Surge Story: Chapter 1- "Cadets" [Completed IC thread]

[Flux]

"This is Nefertiti. I call her Neffi sometimes, but she's a real sweetheart. Oh, and Ray said she was called a Nidoran, but there was a female symbol next to her name." Jory paused. "Any particular reason?"

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Lars' eyes widened. "Really?" he asked incredulously. "Mine's a Nidoran too, but with a male symbol!" He showed Jory the name written on the ball before pressing the button to release the creature. The small, pink creature came out and gave Lars a brief look before turning away again. Lars sighed.

"As you can see, our relations aren't quite as good as the both of yours. He didn't like the name I picked and has ignored me ever since." He paused, thinking. "It's almost like he's trying to show his dominance. That's pretty common of male animals, right?" The Nidoran's ears perked up. Lars looked down in surprise. "Um... Did I get it right? Is this a show of dominance?" The Nidoran jumped up, making a small noise. Lars smiled. "You like that word, huh? Dominance." The Nidoran pawed his leg. Lars grinned.

"Well, I think I've found your name."

[Maddie]

After the rock snake’s surprisingly bad reaction to Absinthe’s water attack Clint ordered it to get underground. The alligator stood still, waiting for the opponent to show up in order to attack it, what was clearly a bad idea.

“Don’t stand still, run around so it’s harder for the snake to hit you!” Enyo ordered the Totodile, who after a moment of stubbornness began to move in zigzag. The GAO wasn’t particularly fast, but his members were slightly longer than the ones of a real alligator, so his reptilian movement wasn’t as awkward and slow as his animal counterpart. “Hit it with the water shot again the moment it comes up” the girl said hoping the snake missed the target or at least didn’t cause too much damage.

[Sutoratosu]

Ray watched as Enyo ordered her totodile to begin evasive movements.

"Yeah...Clint's not gonna be winning this."

It was then that his phone rang for the third time that day. He picked it up, General McCarthy was on the other end.

R: "Yes, Sir?"

GM: "Ray, Adam McMillan has officially been reassigned. Effective immediately."

R: "Where to, Sir?"

GM: "Navy Seals category. Experiment team twenty five. You are to take possesion of his assigned GAOs. He will receive new ones upon his arrival at his new assignment to better suit his prospective combat roles."

R: "Ah... He'll be with my old rival Elm then..."

GM: "I'm suprised that word got to you about Elm being selected to be the head Scientist of the Naval GAOW experiment groups. I'll have to court martial someone for this; that was confidential info."

R:"Very well then sir, I'll inform him."

GM:"Good,. His escort should be there in a few seconds to take him back to base."

With that, the call ended. Ray put away the phone.

*A rumble of an engine could be heard as an sleek black military jeep pulled up into the clearing from the dirt road leading into the forest and towards the base. Sitting in it were three heavily armed soldiers, A high-ranking female officer, who looks very familiar, is driving.*

"What's going on?" Asked Oak, noticing the jeep.

"Well...Looks like Adam Macmillan has been reassigned to the Navy Seals test team. Under Elm's supervision."

"Ah, Elm," said Oak "I remember you and him having a heated academic rivalry back when I was instructing you two."

"Yeah, well, looks like he's been selected as a lead scientist..."

Ray walked over to Keaton.

"Macmillan, I'm afraid your being reassigned to the Navy Seals test group. Effective immediately. I don't know why, but the orders came from the top brass. I'm afraid I must take possession of your current partners. You will be assigned new ones upon arriving at your new assignment post."

Reluntantly, Keaton handed Ray the capsules for Sheriff and Axis after recalling them.

"Well... Now it's time for you to depart..."

* Everyone stops what they're doing for a moment and watch Ray and Keaton walk over to the jeep, Keaton gets in, and the Jeep pulls off down the dirt road to the base, where he will be flown out to to the Floating Naval fortress and command base currently sailing in the south pacific: The U.S.S. Black Nexus, Perhaps one day everyone will see him again...*

Ray looked down at the balls. He placed them in his bag, thinking to himself.

Elm, you sly bastard... So you've been chosen too...no matter, I won our little academic war. I'll always be the winner when the fight is against you...

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Erick, Oak and Surge watched as Keaton left.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Surge

"Keaton's been assigned to a different test group. but You'll be gaining a new member to replace him when we get back to base, he'll take Keaton's slot instead of Tucker's."

