Legend of the Annihilator CH 5 Is it cold or is it just me?
Dream sequence to when he was much younger:
'Matthew stares at the closet in fear from his bed. His bedroom is pitch dark with the only light coming through his window from the streetlight outside. He holds his police cap with a death grip as he stares at the gaping closet. Inside the dark closet, stands there like a stone face opening its mouth, slowly opening its doors to show him something scary. A thunderstorm is brewing outside, blowing the tree branches causing a few to scratch up against his window. It was no help for him that the branch scratching made it worse for Matthew, setting the mood as if he was in a horror movie and he was the victim. Whatever was inside his closet was a monster waiting to pounce on Matthew and eat him in one gulp. Lightning flashes, illuminating the room, followed by the clapping sound of thunder causes Matthew to jump and throw his covers over his head. He squeezes his police cap to his chest. After a while Matthew musters enough courage and peeks out of the safety of his blanket at his closet. The darkness from the closet stares back at Matthew, as if there was something staring right back at him. "MOMMY!" Matthew screams, panicking. The closet door begins to slowly open. "MOMMY!" Matthew screams much louder this time. Seconds later his mouth falls agape as he stares at the closet in the closet door abruptly stops and red eyes appear, glaring at Matthew. Matthew screams and throws his pillow at the red eyes, angering it even more. The red eyes growl and approach Matthew. Lighting strikes again, illuminating the room, revealing a demon hound covered in blood and scars but what caught Matthews eye the most was it's chest. It's rib cages were torn open and Matthew could see it's insides moving. Thunder booms across the dark stormy sky as Matthew screams more for help but to no avail. Suddenly the beast leaps towards Matthew and bites down on his neck, he screams and starts to fall backwards.' Matthew jolts forward with his eyes bursting open. Matthew pants as he looks around his room. The thunderstorm is still raging outside. The closet door is now closed and looking less ominous. Matthew calms down and looks towards his digital alarm clock. "1:30 AM, 11/25/2011" The clock reads. Matthew sighs and looks down. "It's only a nightmare." Matthew mumbles. Muffled yelling is then heard from Matthew's door. Matthew looks towards the door, trying to make out the muffled yelling but it was no use. He throws his blanket to the side and grabs his police cap off his nightstand and puts it on for courage, He slowly tiptoes to his door and ever so slowly opens it. The yelling gets louder and Matthew can make out the voices. 'It's Daddy and Nikolas yelling!' Matthew realizes as he tiptoes down the stairs and up against the wall facing the kitchen entrance, listening in on their argument.
"WHY DID YOU SLAP THE KID FOR!" dad yells.
"THAT KID WAS BULLYING MATTHEW AND I GAVE HIM WHAT HE DESERVES!" Nikolas retorts.
"BY SLAPPING HIM?!" dad yells.
"YEAH!" Nikolas roars.
""I told you that I would confront Matthew's bullies AND YOU GO AHEAD AND SLAP THEM IN THE FACE!`` Dad roars accusingly.
"AND YOU SAID YOU WOULD CONFRONT THEM THE DAY BEFORE AND BEFORE THAT DAY AND THE WEEK BEFORE AND MONTHS BEFORE AND YOU STILL DID NOTHING! NOTHING! I did what's right and now you are accusing me as a criminal?!" Nikolas rebukes.
"I work 8 hours a day and 7 days a week for this Cafe to earn us the money we need to survive while your mom is in Afghanistan fighting a war and -"
"NOT THIS BULLSHIT SPEECH AGAIN!" Nikolas yells, cutting his dad off.
"It's not just you working 24 hours for your shity cafe! IT'S ME AS WELL! I go out there in a suit and tie to those bitches and pretend to be a butler. Destroying my dignity as I put up a happy face and repeat the same words over and over! "Hello! Welcome to Yamamoto's Cosplay Cafe. I'm Nikolas Yamamoto, your butler!" And "This way Madam or Ladies." and "How may I take your friggin' order?!" Whilst you get to stay in you're shity kitchen and shy away from my humiliation!" Nikolas rants.
