Watch dogs 5- Boot Camp
#6 of Watch Dogs
If you take a life do you know what you'll give? Odds are, you won't like what it is when the storm arrives, would you be seen with me? By the merciless eyes of deceit?
- You Know My Name-Chris Cornell
"Listen up, whelps. You have been brought here because someone thinks you will be useful. My purpose is to beat the crap out if you and replace it with the ability to survive when the rest of the world wants you dead. Now before you begin your tasks you should know two things, use of any unauthorised abilities on instructors or fellow recruits will meet with immediate dismissal, and as you now know of this establishment, anyone who is dismissed or fails to complete basic training will have their consciousness's destroyed and your body will be repurposed as spare-parts, or as a member of the psyk-guard now to your duties, fall out."
After the speech conclusion I heard a female voice in my head telling me to report to unit Lima. Again I felt the geas take hold of me and I hurried along to a corner of the camp. A short woman wearing the same type of armband as the man giving the 'inspirational' speech was checking names of a clipboard, she looked up and noticed me," Recruit Skye , welcome to the lycanthrope squad I am Sargent Mathews and you will not piss around with me , please don't do anything silly when the other straggler arrives, not all weres are wolves after all. "how did yo..." I said before she cut in "your smell, puppy, don't you have a nose." Then I noticed her odour, smoke, dried blood and cheap whisky, he felt the wolf howl inside him as she said" And don't get any ideas, I'm more than capable ripping you to pieces, and in the case that I'm not feeling merciful, Herr doktor includes some anti-rape implants that would made the marquis de Sade blush, and others that would make him vomit. And with that disturbing bit of information that make me really wish that 'herr doktor's' line had come to an end up in the artic wastes, another member of our squad arrived, he was tall, painfully thin and his hair was so dark it looked like a hole in reality.
"Oh, Recruit Corvus, have you decided to grace us with your presence this fine morning"
"well, they say half the pleasure is in the anticipation, don't they" he said in a cold mocking voice, as he glided past me and headed for the small barracks that was to serve as our base for the next few months I caught a trace of his scent and it smelled of carrion, I glanced at the sergeant and she spat and growled" A raven, a bloody raven, heads are going to role when I find the bean-counter who saddled me with him." I took the hint and followed corvus into the barracks housing the rest of the unit. I looked at the rest of the unit as I glanced at the room roster, it seemed I would be stationed in a room with corvus and another recruit who was down in the roster as James taylor.
I walked into the allotted room and saw corvus drawing symbols in the air with a short ebony stick, I would have laughed but given the traces of grey mist that hung in the air where he waved his stick I decided to keep quiet, James was sitting on his bed the corner, slowly sharpening a kukri while looking at me, I walked over and sat down on the bed opposite , we both examined each other with our eyes, he was almost a total opposite to corvus with skin that was lightly tanned his frame slightly shorter than my own at 6'1 and his hair a sandy blonde , the only thing that seemed to differ him from the trust fund babies you see decorating the best beaches and bars were his eyes which were pale grey and his scent, which was of dust and wide plains "leopard if you're wondering" he said suddenly, "wolf" I replied "ah, that would explain the blood" "excuse me, what the hell are you talking about?" "another one of my gifts, I have the Sight, I can see the world as it truly is and see the real person behind all the masks" corvus chimed in from across the room "please stop being such a drama queen James, we all have pasts or we wouldn't be here, now come on I can hear the delightful sergeant calling us all.
We all came together in a small room below the barracks, the other recruits were a sliding scale from Otto the hunchbacked dwarf who was a werewolverine and looked a hairs breadth from a killing spree, to Adam who was so average it was difficult to even notice him, and only the smell of lizard reminded him that he was a werechameleon, which from general consensus was either the rarest or the commonest form of were, depending on how paranoid you were. As we filed in we saw the sergeant standing with a row of figures whose faces were obscured by shadow, she saw we were all here and told us we would be facing our first test, the figures stepped forward and we gasped out of shock, because the others were us, she then said" this is your test, you must one by one kill your clone, this is so we know you will obey orders, refuse and you will be dismissed and disassembled so I would advise you to get it over with quickly." With that she retreated behind the clones and said "Recruit Otto, begin" with a horrible grin Otto changed suddenly and leapt at his clone, who disappeared under a blizzard of claws and teeth, then corvus was called, who instead of changing took out a discoloured bone from his fatigues stabbed it at his clone and murmured a word and the clone dropped face first on the floor, Erik, another werecat whose species he wasn't sure of , was called, he drew a stiletto from a hidden sheath and slit his clones throat with an expression of distaste on his face, James was called and stared into his clones eyes after a while blood poured from the clones eyes and nose and he collapsed. Adam having drifted away from our group appeared behind his clone when he was called and snapped his neck with his scaled arms, Lucy, the only female recruit, changed into a bear and crushed her clones skull, when she changed back tears were glistening on her cheeks, but she walked back to our group her head held high, and finally it was my turn.
I remembered the sergeant's words to make it quick so I changed, surprised I was still aware but knowing what I had to do I slammed my claws into my clones side and turned away as it collapsed, changing back as I walked away, the final clone swayed as Markus, our units telepathic recruit tried to crush its mind but, as I was told later telepathy doesn't need higher brain functions to work, and at once the clone started screaming in my head, I caught sight of the rest of the group as I pressed my hands to my ears to try and block out the noise, they were in disarray with Markus alone managing to weather the psychic assault, when I thought I couldn't take any more and Markus looked like he would pass out from the effort, sergeant Mathews changed and fought her way to the clone as if fighting a headwind, and tore out his throat when she got close enough. The screaming stopped and we collapsed into the wonderful silence, the sergeant began shouting again and we wearily got back into ranks. She grinned "I think that went rather well, now get your kit and come back here, were going on a little trip."