Training.

P.O.V: Donny Keeney.

I ran into the training building.

"Jacob is gonna kick my ass." I mutter to myself,  opening the door and jogging in.

"You bet I am." I hear his gruff voice from the training room.

"Sorry Jacob." I apologized, but I knew better than to give him an excuse, even if it was a true one.

"You'd better be." He threatened, and I knew that I'd be training here all night probably.

As we were sparing he asked, "So why were you late?"

"Renae had a little breakdown and I was tying to calm her down." I said truthfully while I tried to kick Jacob's foot out from under him.

That one didn't go to well, he lifted his foot at the last second and smashed it down on my own. I fell on my back and tried to use my elbow to keep me from fully hitting the ground. The only rules for when me and Jacob spar is that you can't use your powers at all, and that if you're the first one on the mat, you lose. I jump up, using my elbows to push me off the ground.

"Do you think she's gonna be okay?" He asked, concerned.

Jacob had always been concerned about everybody on our team. The people on our team was me, Tommy, Jacob, and Renae. Me, Tommy, and Jake are usually the ones that actually go out and do the mission and Renae talks to us through a microphone in our ear and tries to tell us what to do. Since Renae can see the future, we rely on her to tell us what to do, what not to do,  where to go, where not to go. I don't know if I would actually be alive if Renae hadn't been guiding us on some of our more difficult missions. After twenty or did minutes, we hear the door open and close. I look up to see who it was, and get kicked square in the chest and nearly lose my balance.

"Pay attention Don," Jacob warned me, smirking.

"Yeah yeah," I mutter as I heard voices coming from the hall.

We stop after about ten minutes and I saw who'd been watching us. Renae, Tommy, and Elizabeth were leaning against the far wall watching us train. Renae smiled at me and Thomas smirked and said something to Elizabeth. Thomas reached into a cooler by his feet and threw me and Jake a water bottle.   

"Having fun yet, Don?" Thomas smirked at me, apparently glad that he wasn't in my place.

"Just wait Tommy. Wait until you and me train." I warned him, twisting of the cap on the water bottle and taking a large chug of water.

"What, thirsty or something?" Jacob grins and takes a long drink of his own water.

I shake my head but say nothing, I was so thirsty it felt like my mouth was made of sand paper.

"You're new, aren't you?" Jacob asked Elisabeth, now noticing the girl.

"Yeah, I'm Liz."  She says and reaches out to shake his hand.

"Jacob Wills," he says, studying her like he does when he studies a soldier in training.

I rolled my eyes at him. I've seen a lot of people you would never think that could be soldiers become good fighters, but I honestly don't believe that someone like Elizabeth could ever  be one of the Missionaries. A Missionarie is someone who, as the name says, goes out on missions. There are other positions that people do, like Guards, some teachers, people who take care of the younger kids  in the base, cooks, etc. But I really couldn't see Liz being a Missionarie, but then again, I've been wrong before.

"Hey," I murmur, walking over to Renae.

"Hey, was training fun?" She smiles at me.

"Never is," but I was smiling.

I shrug off my old brown jacket, knowing that it'll only get more hot in the room as we train. The only reason that I wear the stupid thing is to hide my scar when I'm out in public to not draw attention to myself. My scar goes from my right wrist to the top of my shoulder, I've had the scar for more than a year now and every time I see the angry bright red line, I still panic,  like it was the first time I'd seen it. Elizabeth stared  at my arm for a good moment before realizing what she was doing and returned to a conversation that she, Thomas, and Jacob had apparently been having. I shook my head in slight amusement at Liz's reaction. Renae raises an eyebrow, apparently not paying attention. I just shook my head, knowing I'll tell her later.

"Hey, I think we'd better get to dinner before it runs out." Thomas said, checking his watch.

"Yeah, probably. I don't want Ashley giving us the death glare" Jacob agreed.

"Oh please, she does that no matter what we do." I joked and followed the others out of the building.

We went to the main building and into the cafeteria which, as always, was already packed with people. We each grabbed a good sized brown bag and walked outside. I caught Thomas whispering to Elizabeth as they grabbed theirs. We all sat down and ate our normal dinner. In the bag was a bottle of water, a small container of corn, and a turkey sandwich. Renae sits down beside me and started eating.  Renae and I didn't talk much, too busy listening to Tommy and Jake asking Elizabeth questions.

"Are you a mutant or are you human?" Thomas asked and I remembered that knife coming at me without her even touching it. If that girl wasn't mutant, neither was I.

"Mutant," she says, and holds her hand palm up and almost immediately, her sandwich flew into her hand.

 "Telekinesis, that's rare." Jake murmured, nodding.

"Sorry?" Renae asked, finally butting in, confused. "but what's 'telekinesis'?" 

"It's where you can control solid objects, make them move, you know that kind of stuff." Elizabeth shrugged, taking a bite of the sandwich.    "Are most of the people here mutant, or just some?" Elizabeth asked, taking a drink of her water bottle.

"No, it's about half and half. We're all mutant, but a lot of us are human." Thomas shrugged, waving his hand over all of us. 

"What can you do then?" Elizabeth asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I can create portals," Thomas started, and held up his hand and a tiny dark green oval appeared in his hand.

 As he concentrated, the oval grew bigger and bigger until it was larger than his body. With a flick of his wrist, he threw the spiraling oval at a dummy about ten yards away, slicing it in half, the upper half disappearing. Elizabeth had her mouth hung open from shock, and I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing at her. I suppose that she hasn't seen many mutants before. Thomas held up a finger and, a moment later, a good sized dark green oval appeared and the upper half of the dummy landed just in front of Elizabeth.

"Alright, I'll admit it." Elizabeth laughed, smiling at Tommy. "that's awesome!"

Tommy smiled at her and opened her mouth to say something, but Kaylee came running out of the small black building toward us. Kaylee had dark orange hair and bright green eyes that came with a 'no bullshit' attitude. I had always admired Kaylee because she'd been a lone commander for years before Jacob came so she had to do pretty much everything by herself and still tries to do more than her fair share. 

"Hey, the Council needs to talk to us. Now." Kaylee ordered. She motioned for us to follow her back to the Commander's building. I sighed and forced myself off the ground, and gave Tommy and Renae a mocking salute before I jogged after Kaylee, Jacob not far behind me.