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me remember.”
    Derek said, “Tell me what you mean.”
    “S is for scanners, C is for camouflage, A is for armor, N is for fleet network, E is for escape, which is the teleportation circuit, and D is for data download.” Mitch looked at the class making changes and said, “Now instead of having to say ‘Activate Scanners’ you simply say the letter S. I also use the letter A in front of each of these commands. To activate the scanners for a full scan of the surrounding terrain I say, ‘AS1’. Remember that the first choice in the secondary menu of the scanners is a full terrain scan. AS2 is a scan of the sky above your position. AS3 will scan for the location of the warriors under your command. I’ve set up all the menus to work with this system.”
    Derek stared at Mitch and said, “How did you learn about this circuit?”
    “I’ve been in the armory every morning at 5AM working with the helmets and suit systems.”
    Derek smiled, “Would you mind a little company?”
    Mitch shook his head and, “I’ll show you what I’ve learned.”
    Derek said, “I don’t know that I would have given up this advantage if I were in your place.”
    “And what would you have felt if you learned I had been killed in combat?”
    Derek slowly nodded, “I would have wondered if I hadn’t withheld this if it might have prevented it happening.”
    Mitch nodded, “Not only to you but also to your Warriors.”
    Major Dinter said, “Let’s move on shall we. We need to go over the camouflage capability of your armor.”
    • • •
    The next morning, the entire class was in the armory at five a.m. and Mitch started teaching them what he had learned. Going into the last week, Mitch was fourth in the class’s standings.
    • • •
    Pixie moved into the jungle and activated her shoulder cannon. She was being pursued by six experienced Scout Warriors and they were closing in quickly. Four of them were moving in front of her as two were following her from behind. The assignment was to avoid capture or being hit by a weapon without having to take out any of the pursuers with her weapons. She realized that she was going to have to do that to escape. The deductions would go against her score but better to have a deduction than to fail the test. She stopped and thought, “I wonder how Mitch would get out of this mess?” She knew the Scouts could see her scans and they were only scanning infrequently to avoid her being able to target them.
    Suddenly she knew. She activated her armor’s support system and rechanneled the atmospheric system to her leg jets. She stepped up the pumps and brought the pressure in the leg jets up to maximum levels. She moved out between two trees and found a clear path up through their branches and hit the thrusters moments before the Scouts arrived. She flew out of the jungle and followed a trajectory over the scouts into the jungle behind them. The landing was hard because air doesn’t have the thrust of fuel. She moved forward and came up on the six scouts gathered, where she had just jumped.
    “Where did she go?”
    “She was right here a moment ago.”
    The six looked up in the trees and the leader said, “I don’t want to use a scanner and let her know where we’re located.”
    Suddenly all six were hit by an extremely bright light from overhead. The Command circuit said, “You have been eliminated from the exercise. A beam from space has been called in to your position and you have been killed.”
    Pixie stepped out of the Jungle and smiled, “Would you like to try it again?”
    The Scout Lieutenant slowly shook his head, “Not without knowing how you escaped.”
    Pixie shook her head, “The problem with relying on scanners instead of our normal senses is that our hearing is muffled. I pumped atmosphere into my leg jets and boosted out. You didn’t hear it because our armor muffles out loud noises to protect our hearing. That’s great in full combat operations but when pursuing