And that's how we ended up here. In basic training camp. I didn't really want to do it, but honestly everything went by so fast I found myself swept up into it with the other two. Next thing I know Rex has somehow convinced Six to let me join the two. I think it worked only because Rex said that it would be an 'educational experience.'

"Gentleman. Gentleman!" A male voice yells out, snapping Noah and Rex out of their squabble.

We turn to see a bald guy in a guard uniform, a hand on his hip, staring at us. Something was wrong with his right arm, it looked robotic.

"Welcome to basic training."

"Captain Calan tells me that you three want a taste of basic." We were being led around by this guy through the camp. Which was a bunch of buildings on this giant rock cliff in the middle of a freaking desert.

"Yeah, but not the easy version." Rex says confidently.

Actually, I think I would be okay with the easy version. I was getting nervous just looking around at the place. Especially when I saw to our right this strange giant room in the ground, the ceiling and walls were a bunch of lasers. What a strange looking place. Scattered around were soldiers minding their own business, they all stared at us as we walked by, which was nerve wracking to say the least.

"We want to be treated no different then any other caudate." Rex continues.

"Alright. All you need to know, that's where we eat." The guy points out a building on our left. "And that's where we blow stuff up." He gestures to the barren wasteland in front of 's a sudden explosion right then, the shockwave sending Noah, Rex, and I to the ground.

After showing us a few more buildings, he leads us into a room with a bunch of wannabe soldiers sitting at desks, watching a screen. Which strangely had pictures of Rex on it, fighting EVO's.

"Hey, they're studying me!" Rex whispers excitedly, throwing an arm around both Noah and I.

The instructor at the front continues to talk. "Fire team can overcome the tactual deficiency of this particular special agent.

Rex crossly takes his arm off of us.

"Very educational." Noah jokes, smirking.

I laugh a bit at Rex's annoyed look.

The other guy continues to show us around, we enter a bedroom, with a bunk bed set into the wall. "These will be your quarters for the two males. You will be in that room." He points to a door on the left for my room. Our rooms were connected.

"This must be what college is like!" I hear Rex say, as I open the door to my room, peeking in. It looked exactly like theirs. A bunk bed, one chair, and one table. There was a door on one wall that lead to the hallway.

"But with weapons!" Rex picks up a gun that was lying on his table.

"This is Cadet Kenwyn Jones" The man says, introducing us to a dark skinned girl around our age. "You have any questions ask her. I'll check back with you first thing tomorrow morning. Enjoy your stay."

And with that he walks off, Kenwyn leans against the doorway, crossing her arms.

"He was really nice." Rex comments, still holding the gun, which to be honest was making me nervous.

"He always is. On the first day." The girl says ominously.

"What's down there?" Noah asks, glancing out a window.

"Stone steps." Kenwyn answers. "They don't waste a jump jet on us when we quit. You have to walk."

I follow the guys and look out the window. The only way down this giant stone cliff was a very long stairway built into the rock.

"Fun…" I mutter. I knew it. We were going to die. Even if we quit, I was going to die just going down all those damn stairs.

"Better turn in." Kenwyn says. "The day starts early around here."

She quickly walks off, and the door slides shut. "I don't thinks he likes us…" I murmer. I head back to my room, just to hand my hoodie on a chair. I head back to the guys room, not much to do.

"I have to say, this isn't what I was expecting at all." Noah comments, taking off his jacket and sitting on the lower bunk, while Rex lies on the top. I sit in the chair.

"I know. This is going to be a piece of cake." Rex agrees.

"What? You think so?" I ask, worried.

"Oh come on Rim, it's going to be easy, at least for me." Rex says smugly.

I roll my eyes, heading back to my room to sleep. "Let's see if you can keep that attitude up for a week."

oOoOo

CLANG CLANG CLANG

I yelp as I jump out of bed at the sound, landing on my side. Good thing I was on the lower bunk. I hear a heavy thump next door. Too bad for Rex he was on the top. I quickly put my sneakers on and run to the door opening it, rubbing at my eyes tiredly.

Noah was rubbing his head from where he had hit it, and Rex was lying on the ground, dazed.

"It can't be morning already." Noah complains.

"12:01 AM is morning to me, let's go!" Bald guy orders.

Morning?! WHAT?!

"Piece of cake." I hiss sarcastically to Rex, as I go back into my room to change.

