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The Trial

Fostan and Aaron sat quietly in their classroom. Fostan already tried out for the captain position, it was Aaron's turn to enter the simulation room. Aaron was nervous, scared of whether his biotic powers were enough, or if he should stuck with his firearm training, and if he did what if his nerves affected his accuracy. He was able to create a sheild, lift and push objects at will, his only limitation was he couldn't sustain these powers consistently for over 30 seconds.

His name was called, his heart sank to his stomach as he rose and walked towards the front of the classroom, waiting at the door till it slides open, the room beyond was dark except for a spotlight positioned in the center of the room. He approached the starting platform and the door closed, slamming shut and twenty bars lock it in place. A weapon rack raises from a hole in the floor, giving him the choice of a pistol, shotgun, assault rifle, sniper rifle, or omniblade. without thinking he chose to use an omniblade.

every student was given an omnitool at the beginning of the school year but disabled the weaponry capabilities, only way to weaponize it again was at the career tryouts. A camera records the simulation of each candidate and sent to the head of each job administrator.

The voice of an AI echoed through the room "you have chosen to take your test with a melee weapon, for this excersizse you will be required to neutralize every enemy or survive for 5 minutes without being hit by the enemy. Your trial begins in 3 seconds...2...1...begin simulation" red lights scattered the ceiling, before changing to yellow, the surroundings transformed into a Kett warship.

Realistic Kett soldiers littered the room, it didn't take long for them to start firing at the boy, he took cover and froze, he'd never been in such a stressful situation. The virtual Kett moved closer, two in particular got his attention when they walked out from behind his cover. Without thinking or hesitation he pushed them into the wall using his biotic powers, the defeated Kett exploded into red code before disappearing, he was in survival mode now, all reason flew out the window. He had exactly thirty seconds before the use of his biotic energy drained him, he stood up and expanded his arms, creating a sheild and running at the Kett while letting out a battle cry. The use of biotics by humans was a rare sight, not many human children develop this talent while in the womb, the numbers dropped from one in ten, to one in one hundred thousand. Aaron was never given amplifiers to enhance these skills, even his parents do not know he has biotic abilities.

He had little more than twenty seconds left, he concentrated on maintaining his sheild with his left hand while he lifted various objects into the air and squashed the enemy with everything from barricades, to resource crates. Five seconds, three hostiles. Aaron pulled one into the air and slammed him into another, seeing his chance he dropped his sheild, pulled another towards him and drove the omniblade through the enemies throat.

The final kett disappeared into code and the AI's voice echoed once more "All Kett combatants have been neutralized, congratulations" the environment he had just destroyed faded until he alone again in the black room. Aaron fell to his knees and looked up at the light until that too was nothing but darkness, he fell backwards and laid motionless in the dark.

Aaron awoke in a well lit room, the material he was laying on was well padded and smooth, it took a moment or two for his eyes to adjust to the lighting. He sat up and held his head. "Man that hurts...where am I?" he asked himself, his vision still blurred. he heard a familiar voice beside him.

"You're in the school infirmary, you really are stupid huh?" it was Actina, of course, he saw the grey face with red markings. They split up students based on gender instead of race, and the females start about an hour before the males, makes sense why they both went around the same time. "The trial was easy, so when I heard you fainted I had to see it for myself, unfortunately they had me carry you down here. But I heard you used biotics? I've never seen you wear an amplifier before, if that's true, and you're using that power without the right equipment or training, you'll end up dead out there. The nurse told me to give you these when you woke up." She held two small nodes in her hand. "Pretty cool huh? since I don't trust you enough to put them on yourself without imploding your already tiny brain, turn your head towards me."

"Has anyone ever told how how ride you are?" he looked at her and she placed the nodes on his temples.

"Every day, hope you can walk because I'm not carrying you back up the stairs" She backed away a couple feet, just enough for him to have some space. Aaron turned and put both feet on the ground. "Take your time, better I stand here than sit in a classroom for another 30 minutes waiting for-" She was cut off by the school alarmalarm and the emergency lights flashed red. the principal's voice thundered over the intercom.

"Attention all students, pirates are attacking the school, remember procedure and lock yourselves in whatever room you're in, if you're not in a room now, you have one minute to get there. This is not a drill, I repeat this is not a drill!" The sound of a shotgun being loaded was heard briefly before the principal stopped the intercom. Aaron looked over to Actina.

"I don't think we're going anywhere..." The door locked itself shut, keeping the pirates out and the students in.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the second chapter. If you have any constructive criticism or feedback for me I'd love to hear how I can get better. Thanks again so much for reading and I'll see you in the next one!