Yuta stays silent.
"What else? Oh yeah, I got one. YOU CAN'T EVEN ACT LIKE A FATHER FIGURE WHEN MATTHEW IS IN NEED OF HELP BECAUSE OF THOSE FUCKING BULLIES! OH! AND DON'T FORGET! I HEARD YOU TELLING MATTHEW THAT THE BULLIES WILL STOP SOMEDAY. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! THOSE BULLIES WANTED MATTHEW OUT OF THE SCHOOL COMPLETELY, SO I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD'VE LEFT MATTHEW ALONE!"
Matthew can tell through the dark that his father is ashamed and embarrassed because his head is hanging low. Nikolas looks as if he is about to beat him up from the way he is clenching his fists and his posture.
"And guess what? We have one of our cousins from America, who are coming here to help us run this SHIT SHOW OF A CAFE?! HE'S A FUCKING AMERICAN FOR FUCK SAKES! He's probably a racist southerner or a drug addict or... OR A DIRTY FUCKING WEEBO! AND-"
"ENOUGH!" their dad yells, shutting Nikolas up.
"This has nothing to do with your cousin, Micheal. He's got nothing to do with this and you don't even know him, so why are you judging him?!" their dad roars.
Nikolas stands there silent. Stunned at his fathers outburst.
"A fucking weebo, really? That's an American term and you watch American movies in english. So who is a Weebo now?" Yuta accuses.
Nikolas stays silent as he continues glaring at his father.
Matthew's dad sighs as he shakes his head, "Look, I know I haven't been a man of my word recently and have continued to ignore the fact that Matthew is getting bullied. But listen, I know you and Matthew miss Mom. Hell I do too, but our job is to do our best as a family without mom. We can't function as a family if you keep falling out of order!"
"Get to the point already!" Nikolas growls.
"What I'm saying is that firstly, you better fix your attitude right now and let me deal with Matthew's bullies! And secondly, I want you to focus on your school rather than Matthew's problems. And thirdly, give Micheal a chance. You haven't even met him before, so you don't know if he is bad." their dad snaps, followed by the lightning and thunder.
After Nikolas vents in anger, he breaks his gaze from his Father. Sighing to himself, "Alright then." Nikolas says softly in defeat.
"Now it's 1:35 in the morning. Go to bed. You have school tomorrow and I have to go to your brother's school tomorrow to settle this….situation."
"Fine," Nikolas says quietly, turning sharply towards the hallways and stomps towards his room.
Matthew jolts towards the stairs, trying to muffle his feet as well to no avail and is almost up the stairs until Nikolas calls his name. Matthew turns and faces Nikolas.
"What are you doing?" Nikolas asks.
"I- I- I was-" Matthew thinks of a lie quickly. "-I was just getting water." Matthew replies.
Nikolas eyeballs Matthew. "Really? With what cup?"
Matthew begins to sweat. He knows he is not good with coming up with lies. A few seconds passed and Matthew decided to tell the truth. "I had a nightmare. And I'm scared." Matthew finally peeps, his eyes downcasted to the floor.
Nikolas studies Matthew deciding what to do before sighing. "It's only a nightmare, Matthew. Come. I'll tuck you back in bed." Nikolas says softly.
Matthew nods relieved and turns back around to continue running back up the stairs. He scurries into his bedroom turning the light on with Nikolas following closely behind. Matthew climbs back into his bed and Nikolas tucks him in. As he turns to leave. "Wait!" Matthew cries. Nikolas turns around and eyes Matthew. "What?" he asks.
"There is something in the closet." Matthew points to the closet. Nikolas looks towards the closet and marches to it before abruptly opening the closet door revealing nothing but clothes. Nikolas searches around in the closet. Determining nothing is inside, he closes it and turns back to Matthew. "There is nothing but your clothes inside your closet. Do you have any other requests?" Nikolas asks. Matthew, not wanting Nikolas to leave yet, decides to ask him to sing.
