Caius woke with a start and blinked a few times before realizing Kanus was standing over him with a smirk.

"Do I have to wake you up all the time now? Never knew you were this terrible at getting up from bed." Caius rubbed his face as Kanus shook him, waving him away Caius yawned.

"Alright alright, I'm up" Caius reluctantly got up from the not so comfortable bed and blinked sleepily as Kanus handed him his military uniform.

"For spirit's sake Caius hurry up and go take a shower." Caius clicked in annoyance as he stood to head to the shower room.

"Since when did you become so bossy?" Kanus rolled his eyes and crossed his arms before replying.

"Since I realized what I'm going to be doing every morning," Caius grumbled as he entered the room that housed the showers. Putting his clothes to the side he turned on the water and nearly groaned at how good the warm water felt against his sore muscles from yesterday. After a couple of minutes, Caius turned off the water and reached back to grab his uniform only to find the spot empty. Frowning he looked out and saw a pretty female turian holding them.

"You looked amazing out there in the sim room yesterday" the female purred and Caius inwardly sighed.

"Thank you, can I please have my uniform now?" the female smirked before she held them up.

"Only if I can see what those muscles really look like, or you can chase me for them. I should warn you though that I'm a pretty fast runner." Caius wanted to bang his head against the wall. He didn't have time for this and he was still tired so the second option was out, with a shake of his head he grabbed her arm and pulled her inside. His first time in the shower, that should be interesting.

Caius walked out of the bathrooms and over to Kanus who was looking at his datapad. Hearing him Kanus looked up at him with an arched brow plate.

"What the hell took you so long?" Caius was about to reply until the female he had been with earlier giggled as she walked past him. From the way that Kanus's mandibles were held tightly against his face to hold back his laughter, Caius didn't have to say anything.

"I thought I heard something suspicious from the bathrooms" Kanus released his laughter when Caius punched his arm.

"So how was it ?'' Kanus smirked as Caius sat down next to him on his bunk bed. Shrugging he replied.

"It was fine, just was annoying at times when she would make all these sounds when I hadn't touched her yet.'' Kanus snickered just before Helrius walked in. Everyone stopped what they were doing and stood up. Giving him a turian style salute before the General spoke.

"The Sergeant that will be training you will be sent to your omni tools along with directions on where to find them. I suggest you hurry since you have five minutes."

"Yes sir" Their omni tools blinked with the new message and they opened it to see who was training them. Apparently, Sargent Abdos was training him. Both Caius and Kanus knew they weren't going to be training together so they said their goodbyes before heading off. Caius looked at his omni tool to follow the directions and eventually arrived at a rather large gray building. Upon entering he noticed a lone female turian standing in the middle of the room. Her cream colored plates chipped and her red markings covering only her mandibles. Hearing him enter she looked at him with her hazel eyes.

"You must be Caius Vakarian, I've heard about your performance in the sim room. I have to say I'm impressed." Her mandibles opened in a smile and he returned it with a smile of his own.

"Thank you ma'am" Caius looked around the room.

"I guess I'm the first one here" Abdos chuckled.

"Yes, and there's only one other person joining us for this training" as if on cue the door opened and came in a familiar turian.

"Tibetus" Caius spoke his name quietly and the male turian glared at him.

"Caius" Tibetus said in a curt tone and Abdos looked at both of them.

"I'm assuming you two know each other?" Caius nodded before looking at the Sargent.

"You could say that…" The Sargent looked between the two males before looking at the obstacle course that was laid out for them.

"The reason you are training with me is because both of you are exceptional in combat. So we'll need to train you in other areas such as your agility, tactics, and endurance. We'll also include some basic tech and more advanced combat training." Abdos gestured to the obstacle course.

"Today we are going to focus on your endurance and agility along with some cobat training with mre advanced weapons, you will start with this obstacle course and not stop for even a moment until I say so. Begin."

"Yes ma'am" The two males took off to the obstacle course, the course definitely focused on agility since they had to watch out for the coordination of their feet throughout the course. The whole time Caius's legs burned and his feet felt sore. They went on for about an hour and when Abdos stopped them they were relieved. Caius personally felt like he would collapse at any moment and his legs felt unsteady. Of course, the Sargent wasn't done with them yet.

