The President’s speech

Once Lily stepped out of the elevator, it is like stepping into another planet... The Avenger level interface, that too underground? There's no way nobody noticed them building this ! Yes, NOBODY DID!

MAES has almost 100 employees working at intelligence alone, more than 10,000 soldiers who work under them. There are 3 departments - operations, analysis, and intelligence gathering and distribution. Each of them has 50 officers. They are responsible for telling the mains of when,where and how to collect the information. Now, the three generals,( since the 4th one is long gone), have their own teams, with special members. There never has been a serious fight in which all three of-em united to fight, but guess what? It might just happen any day!

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At the Cargo bay. This is where everything is sorted out according to the teams' needs.

Jerry [ head of logistics]: " How are ya, Lily?"

" am fine , Mr.Jerry" replied Lily as she was instructing a worker on where the package would go.

Jerry : " Busy day , eh? Be sure of not to miss today's meeting, who knows" paused . " You might as well win that promotion."

Lily :" yeah , and I'll take it!" Chuckles

Jerry was talking about a meeting that the President of the organisation was hosting in the evening.It is Rumoured that he holds it only to declare important decisions.

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Evening 5: 45 , at Narnian auditorium, HQ...

Derry [ Lily's friend and an awesome skateboarder]: " I wonder what they're gonna announce" he said in a worried tone.

Maria [ frenemies with Lily] : " hopefully, he will give us free nuggets!" She says in a joking voice.

Lily : " Really?" She asked. " The president called a meeting and that's what you could think of ? Nuggets?" as she chuckles.

All three of them went to sit down on their pre-assigned seat numbers, allotted to them by Jerry. While everyone was anxiously waiting, the programme started. Obviously, they had to do a welcome speech and inspiration speech which took ' forever long' to complete before the president himself had to give the speech.

Summarising the speech, since it was big and complicated, he informs everyone that he has received an emergency message from an anonymous person regarding an apocalypse that's about to hit Earth. He has no evidence as to what is hitting or when . Scared of the consequences, he decides to build special teams for the upcoming disaster - 1 big team with 5 helper teams together with them to achieve the ultimate goal. He also said later he would be recruiting men to the above list.

"That was crazy, wasn't it?" exclaims Derry, astonished at what the president just said. " I really thought it was about budget cuts and lay offs!"

" Well, what I'm worried about is what's going to hit!" Says Maria with worry. "Hopefully it will be nothing to keep us working till next summer." See, here if the work is crucial and demands extra working hours, they got nothing to worry about, since their salary rises to twice their actual amount during these days. What they're worried about is that they won't get to meet their family.

Lily listened to everything and stayed silent, for who knows what might happen!

Later that evening...

A vroom officer, ( the person who delivers messages, like the olden time's messenger ), came in with the list of recruited men. He went and whispered in Jerry's ears . Jerry in turn gathered all of around him, putting the vroom in the limelight. Then he starts reciting names;

"Vanessa"

"Emma "

"Gilbert"

"Maria"

" Derry"

" lastly, Lily Anne"

Everyone was shocked when Maria, Derry and Lily's names were called.

' Why are they called?'

' Vanessa, Emma and Gilbert has had previous war experiences'

' They're gonna die mate!'

" Why are they talking nonsense bro?" whispered a confused Derry as they were walking toward the officer, " There must be some mistake, right?"

Lily, also looking confused stated " Look, if its a mistake , then yeah! But if not...."

" if not , we'll do it like we've done any other job!" said Maria, even though she's anxious. Realising the tension in the air, as they are nearing the official, she said hopefully " My first demand would be to get lifetime subscription of chicken nuggets!" Hearing her all three of'em bursted out, hilarious!

They reached a tall man ,with the usual military uniform but with a scroll badge, which indicated his job - messenger. As the trio approached the man to ask whether or not he was mistaken, they were interrupted by him;

" Get in the wagon" with a bold voice; " all six of you." He said it in a way that no one could disagree with him. Everyone followed him into the wagon. Nobody flinched, let alone talk the whole way.

When they reached their destination, they were told to get off. That is exactly what they did. They stepped out to see an entirely different part of HQ. It was a building with 3 elavators, that too fancy ones. The stairs were magnificent with beautiful railings and well, there were officials of higher ranks. The first three had no problems but the last trio, gasped at the immensity of the building.All of them were brought to a large hall where they were sorted out.

The first three teams were headed by the three generals. The 4th and 5th ones were the helpers. Vanessa was assigned to the first team, team Beta, headed by Maela; Emma was assigned to the second team, team Omega, headed by Davis; Gilbert to the third team, team Gamma, headed by Maximus. But the trio was assigned to the combined squad- 4th and 5th teams. Then the president came to announce; " From now on, everyone of you will be trained according to the generals. The helper squad will be trained by your commander Vincent Scariah " his hands reaching over to Scariah's shoulders. " You are under well equipped facility. Good luck" saying this he walked out.

Commander : " Take 10. We will meet at the gym 06."

While everyone went about their way, Maria, Derry and Lily were still flabbergasted at everything going on, that Maria almost tripped over Lily's leg! Derry followed. The three of them sitting on the floor looked at each other... scared.

Then out of nowhere a boy, hardly 18, hurried them up ' come on ' he said anxiously.' You don't wanna be late to Mr. Scariah's class' as he helped them onto their feet. They hurried to Gym 06.Gues what? They were just in time!

" I'm Scariah. I will be addressed as commander Vincent by all of you" said the muscular man, emphasising every word." You will be trained as any general would be and every hardship they face, will be faced by you as well." He paused. " if I see any of you slacking , then you should forget about ever going home again " threw the man , like arrows on a target.

Hey guys, sorry for the wait. Sorry for the fillers till now. Chapter 5 is where the real fun starts . Hope it'll keep your souls up!..

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