"Can you sing me a goodnight song?" Matthew asks innocently.
"Again?" Nikolas replies annoyed. Matthew smiles and shakes his head yes. Nikolas sighs and says "Fine, let me think of a song first." Nikolas makes his way to Matthew's window and stares into the storm. He ponders to himself before finally he begins to sing softly.
"We are here in Manchuria, Hundreds of leagues away from the Homeland.
Under the red glow of the sunset, My comrade rests under a stone in a far-off corner of the field."
Time skip after Nikolas finishes the Lullaby.
Matthew sits on the bed, quite sad now because of Nikolas' lullaby.
"Why did his friend die in the end?" Matthew croaks.
"It's just a song, Matthew. It was written in 1905 about the Russo-Japanese war. It's a sad reality of war." He says as he sits on the edge of Matthew's bed.
"Young people are fooled into fighting a war for the old and are sent off to their war where these soldiers will befriend one another. Then when the enemy attacks, the friend you just made will most likely die whilst the old men in charge of our country get to sit around and not worry about the next enemy attack or the hells of war. That is the harsh reality of war, and we as a family in the homefront must always do our best, as mom fights in Afghanistan." Nikolas explains.
Matthew stays silent, taking everything in as Nikolas begins to leave.
"Wait!" Matthew blurts.
"What again?" Nikolas annoyingly asks.
"Why is life so harsh?" Matthew asks.
"Because life's a bitch, that's why." Nikolas rudely explains turning back around.
"What's a Bitch? Matthew asks, confused."
"Nevermind that, It's 2 in the morning, now go to sleep." Nikolas says turning the light off and shutting the door leaving Matthew all alone. He sighs and places his hat back on his nightstand before laying back down on his bed and falling asleep.
End of Matthew's Dream
Matthew begins to stir. Feeling like shit he slowly opens his eyes and is immediately greeted by the bright light pouring in from the ceiling.
"He's awake!" Ichika exclaims from somewhere beside him.
Quickly, Matthew feels like he is being surrounded by an unknown amount of figures. With his eyes still shut closed, he slowly begins to open them. Adjusting to the light, he sees Ichika. Houki standing to him, and lastly, Rin. Rin caught Matthew's eye the most as she is wearing a cast signed with a bunch of names on her left arm. Rin sheepishly smiles and waves with her right hand upon noticing Matthew is looking right at her. Matthew rips his gaze from Rin and looks back at Ichika and groggily asks "Where am I?"
"You're in the Infirmary. You fractured 2 ribs from the explosion brought on by Rin's Dragon Cannon. You've been out for almost 2 weeks." Ichika explains.
"What?!" Matthew exclaims.
"Yeah, but during the match, you also ended up breaking Rin's left arm." Ichika adds on as he points across towards the cast on her arm.
"Wait! Explain to me what happened after I cut one of Rin's cannons in half." Matthew asks, trying to make sense of the new information.
"Well, right after you struck Rin's Dragon cannon with your lightsaber, ie beame overloaded. It ended up exploding, knocking you and Rin out and you both sustained your injuries. Seconds after that explosion, a mysterious unmanned I.S broke through the Barrier. It was trying to kidnap you, but the JSDF and the other teachers stopped the thing from escaping with you. Fortunately that unknown I.S was busy kicking everybody's asses so that we were able to bring you to safety." Ichika explains.
"Yea, the I.S destroyed one of the JSDF'S helicopters that was flying over the arena creating another big hole in the arena's barrier and it took down 25 of the teachers. It destroyed 8 of the I.S units the teachers were using, whilst severely damaging 3 of the units. Then Ichika and I came and saved the day. I destroyed the I.S with a big explosion." Cecilia adds.
