Survival Mode [UNDER EXTREME REVISION]

Chapter 1: Late for a very important date

Pic of Jeda on the side. I know that Zendaya is Rocky in Shake it Up, but plz try and ignore the personality she has in the show. I chose Zendaya for her look, not her character --------- >

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Beeeeeeeeeep, Beeeeeeeeeep Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!!

I quickly slap the off button on my Gryphon standard issue alarm clock. Shoot, I'm probably late, but when I look at my alarm clock and see 05:20 (that means I only have ten minutes to get ready and get downstairs) Now I know I'm late. I jump out of bed, flip the on the light and run to my dresser, but I don't have any clean kits, after sniff-checking the ones my dirty clothes pile until I find one and put it on with blinding speed. I grab my gloves from the top of the dresser turn out my light and run out the door without bothering with anything else. Believe me, the last thing you want to be is late when you work for an organization like Gryphon.

"MACKENZIE, YOU'RE LATE AGAIN! ONE MORE TIME THIS MONTH AND I'LL PUT YOU ON PROBATION! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR YOUNG LADY?" Commander Axel screams at me in him booming voice as I stumble into the gym. Commander Axel is built like a barrel with two tree stumps as legs, two huge pythons as arms, and a neck with circumference the same as a dinner plate. As if to make him even scarier, Commander Axel is a whopping 6'10 (his buzz cut skims the top of all the doorframes at base).

"Sir, yes, sir!" I reply as I was trained to,

"FALL IN LINE MAGGOT!"

I join the rest of my squad as they pass by me on the track, and easily pass all of them until I'm at the front with our squad leader, Aiden Avery.

"Jeda, you look like you lost a fight in your sleep." Aiden says to me, with the usual amusement that my antics bring him, as we use each other to pace ourselves.

"No I slept well, too well actually. I keep sleeping through my 4:30 alarm." I reply as I let out a small breath to control my breathing.

"I know, this is the second time this month." Aiden slows down then turns around to jog backwards so he can address the squad, "Okay guys slow down and stop at the next check point, we're done with our laps" the group cheers with the left over energy they have amazingly saved.

"Yes!" I say to myself

"Oh not you Jeda, you know the drill. Ten more laps for being late" Aiden says when he hears me.

"Fine" I huff and put my head down.

I finish my laps in no time since I'm one of my level's best runners- the other being Aiden of course- and join the squad in the gym to finish the cardio program we do every other day, with the exception of Sunday where everyone gets the day off. The Gryphon schedule is really strict when it comes to training times-like now- and leisure time. Or as I call it 'time when the lab monkeys follow you around and record behavioral patterns, while you do stuff like butter your toast'.

I walk back into the gym drenched in sweat only to find someone has already taken my favorite treadmill. I look more closely and see that it's none other than Addison Davis, who is the only one in our level who had been out on a real mission other than Aiden. Adidison has a scar on the hollow of her left shoulder that she got on her mission. So when she doesn't have to wear her training kit, she wears low cut shirts and tank tops to show that she's better than us. To top it all off, she has a huge crush on Aiden so she always tries to keep her left shoulder tilted toward him so that he can be reminded about how much more mature and better she is than the rest of us. Pulease, she's about as mature as a three year old. I climb onto the last unused machine in the gym, since it was crowded with the other Level 3 squad. The most dreaded thing in the gym besides Addison. The step climber.