- You validate "black," Asmara murmured.
- Why? Why are you… Force force? It's dangerous, I whispered.
- I'm not forcing "you", "boss", I'm protecting my file.
Vegas approached us, arms crossed
- So, No. 1? Having trouble choosing?
The rest of the squad soon joined him.
- Haven't already chosen, he breathed angry .
- Push it, let's get this over with, Lorna breathed, looking tired.
Asmara tapped my screen and stared into my eyes
- The boss validates and it's over
I swallowed. My finger was shaking. "Black," it's too dangerous.
- Validate, announced the white mask, and walked away with the screen.
- Only 2 minutes left, another mask breathed.
Alpha 1 smiled, as if she had heard everything.
- Charming~, omega always knows how to choose well, with a sarcastic tone
- Hmm, very funny, Asmara murmured in annoyance.
Alpha 1 smiled wider.
- Last thing. Those who fail the "black" tests will return… "to continue their training", for a long, long time…. Perhaps for eternity ~
A shiver ran through the entire hall, especially our team, especially me, who already had the hairs on my back standing on end.
Asmara pulled me one last time, obviously not with joy.
- Tomorrow, four o'clock, training room, you lock your incompetence and you revise, you arrive on time, she breathed
- All right
And she left the hall
- HEY, No. 1, he huffed disgust.
- Yes ?
- If you do your little trick against the window again, I'll let you stick to it all night.
And the squad dispersed at these tender words
Alpha 1 snapped his fingers and the whole screen folded away.
- The selections are underway~, she breathed
- Good luck my future emotions, breathed the old man.
The hall gradually emptied, and the world returned to normal.
But, me, no, not really.
I was still looking at the ground, so cold but so close, that I wondered if it would listen to me.
Is there really a way back?
OMEGA COMPARTMENT
3H 30
the alarm rumbled
Omega Squad was the first and only one to leave, at a time when the fluorescent lights still bathed the empty corridors in a pale light.
They went down to the training room, the walls opened with a sharp bang.
The DAAS deployed its hooks, the uniform came to stick to the bodies, and one after the other, the fabric flowed and stuck, but, this time, even heavier as if the mission itself was added to each piece of equipment.
I grimaced. I hadn't managed to close my eyes all night, and I felt like it was even colder than before.
Once inside, in formation, Asmara advanced towards the white masks
- We will do a simulation of going down into the "lower pit" at "change" time
- Okay, position yourself for the projection, simulation engaged
Asmara rushed to join us and positioned herself forward, arms behind her back and legs apart.
Suddenly we were plunged into total darkness and on the now tinted windows, a countdown
10…. 9… 8….7…6…5…4
Asmara turned for a moment and nodded, to which the squad responded with another nod, but I didn't really understand.
3….2… 1
- HAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA?!!, I screamed
- houuuu, breathed disgust
The start was brutal, we were propelled in a blast of compressed air, the infinite abyss opened before our eyes, in a magnificent pink, an endless descent towards the red depths, for me it was more of a free fall, there was literally no ground either above or below, just debris frozen in space and floating everywhere.
- Stabilization, ordered Asmara.
- WHAT?!, I yelled, still falling, twice as low as the group
- Is he going to die? Asmara asked sadly.
- Maybe out of shame, I don't know, I've never fallen, Asmara breathed.
He had all stabilized on debris, and no longer drifted away, while I continued my course towards the abysmal depths of hell, each second tearing my heart out
- Please catch him, breathed disgust, he is pitiful
Anger dove after me, and caught me easily, before I bit a rock on the way, he brought me up to a certain level and fixed me to a plank, which allowed me to stay in place, and he returned to position himself on level with the rest of the team
- The objective is simple: exterminate everything before the end of the "change," ordered Asmara.
- Good boss
- Good boss
- Well done boss ~
- Good boss
- I'm not the leader anymore, Asmara breathed, get ready, to your weapons, THEY'RE COMING