It was early in the morning and Tobias, Zach, and Xander all rushed to get ready for the day that Brett was going to get them. Brett was sitting outside his apartment door on a green wooden bench drinking his Starbucks Mocha Frappucino and smoking a cigarette. He was waiting for the arrival of the team. He was wearing black martial arts pants with a black t-shirt on. He had his hair combed down and his beard was wild as it normally was. At times Brett looked like he was a man in his thirties even though he was only 21. He looked at his Android phone to check the time.
"They should be here any minute now." He said tapping his fingers on a stack of papers that said Wavering Liability. Brett was going to put them through training that would break the team and rebuild them so they can be able to fight against the evil forces that Mesogog was going to throw at them. But he wanted to keep the public from thinking any negative thoughts they may have on their training.
Brett looked up to see Zach biking into the apartment complex with Xander standing on pegs. "Faster Zach! Faster!" Xander was saying as Zach tried to speed up.
"Here comes that jump! You ready Xander?" Zach asked.
"Let's go!" He said.
Zach lifted his bike up in the air as the two got about three feet up and landed amazingly on the sidewalk as they kept speeding. The two friends finally got up to Brett who was just finished his cigarette. "Hey Brett!" The two said together with excitement. Xander got off the bike as he ran up to him.
"Did you see that?! That was so cool." Xander said excited.
"Pretty nice." Brett said with a slight smile.
"Isn't Tobias h-uh here yet?" Zach said stuttering.
"He'll be here. He said he was walking and he lives farther from all of us." Brett replied.
A red streak quickly entered the apartment complex as the three looked to see Tobias just now standing in front of them. He was a bit out of breath.
"Sorry guys. Fwew I thought I was going to be late." He said to them trying to get his breath back.
Brett stood up and handed each of them a pen from his pocket and the papers for them to sign.
"This is a liability waiver is a legal document that if you choose to sign it states that you guys accept the risks in taking Martial Arts from me. I have gotten these documents legalized by a friend of my family who does stuff like this. There is a seal on each of the forms. I will warn you now. The world will see us as students and teachers, but the real reason I'm teaching you Martial Arts is so you can be ready for Mesogog. I will mentally, physically, and emotionally train you guys to not make you great martial artists, but the best that you guys can be as heroes." He explained.
"Umm I have to have my mom sign this?" Xander asked.
"Yes. If you are not 18 years old you will have to have a parent or guardian." He said.
Xander felt down as he was excited to learn Martial Arts. He couldn't even sleep well the night before because of how pumped he was.
"I really wanted to learn today too." He said sad.
"Oh, you're going to learn today. But I need that form signed before you come back to next practice. Today is just going to be a bunch of exercises and when we are done I will have a mini sparring session." Brett said. Everyone was excited as they entered his house and went down underground.
"After you guys left the other day I found a secret hidden entrance in this room that will lead us to our training room. As Martial Artists I think it's quite fitting." Brett said. He walked up to the computer and typed in some words as a hidden door revealed itself next to the super computer. We all walked up to it as Brett pushed the door and when we walked in we saw a huge dojo inside. There was a giant white mat on the floor with the walls made out of wood. It was just a giant gym area. The only thing that made the three Rangers feel awkward was a huge poster of Adolf Hitler hanging on the wall at the other end of the room.
"Umm this is kind of interesting and all but can we get rid of…that." Tobias said pointing at the huge picture.
"I understand we are to be heroes but I don't want people to think we support this guy." Xander said.
"I feel what you guys are saying. I would love to take it down, but all of this you have seen was my ancestor's doing. I would like to leave everything as it is." Brett said as he started checking out the room.
Brett then walked in front of the three.
"So, here's how class is going to go. Tobias already knows this. When class begins you will stand straight when I say Attention. At this point you will bring your hands to your sides, when I saw "Bow" you will bow with your right hand closing your left fist. This shows respect. When you are done I want you guys to do 5 laps as a warm up exercise. Do not use your powers. This mat is about the size of those small parking lots you see at apartments, mostly one where Tobias lives. When you are done, you can get a drink of water and take a minute break as you wait for the rest of your team to catch up. What we are going to do today is team building. If you guys are going to fight together as a team you will work together as a team. So, hop to it. I want five laps and when you run pass that door you need to shout out what your lap number is. If you do not shout out your lap number and I don't hear it, you will have one more lap to go." Brett said. He then brought his fingers to his mouth as he whistled.
Tobias then ran first, followed up by Zach, and then Xander. Tobias, as unfortunate as it was, was not a fast runner. Zach and Xander had greatly run past him. By the time Tobias got to finishing his first lap, Zach and Xander were almost done with lap two. Tobias wanted to use his powers so bad but knew he shouldn't. Zach kept running as Xander slowed down to run side by side with his leader.
"You can go ahead of me Xander I'll be fine." Tobias said breathing heavily.
"I feel like we should run together. I kind of owe you." Xander said.
"2!" The two of them said.
"So, what makes you think you owe me?" Tobias said to me.
