Agents | a GxG story

014

I line up with all the other students to see the new batch of kids coming through.
"I'm betting fourteen." 098 whispers in my ear. She's my only friend in this hell and she's also usually the only reason I get in trouble.
"No way, no kid with hyper focus could make it to fourteen without being caught." I scoff at her bet.
"129! Silence or you will be silenced!" The headmaster calls out my number. I freeze and nod my head, remembering how the whip feels on my back.

The doors open and a group of small girls shuffle in crying, but in the middle of the crowd there are two guards holding an older girl, she looks about sixteen, maybe seventeen. The entire crowd gasps and I hear whispers
"Agents, welcome to your new home." The headmaster says and everyone bows towards the new group.

They forcefully line up the new agents and hand them their clothing. I see the older girl get a blue patch. I have a red patch. No one knows why people get certain patches but we do know that they determine where you go once you graduate.

The girl has tangled brown hair and she looks about my height with a scowl on her face.
"Training with start tomorrow for you new agents, for now you will change then go to the dinning hall." The headmaster states. With that, everyone heads back to their quarters until meal time. I need to find out what that girls number is.

I sit at a table with 098 waiting for the new agents to come in.
"I bet she learned how to use the hyper focus on her own and that's how they didn't catch her." 098 says.
"Pfft yeah right, almost no one can control it without training." I laugh. I hear the doors open and I turn to see all of the new girls in their cloths. The older girl is being dragged in by a guard. He throws her down at a table no ones sitting at then leaves locking the door. The maids bring her a tray of food but she throws it across the hall. Everyone stops talking and  looks at her.
"Fuck off and stare at something else!" She yells. The head master gets up from the instructors table and grabs her whip. Everyone looks away, afraid of what will happen next. I keep watching out of the corner of my eye.

"Eat your meal or you will not get the chance too for the rest of the night." The headmaster warns.
"Go ahead, hit me! See if I give a fuck-" the sound of the whip pierces through the hall. Stifled gasps fill the room. No one forgets what the first whip feels like. I got mine for taking food from the kitchen. The girl sits down quietly and the maids bring her another tray. She starts to pick at the food and the headmaster walks back to her table. I need to find out who this girl is and how she avoided capture for so long. I grab my tray and start to get up
"129! What are you doing?" 098 whispers to me. I roll my eyes and walk over to the girls table, ignoring all of the eyes on me.

I plop my tray down across from the girl and she grins.
"Sup" she greets me.
"Hello, I'm 129." I introduce myself.
"I'm bear." She says. My eyes widen.
"No you are not. You are incorrect." I tell her.
"I'm pretty sure I know my own name thank you very much." Her grin drops.
"You don't have a name, none of us do." I explain to her.
"Whatever." She says taking a bite of her food. I grab her wrist and flip it over to see the number. It says 014. "Hey! Hands off bozo." She pulls her wrist back.
"I was just trying to assist you in remembering your number. Your number is 014." I explain to her. She groans and keep eating her food. I finish my tray and the maids quickly take it away.
"I have to ask, how did you make it so many years. I was brought in when I was seven, and I thought that was impressive." I ask her.
"I'll tell you how I did it if you tell me your real name." She grins again. I sigh.
"I don't have a name." I say rolling my eyes.
"Then I guess I don't remember how I did it." She says. I clench my teeth just as the guards open the door allowing us to go to our quarters.
"What quarter are you in?" I ask 014 as she follows me down the halls.
"I'm not talking to you." She states. I smile.
"Then why are you in such close proximity." I tease her over the fact that she's practically right by my side. Usually we try to keep contact to a minimum unless we are training. 098 quarters are at the opposite end of the academy so she wasn't able to join us on our little walk. 014 face goes crimson.
"I'm not!" She argues. I scoff and she sighs.
"I'm uh, in quarter AAB, but I don't know where that is..." she admits.
"Well I know, seeing as that's where I sleep." I smile at the fact that we are in the same section, my last roommate graduated two years ago.

