2 The Beginning

I stared down to face my own reflection in the water. My face was covered in soot and sweat from this morning's training drills and my foot ached as if a thousand needles were prickling it.

I took a moment to glance up at my surroundings. Everyone looked as if they were having the time of their lives. They were too busy chatting and giving each other fistbumps and bro hugs to remember why we were here in the first place. We were weapons. Made to serve our masters and discarded when we are not needed anymore. But what can I say? We were born to die.

" So you're here by yourself again." I turned to see 6660. The devil, that's what I would call him from time to time. His code's even got three sixes in it.

"Do you need anything 6660?" I asked.

"I see that you are still as cold and distant as ever" he replied. Then he turned to his gang of goonies and started to laugh. The rest of them followed.

"If you are not in need of my assistance please leave" I said. He then turned to face me.

"Who the fuck do you think you are to talk back to me?" He shouted.

"I'm 3911 if you were curious to know and I am a soldier just like you. I apologize for what had happened" I replied.

"Now that's what I like. A little obedience can do you some good." He said. Then turned to his pals and snickered.

"I'm sorry but what is, that's what I like supposed to mean" I asked. He turned to look back to look at me.

"You apologized to me didn't you? For talking back to me." He asked.

"Oh, I'm so sorry for the confusion. I was apologizing to my mouth for talking to such an unholy filthy animal. That's you by the way. Oops, there I go again talking to garbage."

"Why you little son of a bitch!" He shouted. Just as he was about to slap me the captain walked in. He had no choice but to put down his arm.

"Attention all soldiers, I have a special announcement that I would like to make. This is regarding your future as soldiers and maybe even weapons one day. Tomorrow we will commence our first ever testing day where only 500 of you will be able to move onto the next phase as a soldier. If you do not make it into the top 500 category then you may have the opportunity to retry the test again."

"Wait, so basically it's impossible to fail. You can technically just retry until you've succeeded right?" someone asked.

"Yes, that would be the case. If you make it out alive in every single round." Everyone fell dead silent. Terror, fear, and uneasiness rested upon most of their faces. This wasn't going to be an easy feat to accomplish.

"Rest up for tomorrow my dear children. That is when the journey of being a soldier really starts."

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