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Sapphire Mossig

i. t.

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a character in “the hero service”, as played by blondehaired

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S A P P H I R ExxM O S S I G

also known as I.T., a hero service agent in training

A G E Eighteen
G E N D E R Female
S E X U A L I T Y Bisexual
H O M E T O W N Detroit, Michigan
A B I L I T Y Information Manipulation, manipulation of information in any medium
W E A K N E S S If she cannot touch the medium the information is on
A G E N T I D ITSU-227507

B A C K G R O U N D Sapphire is the pride and joy of her parents, Louisa and Howard Massig. There wasn't anyone with abilities in their family, aside from one of Sapphire's distant cousins that they didn't have much contact with. Sapphire's world was normal, and she idolized the heroes and those with abilities, especially when it became clear that she would be like her distant cousin.

The ability to manipulate information made her a star in school and gave her a know-it-all mentality with this power to mold information with her fingertips. This caused her instructors to be very strict with her ability use, though she found loopholes to learn more about hacking into computers and manipulating details on paperwork. Her parents were concerned for her morality, but with her fierce loyalty to the famous heroes that protected their cities, there was no possibility of her stepping past the boundaries into criminal activity. But, it was fun to see how far she could push to become a powerful hero.

Her parents were always worrying for her, having no clue of the life she was about to get herself into. The reality of heroism was something Sapphire would have to experience for herself, a much harder reality than the dream she made for herself of being a hero.

So begins...

Sapphire Mossig's Story

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Snow blanketed the grounds in front of the training facility, welcoming the new trainees with a field of white snow to contrast the menacing government building. The beginning of January was not only the best time for snow, it marked the beginning of a new training class for the Hero Service. A team of young adults with extraordinary abilities would live in this facility for the next four years until they were ready to become the next generation of government-certified heroes.

Dominic Roy was used to the cold, considering Dallas got plenty of snow every year. He hugged his leather jacket closer around him and made his way up to the entrance of the training facility. Today would be his first day to becoming a top performing hero, and he wasn’t going to delay that any longer than he had to.

He didn’t have much to bring other than his wardrobe and a few other essentials. Kimberly and Xavier told him plenty of stories about their training days during the last few months he was home, and although his abilities didn’t compare in flashiness when it came to his siblings, he felt like they were still trying to help him be the best. Whether that was for Dom’s own consideration, or the preservation of their family as a powerful batch of heroes, he wasn’t certain. But he would take anything he could to have an advantage over his teammates and stand out as an all star from the start.

The facility was what he expected of a government run facility, very sterile and lots of fluorescent lighting. Surprisingly, he didn’t see any agents around. He expected someone to be there to greet him, even if it was just the team handler. But the facility was almost ghostly quiet, allowing his boots moving across the concrete floors echo around the walls.

There was a hallway lined with doors, and each door had two names on it. His siblings had also warned him of the room sharing, which he wasn’t necessarily used to, but would deal with to get through training. He didn’t expect a female name to be beside his, as he thought they would be separated by gender. Again, it wouldn’t bother him, but it would be an interesting experience living with a girl over the training period.

His new roommate wasn’t in the facility yet. The room he walked into was bigger than he thought they would be, even with two beds and some other bedroom furniture. It wouldn’t take him long to unpack his belongings, so he took this moment to sit on the bed and let it set in that he was finally hitting the next milestone in his journey to becoming one of the best heroes.

Just outside, Sapphire Massig finally arrived at the training facility. Even after a life in Detroit, she hated the cold. She had gotten herself a bright blue peacoat to make herself try to like the winter more, but as the snow sunk into the bottom of her favorite boots, she couldn’t hate the winter more. But, she would deal with the snow to get that much closer to her dream of becoming one of the heroes she idolized so much.

The facility felt very cold and uninviting, and she almost believed that it got colder as she stepped inside. She heard someone moving about down the hallway, but it didn’t appear like anyone else was there. She found where the rooms were pretty quickly, and the source of the other person was just a few rooms down. Her name was on one of the first doors in the hallway, and another name - a male name - was attached.

Sapphire was a bit ruffled by the thought of sharing a room with someone, especially a boy. She’s spent her whole life having her own room and didn’t want to start sharing now. Plus, she didn’t pack light, but thankfully it appeared as the room would be plenty big enough for all of her things and whoever this Josiah person was with his own things. There was even a desk available for her to setup her computers and gadgets.

She would take plenty of time to organize her things, but the prospect of meeting one of her fellow team members was too good to pass up. She made her way out of her room and down the hall to the open doorway, waiting for the other trainee to notice her.

When he didn’t appear to see her, she taps her knuckles against the door to grab his attention. ”Hello! I’m Sapphire, or I. T. I guess we’re going to be teammates!” Sapphire introduces herself cheerfully, trying to make the best impression with her first teammate.

Dominic studies the girl that appears at his doorway, staying silent long enough to see her start to squirm while waiting for his own introduction. He was curious what kind of abilities she had and what her fighting style was like, especially to garner a hero name such as I. T. She reminded him some of his older sister Kim, though not as intimidating or cocky. ”Dominic. Hero name is Prodigy.” His answer is short, hoping to deter his teammate from continuing a deeper conversation. He wasn’t here to make friends, he was here to be the best.

Sapphire was intrigued by her new teammate. He was definitely intimidating, and she could only wonder what kind of power he would possess. He didn’t seem to be much of a talker, but Sapphire could talk to a brick wall if she needed to. ”It’s nice to meet someone else with abilities. I don’t know very many people like us. My mom is a little worried about me becoming a field agent, but I told her that I wouldn’t want to do anything else
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The girl, Sapphire, continues to ramble on about her own life, which Dominic frankly wasn’t interested in. But he thought of their teammates that would soon be showing up, tuning out his unwarranted guest and tuning in to sounds from the building to warn him when more people would be coming. Hopefully they would be less talkative than this one.

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{ trinity ROGUE nova }



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Rogue (v)
behaving in ways that are surprising, often harmful




{ josiah GOLIATH woodward}



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Goliath (n)
someone with an unusually large amount of strength




January. The first month of the new year and the start of a new journey. The Hero Service Training begins and Trinity was beyond excited. She had been looking forward to it for months. Her and her mother spent the time to replace any rusted weapons and clean any of the others in order to impress everyone at the facility. She had spent more time focused on packing her weapons than she did her clothes. Her mother was insistent on taking her to the facility, but she convinced her otherwise. Trinity and her family were from D.C. so the facility was only a train ride away.

Winter wasn’t her favorite season, but she loved when it snowed. She always thought that it symbolized a fresh start and this was Trinity’s fresh start. With two bags in hand, Trinity stood before the facility. It resembled every other government facility. It was bleak and boring. There wasn’t anyone outside readily available to greet her or help her with any of her things. Trinity shrugged the grey peacoat she was wearing back up onto her shoulders. She headed inside, eyes looking around for any other people. She could hear distant voices, down one of the many hallways. As she was making her way, her phone rang. ”Hi mom.” Only three steps into her new life and her mother already called. ”Yes I made it...no I haven’t met anyone...I will unpack once I find my room...Can I call you later?...okay bye.”

Phone securely tucked back into the back of her jean pocket, she continued down the hall. There were several doors lining the hallway, each with names. Trinity continued her way down until the voices - which turned out to be one voice - became more clear. Another trainee stood at the entrance of her room, whom she was assuming was her roommate until she saw the second name posted. No one had told her about the co-ed rooms. She was either expecting to either have a room to herself or be with another female. It would be the first time having to share a space with a male. ”Excuse me...” She stated to the girl still blocking the entrance. Trinity managed to slip her and her two bags through.

The room was rather large and taking up one of the beds was who she assumed was her roommate. ”You must be Dominic.” She offered him her award-winning smile before turning to look at the other girl. ”I’m Trinity or Rogue now since we are trainees.” She moved over to what she assumed was her side of the room, placing both of the bags on the bed. She could put clothes away later, but the weapons need a home.

Flights always wore Josiah out. Despite all the flying he was used to doing in order to visit various family members. He had just finished a trip from Florida and was not happy about being back in the cold. Though from D.C, he did everything he could to limit his time in the cold. He would take trips to warmer places during winter months and even hotter places during the summers. This was the first time his snowbird fun would be cut short.

Josiah stood before the training facility with a pout on his face. He was not excited to be here. It’s usually everyone’s dream to be a hero. To have their names in the papers and save countless lives. Josiah did not have that dream. He was having plenty of fun living as if a normal citizen. He was only here to appease his mother who he was not hoping to today or for the next week. He was going to need time getting over being forced into this.

He strode inside, duffle bag in hand. His mother had kind of explained how the training facility works and the set up of it, but she doesn’t spend enough time here to know much more than the basics. It was pretty easy finding the rooms they would be staying in. The hallway was lined with them. Names were posted, two to a room. Josiah raised an eyebrow as he noticed the rooms were co-ed. ”Maybe it won’t be so bad.” He managed to get to his room and noticed someone’s things were already there. He went to the other vacant bed and left his things. He was determined to see where his roommate had disappeared too.

Josiah wandered down the hall, hands in his hoodie pockets. He followed the voices until he noticed a girl standing in the doorway. No one else seemed to be here. He continued to move closer to her, a grin on his face. ”Um are you Sapphire? I could be completely wrong, but you are the only other person here..” He peeked his head into the doorway and realized two others were settling in as well. ”Correction. We are the only four here. Is this supposed to be the welcome party?” Josiah said jokingly.

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Sapphire did have a tendency to ramble, especially in situations were she was nervous about something- in this case, being around other people with abilities who also wanted to become heroes. That also gave her a bad habit of tuning out her surroundings, causing her to be in the way of her new teammate trying to move in.

