Late the next night, old man Fern's wagon arrived at the gates of the military base. Two men spoke to him, looked over at the passenger seat, where Zoey tried her hardest to act like, look like and be a boy. "Hm...alright Fern, take him in." "Have a nice night now boys." The old man drove the wagon through the gates.
"Whew!" "Now, thats not the hardest part, the hardest part is coming up," Zoey nodded. "Have you thought of a name for yourself, my 'boy'?" Zoey thought, she could use Mark, but no, noth while she was here. She sighed and nodded, "Yes, I'll use the name Elliot." "Hm, interesting." "What is?" "You're using a name that is not your name spelled another way or something like that." "I know, but that'll be easier for me in the long run, since it'd take a few just a minute to piece my real name back together." "Smart. Too bad you aren't really a Cyniclon, you're smarts would be greatly used." Zoey half smiled. "Thank you...I think."
"Ah, Fern," "Good-evening Taru." "Good-evening, oh I see you've brought us another new recruit huh?" "Yes, indeed I have, this is Elliot." "Well, hello, go on in Fern, Hirachi is manning the front desk." "Alright, have a good night." The old man guided Zoey into a building and upto a desk where another man sat.
"Hirachi," "Fern! My good friend, its been ages." The man looked at Zoey. "Ah, another one eh?" "Yep." "Ha, you never fail to provide for us Fern." The man gestured for Zoey to follow him. "Come this way, young man. Fern be seeing you on your next drop off." "Sure thing. Take care now Elliot." Zoey nodded as she walked behind the other old man.
They walked into a single room, with held a bed, and the normal things that a bed room should have in it. "Alright...Elliot, right?" Zoey nodded. "K, alright, this will be your room while you go through registration. Yours begins promtly at 9am tomorrow." Zoey nodded. "Now...ah, here, these are your clothes that you will wear during the registration." Zoey nodded. "Do you speak?" Zoey was about to nod, then said in a semi guy, semi girl sounding voice. "Yes." "Good, really nervous though I'll bet." "Yes, I am." "Well, just be confident in the registration tomorrow and show your best talents." Zoey nodded, "Alright." "Now, I suggest you get to sleep. The registration process is not easy." "K." Zoey was left alone in the room and sat down on the rather soft bed. "Step one, complete. Now for step two." Zoey said as she laid down and fell asleep.
The next morning at 7am, Zoey got up and dressed herself to look like a boy. "Hm...alright, can't see anything through the shirt, thanks to the bandage. Everything no longer boyish, but now girlish, good." She sighed, she was very nervous, but told herself to remain calm and just get the registration thing over with. At 8:30, a knock came to her door. When she opened it she nearly forgot everything about being calm.
"Alright, come with me." Zoey nodded as she began to follow after Pai. She was a bit too nervous to say a word, and just nodded everything. "Here, go in here, everyone is waiting." Zoey nodded and hurried into a large room. Where 4 other Cyniclons sat at a large desk. She walked and stood in the center of the room.
"Alright, now I understand that your name is Elliot, is that correct?" "Yes." Zoey answered. "Alright, well, show us why we would be lucky to have you as a soldier." Zoey nodded and secretly used her mew powers, without going full mew, like she had for the gymnastics team. As she demonstrated her abilities, she noticed that the aliens weren't looking displeased and thought that, that meant that she was doing well.
"That was quite impressive." "Thank you." "Now, how smart are you?" Zoey nearly bolted from the room. Her powers give her strength, agility, and all that stuff, it doesn't mind you, it doesn't give her smarts. She swallowed and began the smarts test.
Zoey returned to her room several hours after the registration tests, which she had passed each one. She collasped onto the bed. "I didn't think I'd make it, what with the smarts thing...surprisingly, its all stuff I kind of knew. Their history...now that one was both tough and somewhat easy. I knew some things, thanks to Elliot, but...not much. luckily that still got me a pass." Zoey looked at the ceiling. She'd found that looking at the ceiling when she was feeling stressed out and all that made her feel slightly less stressed. For a while she just laid there, clutching the new clothes that she'd been given, and she groaned.
They'd found out she was a girl, but they decided that due to the fact that she had passed all the tests and had such strong abilities, they decided that she could stay and be the first 'Cyniclon' girl to become an actual fighting soldier.
Zoey held up the clothes, and sighed again. "Yeah, if they hadn't found out I was a girl, they'd find out the second I wear this!" The clothes were much like Dren's. Meaning open mid dirf shirt, baggy shorts, and the whole thing. She yawned and laid down, Her first training day began tomorrow at 7. This time she didn't ahve to go through the proces of hidding her female body, so that gave her some more sleep time. Just as she was getting into a nice sleep. She heard Koji's voice on the other side of the door.
"Man, where the hell did that idiot learn how to drive a ship?" "Koji, calm down, it was an honest mistake." "Mistakes cost lives, Icharu. When you're part of the military, you cannot afford mistakes." "I understand that, Dren does too." "Then why would he go to such lengths, to secretly leave the planet and take a 'pleasure' cruise to Earth!" "That I don't know, same as I don't know why he came back using a human ship, but there must have been something important going on down there, or else he wouldn't have gone in the first place. Right?" Koji sighed, "I suppose you're right Icharu. Still what on Earth was so important that he'd risk his place here at the base, to go there, and risk his very life when returning?" "I have no clue, but it's Dren, whoever cna find time to figure that guy out, would be a super being." Koji laughed, "You're right about that. He never has been able to figure out, not even when he was younger and living with old man Fern." "Well, I guess I'll head on home now." "Yeah me too. I wonder if that girl has come out of the room yet?" "Don't know, but do go easy on her. Remember if Dren finds out about her and what you're doing...well, lets just say you maybe better off dead then to face him if he finds out about her." Koji groaned and nodded, "True, and I think I would just launch myself into space and die out there..." "Oh, don't go to all the effort." "Hm?" "He'll do that for you." "Ha, ha, ha, see you later Icharu." "See ya...hm?" Icharu noticed that the room, that Zoey was in had, had the lock taken off. "Huh, must be a new recruit. Look forward to working with him."
Zoey listened until the man had left. Then slid to the floor. Once again, once again, Dren had come to her rescue, even though he didn't know it. It was his little trip that got koji to leave the mansion and gave her the chance to escape. She sighed, "I can guess why he went to Earth...but why did he come back in a human ship?" That puzzled her, but she decided to go back to the bed and go to sleep. She had a lot to do the next morning, including meet several other cycniclons and be introduced as the first female to be trained to become a soldier. She laid down, and looked at the ceiling and closed her eyes and was soon fast asleep, shutting out all the noises she heard and just letting sleep envelope her in its relaxing blanket. While she slept in the warm, soft bed, the the room, on the other side of the door, scolding was being done.
"That was foolish!" "Yes, why in the world did you go to Earth?" "Are you trying to get kicked out of the military!" "Nah, it's nothing like that." "Then what was your little jaunt down to Earth for then Dren!" "...To...to say good-bye..." "Oh...right the crash." "Yeah the crash...makes sense now." "For some reason, I don't like making sense that way." "I guess you wouldn't." "Ha, time for bed." "You said it, I think sleep would be best right now." "Yep." The voices stopped and Zoey just kept on sleeping, not even realizing that there had been vices outside her door.