Boys Barrack

10th August 2159

Victor (Cadet, beating a frying pan) - Cadets!!! Time to wake up. It's the E-DAY

Victor beats the pan again in the ears of Mark and everybody wakes up as Mark opens his mouth.

Mark (shout) - Hey!!! You don't need to beat the shit out of the pan to wake us up.

Victor - Looks like prince charles finally awakes. What do you need, sweetie? Candy? A change of diapers?

Mark - Well…….., I don't think you had a brush this morning.

Victor - Ha…?

Mark  - Your mouth had the stink of that cow dunk you fell on yesterday.

Victor - Haaaaaaaaaaa……….? I told you to keep it a secret.

Mark - I don't need you to order me.

Victor - It's not an order, it's about respect.

Mark - Well take respect from my dick.

Victor - Right. How can I forget? Poor Mark every time someone hits your balls your maid comes to rescue you..... Since, she isn't here you are winning like a baby again.

Mark - Who are you Calling a maid?

Victor - Ofcourse Hugo, I don't see her, where is she?

Hugo (enters the room) - What the hell is happening?

Mark (punches victor) - Take that back.

Victor stands up and grabs Mark's collar.

Victor - Call your maid to save your ass. you're not on my level. (punches mark)

As Mark is about to throw another punch on Victor, Dylan grabs Victor's hand

Dylan - Hey! that's enough drama for a morning show, stop now.

Arthur (Enters the Barrack) - Listen up everybody, Cadets are ordered to summon on the Dome flight strip for the instruction to pilot the Exoz, so get ready.

Changing room

Hugo - Hey! Liam, do you think I can pilot the exosuit?

Liam - Why are you asking this?

Hugo - You know, due to my physical grades I barely made it here.... Should I opt out and apply for field worker.

Liam - You mean soldier. Well, whether it's luck by chance or not, you made it into the list of Candidates to become Exoz pilots. And that is what matters here. You whether agree or not, you are eligible.

DOME FLIGHT STRIP

Instructor and the trainer stands in front of the cadets. John joins them.

Instructor - Ok Cadets this is your orientation class to the exo-suit and you all will experience the Exoz for the first time here as well,you will be divided into companies where each company has Approx 25 Cadets. The Cadets placed in each individual company are appointed on the basis of their last 6 months performance, and each company has a perfect combination of pros and weak cadets making every company an imperfect but a balanced company. And as I've experienced my whole life no one becomes perfect. Throughout your training you will be part of the same company. Now let's see what an EXOZ is. An EXOZ is an exoskeleton suit that empowers the user to do what he can’t do on his natural potential. It provides speed, strength, agility, durability to its user so that he can do the max his body can’t do, without putting any stress on the user's body. It's a suit that practically makes a human a superhuman or a supersoldier. Now to details…. to properly use an exosuit a person has to learn the minute details and functioning of every part of the exosuit, the exosuit uses specialized syringes and hydraulics which are smaller in size but very effective in working these hydraulics and syringes having special fluid, will give you some extra muscles so that you can have extra strength. In the foot of these exosuits, there are mobility gears and with the help of the thruster which are specially made to project a person, you can attain enough speed or height to defend yourself. However, I want to remind you, running away is a cowardly act. Apart from this, these exos Can hold upto 3 types of weapon at a single time, Well it depends upon what weapon you are carrying as well. The EXOZ has a specialized targeting system which sets the hand of the user or the EXOZ in direction of the desired target. Therefore, these suits never miss a target, if used correctly. Although it will feel like using this you can take back what was lost in no time, but using all this equipment at the same with perfection is the real tough game, for which a soldier has to train himself. Not giving extra load on the system. These exoz are powered by some specially created powersource of not a very known description, but it has been tested that overheating of the energy source in some way or another poses a risk to soldiers life.

Hugo - So don’t it be risky in one way or another.

Trainer - Son you are a soldier now, You should put your life in order to save others, and in doing so you and all others present here are needed to take the support of these exoz, crushing those damn headhunters, saving lives, taking back what is lost.

Hugo – mmmmmmmmmm…….

Trainer - But, there will be no soldiers left to save others, if we toss them in some unready weaponry. Therefore this training equipment will help you guys to learn the Exoz. So that you not mistake happens in the battlefield.

Victor - And how will this not be risky?

Arthur - And how can us all be so sure that we will be able to learn it for the first time? Is there anyone who perfected the use of it?