”Oh, sorry about that! Didn’t mean to keep you out of your own room,” Sapphire steps out the way, giving the girl plenty of room to get inside. Her eyes widened when the girl, Trinity as she introduced herself, started to unpack some very intimidating weapons. It was becoming very clear while they all had abilities, her teammates would have more combat prowess than she had prepared herself for.
She hoped that she wouldn’t fall behind, but she was confident in her unique abilities setting her apart from the team.

She tried her hardest to not let that confidence falter as she was introduced to both of her new teammates. ”Oh wow, Rogue is a badass name! I’m Sapph-“ Before she could continue with her introduction, another male appeared, asking if she was Sapphire.

This must be her roommate Josiah, and it was confirmed that she would be living with a boy for her time in training. While she thought that a government facility of this size would have enough room for the trainees to have their own rooms, she wouldn’t be that girl who immediately complains about being around her teammates. She wanted to make the best impression, and she was sure their pairings were to improve teamwork between them by living in a shared space. She wouldn’t be happy about it, but she also would t be the brat of the group if she could help it.

”You guessed correctly. Also, I go by I. T. for my hero name.”

Dominic wasn’t sure how his room became the epicenter for his teammates to congregate and introduce themselves, but now wasn’t the time for pleasantries. Certainly their handlers had plans to get them all acquainted, so he would not be doing that himself. But, he did note that the Trinity girl he was living with was less chatty than the Sapphire girl, which he was thankful for if he had to live with her. She also had quite the array of weaponry, which peaked his interest.

”Weapon specialty?” Dominic asks her, stepping closer to get a better look at her weapons. He was always more of a hand to hand fighter, especially considering his ability heightening his combat skills, but had an appreciation for a skilled weapons fighter. ”I’m Prodigy, my skills are specialized for hand to hand. I've worked with some of those weapons before.”

He needed to know more about his teammates if he was going to be the best of them. Learning how their abilities worked and the advantages they would have over his combat skills would be necessary to work with them as a team and show the most powerful aspects of his abilities. He would have to prove himself not only as an opponent no criminal would want to face, but as a hero that could easily work with any other hero in unexpected battles.

He could approximately guess both of the girls’ abilities, Trinity by her display of weapons and Sapphire by her hero name. They would have a few more teammates trickling in, each with their own unique ability to study. He wasn’t sure how many of them had siblings or parents already in the hero service, except for Sapphire who had decided to divulge her family history of no abilities. He wondered how well she would do without the support that many of them received before coming to training.

”You must have some technology ability, right?” Dominic directs his next question towards Sapphire, who seemed surprised that Dominic had spoken with her again. ”Well, not exactly. I can manipulate information, it doesn't have to be technology based, it can be any medium of information.” Sapphire answers, about to ask him more about his own ability when Dominic interrupts her.

”And you?” He asks Josiah, having an idea of everyone’s abilities except for the other male in the room.

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{ trinity ROGUE nova }



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Rogue (v)
behaving in ways that are surprising, often harmful




{ josiah GOLIATH woodward}



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Goliath (n)
someone with an unusually large amount of strength




The girl that had originally blocked the door was named Sapphire. Another male had stepped in while she was talking and basically did her introduction for her. Trinity waved to the male, in the doorway after he made his comment regarding the welcome party. This wasn’t too bad of a welcome. Sapphire and the new guy were friendly enough. And Dominic hadn’t kicked the other two out. She was pretty optimistic about this team.

Though it seemed rude to be unpacking while the team was trying to get to know each other, these weapons needed to be laid out properly for easy access. ”Yes I am.” These weapons were her pride and joy. She wants to collect more and learn more which only boosts her ability and usefulness on the field. The weapons must have piqued her roommate’s interest because he actually moved closer to her and took the time to explain his hero name as well as his ability. Hand to hand combat. That would come in handy out in the field for sure. She was impressed that he even knew what some of these weapons were. Usually people with abilities, stick to the ability and forget there are other ways to fight. ”Well I will happily show you how some of these other ones work.” She said with a smile.

Dominic continued on trying to figure out the rest of the group’s abilities. Sapphire had to do with information manipulation. Though demonstration would be inappropriate, she was curious to see how that worked. Though not really giving I.T anymore time to explain it was Josiah’s turn to explain himself.

Josiah leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed against his chest. He had a feeling that this wasn’t going to be as terrible as he originally thought. His roommate was adorable and kind of reminded him of his twin sisters, though she talked way more. He raised an eyebrow at her. ”I.T? Doesn’t that just spell IT. Like that freaky clown?” He questioned more as a joke than anything else, a tiny grin tugging on the edge of his lips.

”Oh! My name is Josiah, hero name Goliath. I turn into a monster.” Josiah stated nonchalantly. He ran his fingers through his hair. ”Not all the time though, most of the time I prefer to just borrow the power.” Trinity was stuck trying to figure out if he meant monster as personality or as in a literal monster. ”As much as I like to show off, I am going to save the show for when its an emergency.” Josiah stated with a wink, almost as if he had been reading Trinity’s mind for a demonstration.

CODE RED. VILLAIN ATTACK. FACILITY UNDER LOCKDOWN CODE RED. VILLAIN ATTACK. FACILITY UNDER LOCKDOWN. CODE RED.


Trinity covered her ears as the siren went off and the intercom loudly announced that they were under attack. ”What do they mean under attack?!” Her question, rhetorical in nature, made it evident that she was beyond nervous. Josiah’s eyes went from their normal brown to red. ”I think that means we need to find cover.” Rogue immediately took hold of the retractable metal staff and clicked the button. She also took hold of her beretta 92, placing in the back of her jeans waist. Trinity regretted not having her utility belt.

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One side of Dominic’s lip tugs into a smile at Trinity’s offering to show him more of her weapons, nodding back at her. She was the one he was most interested to see in action, especially with her arsenal laid out in their room. Or maybe it was Sapphire, because he had a hard time picturing her in the field but she was obviously on their team for a reason.

He even chuckles a bit at Josiah’s joke to Sapphire’s hero name, though the slight look of annoyance on the girl’s face was clear that she didn’t find it funny, and Josiah’s introduction interrupted her before she could correct him.

His explanation of his ability was equally mysterious and intriguing, causing many questions to flood into his mind of what exactly this ‘monster’ was. However, there was no time to ask as a siren started blaring and a warning blasted through the facility of a villain attack. A chill went down Dominic’s spine, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing. It felt like a trap, with no agents around and only trainees on their first day of being at the facility. They’d only been here for less than an hour, Dominic didn’t know anything about layout or access points to know where would be safe to cover.

Sapphire was frozen in her spot. Not even her worst nightmares or anxieties prepared her for a villain attack on their training facility. Josiah was the closest to her and without thinking she clutches to his arm. ”This can’t be happening
” She whimpers out, unable to move from her spot. She could hear boots thumping loudly out from outside the room and she started to shake. ”This can’t-... oh God-“ Sapphire is slightly panicking at this point, not wanting to die on her first day of training to some random villains that decided they would attack the facility.

Dominic pulls his gauntlets out from his bag, moving to the doorway and noticing the attackers coming their way, and fast. ”We have to fight them. There’s no way we’ll get out of here otherwise.”

On instinct, Josiah kept Sapphire close and slightly behind him. The sounds of boots echoed through the hallway. It was hard to tell how many of them there actually were. Even with his enhanced hearing, he couldn’t make out the different steps. ”Just stay close to me..” His voice is calm and not wavering. Josiah was trying to remain calm and confident, despite him being just as nervous as the others in the room. But if he let himself get out of control, he would be forced to do a demonstration of the beast he was talking about.

Trinity had the gun for long range attacks, staff for combat, but that might not be enough weapons. She also doesn’t have enough bullets for the gun. Out of her bag she clipped on her gun holster. It was able to hold both beretta’s and extra ammo. Trinity clicked the retractable staff and it elongated in her hands. ”Um fight? Right...fight.” Trinity was always told not to use any of her powers without permission. Does this count as permission? Hand on one of her guns, she placed the state accuracy on it. ”Wait.. she mumbled to herself. She removed the state and placed a state of weight on the staff. Makes the staff appear heavier to opponents making the blows harder.

Josiah peeked his head out of the door for a moment and quickly looked back in. ”Okay so I see one down the hall and so far that’s the only one, but I could hear steps from other corridors.” It took a minute for him to think. ”I can try and find an exit and keep Sapphire with me.” He mostly said that as peace of mind for his clearly scared roommate.

Sapphire didn’t understand how any of them were thinking clearly. She told herself she would not be a burden, but the thought of the villains outside their door waiting to kill them, she could hardly breathe, let alone try to fight. She wasn’t a fighter; she was a hacker, manipulator, data wizard, everything but a fighter. She had some gadgets she brought along but there was no telling if she could get to her luggage in the other room down the hall. She stayed solidly behind Josiah, eagerly taking his protection over trying to muster the courage to fight.

Dominic nods at Josiah’s observation, looking to Trinity. ”We can follow behind you, take care of anyone from the rear,” Dominic answers, hoping that his roommate would follow along so he could have some assistance with her protection. She wasn’t as helpless as Sapphire, but the nervousness was easily noticeable.

Once they were out of the room, he was quick to charge at the first villain that came in his vicinity. A part of him wanted to prove that they were already strong enough to battle, and impress the handlers once they saw how the team took down a villain attack on the facility once they finally showed up.

The villain was quick to use their ability, shooting ice at Dominic that wrapped around his boots and forced him in place. He was shocked at the speed, and was rooted to the spot as the villain advanced on him.

