Crossing the River
Forming
Over the next two months Diego Garcia went from a shell of an air force base to a living breathing thing. About a week and a half after Jazz and I had that first training session (which became the norm, with Ironhide popping in occasionally), personal began to flood the base. Near the end of the month Captain Lennox and the rest of the rangers arrived and were added to the unofficial training sessions, followed by breakfast. The rangers were a little surprised that I got up at four but just went with it, saying it was my own bizz' what time I got up at. We usually went for breakfast around six, after breakfast the others went on their way and I went and hung out with the 'Bots.
"Whisper? Earth to Whisper, I asked you a question," Lennox said, breaking me out of my thoughts and back to reality, where the rangers and I were having breakfast.
"Huh? Oh… what you say again?" I asked.
"I asked, do you want to see the list of new soldiers? You know, sense you'll be helping them train?" he asked.
"Sure," I said. Lennox handed me a piece of paper with the list on it. Normal soldier … normal soldier… Majory Reaves… wait what? Majory Reaves? Airstrike? But she's part of the Burns- oh, there scouting operations… wait I'm going to see Airstrike!
"What's wrong?" Lennox asked.
"What's wrong? Nothing! This is awesome! I'm going to get to see her again!" I said gleefully.
"Hold on chicka, whose coming?" Fig asked.
"Majory!" I said.
"Who?" Epps said.
"Oh, um, when I was a kid she was kind of my best friend," I said, sheepish.
"Oh, ok," Lennox said.
"Yeah, and she's probably scouting,"
"Scouting?" Lennox asked.
"Yeah. If the burns unit hears about a classified government program such as this one, they'll send a scout- such as Majory- to see what it's about. Um speaking of which, have you guys picked a name yet?" I asked.
"That's a bit off-topic, don't you think?" Lennox asked.
"Yeah, well that's where my mind decided to go and I'm going to stick with it," I said.
"Okay, and no, we haven't," Lennox said.
"Hmm… well, what if we sorta named it after the treaty? Like Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Team?" Epps said.
"No," the rest of us said in unison. I snapped my fingers.
"What about instead of a name we use an acronym? How about we just call it N.E.S.T?"
"Nest? Like a birds nest?" Fig asked.
"No, as in N-E-S-T. And then we just let people decide what it stands for by themselves," I said.
"That's actually kinda…" Lennox said.
"Brilliant?" Epps said.
"Awesome?" Fig said.
"Both of those," Lennox said.
"So we have a name?" I asked.
"Yep, I'm going to inform the JCS," Lennox said, getting up.
"'kay, see ya later," I said. The others said their goodbyes to Lennox and then turned to me.
"Nice job!" Epps said, clapping me on the shoulder.
"Thank you. Hey Fig, want to go for a walk?" I said.
"Sure," Fig said.
"Hey! What about me?" Epps pouted.
"We're going to be talking I Spanish, I need the practice," I said.
"Oh, ok, you go on ahead then," Epps said.
"Bye Epps!" Fig and I shouted, heading outside.
Ok, so that took waaaay longer than it should've, and I have no excuses for that besides school and writers' block. i am so sorry people. i had this written up a few days ago, but then my internet decided to hate me. anyway enjoy, read, and review!