Pilot Candidate: The New Candidates

Chapter 2

By Draco

By the time the opening ceremonies began there were another two Pilot Candidates, Kami
Takami (think Yamagi Kushida with bright blue hair) and Rick Smith (think Roose 
Sawamura with short red hair).

After ending the opening ceremonies the five new Candidates reported to their cabins 
to rest for their first classes the next morning.

"Man these suits are so hot! Why are they so hot!?" Vega asked loudly as he 
ran into his cabin and started taking off his ceremony cloths, revealing his Candidate 
uniform underneath. 

"You aren't supposed to wear your Candidate uniform under the ceremony robes, I think
that's why you got so hot." Chris replied as he walked into the cabin followed by 
Mako and the two new Candidates that had arrived before the opening ceremonies. 

"Who are you two?" Vega asked when they had all gotten dressed into their Candidate
uniforms. 

"You should remember your classmates names Vega Takimadia, but since you asked, my
name is Kami Takimi." Kami replied. 

"And I'm Rick." Rick blurted out right after Kami. 

"These cabins used to hold three, why would they change it?" Chris asked as Azuma
walked by their cabin.

"They destroyed some of the cabins to make room for larger rooms, basically they made
more Pro-Ings, you guys need to get to bed, but there is two hours left until lights out, 
take this time to look around G.O.A., but don't go into any of the restricted areas, 
they are only for emergencies." Azuma said as he continued walking. 

"You heard him, let's go look around." Vega said. 

"I say we see where the Mess Hall is, you know, so we don't get lost tomorrow morning 
trying to get to breakfast." Rick insisted. 

"Well, we have two hours, just don't get lost guys." Chris said as he took a small 
handheld computer and walked down the hall. 

An hour passed and Vega had been walking up and down each hall. An alarm sounded, then a 
voice came over the loudspeaker.
"Attention, all personnel, hull breach! Report to the front of the academy 
with weapons in hand!" the voice blared. 

"Hull breach? This can't be good. Woah!" Vega exclaimed as an explosion threw him five
feet. The explosion had come from inside the counsel room, one of the many restricted  
areas. "Huh? Mr. Dian!" Vega said as the dust cleared and he saw Mr. Dian's body on
the floor, a small gun in hand. Vega ran to Mr. Dian's side and kneeled down to feel his pulse. 

"What is your number candidate?" Mr. Dian said weakly. 

"I'm number 88, Vega Takimadia." Vega replied. 

"You look just like him, just like...Zero Enna." Mr. Dian said. 

"What happened?" Vega asked as the dust from inside the room cleared revealing a strange 
creature with three eyes, a round body, and fur covering all but it's two arms and two 
legs, it was about the size of a human head. 

"Vega...run...save yourself." Mr. Dian said as the Creature curled into a ball and rolled 
slowly towards them. 

"You're in no shape to play hero, but I'll take care of this thing." Vega said as he took 
the gun from Mr. Dian and aimed at the creature. 

"Uh oh." he heard the creature say as it stopped rolling. 
"Take this!" Vega yelled as he pulled the trigger and blew up the creature. 

"What the hell are these things?!" Azuma asked loudly as he ran down
a hall with three of the creatures rolling after him. 

Suddenly all of them blew up. "What was that?" Azuma asked himself. 

"Instructor? Instructor, are you alright?" Vega asked as he walked through the dust
with Mr. Dian's arm around his shoulder, and visa versa, which held him (Mr. Dian) up. 

"88?" Azuma asked with a surprised look on his face. 

"Attention, all of the creatures have been destroyed, Everyone report to
the Main Lobby for an informative assembly. Move quickly, the sooner that 
you get here the sooner you can sleep." a man said over the loudspeaker. 

After everyone went to the Main Lobby, Vega helped Mr. Dian onto the stage. 

"Today, we met the new Victim, these are the Crites, or Critters." Mr. Dian said into
a microphone as a  picture of one of the creatures popped up on a screen behind him. 
"These critters are very dangerous, if you see one start running, run into a restricted 
area, this will be the only time you will enter one of these places." he finished. 

"The new Victim...now is the reason we must become pilots." Vega said as he drifted
off to sleep. 

