735090 loved to sleep. He was a big fan of resting in general - people around him were quiet and he had the time to think. But in this accursed military organizations, everybody had to wake up at 5 in the morning, dress up into those awful shirts with high collars and tall leather boots, which maybe were good for protection, and looked all fancy and official, especially since everybody wore the same thing, but they made a horrible racket every time he even as little as twitched. He was just glaring at his breakfast - porridge again, oh damn it - as he stuffed his mouth with it. These little formalities... Oh, he couldn't wait to get to the shooting practice. He's gotten rather good at long-range sniping especially... It was quiet and stealthy, just how he liked to do things.<br/><br/>But his enjoyment was broken by the sharp sound of Colonel Sen's voice. Sighing, he put the gun down, locking the safety, and hurried towards the colonel, dusting the green-gray uniform off. Standing next to his fellow (mute) human enhancement subject, issued with the number 836259, he saluted the one-head-taller Colonel, ferociously pushing himself to the front of the group. There was about twenty of them in here... What was a lot in his opinion. Good thing they were all trained so well!<br/><br/>He has always admired the high-ranking officers. Colonel Sen was one of the highest-positioned people he ever was in contact with, and he was almost annoyingly loyal to the man. He didn't come to see them often once they were past their first awakening, but when he did, 735090 was going crazy. It was almost the same with all the other high-positioned officers... Once, General Sira came to take a look at them. Boy, did he go completely off the chain in formalities and showing off!<br/><br/>But it appeared that the Colonel wasn't really happy about them grouping around him and saluting. He gave Major Caldwell by his side a short glance, at what the man just shrugged -<span style="font-style: italic">This is your job, I can't do anything about it</span>- and shifted his head aside, pretending to be studying the ceiling of the premise. "Calm down." Sen gestured for them to keep quiet and stop moving around. "Six of you have been, by the orders of General Sira, issued for a Chimera extermination mission." he read out the numbers of those that were meant to stay, and ordered the rest to return to their practice. "You will not be participating in any training with other subjects for the rest of the day. We are leaving this evening for the Northwestern Central district under the lead of Second Lieutenant Free, Lieutenant Bates, and myself. That is all. You are dismissed. Major Caldwell, lead them out. You got the orders." he spoke, all traces of his casual personality disappearing. He didn't let anyone ask him questions, he didn't let anyone speak. Just exited the shooting practice right after finishing his speech, turning on his heel and leaving.<br/><br/>And 735090 was bursting with joy. He was among those six chosen, along with the mute girl next to him, and several others, and he couldn't wait to get onto that extermination task. He will show just how capable and skilled he is, he'll make those chimeras into dust!<br/><br/>Major Caldwell saluted to Sen on his way out, and then turned to the six subjects that have been issued for the extermination task. "The six of you... I will be giving you orders until the beginning of the transportation, which will be..." He looked down at the watch on his wrist, and frowned a little. "In five hours. Until then, everything has to be secured. Anyone that will not be prepared for the task will receive punishment. That is, if you'll come back. You know how it is with chimeras." he explained, shrugging at his last sentence, and gestured for them to follow him out of the shooting range.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>In the meantime, Lieutenant Bates has made her way to one of the offices on the upper level of the enormous building. She saluted the officer behind the table that sat there, and handed him the orders that she received early in the morning.<br/>"Good morning, Lieutenant Bates. The chimera extermination with the experiment subjects, am I right?" he asked her, sliding the glasses up his nose. She nodded. "Exactly. I need six large-caliber riffles and the usual equipment delivered to them. Under the orders of Colonel Keane, who is leading the entire extermination."<br/>"Who?"<br/>"Colonel Sen." Erza rolled her eyes over.<br/>"Ahh, I see. I will get them ready in no time." he assured her.<br/>"And if you see him before I do, inform Second Lieutenant free to get on the spot."<br/><br/>It looked like he was also going... Two officers for three subjects was a rather casual rate, was it not?