Trinity couldn’t help but jump behind Dominic as some form of protection as he attacked the nearby villain. It was instinct, she isn’t used to using her powers without strict permission. Dominic was stuck in place and she quickly used her staff to break his foot free from the ice. Quickly pulling her gun from the holster, she shot twice at the villain in the chest.

Josiah was trying to keep hold of Sapphire as they were making their way down the hall. A villain already at the rear and the one further down the hall charging at them. The villain swung and Josiah took a quick step backwards making sure to move his roommate with him. With his enhanced strength, he drove his foot into the chest of the villain sending him back down the hall where he came. ”This way”. He made his way down a different hall, Sapphire still in hand, but not really checking if Dom and Trinity were following.

Sapphire was barely keeping up, trying to dodge any attacks while Josiah was attacking the villains. They ended up getting close enough to their room that sapphire quickly slipped inside, wanting to hide under the bed but noticing her small box of smoke bombs she had been working on last week. She quickly grabbed them, and with shaking hands, threw some behind them and in front of them, covering the entire hallway in a blanket of smoke.

The smoke made it harder for the villains to locate them, but without holding on to Josiah, she could barely see where she was either. The realization of what she had done was making her chest even tighter, and she hadn’t grabbed anything else so she resorted to hiding behind Josiah again.

Dominic was thankful for Trinity’s assistance, otherwise he didn’t know if he could have gotten out of the way of the villain’s attack. She also went on the attack, shooting the villain who staggered to the side and allowed them to get away. He turned to see where Josiah and Sapphire had run off to, and the hallway was filling fast with smoke. ”They have all kinds of abilities, we need to be careful,” Dominic warns, thinking the smoke to be from the enemy. He grabs Trinity's hand and steers her past the villain to get away in the other direction from their teammates.

Trinity was still in a bit of shock that she even shot anyone. She was so used to just practicing on targets, but this was not a target. She didn’t have time to overthink it. Dominic had a hold of her and they were on the move again. It was only then she realized that smoke was covering the halls. It was getting harder to see. ”Where did Josiah and Sapphire go?” She asked quickly, realizing it was just the two of them .

Josiah wasn’t even sure where the two of them were at the moment. The halls were covered in smoke. Even though the villains couldn’t see, he could barely see them. His enhanced sight could only do so much. All of sudden he felt something wizz past him. A cut on his cheek and the knife finding its way on the wall behind him. ”Stay behind me Sapphire.” Another knife went by, ripping through his shoulder and cutting his skin. Now he was getting angry. ”I’ve had enough!”

It doesn’t take much for Josiah to get angry. Which usually, isn’t a problem. But at this moment while using his enhanced form, it was a problem. He quickly began to transform to the monster. Normally standing at 5’9” he grew to about 7’ and doubled in wingspan. Hair began to sprout to take the shape of a lions mane around his head. Bones snapped into place and his nails elongated into claws. His hood and shirt ripped and fell to the floor. His fast resembled that of a cat with teeth sharp enough to tear into the flesh of any of these villains. His eyes were still as red as they were when the battle started. Josiah let out a roar once fully transformed that echoed through the facility.

Trinity eyes grew wide as the roar hit her ears. ”What the hell was that?” She held her staff tighter and moved even closer to Dominic. She had no idea what they were up against, but it sounded as if things were about to get more serious.

Dominic was starting to realize they were really out of their league. Whoever wanted to attack them was doing a very good job of it. He held tight to Trinity’s hand, making sure she was close. He didn’t know where the other two had disappeared, which put his attention solely on keeping Trinity and himself safe so they could find them later. ”I don’t know. Let’s stay together so we don’t lose each other.”

The roar made him stop in his tracks for a moment, wondering if he should just turn around and find some other way out. But with Trinity, he could muster enough courage to head in the direction of the roar. Once they were close enough for Dominic to just barely see the hulking figure in the smoke, he decided to attack and hope that he caught the monster off guard.

Sapphire shrieks the moment Josiah is fully transformed. When he said that he could turn into a monster, she didn’t expect anything so menacing and, well, monstrous. The sudden change causes her to stumble back, falling onto her back and she scrambled to get into the nearest corner she could hide. She didn’t know how much control Josiah had over this side of him, and she didn’t want to be in his way if he didn’t recognize her in this form. Tears pricked at her eyes as she thought of all her dreams dying because a villain took her out on the first day of training, unless this monster form of her teammate got to her first.

Trinity immediately regretted not speaking up when Dominic pulled them towards the roar. The figure was gigantic. It was a monster for lack of better terms. Nothing on this creature resembles a human-like being. Dom jumped in to attack, but Trinity was frozen in place. They were completely out of their league. One hit from that thing and they could be knocked out cold or worse.

Josiah always battled with controlling his beast and this was going to be one of those times. At this moment he was just trying to focus on attacking whomever attacked him first. All of sudden he felt a blow to his back which made him growl in pain. He quickly turned to whomever it was. Josiah couldn’t make out who it was, but it didn’t matter. Reaching his hand out, he gripped the figure in his oversized hand and pinned him against the wall.

Trinity watched in horror as the monster didn’t even flinch at the hit that Dominic gave it. Her roommate was now pinned against the wall and she needed to do something. With shaking hands, she reached in her holster for her gun, but dropped it. ”...shit shit SHIT! She dove to the ground, quickly trying to feel around for her gun. That monster was going to hurt Dominic and she couldn’t even hold onto her gun.

”STOP!”

The voice echoed the halls and the lights flashed back on. Some of the doors opened up to clear out the smoke. Trinity found her gun, but was now confused. Josiah glanced around, still keeping hold of the figure that had attacked him.

”You all failed.”

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Failed?

Dominic stopped struggling in the hold that this beast had him in, the clearing smoke making the entire facility easier to see in. The beast was much more menacing without the smoke to hide some of its features, but when he glanced into the open room beside him, noticing Sapphire cowering behind the door frame, he pieced together that this must have been the ‘monster’ that Josiah was able to turn into. Just the sheer power of this beast was enough to make Dominic speechless.

When he was realized, his legs didn’t hold him up, and he fell onto his bottom in shock. The ‘villains’ around him started to pull off their helmets, brushing off and even some lightly conversing with other ‘villains’. The one that Trinity had shot was still sitting against the wall, but he had pulled off a vest and was showing the bullet shell to another. These weren’t evil criminals trying to kill them, Dominic assumed they had to be training agents and handlers.

Sapphire didn’t move even when the smoke finally cleared and their enemies revealed themselves as non-enemies. At least, that was what she thought considering they weren’t attacking anymore and practically ignored the four trainees in various stages of failure.

Now that was a word that was uncharted territory to Sapphire. Even without her ability involved, she didn’t fail. She excelled, with school work and extracurricular and even training her ability. Her high marks on ability control was what landed her on a field team despite her lack of an affinity for combat. To hear that word, on the first day of training, she was in total disbelief while still reeling from all the heightened emotions and panic she had just gone through. This wasn’t even a real attack, which started all these thoughts of what a real battle would be like if she couldn’t fight properly in a staged one.

”Team Alpha, I am Agent Suzana Angel, your handler during these next four years of training. Follow me to the control room for your simulation debrief.” The woman who had stopped the simulation spoke again to the four teenagers, not wasting a moment making her way to the control room. Sapphire picked herself up from the ground, and offered her hand for Dominic, who let her pull him up from the ground. They waited for their roommates to join and followed the agent to the room in question.

The control room wasn’t far from their rooms, passing by the same door they entered the facility from. It looked as if no time had passed, yet the battle felt as if it had lasted hours. Sapphire was taking a long shower as soon as she could get back to the room.

Video footage of the battle displayed on a map of screens at the front of the room. Agent Angel stood in front of these screens, a stony look on her face. Dominic could only wonder what this woman would say about their performance, and his chances of impressing his handler from the first day were dropping significantly as he watched himself on some of the screens. Sapphire didn’t look at any of the screens, her eyes focused ahead but not on anything.

Trainee Prodigy,” Agent Angel starts, the screens changing to only footage of his part in the battle. Dominic was ashamed at every screen, and his face clearly showed that. He couldn’t read the agent at all so he waited for her commentary. ”Attacking without a plan does not work when you do not know your enemy. You attacked one of our agents without knowledge of his ability, and without your teammate’s assistance, you would have suffered an attack from this agent. If she was an actual criminal, you could have been killed. You also attacked your fellow teammate in the midst of the smoke. Friendly fire is punishable by negation and removal of your status as a hero, if in a live battle. You need to plan or you will make these mistakes again.”

She did not wait for his response, turning to her next target. Footage of Trinity flooded all the screens. ”Trainee Rogue, you dropped your weapon in the heat of battle where you had a distinct disadvantage with the smoke covering the field. In a live battle, mistakes like that will get you killed. You need to have control over your emotions, this could be only the beginning of ambush attacks you will face as a hero and you need to be on guard. You also did not confirm that you had subdued the enemy you shot. Plenty of villains have bulletproof vests, or even an ability that would allow them to recover quickly. Subduing the enemy without fatal measures should be one of your most important goals.”

Sapphire knew she was next, with the unwavering gaze that burned into her from their agent and the videos of her on the screens. Trainee I.T. Your placement on this team was made under the strict direction that you would be able to perform combat should the mission require it. Your performance in this simulation was the worst of your teammates. You cannot use your teammates as a shield, and your use of the smoke bombs gave you and your teammates a distinct disadvantage in the battle. We will need to see improvement from your combat skills or we will be forced to reconsider your position on a field team.”

Sapphire was fighting back tears again, though from sheer embarrassment rather than fear. She wouldn’t cry in front of her handler or her teammates, but it was difficult to hold back the feeling of failure that made her eyes burn and her chest tight. Thankfully the agent moved on without commenting on her expression, moving on to the final member of their team.

