Necron by Oliver Strong

Author:Oliver Strong
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scifi, scifi novella, space marine, scifi military, scifi adventure space
Publisher: Oliver Strong

Chapter Six

Nightmares taunted every moment of regeneration. Victor regurgitated a gravelly sludge infested with large maggots over and over. It took a second to pass the border of dreams into cold concrete reality. The taste of wet gravel hung on his tongue as he appeared from a metal coffin. Diana smiled, sprouting from her flower bed, in matching prison clothes. Michaels resembled a teenager hanging at the back of class, displaying a puerile grin.

Sergeant Murray puffed a cheap cigar, never seen without one on a morning, ‘OKAY ASSHOLES, DECK C NOW!’

Recruits marched in an orderly fashion towards their destination; military discipline drummed into their heads over the past year. Lining up in rows one hundred and twenty four recruits stood at ease, six months of boarding tactics had ended in a final exam, many didn’t pass.

Major Flatley stepped onto his parapet, ‘OFFICER ON …’

Before Sergeant Murray could finish every man and woman saluted the Major. Murray heard boots coming together and peered behind to take a look, ‘the deck.’

‘Good morning and congratulations on making it this far, you’ve spent more than a year training to be warriors but don’t think you’re finished. This is the Marine Corp not some holiday camp for pussy ass flyboys who made LT because they got pooped out the right birth canal!’

A chuckle passed over the recruits, the Sergeant let it slide, Flatley continued, ‘Over the next six months you’ll take instruction in combat survival, interrogation and resistance to interrogation techniques. Everyone I see here today should by all rights pass, but I know from experience there’ll be dropouts. I’m not gonna say don’t let me down, I’m not gonna say don’t let your family down, I’m not even gonna say don’t let yourselves down, what I AM gonna say is there are other Marines waiting for reinforcements and whatever is said on arrival they appreciate every man and woman who makes it into active service.

You’ll be trained in basic torture techniques and how to resist standard Drax torture techniques, all those who pass will officially make Private,’ he perceived an aura lift from his group of dead men and women, something like a child walking downstairs on Christmas day to find that present he or she whined for all year, ‘ON PROBATION, that means your ass is still mine, if you fail to measure up at any time you will be harvested, that will be all,’ he returned their salute and exited through a side hatch.

The next month was spent in lectures on escape and evasion techniques aboard Drax vessels followed by two months of practical testing. Theoretically they were going over the previous six months only far more advanced. Advanced weapons training included missile launchers, improvised traps, advanced man-to-man combat focusing on in depth knife fighting.

After completion another month of lectures began on resistance to interrogation and torture techniques, followed by two months of practical exercises culminating in a final exam.

Escorted to Deck B, where previously they’d practiced boarding over and over, a maze now filled its area.

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