After walking into the room labeled "pressure" I noticed the room was rather empty with a giant tank filled with water in the middle and a rack with scuba gear and oxygen tanks laid up against it on the right wall of the room Just then instructor Xavier opens his mouth to speak
"right now you're probably wondering what the giant tank filled with water in the middle of the room is, the answer to that question is the tank that holds the pressurizer water for the test, now what I want to do is I want you to go grab a scuba suit that's your size and two oxygen tanks and then go to the change rooms change and put on the oxygen tanks when you're done please come out and line up right in front of the tank please"
instructors Xavier said after I said that me and the rest of the students that entered the room started to go to the changing rooms after finding their size of scuba suit after changing and coming out I lined up in front of the giant water tank I was about 30th in line after everybody lined up instructor Xavier started calling out names one by one after seen that the first guy lasted for 30 minutes instructor Xavier jotted down in his notepad that he was holding in his right hand after waiting for an agonizing amount of time that I do not even want to think about how long it was my name was finally called.
"Damian miles"
once I walked up to instructors Xavier he started telling me what to do
"okay since you already have your oxygen tanks on you don't need my help and I can't do anything for you all I can do is tell you what to do so now what you're going to want to do is you want to walk up the stairs and let your body sink to the bottom of the tank once you do that make a thumbs up and my boy back there we'll pull the lever and start the process" he said as he pointed towards a man who was standing next to a weird machine with a lever on it and not in my head and walked up the stairs to the top of the tank and jumped in once I reached the bottom of the tank I made a thumbs up The man behind the tank pulled the lever and at first nothing happened but after 5 seconds I suddenly feel like every single bone of my body wasn't about to break in seconds as my knee started to buckle felt like I was on ground again but gravity was 10 times stronger that's the best I can describe it I feel like my eyes were about to pop out of my head and if I didn't have the scuba gear on I'd be able to tell if my ears were bleeding too I felt like my whole body was about to be crushed in seconds but I was able to stand it and wait and I waited and waited until I couldn't anymore and I raised my hands and made a thumbs down at the moment I couldn't hear instructor Xavier but he yelled at the man who was behind the tank after you said whatever you said to the man the man pulled the lever again and I feel like my body was healthy again surprised me cuz I thought that once the pressure was off I would still not be able to walk but it was as if nothing had happened again it was weird but thinking about back to that period of time that I don't want to know how long was for made me shivering my boots I ugly swam out the tank when I got out instructors
"40 minutes can a nice job"
"thanks" I responded.
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After quickly changing I was allowed to leave or stay and watch other students, I chose to leave after walking around the training grounds I noticed that almost all of the rooms here were for pressure training of course there small lounge rooms for students or employees who were either not training or on break but sadly they were all occupied, after walking for a little bit I found a door labeled "cafeteria 3" I decided to check it out when I walked in I noticed it was completely empty except for a person who's back was facing me judging by the sound they were cooking.After hearing the sound of cooking realized how hungry I was I hadn't eaten anything since I left europa.
"hey can I have some food" I said while sightly raising my voice
"okay..wait someone's here!" the lady who was in the kitchen said while turning around now that I got a look at her she was fairly pretty she looks like she's around my age she had brown hair with some white streaks her hair was slicked back using hair gel making it look like she had a large forehead brown eyes and now that she was standing infront of me I realized how tall she was she was at least 6'4 which towered over my height of 5'5
"hello what can I get for you" she said with a big smile that emanated positivity after looking at the menu for about 10 seconds I decided what I wanted
"one cheese burger no onions please"
"coming right up" she said
after waiting for about 30 seconds she came back with a tray with a burger on it
"here you go"
"thanks...by the way why is this part of the grounds so run down?" I asked because when I entered the part of the building I made a mental note of the unkempt area
"no idea I'm only volunteering here because I lost a bet with my brother now I have to waste my week long break." she said
"unlucky" I said..wait week long break!
"hey are you a second year" I questioned
"yeah"
"oh what school do you go"
"rock diving"
"nice"
we talked for a few minutes before I finished my food
"well I'm finished so I got to go now see ya"
"bye" I was on my way to leave but I suddenly stopped
"bye the way I never got your name mines Damian"
"Lucy"