”Trainee Goliath, your control on your ability is extremely lacking. You need to have more control on your emotions than any member of your team due to its impact on your ability. Like Trainee Prodigy, you attacked your teammate in the midst of the smoke without knowing if he was an enemy or a teammate. We are concerned that this was not because of the confusion of the smoke, but because of your lack of control with your ability. We need you to have complete control before we can trust you to take missions with your team.”

The screens blacked out after she finished the mission debrief. ”That is all for today. Tomorrow training will start at 5:00am sharp in the training stadium in the middle of this facility. Don’t be late.” Their handler left the room, leaving the team to whatever they wanted to do to prepare themselves for tomorrow.

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Failed. The group had failed. Less than an hour at the facility and their handler was less than impressed with them. The screens had been turned off, but Trinity continued to replay the scenario in her head. Every move they made was wrong. They went in without a plan, split up, got caught in the fog, didn’t communicate with one another, panicked, and attacked one another. They are a shame to the hero service. Their handler had left them alone to their thoughts and it didn’t seem like anyone was moving. Everyone was still in shock that they all did so terribly. They thought they all were going to die when in reality their skills were put to the test.

Trinity dropped her weapon. The only thing she is good at is weaponry. In the heat of battle, when her team mate needed her most, she couldn’t even hand onto her gun. If this was real, Dominic would have died. She had hesitated going into batter and could have easily been killed for not thinking quick on her feet. Trinity was so prepared to be a hero and when it came to a simulation, she couldn’t even protect the teammates she just met. Thinking back on it, it wouldn’t have taken another second to make sure the enemy she had taken out was actually subdued. It also wouldn’t have taken another second to make sure that she had a firm hold on her weapons. There is so much she has to learn. Trinity sat up straighter and tried not to let the look of disappointment remain on her face. The whole point of being a trainee is to train. They are going to get better.

”Stupid..” Josiah muttered mostly to himself, but loud enough for anyone to hear him. Luckily, he had managed to transform back right after the simulation ended. There was no reason to have a simulation on move-in day. They were supposed to meet each other and their handler. They should have had someone greeting them and explaining how things work. A simulation on day two makes more sense. Josiah and the crew had no idea where the access points were. They have never been heroes before nor have they ever worked in a team. Effective communication was foreign to them. And they did have a plan. Fighting and finding an exit is a plan. Josiah also wouldn’t have attacked Dominic, if he had known it was his teammate obviously. This first day was a failure, but not because of the team.

It wasn’t his fault that he couldn’t control his monster. He was basically told not to use it. Josiah didn’t say that though, but his irritation was written all over his face. ”We just go here. Of course we didn’t know what to do..” He ran both hands through his hand, taming the mess a bit. ”Whatever. I’m going to finish unpacking.” Josiah also needed to put clothes back on. During his transformation, his shirt and hood had ripped off. He still had his jeans, though they were basically shorts at this point. He wasn’t sure his teammates felt the same, but it didn’t matter. This team was great in his eyes.

Trinity glanced over to Josiah, both confused to how he isn’t more bothered by the fact that they failed and dumbfounded by how he is just brushing it off. She didn’t say anything to him. Obviously coping in his own way. Trinity turned to Sapphire, who was clearly trying to hold back the tears, threatening to fall down her face. ”Hey, it’s okay. We are going to get better.” Trinity may feel like a complete failure at this time, but she wanted to try and make Sapphire feel better. And they will get better. That’s the point of the training.

”Come on roomie. Let’s head back.” Josiah was less irritable and now more concerned about Sapphire. He couldn’t help when his brother instincts kicked in. Clearly she needed some comforting, though he wasn’t all that great at it.

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Trinity hadn’t come to terms to how weird it was to have a male roommate until it was time to get ready for bed. She had brought decent pajamas to sleep in, but it was the sheer fact that across the room was someone of the opposite gender. She tried not to think about it too hard as she was trying to go to sleep. Trinity made sure that she had slept with her back to him to make it less awkward for the both of them, but mostly for her.

It wasn’t long before she fell asleep. Between being extremely excited and nervous about her first day and the very eye-opening simulation, she was exhausted. Sleep overcame her and she was grateful to rest. It was only interrupted due to the alarm that her roommate had set. Even though she was sure he hadn’t done it on purpose, she was awake. Trinity then realized that it was weird in the morning as well. They had to share the bathroom. She decided to wait until he was gone before getting ready herself. Once the door clicked, she got up out of bed.

To say that that Trinity was nervous was an understatement. It was their first training after basically embarrassing themselves. They were going to be getting whipped into shape and she had a feeling that this handler wasn’t going to go easy on them. It didn’t take her very long to get ready since she finished unpacking everything yesterday. Trinity wore some comfortable workout gear for training, since she wasn’t exactly sure what they were going to be doing. She made sure her utility belt was full of her favorite weapons and put it over her shoulder. She left her room and made her way to the cafeteria.

It took Trinity a few tries to figure out where the cafeteria was. She had already come to terms with the fact that it was going to take her a few tries to memorize the layout of the facility. For now she knows how to get from the debriefing room to her room and from her room to the cafeteria. Slow but steady progress. Trinity didn’t get much for breakfast. Excitement and nerves were putting her stomach in knots. She looked around to see Dominic and Sapphire eating already. Trinity moved over to them and sat next to Dominic, across from Sapphire. ”Good morning.” She said to the both of them, a bright smile on her face. She moved the utility belt off her shoulder and onto the empty table space next to her. ”Are you guys just as nervous as I am about training?” She asked in attempt to make friendly conversation while taking small bites of the food in front of her.

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Sapphire couldn’t help but let a small smile spread across her face as Dominic accepted her request for extra training. She knew enough about her new teammate to know that if she could get in some training time with him, her combat skills would be better for it.

Trinity joined them at the breakfast table soon after, leaving Josiah to be the missing teammate from Team Alpha. He had been dead asleep when she finally crawled out of bed to get ready, and she assumes he had his own alarm set so she wasn’t going to wake him up. She smiled as the other girl sat down with them, trying to be friendlier today to make up for her emotional actions yesterday. Nervous was the half of it, but Sapphire replied assuredly, ”I’m ready to prove myself to our handler today. No matter what she throws at us.”

Dominic finishes the small breakfast he picked up, and pulls himself from the table. ”We all weren’t prepared yesterday. You’ll be fine.” The blunt statement is all Dominic offers, mainly targeted at Trinity but really meant for all of them.Today was a fresh start, moving past their failures yesterday and proving to their trainers that they were more than a bunch of scared kids that blundered the moment they were given free reign on their abilities. Dominic would not let this training prove that he was just as weak as his siblings thought him to be, he would use it to prove them wrong.

Sapphire didn’t have much of an appetite after a night of unrest, and threw away the rest of what she didn’t eat to follow along to the training fields. They both waited for their teammate to finish her own breakfast, and the three of them made their way. Sapphire thought to check on Josiah, but there was still time for him to get to their meeting point on time and didn’t want to interrupt him getting ready.

Agent Angel was already at the front of the room, a set of files in her hand that she was scanning through. She didn’t acknowledge them as they came into the room aside from momentarily flicking her eyes up to see who was coming in, and then back down to the file she was analyzing. Dominic remained silent as he took his place in front of the agent, as did Sapphire as she took her place beside Trinity. They waited for Josiah to join them, but as Agent Angel checked her watch, she wasted no more time waiting.

”Today is your first official day of training,” Agent Angel’s voice boomed throughout the room as she spoke, and a few trainers joined her at the front of the room. Sapphire noticed one of them had prosthetic legs, and he was younger than the man who came with him and Agent Angel. ”Agent Orinwell and Agent Malillos will be assisting me in your training programs. We will train you with mastering your ability, your combat skills, your weaponry skills, and the ability to work as a team. Today we will be assessing your current skills in the first three areas to plan your programs accordingly. We will also be assessing your current physique with different exercises. Any questions?”

Dominic just wanted to start this and prove himself after the failure from yesterday. And Sapphire was too intrigued by what they would be doing to ask anything. With the absence of questions, the trainers started the first training day.

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Trinity tried to eat what she could of her meal. She was just itching to get started and despite Dominic’s kind words, or his version of kind words, there were still butterflies in her stomach. Her teammates were nice enough to wait for her to finish her meal prior to heading off to the training meet up. Trinity made sure to note how to get from the cafeteria to their current location for future reference. She also realized that they were missing a teammate. Sapphire didn’t say anything about Josiah, so she didn’t think that she needed to worry.

Agent Angel was standing there waiting for them and didn’t even acknowledge them. She was sifting through files. Trinity assumed it was their files. There were other trainers with her, one with prosthetics who didn’t look much older than the group and another with a cane. Their trainers were just diverse and unique as the team. That could either be a good or bad thing. Trinity was leaning on the side of that being a good thing. She took her spot next to Dominic and Sapphire took the spot next to her. Their handler’s voice seemed to echo around the room. She sped through introductions and was going straight into the introductions. Trinity stood up taller. She was ready to prove herself.

Josiah knew that he was late and at the moment he did not care. It was quiet and he took his time getting ready, spending extra unnecessary time brushing his teeth and making sure his hair curled just the way he liked. His training outfit, but pretty simple. Most of his clothes were worn or old since he was prone to ripping them on the off chance that he transformed. So most of the clothes that he packed were things that he didn’t care about. If he needed then he was sure his parents would send him more. Once he was dressed, he made his way to the cafeteria. Three left turns and a muffin later, he was off the training meet up. Josiah wasn’t exactly sure where it was, but he was willing to wander around until he ran into it.

