A/N (edit) : It seems that there's something wrong on my last A/N. So, okay. I didn't blame OSHUJAX (sorry!) for the long update. It was just a misunderstanding.

Disclaimer : I don't and never own anything I don't own, only me myself and I, my own plot and something else I might own.


Day 2

Epsilon Base, 0700 Hours.

Epsilons woke up with the same method as yesterday. ("Ow, my ears…" groaned Valerie upon waking up.) However, once they were finished with their breakfast, unlike yesterday, they quickly gathered in the yard, with sour expression.

"Alright, today's the day! Let's get this 'Body Builder' started!" said Isa.

Everyone groaned without even trying to hold it, "'Body Builder'?" said Boris, "More like 'Bone Breaker'…"

"What was that, Lieutenant?"

Boris stuttered as the Captain turned to him with a dagger glare (or at least, that was what Boris thought) "N…Nothing,sir."

"Good, let's start this by… warming up."

The 'warming up' was done in a form of 100 laps running (A/N : We do running first in PE) around the yard. After the warming up, the squad continued with 400 push-ups, 300 Squat jumps (A/N : For me, this is a nightmare :D) 200 Sit-ups, and some others. After they were finished, none of them could even stand firmly on the ground, including the Captain himself.

It took them an hour to get back to the cafeteria. Once they were there, they quickly raced to the protein resequencer for juice. It was a miracle things didn't get bloody.

"Ah, what a rough day." Said Boris as he sipped the juice from the cup.

"At least it was over now." Replied Jojo, "Anything on the e-mail inbox?"

"So far…" Boris examined his mini computer on his hand. "Nothing interesting."

"But there is something new isn't there?"

"Just bills, bills, letter from my sister, bills, Axon Leviathan gone haywire, bills, bills…"

"What was that?"

"Axon Leviathan gone haywire? Yeah, the ion cannon got overloaded and demolished everything within 50 kilometers radius."

"No, no. Letters from your sister."

"Oh, yeah. Tanya. She was a Blood Reaver along with her boyfriend, Thomas. Well, actually Tom preferred to be called with his last name, Graves."

"Where are they now?"

"After we won the LGT, they went to Russia and applied for a job in Inuit Corporation, a minor corporation working along with NEG. They're explorers and also starship engineers. One of their many ship, the ISV Kran, crashed on Na Pali." Boris turned back to the computer, "She said Inuit's giving Graves a punishment for…" suddenly he burst out laughing. Jojo looked at him confusedly.

"What?"

Boris was still laughing his ass off, and wasn't able to answer Jojo's question. After 10 minutes of laughing later, he calmed himself down, "… for crashing an ISV on Moscow. Poor kid, Inuit ships are the easiest thing to control, but knowing Graves, putting him as a pilot was the biggest mistake. No matter what ship he manned, it'll always crash down on something. And to top it off, he almost killed his own boss in the process. Good thing he wasn't fired, but Inuit's going to give him the harshest punishment possible."

Jojo snickered, "If he was that bad, why did he work for Inuit?"

"He's good in weapons. Inuit's gonna need him since their troopers can hardly shoot. They can't even get to kill something within point-blank range."

"Really?" Jojo stood up after finishing his drink. "Well, better get going. The base reports aren't going to be made themselves."


Meanwhile, in the garage, Shingo and Jonathan were repairing a broken Manta hovercraft. They were currently replacing the wings. Unfortunately, none of them knows how to put it properly.

"It's not symmetrical, again." Said Archer.

Both Sergeants took off the wings for the tenth time and placed it again, "Um." Said Shingo after the wings were attached. "Shouldn't the wings be a little bit to the left?"

Archer groaned, and unattached the wing he was working on, followed by Shingo, "Where the hell are those engineers when you need them?"

The duo placed the wings again, "Hmm, good. But why is there something wrong?"

"Jon. I think they're upside down."

Hearing that, Archer almost fainted. Once again they took the wings off and flipped it, without much effort. They quickly re-attached it again. As the wings were set firmly on their respective places, both Shingo and Jonathan collapsed on the floor. "Damn, how on Earth can they do this easily and fast without having anything gone wrong?" groaned Archer.

"Well, at least it's over, except for the testing."

"Yeah," Jonathan stood up. "Let's do it. But first…" he went under the hovercraft and plugged in the cables on the wings. "All set. It's good to go."

Shingo climbed up on the Manta and turned on the engine. The blades started spinning, creating turbulences that lifted the Manta up. He slammed his foot on the pedal, hard. The Manta shot out from the hole in the wall. Shingo panickingly steered the Manta so it won't hit anything hard, or alive.


Celis was leaning against the wall with her legs crossed. She was reading a book titled "History of Earth I" and was in Chapter I, which happened to be titled "Human-Skaarj War". Suddenly, she heard the wind getting louder. Being a curious little girl she was, she turned her head to the left, to see a speeding Manta heading straight… toward… her.

She dropped down to avoid getting her head clipped off. Thankfully, that prevented the Manta from doing any physical damage on her, except maybe on her black and silvery hair, which was a complete mess.


"Careful with this tube, Jayce." Said Valerie, who was giving a small tube filled with a very strong acid to Jayce.

"Don't worry, it's not like it's going to burn my hand."

To their dismay, a Manta flew right between them. It didn't hit them, but it hit the tube Jayce was holding, spraying the acid on Jayce palm. Smokes came out from her skin. "AHH! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!"


"What's all the commotion?" Isa said as he went out from the office on the barrack. As if to answer his question, a Manta launched itself toward him.

