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cadets. However, they did have full-faced visors which each of the cadets had pulled down. Richard assumed they served the same purpose as his goggles.
    “Cadet 303,” said TAC Officer Myers. “I believe the best way to learn is through experience. Enter the holo-square.”
    As cadet 303 moved to a nearby ‘gate’ in the square, a utility vehicle with a large red cross surrounded by blue stars drove up and parked near TAC Officer Myers. Two medics got out carrying bags.
    “This is serious crap,” whispered a nearby cadet to her buddy.
    “You’ll go next, 422,” said TAC Officer Myers. “This is so obviously boring to you that you have to carry on a conversation with your buddy. You’ll go after her, 815, since you had the time to listen.”
    Neither Richard nor any of the other cadets said another word. As he watched 303 enter the holo-square, Richard noticed her training uniform took on the look of an actual wizard scout battle suit. He’d never seen a wizard scout in a full battle suit in real life, but he’d seen them in plenty of training videos, so he knew what they looked like. Cadet 303’s battle suit included a utility belt with a phase rod on her left side and what appeared to be a hand blaster on her right hip. Richard watched as she removed the blaster and looked at its battery indicator. She must have liked what she saw, because she placed it back in its holster. Next, she removed her phase rod and performed a function check. A meter long shaft of metal was thrust out of the handle, and small, red arcs of energy climbed up and down the shaft.
    It looks like a full-powered phase rod , Richard thought. What’s Myers up to?
    Richard didn’t have to wait long to find out. Through his ear plugs, Richard heard a series of howls. Richard looked at the far end of the holo-square. The distance did not appear to be limited to the actual physical thirty meters. Instead, Richard thought he could make out a dozen white shapes in the distance moving low to the ground and heading in 303’s direction. She saw them too. She ran to a shoulder-high boulder and quickly scrambled to the top. Cadet 303 then drew her blaster and stood facing the oncoming creatures. Richard thought she looked impressive standing defiantly on top of the boulder with a blaster in one hand and a phase rod in the other. The tight-fitting training uniform highlighted her feminine figure. Like all cadets, there wasn’t an ounce of fat on her. Two years of pre-Academy training had hardened her into a deadly killing machine.
    As the creatures drew closer, they took on form. They were all white except for their black noses and fiery-red eyes. They were about half a meter high at the shoulder, and they had six legs. While they weren’t huge creatures, Richard could see impressive fangs protruding from their open mouths. Every once in a while one of the creatures would raise its head in a blood-curdling howl. They approached 303 at a dead run. When they were about fifty meters away, she began firing her blaster. She dropped three of them quickly. The survivors started weaving in and out among each other as if they were trying to confuse her aim. Whether intentional or not, the tactic worked. Cadet 303 missed several shots before she was finally able to drop two more of the creatures. Then they were on her, gathering at the base of the boulder and jumping up to snap at her legs. She took out two more with the blaster before one of the creatures bit one of her legs and pulled her off the boulder. Cadet 303 slammed the creature in the head with her phase rod as they fell. Its yelp of pain cutoff abruptly as its head burst open in a spray of green liquid.
    Cadet 303 rolled as she hit the ground and made two quick swings with her phase rod as she gained her feet. Her strokes failed to connect with the fast moving creatures, but it did keep them at bay long enough for her to fire a round from her blaster. She hit one of the creatures in the chest