"The U.S. blames China for the kidnapping but China denies the U.S. accusation, quote on quote "China has no need to kidnap the Annihilator since China is more advanced in I.S. technology than the Americans." Cecilia adds on, rolling her eyes.
"There are also rumors that the attack was led by an unknown terrorist group... but I don't believe in it really. I think China led the kidnapping because the Chinese are too afraid to admit defeat." Cecilia concludes, glaring at Rin who glares back.
Matthew takes everything in before asking. "So, who won the match then?"
"Nobody won." Ichika answers.
Matthew looks at ichika with a confused face. "What do you mean nobody won?"
"The match was a draw since both you and Rin, knocked eachother out. To top it all off, the unknown I.S. came along and damaged the Arena even more to the point it will be closed for several months for repairs." Ichika explains.
"But I think you should have won the match because you had more shield energy left than Miss Huang over here... but the damn I.S Academy is too afraid to officiate that you won and risk angering the Chinese students." Cecilia adds. Both Rin and Cecilia give eachother death glares until Matthew interrupts the two.
"Well...at least that's over with." Matthew chuckles but abruptly stops and places a hand on his chest feeling a sharp pain spreading across.
"Owwww!" Matthew weakly says in pain.
"Are you okay?" Ichika asks in a concerned voice.
"No, it fucking hurts!" Matthew replies in a horse voice.
As Matthew says this, the school nurse comes from behind Houki and Ichika. She shoves them out of the way as she approaches Matthew.
"It's the anesthesia. It's wearing off." The nurse concludes. The Nurse grabs Matthew's arm and flips it over revealing Matthew's wrist. She quickly injects a shot into Matthew before pulling it out and wrapping his wrist in a bandaid. "That was Morphine by the way. You're lucky my husband found you in safety. You were barely breathing, otherwise you could have died later on that day." The nurse says softly.
"Thank you." Matthew shows appreciation to his nurse as his pain slowly dissipates. "Is your husband a doctor as well?" Matthew asks.
"No, he's a Combat Medic in the JSDF. He has combat experience from South Korea and knew you had to be evacuated to the Toyama City hospital. Turns out you have 2 broken ribs." the nurse replies.
"Did I get surgery done?" Matthew asks.
"No. The ribs aren't that damaged to the point it needs surgery so you stayed in the Toyama city hospital for about a week until Sunday when they transferred you back here to I.S Academy for better protection." The nurse answers.
"Oh. That's good to hear. At least I didn't get surgery." Matthew gleefully says.
"Indeed! Or you would still be in the Toyama City Hospital hooked up to a ventilator." The nurse concludes, forcing a smile on her lips.
"I see you're finally awake Matthew." A voice floats from behind Ichika and Houki.
Everybody in the room turns to the door and sees Chifuyu and Miss Yamada standing there.
"Miss Orimura you're finally here! As you can see Yamamoto is wide awake." The nurse says as she turns and faces Chifuyu and slightly bows.
Chifuyu and Miss Yamada bow before Chifuyu spoke "I can see that. Thanks for notifying me that he finally woke up."
"No problem. I'm just doing my job." The nurse replies.
"Now I need everybody in the room to leave at once. I have confidential information concerning Yamamoto and his I.S." Chifuyu states in her authoritarian-like voice.
Everybody nods in acknowledgement and begins to leave with the nurse ushering them out.
"Huang, stay here." Chifuyu suddenly says, putting her arm in front of Rin."
Everybody except Chifuyu, Miss Yamada, and Matthew are left in the Infirmary.
"Don't you have something to say Rin?" Chifuyu asks in her normal voice.