"New recruit?" Said Surge "What are you talking about, why was I not informed?"

"You just were, Surge."

*Ray turned to look at everyone*

"Well, don't worry about Keaton! We'll be returning to base soon, so I suggest you all finish up whatever you're doing!"

[Supernovae]

Clint took a moment to watch as the other cadet, Keaton, was being escorted off of the base. Clint's distraction however couldn't have come at a worse time. The Onix re-emerged as he was watching Keaton walk off base and was immediately bombarded with streams of water, causing the beast let out a huge ear-shattering scream. "SHIT, ONIX HIT IT WITH A ROCK!!!" The Onix obeyed fighting threw it's pain and began to whip back in order to hurl the rock. However, before the rock could be released the pain was too much and the Onix collapsed to the ground, which caused a huge shockwave, knocking Clint on his back.

Clint got up after the Onix collapsed, his jaw hung stupidly from his face as he stared at the defeated monster in disbelief. "But .... I ... What?" He began but words weren't coming to his mouth instead only one thought raced through his mind, "That snake is gonna take a loooooooooooooot of lotion..."

[Jory]

Jory flinched as the loud "boom" from Clint's GAO falling echoed throughout the clearing. He looked over at the other cadets, then smiled down at Nefertiti. "You're not going to be shaking the earth, are ya, little one?" At this Nefertiti looked at Jory, then shook her head. The trainer was puzzled, but did not pursue it any further. He then turned his attention to Sampson. "You did a great job while that battle lasted, Sampson. Good work!" he said to the equine GAO. The Ponyta snorted happily and licked Jory's face. "O-okay then..." he stammered, wiping the spittle off his face as his two GAOs seemed to laugh at his expense.

[Sutoratosu]

Ray walked up to Clint after Onix collapsed to the earth, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"Well, clint, Let this be a lesson to you: Size doesn't always win. Examine why it was you lost this match, and get back to me on that sometime."

He took his hand away and began to walk away, then stopped and turned.

"Oh, and one more thing," He said "Big Pimpin? Yeah, well it's a female... so uh... yeah...interesting name."

He walked back over to the tree where Oak, Surge, and Erick was, leaving Clint to process the information.

[Supernovae]

Clint stood there with his mouth still wide opened staring at his fallen partner as Ray talked to him, barely able to process any of the words he told him. However, through the talk Clint did pick up one bit of information, that his Onix was a female. "Female, huh..." he said to himself, before the realization finally dawned on him, "Wait, uh, in't that the girl one?" he again said aloud, this time loud enough for most of the people around him to hear.

"Great, so not only does my big pimpin' lose to a girl, but then I come to find out that she's also a girl, well I guess her name is Pimparella from now on..." Clint then reached into his pocket for another cigarette, "How could this day possibly get any worse," he said while opening the box of his cigarettes, only to reveal that the only one he had left was broken. "Uh..." he then moaned while putting his face into his palms.

[Ragnar]

Sid turns his attention from the commotion in the camp while siting from a grassy slope nearby, seeing Keaton being escorted out side the camp.

"man now ill never get to know that fedora guy and not to mention his valuables." As Sid smirk "well i hope he's a better position now than the rest of us here".

As Sid lays back with his head on the grass watching the battle with that crazy chick Enyo and the cocky Clint. Sid suddenly stood his head and gets up on his back as he witness the end of the match with an upsetting result "Whoa, she's really is a dimepiece" as Sid was amazed by the outcome of that battle as the mighty rock snake falls to the ground.

how the mighty have fallen, but how?coming from that little gator!? there must be some strange logic behind these creatures. as Sid returns to his laying position trying not to stress out on how this things works.

Edited April 27, 2014 by typhlosionrulez

[Ojama Yellow]

Lionel had gone for a small walk in the forest to clear his head. When he returned, he hoped Keaton would be alone so he could properly apologise to him, but instead, he heard that Keaton was reassigned, his previous partners were taken back, and that he was already escorted away. "Great. Now I won't have any chance to apologise to him." Then he realised that Clint's Onix lied there, defeated. "Wow... So it is possible to defeat that thing. Hm...I have bigger concerns on this very moment." He released Shadow. "Shadow, we need to work together more like a team. Trust each other. So...I've got a plan." Lionel started to whisper. "This night, when everyone's asleep, we will sneak out of the camp and do a training session. Just the two of us. What do you think?" The Murkrow nodded. "Good. Then that's settled."

