"Training starts after our plan" Nathan looks over his watch. It's 11am in the morning. He looked over at Rachel and said, " I think we should start our training. You should get dressed. I'll give you 10 minutes" Nathan went straight to the couch and looked over at Rachel. He gave her a sign to hurry up.
She looks over at Mikaela and she gives her the best of luck. Rachel took a deep breath and went straight to her room. Every ounce of breath she released was still filled with worries and anxiety. She wasn't sure if the plan would work. She took another big breath and remembered what Mikaela said. She quickly changed to her attire and walked straight to Nathan.
"Sooo…. Where are we training?" Rachel asked. Nathan looked at her and looked at his watch.
"It took you 7 minutes to change. Since you finished before my given timing. You only get to run 7 laps around the block." Nathan said. Rachel looks at Nathan full of distress. She was shocked. Not because she was glad. But she had to run around 7 laps.
"SEVEN LAPS?!?! ARE YOU SERIOUS??" Rachel screamed.
"Well would you rather do 10 laps?" Nathan asked Rachel. Rachel sighed.
" When do I start?" Rachel asked.
Nathan looks at his watch and starts the start button. He looked at Rachela and said, "Now Rachel ran out of the door without any heads up. She ran down the stairs and started to run.
She looked over the corridors, the pathways and saw a group of homeless people. All she could think about was how sorry she was for them. She wants to give out every ounce of her allowance and her leftover money to them. But she doesn't have the money for all of the homeless around the world.
All she wanted was to bury her face to the ground. Cover up her clothes, her money and give away everything she has. She didn't want them to suffer from such a corrupted government that didn't know how to govern their own country. Their own world. And leave their people with no food. No law and no freedom.
They had to live with a government that had no problem with them getting killed. Not even a single emotion of sympathy for them. Every day, adults and children get raped from men and women. They can't defend themselves. They barely have any money to provide for themselves, and from their rapists.
They can't even protect themselves and their parents. And the parents, who are supposed to take care of their children, give them food, give them a proper education, a proper living condition, safety and they can't even do that. All she wants to do is to walk into the government and end them. But she could barely protect herself from dumb thieves. Stupid people that could barely even fight.
She's a spoiled brat that likes to spend money on herself. Likes to waste daddy's money and show off on her social media page. Likes to party, likes to gossip in front of her friend. And she's the person that just got out of a relationship with her own boyfriend, who's not loyal to his own girlfriend.
She wants to punch and let all of her anger out on the government's leader. The so-called, "president" of this very world. This world has a leader. A leader who has no sympathy, no interest to offer help, offer shelter, offer money, offer anything to their people. Millions of people in Mekolan have no home. No food, no safety, no law that is stopping them from getting raped, seeing their own family getting raped, getting murdered, getting kidnapped, tortured, abused, bullied.
She wants to stop them. She wants to end them. She wants to do many things to save the people. But how is she gonna do that if she herself is captive into this weird world that you can enter through a portal? What is Time Square's government really hiding? Do they even know about this place? No, they wouldn't hide this important information to their people.
And the matter of fact, they would want us to protect the people from the criminals, the disgusting people. But it's the government. They like to hide secrets from their people. Millions of questions filled her mind.
On the 5th lap. She started to get tired. She is worn out from all of the running. She could barely breathe. She began to walk. She took big breaths, in and out. She placed her hands over her stomach and walked around the block. She heard screams. Loud screams. From a little girl, begging for mercy. Begging for them to stop.
She looked over the corridor and she saw a little girl witnessing the death of her own parents. She froze in place. She didn't move, not even a muscle. She saw 3, no 5 people trying to stab the little girl's father. The mother tries to stop the man.
The girl cries with agony. Begging for them to stop. Begging for them to leave them alone. She wants them to stop and just leave her family alone. She hates living here. She wants to leave this palace. She started to walk back. Maybe she can ask someone for help. Maybe she can ask Mikaela or Nathan or Marcus anyone who is more capable with this situation than her.
She stood there shocked. She didn't know what to do. Should she fight? No, she can't. She's still training. She is not an expert like Mikaela, as smart as her. And as good as her. She wished she didn't see this. If only they were here. If only they joined her and gave her moral support. But she has to see this. She want all of this treatment to go away. She wants it gone. Out of this place. She wants peace and harmony. But she can't accomplish it with these people.
Filled with rage and anger. But fear and nervousness. Is she capable enough to stand her ground? No, if she tries she will get herself hurt. Even worse, killed. But if she doesn't try, she won't know if she is capable enough. Rachel is in a dilemma.
She walked back, slowly but she knocked a can. The gang looked back and one said, "HEYY WHO ARE YOU!!" Rachel was frozen in place. Cold sweat dripped from every pore on her body. She shook in fear and grabbed a metal bat. The gang laughed. One said, "DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ALL OF US WITH THAT METAL BAT??"
Rachel stood her ground. She didn't move a muscle. Her muscles were tended up. She holds the metal bat firmly. She took a deep breath and showed no fear. No emotion. Not a slight emotion of scaredness. She said, "Step away from them if not, i will hit all of you with this metal bat" She said it was so calm, so firm. No emotion. The gang felt egoistic. 2 walked up to her thinking she can't take her down.
One touched her shoulder but Rachel kicked him at the groan. He crouched down in pain and Rachel hit in with the metal bat at the head. The other guy went for a punch. Rachel managed to move her head away and use the tip of the metal bat to hit him at the stomach. As soon as he was curling up from the pain and hugging his stomach, he swung the bat at the face. Both men were knocked out.
The gang were shocked. Felt they had underestimated Rachel. They all looked at each other, shocked and looked back with rage and with a serious face. All of them decided to go against her. She lost her stance. Her hands shook a bit and she bit her upper lip. She stood her ground and as soon as they were closer to her. She started to hit them with her bat.