All the 16 cadets of our group were sitting face to face in our compartment with eight cadets on each side. The bench was comfortable and soft to lay our butts on it. It was divided into seats by the buckle and tongue of seatbelt, there were exactly eight of the sections on each bench. Ellie and Hoover were sitting in the opposite line facing me. They were not sitting together as two cadets were sitting between them. Andre was sitting beside Hoover and Emma was beside Ellie with her arms crossed.
It was the first time for me to travel in space. Well, it was the same case for Hoover and Ellie but except us, all the cadets of our group and of other groups had travel in space almost twice if not thrice. There last mission was based on an interstellar travel. Because it was my first time travelling in space I was feeling a lot of emotions. As a guy who suffers from motion sickness and has to endure it, every attack of mine consists of explosive speed, the emotion I was feeling now was nausea and tension if I say so.
'Why did they have to use a spaceship!? So much progress in science and still couldn't make a teleportation device!?' I was thinking this inwardly again and again. When I suddenly felt the urge to puke.
"Uhooo!" I tapped on the soldier of Niall who was sitting beside me, he looked at me to found what's wrong, "Hey!!! Don't puke here!!! Go to washroom!" Niall screamed desperately while standing in hurry after seeing that I was going to create a disaster even before our mission starts.
"Go to washroom you junk!" It was Lauren who said it, man the way she spoke to me just now hurt my poor heart.
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I had emptied my stomach and was now trying to look outside but I forgot that currently there is no window on this spaceship, and projectors are not going to show the outside to us.
The one thing which had troubled me was that how calm all these people were. Except for me Ellie and Hoover, none of them seemed to be much anxious or feeling tensed as we were reaching our destination gradually with each passing second.
I was the only one who had trouble eating breakfast in the morning. These guys are too relaxed if I say so myself!
They had told us about the basic things about this mission. Total of 135 teams are to be used in this operation. The elite teams will be going for hunting the remaining deathodds on the Emerald nation. They have ensured us that only hybrid stage deathodds are present there. And that if any of us encounter any deathodd which exceeds the advanced stage we are to contact our Captains who are coming along in our mission.
Who would have guessed that all the trainers were Captains in space patrol. Well, nobody needed to guess as they must have already known that, but why didn't anybody call them captain on our training. By everyone I meant only our group as I was too busy in training, I didn't even pay any attention to other groups.
"Hey Seth! You said that you didn't have this sword before!?" Albert asked me. He was another boy in our group and the most good-looking guy if I had to say. His golden hair and golden eyebrows with dark blue eyes forced even Hoover to be pale in comparison, who was the most good-looking guy I knew before seeing Albert.
"Yeah! So!?"
"So!? Dude, have you even trained enough with this sword? I think it will be good if you get your previous Holy arm back, don't you think so!?"
Albert expressed his worry for me. He is right I didn't have enough training with this sword, but I have been searching about this sword for past five days and will do my all to implement that knowledge into my physical ability as best as I can.
"I know, but I have been using a sword similar to this in the past missions, I am confident that I will not fail at using this."
Niall tapped on my back after hearing my words, "But you should be extra careful just in case, you know! Don't overestimate yourself and don't lose confidence!"
"Jeez I know!" I grunted. It was to act like Seth, or any guy would have reacted according to me.
"Well, rather than this sword I think his reason to fail in this mission will become this suit! Who the hell is the designer of this tight suit!? I think it looks good only on girls, right!!?"
A boy whose name I didn't know even after doing training regularly and attending all the basic classes at Heinsberg, said that in a tone which I assumed as sarcastic.
"Tom don't be a jerk! Stop assuming someone will fail!"
"Oho, look who is saying that! We need to check if our breakfast was laced with something or not, it might have been that hell froze that is the reason Andre is being thoughtful about others."
"..." Andre gave Tom a death stare, after receiving the stone-cold glare Tom who was being very energetic sat quietly in his seat.
Hoover and Ellie were sitting very quietly during all of this, as nobody liked them, and they didn't have any friends in the group like Seth had.
"You said girls looked good in this uniform? Why the hell are you looking at us with your analytical eyes?" It was the tall girl who said that her name was Melora if I am correct. Weird name if I must say! She had simple black hair with simple black eyes and had tall stature, she was even taller than all of us boys except for the tall Brock who is always with Andre.
"Well, I said girls so why are you worrying about yourself?" Tom replied in mocking tone.
But it looks like someone does not understand sarcasm. Because Melora who was sitting at the right end of the line withdrew her seatbelt, stood up in fury came walking towards the left end of my line with some heavy and angry breathing and grabbed someone by his collar.
