantly, he had muscle but not too much that he couldn't move. He was able to take hits and get back up.

Avery was able to see every time that he had tried to guess where Snake Eyes was going to hit. She had warned him about that but the fear she saw told her why he ignored her warning. Yelling out to him she told him once more. "Stop fucking thinking! Your trying to read him, stop it. And above you!" The ginger jumped back in time. Then he took her advice and stopped trying to read Snake Eyes. At the end of his five minutes he went back to the two that were standing on the mats. He slapped Avery on the back in thanks and sat on the mat breathing heavily. Immediately she made him stand up. "Walk until your breath is back to normal, just stopping is not good. Your muscles will cramp up and you will be in pain." He did as she said.

The scared guy had no more fear because once he saw that Avery's advice had helped the bigger man he was sure it would help himself. And it did at the moments fear had come back Snake Eyes had got him but as soon as he pushed the fear away he got his footing back and made it the entire five minutes. "You sure you want to shrimp?" Stone asked her and she nodded. "Your funeral."

Avery got in the ring and stood up strait. As soon as Snake Eyes recognized what she was doing he too stood up straight. "Avery Godfrey. No position or ranking, just a grunt." Snake Eyes replied in kind.

Snake Eyes. Lieutenant. Good luck. And then he bowed. Avery returned the guesture and the fight started.