Rin turns and faces Matthew who stares at her curiously. Rin closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before opening her eyes and begins to speak. "Matthew Yamamoto, I am deeply sorry for my actions and for what I have said to you for the first week I've known you for. I was ordered by the government to resent you and declare war on you on my first day here. I was also pressured by my government to defeat you in the class league tournament to ensure my country's place in the I.S technological world. It is one of the main reasons why I had sent you the letter saying that I will kick your ass two mornings before the match. I am deeply sorry for using your brother's death as a way to demoralize you during our match. I understand that you may never forgive me and will forever resent me but I am truly sorry." RIn then deeply bows apologetically to Matthew before straightening back up.
"It's ok. I accept your apology. I too was pressured by my government to win the match but at least it was a draw. Now we can forget our past and forget what side of the war we are on and finally become friends." Matthew responds. Both Matthew and RIn smiled at one another before Chifuyu spoke up. "I'm glad you two are now friends. You rarely see this happen in the I.S academy nowadays." The room falls silent again. The tension in the air slowly dissipated as a friendly atmosphere took over.
"Now that's out of the way, Haung, I need you to leave the room at once. I have confidential information concerning Yamamoto's I.S."
Rin nods her head in acknowledgement and leaves the room, closing the door behind herself as she leaves.
"Miss Yamada, see to it that nobody is listening from behind the door." Chifuyu orders.
Miss Yamada makes her way to the door and opens it revealing nobody. She then looks both ways down the hall for extra measures before shutting the door closed and walks back to Chifuyu. "Nobody is at the door. The Hall is completely clear." Miss Yamada reports.
"Good. Now Yamamoto, your I.S is in critical condition and is in need of new parts, but luckily Doctor Thompson foresaw this and has sent in new replacement parts as well as 4 engineers and 2 specialists to repair your I.S. The new parts as well as the 4 Engineers and 2 specialists arrived here 2 days after the match between you and Rin. They have already begun repairing your I.S since that day." Chifuyu states.
"May I see it then?" Matthew asks.
"Miss Yamada?" Chifuyu begins.
"Already on it." Miss Yamada replies, fidgeting with her tablet before handing it to Matthew who takes it. On the screen shows CCTV footage of Matthew's I.S being worked on by the 4 engineers as they weld metal to the right leg and the 2 specialists typing away on the computer. "Your I.S Shield glitched when Rin struck you with her Dragon cannon though. That's why you have two broken ribs." Chifuyu states.
"Why though? The I.S is supposed to protect the Pilot at all costs, right?" Matthew asks, confused.
"The I.S is supposed to protect the user from all attacks but your I.S is different." Chifuyu responds.
"Different? How exactly? Matthew asks again.
"I don't know. All that Doctor Thompson told me is that your I.S is in it's prototype stage and that it's still undergoing bug fixes and upgrades as we speak." Chifuyu answers.
"Oh. Well that makes sense." Matthew sighs as he glances back at his I.S on Miss Yamada's tablet."
"What about Rin's I.S? How badly damaged is it?" Matthew asks.
"You destroyed it." Chifuyu bluntly answers matter of factly.
"I DID WHAT?!... Then why was the match concluded as a draw if I destroyed her I.S?" Matthew exclaims.
Chifuyu and Miss Yamada glance at one another for a few seconds. Deciding what to do before Chifuyu answered again. "The school is too scared to admit who won since they fear the students may demonstrate their anger like they did the day before your match with Rin. So in the end, the school decided that your match will be concluded as a draw since both you and Rin knocked eachother out." Chifuyu explains.
Matthew takes everything in again before asking another question. "I'm assuming during our match, her arm broke when I overloaded her Dragon cannon?"
"Precisely." Chifuyu answers.
"Will she be getting another I.S then?" Mathew asks another question.
"Yes. The Chinese Government has stated that they will be sending Rin another I.S as soon as they finish rebuilding it." Chifuyu replies.
"I see." Matthew sighs as he goes into a deep thought. Although he was soon interrupted once again by Chifuyu. "Now as far as you are missing classes for the past two and a half weeks, all your assignments are due until the beginning of summer."
"WHAT?!" Matthew exclaims in disbelief.
