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"You gotta understand that Mogadishu in the '90s was a hellhole. Warlords controlled whole swaths of the city. My team and I were charged with cleaning the place up." Kreese explained to Aisha and Hawk. Miguel and Jamie sat on the floor stretching.
"How many warlords did you kill?" Hawk asks
"You keep track of every ant you stomp out?" Kreese said. Miguel scoffed.
"Whoa. Badass."
"They were outgunned, we were outmanned. I tell you, Rwanda was no joke." Kreese said. Jamie frowned as she and Miguel stood up.
"Don't you mean Somalia?" Jamie asked. Kreese turned to her. "Mogadishu is in Somalia, Rwanda's a whole different country."
He looked her up and down before turning back to Hawk and Aisha, "Of course, Somalia. I've spent so much time in the sandbox, it all kind of bleeds together, you know?" He chuckles
"Listen up!" Johnny yelled as he walked out of his office, "I see we've got some new recruits. Everybody, fall in."
The class moves as Johnny stands in the front, "In neat rows and lines." He looks around the class, "Time to see what you're made of."
"Straighten up, ginger twins." He says as he walks through the class. The students stand straight as he continues walking. He stops in front a man older than the rest of the students. "Sorry, parents can't stay for class. It's an insurance thing."
"I'm not a dad. I..." He stutters, "I am here to kick some ass, sir!"
"Do I know you from somewhere?" Johnny whispers
"Oh, yeah, they, uh..." He turns and points, "I sold you the mirror. We kind of bonded, talked about rock bands."
"Look, you're a little old. This is a class for teenagers."
"Well, I can take 'em." He chuckles, "I'm not afraid of kids, sir. And my mom, she doesn't charge me rent, so I got a lot of cash to burn." He says as he pulls out money from his shirt pocket.
"Yeah." Johnny says as he takes the money, "We'll consider this a trial run."
Johnny goes back to the front, "I thought my last group of recruits was pathetic. But if you do what I tell you to do, you'll at least have a chance of becoming a fighter. But to do that, you gotta fight. So, which one of you has the balls to take on the champ?"
The class looks around. Jamie turns to Miguel as he holds a smug look on his face. She scoffs and rolls her eyes.
"Uh..." The man speaks up
"I'll take him on." The class turns to see a girl with blonde hair standing in the back.
"Oh, you will, huh?" Johnny says as he walks towards her
