The cold, morning air of March hit Blue in the face. She woke up at her usual 4am and went to the mess hall. There she met with Officer Cadet Diamond Vajra. He was talking with 2 men, one of them had blue hair while the other had green hair. Suddenly, Diamond turned to face her.
"Oh! Lieutenant! Good morning!" said Dia.
"Morning Dia. May I know who your friends here are?" asked Blue.
"Oh! Where are my manners? I am Corporal Cress Pryan and this is my brother Corporal Cilan Pryan!" said the bluette.
"A pleasure to meet you." said Cilan.
"Likewise, so, what are we cooking today?" asked Blue.
"Oh! Well you see Blue, since Fort Nimbasa has 2 kitchens, we decided to divide and conquer, us 3 will cook here while you, Sergeant Red Ross, Corporal Chili Pryan and Sergeant Major Jasmine Vesty will cook in the other kitchen." said Diamond.
"I see, then I guess I should head over!" said Blue. The door slammed open and a woman with brown hair put in buns entered while panting.
"*pant* *pant* S-sorry, I'm l-late...I, uh overslept."
"Oh no need for an apology, we didn't even start yet, though I'm afraid I didn't catch your name." said Cress.
"Oh! I'm Captain Whi-Two Charles, Fort Verdanturf's cook." said the woman.
"Well then welcome to the Nimbasa Kitchen." said Cilan.
While the 4 of them kept on talking, Blue exited the kitchen and went towards the one on the other side of the fort. When she entered she saw Red talking to a girl, who she assumed, must be Sergeant Major Jasmine Vesty, while a boy with red hair was taking some meat out of the freezer.
"Hello, I'm Second Lieutenant Blue Shiro." said Blue. The girl turned her face to Blue and bowed.
"Nice meeting you, I am Sergeant Major Jasmine Vesty, but you may call me Jasmine." she said politely.
The red haired boy turned at her with a happy grin. "I am Corporal Chili Pryan!"
"I don't think you need an introduction from me, do you, Blue?" said Red while grining.
Blue chuckled "No Red, I don't." The four of them talked a bit more, then started cooking breakfast. It was oatmeal day. Yaay! Not yay...
"Oh great, first day in a new kitchen and we are cooking cement..." grumbled Red.
"Uh, I hate oatmeal day." said Blue.
"But at least it's easy to make..." said Jasmine.
"And hard to chew." said Chili.
...
Once 6AM hit the clock, tired soldiers entered the mess hall. One of those tired soldiers was none other than Crystal Suisei, the terrifying colonel of Fort Viridian. She has made quite a reputation for herself in the army, with her sick martial art knowledge and flaring temper. Just like any other day, she made her way to the mess hall, greeted Red and Blue, took her food and a seat next to Yellow. She liked to keep a sense of normality. After all, this was the only thing keeping her sane.
The past week has been a nightmare for the bluette. Helping the general with the transfer papers, doubling the hand in hand combat division's work to get them somewhat ready, having to make lists after lists of ammunition and trying to get teams ready for the upcoming war. This was a hell and it was a miracle she didn't go berserk with all the stress she was put under.
After breakfast, Crystal made her way to the meeting room. Inside the room stood the 4 generals of Fort Viridian, Fort Sandgem, Fort Nimbasa and Fort Verdanturf: Major General Samuel Oak, Brigadier General Cynthia Lorice, Major General Elesa Kuroy and Brigadier General Juan de la Rosa. Next to each general stood a colonel or a lieutenant colonel. Colonel Maylene Sharon stood proudly next to Cynthia, she had bright pink hair and a bandaid on her nose. She was arguing with Colonel Roxanne Angoza. Roxanne had brown hair put in pigtails, a wonderful hairstyle in Crystal's humble opinion. Next to Maylene, stood a very annoyed Lieutenant Colonel Lack-two Rogers. He had brown hair and reddish-brown eyes. The Lieutenant Colonel was clearly, not very happy to deal with the yelling in the room.
Crystal took a seat next to General Oak and watched the scene before her eyes. After Elesa and Lack-two's patience drained, they both started yelling as well, which only made Juan angry. General Oak tried to calm them down, but only managed to fuel their anger...and oh great, now he was yelling too, wonderful. Crystal made eye contact with Cynthia who was rubbing the bridge of her nose. They both had enough.
So the bluette raised her fist and hit the table, gaining everyone's attention. "As much as it's fun to watch respected generals with twice my experience act like 3 year olds, don't we have better things to do?" Crystal's eyebrow twitched with anger.
Everyone except Cynthia gulped. No one dared say another word. Cynthia sighed. "Now that you're all acting like adults again, how about we start picking the teams?" said the blonde.
"Right...so I suggest we have at least 1 medic on 1 team." said Juan.