"You helped me kill my girlfriend's killer. Not only that but how you took control of the Megazord was pretty cool. You took charge and because of that we were able to win." Xander said.
"I don't know why but I felt my Zord telling me what to do." Tobias said back.
"Still that was pretty amazing at what you did. 3!" Xander said as the two got done with another lap. The two looked at Zach who was just bolting through the laps.
"5!" He said. Zach rolled onto the ground as he began breathing heavily.
"I guess we better catch up." Tobias said. The two began picking up their pace as they finally made it to the finishing lap.
Brett then instructed them on what their next exercise will be. He walked out into the mat as he told them about a way to build up strength, endurance, and stamina.
"You will be doing these 4 types of physical exercises in sets of five. I will do one set to show you how it's done. The first exercise in the set will be a push up."
Brett got onto the floor as he put his hands at shoulder's width and pushed himself up off the floor.
"When you are done with this you will then go into lying on your back. You will then do a sit up. The goal behind a sit up is to keep either your hand on your chest crossed, or behind your head. You use your core to lift your entire body until your back is somewhat straight."
Brett then showed them as he kept his legs together and the kneecaps pointed up.
"You then will do a jumping jack. You will start with your hands at your side and your feet together. You will jump your legs out about shoulder's width apart with your hands stretched out in a line. You will then jump as you bring back your hands to your side and your feet back together. Then you will jump the feet out again and bring your arms up bending at the elbow to form a circle. Doing these counts as 1 jumping jack."
Brett then also showed how that should be.
"Your last thing will be the hardest on you. You stand with your body straight and then kneel down like a frog. From here you will leap up a bit and shoot your feet out until you are in a push up position. Once you're in that position you will bring your feet back putting you back into that frog like position again. You will then jump up as far as you can upwards. This is doing 1 burpee."
Xander then snickered.
"Ahaha he said burpee." He chuckled.
Tobias elbowed him in the side.
Brett caught that but ignored it.
"You guys will do these as a set of 5. This means you will start at 5 and work your way down to finishing one. This means you will be doing 15 push-ups, jumping jacks, sit ups, and burpees. Today's class is going to be a pretty easy one. I want to see where you all stand when it comes to exercising. But next week we will be doing all of our exercises as a team. So, get to it." Brett said as he whistled again and the three began doing the strenuous exercises. Tobias was able to keep up with the first three exercises but it was hard for him to deal with the last one. Because of this he had greatly slowed down by getting to set number four and three. Xander was a bit faster than him but Zach was the quickest. Once Zach got done he started providing emotional support to his team trying to help them push past their limits. Xander had gotten done but Tobias was just at the start of his set 2 when he collapsed onto the floor after doing his two pushups.
"Come on leader! You got this!" Xander said encouragingly.
"You don't have much left to do!" Zach said.
Brett had a smile on his face as he watched the two encourage Tobias to finish.
"My body is extremely sore. It feels like it's on fire." Tobias said. He just couldn't stand up as sweat poured down his entire body drenching his shirt.
Zach and Xander looked at each other as they got onto the ground next to him and Zach called out, "On 3. 1…2….3!" Tobias and his team each did a push up. Tobias had gotten some strength from his teammates as they decided to do more physical exercises with him until he was done.
Zach would call out for the set and then Xander took over on the last one. It took a little while longer for the team to get through them all but when they were done they looked at the time and realized they only had thirty minutes left of class.
Tobias was breathing heavily as Brett walked over to a water cooler next to the entrance of the room and tossed them each a cold bottle of water. "Here you guys drink up." He said. Brett also tossed them some towels that were next to the cooler each color coded. Tobias wiped all of his sweat off as he down the entire water bottle.
"I thought I was not going to make it." Tobias said with his breathing dying down.
"Haven't you been with Brett longer than us?" Xander said.
"Yeah. I'm just not used to physically dealing with this especially with everything going on this week. I'll tell you what this will be great training so we can get stronger." He said with a smile at the end of his sentence.
"Why don't we call it quits for today. Tomorrow is Saturday. The weekends will be your guy's days of rest. Next Monday we will focus more on sparring. Your warm up exercises will also begin on that day. When you come to class you are to stretch your legs, back, and arms. Then you will bow to me and then you will run your five laps. Afterwards class will officially begin. Bring your papers signed on that day. Practice will be at 5pm. If you are late you will owe me 1 lap for every ten minutes you are late." Brett said.
The three began processing everything he said into their heads. They then acknowledged what Brett had said as they agreed to his terms.
"Attention!" Brett said.
All four of them brought their hands to their sides and legs together.
"Bow." Brett said.
The three bowed to their teacher as he bowed back. The three turned around and headed out of the apartment complex. Zach and Xander waved goodbye to Tobias as they biked back home. Tobias who had a sweat stained red shirt began walking down the streets to get back home. "I could just super speed home, but my body is a bit overworked." He said exhausted.
He had just gotten over the railroad tracks as he saw black trench coat figure standing behind the plastic factory. He pointed his finger at him and motioned Tobias to come towards him.
"My mind is telling me to stay away, but I can't help but wonder who this guy is." He said as he super sped behind him.