Glancing about, Onyx narrowed his eyes and mentally took note of each Cadet, which squad they were currently part of, and their associated application. Now pacing back and forth between the four squads with a heavy step, the Chief crossed his arms over his chest and spoke in a loud, insensitive voice. “You are not officers yet, so do not think you are not in danger of still failing. Do exactly what your squad leader says to the exact letter, do not deviate from the course and you will do fine, hopefully.” Without saying another word, Onyx turned his back and walked into the Police Headquarters, letting the door close behind him. There was a moment of silence from everyone as they let what Onyx had just said slowly sink in. The sounds of heavy diesel engines powering on roared through the area, three other armored vehicles painted in Police digital camouflage drove past Squad 66’s armored vehicle. Each armored vehicle pulled off and went in a separate way from the other, most likely heading to a different Ecosystem.  

Squad 66 was the last to pull out, they seemed to be heading for the city center, instead of an Ecosystem like the others. “First thing is first, the vehicle we are inside of is called a Lenco BearCat, which stands for Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck. There are quite a few variants of this vehicle which mostly the military gets to see and use. If we want, we can mount a weapon on top of it, there are slots for side port weapons and its top speed is one hundred miles per hour or one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour, depending on where you grew up.” The tiger named Joseph reached with his right paw towards the dashboard and grabbed onto his MP3 player, readjusting it so he could see its screen clearly without any glare. After placing it where it should have been in the first place, he scrolled through a massive list of songs until he found the one he was looking for. 

[youtube]https://youtu.be/guiadw5puFk[/youtube]
(Music he is playing in the BearCat.) 

“That is what I was looking for, no offense Cadets but I need some music when riding around with the new recruits, long story I rather not get into. Keep an eye out for anything suspicious, not that we are going to see anything of the sort, I hope.” Joseph kept his eyes on the road and would remain silent while they drove through the busiest part of the city. The rock music filled the BearCat as they kept driving, passing species of all types and sizes. Much to Lance’s surprise, they attracted very little attention besides a couple civilians that turned to look in their direction then went on with their day. It felt as if the sight of a heavily armored police vehicle driving through the city was nothing new for its occupants to see. He had been in such a trance of thought that he had failed to notice the female fox sit down and buckle herself in right beside him. At first, he remained silent, sitting up straight in his seat with his arms crossed over his chest. 

Everyone in his squad was a different species, everyone but the female fox that sat next to him. Instead of saying hello directly to her, he decided to introduce himself to everyone in the squad. Putting on his silver glazed aviator glasses, he quickly broke the silence.  “Hello everyone, my name is Lance Arion, you can call me Lance, and I am looking forward to working with all of you and making new friendships.” Lance felt his heart race in his chest, making his breaths come and go faster than usual. A couple moments later, the BearCats police radio came to life, none other than Onyx who spoke in his same, cold tone of voice. “Joseph, we have had a situation with squad 36, I am calling back all Cadets to the Headquarters. Raven Squad has arrived and they will be taking care of the situation at hand. How copy, over?” Joseph, took a very sharp turn to the left which made Lance grab onto his seat belt straps to keep himself from bumping into someone either on his left or on his right. 

“Sorry Cadets, change of plans, seems like things are moving faster than we had anticipated. A word of advice, since you are new here and do not understand how things work, don’t ask too many questions and stay away from Raven squad, they are special operation soldiers from the military. Absolutely irresponsible and gun happy, I have seen them flip a helicopter in midair while above a heavily occupied city square. The helicopter was also fully armed and carrying a wounded VIP. Somehow they managed to land the helicopter at its designated location with the rear rotor broken off.  The VIP was secured and the mission was passed with flying colors. As impressive as it was, they are very reckless, do not get involved with them or the chief will be extremely upset.” It did not take long for them to return to the Headquarters, all but one of the BearCats were there. 

“Hey, weren’t there four Bearcats? Only three have shown up here, including ours.” Joseph was quick to respond, “There was an incident, we have Raven squad on the move to take care of it and bring them back, nothing to worry your heads about, now get out of my Bearcat and wait for me inside of the Headquarters.” The tiger left the Bearcat and quickly made his way into the Headquarters, not waiting for anyone else to leave the vehicle. “What’s his rush? Come on, let’s move.” Unlatching his seatbelt, he stood up and opened the large doors on the back of the vehicle. “I think we should hustle it and do what our squad leader says.” Lance glanced around at his squad mates, his eyes falling upon the female fox. Quickly, he broke eye contact with her and looked in the direction of the Police Headquarters.