"That goes without question, I say we split them up by divisions." said Elesa.
"Hmm, that's not a very good idea, the combat division isn't the brightest with a gun and I can say the same about the snipers when it comes to hand in hand combat." said Roxanne.
"I think the best course of action is having 1 sniper, 1 field gunner, 2 hand in hand combat specialist and 1 medic." said Oak. Everyone seemed to agree with the old general.
"So, how do you suggest we pair them?" asked Cyinthia.
...
Somewhere in barrack OB-5, inside an incubator, a tiny egg started shaking. Until...CRACK
Ruby entered the room and put a box full of ammunition on the table. Behind him, Green entered the room and started searching for a towel.
"Shouldn't you take that box of ammunition to deposit 4?" asked Green.
"Yeah, yeah, in a minute, I just want to take a quick shower, who knows for how long we'll be able to use one, once the teams are assigned..." answered Ruby.
Just then a cheerful Red entered entered the room. Pika on his shoulder munching an aguav berry.
"Hey guys! How are you doing?" asked Red.
"Tired.""Sweaty." were Green and Ruby's replies. Red sweatdropped.
"How do you have so much energy? You woke up earlier than all of us." asked Ruby.
"Oh, easy. Coffe, coffe, coffe, coffe, coffe, coffe and more coffe...And well...Blue threatening my life, if I fall asleep while chopping vegetables..." said Red as he walked towards the table. He pushed the ammunition box aside, knocking the incubator off the table.
"Shit..." swore Red.
"Red you idiot! If that egg is cracked Gold will kill us!" exclaimed Ruby. Then they both proceeded to panic like little girls.
"Both of you SHUT UP!" yelled Green over their hysteria. Once he was satisfied with the silence he started talking again. "Now, Red, give me shattered incubator, lightly." Once he got the incubator he started inspecting the egg for cracks. "The egg's fine, now one of you go get Go-...yeah, you're both dead..."
The 2 culprits started screaming like little girls again. Just then, Gold entered the barrack. "Hey Ruby, Silver keeps pestering me about that ammunition box, where did you put it?" Both Ruby and Red froze.
"Guys? What's goin-" In that moment, the rush of adrenaline combined with panic and hysteria made Ruby make the brilliant decision to throw the box of ammunition at Gold's head. And all of this was happening while Green watched with a bored face, like it was just another day of his life.
"We are soo dead..."said Red.
"RUBY! WHY IN HELL'S NAME DID YOU THROW THE FUCKING AMMUNITION BOX AT MY FACE?" yelled Gold.
"Um...I panicked?" said Ruby. Gold winced when he touched nose and realized it was bleeding. Red came and pressed a napkin to Gold's nose.
Green watched as Gold tried to lunge at Ruby only to be held back by Red. Then Gold elbowed Red in the ribs, Ruby squealed and started runing from Gold inside the small perimeter. While this happened, Gold's egg started cracking and cracking until a small Togepi emerged. Green watched the small pokemon in his hand with mild curiosity. He was about to call his teammates when the little shit bit his finger, drawing blood. In his panic to free his finger, Green threw the baby pokemon at Red's face, who started scratching it.
"Aah! Gold get this thing off of me!" yelled Red. Pika, seeing his trainer's distress, released a powerful thunderbolt, thus electrocuting all 4 of them.
A few moments later the door to infirmary 4 opened and 4 wounded soldiers walked in. Yellow gasped in shock at the sight. Gold had a broken nose with blood streaming down his face, Ruby stood next to him with black eye and a swollen lip. Green and Red didn't look any better, Red's face was full of scratches while Green had a bleeding hand(finger). All of them had burn marks all over them, courtesy of Pika's thunderbolt.
"What happened to you all?" asked Yellow, concerned.
"Don't ask." they all said at the same time.
...
A few days later after the Togepi incident, dubbed "The Togepi massacre", by yours truly Sergeant Major Sapphire Birch, it was finally time to announce the teams.
The entire base stood anxiously in front of the 4 generals. They started announcing the teams while ago, Sapphire just tooned most of them out, if it wasn't someone she knew, then she didn't care.
"...Team 7: Colonel Crystal Suisei, Major Amarillo del Bosque Verde, Second Lieutenant Blue Shiro, Sergeant Red Ross and Corporal Green Oak...blah blah blah blah blah...Team 20: Lieutenant Colonel Silver Redfox, Second Lieutenant Platina Berlitz, Officer Cadet Diamond Vajra, Sergeant Major Sapphire Birch and Corporal Ruby Mikoto...blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...Team 56: Lieutenant Colonel Lack-two Rogers, Major White Hisui, Captain Whi-Two Charles, Captain Black Lates, Sergeant Gold Hanamura and Sergeant Pearl Pohiko..."
Now that the teams had been announced it was official. It was time for war.