After we're all dressed in the soldier uniform I meet the guys in the hallway and we all head outside. We stand in a line next to other soldiers, who all look way more awake then us. Also, it's raining. Of course.

Rex yawns, leaning on Noah. Suddenly a bunch of poles come out of the ground, connected to each other and rise above our head. I watch the other soldiers and realize that they are using the poles to do pull ups.

The bald guy appears out of nowhere and screams something at us, which was hard to hear over the pounding of the rain. I think he said something like sets of four?

I jump for the poles, and miss by a foot. Noah helps me up by holding his hands together so I can place a foot and lift myself up. I smile at him in thanks, as I struggle to do a few pull-ups. Noah leaps up, grabbing on to the poles. He was having as much trouble as me with the pull up thing though, I look over at the others who are doing like twenty pull-ups a minute.

Ugh. I knew this was going to be bad but...geez!

My cheeks burn with embarrassment. I look down curiously at Rex who isn't even trying to jump up. He looks at us and then transforms his arms into the Smack Hands. He grabs a hold of the poles, when he tries to lift himself up he accidently brings the whole thing down, and everyone else with it.

I rub at my head; as for the second time that day I have found myself harshly thrown to the ground.

"That is Providence property you just abused!" Bald guy says angrily. "You three, drop and give me twenty!"

"Thanks Rex." I mutter sarcastically as I struggle in the mud. I absolutely hate push ups.

Noah groans. "He's really nice." He mimics Rex's words.

Rex transforms his arms again, and easily starts doing a few pushups. I bet if I had giant robot arms, I could do push ups too!

"Hey, try to keep up." He taunts.

I resist the urge to throw mud in his face. But it's tempting, oh so tempting.

"You think this is too easy?" Bald guy yells. "Make it one thousand, you three!"

"That's not happening." I mutter quietly to myself.

"Yes sir." Rex grins, doing push ups very quickly…that is until bald guy puts a boot on his head and pushes his face into the mud.

I wince in sympathy as he spits out the mud.

"No." Baldy drawls. "One thousand sit ups."

We groan and quickly get on our backs, me in the middle with Noah on my left, and Rex on my right.

"I hate you all." I say between sit-ups as I huff. At least these weren't push-ups. But now way in hell was I doing a thousand.

Noah seemed to be doing okay but Rex…not so much. Guess he had gotten to used to relying on his robot limbs to do the work.

"What's the matter?" Baldy taunts. "Don't have a machine for that?"

"Try to keep up." Noah taunts.

Next we have to sprint with the others, holding up our guns. Which I would like to add, were heavy!

A car rushed by us, splashing us with water.

"Lovely." I grumble, imagining how nice it would be to shoot that car right now. Honestly handing guns over to a bunch of grumpy teenagers was a terrible idea.

Kenwyn runs by us, ignoring us completely.

Next up was training how to use our guns. It was daylight now, and I felt like I could collapse. Only reason I hadn't was because Noah and Rex were with me. I mean, the situation still sucked, but everything seemed a least a tiny bit better if you had a friend at your side.

Huh. I guess I was starting to think of them as friends. That's what going through sucky situations like this will do to you, you really bond.

Too bad friendship couldn't fix my aim. After nearly shooting Rex by accident ( which he was not happy about, but hey this gun was heavy to lift!) I still couldn't hit the stupid target. Noah and Rex were having the same problem.

Baldy walks by us and I eye him nervously. I was right to be scared, he suddenly throws something at us, which I realize a second later is a smoke bomb.

"RIM WATCH IT!" Noah and Rex yell as I nearly shoot them, again.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" I panic aiming the gun at the ground, and nearly shooting my foot. I quickly take my finger off the trigger, laughing sheepishly.

Then there were MORE sit-ups. Oh joy!

As we groan in pain baldy counts our push ups. "Two-twenty three, two-twenty four…"

He even yells at us in the community bathroom when we brush our teeth.

"WHERE DID YOU MAGGOTS LEARN TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH?" He yells, coming out of nowhere. Noah and Rex spit out their toothpaste in surprise, and I nearly swallow my toothbrush.

"Did you just mess up my floor?" He angrily points at the ground where the boys had spit, as I choke making strange gurgling noises.

"Pick that up and put it back in your mouth!" He orders. Noah just looks at him like he's crazy, as Rex pats me on the back hard trying to get the toothbrush out.

MORE SIT UPS.

