Chapter 7

The next day, Luna gets up earlier than Captain Levi, puts on her uniform and takes her boots in her hand and tries to sneak out of the apartment, when:

- Where do you think you're going? — says Levi\, not even getting off the couch\, because he slept with the key to his apartment around his neck\, and he knew she wouldn't be able to get out.

- Good morning! Captain\, … I was going to breathe some fresh air. he says\, trying to avoid saying what he would really try to do.

"Luna, don't lie to me." he says, still lying down.

- I'm not lying.

— I can tell by the tone of your voice that you're lying, I told you, you're not leaving this apartment without me, you're too important to risk it, that's why, I don't trust anyone in the skyscraper who doesn't belong to my squadron. And you are no exception. You will tell me what you intend or I will have to wrest the strength from you.

“ You wouldn't hurt me. she says fearfully.

— You can bet that if I have to, I will. says Levi, getting up and sitting on the sofa.

— I was going to the cafeteria to eat something.

"Are you going to keep lying?"

- I'm not lying.

— I already told you, there's no point in lying, just tell me what you want, because I don't want to have to get up from here and force you to tell me.

— Okay, I was going to try to find the diary of the researcher you mentioned, I think it could be from my friend Mike, maybe it's the key, for us to solve the problem of this virus, because we'll know how it came about, if he made notes about the vaccine, we'll be able to replicate it, or if someone found my capsule, and took it to the building's archive.

- Hmm! Okay\, finally the truth... Now tell me how you plan to get there\, if there are few people who have authorization\, and the security is strict\, there are around eight security doors to get to the archive\, to open them are it takes specific passwords\, fingerprints and retinas to get there\, and different people have access to different levels of the archive\, that location is area 51 of the skyscraper\, you would have to find the person with full access to that area\, not even me\, I can enter there\, the only person I know who has full access is General Lamér.

"Why don't we talk to him?"

"Because I don't trust him one bit."

"And how will we get the vaccine?"

— I'm still thinking, let's have breakfast, it's not good to train with you without eating anything.

He gets up, straightens his clothes and puts his uniform on top, and goes to the closet, takes a package and hands it to Luna:

- What is this?

“It's the military rations we eat here to keep us nourished, it tastes awful, but I couldn't get anything else to eat today.

- Right. — says Luna opening the package\, and eating something that looked like paçoca\, but that didn't taste like anything\, she makes an ugly face\, and puts the package on the table. — I lost my hunger.

"Eat everything, I need it nourished to train you."

"But Captain..."

"Luna, this is an order, don't you dare disobey me." he says in his firm yet cold voice.

- He is well. - says Luna\, taking the package again and forcing herself to finish eating that horrible food. "But you won't eat anything?"

"Don't worry, I already ate before you got up." — says Levi lying, because he was giving him his daily ration, because that ration only had access to the officers, and the people who did something useful in the skyscraper, but he didn't want to make her worried, and he didn't want her to leave. him, so he didn't say anything to him.

"But, Captain...

—Now eat and let's go to the gym to train, because the faster you know how to defend yourself the better, today we will train with a backpack that is an imitation of the aero item, it is used in training, of new soldiers.

Luna puts on her boots and follows him, they pass by the equipment room and he teaches her how to check the aero item's battery, as this was solar energy:

—We use solar energy, but the battery only lasts for a day and a half, using it in economy mode, as these batteries are old, so Ivan is studying to see if he can find a replacement battery, for this type of battery, because if we need it , using the aero item at the maximum we only have 6 hours of battery, if we start having to always use it at the maximum, or in an emergency that we need to use it in turbo mode for a long time, we may have problems, but that does not come just in case, check that the seat belts are securely fastened, and you have to check each buckle too, because if one of them opens in mid-air you're gone. — he says coldly — and we don't want you to die, right?

Luna puts on the imitation aero item, and checks every belt and every clip of it, as if it were the real aero item, meanwhile Captain Levi, had already put on his aero item and checked everything quickly:

“Captain, this is heavy.

