Tests and surprise

After the first theory lesson, they had gym class. The cheerful P.E. teacher announced the program of the day, tests on their physical capabilities. Soon the whole class was walking to the nearest transportation platform. To reach it, they took the elevator. " Which level do you wish to go to ? ", the elevator's AI sounded. " transport level ". After a while, soft buzzing echoed in the lift. All the students had their nose stuck to the transparent walls of the elevator room. From here they could see the whole school structure, it had an elliptical shape. A ding rang out, they arrived at the top of the school. As soon as they stepped out ,the flat metallic floor opened and the lift went down. The hole disappeared, if one were to look, he won't even notice anything strange.

" Follow me, let's go to the flying board ". Ashlyn looked up, and noticed a huge round platform floating in the air. The P.E. professor tapped a few times on the screen on his wrist. A beep was heard, and the huge thing slowly descended. It looked like a flat emourms plate, it's surface was gray. In a neat order, they got up on the board. After they were all on, a metallic railing rose up from, and it flew up. A transparent dome covered the flying machine. " Look here Lyn, I can see our gymnasium from here ! ", Esme exited, was with one hand holding on the railing and with the other one pulling her friend. " Yeah, it's so big". After a few minutes they landed, and the board flew back. " Let's get started ! ". The professor was really enthusiastic to test them !

All the various tests were explained : speed, resistance, strength, reaction.

Between each test, they had five minutes of break. There was a ranking too, based on the time used to complete each one.

" Evenson it's your turn". As she was called out, she was feeling rather nervous. She took a big breath, and walked to the white line drawn on the ground. Her friend encouraged her, holding her hand. " I'll cheer for you ", Lyn seeing her, felt a bit reassured. Then the countdown started, and as soon she heard ' 0 ', she dashed forward. She felt the wind who was howling in her ears. Each time her foot touched the ground, a small puff of dust was raised. Finally she arrived at the end. "3.069 seconds", a result rang out from a recording machine. " next ".

And so each test kept going on. After one hour, all of them finished testing.

The teacher was observing each performance, and he noticed Ashlyn. She obtained pretty good results, especially in the speed and reaction tests. Most of the students were a bit over the average, just a few were worthy of attention.

In the end the rankings were : speed, Evenson, 3.069s of 10m ; resistance, Jenlik,23.48m in 5 min ; strength, Hedgreen, 4.845kg ; reaction, Evenson, 10 out of 10 targets dodged.

" Well done Evenson, you have quite a nice result for your age! ". After he made a comforting speech for the other students, to incite them to put more effort. But in his mind, he was already getting his report to the higher-up, of the results. He was focusing on the dark haired student. She was exceptional with her speed and reaction. He reasoned that her reaction score was the highest since her speed was high too. Maybe, with some training she would excel on all the other abilities. All sorts of training plans were emerging from that teacher's mind. In fact he was quite excited to have found a precious student of his subject.

The display was showing those numbers '10:30'. " It's break timeeeeeeee !!! ", all the class went into an uproar as they saw the time. " let's go to the canteen Esm ", " i'm coming, wait for me! ". Lyn, nodded, while taking out a violet lunchbox from her school bag. They walked to the dining hall, with a few friends. While chatting, they arrived in front of the glass door. After the usual identity check was done, they stepped in and took a seat. In the canteen there were about a hundred tables, a space of five meters divided by each one. On the table, on each spot, there was a screen, where they could order their snack or simply eat their own. A black conveyor was silently delivering the boxes of snacks.

Esme took a small brown box from it and opened it. There was a small cake, with fresh pieces of fruit on it. " It's a healthy and worries-free treat !". Her friend glanced at her snak, then looked back at her oww. Well, she knew that Esm's parents were doctors, and in particular her mother was obsessed with healthy and natural food. So her child was clearly showing her care for food. Ashlyn shrugged her shoulders and happily bit on her crunchy pastries filled with a soft cream. She loved the sweet tasting food. She just enjoyed eating, in fact when she discovered this joy, she became very picky on the flavor of each dish. At home, her parents called her a future gastronome.

The time passed quickly, it was already the last hour of lessons. Just ten minutes before the end, the teacher announced the news. " Dear students, tomorrow a new friend here, please welcome him warmly tomorrow ! ".