Entering the Base
Yeah I hafta agree with you there Anjo, chapter three (Bunnies. I was in a VERY uncreative mood :D) wasn't the most interesting chapter of the lot but…. I think you'll like this one a lot….. or think I have completely screwed up the fic. Either way there will be major effects….and to italicise, if you have Microsoft word all you hafta do is look up at the top of the page where all the page settings are beside the font size. There is a B, I, U. the B means Bold, the I means Italicized and the U means underline. You highlight the words you want italicized and click the I. Presto, italicized words. There, I hope you understand… cause I sure don't… J/K!!! lol well T.T.Y.L. pps. ~OceanGurl
As Rick was paying the bill I told Seifer what was going on, and we hurried out the other door of the diner and too the ally where Rick would meet us. And while we were waiting for Rick he lectured me about forgetting major stuff like that.
"Ok Tyler, lets see what you got," Rick got in his ready stance, so did Seifer.
Seifer made the first move. Go figure. And nearly gave Rick a scare like Squall's but Rick was fast at blocking. Man Seifer liked to do that, so did Squall. I still have a mark from when he slashed the bridge of my nose. Anyway, Seifer tried to get him again but Rick ducked down and tripped him. He didn't do that with me! Yeah, and he put his sword against Seifer's throat.
"You fight well, too," he commented, helping Seifer up.
"Yeah, I know," Seifer soaked in the compliments.
"Well, you should be if you've been training with Brook," Rick Winked at me. "Anyway, my commander wants to put you threw a series of physical tests. To see how much you can handle, then there will be some skill tests and a blindfolded listening test. Ready to go?" huh? And we had no time to prepare?
"Yup," I answered
We started head for our vehicles, Rick would take his car and Seifer would come with me on my bike, but someone grabbed my arm.
"Hey sweet thing," Irvine said. "Where are you guys going?" he whispered. "Wanna, go take a ride?" He pointed to the yellow convertible. He was good at playing his part. If I didn't know it all was BS, then I woulda believed him and slapped him.
"Let go of me," I shook off his grip. "To see his commander. I'll keep in touch," I whispered, then shoved him away and joined Seifer at my bike.
"What was that all about?" He asked like he didn't know.
"Some freak wanting me to go with him," I hopped on the bike and followed Rick's black Jaguar.
We stopped outside this small warehouse a few miles out of the city. All of a sudden the ground the car was on started sinking. Like an elevator! Hehe, I'm so smart. This elevator took us under the warehouse a long way down. The place was huge! There were like five floors, all under the warehouse and under almost half the city. There were different entrances everywhere.
"Wow, this place is huge!" Seifer exclaimed eyes widened.
Rick nodded. "This is the Galbadian army base. Ever wonder where all of those soldiers and weapons are? It's all under ground," it took about five minutes to get to the very bottom of the base.
"Stevens," An officer greeted Rick when he got out of the car.
"Sir!" Rick saluted. "These are the new recruits; Brook Michelle and Riccie Tyler,"
"They don't look like much Stevens. Prove me wrong. The training will begin in an hour. Give them a full tour of the facility,"
"Sir!" Rick saluted again then faced us. "Don't mind him, he's a very judgmental person but when he sees you're skills you'll be treated like royalty here. So um, follow me,"
"So I just leave my bike here?" I asked not wanting anything to happen to it.
"Yeah, it'll be fine."
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Floor one was the main 'dorm rooms' you could call them. Everybody had there own room. It also had the cafeteria on it and the Garage for army-owned cars. The higher-ranking people were on the second floor with bigger rooms and more comfortable mattresses. The conference room, the planning room and the higher-ranking people's cafeteria was up there too. Floor three was all one big lab experiment that we got absolutely no information on except that is was highly classified information and that if we went on the third floor it would be considered trespassing and we'd be killed on sight. Plus you need a special card for the elevators to even stop on that floor. The fourth floor was weapons, ammo, magic and battle suits. Man they had guns of all kinds! From the high techeist lazar to the most simple little handgun. They had cross bows and swords and they had this thing that they invented that you put over you're eyes like sunglasses and use your mind to shoot lazar beams to where ever you're looking at. They're still kinda defaulty but they're so cool! There's also a target practice. Floor five was a walkway that surrounded the whole place and was simply used for a front door. People where coming and going all the time and floor five got them in and out. Oh yeah, and all the floors except floor five were carved into the rock wall. The whole place was a cave and in the middle on bottom floor was the Training area.