We walk along the halls until we reach our room. I open the door and walk in. There is a big table with chairs in the middle of the room and on either side of the room in each wall there are doors. The one on the left is my room and the one on the right is hers. She freezes in the doorway.
"This place is small as shit." She announces, "let leave and go somewhere else."
"We can't leave, you don't want another scar like the one on your cheek do you?" I explain to her.
"What, you scared?" She says putting out her arms to push me backwards playfully. I grab her arm and flip her over my side.
"Physical contact isn't advised." I say too her.
"No ones here, who cares?" She says trying to tackle me from behind. I try to channel my hyper focus but I'm to tired so I just flip her once more to the floor.
"Goodnight." I say to her entering my room. She groans and enters hers. I will find out how she made it all these years.

"All agents of the fourth age group report to the training room." The speaker announces. I immediately hop out of bed and pin my blonde hair up while putting my cloths on. I rush out the door than see that 014 door is still closed. I sigh know that if she's late she will get another whipping, and I head into her room.
"014," did you hear-" I look to see her huddled in a ball in the corner of her room. She looks up shocked.
"Get out you fucking perv!" She yells and I rush out of her room.

I wait outside of her room and a few moments later she exits.
"Is something wrong-"
"Don't act like you care." She says brushing past me. I follow behind her too the training room.

"098 with 134, 067 with 873, 435 with-" the director goes on and on. Everyone sits on the floor attentive to his orders, well... almost everyone. Bear- I mean, 014 is practically asleep next to me.
"-129 with 014-" I hear our numbers in the mix. I nudge her with my elbow.
"Did you hear that, we are-"
"Silence 129!" The director yells. I shut my mouth and keep quiet. 098 looks at me pitifully.
"You are all released." The director says. Everyone heads off to their own square with their partners and I drag 014 to ours.
"What do we even do." 014 says yawning.
"We're you even listening? We fight using our hyper focus." I explain groaning.
"Attack!" The director yells and I immediately advance on 014. Her eyes widen and I zone in with the hyper focus.

Everything is blue and I can feel my eyes glowing, I can see every move 014 will make. She will either dive left to dodge my punch or she will try to catch it. The focus goes down and I see her start to move left, I kick her in the ribs and she falls down. Then the focus is brought back up, everything in my vision is blue again and the only thing 014 will do to block my kick... is lay there. I stomp on her back then pin her down.
"What the hell man!" 014 yells trying to throw me off.
"We have a victor!" The director yells and points towards me. I get up and nod towards the director. 014 tackles me from behind and I face plant.
"Bitch!" She yells elbowing me in the back of the neck.
"014 check!" The director yells. At the mention of the keyword, everyone except 014 salutes and waits for orders. She keeps me on the floor squeezing her thighs around my waist trying to stop me from flipping her.

After not responding to the keyword the director has permission to shock 014. He opens the remote and everyone waits in anticipation for 014 to drop down screaming. Which she does.
"Motherfucker! The hell is that!" She yells in between screams. He turns off the remote and she lies there breathing heavily.
"If you do not listen to the keyword than you shall be shocked." The director says, "now 129 and 014 you are free to return to your quarters or go to the gym, everyone else can continue." He announces.

014 still contracts her body on the floor. It's extremely hard to regain control of your movement after being shocked. I've only been shocked once and it was because I didn't hear the keyword. I sigh and grab 014 arm to help her up.
"Get off me!" She demands thrashing around.
"You can't walk." I grind my teeth while hoisting her up and put her arm around my shoulder. And my arm around her waist. Just then I realize she's the same height as me, from my stand point it looked like she was shorter.

"I told you to not touch me." She repeats once I place her in her bed. She's exhausted and I don't blame her, getting shocked knocks all the energy out of you. I sit at the foot of her bed.
"Would you rather be passed out on the arena floor?" I ask her. She groans closing her eyes.
"So now will you tell me how you made it out there?" I ask wondering if she will tell me while she's tired.
"Leave." She says putting a pillow over her face. I sigh and exit the room, sitting at the table and wondering why she won't just listen to the rule, it makes things so much easier. I hear a knock on the door and open it too 098.
"Hey, I completed my training, want to go to the gym?" She asks.
"Sure." I say walking with her. She brags about how she guessed someone older was coming this month and I roll my eyes as I tell her about 014.