Stepping through the door, he took a bite of the muffin. ”Present.” he stated as if they were taking attendance. He made his way towards his fellow trainees, taking his place next to Sapphire.

”You are late. 100 push ups.” Agent Malillos stated firmly, making direct eye contact with Josiah. Josiah took another slow bite of his muffin, finishing off the rest of it. ”Now?” ”Now.” He sighed, dusting the muffin crumbs off of his hands prior to dropping to the ground. He began doing his push ups making sure that he was counting loud enough for the trainers to hear. He decided against using his ability to help, since he could do 100 push ups without much difficulty.

”The rest of you, your first exercise is a 30 minute run.” Agent Malillos commanded. ”If any of you stop, I will restart the timer. If Josiah stops his push ups, your timer will start over. Any questions?” Trinity was physically fit to some degree, but hopefully her teammates were able to keep up. She could only run for so long with a timer that had contingent restarts. ”Go.” There wasn’t exactly time for questions. Trinity started running around the room, making sure to focus on her breathing. She was trying not to let the fact that she was running without any music. She decided that humming quietly to herself, would make the time go by faster.

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The remaining team member of Team Alpha strode through the door with a muffin in his hand and Sapphire had to stop herself from outright groaning. Of course her roommate was the one to be late on the first official day of training. Agent Malillo was quick to dole out his punishment, and advised that Josiah would have to finish his punishment or the team would be starting over a 30 minute run. Just the thought of one 30 minute run was exhausting enough for Sapphire, she just hoped that she could make it through and not cause the team to have to run longer.

Endurance was not her strong suit. She had worried too much about Josiah to think about how to get through this run. She found a speed that her trainers seemed to accommodate, but only a few minutes in her lungs started to burn. She was doing everything she could to keep up, knowing that if this were on a mission she would have to keep going, but her legs started to get heavy and she could move more than a few feet before her legs finally stumbled and she has to grab onto the wall. Agent I.T., back to running! The time has started over for all of you.”

Sapphire tried to catch her breath for the moment she was gasping against the wall, getting as much strength back as she could to make it through the extra time. She believed they were halfway along when she finally crumbled, but it was back to the full thirty minutes the moment her feet stopped pounding against the training field floors. She was determined to make it through this time, no matter how badly her lungs burned or her legs shook, she was going to make it through.

Once the timer rang out without any further interruptions, Sapphire practically dropped to the floor, clutching her chest and trying to catch her breath that had gone long ago. Dominic almost found it amusing. He wasn’t bothered by the extra time. He was a lot more prepared for this part of training, having gone on long runs with Kimberley and Xavier in the mornings to work up his endurance. He kept his breath even and his pace at just the right speed to keep his energy spread out through the entire run. He even got a bit more distance on the rest of his teammates, which gave him a smug grin.

”You’ll have adrenaline on your side when it comes to running in battle,” Agent Angel noted as they let the trainees catch their breath. ”it’ll give you a burst of speed- and strength -you’ve never felt before. That’s why we need to test your strength as well. Each of you will pick up one of these weights, continuing to increase in weight until you can no longer pick it up.”

Dominic knew that this was something that Josiah would exceed at, considering it was his area of expertise, but it wouldn’t deter him from at least trying to be the best. The weights started out at a mild level, just to engage their muscles, and as they increased, Dominic started to struggle. He made sure to study Josiah’s movements, using his ability to at least replicate the form if he couldn’t replicate his teammate's strength.

He was still in the upper level of weights when he finally had to stop, his muscles failing to move the large weights. Sapphire was surprisingly not far behind him, lifting a considerable amount of weight for her size. For a girl that could barely finish a thirty minute run, she was lifting weights that grown men couldn’t lift. It made sense with the type of equipment she worked with, but it still came as a surprise with her current performance.

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Trinity did alright during the run. She usually incorporates running during her exercises, but more as a warm up. She did alright with pacing herself, but when they had to start over she thought that she was going to collapse. Towards the end of the run, she was breathing harder and her lungs were starting to hurt. Part way through the run, Josiah had joined them since he had finished his push ups. Trinity was trying to swallow her jealousy as he seemed to be doing just fine even though he had to do a completely different exercise. The exercise was over and Trinity was just grateful to be able to catch her breath. She leaned against the wall and focused on taking deep breaths.

Next was strength. Josiah stretched a bit with a smile on his face. The pushups and the run actually warmed him up. Prior to being a hero trainee, he would religiously exercise for at least two hours a day. For one, it was because he liked to look good. Josiah wouldn’t consider himself a vain person, but he does care about his looks to an extent. Exercise has always been the way to keep up with a version of himself that he liked. He would also exercise to keep up with the ability he has. He can only be as strong as he trains to be. His enhanced ability is limited if he wasn’t already relatively strong and fast. For Josiah, this was going to be a breeze. The free weights were set up and he was trying to contain his excitement.

It wasn’t shocking that Josiah was able to lift the heaviest weights with Dominic tailing behind him. What he wasn’t sure the group knew was that he didn’t use his ability until the last two strongest weights he used. He was willing to keep that to himself. Josiah raised an eyebrow in surprise as he noticed that Saph wasn’t very far behind Dominic. It was very impressive. Trinity was even farther down, closer to the mid-range weights. That was where he expected her and Saph to be so he wasn’t all that shocked. They put down the weapons and waited for their next exercise.


”Next is weaponry.” A unfamiliar voice spoke from across the room. She was standing behind several different tables that were covered in weapons. Trinity could not help the smile that formed on her face. She recognized at least 70% of those weapons and the ones she didn’t recognize she was beyond excited to get her hands on. The beautiful thing about her ability is that once she touches it the first time, she will know exactly how to use the second time around. ”My name is Agent Gupta, but you all can call me Helena. Step up to the tables.” Trinity already liked this agent more than the others, but she kept that to herself.

”This is simple. Pick a weapon you think you know how to use and demonstrate. Behind me are dummies and targets. Enough for all of you. Mastery in a weapon is a headshot of any kind, Proficiency is any attack on the chest, and failing is missing. Only one shot for each weapon you think you know. Have fun.”

Josiah hated this entirely. He started at the table, dumbfounded that this many weapons existed. He could only imagine how their weapons expert teammate is feeling. He just wanted to get this over with, he knew that he did not know any of these weapons so there was no point to delay his failure. Josiah walked right up to the table and grabbed a dagger. At least it looked like a dagger to him. He moved around the tables in front of the dummies. His eyes grew red as he channeled his inner strength. He threw the dagger, but it missed completely hitting the wall behind the dummy. Once done, he returned to his original spot in front of the tables with a smile on his face.

Trinity was going to take a while. The excitement was written all over her face and luckily they can all do this at the same time. Trinity went straight to work, taking hold of weapon after weapon. For weapons that she knew inside and out due to personal experience, she managed to get all headshots. Not one miss. For the weapons she knew, but only from getting her hands on it, she only made attacks on the chat. Trinity made sure to strategically pick up weapons she had never seen before. She had to refrain from attempting to use it because it would ruin the zero miss streak she had. Once Trinity was done, she took her place next to Josiah who had to stand and wait for the rest of the group to finish.

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Sapphire was starting to lose her energy. Where she was from, there weren’t many people like her, so she didn’t get any opportunities to physically train like this. Her arms were already starting to ache from the weights, but it was a good ache. She wanted to get better, and the soreness was a sign that she was already building muscle and skill.

She wasn’t as confident when the new agent appeared, leading them into weapons training. She didn’t recognize most of the weaponry laid out, but managed to pick out a pistol that she felt somewhat comfortable with. When she went to the shooting range and fired, the pistol almost ricocheted back to her face. But surprisingly, her bullet managed to hit on the very edge of the dummy’s shoulder. It was almost a miss, but it was much better than she thought she would do. Sapphire even tried her hand at a throwing knife, but her attempt to get on the dummy’s chest ended up flying right past it.

The last to take on the weapons was Dominic. Weapons weren’t his strong suit, but while he wasn’t on Trinity’s level, he had enough knowledge and familiarity with the pistol to get a decent chest shot. And although the crossbow was a gamble, he had a toy version as a kid and barely manages to get a shot to the mouth. It was enough to put him ahead of Sapphire and Josiah, which he was proud of. He knew Trinity’s specialty was weapons, so he couldn’t expect to overcome her skill as easily.

”You all need to know your teammates’ strengths and weaknesses, especially in combat,” Agent Orinwell grabs their attention once the weapons portion is finished, leading them to mats especially made for physical combat. ”You will engage in two combat matches with each member of the team. One of the matches you will be restricted from using your ability. The other will not have the same requirement.

”Fighting each other?” Sapphire’s concern is clear in her voice. She wasn’t expecting to fight any of them, and she didn’t know who intimidated her the most. This was Dominic’s area of specialty, and she could see on his face how confident he was. Josiah could also turn into a monstrous beast that could snap her like a twig, and she could only imagine what Trinity had in store when she was that good at weaponry.

Josiah was not excited about having to fight one another. Though he knew they would be restricted from any serious damage, he wasn’t that great at fighting. It’s even worse when he isn’t using his abilities. It didn’t help that even with his ability, he had a large advantage over his teammates. ”First up will be Trainee Prodigy and Trainee Goliath. Josiah did not try to hide the sigh that released from his mouth. He was not excited to go first and he was not excited to go into combat whose specialty was combat. He stepped up to the mat along with his teammate and looked towards Dominic. ”Here goes nothing.”

