Joining A Squad 2

A five minutes blue hologram countdown timer appeared in the air as well as a blue hologram direction pointer which led him to where the first task was going to start.

It took Dorian twenty seconds to get to his destination and as he got there the time paused. Mr. Patton's hologram popped up again giving Dorian a brief explanation of what the test is all about. "So Dorian, the first test is the intelligence test and all you just have to do is to figure out the password to the laptop…" he pointed gently to the laptop beside him, "based on the personality that will be explained to you," the hologram finished passing the information and faded into thin air again. At that time, Dorian finally noticed his surrounding. It was an open area with the early morning sun warming his skin. The only thing he could see around was the laptop placed at the center of the space and the holographic countdown timer which was showing him that he had less than four minutes left.

Dorian rushed immediately to the laptop as two robots floated towards him with a chair. The robot in the left side had green light all over it's head which looked slightly oval as well as its body, it's body was wider and longer than it's head. It's two thing hands lifted the chair on the right side. This robot had no light except for those on it's eyes and it's hand were bigger compared to the former.

Dorian sat down flexing his fingers and cracking his knuckles, he was prepared to make use of his intelligence when something popped up in his eyes,

'DO YOU NEED ANY HELP?'

It was a message from noid, "yeah, sure," Dorian replied after realizing that he wasn't exactly human, well at least his brain and mind wasn't. The personality of the laptop owner was displayed on a holographic screen and Dorian proceeded to giving instructions immediately. 'Okay I need quick guesses on what you think the password is,'

'THAT WOULD TAKE SOME TIME AS THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE RELATED TO THESE PERSONALITIES.'

The personalities which were displayed on the holographic screen were, 'curiosity, creative, impulsive, optimistic, cheerful, goal oriented.' "Sanguine," Dorian said out loud.

'How else am I suppose to deal with this?' Dorian questioned,

'ACTIVATING BUILD MODE'

'WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR FINGER TO BE USED AS A USB DEVICE?'

'what?... Uh, yes,' Dorian replied as everything became less understandable to him. Immediately, the sentence cleared and a human body outline which turned round slowly was displayed by noid. The body had it's index finger blinking a red light and at the same time, Dorian's index finger started changing slowly. Dorian looked at it in amazement and after the whole transformation was completed, his index finger was a USB.

Dorian immediately pushed his index finger into the USB port of the laptop and 'GETTING INFORMATION,' was displayed by noid and also a progress bar which was moving at a fast pace was displayed under it. The progress bar suddenly stopped at ninety two percent and 'DOWNLOAD PAUSED' was displayed, almost immediately, a notification popped up over the paused progress bar which showed incoming call from Amanda, "damn! Not now," Dorian said and picked up, "hey Amanda, now is not the best time, I'll call back later," he said and hung up as the download continued and was completed within seconds

The password, 'focused' was displayed by noid and Dorian typed it in immediately. The holographic time was now showing one minute thirty seconds left and the laptop unlocked at exactly a minute and thirty seconds. "Phew… who the heck uses 'focused' as their password. That was he'll," Dorian said as the holographic screen faded away now displaying the holographic shuffle board which shuffled between three squad names now, lightning, ninja squad and demon squad.

The shuffling suddenly stopped on demon squad after some seconds of names changing briskly which means he'll be doing the survivor test next.

The holographic pointer appeared in the air again showing Dorian where to go. This time, the count down timer didn't appear so he took his time before going for the next task.

He got to his destination after a long walk and found a swimming pool there. Mr. Patton's hologram appeared again and explained the next task to him. "So Dorian, as you can see, this is a pool that's over two hundred feet deep, I'm not sure if we can actually call that a pool any longer," Mr. Patton's hologram chuckled, "there's a treasure placed at the deepest part of the pool. All you have to do is bring it out. There won't be any time limit for this task and you'll be faced with an obstacle but remember… you are not completely human." The hologram faded away and Dorian was left alone to think about the last words the hologram said, "you are not completely human," it echoed over and over again in his head, he smiled and activated noid, "uh… do you have any idea on how I can breath under water for a long period and not run out of oxygen?"

