Training

"Lovely. Now shoot at the targets while firing from the hips.", ordered Gaz pressing the button in his hand.

Then there were clicking sounds as three targets propped up from the ground in front of Soap and Fury each.

Seeing that Fury and Soap both held up the gun and pulled the trigger.

Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang!

Bang! Bang!

They both shot three bullets.

Fury hit two targets and missed one, while Soap hit all the targets.

Gaz having observed them nodded and said, "Good! For rookies, both of you have surprisingly good accuracy during hip firing."

"Well, you see, when you shoot, you need to aim with a sight to accurately hit the target. So aim down the sight of your gun and shoot", added Gaz.

So Fury and Soap followed his advice, aimed down their sights and shot at the targets again.

This time both of them didn't miss a target.

Fury hit two targets in the head and the last one on it's shoulder. Soap however hit only one target in the head and the rest on their shoulders.

Seeing that Gaz said, "It seems that Private Fury has the better aim between the both of you. However, good aim doesn't work against enemies hiding behind concrete. You can't shoot through concrete. You can however shoot through wood, sheet metal, plaster and any thin materials covering your enemy."

He flicked a lever as plywood rose from the ground covering the targets. He then said, "I want you to shoot the targets through the wood."

Hearing that both Fury and Soap aimed down their sights and shot at the targets knocking them down.

"Good. Now I am going to make the targets pop up one at a time. Hit them all as fast as you can.", said Gates as one target popped up in front of each of them.

So they both shot down the target although Fury was slower in his reaction than Soap.

A few more targets popped up one by one and both of them shit down the targets.

After they both shot down the last target, Gaz clapped and said, "Proper good job, mate! Now go pick up a sidearm from the armory."

So Fury and Soap went back to the table that now had two USP .45 semi automatic pistols on them.

On the way, Soap said to Fury, "Fury, right? You did good back there."

Fury looked at him and said, "Yeah, I'm Nick Fury. You did good back there too, Soap."

Soap said, "Yeah, but it doesn't hurt to be better. To do better. After all, we will be going to the front lines sometimes soon."

Fury asked him as they both picked up a USP.45 semi automatic, "You have any ideas where they might send us?"

Soap inspected the gun as he replied, "Me? No. But the world's not a peaceful place. Lots of places to train recruits out there."

Saying that Soap started walking back to Gaz as Fury did the same.

Seeing the recruits standing before him with pistols Gaz said, "Okay. Switch to your primary weapons."

Following Gaz's' words, both Fury and Soap switched to their primary weapons.

Gaz then said, "Now switch to your secondary weapon and after that repeat until I say otherwise."

So Fury and Soap repeated the process until Gaz was satisfied.

"Good! Remember - switching to your pistol is faster than reloading. Using your knife is even faster than switching to your pistol.", Gaz said after asking them to stop.

"There's two watermelons behind you. Each of you knife a watermelon.", he added.

Hearing that Fury and Soap looked back and saw two watermelons on a table behind them.

So they went upto the table and slashed both watermelons.

"Nice! Your fruit killing skills are remarkable. Captain Price wants to see you. Go through that door and find him at the obstacle course.", Gaz said pointing at a half open door through which sunlight was peeking

Hearing that Nick and Fury saluted Gaz and went to the door.

Soap opened the door as he held up his hand and said, "After you, comrade."

So Nick stepped out the door first and took a look around.

He was wondering where he could be since he regained his consciousness inside the facility and he finally got his answer.

He was in a Goddamn military Base.

He understood before that he probably was in a military facility but he didn't understand the size of the facility.

This was a fully armed military base. There were helicopters taking off, tanks moving around and planes taking flight around the place. The base was buzzing with fully armed personnel.

And as if to make him believe that he really was in a military base, a tank traveled through the road in front of him as Soap exited the facility.

As the tank rolled past, A message floated in front of him, 'The objective indicator is on the bottom of your field of view in the middle'.

And with that a few lines became apparent on the bottom of his field of view that were marked with directions. There was also a bold yellow dot in there with a distance listed below the dot.

Fury understood that this was possibly the so called objective indicator in a crudely designed compass.

Although he was calm and collected, outside the game, the spectator's were anything but calm.

The office of Fury was now surrounded by security. Some engineers were tinkering with Fury's computer while some of the best scientists in SHIELD were analysing the unconscious Fury.

"What do you mean you don't understand?", Pierce screamed at a scientist.

"Precisely what you understood. We are talking about some type of technology that we as humans haven't interacted the with yet. We don't know anything about it except that it's somehow protecting Chief Fury and not allowing others to interact with him. There's not much we can do except wait until it releases Chief Fury.", exclaimed the scientist.

He was excited to interact with this new technology but he can't interact with it. It didn't respond to their stimulus and only responded when they tried to interact with Fury.

While Pierce was talking to the scientist, Maria Hill came back and joined Natasha, Clint and Phil.

They were watching Fury train with another soldier named Soap MacTavish under a soldier named Gaz.

"This looks too real to be a game.", said Barton as he witnessed Fury and Soap ADS shoot the targets.

"Yeah. But it's all we know about this for now. That this is a game.", responded Natasha.

"Whoever made this game did good. He kidnaps the head of SHIELD to showcase his new technology and let's him test it in a so called military game. He knows that we'll be impressed by how realistic it looks so if we want to make a fully fledged military sim to train soldiers, he will be the first person we will contact. And as of now, his plan is going according to plan.", said Maria Hill.

"You do have a point", agreed Natasha.

"Uhh, guys? Doesn't this look like a military base?", questioned Phil Coulson as he saw Fury exciting the shooting range.

Phil's question caught everyone off guard.

Pierce who was talking to a scientist, left the scientist behind as he came in front of the computer and looked at the screen.

And true to Phil's words, Fury was in a military base.

"Agent Hill, look through our database to see if any military base matches with the military base on the screen.", ordered Pierce.

Hearing that Hill went out of the room to go to the command center.

"If he or she really is a game developer then he needs info on a military base to make a similar model. If we find a match with a military base, then that only means that the man or woman behind this game has some connections to such a military base. That's enough for us to start working on finding him.", explained Pierce seeing all the puzzled looks.

Hearing that everyone understood his reason behind such a order.

While all this was happening outside, Fury and Soap reached a big hanger in front of where a fully armed guy was standing.

"Hey, new guys! Over here!", the armed soldier said as he slid open the door to the hanger and motioned for them to follow him.

So Fury and Soap followed him into the hanger towards three men standing and talking.

The armed soldier went to one of them and said, "It's the F.N.G. sir. Go easy on them, It's their first day being here."

The guy who Fury assumed was the Captain Price they were looking for looked at them and said, "Right, what the hell kind of names are Fury and Soap, eh? How did muppets like you pass the selection?"

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Author's Note:

Hello, guys. It's the author here. I don't know if anyone is still around to read this book, but figured I might as well release this chapter.

It has been a while since I last wrote a chapter as I was not in a good state of mind. Lost a close relative and then my results were not upto my expectations.

Anyway if anyone's reading this book, please send a power stone. It will really help boost my morale.

Peace