"Nine hundred and seventy seven…nine hundred and seventy eight."

I hate my life.

Suddenly Rex stops a strange look coming over his face. I'm about to ask what's wrong when he suddenly turns to the side and barfs.

"DID YOU JUST MESS UP MY LAWN?!" Baldy roars.

I carefully inch away from poor Rex.

Next we had class inside, we sit at table two by two, so I end up next to some stranger and the other two are at the table next to me. We were supposed to be disassembling our net guns, which basically meant I try to copy everything the guy with the messy dark red hair and green eyes next to me was doing. Except that he was so freaking quick his hands were a blur and he was done before I even knew what happened. He turns to me, a smug grin on his face.

VERY bad idea to give a grumpy, tired, teenager a gun. I didn't even want to shoot the guy. I just wanted to bash his brains out.

"Can't you even disassemble a simple neroditangent grid?!" Baldy yells, bring me out of my murderous thoughts. I turn to my left and watch as Baldy shouts at Rex.

"I can do more with one hand then you can do with two extra giant fists!" Baldy roars.

Oh boy. Rex puts down his gun on the table, and leaps to his feet. "Can't you just take a break for one minute?!"

"My job is to trains soldiers. Every minute I spend with you-" He pokes Rex in the chest. "Real Providence cadets are not getting the benefit of my EVO killing expertise!"

"The horror." I mutter under my breath, the guy next to me snickers. At least somebody appreciates my sarcasm.

Rex accidently pushes his gun off the table, it hits the floor and shoots a net, capturing him and Noah. Me and the other guy leap out of the way as they go sailing past and get pined to a wall.

I wince as I notice the electrical current on the net, that must hurt.

The guy and all the others ignore Rex's pleas for help and laugh. I rush over to them and nervously eye the net, not sure how to get it off them. I reach out a hand , and quickly snap it back when a powerful surge of electricity shocks me.

"Ow!" I cry, cradling my hand.

"Yeah, ow! Thanks a lot Rex!" Noah groans.

I look around for any assistance. I make eye contact with baldy, who just smirks and walks out of the room. Okay, that guy was a jackass!

"You know what? This is stupid! We don't have anything to prove to him!" Rex says angrily.

I jump back when he transforms his left arm into a giant sword, cutting through the net. They fall the ground, landing on their butts in a pretty undignified manner. The others howl with laughter.

"We can be back at your place with a pizza in under a hour." Rex points out, referring to Noah's home. "What do ya say?"

"I say…thanks for saying what I've been thinking for every second since 12:01 AM." Noah agrees.

"Then what are you waiting for?" I lean down offering a hand, helping Rex up. "Let's get out of here before Baldy shows up!"

We quickly rush to our dorm rooms, change into our usual clothes, and are out the door faster then you can say pizza. I look warily at the long staircase. Right, I had forgotten about this.

"After you." Rex offers.

"Thank you, I'm thinking we should make it two pizzas." Noah says as he walks down the stairs.

"Yeah. Oh and hey, none of this is a big deal or anything but just for a future reference, you're going down first. Which just means you quit basic before I did." Rex says smugly.

I face palm. "You have got to be kidding me."

"What?!" Noah cries out, practically flying back up the stairs. "You were the one who quit first!" He points at Rex.

I back away, eyeing the two.

"No, I just said I wanted to quit first, big difference." Rex argues.

"Uh uh." Noah shakes his head. "No way am I letting you beat me at this."

I had a horrible feeling in my stomach, this wasn't going where I think it was, was it?

"I'm not quitting." Noah announces.

"Well I'm definitely not quitting!" Rex crosses his arms as they glare at each other.

"Guys! Are you serious!" I whine.

"Hey, you can go if you can't handle it." Rex shrugs.

I look at them, then back to the stairs, then back to the two hard headed idiot boys.

I groan hanging my head low. "…Fine. I'll stay. Just because if I was the only one who left, my pride would be even more bruised than my body."

"Well then you better rest up." I jump as Baldy shows up out of nowhere. How does he keep doing that?!

"Tomorrow won't be as easy."

All three of us glance at each other, horrified.

"That was easy?!" Noah cries, throwing his hands in the air.

"Compared to what's coming." Baldy states. "Tomorrow's the start of the toughest five days of Basic." He walks closer. "Oh, its pain week, maggots."

Then he walks away, leaving me to mourn the warmth and comfort of pizza at Noah's house.