TRAINING

Chapter Eight

On getting to the training camp, she was awed by what she saw. What she would call wonders were there. Computer wonders.

Different training gadgets were there. She assumed they were for training since that's why she was there.

A robot with a knife, one with a gun, one with what she assumed was a spade and different others.

'Bam' she found herself on the floor. She turned to the direction where the push came from.

" You're stupid you know?" Ivander asked looking at her with disgust clearly showing on his face. Ivander was fed up by her carelessness.

Was he really looking at her scornfully? How dare he when he didn't give her a heads up on what's gonna happen as soon as she enters this computerized room. Dope.' She thought to herself cussing him.

It seemed like she had been saved from a flying knife which was now stuck to a foam on the wall.

" How would I know I was going to be attacked by a stupid technology" she replied him scorning.

" Well, always be on alert, lesson one" he told her, taking this as part of what she should know.

" This could be taught in a less dangerous way you know" she bickered but he ignored her.

He asked her to follow him and went to configure her body scent and stature.

" You can now enter without being attacked, these robots would teach you all you need to learn, they are advanced, I'm leaving and you can't leave until I return. Be careful with them because they are not your typical robots. I mean, they- are- not- friendly" he told her laying emphasis on his last phrase and walked out leaving her behind.

' and you said you will be the one training me' she thought to herself getting irked up.

The first thing to talk to her was an AI robot.

" Hi, I'm Abbott and I'll be taking you on some lectures. Well, mostly introducing you to what you'll be facing. Which are these." The robot introduced it self with a creepy smile on its face. Should a robot be smiling. The answer is no because it surely looks creepy. Then who the hell was the creator of this thing who thought it was fair for his creature to be smiling?

A projector appeared on it's body and she assumed that it is what it will use in teaching her.

" First, we'll talk about fighting robots as we are called in the lame man language. We are actually combat robots created by Kestrel Clark. And we have artificial intelligence as you already noticed. First, what are combat robots? Combat robot is a mode of robot competition in which custom-built machine fights using various methods to incapacitate each other. Clearly, this definition is from the dictionary. But me being a robot, I'll tell you that these combat robots that will be training you don't fight each other. And they each are built with only one skill which clearly they will be impacting you. Now, we have different skillful robots ranging from daggers robots to sword robots. And finally, we would test you to know your specialty and then you'll be trained to be a professional on that skill. Any questions?" The robot finally summarized.

Finally, the whole sermon on the mount has ended, she thought to herself. The only question on her mind was who created this boring but amazing robot and then she decided to ask her question and not get a chest pain over it.

" Where's the person who created you. Can you tell me his profile?"She asked it.

"Well usually, it is confidential. But since you are now a member of the Slew, I'll let you in on somethings. First, his name is Kestrel Clark as I already told you. He was born on 20th December 2005. He's from Nigeria precisely Imo State. He is a worker of Ronin and cannot work for any other person. He's in a secluded place in this compound" Abbott told her.

' In this compound?'

This piqued her curiosity since she wanted to meet him now but she didn't think it was okay to ask now. She'll definitely get the answers in due time.

"Now your class begins"Abbott said returning to its initial position and turned blank looking as if it had been switched off.

" Good morning Diamond, I'm Avana, I'll be training you on knife skills, here is yours" She heard another voice as a robot walked up to her. She assumed it was a female AI since it has hairs and its name. A knife was handed over to her.