"Ok, so that's basically it that you're aloud to see so um these people will take you to you're rooms where you will get changed into these," he handed us a black t-shirt and blue sweatpants. "And report back here for you're testes. Oh and Bring you're Gunblade's,"
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"Ok tropes listen up and listen good. To get in this army you need to be the best of the best. We need to know that you won't choke under pressure, that you won't mix up orders and that you know the mission comes first. Everything else second," The Acting Sub-Lieutenant lectured. "You will be put threw a series of tests that will be monitored very carefully. I can tell you right now that at least half of you won't make it past tomorrow in our tests," We were all in line starring at the wall ahead of us, instructed not to make eye contact or it would ruin our concentration. "When I leave, Drill Sergeant Mac' Lane will start the tests," The short scrawny ASL nodded to a tall muscular tank of a drill sergeant.
"Before we start anything, is anybody allergic to anything such as peanuts and bee stings?" a few people raised their hands shakily. "Well then GET OUT! We don't need allergies in this army. Out, out, OUT!!!" He screamed pointing to the door. They all ran out in a hurry. "Ok then," he said in a much more calm voice. "On your knees now. Were gonna see how many push ups you new recruits can do. Lean forward, one foot out in back ready…and if you girls wanna do those weak little 'girl push ups' then I expect more from you than the guys. Ok ready, down on one and up on two. Ready go...one…two…one…two…." and he went on like that. One by one people started dropping, I didn't for a wile, one I wanted to show off and be 'better then the best' kind of thing and two, I naturally had a lot of endurance. Too bad I can't say the same for half the people here. I think I dropped out after eighty-five and I really had to work for that. After everybody was laying down panting he walked along the line and stopped at this girl.
"Stand up girl," He snorted. The blond got up and he grasped her wrist. Holding it up as high as he could without yanking it out of its socket he continued. "She was the first to drop! A girl, why am I not surprised," he pushed her down and walked over to Seifer. "He was the last to drop with ninety seven push ups. Stand up son," Seifer stood up panting. "What's your name son?"
"Se…. Tyler Sir," Seifer answered.
The drill Sergeant smirked. "Mine too son. You did a good job," he complimented. Seifer sat back down as Sarg pointed to of the scrawny, medium and some-what built guys. "Stand up, all of you," he walked over to the scrawniest guy. "You were the first guy to drop out and I'm proud of you…or I would have been if she hadn't beaten you buy fifty-three push-ups!" he pointed right at me angrily. "Back down all of ya and you," he looked at me now. "Stand up!" I scrambled to be up before he reached me. I met my goal. "You did pretty well, for a girl," he chuckled and looked over at the six guys who beat my score. They were all laughing, Seifer included. I'm starting to think he really doesn't like girls.
"I can do just as good or even better then any of those guys," I retorted before I could stop myself.
"Ok, you want to be treated like a guy? Fine you will do the same strength, endurance and skill tests. And if you don't get ninety's and over on all of them you'll fail, just like all the rest of the guys."
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"Test one, a simple skill test, take out you're weapons and pair up," Seifer and Me were like drawn to each other magnetically. "Ok" the woman doing this test clapped her hands together cheerfully. "I will give you a series of instructions in a different language. You will have to translate and act quickly. Ready? Ok side facing mirrors… Colpo della parte di destra! Other side…. Blocchetto della parte di destra!" Seifer swung at my stomach coming from the right. I had no idea what my instructions were so I blocked his attack.
"You know Latin?" he asked
"I know Pig-Latin,"
Once that was over we had gone threw the same routine in ten different languages and it took my up to the seventh language to realize it. Oh well. Next was blindfolded training.
