Before the Storm

The next day, Alexis stood in the training facility wearing her sleek black Fort Tempest top secret uniform. Shawn had told her to be there at 0800 but considering how out of shape she was she decided to get there early to make up for sucking so bad. However at 0715, Shawn, or rather Colonel Turner, was already there and looked like he had been there for a few hours. He was drenched in sweat while he sprinted along the track.
“Hey, Alexis!” he shouted as he came around the track, “Why don’t you do some warm up exercises while I finish up here? I’ve still got five miles to go. I didn’t expect you so early!”
Alexis winced and thought, ‘I don’t think I’ve ever sprinted five miles in my life, let alone all at once! I hope he doesn’t make me do that today…’ She looked down at her soft, malleable muscles and sighed.

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Shawn did not make her sprint five miles that day, but he did make her jog two. He also taught her punching and kicking techniques and made her practice them for three hours. They had a short break for lunch. Alexis was hoping they would walk down to the cafeteria to give her some extra rest time, but Shawn had a hearty meal of steak, steamed vegetables, fruit salad, rolls, and tall glasses of milk delivered to the training room instead.
After she all but downed the entire glass of milk and was chewing thoughtfully on a roll, she said, “I understand that I should be in better physical shape for the stress of going back in time, but I won’t need to actually hit people, will I?”
“Truth be told, I don’t know what sort of things we’ll run into there.”