Chapter 1 FNG

Briefing room 1 Credenhill, U.K.

S.A.S. Training Compound

G:Good news first: the world's in great shape. We've got a civil war in Russia, government loyalists against ultranationalist rebels, and 15,000 nukes at stake.

A:Just another day at the office.

G:Khaled Al-Asad. Currently the second most powerful man in the Middle East. Word on the street is he's got the minerals to be top dog down there. Intel's keeping an eye on him.

A:And the bad news?

G: We've got a new guy joining us today fresh out of selection. Her names Catra

Catra walks into hangar 3 for her firearms evaluation for the regiment. A woman with a combat vest with Glimmer on a name tag and a British flag ball cap noticed her walk in and walked over with a rifle in hand. "Good to see you, go take one of rifles from the table." she points to a fold out table in front of the armoury.

Catra walks over and grabs a G36 Carbine and grabbed some magazines. "You know the drill. Go to station one and aim your rifle downrange." Catra walks over and aimed down the sight and fired at different targets that glimmer controls, after enough targets were hit she stops and looks back at glimmer "Nice shooting, go get a sidearm from the armoury." Catra goes and grabs a USP45 and holsters it "Remember switching to you pistol is always faster than reloading. You passed your weapons evaluation, the captains waiting for you in Hanger one don't keep her waiting."

Catra nods at her and heads out the door back outside the hangar. She shields her eyes with her hand as a M1A2 Abrams rumbles past her. She walks past soldiers running PT yelling out cadence's and soldiers doing maintenance on Humvees. She arrived at Hanger 1 and a soldier dressed in wet gear pulls open the door and walks near a group of others dressed in the same gear and says to a tall blonde with a gasmask resting on her head "Go easy on her ma'am it's her first day in the regiment" the blondes bright blue eyes look at her and she loses focus of everything but those eyes looking at hers (focus catra) she now realizes it's captain Adora "Riight. What the hell kind of name is Catra? How'd a muppet like you pass selection, eh? It's your turn for the CQB test. Everyone else head to observation. For this test you'll have to run the cargo ship in less than 60 seconds, Glimmer holds the current record at 19 seconds, Good luck."

Catra climbs the mock tower shaking her head a little to refocus her mind once at the top she spots a small table "Grab that MP5 and four flash bangs." Catra grabs them "On my go rope down to position one then go down the stairs to position two then go through positions three and four following my instructions at each position." Catra readies herself and grabs the rope. (get ready, get ready)

"GO! GO! GO!"

Catra slides down the rope and readies the SMG and fires a burst into the three target on the main deck seeing each target flip down, she heads towards the stairs entrance and shoots the target at the bottom watching it hit the ground. She turns the corner and preps a flashbang and throws it and after the grenade goes off she shoots a burst into each target then quickly takes down the targets in the next room as well before prepping another flash and throwing it in the final room after it goes off she fires two more bursts into the targets before making a dead sprint towards the finishing line. (Holy crap)

After a second to catch her breath she looks up at the timer to see the time of 14.7 seconds, she looks over at adora "That's a new squadron record Catra! not Bad, not bad at all." she nods her head in approval then waves her hand towards her "Come over to the monitors for the debrief." Catra walks over with a new aura of confidence and stands next to another soldier. Adora looks over everyone and says " Gentleman the cargo ship mission is a go, get yourselves sorted out. Wheels up at 0200, dismissed."

Catra filters out behind the other soldiers after learning their names are Wallcroft and Griffen. Catra sees Glimmer walking over to the hanger and stands next to the captain, Catra listens in on their conversation while cleaning her MP5 (Nothing better to do).

"How'd she do?" glimmer asks, adora chuckles "Better than I thought, she beat your record on the cargo ship test."

glimmer looks at adora in shock then at catra who averts her eyes. "That catra? The one who looks like she can barely carry a rucksack?" Adora laughs outloud "The very same why? You jealous of getting shown up?" Glimmer looks flustered "No! just, surprised me" she says then heads into the hangar to no doubt look at the recordings. Catra laughs to herself before continuing to clean her weapons.

At 0200 Catra loads into a UH-60 Black Hawk with her MP5SD and a silenced USP45. Wallcroft, Griffen, Glimmer, and Adora get in shortly afterwards along with another soldier Catra only sees the first letter of his name M. The helicopter lifts off heading towards the bearing straight, towards her first mission (don't screw it up) she thinks to herself