THE ALL NEW GINYU FORCE

Chapter 2 – The obstacle course

The 6 potential members of the force plus Berta met on the large training field to the left of the main base. It was 0700 hours but quite warm and sunny. When they arrived they were met with a large gruelling obstacle course in front of them. Captain Ginyu appeared from behind it, sporting a red tracksuit with a stop watch and whistle around his neck, like a PE teacher stuck in the 1970's.

''RIGHT YOU MISERABLE LOT!'' he bellowed ''This morning we are going to have a lesson in working in pairs! If you are to be successful in this application you need to be able to work as a team! I have paired you up as follows: Pongo and Xqidi make Yellow Team, Recoome and Relizsh make Red Team, Jeice and Tanks Blue Team. Get into your pairs and put on your colour coded vests!'' He chucked out a bunch of vests before continuing. ''This here is the start of the course; it runs for 30 miles in total. You will need to use a mixture of strength, skill and cunning to make it though. I will be observing at a distance but will not interfere, Berta you are to shadow with me, Jeice/Tanks if you need his assistance to translate raise your hand and I'll send him to you, but he is not to contribute to your efforts, understood?'' Blue Team nodded. ''Right! The course will be divided into 3 parts, first will be the obstacle course before you, second a cross across the rapids, third is a hike/climb up those mountains in the distance. There are rules written before each part, any cheating will lead to instant disqualification. I shall be examining you throughout- Winning this doesn't automatically qualify you a place in the team. Alright? Start!'' he blew with all his might into his whistle before anyone could answer and started his stopwatch.

The teams jumped in surprise and set off, Tanks immediately zoomed off leaving an annoyed Jeice in his dust cloud.

''Oi ya wanker!'' Jeice shouted at his 'team mate' in annoyance.

The obstacle course was pretty strait forward; more of a warm up. Tanks charged through with Jeice screeching at him from some distance behind, occasionally managing to trip over his own hair. The almighty Recoome blundered along- literally running through anything he didn't want to climb over or squeeze through; balancing a petrified looking Relizsh on his shoulders when there was something the smaller man wasn't able to do. Finally Pongo and Xqidi- both lacking in the height department- ended up having to slowly work round each large jump they came across, they started off taking it in turns to stand on each other's shoulders then pull the other one up, however after Pongo had fallen flat on his arse for the 4th time trying to climb up the others slimy oozing body, he decided he would have to settle for being the permanent bottom of the pair. Faffing about because of their height disadvantage cost them time but enabled them both to progress together, up above them Ginyu nodded in approval.

Tanks made it through the obstacle course in a record breaking 55 seconds, Recoome/Relizsh made it through in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Jeice was hot on their heels at 3 minutes 50 seconds, Pongo/Xgidi made 6 minutes.

Ginyu produced a notepad from his pocket and scribbled down; #1 Red, #2 Yellow, #3 Blue.