He quickly ducked to avoid the impending doom. The Manta hovered over his head. He was alright, but the Manta, which was still speeding hit the barrack wall, causing the vehicle to bounce back toward him. He launched himself out of the way before his body got crushed into pancake.

By the time the Manta landed, it was out of energy, and the engine's busted too. Everyone quickly gathered around the Manta to get Shingo out of there. He was thankfully unharmed, but apparently that last ride had traumatized him. Valerie helped him walking to the battle lab -slash- infirmary.


"So, let me get this straight." Said Isa to Shingo and Jonathan in the infirmary, "Both Oswald and Tucker were avoiding their duties, so you and Archer replaced them to take care of a broken Manta. And when you tested it, you forgot to fix the air brake system. You stomped the pedal with maximum force, rocketed it out of the garage. You almost hit 4 people, including me. And to top it off, the Manta was now in an even worse condition. Did I get it all?"

"Pretty much, sir." Replied Shingo.

Isa facepalmed. "I'm not sure about what I'm gonna do with you, Yabuki, and you too, Archer. But Oswald and Tucker, they both are going to replace McDodd Jr. and Monson. They'll also help Chris washing the dishes today."

"Should I report to them, sir?" asked Valerie.

"Yes, please do, Young." Isa walked back and forth. He was in deep thought. Suddenly his head was raised and turned to both Sergeants. "Alright. You're both free. But please, next time you have to report to me before replacing other people's duty. And that also goes to everyone. Dismissed."


Epsilon base, 1200 Hours.

Ramirez was walking around to the cafeteria. He was always there earlier than everyone, with the exception of the cook himself, of course. "Corporal, what's the menu today?" shouted Ramirez with glee as he entered the cafeteria.

"Not now, Sarge." I shouted Chris back, "Got a little problem here."

Ramirez became curious as he entered the galley. He spotted Chris unloading everything in the fridge. He was a little bit surprised to see some bottle of Vodka in there, some of which had some leaks. "Oh, hello sir." Said Chris when he saw Ramirez, "It appears that Lieutenant's hiding some bottle here."

Ramirez looked at the bottle. It stunk like hell, and had probably contaminated everything. "The Captain's gonna flip once he knew." Snickered Ramirez.

"He already did. I called him at eleven." Chris frowned at the vegetables, meat, and everything on the floor. "The Vodka's contaminated the foods and the fridge. I gotta get a new one. But first we need to buy more foods."

"Yeah, I can see that." Ramirez took a cabbage and sniffed it, and soon regretted his action, "Yuck, this thing smells like shit." He threw the vegetable to the trash bin. "Can't you use the resequencer?"

"It's currently out of service. Trip's repairing it right now." He closed the fridge and sighed, "If I can't get a new fridge, I'll ask Oswald to clean this up, that is if she can."

"You want some company for the hunt?"

"Yeah, I could use some."


Outside, 1600 Hours.

"It's been 4 hours now, and we haven't found any open supermarket!" groaned Ramirez who was driving the Hellbender he and Chris were using. "I'm gonna kill Boris for this!"

"I wonder how the base is taking this." Mumbled Chris.

Back on the base, everyone looked really pitiful. They collapsed on the tables in the cafeteria. Their faces were filled with desperation and starvation, combined into one. But let's not talk about them right now.

Chris and Ray finally found an open supermarket. They happily bought as many foods as they can get. But when they're done, they saw that hundreds of customers lining up. "Damn…" cursed Ramirez. "This is gonna take forever!"

After struggling for an hour, they finally made it out with food in plastic bags. Ray drove like crazy back to base, causing some car accidents on several junctions and several traffic jams.

As the Bender was parked, Chris vomited on the dirt. Everything he had been holding was now out of his stomach. "Urgh. Next time, I'll drive." He groaned, clutching his stomach. Ramirez casually walked out carrying the plastic bags. Chris staggered toward the canteen, trying to keep his feet on the ground while everything went all hazy in his eyes.


Epsilon Base, Night time.

Dinner/Lunch went really rough that night. Everyone ordered triple portions. Everybody went out with full stomach after cleaning everything on their plates, not including the spoons and forks of course. Chris was completely exhausted after working with his speed quadrupled. He was sleeping inside the galley after finishing his own dinner.

Jayce and Trip of course, weren't free from their punishments. They were working extra hard that night. After the dishes were finished, they had to go to the garage repairing the broken vehicles and the most exhausting part was the wrecked Manta both Shingo and Jonathan had been trying to repair.

Boris were severely punished by the Captain and informally by Ramirez. He had to run the proving ground at the training hut 10 times. He also received some bruises after getting double hard punches from his subordinate.


A/N : That's all. I guess I had written around 2000 words now, as usual. Review please! That's the least thing you can do!

Chris : Sir! I'm trying to sleep!

Me : Oh, sorry Corporal. I'm talking to the readers here.

Boris : About what? Me getting punched by Ramirez?

Me : And from me!

*Thwack!*

Boris : Ouch!

Me : Finish him off, Chris!

Chris : *Turns into Hakkeshu form*Sir, yes sir!

Boris : NO! CORPORAL! HAVE MERCY!

*Boris got hit by several Sun-Shooting Flames, Moon-Clipping Flames, and was KOed by Dark Serpent Mower (SDM version)*

Chris : *Salutes*Objective Accomplished!

Me : Good one, Corporal. R&R readers! Or I'll send Chris to burn you to ashes!

Chris : Do I really have to?

Me : Um, actually no. But they really need some encouragement.

(Other notes : Try googling about Chris (From King of Fighters) technique he used toward Boris. :D)