"Marks, you look like shit." Grif tells me as we walk to the meeting area. I wanted to have a joint training session with the other. Being frank, I did not trust them to do it right. "You have bad dreams?" He asked. I nodded. "Don't worry about it. I'll be fine."
When we get there, and only Johnson was there. But, we were 30 minutes early. "Hey Johnson." She waves. "You guys are here early." She says. She gets a good look at me then says "Did you get any sleep last night? You look tired." She tells. "I'm fine. Thanks for the concern." She nods.
"We're here early to discuss our plans for the day. I expected to have Simmons, but I somehow got Grif. And I didn't have to drag him here to do it either." Grif shot me a look. "Why are you early?" Grif asked her. "Got up early. Did everything I needed to do, so I decided to come and wait here." I walk up to her and say "Well, if you're here, we'll find a way of putting you to use." I signal here to follow me, and we head in the training room for equipment.
"Why are we having joint exercise?" She asks. "Cause I don't trust the other captains as far as I can throw them." We begin to haul out equipment, and Grif an I start making the day's plan. Eventually, more people start showing up, and everyone gets there. I decided it's time to address everyone.
The other captains stand at my side, and the soldiers stand in groups. "Okay everyone. Here is how it's going down. We're having joint exercises. We're going to start off with some weapons training."
Caboose's lieutenant raises his hand. "But sir, are our own captains not enough to train us?" He asks. "No...I completely...trust...the other...captains abilities...to...train you." God that was hard to say. "I just think think some cooperation between all the groups would be good."
Everyone nods. "Then we will be doing some physical conditioning, then military drills." I tell them. Okay, head to the shooting range, then start!" All the soldiers run to the shooting range, then I face my fellow captains. "Okay guys, I need to micromanage your soldiers, and I'll micromanage you. And my Squad." They nod, then we all head to the shooting range.
I sounds of bullets are heard well before we got there. I head over to my team and check on how their doing. They all hit the cones with perfect efficiency. "Damn. I'm impressed. I'll check on the others then." I head over to Orange team. Literally none of them can hit the cone, the Grif takes a crack at it. He can't hit it either. God damn it Grif.
It went on like that, so I had to show them. Then I had to teach Caboose how to load his assault rifle. "How the hell did you forget to load your rifle?!" I yell at him. "Well you see...I don't have the greatest memory ever." He replies. "I couldn't tell." I say sarcastically. "I know! I'm really good at hiding it." He says. I face...Helmet palm.
An hour later, we start the physical exercises. Again, Orange team fell behind. "Come on Orange team! 20 more!" I yell at them. "Why aren't you doing any?" Grif asks. "Cause I did them already..." I tell him. Then I had to teach Caboose how to do a push up. I really don't see how you can forget to do that!
After 3 hours of that,it's time for Military drills. "Okay everyone! Time for drills!" I tell them. "Drills as in?" Simmons inquiries. "Capture the flag." They all nod, and we head out to do that. Team versus team.
My team won every time. Kinda sad too. Orange team hardly did anything. Blue team was disorganized, and had no idea what to do. Red team was a semi threat. But their communication was horrible, and couldn't exploit their situation to their advantage. But did considerably better than the others.
I gather everyone and say "Still not professional, but it's better than last time. If we practice enough, we'll be finally get there. Dismissed. Debrief with your captains." My 3 soldiers come up to me. "Good job ladies. You proved to be a real example. You have the rest of today. Tomorrow we have more traing. Meet me at the Shooting range." I tell them.
"Yes sir." They say in unison, then leave, talking about whatever they talk about. I go up to my fellow captains. "Better than last time I suppose." They nod, and we all head our separate ways. I personally head to the training room, and do some weights. I feel as if I'm kinda scrawny. I mean, I got muscle, but not as much as I would like.
So, therefore I start hitting it. If I'm going to do good, I need to better than average. I don't want baseball player body, I want soldier body. I hear someone come in behind me. "Yo, dude. Do I look kinda scrawny to you?" I hear a feminine laugh. "No Captain, I don't think so." I realize the voice to belong to Kelly, and I turn around.
"Self-doubtful are we?" She asks. "I'm not doubting myself. I'm just making awesome into fucking fantastic." She looks me over. "I don't think you need to worry about that cap." I shrug. "There is always room for improvement." I tell her.
"That's why I'm here." She tells me. "Cool. So we can be workout buddies?" I say. She instantly grins. "Damn it, I hops your not thinking of that kinda of work out." She laughs. "Well, you'll never know since you can't read thoughts."
I smile. "Who said I can't?" She rolls her eyes. "Fine, what am I thinking?" She asks. "That I'm the best captain in the history of new republic?" She laughs. "Not even close." I look at her in pretend shock. "You did'nt think that?" I ask her. "Not even once." She says. "Well...Damn." She shrugged. "Let's start."
Well, let's just say we were really sweaty by the end. She still flirted with me a little. But so did girls after P.E, so no shock there. "Say, why did you join the New Republic?" She looks at me with a...a sad look. "Well, when riots were breaking out in the beginning, everything was going to hell. My parents...well they were acused of harboring a criminal. So, as punishment...as punishment they were executed publicly."
The look on her fave turned from sadness to anger. "So you wanted revenge? Or to defy the evil regime that killed your parents?" She laughs a little.
"That's it. Bingo." We stand there in silence. "Listen...we're going avenge your parents. How's that sound?" I tell her. "Sounds fucking great. Only problem is how we do it." I shrug. "We'll find a way." She nods, and we start heading out of the training room.
As we walk out, I notice she seems to be going the same place as me. "Where are you going?" I ask. "The showers." My heart skips a beat. "Do I need to wait 40 minutes for you? Or can I trust you not to do anything?" She ponders it for a second. "Maybe." She says. I think about it. "That's probably the best I'll get."
We head to the showers, and to my relief, she makes no moves. But she probably looked at me a couple times naked. After that, we talk a little more about her. She loves Pandas. She is 19. As is Robinson. Johnson apparently like me, is 18. Kelly absolutely hate dogs, favorite number is 12, is afraid of heights. Her desire has always been to visit Earth. And her favorite color is blue.
"I find that highly offensive." I tell her. "You can't tell a Red your favorite color is blue. That breaks some universal law or shit." She laughs. "I like blue cause it's the color of the sky. And, isn't the Sky just so damn beautiful?" I nod agreement. "I mean, there is only so much beauty during a civil war, and it's impossible to ruin the sky. So, it forever remains beautiful. But... the best part is during the end or beginning of the day. That's just gorgeous. Like the one that's happening right now."
She was right. As the sunset, the sky was God's canvas. And what better painter than God? "Yeah. I used to take my sister star gazing back on earth. We got there right at sunset. And that was like the a pre-show. Or something like that." She nods. "Listen, I got to go. Need to find the other captains, and converse with them over what we do tomorrow. I'll see you tomorrow."
I go to leave, but she says "Wait!" I turn back around, and she kisses me on the mouth. The kiss lasts for 4 seconds, but it feels longer. I stand there in shock over what just happened.
I think my mouth might have been hanging open. She winks. "Don't worry, l won't tell anyone I did that." And with that, she left. I stand there for a good five minutes. I finally snal out of it, and start heading to where I was supposed to meet the others.
"So she kissed me. I wonder what will happen next. Whag the others will do. Possibly something more aggressive." I say to myself. I shake my head. This could be bad. Or good. I really don't know.
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