She did not know what made her different than the others. It was the fact that she was the only female in the compound, but everyone just thought that she was a male, or it was the fact that according to the people in her unit she kept embarrassing them. Truth be told she just wished that her unit would just accept her for her even though in her heart she knew that they would not. A voice distracted her from her thoughts. "Leon" the voice said with a sneer. She looked up to see Herb talking to her. "Get up you know that we have a simulation today and we cannot be late." With a sigh Leon pushed himself up and headed out the door. The simulation itself is something that they have done many times, but they have never passed each time they failed his teammates blamed him "all right gang" says the group leader Levo, "we all know what we are supposed to do so let us do it." "If only Leon would stop trying to show us up, we would actually pass," said Knick
Unable to help yourself, you reply, "I am not the reason we keep failing, if you and Herb shot as much as you guys argue we would have passed this already" It was completely silent when you finished talking. Finally, Herb said "Stop trying to make us look bad, when you keep doing good." Leon could not believe the audacity of Herb but this time he kept his mouth shut and just said "yes." "Alright if everyone is done talking let us start the simulation" said Levo. You step onto the platform which you know will rise onto the battle simulation. You grab your helmet from your side and put it on your head and you put your hands on your two automatic pistols, but you do not pull them out instead you wait every inch of your body is tense. Finally, you feel the platform go up and you can see the blocks that are to be used to hide from the robots shooting at you.
You hear the speaker come to life signaling the start of the simulation without thinking you lift your hands and shoot at the two droids right in front of you. The droids themselves are not much to look at with them being gray and 6'0 feet but you know that if you get shot with their sun blaster then it will hurt wherever you got shot at. You feel a smile on your face when the two droids in front of you stop moving, a sign that your stunned bullets have hit them. You move your hands while pulling on the triggers of the guns. You hear voices and once again you know that Herb and Knick are fighting again, you sigh. Your commlink goes off and you push the button to answer it. "Fall back to second position and we will regroup and come up with a plan" says Levo.
You know better than to fight so you did what he said slowly moving backward while still aiming at the droids in front of you. You manage to shoot four more before you miss two shots and get behind the blocks as the droids start focusing their fire on you. You look to your left and see your team there. "So, what is the plan?" you ask as you stand to shoot another droid before dropping back down. "If we all split up so that one of us is going down the middle, and one is going to the right and the other is going to the left and one is going to the tower we might be able to beat this" says Herb. You know that the plan will not work, but the others are already on board. "Alright" says Herb "Leon you go down the middle, Knick you go to the left and Levo you go to the right and I will go straight to the tower." Of course, you get stuck with the hardest route. You sigh and sigh and start going forward shooting at anything that was in your field of vison.
Suddenly you felt extreme pain in your right shoulder, and you fell to the ground as you dropped your pistols. You can hear angry voices yelling at you through your commlink and you are mad. "The speaker comes to life as the voice says, "you guys have failed the simulation, and it is now over". You push yourself off the ground and walk towards the gun locker where you know the others will be. Walking off the simulation you take off your helmet and head to the gun locker, taking off your armor, once you finish it you feel a fist connecting with your nose. The force of it knocks you to the ground. You can feel the blood dripping from your nose. You look up to see Herb standing over you with a bloody fist.
"What the hell are you doing Herb?" Leon exclaimed. Herb does not answer, instead shoving you quickly to the wall. You gasp as you can feel the air leaving your lungs. "You are the reason we keep failing" screamed Herb. Releasing you and watching you fall to the floor. "If it was not for you, we would have passed" said Knick as he kicked you in the ribs sending you sprawling on the floor. Levo approached you and without saying anything slammed his foot into your kneecap. You let out a blood curdling scream as you felt your kneecap break. Herb starts to kick you in your side, you curl into a ball to try and protect your ribs, but Knick holds your arms keeping you unable to curl into a ball. "I have an idea guys" Levo said, after that you felt more pain in your left side, and you see a bloody knife with blood running down it. "This is to keep you from keeping us from passing the simulation" Levo says while dragging the knife down your left side and then he repeated it on the other side.
You were in so much pain. Herb picked you up and put your armor on you before putting you in one of the gun lockers, but you were in so much pain that you could not stand upright, the door was the only thing keeping you upright. You could hear them walking away and you sign in relief, but it hurts to breath, and you realize it is because they may have damaged one of your lungs. You eventually end up passing out because of the pain. When you wake up you hear voices that you do not recognize. "Wow that was a great simulation" says a very hyper voice. "Technically it was only better because we all focused on our strength Wrecker," said another voice. "Whatever just admit that without me sniping the droids we would have failed," said a mean voice. You instantly start to breath heavier because the voice sounded like Herb. "Do you guys smell the blood?" says a voice that you assume to be Hunter. You think that the clones in the gun locker room are of bad batch 99. "I don't smell anything "says Wrecker. "It is perfectly logical that you are smelling something in this room, but it could also be that you are smelling something else not in this room thanks to your enhanced senses," said Tech.
