Chapter 3: Legionarre Training
The 10 Legionarres-in-training stood at attention as their Sergeant paced the ground in front of them.
Sergeant: At ease. You and many other recruits are being trained to become one of the most technologically advanced soldiers on the battlefield. You will be able to chrono-shift from 1 place to the other; you will be able to erase objects out of time; and you might be our last-line of defence.
Legionarres: Sir, yes sir!
Sergeant: Now, to start you off, you all need your uniforms.
Training continued for these 10 recruits for many weeks. Meanwhile, Germany was still being steadily taken over by Yuri. And somehow, 1 particular Legionarre, Matthew, could feel it.
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Matthew: Aaaargh.
He awoke with a start, sweating. He had just seen flashes of Berlin. The people being terrorised, controlled, put into a machine and not coming out again. And he had seen the face of their foe, Yuri! He has armies of him, clones, and each Yuri clone has 1 Allie or civilian person under their control. Was this what they are being trained for? Did they have to fight someone as sadistic as that? Matthew threw off his sheets and hopped in his Legionarre uniform, gun uncharged. He headed for the training block, to throw his mind off what he had just "seen". He chrono-shifted around until he had quite forgotten why he had come in the first place. He returned to his bunk, not noticing the slumped figure in the corner.
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Tanya: How the hell did you end up like this!?!?!
The heavily scarred face of General Carval loomed into Tanya's vision.
Carval: Even though the Crazy Ivan scared the hell out of me standing at my door like that, they can't kill a General with a surprise attack like that.
Carval kept droning on.
Tanya: Why don't you just shut the hell up!
Carval: Now, what was I meant to do?
A more sinister voice filled the room: You were explaining the mutating process.
Carval: Oh yes, I was explaining the mutating process. You will "witness" a mutation of a person into 1 of our units.
Sinister voice: Start the process, I have more clones to create.
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Geoffrey had completed the Allied Grinder, and awaiting the Generals word to start the simulation.
General: Go ahead Geoff, let's see what you've got.
Geoffrey spent the next half-hour explaining and showing the General the Grinder. He showed him inside, how the Grinder used minimal power, and spared the resources to make the most out of what they had.
Geoffrey: In conclusion General, 1 GI in this machine will give us up to $20,000.
General: Well Geoffrey. You've done it again; I'll give this to our engineers and see what they make of it. But 1 question Geoffrey.
Geoffrey: Yes General?
General: How did a Comm. Expert come up with this.
Geoffrey: When you're always in contact with people on the field, you pick up a few things.
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The 10 recruits were up at 0600 practicing their shifting. 1 recruit, James, was acting a bit odd. He kept shifting outside the block and landing on his head. At 1 point in time he landed on Matthew's shoulders. Matthew felt something different about him, but he wasn't sure what.
Sergeant: James, come here, come HERE!
Daniel: Yes sir.
He climbed down from the roof beam on which he had just landed.
Matthew saw a "familiar" figure through the window. He heard the Sergeant's murmurs as he spoke to James. Matthew saw the figure nod his head.
Matthew fired at the Yuri Clone as Daniel fired at the Sergeant.
The 10 Legionarres-in-training stood at attention as their Sergeant paced the ground in front of them.
Sergeant: At ease. You and many other recruits are being trained to become one of the most technologically advanced soldiers on the battlefield. You will be able to chrono-shift from 1 place to the other; you will be able to erase objects out of time; and you might be our last-line of defence.
Legionarres: Sir, yes sir!
Sergeant: Now, to start you off, you all need your uniforms.
Training continued for these 10 recruits for many weeks. Meanwhile, Germany was still being steadily taken over by Yuri. And somehow, 1 particular Legionarre, Matthew, could feel it.
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Matthew: Aaaargh.
He awoke with a start, sweating. He had just seen flashes of Berlin. The people being terrorised, controlled, put into a machine and not coming out again. And he had seen the face of their foe, Yuri! He has armies of him, clones, and each Yuri clone has 1 Allie or civilian person under their control. Was this what they are being trained for? Did they have to fight someone as sadistic as that? Matthew threw off his sheets and hopped in his Legionarre uniform, gun uncharged. He headed for the training block, to throw his mind off what he had just "seen". He chrono-shifted around until he had quite forgotten why he had come in the first place. He returned to his bunk, not noticing the slumped figure in the corner.
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Tanya: How the hell did you end up like this!?!?!
The heavily scarred face of General Carval loomed into Tanya's vision.
Carval: Even though the Crazy Ivan scared the hell out of me standing at my door like that, they can't kill a General with a surprise attack like that.
Carval kept droning on.
Tanya: Why don't you just shut the hell up!
Carval: Now, what was I meant to do?
A more sinister voice filled the room: You were explaining the mutating process.
Carval: Oh yes, I was explaining the mutating process. You will "witness" a mutation of a person into 1 of our units.
Sinister voice: Start the process, I have more clones to create.
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Geoffrey had completed the Allied Grinder, and awaiting the Generals word to start the simulation.
General: Go ahead Geoff, let's see what you've got.
Geoffrey spent the next half-hour explaining and showing the General the Grinder. He showed him inside, how the Grinder used minimal power, and spared the resources to make the most out of what they had.
Geoffrey: In conclusion General, 1 GI in this machine will give us up to $20,000.
General: Well Geoffrey. You've done it again; I'll give this to our engineers and see what they make of it. But 1 question Geoffrey.
Geoffrey: Yes General?
General: How did a Comm. Expert come up with this.
Geoffrey: When you're always in contact with people on the field, you pick up a few things.
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The 10 recruits were up at 0600 practicing their shifting. 1 recruit, James, was acting a bit odd. He kept shifting outside the block and landing on his head. At 1 point in time he landed on Matthew's shoulders. Matthew felt something different about him, but he wasn't sure what.
Sergeant: James, come here, come HERE!
Daniel: Yes sir.
He climbed down from the roof beam on which he had just landed.
Matthew saw a "familiar" figure through the window. He heard the Sergeant's murmurs as he spoke to James. Matthew saw the figure nod his head.
Matthew fired at the Yuri Clone as Daniel fired at the Sergeant.