"Alright right side, put you're blindfolds on and get in ready stance. Left side, one at a time make one attack move starting from this side," I'm guessing she pointed to some side cause I heard metal clashing really close to my left. I listened closely for the sound of metal quickly moving threw air . . . I didn't hear it but I did hear some girl scream. I removed my blindfold and looked over. The blond who did the ten measly push-ups had a large gash in she side of her waist. The blood was gushing. She was rushed out to the infirmary and we continued down the line. Silence clash, silence clash. Then there was a longer then usual silence and it hit me. It was my turn. So since it was too late to block in my current position I ducked and rolled. Then I head the sound of the gunblade threw the air and I blocked just above my head. So I was on one knee blocking an attack I couldn't see and swinging the weapon out of my attackers hand.
"You, who just went, on you're feet. I said nothing of doing anything fancy. Just attack and block," She lectured. I stood up and the test kept going. Seifer laughed at me.
That's pretty much all we did for now. It was so hard though cause we mostly worked on that blindfolded stuff and everybody got cut up some-what bad. Including Seifer hehe. And the Acting Sub- Lieutenant was right. Almost half of the people did drop out but the blond girl stayed. I envy her for putting up with all this crap. So now I'm in Seifer's room.
"You're so mean Seifer. You're not s'posed to laugh at me," I complained sticking my toung out and shoving him onto his bed. To which he replied sitting up. "Hehe, I know but it was funny," he started laughing again. I sat in his chair and scowled. Hehe there was probably no effect but it was fun to scowl. Especially when you're not really mad. "So, tomorrow we're being tested hand to hand combat. Wanna practice?" I rolled my eyes at him, but why not? There's nothing else to do.
"Well, if you feel like getting beaten by a girl…. again" I added that last part for effect. He got up and swung at me before I was ready. But I ducked and kicked his shin and stood up. I swung a punch to his face that was completely off balance so I couldn't do much when he used my off balanceness to his advantage and picked me up over his head and threw me onto his bed.
"Oh real mature Seifer. Like I'd do anything with you" I remarked Sarcastically making sure he knew I was joking.
"Yeah, like I'd want to," he retorted just as sarcastically then came at me ready to dropkick my stomach. I rolled off the bed and under his legs. Pushing him onto the bead I got up, straddled him and got really to punch him. Then I realized what I was doing. Not the punching Seifer part…. but the straddling Seifer part. "Well this is interesting" he remarked.
"Shut up. I just thought of something. There are GBS's that know what we look like. So were gonna hafta like die our hair and stuff," he nodded in agreement. "Whatever. So, what color would look best on me?" I smiled and looked into his eyes. There was a long silence as Seifer looked back into mine. I don't know why I did it, but I leaned down and kissed him. He was a little baffled for a second, then started kissing me back. I stopped it. "Light brown,"
"Light brown what?" he asked confused. "You'd look good with light brown, non-gelled hair. With brown contacts," he chuckled rolled me over so that we were both on our sides facing each other and continued kissing me. His kisses deepened and he pulled off his shirt. So did I. And you know what happened next. Do I need to explain it?
~*~
"Alex. Alex wake up," Seifer shook my shoulder gently waking me up.
"Wah?" I asked groggily and examined my surroundings. I was in a double bed facing the wall beside Seifer.
"I'm just gonna have a shower. You can have one when I'm finished," and that's when I remembered what I did the night before.
"Ok," When he got out of the bed it went cold so I pulled the covers up to my neck. Wow, so it wasn't all a dream. I grabbed one of Seifer's shirts off the floor and put it on wile I looked for a towel. I found one in a closet and wrapped it around me for when I went in the shower. I guess all the rooms have face cloths and towels. I sat waiting on the bed when I heard the water stop running. Seifer came out and I went in.
The hot shower felt so good on my skin. I had it as hot as it would go and on the highest pressure, Oohhhhh extremely nice in the morning. I washed my hair and got out. The air was cold and I couldn't wait to be in warm dry clothes.
"Hey," Seifer greeted when I opened the bathroom door. In the little time I was in the shower he had made up the bed, folded all our clothes and put mine in a pile on the bed and got dressed.
"Morning. I see you cleaned up the place. It looks good," I complimented smiling.
"Yeah well, anyways your clothes are over there," he said pointing to the bed. "We have a half an hour for breakfast so hurry up," I picked up my clothes and went back into the bathroom.
I really do think I screwed up the fic with that ending……
