"Sara I hate to do this to you again but you have to shoot and run time for the K-42 to get to work"
"Okay is that the only gun left to us?"
"Yes it is"
"Got it"
The K-42 was a shotgun designed specifically for the military, it was a pump action shotgun that wasn't loaded in the normal manner. Instead of individual shots being put into the gun, like a semi-automatic or full automatic weapon the gun was fed through magazines. The magazines weren't loaded underneath though instead the magazine went in the top of the gun, so that it was the length of a normal shotgun that anyone could use in a pinch. Sara remembered the first time the gun was in use when she was only eight years old and they were using the K-42 for the first time
Eight year old Kerenai
"We need that shotgun and we need it now!"
Sara tosses the gun to the soldier who asks knowing that it was urgent from his tone of voice
"Here be careful!"
The battle was intense and Sara herself had to go into battle with the shotgun and wasn't seen for over two hours which was how long the battle lasted after they had to bring out the shotgun
"So where are the intruders?"
"They're dead trust me"
an hour earlier
"You...will not...get to...my home!"
Each time she said something she shot her weapon as emphasis to her declaration. An hour later she was back at base and things had settled down after being given a full report
Present
"Okay you...will never...get this...hospital!"
The group evacuated everyone they could but eventually they had to leave it up to the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team. But Sara decided it was time that the SWAT teams around the country finally had a hands up in regards to powerful shotguns that were sometimes needed
"Hey officers you got normal shotgun rounds in there?"
"Yeah why?"
"This is why"
She hands over her shotgun
"The K-42 shotgun only the military is allowed to have this gun"
"Not anymore I've decided it's time that the SWAT teams around the country also have this gun, you load it from the top so that it doesn't mess up the pump action of the shotgun"
"And just how do you know we'll be allowed to keep this gun and how it works?"
"Because it's part of the K-series weapons or the full name is the Kerenai series weapons which means I designed them and I say what happens to them"
"That would do it"
"Now then I still need to be in a hospital but I also want to help more then just giving you guys a gun"
"Oh no, if you're in the hospital there must be a reason, you get yourself to another hospital immediately, though how are you ambulatory?"
"Don't ask just please don't ask"
"Ah one of those you have no other choice situations?"
"Yes the second one in several weeks"
"Um that doesn't make any sense"
"Sorry but that's all you're hearing from me everything else is deemed classified"
They make sure that Sara was being evacuated to another hospital because they had decided she needed to be under observation for whatever ailed her
"So apparently the police have finally succeeded in getting the hospital back under military control"
"And the terrorists?"
"They'll be facing some major charges as for you you're actually going to be released and allowed to go home for the rest of your antibiotic treatment and you can also take your GED test and see how far behind you are"
"Great news I was getting a bit tired of being in a hospital or the battlefield equivalent of one"
She goes home and three days later takes the GED test and passes it, even though she had missed three years of schooling she knew enough to actually get her GED. Once that was confirmed it was decided that she would wait until she was fully recovered to rejoin the armed forces. She had decided to join the Navy to eventually become a SEAL (Sea Air and Land), she also made that decision to make it easy on the Marine corps so that they didn't always have to wonder where her brother was posted so she wouldn't be posted under or with him. While she was taking the antibiotics she also started training so that she could regain her strength after everything she had been through, though she did make sure to pace herself so that she didn't set her recovery back. Once she was given the all clear she signed up to join the Navy though she would also be called to serve other branches if need be because she was going to go into a longer basic training period so that she could do the basic training of every branch and except for the Navy because that was the branch she was going to join anyways if they had a special forces branch she was going to go into special forces training as well. Her Navy special forces training would happen at the same time she was undergoing basic training for the Navy but no one but the trainers and Kerenai herself knew all of this
"Now Kerenai are you absolutely certain you still want to be ready for any branch of the military?"
"Yes I do it's what I was meant for and would have done if not for the stupid war, I did it anyways once the war was over"
"Fine hopefully you can truly join basic training for the Navy in a year but if not it's understandable"
As it turned out it would take exactly one year for her to undergo all the training she needed for every other branch and finally she was where she needed to be for the basic training of the Navy
"All right everyone here isn't ready to be an officer of the Navy much less an enlisted soldier so we're starting with PT" (Physical Training) "and that starts out with a nice two mile jog"
Everyone including Sara groaned at that number because Sara, while she was used to such rigorous workouts had recently noticed her left leg spasming whenever she jogged for long periods of time, it had only been going on for three days but it was a big enough concern that she was planning on going to the infirmary as soon as she good so she decided to speak up
"Sir may I be excused while I get checked out?"
"What for?"
"Well for the past three days whenever I go jogging my left leg starts to spasm, this is the first time I'll actually be able to see a doctor about it"
"Very well, and if it turns out you've injured yourself you'll be pushed back to the next class that's available to you once you heal"
"Yes sir"
It turned out she had accidentally strained her lower left leg muscles and needed to rest them for at least six weeks to insure healing
"Well guess I will be back here in six weeks"
"Yes and you will be checked out by either me or the on duty medic before any strenuous activities"
"I understand doctor"
Six weeks later Sara was anxious to get back into the game and start serving her country after going through basic training. She arrived to where she would get that training a day early and went to the medic hoping for good news
