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Chapter 9 - Simulator

What Beete has created is amazing, in the Capitol war we practiced with mannequins that threw some blood when you hit the target, this room is more like the Block but better. I am not sure of the dimensions of the Simulator, but I think it is like a house. The Simulator works in the next ways, it "simulates" different combat situations in a very realistic way. Rebels shoot paint balls that hurt like hell, like a real bullet. The floor can shake, they are "mutts", they can unleash bees to simulate trackerjackers… in short explanations, everything that could go wrong, it is simulated here.

Every company has two hours of training in the Simulator per day. It is now a requirement for all companies in District 2.

When Beete ends his explanation we all have the same face of excitement, I can't wait to be in there and experience a "real" fight.

We put on the mandatory uniform for the Simulator and we are left alone inside, as the leader of the company I have a communicator and with it I can order and hear the others.

The room takes the form of the Nut, rebels are inside the Nut and are protected with rocks and have many different weapons. We were previously provided with Bows and arrows, swords and knifes, 2 balls that represent grenades, a s gas-mask and night vision glasses. I order my company to divide in two teams: Johanna, Kyle and Trell go to the left flank, Fugg, Cam, Ross and me to the right flank and we are going to attack them in both flanks together. We run and find protection behind a massive rock and start shooting, when you kill a rebel, it disappears and it is replaced by another one, it seems that they are millions of rebels!

Fugg throws at them a grenade, but he exposed himself too much and is shoot by a rebel. I see the pain in his eyes, it is a paint bullet, but it left him completely out of combat. I tell the others that we lost Fugg, I listen to the other speaking through the communicator, I can't understand a thing, it is all so confusing! I stand up and throw a grenade that hits just inside the Nut and kills many rebels, the other team, with the advantage of my grenade throw theirs and the Nut turns into a hell and brakes down. A couple of rebels get out alive of the explosions and run to us I order my team to get out of their zone and fight against the rebels. We run and meet them.

I stab one of the rebels. It feels so real! Like if you actually were killing a person, but it is only a hologram. I see how Cam and Ross take down a few more and I turn to see the other team, they have more problems than us. Trell kills without a problem, but Kyle and Johanna are surrounded by rebels.

I run to them just before, while killing one rebel, Johanna is stabbed in the back. I kill the rebel and ignore Johanna for a minute while I finish killing the other rebels, Ross decapitates the last rebel and the Nut disappears, we finished the mission.

I smile at my company, I feel pretty satisfied, but my happiness is interrupted by a groan of pain. Johanna, I totally forgot about her…

I run to meet her and find her lying on the floor.

"I can't breathe…" she whispers and then passes out.

"HELP! HELP!" No, please no. My heart starts beating fast, something is wrong with her. What happens? Beete told us before that if you are injured by a rebel or weapon you'll feel an electrocution, but really small!

Calm down Gale, she cannot breathe, give her mouth to mouth respiration. I begin giving her mouth to mouth respiration trying to make her react, to open her eyes, to start breathing by herself, but nothing happens. I stop to take a look at the beat of her heart, I hear nothing.

SHIT SHIT SHIT! Don't die, please don't die….

Doctors take her off me and take her quickly to the hospital.

I hate her, but I don't want her to die.

But that is just not it, I feel worse than that, my heart beats too fast, I am impatient, I want to know that she is alive, that she is all right. What is wrong with you Gale? That crazy bitch tried to kill you a few hours ago. O come on, she is not that bad, Katniss said it, I have to give her a chance, I promised… In a dream Gale, that doesn't count. Yes it does, shut up head.

I take away all my thoughts and start walking to the hospital; I have to make sure she is ok.