[Chim]

Logan watched as Keaton got into a jeep and left. Apparently he got reassigned. It was unfortunate Logan didn’t get to know the guy, but this was the army; a harsh environment where almost anything could happen. And it would only get harder from here on out.

Meanwhile Clint lost a battle with Onix and seemed upset about it. “Don’t take it too hard. You can’t win them all,” Logan said as Ace jumped on Clint’s shoulder. “So i heard this one is a female. How did they ever discover the differences?" It was a rather awkward attempt to lighten up the mood, but Logan didn't have much experience with cheering people up. He scratched his head while trying to come up with something else to say, when Ace suddenly started to act up.The monkey was interested in the box of cigarettes and tried to grab it.

[Supernovae]

Clint released the empty box of cigarettes to the monkey, then turned his attention to Logan. "I ain't really sure man, all he told me was that my Onix was a chick, so I decided I'd start callin' her pimparella." Clint then looked back over at his sleeping Tyrogue, wondering how the little fighter had slept through the previous battle. "Ya know Rocky and ya monkey guy neva did get a chance to fight."

[Sutoratosu]

Ray walked over again to Clint, looking at his rolex

"I'm afraid that anymore fights will have to wait, You two. It's 11:48 hours right now. Lunch starts at 12:00 hours. We need to get back if any of us are gonna eat."

With that Ray walked back over to the Troop Transport truck and began speaking to the driver...

[Flux]

Lars grinned as he heard what Ray said to Clint.

"All right, lunch time!" he shouted. He looked down at his two GAOs: the sleeping Abra in his arms, and the Nidoran at his feet, who would at least meet his eye now. It didn't really seem very affectionate yet, though. The Nidoran was giving Jory's Nefertiti a scrutinizing gaze. Lars looked over to Jory.

"Who knows, maybe my Nidoran and yours will become friends. Anyway, I'm pretty hungry, so see you around." He gave a slight wave as he walked away towards Ray, ready to head back.

[Supernovae]

Clint nodded at Ray, then turned to Logan "Alright, maybe lata man." He may have wanted to battle Logan, but he definitely wanted to eat more. He quickly called back his Tyrogue and Onix, both of which were still recovering then another question popped in his head for Dr. Ray. "Hey, Doctor is there any way you can heal my guys up, other than the lotion? I mean it may take me a couple hours to lather up Pimparella," he asked after Ray was done talking to the driver.

Edited April 28, 2014 by Supernovae

[Jory]

Jory nodded at Lars and waved as the other trainer walked away. "Well, Sampson, I don't think you're gonna be able to fit in that truck with all of us. Mind going back in your ball?" he asked the Ponyta, holding the GAO's capsule out toward him. The equine GAO nodded at Jory, then snorted and pressed the button in the center with his muzzle. A light flashed, and then Sampson was gone. "You ready to go, Neffi?" he asked the smaller creature. She nodded to him and jumped down from his arms, running toward the truck. "Hey! I'm getting lunch first!" Jory shouted as he ran after Nefertiti, laughing as they made their way to the troop transport.

[Ragnar]

After Sid takes a quick nap and finally woke up as soon as he hears the engine of the troop truck ready to depart. "Hmm finally now were going somewhere" as Sid look at the capsule trying to figure out how to return his GAO to the ball, he press the button in the middle of it as he pointed it to Shinx and Horsea as they were sleeping side by side as the laser light engulfs them " Man you guys are out for too long, getting spoiled for about carrying you rascals." He casually walks through the vehicle waiting for the others to finish.

[Chevaleresse]

Nathan eagerly ran over to the troop transport, GAOs in tow. "I'm starving, how about you guys?" The two looked at him in confusion. "I suppose you don't speak English yet. You'll figure out what 'food' means soon enough, I think."

[Ojama Yellow]

Seems like lunch time was going to start, and Lionel headed over to the truck with Shadow on his arm. "Alright, Shadow, are you as pumped for lunch as I am?" The Murkrow nodded, and together to ran to the truck.

[Chim]

Ray interrupted the conversation by announcing it was almost lunchtime. “Ace, come here,” Logan said as he picked the monkey up. “I’ll put away the empty box so you can play with it later.”