"We're going to move on to the combat training with more powerful guns" She handed Caius a sniper and Tibetus a shotgun.

"Go ahead and practice with them, be careful since they have a lot more kick to them."

"Yes ma'am" Caius and Tibetus went over to the range section and set up, far away from each other of course. Caius took aim and fired, Abdos was right that they had a lot more kick to it but Caius wasn't expecting the huge amount of the kick he got. Causing him to fall back on his behind since his legs were still unsteady from the course. He could hear Tibetus laugh at him and if turians could blush in embarrassment he would be beet red. A color he saw his mother turn into once when Garrus had whispered a comment in her ear. Caius sighed and got up again before picking up his sniper. Of course, he missed his target and he shook his head in embarrassment before he began to practice with the powerful sniper. Abdos switched them between practicing with the guns and running the obstacle course. When Abdos bid them farewell with a smile Caius put down the assault rifle he was practicing with and Tibetus snickered.

"I can't wait to tell the others what a fool you made yourself look today" Caius shrugged.

"Go ahead, I'm sure it will make everyone realize how pathetic and immature you are that you had to resort to gossip to settle a grudge that was ten years ago," Tibetus growled and Caius smirked as he exited the building. He was exhausted, all he wanted to do was eat before showering and crawling into bed where he could pass out in peace. Despite the bed itself not being too comfortable.

Upon entering his temporary home he saw Kanus eating a ration bar at a small table. Caius sat next to him and caught the bar and bottle Kanus over to him. Caius took a large bite as his best friend leaned back in his chair.

"How did it go?" Caius gulped down some of his water before answering.

"It was exhausting, I ran an obstacle course for an hour and I trained with some advanced guns that knocked me on my ass at one point before switching back to the obstacle course that had me praying for death. Plus I have to train with Tibetus." Kanus's brow plates arched in surprise.

"Wow, that's true hell right there" Caius nodded before he gestured at him with his ration bar.

"What about you, how did your training go?" Kanus sighed.

"Well, they had me do some combat training. Seeing that I wasn't that good at combat in general they tested how capable I was in tech. Seeing at how I excel at that they're going to switch my training Sargent" Caius took a bite out of his bar before speaking.

"They should have you focus on tech, some of the things I've seen you hack have scared the hell out of me." Kanus chuckled.

"Just like how I was scared yesterday in the sim room, knowing you were out there with your damn sniper" they laughed before Caius got up to look in his bag. Soon bringing out a deck of cards.

"Galactic Zero?" Kanus smirked

"Hell yeah" chuckling Caius sat down to set up their game. At least they had something to distract themselves from all the hardcore training.

After they finished their game Caius opened up his omni tool to call his parents. It wasn't long before they answered.

"Hey!" they greeted him happily in unison causing Caius to chuckle.

"Hey mom and dad, sorry I didn't call yesterday. You wouldn't believe what they had me do."

Caius talked about how the General made him fight Geth in a cold climate. He could tell how surprised they were even through the video but they told him how proud they were that he managed to emerge victoriously. Caius then told them about his training to which they listened intently.

"Isn't Tibetus the turian you fought with ten years ago?" Garrus asked and Caius nodded.

"Yep, so that should be interesting to deal with. I won't let it affect my training though. I could care less about what he says as long as he does his part and he lets me do mine."Jane smiled.

"I'm glad you're being mature about this and to see how well you're doing in boot camp. No matter what you do I'll always be proud of you and it's the same with your father." Caius smiled.

"Thanks mom" Garrus then smirked.

"Did you already have a round with one of the turian girls?"

"Uh.." Caius rubbed the back of his neck and Garrus laughed while Jane gasped.

"Already?!"

"I know right, he's probably going to beat my score"

"Garrus!" Caius rubbed his face in embarrassment before he chuckled.

"It's going to be lights out soon so I'll try to talk to you either tomorrow or in a couple days." Nodding his parents smiled at their son.

"Alright, get some sleep" his father purred and Caius purred back.

"I will, goodnight"

"Goodnight" his parents said softly before Caius shut off his omni tool. He missed them already but he'll make them proud. Even if it means having to be cordial towards Tibetus.