Survive

Chapter Seven: First Day

Reach Military Complex, Planet Reach 2517 0530 Hours ~Jake P.O.V.~

"Wake up trainee!" I heard someone yell. I shot my eyes open and to find a man in my face.

I hurriedly got up and saw kids jogging passed my bed and out the door. I followed ignoring the yelling maniac. I heard kids asking what was going on. Until we all ran into Chief Mendez.

"Line up into 10 rows 7 of you in each!" he yelled, everyone fell quiet and did what was told.

After everyone was in rows and staring at him. He spoke. "Now trainees we will be getting up at 0530 every morning," everyone groaned and shook their heads looking at each other. "And than we will do exercises, breakfast, class, than training."

I frowned. Class? Being kidnapped and we still have to go through a boring lesson. "What's wrong 324?"

Some people looked at their shirts. But I knew it was me. I cleared my throat. "Nothing sir." I simply stated.

He stared at me for a while than continued. "Alright lets get started, 100 jumping jacks go!"

I felt my heart drop. 100? What does this guy think we are? Just not few seconds later a kid stepped up. "Uh sir?"

He turned his head to the young girl. "Yes what is it 098?"

It looked like she got annoyed than shook her head. "100 jumping jacks are really stup..."

That's when I heard a scream and she been hit one of those shocking sticks. She fell over curled in a ball. "Anyone want to reject?" Chief Mendez asked.

No one said anything but started to so them. "Yell the number in unison!"

When I got to about 15 my side hurt. Wow didn't notice that I wasn't that fit. Looking around slightly others were trying, gave up, or weren't even breaking a sweat. I looked at one kid, she wasn't even breaking a sweat or panting. I looked at her shirt, it read 024.

It felt like hours before we all yelled 100, some people were panting pretty bad, hunched over, or like me panting and just holding my side. "Ok now 20 push ups, yell the number, go!" he yelled.

We all dropped down and started to yell the number we were all on. After yelling 20, we all stood up. That's when we heard puking sound.

I turned it was a boy hunched over puking. "See that, that's the show of weakness. Your enemies won't hesitate to shoot you while doing that. This is why we are doing this," no one spoke but just panted and sweating. "Alright go eat breakfast, you deserve it."

Everyone walked to the commons. I looked for that 024 girl luckily spot her in line. When I reached her I tapped her shoulder. She turned quickly than looked at me probably examining my face. "Um...hi name is Jake." I said first.

She just looked at me than at the man giving her a pancake with syrup and bacon on the plate. "Hi name is Rebeka." She said quickly.

I smiled than followed her. "Hi Rebeka nice to meet you."

She walked to a table that only had her and I sit at. She cut her pancake and shoved it in her mouth. "So where you from?" I asked with a mouthful of food.

She looked up at me and scoffed. "I don't know." She looked back down.

Great a girl that is small talk. I sighed. "Well I was from Boundary!" I tried to keep the conversation going.

She nodded her head and kept eating. We both ate before she spoke up. "How did they take you?" she said I could tell the sadness in her voice.

I looked at her. "I was playing with my dog. She was really pretty, her name was Sofie."

She side frown. "That sucks I am sorry."

I shrugged my shoulders. "It whatever. You?"

She frowned. "I was looking from my brother, Don. Than they tricked me. I was such an idiot if falling for it."

"We all were." I looked around. Everyone was getting up and headed out.

"We better get going we have to go to class." She said getting up. "I don't think both of us would like being shocked by one of those fancy sticks."

I nodded my head getting up following her. "No no I don't think we would." We both laughed while getting to the class, that the AI Déjà taught.

It was interesting until I noticed I was getting tired. We talked about how wolves aren't that strong enough to fight off a buck, if they were in a pack. "Alright we will talk about Spartans tomorrow class, Chief Mendez wants you to be in the Training Course now."

Training Course? What? Great...

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