"Your late work is due till the beginning of this summer. More work will be assigned and delivered by whoever volunteers to bring it to you." Chifuyu answers again, unfazed by his outburst.
"Oh come on!...How much work do I have exactly?" Matthew asks defeatedly.
"I don't know but I Imagine you have a lot so get some sleep for tomorrow. You'll need the energy to get those assignments started." Chifuyu begins to leave the room with Miss Yamada following suit. Matthew is left alone to think to himself before ultimately falling asleep.
The Next Day
Matthew's P.O.V
"*Gasp* MATTHEW! YOU'RE FINALLY AWAKE!" A familiar voice yells.
Matthew turns his gaze from his phone and glazes towards the door. He sees Tatenashi running full speed with her arms open to embrace Matthew. "OH SHIT! NOT AGAIN!" Is all that Matthew can think and then SLAM! Tatenashi embraces Matthew's head against her chest whilst rubbing her face in Matthew's hair. "REEEEEEEEEEE! MY SPACE! DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT PERSONAL SPACE IS?!" MAtthew yells as he attempts to push Tatenashi off to no avail and ultimately gives up. "Why are they so soft?" Matthew thinks to himself, half enjoying it and feeling his dignity fade away. After a while, Tatenashi finally lets go and stands next to Matthew.
"Jeez, don't you know what personal space is?" Matthew scolds Tatenashi, trying to sound upset but isn't.
"Gasp! How could you say that? I was simply showing you how much I missed you for the past 2 and a half weeks!" Tatenashi replies in a shocked and innocent tone.
Matthew stays silent, feeling as if he is the wrong one and not Tatenashi.
"Well you could have done that in many other ways that don't include hugging me. That is just embarrassing." Matthew whines like a little kid.
'And besides its just wrong for somebody who's not family to hug somebody especially if the person is of the opposite sex.' Matthew mentally thinks to himself.
"Oh really? Like how?" Tatenashi asks, crossing her arms.
"Ermm like...ermm... You could have said hello and told me how you missed me the normal way." Matthew stammers making things up.
Tatenashi just eyeballs him before smirking to herself. "Oh really? Like... this?!"
Tatenashi then jumps into Matthew's bed, surprising him. Tatenashi then pulls Matthew into a big hug and accidentally touches Matthew's broken rib causing him to yelp in pain.
"Matthew?" Tatenashi exclaims, quickly jumping off Matthew as he clenches ribs.
"God dammit! I told you to never-" Matthew stops in mid sentence as he looks at Tatenashi.
She has a look of innocence and sadness like an innocent young girl with a look of guilt and apologetic when she did something bad. Matthew, feeling something cold stab the back of his back, feeling even more guilty for erupting like he did a few seconds ago. He decides to let it all go and forgive Tatenashi. He inhales and exhales deeply, "Sorry. I didn't mean to go off like that. Just don't do that again, ok." Matthew says softly.
Tatenashi nods her head in agreement and quickly apologizes which Matthew accepts. They both stay silent in the room. Tatenashi is watching the wall mounted T.V and biting her lip and Matthew looking at his phone. 5 minutes later, they are still ignoring each other, both afraid to strike up a conversation until Tatenashi decides to bite the bullet and be the ice breaker in this situation. "Oh yea! I just remembered that I have brought all of your homework from all your classes. Isn't that splendid?!" Tatenashi says in a cheery tone.
"No." Matthew bluntly answers. "How much do I have exactly?" Matthew asks.
"Ermm... not a lot but I'll let you decide on that." Tatenashi then takes out a folder out of her book bag and gives it to Matthew who has a look of shock and disbelief. Matthew grabs the folder and opens it and immediately feels sick as he scans through the papers. Matthew slowly closes the folder and looks towards Tatanashi who has a curious face. "This is going to take me a long time to do." Matthew announces, causing Tatenashi to laugh.
