Alarms woke me as usual so I quickly put my shoes on and headed out into the hall, this time we were herded into a large empty room where doctor Halsey stood patiently waiting.
"Good morning cadets, instead of the daily routine we have decided it is time for you to finally be tested, now most of you will die but those who don't will become Spartans, those who become Spartans will be trained properly and given special armour that will protect you from the horrible universe we live in," Doctor Halsey explained, we all gave each other worried looks as we were led to seperate testing bays. I was seperate do from John once more and forced to lay on an uncomfortable bed, I was strapped down which made me gulp in fear. Slowly they injected needles into my skin making me wince, I always hated needles. After about half an hour of preparing me they finally left the room, suddenly I heard a drilling sound which made my eyes go wide. I couldn't turn my head or move at all, I screamed as agonising pain shot through my head and body. I felt a liquid flow through the needles and into my skin, I tried to thrash about and get away from the pain but nothing worked. All I could do was scream as I felt my body begin to shift inside me, tears began to flow down my cheeks in streams as the pain only got worse. I felt like I was going to pass out after an hour of nothing but agony, finally the pain slowly stopped and the drills with pulled from my head. I stared at the ceiling thinking about if I would ever see John again, my voice was gone from all the screaming and my eyes were dry like a riverbed after nothing but sun for weeks. I felt my eyes closing as doctors walked in to unstrap me, all I wanted to do was sleep.

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I awoke to see myself in the Med bay, I shifted my head weakly to see John next to me. I gave a smile that at least he was alive, I looked to my other side and saw about 10 other kids who were still sleeping. I winced knowing that the other 88 of us didn't make it, I shifted my focus back to John who was beginning to stir. I sat up slowly but stopping as pain shot through my whole body, I waited for it to stop before sitting up fully. John had also sat up as the others began to stir, I stretched wincing at every movement but I had to get used to what they had done to me. From what I knew they had mutated our bones and body systems to be more resistant, finally I swung my legs over the edge making to stand but John stopped me.
"Don't Rush it Caden, we don't want you to be in any more pain then you already are," John soothed, I nodded but still had my legs hanging off the edge of the bed. The commander walked in once we were all awake and sitting up, he had a confident gaze on his face.
"Well Cadets the few of you that survived congratulations, before we start your training we will be sending off your fellow Cadets in a proud and honourable tradition," the commander sighed, we all looked at each other and nodded following him out of the room. We walked slowly still feeling weak as we made our way towards the main deck, I watched sadly as they shot one casket after another off into space where they wouldn't rot nor would they be harmed. After that we were taken to a large room that held many rows of special armour, when we arrived we saw a normal soldier hopping into one of suits. He took a step forwards before it began to twist and break his body, we all grimaced and looked away.
"This Cadets is the next phase of your training, each suit has been made to try and accept your specialised bodies, if it rejects you then well that happens," the commander pointed out sadly, we all nodded shakily as they took the suit off the poor broken man and carried him away to shoot him into space. I was led to a pink, purple and blue suit which matched me in my opinion, I let out a shaky sigh before climbing onto the platform. The machines began to place the suit on me piece by piece, after it was fully on I realised how light it felt.
"Take a step forward please," the doctor ordered, I nodded and took a step forward. It felt almost robotic, I awaited the pain of being broken and twisted but it never came. I looked sideways at John who was in a dark green suit, clicking fingers caught my attention.
"Cadet from now on you will be known as Spartan 113, please follow the other Spartans into the training room where you will be trained in ways so you can use the suit properly," the doctor explained, I nodded and followed John and the others towards a large room filled with gear and obstacles. First thing first I headed over to a secluded area, I began to punch out and kick feeling odd in the suit that moved perfectly whenever I moved a leg or arm. I began to try different fighting styles spinning around on the spot and kicking etc, after I had finished training by myself I headed over to a large wall that had a bell at the top.
"Spartan 113 your objective is to jump as high as you can and try to ring the bell," the commander explained walking over, I nodded and backed away to get a running start. I ran as fast as I could nearly crashing into the wall and jumped, I hit the bell making it hit the roof on its thick rope. The commander wrote something down and moved on, I then headed to a track where John was waiting for someone to race him.
"First one to the other side and rings the bell gets to punch the other," I dared, he dropped down into a sprinting position and I joined him. A soldier who stood next to the track gave a blow of his whistle and we took off, with my lighter built suit I beat John by a split second. We both laughed oddly not out of breath from how quick the suits made us run, I punched John in the should roughly and he shifted slightly but still laughed.

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After many hours of training we were finally allowed to take our suits off, we now had new sleeping quarters which I was glad of because John and I finally had the same room since we were squad leaders we needed to be able to wake each other up incase of an emergency. I took my armour off and sat it in its armour case which looked more like a locker, we also had guns in the locker next to it. Finally I crawled into bed exhausted, I looked at John before closing my eyes and falling into a deep sleep.

If you want to know what the armour for Caden looks like look at the picture above the chapter.