Dominic moved onto the mat, making his way up to Josiah and giving him a long, hard look. He was analyzing possible weak points and where would be the best place to hit first. If he aimed for Josiah’s legs, he could potentially knock him over and pin him down to end the fight quickly. His hands balled into fists at his sides, and his eyes sharpened as he quickly moved forward and swiped his leg in a low kick to try and knock Josiah off of his feet.

Josiah gave his partner a lookover and could not tell what the first move was going to be. Though he wanted this to end quickly, he didn’t want to be embarrassed. All of a sudden, legs were at his feet and he quickly jumped back stumbling a bit. Josiah barely avoided the attack and took a moment to get his bearings. He then attempted to launch himself at Dominic, with the hopes of being able to wrestle him to the ground.

Dominic scrambled back, watching carefully as Josiah advanced on him. He knew Josiah would definitely have strength on his side, and needed to keep out of range of his attacks or would risk getting taken down. Dominic backed up as far as he could before hitting the edge of the mat, and took a chance to spring to the side of Josiah and avoid his advances. It would be easy enough for Josiah to grab him as he swiped by, but he was working on the hope that he would have enough momentum to get by.

Josiah attempted to grab hold of Dominic as he dashed by, but he missed by a hair. He stopped himself at the edge of the mat and turned to face his teammate and there was a moment of hesitation before he attempted another attack, using a back kick to knock him off balance.

Dominic wasn’t expecting the kick and it knocked him to the floor. He lets out a grunt as he hits the hard mat, and gives himself a second to plan before jumping back onto his feet and sprinting back over to Josiah. Before the other boy could make any attempt to attack, he wrapped around the other boy’s midsection and lifted him up just enough to flip Josiah over him and onto his back on the floor. It took all of his strength and he was breathing hard, but advanced on Josiah to pin him to the ground.

Josiah blinked and next thing he knew, he was on the ground. The wind was knocked out of him and he was trying to take some deep breaths. He tried to squirm from the pin and attempted to push him off, but Dominic was relentless. Josiah tapped the mat in submission. ”That ends the first round.” Agent Malillos stated. Josiah scrambled to his feet once Dominic released him. ”Final round. You have no restriction with abilities. Josiah, we would like you to turn.” Josiah smiled. ”No need to tell me twice.” Although his muscles ached, he shifted to the beast that he usually keeps locked away. All the bones cracked and shifted into the right place, hair growing into its lion’s mane, and his teeth sharpening. His eyes bright red and they locked onto Dominic.

Dominic was smirking as he moved from the ground, feeling good after the victory. However, all of his confidence drained the moment they asked Josiah to turn. He’d faced Josiah’s beast in the smoke and failed to even scratch him, and now he had to face him head on. As Josiah turned, Dom’s eyes widened and he placed as much distance between him and Josiah as he could to give himself a bit of a chance of making it through this round victorious too. He tapped into his ability, focusing on how Josiah’s body language spoke to him. It wasn’t much to go on, mainly the feeling that he was going to tear Dominic to shreds if he could. That didn’t stop Dominic from charging forward, leaping up and kicking at the beast’s chest, hoping to knock him off balance.

Josiah mostly had control of the beast he had turned into. He knew the person before him was Dominic, but that was all he could really focus on at the time. He did also know that he wasn’t supposed to severely injure him, just put him on his back. Josiah quickly took hold of Dominic’s leg and tossed him onto the ground, using his oversized foot to pin him onto the floor.

Dominic was planning on using the kick to flip himself back to his feet, but Josiah grabbed his leg and slammed him onto the ground, like he was nothing more than a rag doll. He bit back a groan of pain, pulling himself off of the ground once tapped for defeat and Josiah let him up. Trainee Rogue, take Trainee Prodigy’s place on the mat.”

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”Josiah. Please return to your original state.” Josiah let out a huff and transformed back to his human form. His shirt, however, was missing and pants ripped in several places like he expected. Josiah stretched out his muscles a bit. He wasn’t expecting to be fighting again so soon, but it wasn’t like he had much of a choice. He smiled brightly at Trinity as she took the mat. ”Begin.”

Josiah charged at her the same way that he had attempted to attack Dominic. He was trying to end this fight early as well. The back to back battles were starting to get to his muscles and he needed a break. Josiah was making the assumption that Trinity didn’t want to do this fight as much as he didn’t.

Trinity was watching him closely and was trying to think quickly on her feet, but it was hard when she was trying to focus on dodging his movements. Luckily, Josiah did the same move that he had started with Dominic. She quickly dodged to the right, but stuck out her left foot. He was moving so fast, that she was sure he wouldn’t have been paying attention to her feet.

Josiah stumbled over Trinity’s foot and tumbled to the ground. He stuck his hands out and pushed himself into a forward roll to end up back on his feet. He stood back up and quickly turned to face Trinity, but he wasn’t expecting the foot to his chest and he ended up on his back.

Trinity was trying to move quickly to get her round over with and knew that Josiah couldn’t think quickly in combat. She dropped to the ground and tangled one of her legs around his neck while holding one of his arms tight against her chest. Josiah attempted to break free, but luckily just tapped out. ”End of first round.” Trinity happily released him with an apologetic look on her face. ”I’m sorry. I’m sorry.” Josiah just laughed at her. ”Trainee Goliath. Please transform once again.”

It wasn’t long before the monster stood before Trinity. She took a few steps back and pulled out her retractable staff from her belt. She didn’t want to use any of her weapons that could actually hurt him. ”Begin.” Trinity swung her staff at him, hoping to be able to subdue him even a little.

Josiah roughly pulled the staff from Trinity’s hands and threw it across the room. Before his partner could reach for another weapon, he wrapped his hand around her and picked her up so that they were eye level. A low growl escaped him and he started to squeeze. Trinity squirmed, but there was no use. She was not going to be able to get out of this. But she wasn’t on the mat to be able to tap out. ”Ow ow ow...let me go..please..” End of round. Put her down.” Josiah opened his hand and Trinity dropped to the ground. She was on her knees and wrapped her arms around herself. Trainee Prodigy and Trainee I.T. please step to the mat. Trainee Goliath transform back.” As Josiah left the mat, he returned to his human form.

Sapphire gulped back her anxiety as she stepped onto the mat. She watched Dominic take down Josiah in the first part of their match and wasn’t liking her odds, especially once he’s able to use his combat ability. She noticed the confidence move back into his form, refreshed from his battle with Josiah. She held her fists in front of her face, waiting for his first move.

Dominic was prepared to swipe her footing like he did with Josiah, but he was sure she was expecting that and wanted to catch her off guard. He slowly moved forward, closing the distance and reaches out for a quick blow to her face. He tries not to punch too hard, just to stun her, but as she stumbled back, he could see the blood running out from her nose. ”Fuck
” Sapphire groans out, moving out off of the mat to sit against the wall.

”Trainee I.T. will forfeit both rounds, Trainee Rogue back on the mat,” Agent Orinwell calls out, jogging over to Sapphire and taking her to the bathroom to stop the bleeding. Dominic wasn’t expecting his round to end so quickly, and didn’t mean to cause his teammate a nosebleed. He wasn’t given time to talk to Sapphire as his next opponent came onto the mat. He wasn’t sure how this one would go. He knew Trinity’s specialty was weapons, but he wanted to see just how good her combat was without one. He gave himself a second to study her, letting her make the first move.

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Trinity hesitantly took a step onto the mat. She was expecting to have more time to recover from her battle with Josiah. Her sides hurt less than they had originally did, but she still would have liked more time. She allowed herself a moment to look over her opponent. All she wanted was to be able to last through the rounds. For her first move she took a step forward and quickly turned for a back kick making sure to aim for his chest.

Dominic watched her movements and swung back enough for her kick to fly over him. And while she was still in her momentum, he took the opening and pushed her forward, hoping to get enough power into the shove to knock her to the ground and he could easily pin her here.

Trinity stumbled forward a bit, but managed to catch her balance. She quickly turned around to face him. She quickly scanned him looking for an opening. He doesn’t have any. Trinity wasn’t going to make the first move again, he almost got her onto the ground 30 seconds into the battle.

Dominic crowned as she kept herself off the ground and made it clear through her body language that she wasn’t going to give him the same chance to finish this off quickly. He studied her again, trying to figure out her weak spots. After giving Sapphire a nosebleed, he didn’t want to go for Trinity’s sides and risk hurting his teammate again. Dominic decided the best move was to charge at her, grappling her by the waist and getting her off of the mat and pinned against the wall before she could break free.

Trinity was trying not to let the sheer difference in size and strength get in the way, but there was only so much she could do. It if wasn’t for the fact that the wall was right before her, the sheer force of Dominic would have knocked her onto her back. She tried to push him off, but there was no use. He was way too strong and Trinity’s sides hurt too much to attempt to do anything drastic. She tapped the wall to forfeit. ”That is the end of the first round.” Once Dominic let her go, she pushed herself off against the wall. Agent Helena handed Trinity back her staff that had been tossed against the room for the second round.

Dominic leaned forward and pressed onto his knees, getting his breath back for their next round. He knew this would be even more difficult with her weapons involved, but he wasn’t going to back down easy. He tapped into his body language analysis, he was going to need it if he was going to take her on with her abilities. He wastes no time charging at her, swinging his leg high in the hopes of knocking her weapon from her hand, eyes full of determination.

Trinity held her staff with both hands and quickly added the state strength to it. It made her staff feel heavier than it truly was to the target. That should be able to counter his usual strength plus his body analysis. Her eyes grew wide and she ducked, quickly swinging the head of the staff at his leg to push it away from her. Trinity shuffled around and stood back up, holding her staff out for defense.

Dominic stumbled back, barely catching his footing after his kick was blocked with the heavy staff. He had to make a plan and fast, or he was going to lose. The staff was long and heavy enough to block his attacks, so he had to find another route. He slowly moves forward, building speed until he hops up and plans another kick, trying to get through to knock her back by her chest.