He then recalled the still grumpy Crush and jumped on the troop transport. Maybe if the turtle had some food it would open up a bit more.

[Sutoratosu]

Ray heard Clint's question.

Actually, Clint, yes, there is a way to heal the Onix formerly known as Pipmin. A machine back at the base. I'll run her through it we're back at base, but it may take a while before she's healed.

With that, he headed over to the center of the clearing. and again addressed the group

"All right, everyone, Into the Transport, time to head back!!"

[Maddie]

With a second water shot Absinthe brought the giant down, winning the match. Enyo, who expect the snake to put on a little more fight, stared astonished to the fallen GAO. The Alligator didn’t seem surprised though, so maybe he was aware of his advantage over the opponent from the beginning. Clint looked like the floor had been pulled from under his feet, and he would be an easy target for mockery, but Enyo didn’t said a word to him. She played to prove her strength to herself, and not to others. And at that moment she couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome.

It didn’t take long until Ray ordered them into the back of a truck, so that they could get some lunch. She called back Absinthe into his sphere and jumped into the transport after the other cadets.

[Sutoratosu]

"All right, everyone, Into the Transport, time to head back!!"

Erick looked up at ray, then glanced at his own watch.

"Well, guess it is around that time..."

He looked down at Virtue.

"You hungry?"

She nodded.

"Well, so am I. Let's get going."

He got up from the tree and started walking over to the truck, the young Ralts following behind him. But something in the Bushes caught his attention. he looked over again and saw a familiar face:

The same sudowoodo from before. But instead of fighting this time, it did something entirely diferent. Ethic watched as several small blue colored berries about the size of a ping-pong ball rolled out of the bushes and to his feet. He picked them up, and when he looked back at the bushes, the sudowoodo was gone.

"Well, guess we get a victory prize." he handed a berry to Genisa, she took it and stared at it curiously. He stowed the rest in his pocket and continued over to the truck, deciding to ask ray what they are when they got back to base, though he didn't think they were poison.

[Sutoratosu]

Ray stepped away from the Transport as soon as Everyone was in. The driver pulled off back onto the dirt road.

*The return trip is short, after A few minutes, The Transport is pulling up in front of the gates of the Base. an entourage of six soldiers march out, all of them in full black fatigues-

-They Open the gate, but before the Transport can pull in, A senior officer holds his hand out in a halt gesture. The five other soldiers approach the truck, stopping at the Driver and Passenger doors...*

Matt watched as several high ranking officers approached the truck, his hands slippery on the wheel

Damn... the black coats are out... that's never good...

Surge was riding in the passenger seat beside him. He turned over and looked at Matt.

"Well, The place is on lock down after all..."

Matt replied back...

"Yeah... yeah. can't be too careful after all..."

He was begining to panick...

Shit! did that guard squeal?

The officers in black were now standing outside the windows. the two on surge's side tapped his window. The officer said only one thing.

"Conspirator."

Surge looked over at Matt

"Well, I've got to say that I'm surprised, Matt. Never pegged you to be the traitorous type.

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Matt was in full survival mode now. the jig was up, he was exposed. only one way out now, out of the truck cab and into the undergrowth of the forest. He reached up into the driver side blinder, reaching for the Beretta M10 he had stashed there. Before he could get his hand even half way up to it however, Surge was pointing his own side arm at Matt.

"Reach a little more, and you won't have to wait to be court martialed and executed."

Matt took his other hand off the wheel and held them both in the air. The driver side door opened, and the officers in black dragged Matt out of the cab, he attempted to break free as soon as he was out of the truck, elbowing one of the officers and breaking free of the other two's hold. He Sprinted off towards the tree line. A single gun shot sounded out.

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Matt could fell the searing, throbing pain as a rubber round slammed into his right calf, bouncing off and sending him tripping to the earth. he tried to get back up, he couldn't feel his right leg now, but he managed to support his weight on a near by tree and attempted to hobble away. Another shot, another rubber round slams into his other calf, and he fulls to the ground once again, pain in both his legs.

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Major Griffin lowered his side arm, A Berreta M10 modified to fire rubber rounds. he walked outside of the gate, the Gold cord on his shoulder signifying him as an MP shining in the sun light. He growled out his orders

"Get him on his feet, and inside an interrogation chamber!"