John - It's because the powersource is located somewhere else, under the eyes of those who will cool it incase it gets overloaded, although we are not concerned with the lives of the soldiers because they voluntarily sign their contract of death. But we are concern of our Cadets, and no matter how much you guys are called a soldier to push you to be the real one, know your designation you are not soldier you are not cadet, you are below that for now, who are needed to get ready to give their lives for a greater goal. 

Everyone looks at John.

Cadet to Cadet - Who is he?

Cadet in reply - He is Captain John Adalard Mitchell.

Other Cadets - John Adalard Mitchell? The Skullshot?

John - Enough murmuring. As to the second question, yes there are people who mastered the art of using the exoz, including myself as well. So take them as your role model, try to accomplish what's necessary, create an attitude about “you can do it if I can do it”, because I know, that if a boy who got no balls is able do something that can bring change, even a little bit, you can do it as well. I’LL BE WATCHING YOU.

John leaves the area.

Cadet - Who was he talking about?

Viewing station

John enters Viewing station and looks at other soldiers.

June - OH!!! See a role model came over.

John - If you act as per your designation you will know that these types of things are necessary to be said.

June (mimicking) - If you act as your designation my ass.

Matthew - HUH!!! They are teenagers who didn't come out of their childhood playing soldiers. Do you guys really think they’re capable of assisting us on our upcoming missions?

June - Don't say it like that.

Matthew - Why not? Our comrades were professionals. They died on the front line. And these are typical teenage bastards, we take them in our squad, they get disobedient and then they die, what difference will it make?

John - People who act disobedient can also accomplish miracles, and besides, do we have a choice? 

Matthew - Still taking Artair as an example?

June (Mimicking in a heavy voice) - I’ve ditched you John, Forget about me. I never loved you.

John - Don’t try to instigate, June. 

June (Snapping his fingers) - Gotcha!!!

An Image of him and Artair flashes before John’s eyes.

DOME FLIGHT STRIP

Liam - Hugo, let me tie up your gears.

Liam tie’s hugo’s gears

Hugo - Oh, thanks, so you ended up being with me again?

Liam - Yeah! Your brother will always be with you. Now, just give it your best shot.

Victor (from there back) - Looking at you guys’ brotherly love makes me vomit sometimes.

Liam - Look who's talking, You Big Mouth, I’ll take care of you later, let's go Hugo. 

Hugo - Yeah.

Victor - Hey, I wasn’t meant to take a fight.

Liam (Looks back and smirk) - Yeah? Pussy…

Hugo with liam steps toward the practise model.

Instructor - First, try making yourself balance using the exosuits. In this way you will learn to release the suits power at an optimum level naturally.

Hugo (Thoughts) - Having there exosuits, the cadets gets on their training rig. An omnidirectional treadmill, where the cadets stands in order to balance their mobility gears. The omnidirectional treadmill moves at a high speed, Therefore, If a cadet doesn't release the exoz power at optimum level and matches the speed, the suit will not work. Therefore, it is necessary to learn to release the optimum energy. The best way to learn it is to balance yourself at a high speed omnidirectional treadmill. we've been told, that, If one learns to Balance his weight, he has already learned the basics of using it.

Hugo and Ben fall. Dylan, Emma and Sophia found it difficult to balance. Liam and Arthur just do it perfectly. Mark and Victor teases each other in order to make the other fall. Dylan and the company's girls look at them fighting each other.

Dylan (looking toward Mark and Victor) - Those guys are irritating.

Maria - I agree they are just wasting our times, cause if they don't stop we will not be going to the next exercise

Sophia - Whatttttt? You mean I have to be this sweaty and dirty until we all qualify this exercise, that's not fair.

Rebecca - You look dumb but you got a point, they both know how to balance the stuff, they are only wasting our time.

Liam and Arthur join the conversation

Liam - Yeah! You are right, we should do something about them. Otherwise they will become a pain in the ass.

Arthur - As we are in this same squad.

Emma -  Hey!!! and what are you going to do about Hugo and Ben? Looks like they are not in the position yet as well, same goes for buck and jones, and as for lana, she doesn’t give it a try.

Samuel - We need to do something about these guys.

Liam - Then let's do something about it.

Emma - How exactly?