"No, I am sure that it is coming from this room" says Hunter "spread out and let me know if you can see where the blood is coming from". With that you can hear all but one of the people walking away. You hear a foot slip in something wet, but you recognize that they did not fall. After that you hear a whistle, and you hear the other three come running back. "I will assume based on that whistle that you are either hurt or that you found something," said Tech. You can hear them all gasp. "Based on the size of the pool of blood I would say that whoever received this is lucky to be alive" says Tech. Some reg probably got hurt and tried to fix it them self's," said Crosshair. "And they did not tell their unit about it because they were embarrassed, pathetic regs" He finished with a snarl. "They are alive, and I do not think that they got this from a battle" says Hunter, with that the door to the locker opens and you fall into a set of arms. All around you, you can hear gasps. "You were right Tech, he looks close to death," said Wrecker. "Enough says Hunter with an air of finality. "Wrecker grab him carefully and we will take him back to our barracks." "Alright Hunter" says Wrecker
You feel gentle hands pick you up and you are faintly aware of being placed over a shoulder before you pass out again. When you awake you are placed on a bed, in a room that you do not recognize. "He is awake said Hunter, after that you see Tech enter your field of vision. You think that you can see worry and fear in his eyes, but you do not know for certain. "Alright I will be performing actions on you, I just want to know what is broken and or fractured, try not to move, can you do that?" Tech asks. You try to shake your head yes, but it hurts so you just grunt instead. Tech says nothing but takes your grunt as a yes and you can hear movement behind you, you can feel the bed dip behind you, and you feel gentle hands lifting your head before you are placed on something hard. You realize that you were placed on Hunter's stomach. Hands reach up and start gently playing with your hair. "Its okay Tech will take diligent care of you, and he will fix you right up" says Hunter. ", Hunter I am merely reliving the pain, I am not actual-Tech cuts off suddenly and you assume Hunter did something to make him stop.
"Ok now I am just going to carefully feel around your body to see if I can feel any broken bones, okay?" says Tech. Once again you can only grunt in pain, "wait Tech says Hunter, "we should take off his armor and his blacks first." At that you start trying to get away because you do not want them to know your secret. "Shh it's okay" Hunter says carefully pushing you back, so your head was on his stomach again. Tech starts to help Wrecker take off your armor and your blacks. You can hear gasps all around you, but you do not know if it is because of the bruises and the blood on you or because you were not a male. You start to hear your breath quicken, a sign that you are having a panic attack, but they did not know that. "Tech what is happening"? Shouts Hunter, "She is having a panic attack" says Tech
"Hunter put her head on your chest and breathe deeply in and out" says Tech. Hunter arranged you in the position. "It's aright just breath in and out just like that again in and out" he says. You eventually feel yourself stop panicking and feel your breathing go back to normal. "I would say that based on the fact that her breathing having regulated that she is no longer having a panic attack" states Tech. "Well now we know why you did not want us to take off your armor and blacks" says Hunter "It is logical that she did not want us to know that she is a female" states Tech.
"All right I am going to start now" said Tech before you feel gentle hands on your right foot carefully pushing in and you can see his eyes on you as he tries to see if you are in pain. He then moves to your ankle, and you can feel yourself trying to get your foot out of his grasp. "It's all right said Tech, releasing your foot and placing it carefully back down. He moves his hand to your ribs, and you can feel yourself screaming and trying to get away from the pain. "It's okay, Wrecker gently hold down her legs being careful of her hurt leg" Hunter says before you feel gentle hand on your legs.
"I have concluded that her right ankle, kneecap, six ribs, right shoulder and nose are broken," "She is also having trouble breathing because her lungs are bruised" Tech says. "I will be giving Her a sedative so that she can sleep and so that we can fix her broken bones and start the healing process. You watch through your half-opened eyes as you see Tech disappear from your field of vision, only for him to return a moment later with a needle. "I will be injecting this into you now" he says. You watch as he carefully pokes you with the needle and watch as he pulls down on the dropper. You can feel the sedative entering you before you can fall asleep you hear a gentle voice. "It's okay to go to sleep, we will be here when you wake up and no one will hurt you" says Hunter after he said that you feel asleep.
When you wake up you are in a dorm that you do not recognize. You try to move your right leg but find that you are unable to. With a lot more energy and effort than it should have you managed to get into a sitting position. You can see that your leg has been bandaged and wrapped and is in a cast. You decide to see your sides, you carefully pull the unfamiliar shirt up and you can see that your ribs were wrapped, you also notice that you are not wearing a bra or under ware. You take deep breaths and notice that it no longer hurts to breath. You pull the shirt back down and notice that it goes to your knees.
After a couple of minutes someone who is wearing a red headband comes into the room. "How are you feeling today, Leon?" Hunter asks. You open your mouth to respond but find yourself interrupted when Wrecker, Tech and Crosshair enter the room. Wrecker approaches you and puts you in a hug exclaiming "Good to see that you are awake Leon," "You had us scared for a while." The voice is too loud, and you groan. "Wrecker" says Tech "stop hugging her and move away you might be aggravating her injuries."
"So, what do we call you now that we know you are a weak, vulnerable female"? Sneers Crosshair. You freeze because you do not know what to say and you are shocked.