"Well, hello Jay. It's great to see you." It was my grandfather. He was in his military uniform with all of his medals pinned onto his chest. It made me sick.
"Where the hell am I?" I said through clenched teeth. It kept me from calling him everything I'd ever heard, which would have been pretty bad. My parents don't have the cleanest language.
"You're in Afghanistan, my boy!" He was smiling. Smiling. Made me want to blow chunks all over the place. Preferably all over that asshole.
"Why am I here?"
"Because you have been selected by the U.S. Military to serve your country in a top secret task force. The T.I.A. is what they're calling it. You and five other fourteen year olds will be used by the military to perform dangerous missions that adults cannot perform."
"So you fucking kidnapped me?"
"You need to watch your language young man, this isn't the Navy, now is it?
Anyways, because we knew you wouldn't come willingly, we took you by force. And quite frankly you are the only child in the country that is fit to do this. You have strong athletic abilities, you can problem solve without batting an eye, and you are a natural born leader. You can sustain mentally and physically demanding tasks with ease.
From what our database can gather, you're one of a kind, and are the perfect person to lead this task force."
"I'm not doing this," I said, folding my arms across my chest.
"Oh but you are. You are not allowed to leave. In fact, you will be held here until I say you can leave. And you will be doing whatever I and others of a higher rank tell you to do without question or rebellion. If you don't listen, there will be dire consequences."
"Oh yeah? Like what?"
"Starvation. Dehydration. Sleep deprivation. Things like that can get the strongest man to crack like an egg shell." "Oh," I thought. "Shit"
"Yes sir." He stood up and walked towards me.
"Good! That's more like it!" He said, slapping my back.
"Now, Sergent Maxwell is not part of the T.I.A. He's too old. He's my right hand man instead.
"Heh. Right hand man."
"He'll be showing you what you need to do. And you will listen to him. He has the right to beat you senseless if he needs to. Alright, dismissed." Maxwell saluted, so I did the same. I certainly didn't want to get my ass handed to me by some guy a few months older than me.
Maxwell turned and walked out of the tent, so I followed, that meeting being the last time I saw that jackass at the military base.
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The T.I.A
AdventureJay was a pretty normal 14 year old. Until his psychopathic grandfather and the government kidnaps him and puts him into the T.I.A, a military task force made up of six teenagers that are forced to carry out missions that the adult soldiers can't do...
