Cage, Emilia and Ferris enter the army base again with Sergeant Farrell saying, "Good news is, there's hope for you privates. Hope in the form of glorious combat. Battle is the great redeemer. The fiery crucible in which only true heroes are forged. The one place where all men truly share-"
"-the same rank regardless of what kind of parasitic scum they're going in? Yeah!", Emilia finished his sentence as she and Cage rush to J Squad's room.
The squad members quickly stood, Cage and Emilia quickly hiding the card game under the bed sheet from Ford and Kimmel's bed.
"Thank us later.", complimented Emilia while winking with Cage, to Kimmel.
Farrell was about to introduce, "Squad, this here is-", as Felix catched up.
"Privates Cage, Emilia. Private Ferris is here too. You must be J Squad. It's good to meet you.", interrupts the two heroes, the voice in Emilia's head saying to her;
Sentence finisher. Nice.
Griff asked Cage, "Isn't that an officer's uniform?"
"Though sure ain't officer's cufflinks?", finished Cage, interrupting Griff's sentence.
Emilia chuckled, "Considering the fact the three of us wear these, am I right?", as she, Emilia and Ferris (beckoned to come over) came close to Farrell. She and Cage asked him, "Keys? Left pocket. Probably."
"How did you know about this?", Felix wondered to his girlfriend.
The half-elf shrugs, "A lot of...hunches."
"Privates Cage, Emilia and Felix are deserters. I'm making you all personally responsible for their deliverance. They will be combat-ready by oh-six-hundred tomorrow.", Farrell spoke, as Cage and Emilia pass a baseball glove to Ford, patting him on the arms; the two help pack their clothes onto the, "They are under the delusion they do not belong here. We must dissuade them of this illusion. If they try to run, feel free to dissuade them..."
Cage and Emilia interrupt, "No, no, no, no. We aren't running from you guys. Not a chance."
"...until they can't piss standing up.", the sergeant unfazed.
The two thanked, "Thank you, Sergeant Farrell.", Emilia cooled up, "No hard feelings.", the sergeant then leaving the scene, also leaving the three to talk to J Squad.
Cage clapped, "What next, a little uh...P.T?"
"Oh, yes! But first, I'll get ready first. I know where my room is, okay?", the half-elf smiled.
Ferris and Nance said again, "Are you sure you...need anything...", but Emilia already left.
"Ferris, take a break. You don't need P.T right now because you already did...but I'll meet you later! Cage, see you in ten minutes.", hurries Emilia offscreen, while a sergeant reminds that P.T. is in ten minutes.
The androgynous boy answered, "Oh...okay.", still curious.
Once Emilia reached the solitary room, she smiled happily and entered, closing the door.
Her mood had suddenly switched from happy, to a sad and hopeless mood.
She sobbed loudly and covers her face in sadness, crying a lot of tears while sitting on the uncomfortable bed again, thinking about all the things that have happened so far...
Emmy.
Emilia removes her hands from her face, her eyes irritated from all the crying and her tears running down her face. She looks to her left, towards the mirror before she sees the inevitable.
The same midnight-blue symbiote from the fifth loop, appears in the mirror's reflection in her place. It was doing the same crying position she was doing that moment.
Her eyes widen by the sight of this, and was in a mix of fright and curiosity. She slowly gets up from the bed and walks slowly towards the mirror.
Unlike her being skinny and beautiful in her POV perspective, the mirror perspective showed the symbiote's intimidating, muscular and bulky appearance, making heavier footsteps towards the mirror.
She reaches her hand towards the mirror like the symbiote in her place's hand reaching towards the reflection. Emilia turns her head around in both directions, then touches her face, while the symbiote (like her reflection) follows her every move.
"You're...you're not even here, I'm seeing things- You're just not real, you're in my head... 'Cause you're just a parasite-", stuttered Emilia.
"Parasite?!", the symbiote figure in the mirror's reflection angered.
The symbiote then forces Emilia by using it's liquid mass to pin her against the wall behind her facing the mirror, this time the symbiote not following her but still stood from the reflection.