"88! Wake up 88!" Azuma yelled into Vega's ears the next morning. 

"Five minutes."  Vega said half asleep. 

"Now 88!" Azuma yelled as he rolled Vega out of bed. 

"Ok, I'm up!" Vega yelled as he stood up. 

"Get down to the mess hall, NOW!" Azuma yelled as Vega ran to the mess hall for breakfast. 

When Vega arrived at the mess hall he noticed that Mr. Dian was not there to make
his morning announcement. "Excuse me sir." Vega said to the Lunchman.

"Oh, hello young 88, what can I do for you dis fine day?" the Lunchman asked 
in his Jamaican accent. 

"Where's Mr. Dian?" Vega asked as the Lunchman got a worried look on his face. 

"Well, you're late so you wudn't know dis, but Mr. Dian's in critical condition in 
the Hospital Wing. He wanted to see you after you ate." The Lunchman replied as he handed 
Vega his breakfast. 

"Thank you." Vega said as he went to sit down. 

"Hey Vega, Instructor said to hurry up with breakfast and visit Mr. Dian, he just got
worse." Rick said. 

"Where do you want me to meet you guys?" Vega asked as he picked up
his tray and stood up. 

"We'll meet you in room #29 in the Hospital Wing." Rick replied as Vega ran to the
door after running and tossing his tray into the trash. 

"Why does he want to see me? What does he want?" Vega asked
himself outside of Mr. Dian's room as he walked in. 

"Candidate 88, Mr. Dian's been expecting you." a nurse said as
Vega walked in and stood next to Mr. Dian's bed. 

"Mr. Dian... I'm here, what did you want to see me about?" Vega asked.
"In my room...there is a golden sword with five crystals in the blade...if I 
don't make it...please, take it." Mr. Dian replied weakly.
"Yes sir." Vega said. "Dismissed." Mr. Dian said weakly as Vega walked 
out of the room. 

"Last night, Mr. Sagimo Dian died." one man said at the morning announcements. 

"It was the creature we have now learned is actually called a Sargna, this creature
feeds on the flesh of all living things, for each thing it eats it grows 
larger, we do not know the best course of action for defeating these
creatures, but we will begin working on a solution." the man continued.

"I am afraid that Mr. Dian would not want a funeral, he would
want to be ejected into space by five candidates and their instructor, they 
are: Vega Takimadia, Chris Tamidama, Mako Chikida,
Kami Takami, Rick Smith, and Azuma Hijikata Jr., will these six please 
report to the funeral hall." the man finished as he walked off stage. 

"I knew he wouldn't make it." Mako said. "Mako, just shut up." 
Vega said as the six that had been called left for the funeral hall. 

The funeral began right after they got there. "I can't believe he's gone, he was the
strongest person here." Vega thought as a tear ran down his cheek and the six returned 
to their rooms. 

That night Vega couldn't sleep. "Why am I still alive? I should
be the one that was killed." Vega thought. 

"Attention! Sargna's have been sighted 1,000 miles from G.O.A., we are on 
high alert!" A man yelled over the P.A. system. 

Another twenty minutes and Vega heard screams of pain and agony from down the 
hall, he jumped right out of bed. "Ping-Ping! Ping-Ping!" the alarm sounded. 
Vega saw a small Sargna outside his room door. 

"Guys, get up, the Sargnas are here." Vega said to Chris, Mako, Kami, and 
Rick, they all woke up right away. "They're going to come
in soon, we have no chance to survive unless I get Mr. Dian's sword 
from his room." Vega said. 

"Fine, I'll go along with your plan Vega, but only to keep myself alive." 
Mako commented as they grabbed some blasters from under the beds (they "borrowed" them
from the armory). "Growrl Growlg(They're in here, these are the guys that 
can stop us.)" the Sargna from outside the room said to
the leader. "Griwl Growl Griwl Griwl Grorwl(Take them out now.)" the leader 
replied as he walked towards the instructor block.

"The leader just left towards the instructor block, we should strike while 
the instructors are still living." Chris said as Mako
aimed through the door at the small Sargna. 

"You're Dead!" Mako yelled as he pulled the trigger, totally destroying the Sargna.

"Let's move." Vega said as they walked down the hall toward Mr. Dian's room.