Six weeks pass after that and Matthew has finally recovered and is able to leave the infirmary for the first time in six weeks. How will Matthew's first day back be welcomed and Breaking news from the feature, We have a new male student what? I mean Let's hurry up and get back to the story so I may see who this new character is shall we?
Date: 5/18/2020
Time: 7 30 Am
Matthew, Ichika, Houki, Rin and Ceclia are currently walking down the hall to class.
"So Matthew! Did you hear the news yet?" asks Rin, changing the current topic the group was talking about.
"News? What news?" asks Matthew confused.
"That the Vice President Jiang Xiayu is suddenly resigning." Rin explains.
"Jiang Xiayu? Isn't she that Chinese 3rd year Honors student that excels at everything?" Matthew Inquires.
"Yea. She is also the one who calmed the student population down when the war started back in 2017. At the time, she was serving as the Student Council President. When the war broke out, the Chinese students began harassing the American students because of what the Americans did in the Chinatowns in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Then the Americans started to harass and beat up the Chinese students to the point the JSDF had to intervene due to Bloody Saturday." Rin states.
"Bloody Saturday? What's that?" Ichika questions.
"Bloody Saturday was big news in China during the first week of February in 2018. It was when the Chinese students of the I.S Academy began demonstrating their anger because of how the American students destroyed the Chinese New year festival. But to everybody's shock, the American students as well as other students began throwing rocks, glass and water balloons that were mixed with hot sauce, raw eggs and food coloring inside them, at the Chinese students. This caused a big fight that the JSDF to intervene again." Rin Explains.
"The teachers did nothing about it!" Exclaims Matthew.
"The teachers did but it wasn't enough to stop the fighting though." Rin answers.
"Wow.." Matthew sighs in disappointment. "What else happened?"
"Well, after that incident, Former President Jiang Xiayu gave her famous speech titled 'A peaceful I.S academy.' In which she won the hearts of many people around the world and successfully stopped the fighting in the Academy." Rin Explains.
"Damn! She sounds like a good person then!" Adds Ichika, getting a nod of agreement from both Matthew and RIn.
"Yea. To top that off, when her 2nd term as President of the I.S academy ended, people wanted her to run again but she declined stating that "I have done my part as president of the I.S academy. As president of the I.S academy, my mental health has declined due to many problems in the academy concerning the clubs and the delinquents. With more problems starting out, I can not solve them nor make an appearance all the time. I have no choice but to not to run again as president of the I.S academy. Thank you." Rin states.
"I'm guessing Tatenashi was her successor then." adds Matthew ending the topic.
"I've also heard that President Sarashiki (Tatenashi) and Vice president Jiang Xiayu are really good friends." Cecilia starts up a new conversation for the group but only gets a few nods of acknowledgement from the group.
Matthew opens his mouth, about to speak but is cut off by the bell indicating the start of the day.
"Well. Looks like we better be going. So I'll see you later?" Ichika turns to Rin.
"Yea. I'll see you later Ichika." Rin bows goodbye and runs off to her classroom by herself. Matthew, Ichika, Cecilia, and Houki make their way to their classroom and settle down in their respective seats. The final bell rang when Chifuyu and Miss Yamada enters the classroom. Chifuyu walks to the front of the classroom and turns to the class with Miss Yamada to her side as always and announces. "Class, I would like you all to welcome our new transfer student Charles Dunois." At the same time the door opens and reveals a boy about 15 with long blond hair, tied in a low ponytail and purple eyes. He wears the standard male uniform. The class is shocked at what they see and stays quiet. They all stare at the new boy as he walks to the front of the class and turns to the class. He studies everyone for a few seconds before finally introducing himself.
"Hello. I am Charles Dunios and I come from France. It is nice to meet you all." Charles then bows before straightening back up.
"Are you a dude?" A random girl perks up.
Charles looks at her confused before replying awkwardly "Oui? I heard of two male students that were in the same situation as me, so I transferred here." and as on command the class goes wild as girls shrieking and talking loudly amongst each other.
