Chapter 7

Me and Jimmy laid in the infirmary for about a week while or wounds healed, Chief would visit us every day and finally I said, "Fuck this I'm training!" I walked out and flipped off a nurse who tried to stop me. I walked straight to my room and changed into my armor that I wore while I practiced. They had fixed my old suit by now but I didn't care.

I grabbed my paintball assault rifle and shot at every other player in the battle scenario, it was a free for all and so far I was racking up "kills" by the handfuls. In real combat this would be a bloodbath but they were oh-so-lucky that it was just paint. I don't know why, well it's probably because they wouldn't let me out of bed for a week, but I was pissed and I had to take my anger out some way and this was it.

I was the last one standing and I had won the match, I walked out and saw Jimmy standing there in his armor, "And what the hell are you so pissed about." He laughed.

"Wanna do a double team match?" I asked. It was a standard test which has two people on each team and about ten other teams on a large map.

"Sure."

"Oh boy every one's screwed huh?"

"Yep." Jimmy giggled.

We entered the map at the third platform and stood on a medium sized disc that froze our armor until the map started.

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Go!

Me and Jimmy dove for the closest cover, "On my mark, sync?"

"Sync."

"Mark!" Me and Jimmy rolled from cover and took out the two teams closest to us, we both fired two shots one for each victim of us. They landed straight in the center of their visors, I grinned fiercely as I went for a point with my knife which was really a paintball by itself. The boy in green armor fell to his knees as his armor locked up. I took a paint grenade and tossed it into a group of three people fighting all of their armorslocked down, paint hit the walls behind me and I ducked for cover.

"Jimmy!" I called for him.

"Yeah, what is it?" He lunged for cover behind a rock next to me and breathed heavily.

"There are three teams left and we can easily take them out but it seems they've made some sort of deal, we've taken on more than six before but that was some Grunts, these guys are some of the best." I sight and tossed the grenade up and down in my hand before a loud voice boomed over the intercom.

"Millie, Jimmy get out here this minute you're in deep trouble!" It was Chief. I sighed and stood up, so did Jimmy, I strapped the rifle to my back and walked to the door but not before throwing a final paint grenade taking out the six who had made the mistake of standing that close to each other.

"You don't know how much trouble you've put me through today!" He began to lecture us on rules and responsibility, and it was making me sick. Every time I did something wrong Chief would lecture me on the most boring topic imaginable. The lecture ended but not soon enough, you'd think for someone who has a blow it up and shoot guns to get out of a sticky situation you'd think that he'd be a little more laid back.

"Finally." I sighed climbing on the top bunk and shoving my face into my pillow but not before giving Jimmy a goodnight kiss.


I woke up in the dark, something agitated my wrist, I strained my eyes to see in the dark, something wasn't right. It hit me.

This is not my room I'm not in my bunk. "Well look who's finally awake." A small chuckle came forth from the darkness.