Liam - We Gotta work together, Girls, you all go and scold those hotheads (Mark and Victor) for there insubordination as a company member; Emma, you do something about Lana; Samuel, Dylan go and have Buck and jones to us, Arthur and I will be teaching the 4 how to balance. As being in the same squad it's everyone's responsibility to hold each others hand and move forward together.

Derrick, Sam, Carlie, Miguel, and Mike watches Liam and the others as they completed the balancing part.

Derrick - What are they talking about?

Sam - Don’t know.

Carlie - We should join them.

Mike - Dude I am exhausted, I don’t want to waste my energy on those guys.

Derrick - Same.

Sam - Me too.

Miguel -  Yeah.

The Girls comes near Mark and Victor

Eliza - Hey! that's enough nonsense you guys are making, Just stop already.

Victor (Arrogantly) - Only on my deathbed, I will not lose to this loser.

Marks (Calmly) - I guess, you are right Eliza, I had wasted enough time on this shitball.

Mark steps out of the balancing gear.

Victor (Looking at Mark going behind him) - Hey! come back here, you can't make everyone think i'm the bad guy here.

Mark moves behind balancing gear.

Victor - Come back here Mark…….

Mark (Looking at the power plug) - Guess what will happen if I do this.

Mark pulls out the power Cable, making the treadmill stop instantly. Victor falls and his head gets bumped into the balancing gear.

Mark comes in front of victor and looks at him.

Mark - That's what you get for wasting my time.

They both started fighting again.

Liam - alright guys Arthur and I will teach you guys a trick to balance it, assume a point in the center of your body, now assume drawing a line straight down to your feet now the tough part....

Hugo (Thoughts) - As Liam was telling us the way to balance, we put all our efforts into understanding it, and we learned that day how to balance ourselves on the balancing equipment.

Hugo and the others balances the Exoz.

Liam - Looks like you guys made it. Hugo, I'm proud of you.

Hugo (Smiles and looks toward Lana) - Hey! what's with Lana? She seems energetic all of a sudden.

Arthur - I guess Emma did some magic on her.

Hugo - Is she a witch or what?

Some moments before. Lana watching the sky, Emma walk to her.

Emma - You seem very busy.

Lana (Ignores)

Emma - You lost something.

Lana (In a low voice) - Everything.

Emma - Sorry.

Lana - It's ok, it's not your fault. 

Momentary Silence between them.

Emma - Got a problem?

Lana - Why do you care?

Emma - I don’t know…. Maybe Just curious or maybe I want to share my problems with someone.

Lana (Looking at sky) - When I joined this, I thought I would avenge my parents, but now my motivation has all vanished seeing this world as hard as soft are all of us. But being like you makes things easy. You are so hard that even a diamond can’t cut you, you got ambitions that makes you get whatever you want, that's why you stand here with us, with no doubt in your mind. Your face tells it all and you tell me that you would like to tell me your problem. I don’t think you have any. (smirks) Liar.

Emma - Hmm…Right now, I don't.

Lana (Looks at Emma) - This. This is what I always wanna ask you. How can one be like you?

Emma - If there is any chance one can become like other we won't be having names or different faces or fingerprints but as we have them, it proves that no one can be like other you can either be better or worst, but you can never be the same, If you want to be like me, you can’t as you can only be better and the only way for you to make that goal happen, is to put the goal back on track and let it move on the path. But if you don't, then you deserve to rot.

Lana (smiles) - you are cunning. aren't you? Directly Challenging me. Well whatever, I guess I know my answer. Don't worry, I'll try now.

Emma - that's good.

Hugo and Liam watch Lana completing her training in one go. They see Emma approaching,

Hugo - Hey! what did you feed her? She balanced in one go.

Emma was still walking in his desired direction and not giving a look to Hugo and Liam.

Emma - She knows what she has to do. I just pushed her in doing that.

Emma moves toward the Cafeteria

Hugo - Looks like she is really hungry.

Liam - Well I guess we all are after this tough day. How about we all go and eat in the Cantine.

Hugo - Well everyone has almost completed there balancing..... Ben you coming?

Ben - Sure.

Dylan (Calling from behind) - Hey!!!! where are you guy going

Liam (replying back) - To the Cafeteria.

Dylan - We are coming too.

As they all eats, Lana enters the cafeteria and sits beside Emma. Liam and Hugo smiles.

Hugo (Thoughts) - I made a good memory, and I am sure i'll be making more.