— I know even more for a skinny girl like you, but you'll have to get used to the weight, these aero items were already much heavier, but don't worry, we won't fly today, you'll train to defend yourself wearing it, because your training yesterday was reasonably good, so I'm moving on to the next phase.

They go to the training room, and start fighting, Luna knew how to fight well, but with the aero item and with the advantage of Levi being strong and already being used to fighting using that equipment, it was difficult to hit him, because he could be fast, and easily dodged his blows, even using something so heavy, and she could hardly land a hit on him, while he was taking her down easily, and managed to immobilize her several times. Until:

" Captain, report." came Judy saying.

He gets distracted for a second, kills Leão in Luna, who takes advantage of the distraction, pulls him by the arm causing his body to pass over hers, knocking him backwards to the ground, because she was already used to the weight of that equipment , the whole day training, her body was already sore, but she knew she couldn't give up:

“Blimey, Captain, looks like your apprentice is picking up her lesson pretty quickly. - says Judy, laughing, as she had never seen her Captain being knocked down so easily, even more so by a girl.

"I'm sorry, Captain, but you got distracted." Luna says.

“No, you're right, I couldn't have been distracted. We're done with training for today,” says Levi coldly, getting to his feet.

Then Captain Levi addresses Judy:

“You can pass the report, soldier.

— We had the loss of a soldier from the Lambert squadron, because his aero item had a problem taking him out of formation making him fall in the middle of a bunch of zombies, we were far away, we tried to reach him, but we didn't have enough time to save So, we found something suspicious when we managed to rescue the aero item, it seems that someone caused the failure.

"What do you mean soldier?"

“His aero item had been opened, and some wires had been cut.

— Judy, to you everything seems criminal, you know that they have soldiers who fix their own aero items.

"Yes, but sir, this soldier is not one of those

— All right, if you believe what you're saying, ask Ivan to check it out, and anything if you think it really was something criminal, I'll investigate to get to the bottom of it and find out who's responsible. What else happened besides this tragedy?

— I will ask Ivan to check in detail sir, now the news is that the new survivor underwent a test in particular with the general, yesterday to find out if he was fit to join the squadron, and this morning we left with this new member, about which we know nothing about, everyone calls him Beta, because as he has a Lobo tattoo, they decided to call him that, and the general decided to hand over the Lambert squadron to him to command as captain.

— Very strange, but I told you we would have problems soon, keep an eye out and let me know if you see anything suspicious, now about the aero item, I will check it myself, after Luna's training, just for you to be more relaxed . Anything else to pass me?

— Yes sir, I captured a live zombie, isolating it in a house close to my laboratory, and applied a sample of Luna's blood, to verify if it is possible to cure the virus, only with her blood, if it works, I will try to develop a serum using what we discover; At the moment I'm looking for a small animal that has not yet been contaminated, to see if applying her blood we managed to make the animal immune too, because I'll apply the zombie virus next.

“Great, your research is more advanced than I thought. Brilliant that you're using a zombie to see if it's possible to reverse the virus, but how did you manage to get him?

— Simple, I was on a mission today near a veterinary clinic, in zone F, and I ended up finding some horse tranquilizers, I dosed what would be enough to knock out a human being and it worked.

"Good idea, but how did you make sure the zombie didn't run away when it woke up?" And you know they can't find it until you're sure it worked or not.

— I tied him up, in a cellar and put some very heavy objects, thus hiding the cellar.

“ Good. says Levi satisfied, and then turns to Luna, who has been listening to everything. — I think it's good that we start your flight training tomorrow, because we can't stay long without going on a mission, I think it's good that you can control the aero item quickly.

"I'll give it my all, Captain." says Luna, satisfied.

“Well, for today we will finish our training, as I said. Let's go to the cafeteria to eat before we go to rest.

"I'll go with you, sir." For my last meal was before leaving. says Judy.

— Right, but remember not to say anything about your studies while we're there, you know we have some people at the behest of the elite infiltrated, if they find out about Luna, and about our experiments, they might want to erase us and kidnap us. -there.

“Okay sir.

"And you too, Luna, be careful what you say in the cafeteria."

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