"Kuh... Kuh... I seek mercy from thy, thou shall forgive... Khaa... me for my rudeness!"
Tom struggled for his breath and was begging for mercy from Melora.
"Now, will you say anything like that ever again!? Tell me!!"
"Someone save me, please!"
After hearing Tom's wasted scream for help everybody turned their heads away from the angry titan with their eyes closed including me.
I didn't know that this could also happen in here.
"I was just joking, Sire! There is no need... haahh... For you to pay attention to the words of a commoner like me!"
Tom started to call Melora with respect. I guess a human is ready to do anything to protect his life no matter what the circumstances are. Melora shook Tom heavily from the collar and then striked him down on his seat.
"Man, we couldn't do anything for you Tom, I am sorry!" Niall said, grieving for his friend.
"Nah, it's okay, you couldn't do anything against someone of that class in strength, it wasn't your fault."
Erick said it with eyes closed.
After this whole scene ended, I looked around again to see if the huge window behind me started to work again or not, well you must have guess, it was still not projecting anything.
"They are not going to show outer space to us unless we enter the Milkyway galaxy!" After seeing how curious I was Emma replied to reduce my curiosity.
"I know!" If in this moment I had said that 'is that so', then there were chances that someone would have been suspicious of me, the one I am afraid of doubting me the most is Emma. She is as good as Ellie in grasping the situations, I must be wary of her.
"Then why are you looking at the window again and again!?"
"Eh!" Sudden shouting of Melora startled me and I was shaken instantly. It appeared she was still angry at the comment of Tom.
"Well, I think it is my neck so I can turn it around all I want to look outside from my eyes!"
Shit, I shouldn't have said that if my legs were going to shake vigorously after my act of bravery and rudeness.
As expected, Melora gave me a death stare with highly scrunched eyes, I could see six layers on her forehead. But she soon turned her head away with a 'humph'.
"Haa!" I let out the breath of peace and relaxation. With putting my right hand on my chest. I could see Emma and Ellie holding their laughter by sucking in their lips. Hoover was the only one feeling worried about me at that time. Yeah, I love you too Hoover.
After being sure that my life was not in danger now, I started to look at all the cadets carefully analyzing how they look in tight suit.
The one who looked good in the uniform was obviously girls because I am a boy and tight suit just make girls curves more obvious. Other than girls, boys were looking mediocre if I must say!
I heard that these suits change with the increase in ranks. I hope that the higher rank has proper army suit because what is this tight suit!?
The only thing good about this suit is that we get a windbreaker with it. The windbreaker is the reason I was able to wear it.
This suit is suitable for space travels I've heard that in Heinsberg. As it helps in getting accustomed to the atmosphere and environment of new planets. But the real and major problem is of gravity.
Gravity causes time dilation, but this futuristic world has a solution for that as well. Twenty-four giant rectangular machines almost nine thousand meters tall each, are present on every habitable planet which is under the rule of KING. These tall buildings are pierced underground as deep as the point of gravity of planets and regulates it so that gravity can be same on every planet.
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I was still lost in my thoughts when Lawren started talking with addressing everyone, "Does anyone know the name of this ship!?"
"Why are you asking something so suddenly?"
Melora grunted with her arms crossed.
"I am just trying to pass the time!" Lawren said with narrow eyes bending and tilting her head to right direction to look at Melora.
"Well, I for one forgot its name!" Tom said with high enthusiasm.
"I know its name! It is called Me-"
"I knew nobody would know its name! How can you forget its name, we travelled in it a week ago!? It is called Metagalactic hawk!"
Lawren ignored what Erick was saying and said the name of this spaceship with obvious disappointment in her tone.
"..." Erick was looking at Lawren quietly and passed a smile showing no anger.
Erick is very humble considering that he is one of the members in our group who possess a caliber.
In our group there are only eight cadets including me who have a 'caliber'.
Erick, Niall, Seth, Ellie, Emma, Xaden, Hoover, Autumn, these are the only ones in our group which have a caliber. We were not given our Holy arms for now and were told that we would be equipped with the suitable and necessary equipment including Holy arms before the mission will began.
There are only two things on our uniforms that separate the ones who have calibers from the ones who do not, it is the colour of our long boots and the absence of Holy arm. Defiant have black long boots and normal humans have simple brown coloured boots.
After waiting for a damn long time finally the black screen behind me started to project the outside space for us. But what I saw was completely different from what I had imagined, it was pitch black outside with no light. There was no star visible. Even though I have heard millions of stars were eviscerated after the great war but still I didn't think that it was this bad. No star in the space? All of my space fantasy went down the drain.