Rise of the Six by Matt Ryan

Author:Matt Ryan
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: 32 Novel Publishing
Published: 2015-02-05T07:00:00+00:00

THE IDEA OF TRAINING WAS exciting to Joey, but the realization of why they were training, brought about thoughts of his family. He’d learn as much as he could from Harris and take it with him back to Preston. If he could learn to control his slow-mo stuff, he’d be unstoppable.

Following Harris through a few elevator stops and two hallways, they made it to a white room.

Joey had been in gun ranges before, but this room didn’t look like any gun range he’d ever seen. It was a long white room, with white walls, floor, and ceiling. It was completely stark white, except for the black line on the floor at the start of the room.

“Stay behind the black line,” Harris said. “Get ready.”

“For what?”

The whole room changed to look like a Wild West version of a town. Wood buildings were on each side of the street, with horses hitched to a post in front of the Dusty Saloon. A few dingy-looking people walked around, and one old man threw Joey a sneer. A man in a cowboy outfit hitched his horse and stepped into the saloon. Joey shook his head and squinted at the movement in the saloon windows. Was he missing something?

A gunshot cracked through the dirt-ball town and in the same instant, an electrical shock hit his shoulder. Joey grabbed at the pain in his shoulder and searched the town for the shooter. Then he saw an out of place movement; a man standing on the roof of the general store, with a rifle pointed at him. The end of the barrel flashed and another crack echoed through the town.

Joey stumbled backward at the second electrical shock, this time in the middle of his chest. He raised his gun to the man, took aim, and pulled the trigger—striking his target in the chest. The man froze like a still picture, then melted into a white goo, and disappeared. Everything in the town froze and dissolved into white.

“Whoa,” Joey said. His heart pounded in his chest. It felt as if he were there, in the town. It was so real. He rubbed the shoulder the electrical shock hit, a reminder of how real it was. “That was crazy. What is this place?”

“It’s a training room. We can create almost any scene we want within these walls.”

Joey stared at said walls, questioning their reality. “How’s this possible?”

“Better to ask Almadon, but let’s get back to your training. What do you think happened there?”

“I don’t know. Some guy just shot me from the roof?”

“The people in the open are not always the dangers, you have to look beyond the obvious and find the true danger,” Harris said. “Let’s try again.”

“Did you train my dad here?” Joey turned to him and asked.

Harris’s expression didn’t change, but he paused. “Yes.”

“How was he?”

“Good. He was your age. Young and enthusiastic,” Harris stated. “We don’t have much time, let’s continue.”

Joey readied himself, this time with gun in hand. A new scene popped up in front of him—a park.

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