"OW!", Emilia painfully said, "Just be calm, Emmy. Just be calm...", struggling to get off the wall but the symbiotic mass still stuck her to it, "Look, I don't know what you are yet or what you want, but I'm sorry I called you a parasite! We'll discuss our introductions later-"
"Apology accepted. Just never call me a parasite again!", the symbiote said to her in the mirror, letting Emilia free from the wall, recieving another groan from the girl.
Emilia said, "You're gonna get me killed...", before getting up and saying, "I have to go. P.T's gonna start."
Personal Training, is it?
"You know your stuff, don't you?", the half-elf sarcastically guessed.
Hunches.
"Then, we will meet up with Rita and find out why she wants us to find her when we woke up, 'kay?"
Correct.
After the ten minutes before P.T, Cage and Emilia joined Farrell and the J Squad for training (except Ferris since he is taking a break earlier), the sergeant taught, "Left! Left!", as they ran; "What are you, sound off!"
"I'm a warrior!", the entire squadron but Cage and Emilia said in unison, all of them running.
"What do warriors do?"
"Kill!"
"What are they gonna do?"
"Kill!"
The sergeant repeats this one more time as they run, both Emilia and Cage seeing a truck from their left.
Ford told Griff, "It's gonna be my 20th battle tomorrow, man."
"You haven't been in 20 battles, mate.", Griff thought to Ford.
"I have too."
"You're gonna dump your load the second we hit the beach tomorrow."
Nance adds in, "Why don't you two get yourselves a nice hot cup of shut-the-hell-up?"
"Ha-ha, you funny, girl. I bet I set a record tomorrow.", said Ford.
Skinner objected, "Fastest time running backwards, Ford, slipping in your own shit."
"Knock off the grab-ass!", Farrell shouted while they still ran.
Both Cage and Emilia yelled afterwards, "Grab this, sarge!"
"Hold up!", ordered Farrell, everyone in the squadron stopped, before Cage and Emilia quickly sank down to do pushups, "Privates! Drop and give me..."
The two look at the trucks behind and said when looking back at Farrell, "50, sarge?"
"That's right. 50.", corrected the sergeant, then saying to the squadron, "Platoon! Drop and give me 20! Compliments of Privates Cage and Emilia."
"Thank you, sarge!", Cage and Emilia complimented.
Those squadmates are being rough.
Emilia answers to the symbiotic voice in her head, as she and Cage watch the trucks far from them, on the side while doing pushups, "I know. Again, gonna get me killed."
You do, I follow. You die, I die.
"Oh...why are you speaking to me? Just wondering...I mean, I could donate my carcass and exchange for another one whenever I need...", devestated Emilia, communicating with the symbiotic voice.
Why would you do that? You are far too good for a match for me so soon. Plus, I'm starting to like you. Even you and I are so different.
The half-elf tearfully told the voice in her head, "Just shut the hell up...but thank you."
While she and Cage were doing pushups while watching the trucks, the first truck as passing the training J Squadron, the second being their chance to escape.
Roll.
As the second truck was about to pass, Cage and Emilia pretend to push-up, then attempt to roll across and under the incoming truck...
"AAAH!", Cage and Emilia gasped in fright offscreen, implied that they went under the wheels. Farrell and the J Squad look in disgust and horror.
Pussy.
Farrell dazed and shook in confusement, "What the hell were you two thinking...?"
"There's hope for you privates. Hope in the form of glorious combat. Battle is the great redeemer.", said Farrell as he brought Cage, Emilia and Ferris in the army base in the seventh loop.
Later in the P.T routine with Cage and Emilia (Ferris once again told to take a break by his girlfriend), the two did push-ups, the first truck passing the training J Squadron, with the second being their chance to escape.
Roll.
The second truck was about to pass, Cage and Emilia pretend to push-up again, then attempt to roll across and under the incoming truck, and made it.
Awesome job! Now go, before they see you.
Emilia (with the voice in her head) and Cage quickly get up and ran as fast as they could catching up with the truck.
Eventually Ferris sees them outside the army center where the J Squad was, noticing Emilia, "Hey! Is my break over yet?", his neko ears twitching cutely.
"Yes, we must go now.", steathly said Emilia, grabbing Felix by the hand and kissing his cheek. The two, whom sneaking past the soldiers with Cage, were searching for where Rita could be...
