Falling Stars

Chapter 12: Remain silent

Brandy's POV

"LET ME GO!!" I tried yelling through the black cloth covering my entire head. I tried kicking and shoving the two men away from me, but they were too strong. This all seams to be a dream because the last thing I remember is falling asleep. If this is a dream, why does it feel so real? I can feel the dry cold air moving past me, and my overgrown front lawn grass rubbing against my legs. The two men are holding me tightly and leading me to the driveway. The closer we got, the louder I heard an engine of a car. After a couple more feet of me struggling I felt someone poke me with two needle in to my left wrist. As soon as the needles touched me I felt the pain of a substance rushing into my arm. Then all I could feel is air rushing from the bottom of me.
I felt soft silk beneath me. So it was a dream, but my bedding has never been silk. The moment I realized that, I shot strait into a sitting position. I opened my eyes, but then all I could see is a sea blue blur. My head immediately started to hurt, as I laid back down on the bed. I let the feel of pain settle down in my head. I tried looking around me, but my vision made everything look blurred and every time I opened my eyes, my head would hurt even worse. After five minutes of laying down the pain went away, and I could finally see. I got out of the bed. I realized that I am in a small room. The bed I was laying on was a single bed, and it had black silk bedding. The room didn't look ordinary. There is a door on one end of the room, and curtains on the other. Which I assume cover a window. The first thing I knew I had to do, is open those curtains.
I flung the curtains open and a bright light blinded me. Once my eyes focused again, my jaw dropped. I could see a rocky, snow covered terrain out the window. It's daylight.
The window covered the whole wall. My stomach dropped, as I realized that I'm no where close to home. I turned around to look back at the room. The light coming from the window made it clearer to see the room. The room is tinnier then I thought. I could see that the bed was pushed against the wall, and four feet away from the bed stood a desk. The desk also was pushed against the wall. The size of the room can be mistaken for a jail cell. Behind the bed stood the closet, and on the opposite side, close to the desk, stood a shelf. I saw a grey door on the right of the window close to a wall. I assumed that it's the door to a bathroom. I opened it, and saw a bathtub with a glass panel serving as a curtain, a toilet, and a sink on a counter with a mirror on the wall. The bathroom looked odd because there were gliding circles on the toilet side, the bathtub glass panel, on the sink and even on the mirror. The walls were covered in big grey tiles just like the other room, and the floor had the same pattern of black tiles like other room also. I closed the bathroom door. On the other side if the window stood a mirror, which covered the wall from the top to bottom. I realized that the room items and furniture all had the same glowing circles. I walked to the desk. The sea blue light was coming from a panel prompted on the desk. The words "Welcome" were displayed on the panel in black. I touched the panel, and a voice began to speak. I jumped back.
"Welcome Brandy" it said in a female voice, which sounded like Siri. "Please sit in the chair, which is provided with the desk, I am sure you are very confused right now" I followed the voice's commands and sat down. The voice began to speak again, "My name is Machi, I am the mother computer system of this building. You have been chosen to be moved to this building, from your past resident because the U.S. T.W. Project Committee has found your T.W. team very useful." As Machi continued speaking, she began to display pictures on the glass panel. "You will live for the next two month in this U.S. owned building. It is called Trantine of Base Hoplite. Base Hoplite is located in Antartica. Here you will undergo training and recruitment into the T.W. Military. You room has all the needs you need. All the items and furniture are interactive, as you may notice there are glowing circles on all of them. Those are buttons through which you can interact. On this panel you can view other introductions like this, which will explain anything and everything you need. But that is saved for later. Now I will ask you questions which will help me set you up for your training. Are you ready?" "Yes" I said unsurely. "Great, may I ask your age?" "15." "As I can see from my data, you are a Marksman on you team. What is your main power?" "Well, it wind." "There are three main paths that you can go with in the Marksman branch. The AS Hunter, this path will teach you how to use raw physical power and agility. The AD Front, this path uses physical power as well, and it teaches you how to protect yourself from counter attacks. The AP Midpointer, this path is more about mental ability power, and how to use power for extra support. Which do you choose?" I thoughts about it for a moment, in the end I said, "AS Hunter." "Okay, what is your favorite academic class?" "Um..Math." "You will be signed up for the Math Orientated Field of work were you will be given a choice in the career for the T.W. Military. That is all I needed. I will now leave you" Machi said.

Anita's POV

"Think about the proposal. Until then you will not be tracked by this bracelet. It will track your location, what you are thinking, and saying. Do not try to remove it. It's specially made for its job, so trying to remove it would be useless" the old man said as he motioned for one of the guard to put the bracket on my wrist. "What are you hoping to achieve like this? What if I say no? What if I tell someone? What will happen then?" I asked him. The old man has been interrogating me for what seems like forever. At this point I didn't care what came out of my mouth because apparently he already knows everything about me. He began to speak, "I'm hoping to supply my country's military program with great minds. You won't say no because I know you know better. And you won't tell anybody in the first place. You will remain silent!"