The Impossible Game ~~AVENGERS~~

~~CHAPTER THREE~~ REVENGE IN NEW YORK

"Pattern." She breathed out. "It's a pattern. And a bitch one too." The teen was recovering from the deep shock of electricity she faced earlier.

Lou moved and stepped on the same place JJ did. Studied the ground and the footprints on it. Instead of going left, Lou took a right and face planted when her knees gave out from the shock. After a few moments it stopped and she walked away.

This cycle repeated and the kids only made a little more progress. From what they could collect, the path followed no specific patterns and changed every hour. At 6:00pm a bell rang and the girls stopped what they were doing.

Bonnie's arms shook and the rest of them could barely walk. No one really complained though. They complained about a lot of things but training was not one of them.

They occasionally saw Rae throughout the week of training. She would observe how they did but only from afar.

By Thursday, everyone's wrist was raw. The girls we're lying in the mud thinking about how this exercise worked. They had been like that for close to an hour and it seemed like there was no answer.

Che had her eyes closed and was thinking about everything that Marina had said because everything was a clue. Know your limits.  The words repeated in her head over and over like a broken record player. Nothing clicked until-

"Oh My Gosh!" Che stood up and walked to the path. "Know your limits." She repeated. "I can't believe I didn't notice this."

The girls all looked at her with weird expressions. She took a step forward. "What time is it." She asked.

"Well, we started at 6 so I'd say about .  .  . noonish maybe 12:45?"

"Ok 12, that works." 12. She repeated. You have 12 spaces free.

She took a step forward again. Then another. 9 spaces later she was roughly 20 feet from the bell.

Che closed her eyes and braced herself.

"You got this," JJ whispered behind her. JJ had followed behind her silently and was also preparing to run.

"Ok." She dug her foot into the ground and ran forward. She kept getting shocked but ran through it. She slapped the bell and dropped to the ground. Her bracelet fell off and JJ fell next to her. Lou was running and Bonnie was right behind her.

"Congrats," Marina appeared in front of them. "Che you figured out the pattern!"

"Yeah," Lou stood up. "What was that again?"

"There was no pattern," JJ stood up. "There we're only boundaries. And we didn't see them at first."

"Every hour there were the same amount of free spaces as the hour itself. And the higher the number the higher the shock. The lower the number the lower the shock. All you had to do was learn your limits." Che turned her head to face Marina after giving her explanation.

"Very good. Now on to your next week of training." She turned around and walked out of the stables.

They stood in the rain and mud outside the barn. Each of them was holding a long stick and focusing on Marina.

"Now, this exercise requires complete and utter concentration." Thunder clapped in the distance and lightning lit up the sky. "As for the weather, you can't fight the best if you don't train at your worst."

Marina showed them the moves the first day. The second day they were told to remember them. The third day they needed to execute them perfectly. On day four every mistake they made resulted in a mile run. Day five consisted of sparing. If you lost you ran another mile. Day six was more sparing/running but occasionally Marina added something new. On day seven the girls were beat down but told to execute a stealth mission in Detroit before the big mission in New York.