Operation Trainee

Volume 3 in my series. This brings us back to Johns training when he first joined Ground-Zero.

Operation

Trainee

Chapter 1: Wake Up

John awoke, startled and dazed as green lights flashed in his room. John jumped out of his bed and ran to his shower. He washed in a lukewarm water and then rinsed in a freezing cold spray. Next he got out a black shirt and a black pair of sweat pants with a number 1 written on it. Next he put on a pair of combat boots, that fit his feet perfectly. This had been the wake up for the past month at Fort Boot. John had come here to train and become an agent for Ground-Zero. It felt like just yesterday John had met him, the man who made him. He quickly stopped this thought and jogged out of his room and down a dark hallway.

Chapter 2: Daily Routine

John felt beads of sweat running down the side of his face as he lifted the huge bar over his head, he took and step back and let the 500 pound weight fall. It landed with a soft thud on the cushioned floor of the weight room. Next John curled 150 pounds and then would leg lift and so on. This was Johns morning workout routine, he had been taught this by the trainers at Fort Boot and he found it challenging, even for his perfectly tuned muscles. After morning lift John would go on a 6 mile jog around the perimeter of the Fort. It was full of trees with bright green leaves and the grass was always perfectly mowed. John liked it here.

Chapter 3: Class

Around noon John would begin his classes. These weren't anything like the ones at his High School. These classes were challenging and usually let him mentally exhausted. In the classes John learned many things, his most favorite was the bomb defuse course. It was a simulation, where John had to defuse a bomb before it exploded. He always managed to defuse it with seconds left, never having the bomb go off. John found it boring at times, being the only kid in his class. But at least at lunch he was able to sit with the other workers and talk. John enjoyed lunch, this is were he met Xavier, or X. A 19 year old, who ran the weapons training program at Fort Boot. X used to be a field agent, until he got into a car accident and shattered his knee. Ever since then he hasn't been the same agent.

Chapter: Combat Training 

"Again!" The trainer shouted

John slowly lifted himself from the solid, cold cement of the combat arena. He adjusted his blindfold and got ready. He heard the trainer shuffle his feet and raise his arm to swing. John lept to the right and then rammed his left elbow into the trainers heavily protected chest. In the same motion, John brought his right hand across, smashing into the kevlar helmet that the trainer was forced to wear. The trainer was set backward and crashed into the wall, dead. This was John now, a killer.