Lunch sounds good

You grab yourself a nice salad and an iced tea and find a nice place to eat and relax. Over the next two hours the other applicants filter in. Finally there is an alert on your Novacom that the test is in 15 minutes and to make your way out back to the staging area. Everyone, about twenty applicants, makes their way outside to be greeted by a middle aged man wearing a similar armored uniform as the guard you saw as you arrived on the planet.

"Welcome all. My name is Captain Montana. I will be evaluating all of you today. You will be required to pass two physical tests in order to be accepted into the training program." He points at a door to a small out building, "For the tests an armored wet suit, gloves and shoes are being provided, get changed." 5 at a time all of you go into the little room and put on the neck to ankle suit, it looks like lightly textured black latex that is rather loose fitting with a button at the neck that shrinks it skin tight, an armored patch concealing your naughty bits. The little shoes are padded but grippy with lots of traction, and the gloves seem armored but are very light. All in place your only skin showing is above the high collar. Once everyone is ready he yells. "Runners up to the line." He then taps his Novacom, "Set your com to link with test one... Good. Online. Route markers in place. 7 mile run, everyone receiving?"

"Yes sir."

"Go."

Running, swimming, climbing, and even a little bike ride, you race the course with ease, a tall lanky woman with buzz cut brown hair is the only one within 20 feet of you as you cross the line in front of the pack. Running past the captain he looks at you and says, "Nice work Alex. You will get a nice extra rest till the next run. When I call time put on the pack, it is 30% of your weight, then you have a one mile obstacle course and run. Again nice work."

"Sir." You drink down a bunch of water and walk around as you watch the rest finish.

"Time." He eventually calls out and the four people yet to finish have a look of dread on their faces, yet he waits till all are done before calling out, "Next race in ten." You get on the line, put on your pack, and get ready. "Go."

The obstacle course is much harder than the run, and sadly you don't repeat your number one finish as you come in past the girl that was behind you in the last race as well as the winner of this one, a 6' man with a head of bushy black hair. You will have to be happy with third, and a total of eleven pass the second race. Once all the racers are in the captain says, "Thank you all for coming out today. If you passed both races your name is entered at the hotel and your room is on us, we will call you in the morning. The rest of you, again thank you for coming, some of you will get a call due to other specific needs by the company. If you don't hear from us by the morning you can assume your abilities will not be required." He then gathers up his things and walks back inside.

All of you are sort of just left there in your armored wet suits looking around. The winner of the second race walks up to you and says, "Nice job on the first run you smoked me. The name is Vincent. Want to go get a coffee or something."

About a second later the second place runner in both races calls out from behind you, "Hey guys, I was thinking beer, if either of you are interested." Then, "Oh ya the name is Erin. I can't believe I got second twice, what bullshit." She says with a little laugh.