Herbert slowly awoke. He heard someone shout and then someone said his name. "Herbert are ya waking up?" Herbert opened his eyes. "I think they drugged us." explained Karsten. "Wh-what do you mean. Who did what with what to whom?" came the cryptic question from Herbert. "Well the question who drugged us should be obvious, that would probably be the our instructor, Sargent Schmidt or to be specific the medics who went from bed to bed. As for your second question i thought you wouldn't ask that. I would guess it was Axotrion or something like that. If it was Axotrion then we will have some side effects like exhaustion and so on. And for your third question" He said with a smile "That should be even more obvious than the first question.
Herbert ashamed for his question answered on this remark. "Relax man i just woke up and it looks like I was drugged by the way are you a doctor or something, why do you know this stuff?" "Well you remember that there is a long story that i maybe tell you later if we have enough time, that would be a part of the story."
Herbert nodded and just noticed that he had no time to look around till now. Looking around he realized more than one thing that confused him first thing was were they were, in his mind they were just at the medical examination room but now they were at something that looked like a cave.
The second confusing fact was that everybody in this cave wore uniform including himself. That would normally freak him out but somehow he was very calm. `Maybe some of the side effects of this axotro stuff´ he thought
The third fact was that there were people in the group that weren't there before, for example there was a guy with bright blond hair around 2.1 metres high with an expression on his face as if his world has completely collapsed, but he wasn't sure if someone was missing.
As if Karsten could read his mind he said "Did you noticed that we aren't the same group as we were in the examination room. I think they divided us into two groups or something like that." "But why should they do that" asked Herbert "Well that could have more than just one reasons. Maybe they wanted to see if we notice, maybe they want to change our group dynamic or maybe the really checked us after we were unconscious and they sorted more out than i thought but i can't believe that they wouldn't throw fifty percent of there recruits even before the first test" explained Karsten. Herbert was amazed so he said "You thought about everything haven't you?" "Well in my life i have to keep everything in mind and before you ask that is going to be part of the story." looking for the other recruits he added "I sure like talking to you but i think i should look for the others who came with us"
"Okay okay i think that i would normally ask you something like ´Why are you so fucking calm after being drugged and everything´ but i assume that i know the answer but i have another question were i don't know the answer to and that would be what are we going to do in this place and furthermore where are we?" asked Herbert. As always Karsten answered him in his typical long answers that bring answer some of the questions asked but gave some new "Well i think that to find out is going to be part of the test. Because i was the first to wake up i did somethings, in the first place i looked a bit after the others who came with us after i was sure that there is nothing wrong with them i searched for someone who is in charge of this madness or how ever you want to call this situation and well what should i say there is someone in an uniform made for lieutenants"
"What do you mean? His uniform was made for an Lieutenant. Do you mean that he is imitating an officer?" Karsten nodded and said "For that you ask so many questions, you answer some of them yourself in an instance. Anyways this `lieutenant` told me that we are in the middle of a fight between us and a whole army of terrorists equipped with the newest high tech weapon systems and all this stuff" "WHAT!!! Even if this is a fucking simulation why are we simulating a freaking battle. Did they mistake us for some officer recruits?" Herbert couldn't hold himself back " Are they to stupid to read the fucking documents?"
Karsten responded and tried to calm Herbert down "Calm down, getting crazy about that isn't going to solve anything besides maybe that is the trick behind that. "Herbert looked puzzled "Well you should remember what the Sargent told us. You can't plan everything and they want to train us as officers too, so if we keep calm and play their game then we could get some extra points."
Unknown to them was that there were microphones and cameras everywhere and that the committee responsible for their training listened to every word that they said. In this committee were several people mostly people from the military but also some freelancer like psychologists and even the governor of the Ballen region Walter Faust who wanted to see how the things are running in the military at the moment.
The governor commented well those two what were there names? Karsten Wagner and Herbert Bauer? Are indeed interesting. This Wagner is quite the smart and unmistakable character and this Bauer maybe seems to be not that bad either. I mean he is obvious not as smart as smart as Wagner but if i am not mistaken he and Wagner could be very effective as a team even through you wanted to build single operating officers that could be even better.
Sargent Schmidt thought about it and responded "Well that could be a great idea but the test basically hasn't started yet.
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