Trinity was calculated with her movements, she didn’t want to give Dominic any advantage by moving too slow. And any extra movements would just be read easily and able to be analyzed by him. The quicker she moved and simpler her moves, the better. Once he jumped in the air she shifted to the right and slammed her staff down onto his waist, hoping it was enough to get him pinned to the floor.

The hit from the staff knocked the breath out of him and slammed him to the floor, giving him a brief deja vu from his earlier fight with Josiah. He struggled to get back up quickly, and he was certain his stomach would be bruised tomorrow from the force of her staff. He wasn’t going to get another attack in, at least a battle winning attack, but he tried to force himself off the ground so he could go down fighting.

”I’m sorry..I’m sorry.” Trinity muttered. She did not like the idea of hurting her teammates. Even though this was training, pain was still pain. It wasn’t something that would just go away. And their first bruises would be partially her fault. Dominic was resilient, but she wasn’t about to let him get up. She pressed the staff harder against him, making sure he could feel the weight of it.

Dominic groaners, finally tapping against the floor for his defeat. He wasn’t going to get out from under her staff. Once she pulled it off, he pulled himself off the ground and settled in to watch the final battles. Sapphire was returning with Agent Orinwell, seemingly refreshed and ready for a real battle. ”Trainee I.T., back on the mat.” Sapphire brushed away any remaining blood from her face and took to the mat again, determined to last more than one attack in her next battle. ”Trainee Goliath, take Trainee Rogue’s spot on the mat.”

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Josiah looked to the trainers and then to Sapphire. ”No.” He took a seat on the floor and crossed his arms like a toddler in protest. ”Trainee Goliath. This is not optional.” Josiah shook his head. ”I’m not fighting her.”

Sapphire frowned, walking towards her roommate and leaning in front of him. You afraid of getting your ass beat by a girl?” She asks with a mischievous look in her eye. She knew she had no chance of truly beating him with his ability, but she had some confidence of their non-ability combat battle. ”I’m not scared, come on, Goliath.”

The small smile Josiah had on his face, quickly disappeared. The look in Sapphire’s eyes did not amuse him. In fact, it was upsetting him. She was taunting him. He was trying to spare her. One hit from Dominic and she had a nosebleed. Also, his muscles ached and he wasn’t in the mood to have a 30 second battle. ”I said no, it. He made sure to put emphasis on the incorrect pronunciation of her name.

”Again, this is not optional.” The agents barked at Josiah. Sapphire’s mischievous demeanor was quickly turning to irritation. Not only at him calling her IT instead of her real agent name, but the fact that he was still sitting and not fighting her. She leaned down further, getting in his face. ”You fight everyone else on the team. Why not me? Am I too weak for you to even bother, huh? Don’t want to waste the energy on your nerdy roommate who can’t fight anyway? Fight. Me.” Josiah’s refusal to fight her was cutting deep into her insecurities, and her tone was dripping with venom. She didn’t care anymore that she’d easily lost to Dominic, she wanted to be treated like a member of this team.

Josiah was beyond irritated. The trainers were yelling at him to fight and he wasn’t going too. His muscles ached. He has to do more transformations in 10 minutes than he does in a month’s time. He has been pinned to the ground twice and failed one of the exercises. He was done with today and he wasn’t about to fight his roommate. Josiah’s eyes flashed red. Between the agents and Sapphire, he wasn’t going to be able to hold it together. His bones started to crack into place. ”Fine.” His voice distorted as his monster form took over, towering over Sapphire.

Sapphire’s satisfaction was limited as she realized Josiah was skipping their first fight without abilities involved, and she wasn’t quite sure it was intentional. She lost her confidence quickly, but was hiding it behind a falsely confident gaze and she held her fists up in front of her face again. She wasn’t sure how long this would last but she would do everything she could to at least get a good hit on him. She wasn’t going to let him make the first move, she ran forward and swung towards his chest, making her punch as hard as she could.

Josiah let out a rather loud growl as Sapphire made the attempt to hit him. He wasn't entirely in control. He was truly mad that he was being forced to fight her and shift as often as he had. But he was willing to fight, but not so nicely. He grabbed her and tossed her backwards towards the wall and stormed after, bearing teeth. "Trainee Goliath, stop." Goliath wasn't listening, he was gonna give them a fight.

Trinity's eyes grew wide as she looked at Josiah, he was different than when he fought her and Dominic. It was similar to when they had seen him in their simulation. "He isn't going to stop
 Without so much of a warning, she ran across the training to room to find one of the non lethal weapons on the tables.

Her attack did not more than make Josiah angrier, though she could barely see the boy that was her roommate when he was like this. She started to back up but he grabbed her before she could get out of his range and threw her to the walls. Her back hit the wall hard and she cried out, falling onto her hands and knees. She slid back up against the wall and into the nearest corner, her arms coming up to shield herself. ”Okay Josiah, I forfeit! You can stop now.” Sapphire’s voice came out shaking and slightly scared, hoping that her voice would stop him if she couldn’t physically stop him.

Dominic could notice the difference as well, starting to move once he saw Trinity moving towards the weaponry. He knew Josiah had been controlling himself in the other battles, but they didn’t know how much damage he could do if he wasn’t in control, and Dominic didn’t want Sapphire to be the test subject.

Trinity was in a panic, she wasn’t sure what would work on that monster. He would barely flinch with any of the attacks done to him and that was when he had some control. She laid eyes on the taser gun and quickly grabbed hold of it. Trinity was willing to get in trouble for this if it snapped Josiah out of his nonsense. She put the state intensify on the gun to increase the voltage. She ran right up behind Josiah and held out the taser. ”This better work
” She mumbled, before shooting. The voltage lines jumped out and attached to the target sending five times their normal amount thanks to the state. Josiah roared loudly and dropped to his knees and slowly started to shift back.

Josiah remained on the floor after fully transforming. His muscles were screaming and he felt like his head was foggy. He winced as some volts of electricity continued to bounce off of him. He glanced around and realized everyone was staring at him in confusion, but only one was really looking at him in fear. ”Shit..Sapphire, I’m so sorry.”

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Remembering the breathe was a task Sapphire never thought she would find difficult. But even as Josiah transformed back into his normal state and started apologizing to her, the task of getting breath into her lungs was still lost. Josiah’s voice sounded muddled in her ears, like he was calling from far away. She couldn’t move, couldn’t think- Sapphire?” One of the trainers finally snapped her from her stupor, and her eyes frozen with fear finally moved over to Agent Orinwell leaning down to speak with her. She wasn’t expecting him to use her first name rather than her trainee name, and she finally pulled herself from the corner. ”I’m sorry sir, I shouldn’t have provoked-“

”Just come with me, okay? We’ll have you checked out.” The agent interrupted her and started moving out of the training fields before Sapphire even had a chance to object. Part of her was happy to leave and distance herself from Josiah, if only for a little while. He was a good teammate but the encounter with his beast scared the hell out of her. Plus, being slammed against a wall didn’t feel too great either, the back of her head was throbbing.

Sapphire followed Agent Orinwell to one of the many rooms in the facility, which had nothing but a table with two chairs and a manila folder. ”How are you feeling after all of that?” The agent asked her as they both sat down, opening the folder and pulling a pen from the inside. This must be some sort of mental or psychological evaluation, Sapphire thought as she eyed the agent. She wasn’t sure what expressing her true feelings would bring her, but she also didn’t know what lying would provide her either. ”Is this the part where I actually tel you how I’m feeling and then I get moved to a non-field team because I can’t even handle combat training with my own teammates?” Sapphire finally pipes up, though her eyes stay glued to her lap.

”Sapphire, the purpose of a psychological evaluation is to make sure that events like what happened today don’t inhibit your ability to be on this team. Each one of your teammates will be getting the same examination from the other agents. We told you yesterday that as long as you show us you can learn and improve, we won’t take you off of this team. The only reason you would be taken off this team is for your safety.”

Agent Orinwell definitely wasn’t as cold as some of the other agents, and his words felt genuine, almost like he wanted her on this team as much as she wanted to stay. She sighs, running a hand through her hair. ”I know if Josiah was in control, I wouldn’t have worried about getting seriously injured. I watched him transform in the other battles, and it wasn’t anything like that when he transformed for me. It’s like he was forced, and there is no part of that beast that cares if I live or die unless it’s controlled by Josiah. I didn’t want him to kill me.” Sapphire finally answers the agent’s question, looking at his file as he scribbled down something she couldn't quite read.

”Why did you decide to join the hero service?” he followed up. it was a question many had asked her in the months following up to this, and made a small smile appear. ”There’s not many people like us where I’m from. And no one like us in my family. My parents were always so proud when I used my abilities, even if they didn’t understand it. I want to protect them and people like them from
 from the people that bullied me, and the people that like to hurt other people.”

”Do you want to hurt people, Sapphire?” The agent asked, causing her to sputter out her denial in disbelief that he would even ask. He smiles, leaning in as he continues, ”We do have to hurt people, sometimes very seriously, to stop them from hurting others. That’s part of a hero’s duty.”

Sapphire scoffed at him, causing him to raise his eyebrows. ”Wanting to hurt someone and doing it out of necessity are two different things. I didn’t want to hurt Josiah- and honestly, I doubt that I did -but I punched him out of necessity to keep myself safe.” Agent Orinwell became more interested as she spoke, wanting to continue down this path. ”Are you willing to get yourself hurt out of
necessity?” He asked her back. She contemplated her answer this time, instead of blurting it out like before.

