Chapter 2
Zero stepped into the living quarters assigned to Riku. X and Alia chose the other two. There mission, Operation: "Wake the Dead". The objective, wake up Riku, Mint and May. Now normally this would be done with alarms but each alarm clock was on the frits.
When he entered Zero looked around at the beginnings of decoration in the room. Riku had started by using her entry credits (each rookie who's creator died before activation and thus has no money is given a specific amount of credits for recreational items and clothing.) She had bought a wooden sword and a sword training system, and some cloths for when off duty.
After looking around, Zero focused on the capsule off to the side where the girl slept. When he first saw her he knew he would never let anything bad happen to her. But right now he knew she had to wake up.
He walked up to the capsule and pressed the com button on the side.
"Good Morning Miss Riku, this is your wakeup call, please move your ass," said Zero with a smile.
Riku's eyes opened soon. Shortly afterward the capsule opened up to let her out as she sat up. "So you decided to wake me up directly."
"Yeah, some how all three of you managed to get defective alarms. Any idea why?"
"No of course not. I had no idea they were defective."
"Well either way it's time that we test you in combat" said Zero walking out the door, "and by the way messing with you alarm is grounds for demerits."
"Damn. He figured me out."
"And so is taking to long to get ready." called Zero from out side.
"Oh yeah," Said Riku as she scrambled to get ready.
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"Now you'll be taking your combat test," said Zero as he was pacing back and forth in front of the three trainees before him, "First you will fight the most basic (and annoying) of enemies: a metool. After you are done with that, I will tell you what's next."
"First up is Mint," said X.
"Ok," said Mint as she walked into the simulator room. She then stopped in the middle and waited. The white walls and observation window faded away to be replaced with a boss chamber. And in front of her lay a little hat. Not having seen a met before, Mint was rather curious. She walked over to it, and was surprised when a little head popped up from under it and shot at her, which caught her by surprise and knocked her back a few feet. Mint recovered and started studying her target. She went ahead and shot at it. But to her surprise the shot just bounced off of the hat harmlessly. Now this stumped her for a second. How can I attack it when it shoots at me when I get too close, and its invincible when its hiding under that hat,* she wondered. Then it came to her. (In the next quadrillionth of a second) I just have to time my shot. So she crept closer and closer to it, and the moment she saw a movement she shot at it. And boom! No more met.
The door open and Mint walked out of the simulator. In an instant she was asked questions about what she happened. (None of them were aloud to watch each other's fights, so that they would all have to figure it out themselves.
"Hey. No talking about the fight, Remember?" said X "Next is May"
And so May walked through the door and waited. When the walls faded out and she saw the met, she looked at it in surprise, shrugged, and jumped up in the air and came down on top of it with her E-knife. When she landed she was surprised to see that her knife wasn't cutting in. Instead it was just stopping entirely. The met then jumped up and shot at her knocking her on her butt before ducking down again. Now May was mad. She went up to the met and grabbed the met and tried to flip it. It then proceeded jump up again and fire. Now May was pissed. She ran back to the met, and tried to flip it again. But this time when it popped up she was ready. She sliced right through the met in that moment. And the met exploded, also hitting her in the blast.
When May walked out, everyone scrambled to see if she was alright.
"Well, not one of the smartest moves but at least you succeeded, you need to think things out more." said X "Riku your turn."
"Ok" said Riku as she got up and walked into the simulator.
When she walked in, she waited as the room faded out into the boss chamber. She saw the met and studied it. And when the met moved she lunged at it, jumped over the shot and sliced the bottom of it before it could hide back again.
"Very nice Riku," said Zero as Riku walk out of the room.
"It was too easy and I wanted to move on fast," explained Riku.
"Yeah well we have to go in a specific order so we don't overwhelm the cadets," said X. "Now you all have a five minute break while Life Saver heals you if you need it.
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Chapter 2 done. I know that my chapters are a bit short, but I like quantity over quality. And I get a bit eager to post again. So Tell me your opinions.
