When a war breaks out, Kally, a illegal government test subject, is called in to be a squad leader for other cadets, age seventeen. She leads Samuel Nolan and Tanner white in her squad. She is reunited with a friend from her testing days, Near Smith and he joins her squad as well.training is going well, but when the training base is compromised, lives are lost and so is the bond between squad and squad leader. WARNING: contains offensive language, slightly mature content and slightly graphic death.