”I think getting hurt will happen whether I want it to or not. I mean, I probably have a concussion after the way Josiah threw me and I can’t put any pressure on my left foot so I might have broken something. But I want to be on this team, and I accept that I will get hurt.”

The psych evaluation didn’t last as long as Agent Orinwell planned, getting Sapphire checked at the infirmary was more important at this point. But he had plenty of notes and would discuss her results with the rest of the agents, who would be speaking to their own trainees now.

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The rest of the week was not as dramatic as the first two days at the facility. Dominic fell into a routine quickly. He woke up early enough to get in stretches before their day of training, ate breakfast which soon was only accompanied by Trinity, and did his training without complaint. Sometimes he just ate his dinner and went to bed, other days he and Trinity would get some extra training in after their required training was done. He was starting to enjoy this routine, finding it easy to do the same thing he’d been doing before the hero service just without schoolwork.

Then the first day off came. He knew better than to keep training, his body was screaming for rest. He used to have a training regime he could handle for all seven days of the week, but it wasn’t nearly as demanding as their Hero Service training. The rest day was the first day he didn’t wake up to his alarm, only slipping out of bed once the light from his window woke him up.

He still went off to the cafeteria for breakfast, noticing Trinity was still asleep so he didn’t want to bother her. He picked a bigger meal on his nutritional plan for breakfast, since he liked to eat smaller before training. Sapphire hadn’t been showing up early for breakfast, just arriving for training a few minutes early, but today she was already at the table with her own meal. She smiled at Dom as he sat across from her, but she knew him well enough that even if she greeted him vocally, he would just grunt in return.

Sapphire spent the second night of training in the infirmary instead of her room. The nurse had offered her the option so they could keep an eye on her injuries, and she needed a bit more time away from Josiah to recover. She hated to think like that, as she could tell from the little time they spent together that he was a good person, but dealing with the beast was no easy task and she’d seen what happened when he couldn’t deal with it any longer.

She was quieter than usual, putting all of her focus into recovery and training. The next three days of training she was kept on the sidelines due to the concussion and ankle sprain, but she was allowed to train with Agent Orinwell on the use of her ability instead of the physical training the others were doing. It made her nervous to get back into physical training, but once she was approved, she pushed herself harder than any of the previous days. Though her muscles were stiff when she woke up on their rest days, she felt a sense of improvement and belonging that she hadn’t felt before now.

Sapphire made sure to get breakfast this morning. She picked out something warm and hearty from her nutritional plan. The facility was always freezing cold to her and she wanted something that would stay warm in her stomach for their rest day. When Dominic joined her, they enjoyed silence for most of the time, before she finally piped up. ”Do you have any plans for today? I guess we have free reign on our schedules,” Sapphire asks her teammate, wondering what the ever-training Prodigy would do when he was supposed to be resting.

He shrugs back at her. ”I don’t know. We haven’t gotten our travel restrictions lifted yet so there’s not much to do.” Dominic has a point. Sapphire was just going to work on some of her gadgets and make the day waste away. She wanted to go out and explore D.C. as she didn’t get to see much. She basically came straight to the facility in her excitement to start training. That first day felt like weeks ago, and today was the end of their first official week. Only seven days, and Sapphire knew her life would be so much different than how it was before, and would never be the same again.

Dominic had felt different since coming to the facility. It was such a change coming from a house with disappointed parents and underestimating siblings. He felt equally better and worse being on this team. His skills were regarded as formidable, and yet his teammates had skills that made him inadequate. Yet, he didn’t feel the same inadequacy as he did around his family. With the team, they all had their own inadequacies that they were working together to improve on. It just pushed him to work harder, and now he had results of his improvement and positive feedback from his trainers. Being here made him feel like his goal of being a hero was attainable.

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Rogue (v)
behaving in ways that are surprising, often harmful




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Goliath (n)
someone with an unusually large amount of strength



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The first week of training went without any extra hiccups. Trinity would let Dominic’s alarm wake her up and they would manage to get ready for their days without much of the awkwardness. There were still some days where Trinity would wait for Dominic to leave prior to getting up. The training was intense and she could feel every action in each of her muscles. It was painful, but proof that she was working harder than she had been in the past. Her workers were more intense, the training sessions were more intense, and she was learning more than she ever has. The extra training sessions with Dominic were also proving to be more helpful. He was teaching her a lot of combat moves to use if she was unable to use her ability. And as previously promised, she was teaching him how to use some of the weapons he was unfamiliar with. It was a good trade.

After 6 long days of training it was finally time to take a day of rest. Trinity couldn’t have been more grateful to sleep in and allow her muscles the time to recover. She thought that she was going to be able to at least get some kind of workout in, but her body had other plans. When she woke up in the morning she realized that it wasn’t to Dominic’s alarm. Instead, it was due to the overwhelming sunlight that had overtaken their room. She glanced around and realized she was left alone. Trinity took the opportunity to take her time getting ready and wearing something that wasn’t workout clothes.She left her hair down since the constant ponytails were giving her a headache. Trinity wasn’t sure what they were going to do on this day of rest, but she knew that one of the things she needed to do was call her mother. She promised to give her an update. But first, breakfast.

Trinity made her way to the cafeteria and grabbed something light. Despite the hard work from the week, she still doesn’t seem to be overly hungry for lunch. So some cereal and fruit will have to do. Trinity joined her teammates at the table, sitting next to Dom and across from Saph. ”Morning.” She said with a bright smile. ”Do you guys happen to know if they are secretly hiding a room of fun things to do?” She questioned jokingly, realizing that none of them were going to have much to do.

Josiah enjoyed every second he was in his bed. He worked out intensely at home, but his body was still recovering from the transformations he has had to do the past week. It had taken a toll on his body that he hadn’t been prepared for. He had been late to every training session last week so he has had to make up for it with extra physical training. He did not mind the extra running, weight lifting, shifting, or even the push ups. However, the final straw was last night when he was assigned to clean the entire cafeteria last night by himself. Josiah couldn’t even half ass it because Agent Malillos was watching him the entire time. It was a long process and he couldn’t even remember what time he had gotten in last night. Josiah did remember, however, that cleaning the cafeteria was the nicest thing he was being forced to do. He already promised to be ontime because if there was one thing Josiah couldn’t stand, it was chores.

The sun was signaling that it was time to get up and his stomach made sure to let him know that it was time for breakfast. He took his time getting ready since Sapphire wasn’t around and he could spend extra time without any clothes on to keep her from being uncomfortable. Part of him was sad that she hadn’t come back the night he had hurt her, but she was glad that she was recovering so well. The amount of apologizing he did when he saw her was rather annoying, but he wanted her to know that he would never hurt her on purpose. They were cordial now, but Josiah was even more determined to control that side of him because of it. Once dressed, he headed off to the cafeteria. He got as much food as his tray would carry and took a seat with his teammates, sitting next to Sapphire across from Trinity and Dominic.

”I have an idea and none of you are gonna like it.” He stated unprecedented and unprovoked. Josiah was starting to get cabin fever, but there wasn’t another group he would rather stage a prison break with. ”I haven’t been in D.C. in over three months and I would like to walk the streets.”

Trinity raised an eyebrow. ”We don’t have permission to leave yet, Josiah. You know that.” He nodded, but smirked. ”Yes, but I wasn’t suggesting that we ask for permission. I’m thinking we sneak out one of the 5 exits that I was able to canvas this week and return in a couple hours. No one would notice.” Josiah added boldly before taking more bites of his food. ”Go ahead. Take your time to think about. I’m not really taking no for an answer either.”

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Both Dominic and Sapphire returned Trinity’s greeting. They were all trying to figure out what to do, considering they were used to the busy schedule of training and now they were left to their own devices. Without anywhere to go, there wasn’t much for them to do other than rest. It didn’t appear like there was a magically fun room, like Trinity had joked about. While Sapphire would be plenty occupied by the gadgets and skills that she had been working on with Agent Orinwell, she wondered what the others would get up to without having to train. She was sure Dominic would find something to do, she doubted one day of rest would stop him from finding some sort of training to do.

Sapphire and Josiah were back to normal for the most part. She’d stopped herself from flinching every time he shifted during training, and could sit beside him and live with him again without worrying about her safety. It didn’t surprise her that he was up to his usual antics, but was surprised by his bold suggestion and the fact that he was convinced all of them would join them.

Sapphire surprised herself by being Josiah’s first support in this endeavor to get outside and explore D.C. The huge facility felt cramped when you weren’t allowed to actually leave it, especially when there wasn’t anything fun to do inside. ”They have guards posted on the perimeter of the building,” Sapphire starts, sounding like she was against the plan until she continued, ”If we work out the timing and sneak out one at a time, we may be able to get everyone out in between their rounds. Depending on which exit we use, there should be somewhere to hide and plan our exact route from there.”

Dominic was surprised at the amount of planning she could do in just seconds of time. But it still wasn’t enough to convince him. ”You’re forgetting something. The travel redirections are mandatory. Are you will to get yourself thrown out of the service just to sneak out like some pre-teen? We’ll be approved for missions soon and our travel restrictions will be left then, why can’t you just wait?” Dominic counters Sapphire’s logic with a glare. He’d been waiting most of his life to be a hero, and he wouldn’t take the chance of ruining that.

Sapphire rolls her eyes, leaning over the table and smirking at Dominic, ”Being covert is part of our training, isn’t it? Think of it as extra training. We’ll even put you in charge of us not getting caught, if that’ll make you feel better.” As much as she respect Dominic’s skill and his determination to be a hero, she found his persistence to do nothing even slightly rebellious very annoying. He needed this more than the rest of them, and now was the time to do it when they weren’t exhausted or hurt from missions.