Chapter 10 McCloud
Sezidan had laid awake the whole night. He skipped his morning shower and
walked down the hallway to his classroom. He entered and found Cy sitting in
his wheelchair.
He took a seat on the opposite side of the room than him. The door to the
back room was open and Sez could hear two different voices coming from the
room. A moment later the instructor exited the back room alone and stood
in front of the podium. Well I won't need to introduce the new helmets to you
as it seems you three…two snuck into a mission." The instructor quickly
looked away from Sez. "But we have a person here who has first hand
experience with advanced aparoids soldiers on Katina, and he would like to
talk to you about a few strategies on taking them down. Please meet Fox
McCloud." With that a male vulpine walked out of the back room. His fur was
an orangish yellow color with a white streak across the top of his head. He
was dressed in a flight jacket and green pants with metallic looking boots.
McCloud stood in front of the podium. "Hello and thanks for having me here.
You two must be the new Spec Ops." Sez's eye fell on him. "What ever gave
you that idea?" McCloud looked only slightly surprised at the rude remark.
"Well I would say it's the badge taped to your shoulder. Now if you don't
have any more comments I would like to continue." He waited for a reply from
Sezidan. When none came he continued on. "You guys have only encountered the
basic grunts." He pressed a small button on the podium and a hologram of a
small four legged aparoids appeared. "This is the lowest I've fought. Using
your good old blaster will take them down quickly." He pressed the button
again and it changed to larger aparoid. "These on the other hand can take
even a fully charged blaster. You will have to use explosives on them." The
button clicked once more. "These are hatchers." Fox gestured to the black
pod looking thing. "They will keep spitting out Aparoids unless you take
them out."
"I could have guessed this all." Fox looked down at him. "Well then Corporal
would you like to do this presentation?" Sez stood up. "Sure I would
McCloud." Sez walked up to the podium ,as Fox took a seat in the front, and
clicked through the slides each time saying "Explosives." as a new creature
appeared. Fox was stunned. "There ya go McCloud. If you would like to
continue with anything else please be my guest." Sez went back to his seat.
McCloud stood up again and went back to the podium. "Luckily for my "guest
speaker" he was right about the following Aparoids. But I honestly don't
think he could take them on if he had to right now." Sez stared him down.
"Well my presentation is done here. I need to get in the air. We have a lead
on a new aparoid base." With that McCloud performed a mock salute at Sezidan
and left the room. The canine instructor immediately turned on Sez.
"Corporal what is your problem?" Sez looked at him with anger in his eyes,
but keeping his cool he said calmly "I don't have a problem sir." The
instructor chuckled at him. "Well corporal the problem you don't have has
earned you Toilet Duty. And since our class for today is over I guess you
better start cleaning every toilet on this ship." With his hand Sez pushed
himself up and left the room in search of a toilet brush.