Chapter – XXXVI Most college professors would be thrilled, or possibly heartbroken, to walk into their classroom on a Friday morning to find the entire class already seated with their notebooks and ready, eager, for class to begin. However Dean Smith of the Sizemore Tech HCP wasn’t a normal professor. […]
Third Year Commences “And, BREAK!” The cheerful voice of Overton’s Weapons Instructor was barely audible over the sounds of rushing water, exhausted groans, and loudly muttered profanity. A few minutes later Dani stood on the damp gym floor smiling at the twenty half-drowned juniors giving her a uniform death […]
“Let this be a lesson to all of you,” Coach Meyers didn’t have to try to tower over the freshman class. Half of them were lying flat on their backs. “If you think because the general public has a holiday that you can stop training, then you are dead wrong! […]
Chapter – XXXVII Max had barely slept Friday night. Despite a typically exhausting workout in gym to go with his slate of afternoon classes, he still had difficulty quieting his mind enough to fall asleep. And even so, his eyes snapped open with the first rays of dawn, a nervous […]
“I’ve got nothing,” Becca was surprised to hear the frustrated words come out of Anika’s mouth. Over the last few days it was the speedster who’d been the down-in-the-dumps girl. Becca figured she had a least a couple more days until she had to buck up. Anika glanced over at […]
<A line, really…come on,> Daisy grumbled as she walked down the hall towards her classroom. The off-white linoleum of the hallway had been recently polished, so the light reflected upwards from the few sections that weren’t scuffed beyond repair. It reminded Daisy a little bit of a cloudy day. The […]
Angela spent the ten minutes watching everyone else. She had multiple plans, considering multiple variables in place for today; and she just needed to see which one was going to work best. <Looks like the SUBs are teaming up,> Angela categorized the three other women under the term Anika had […]
Kyoshi cut the mental link between her and Mason. <Stupid…stupid…stupid man.> She balled her fists in anger, but couldn’t stop them from trembling. The image of a dark figure leaping from the largest building in the area was seared into her memory. Her heart had skipped a few beats before […]
“So you know this girl who likes a boy, but that boy likes another girl; and you want to know how that girl can get the boy to notice her?” Seth summarized the situation he was hearing. Seth and Casey Williams, the number fourteen ranked strongwoman, were walking down a […]
<I’m missing something,> Hunter’s exasperated sigh blended with the continuous hum of the HCP library’s DVA server. <But what?> After his stint in Chicago, Hunter had passed up the new information he’d learned while investigating the sniper’s nest; and privately whispered to a few close friends what he really […]