Off to work

You do as you are told and grab yourself a nice salad and a coke 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 fifteen 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?"

"Loud and clear."

"Go."

Running, swimming, climbing, and even a little bike ride, you race the course as fast as your new legs will carry you, clearly you aren't close to your old strength, but once you get the hang of how your new body moves you find yourself gaining on and even passing several other runners. Eventually you finish, and about a minute later he calls out, "Time." With only one clearly out of shape man not finishing. "Next race in ten. For this course you will wear a pack filled with 30% of your body weight." You get on the line, put on your pack, and get ready. Once all runners are in place, he yells, "Go."

The obstacle course is much harder than the run, and several times you nearly quit, but you stick it out and run across the finish line hearing him yell, "Time." About seven seconds after you plop down on a chunk of wood that suddenly looks like the most comfortable seat ever.

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. A few minutes later a rather tough looking but very attractive woman, easily 5'10" with the build of an athlete, yet with clearly taped down breasts that you can't help but wonder the size of, walks up to you and hands you a water bottle, "Nicely done. When I saw you at the beginning I was sure you would fail, you surprised me."

You take a big gulp and say, "So you figured you should come over and insult me, then make it better with a back handed compliment?"

She laughs, "Yeah I'm kind of a bitch that way. Names Nadia, if you care." She sits down in front of you.

"Candy." You say back.

She laughs and says, "Wait your name is Candy and you are giving me shit for thinking you would fail. Let me guess, you were a stripper and prostitute on earth and got some rich client to set you up off world after you blackmailed him by threatening his wife."

Not sure how to answer you pull up your employment history the doc set up for you and find other than the **** she is exactly right. "Well there wasn't any ****, and I'm like dead broke." You answer.

You can tell she wants to keep laughing, but is holding back. Finally you can't look at her, don't laugh, face any longer and start laughing yourself. This gets her roaring till she rolls onto her back. "Candy, how about I buy you a drink?"