Chapter 3
Straight into battle
The door opened, a Slig called for him “General Sleg has scheduled you for a fight in the battle grounds, follow me”. He hastily followed the slig. He was lead to a rusty blast door. “Through here” the slig said. The outlander saw open land and it was pure desert. Only a few barrels and boxes lay beside the dusty brown rocks. “Here’s your magnum” said the slig giving the magnum back to the outlander. The Slig walked back into the corridor with his legs acting like pistons to support his body. The blast door closed.
The outlander was all alone. Then the screeching of a loudspeaker revealed it’s self to be the muffled voice. “Testing, testing” the voice said out of the loud speaker. “Welcome to the slig barracks, my name is General Sleg and you will be now known as Admeet Slig Number 75”. The newly named outlander was confused on what was going on. “This will be your first training program; basically you’ll shoot at anything in your path, Scrabs, obstacles blocking your path and get to the end of the circuit” Said General Sleg. Admeet’s confusion was starting to fade away. “I think I’m going to like it here” he thought to himself. He instantly loaded his magnum with the silver bullets the slig gave to him. Magnum loaded, confidence rising, “lets rock”.
Admeet instantly went for it; he saw the first Scrab and took aim. BANG! The first bullet went straight into one of the Scrab’s legs. The Scrab, crippled and confused, fell to the floor with one of its legs bleeding out scarlet blood. Yanking out the scarlet smitten bullet out of the Scrab’s leg, he carried on to find his goal.
The heat from the sun was unbearable for most creatures out in the desert, but Admeet carried on with haste. This time, 2 Scrabs were in the way. He took aim, pulled the trigger. BANG! The first Scrab went down but the second was coming right for him. He took aim again, pulled the trigger. BANG! The second Scrab went down and slid against the floor with the Scrab’s head right at Admeet’s legs. Admeet pushed on.
This time, it was 2 Sligs who were going to shoot at Admeet. They took aim with lightning reactions. Luckily, a steel box was beside Admeet and he rolled behind the box and took cover. Bullets were ricocheting everywhere, of rocks, barrels but mostly the box. The box was dented and marked with bullet holes. The 2 Sligs had to reload their weapons, so this was Admeet’s chance to shoot back. BANG! BANG! BANG! 2 bullets went through one slig but the other one missed the other slig. So he went for it. The slig was still reloading at the time; So Admeet bashed the slig with the butt of the magnum. The slig went down unconscious and Admeet carried on to the finishing point. “Very good Admeet” said General Sleg’s voice from the loud speaker. “You are well trained in combat”. “You may go back to your quarters”. Admeet looked confused again. “I’ll need somebody to show me to it” he said. “Off course, I’ll get somebody to show you”. Admeet felt great, this wouldn’t be a bad place after all. An escort came out of the blast door and Admeet was on his way back to his quarters.
|