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It seemed that with Indy joining the team and Ciel becoming close with Raven, the members of group 12191 were starting to get along. With only about a year before lift off, the instructors added mission simulations to their daily training schedules. That reduced an hour of strength and endurance from their schedules, as well as an hour of intelligence training so that they could do mission simulators once a day. The seven members had their meals together every day and walked to their classes together. Raven still picked Roseanne up from her dorm every morning and dropped her off at night, after their homework sessions in the private study rooms together. Sometimes the others joined them, but for the most part it was their time to be alone with each other.

The first day of their last year training, their instructor told them about the mission simulators they'd be working on. They were to be placed in a training room with virtual reality helmets in a room that had the same layout of their ship for the mission. They would wear their space suits, complete with helmets with each of them wearing their designated color so as not to confuse each other with someone else. The instructor would then have them navigate the ship and complete tasks, troubleshooting any problems that might arise. 

During the practice missions, everyone formed their own little groups. Indy and Ciel did their tasks together. Scarlet, Seville, and Mauve did their tasks together. Raven and Roseanne did their tasks together. They'd meet in the hallways of the training area, whenever they were on their way to check the med bay or electrical. Their instructor sometimes messed with the lights or oxygen levels on the ship. That had all the members of the team scrambling to fix whatever was wrong on the ship. Then they had a space in the cafeteria where they could have their emergency meetings or any kind of meetings to discuss the progress everyone had. 

Raven and Roseanne spent their time for the most part doing their own thing. The others on the team were calling meetings every ten minutes to check for progress reports. As Raven and Roseanne sat down at the table for the meeting, Roseanne heaved a sigh. She had been in the middle of a task, with Raven watching her when the meeting was called. It was Scarlet who called the meeting and she sat at the head of the table. "Someone's not doing tasks. The task bar hasn't moved since the last time we had a meeting. I personally think its either Raven or Roseanne, since they're probably in some corner holding hands or making out."

"That's not true--" Roseanne stared, but was cut off by another crew member.

"That doesn't make any sense." Ciel told her, pointing something out to them. "Both of them are being watched to see who will make captain of the expedition. I don't think they'd throw it away like that."

"Let's just get back to it. We only have seven crew members on board and there's not enough of us to get the tasks done." Indy said, with evident frustration in his words. They had two hours to complete the mission, but if they didn't finish their tasks before then, they would fail. As the elite team in the garden, their instructors had stressed more than enough times that this would be unacceptable. The tasks were for about ten to twelve members to complete. Since they only had seven, each member had a long lists of tasks to get done. "There's only a little more than a half hour left and we're barely at half of the completed tasks."

"That's because Instructor Heaven keeps messing with oxygen levels, comms, and lights to throw us off." Ciel said with a roll of his eyes, already growing frustrated with their first simulated mission. He and Indy had been trying to get their tasks done but it was difficult when their instructor kept throwing them off by making them hurry to another part of the ship to do other sudden tasks. Their instructor Heaven Cyan was from the same province as Ciel. All of their instructors had names of their own. Their instructors were former crew members who had been on missions as young adults. When they returned, the top performers had been asked to become instructors at the facility, to prepare the younger generations. Usually, the captains and co-captains were asked to remain in the garden.