'YES. I CAN PRODUCE OXYGEN IN YOUR BLOOD WHICH WILL MAKE BREATHING NOT NECESSARY FOR OXYGEN BEING ORESENT IN YOUR BLOOD.'

"Oh nice," Dorian said smiling

'ACTIVATING PRODUCTION OF OXYGEN,'

'PRODUCTION COMPLETED,'

"Good. By the way, I'll be using my sight more under water and the text might be interfering with my sight. Is there anything you can do about that?"

'ACTIVATING VERBAL COMMUNICATION'

'ACTIVATION COMPLETED'

'Hi Dorian, this is the first time I'll be speaking in a while, I hope my voice sounds okay?', noid said, "cool, now let's get down to business," he said and dived into the pool.

As he swam deeper into the pool, noid told him how deep he was in feet.

He was halfway through the pool and suddenly there was a vibration around him.

There was a heavy wave which pushed him towards a rock, "a rock? This is supposed to be a pool," Dorian was shocked. 'I've been trying to get information on the source of all this but I found nothing. I only have information on the location of the treasure,' noid said.

Slowly, aquatic plants started to appear and grow in seconds, the walls of the pool slowly changed into soil and rocks and the light in the pool became slightly dim.

After some seconds of trying to get himself together, he saw a shadow pass beside him, he swam further paying less attention to the shadow. He felt someone swim very fast by his side and he stopped and looked but no one was there so he decided to swim further but on moving, an uppercut was landed below his jaw which sent him few meters back. Dorian's head felt heavier and he became slightly dizzy, his sight was unfocused for some seconds before everything came back to focus and he saw what hit him. It was a robot. No, it was human he could see a face now as he looked closer, it was a human wearing a very highly modernized swimsuit with a lot of technology. "what the heck is this?" Dorian asked and swam further but another pinch flung towards his face which he dodged by a hair's breadth. Dorian was enraged now and he didn't hesitate.

'Noid, activate martial arts mode.' Dorian said to noid in his mind, most of his communication with noid are done in his mind. 'Alright Dorian,' noid replied.

Dorian charged at his opponent and threw a few punches but the other guy dodged effortlessly. The fighting was actually becoming tiring as they were fighting in the water and it wasn't easy moving in the water. Dorian charged again but the next punched landed with a thump on his cheek and Dorian flew and banged his back on the wall. Dorian got angrier by the minute and pushed himself with the wall and gained more momentum as he landed a heavy punch on his opponent but his fist went through as his entire body followed, a hit followed him which tossed him to the other side of the pool. "I sincerely do not understand this shit. How come he gets to hit me and I don't? I'm sure it's his stupid swimsuit," Dorian thought, 'not exactly, I got a signal from this person and turns out that's a hologram. You have been fighting with a hologram,' noid explained to Dorian, 'what?!' Dorian exclaimed, 'how is anyone in this world suppose to defeat a hologram?' Dorian questioned, 'its quite easy you see… all you have to do is just find it's source and destroy it,' noid replied, 'I'll need a little bit of help with that,' Dorian told noid. A red marking which zoomed the spot it had marked appeared in Dorian's eyes it showed a small projector-like device. Dorian smirked and dived at full speed towards the place, the hologram not understanding what was going on just watched Dorian as he passed it. Dorian got to the device and examined it, 'so all I have to do is destroy this thing,' Dorian thought, 'yes,' noid replied, Dorian reached for the device and pulled it out of the wall, he stared at it for some seconds before banging it to the wall. As the hologram dissolved into thin air, a huge wave in the water flung him towards the opposite wall and he was stuck there as the wave continued pushing him, it felt like releasing a whole dam through a small hole at a very fast speed. 'noid help me!' 'ok, deploying nanobots,' noid replied. Two nanobots came out of Dorian's hand sweat pores and was mixed with the water. They swam to the source of the wave and destroyed it by cutting some wires. 'seems like that's the way the hologram was able to hit you, by sending waves as punches, that's more logical,' noid said, 'yeah, yeah,' Dorian replied, 'back to business,' Dorian said and continued swimming till he got to the treasure which was nested deeper into the pool, this took him nearly forty five minutes to get to and about an hour and thirty minutes to swim back to the surface.