Two MP's hoisted up Matt, handcuffing him, then dragged him back to the Base's gate, soon dissapearing from sight. Major Griffin walked up to the Passenger side window.

"Surge, get this thing back inside the base."

Surge saluted

"Yes Sir."

He slid over into the driver's seat, Griffon and the three remaining MP's walked back off towards the base. Surge stepped on the gas and pulled into the gates...

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*After a breif stopping period, you again begin to move, then the truck again comes to a halt and shuts off. the back flaps are thrown open. You all get out one by one. You're standing in front of the mess hall pavillion. Surge leads you inside. Lunch is served. afterwards everyone's partner is healed. You are introduced to your new Squad member, Kenny Holmes, and Erick is Assigned the GAO named Beldum as a replacement partner. you all go to sleep that night. At the wake-up call the next morning, Surge is standing at the barrack door, a box of Uniforms under his arms. After everyone has changed into them, you are all ordered to run two-miles through the forest. Your training has officially begun.*

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(Time marching onward)

Six long months pass by. Six long months of Grueling and unending training. You are taught to march in step, handle a firearm, instructed in basic hand to hand combat, lectured every single day by Ray and Oak as to how to properly wield your GAO's abilities, as well as endure ivy league collegiate level lessons in basic group psychology and leadership, as well as mathematics. Some have shown more promise than others. Some show the ability to command. Your partners are at your side with every passing moment of training, growing stronger alongside you, the bond between GAO and handler grows stronger. Through mock fights with one another and simulations with the mysterious device Ray used on you all the first night, They have been thouroughly conditioned, each one gaining ten levels, some even going through the strange proccess of bio-luminescence and meta-mephorsis, changing to new forms... Six long months. three times what it normally takes for basic training. But yet your training is far from over. the day has come....

the day of the first team inspection...

*You all stand assembled in the training grounds.General McCarthy, Staff Sergeant Surge and Dr.Ray stand before you on a raised platform. The Sky is crystal clear, the arid soil of the training ground is blown through the humid air.

*The wind howls silently. Ray addresses you all, his voice like thunder.*

"Cadets, GAO's out and center, NOW!!"

Edited May 3, 2014 by Stratos

[Ojama Yellow]

Lionel released his two GAOs. Since the rigorous training these six months, both looked a lot stronger. However, unlike the GAOs of other cadets, they did not change form. Buddy was still the same as ever, but Lionel had been working on his relationship with Shadow. He and the Murkrow seemed to get along better now, and Lionel thought he would obey him in battles now.

Edited May 4, 2014 by Bibarel

[Sutoratosu]

Erick tore the two capsules from the holsters on his uniform's waist, clicking the buttons in unison and sending out Genisa and Beldum in twin burst of white light.

Genisa stood before him, Eying the platform. Beldum hovered in the air three feet above the dusty ground, emitting a silent humming sound. the two had grown a lot since they were first assigned to him, coming far from where they once were. he'd figured out what most of their weaknesses to certain affinities were; Genisa had a hatred for anything Aphotic in nature as well as insects, and Beldum couldn't stand a fire. he wasn't surprised that the two had yet to metamorphosis into new forms, though Genisa had begun to a few times before, yet stopped half way through, always reverting to her current form, which completely stumped Ray as it defied all the test results on GAOs that had been gathered over time.

The past six months had been even more than what he expected them to be. But he wasn't phased by the amount of training, in fact, he somewhat relished it. with it, he truly was able to become stronger. His PTSD was almost completely treated now, the episodes were few and very far inbetween, maybe an occasional nightmare or flash of memory in certain situations, but despite Ray and Oak's warning, they were never worse than the first one had been.

He'd excelled in the leadership and psychology lectures, just as he knew he would. Seems that some of his father's capability as a leader had been passed down through the blood line. He was... OK, when it came to hand to hand combat, but it seemed his father's nack for shooting had also been passed down; when it came to Firearms, Erick was probably among the most proficient of anyone in the whole base, He had excellent aim, scored a bulls-eye on the very first test, and every test afterword, when he did miss, it wasn't by more than a few centimeters, he could assemble a rifle in under twenty-two seconds, and disassemble it in ten.

Hell, he'd even found it in himself to begin addressing Surge as "Sir". He stood at attention, hands folded behind his back, Genisa mimicked him, anxious to get started with the evaluation and prove her worth.

Edited May 4, 2014 by Stratos