"OH MY GOD HE'S A DREAM!" One girl yells. Followed by more squealing.
"LOOK AT HIS LONG HAIR! IT LOOKS SO SOFT!" Another girl yells followed by more screaming and squealing.
At this point Charles' face is filled with pure shock and confusion towards the girls as Matthew and Ichika just look at Charles with pity and embarrassment for the class.
Ichika's P.O.V
"Sigh! Welcome to the meat grinder, Charles."
Matthew's P.O.V
*Sigh* "Welcome to the Jungle, where things get worse everyday. Wait a minute... isn't that an American song?" But before Matthew could ponder further to himself, Chifuyu lashed out suddenly by yelling, "SILENCE EVERYBODY, THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH!" As on cue everybody shuts up and looks to Chifuyu, who is now rubbing her temples. "Why can't you girls be more sane when you see a boy?" Chifuyu mumbles to herself as she looks back to her class with a straight face before clearing her throat and speaking again.
"Today, we are conducting joint practical training with class 1-B and I want everybody changed and assembled in arena 1 ASAP!" Chifuyu announces sternly, sending shivers down everybody's spines. "And Orimura?" Chifuyu says, causing Ichika to jump as his name was called. Chifuyu turns and faces Ichika before continuing. "You will be in charge of teaching Dunios the ropes around here. GOT IT?"
"Got it." Ichika promptly responds, nodding his head in agreement.
"LET'S GET A MOVE EVERYBODY! MOVE OUT!" Chifuyu yells as she and Miss Yamada walk out of the classroom, leaving the class all alone.
3rd person P.O.V
Charles makes his way to Ichika and begins to introduce himself but is shut down by Ichika who says "Yea, I'm Ichika Orimura alright and this is Matthew Yamamoto behind me." Ichika says anxiously.
"Yea, it's nice to meet you Charles." Matthew politely responds, extending his hand out.
Charles looks at Matthew's hand in confusion before realizing what Matthew is trying to do and shakes his hand.
"So... we better get on a move now so follow me, Charles." Ichika interrupts the two in distress as he hastily gets up from his seat and grabs Charles by the hand and quickly leads Charles out of the classroom, into the hallway towards the P.E locker rooms followed by a confused Matthew.
In the hallway, Ichika begins to explain to Charles why the boys must change out as fast as possible before the girls enter the locker room.
"So we, boys, share a locker room with the girls?" Charles confirms, raising an eyebrow.
"Not exactly, but yes." Ichika bluntly responds.
"Oh I see…." Charles goes into a deep thought before asking Ichika another question. "Errm... not to be rude or anything but um... can you please let go of my hand please? It's just really uncomfortable and weird to be pulled around by somebody I just met." Charles awkwardly says.
Ichika immediately lets go of Charles' hand which is now red from Ichika's firm grasp. Charles immediately begins to sooth his left hand with his right hand.
"Sorry about your hand but it's just-"
"Hey LOOK! THERE'S THE NEW KID!" A girl in front of the boys yells cutting Ichika off and freezing the boys in place.
"HE'S EVEN WITH ORIMURA AND YAMAMOTO!" Another girl yells as she slides right next to the previous girl.
As if on cue, a crowd of girls runs up from behind the two girls and stop immediately and begin talking loudly amongst themselves about which boy is the hottest, causing Ichika, Matthew, and Charles to blush. As they begin to walk backwards but stop as another crowd of girls forms behind the trio.
"So this is what you had to deal with everyday when I was in the Infirmary for 6 weeks?" Matthew says to Ichika in an uneasy voice.
Ichika nods his head in agreement as the boys corner themselves against the wall but Matthew hits the push bar of a door causing the door to open slightly before Matthew closes it quickly. Matthew turns to the door and his eyes widen as he reads the words in red. "EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY! Push here and the alarm will sound." the words in red read. Matthew begins to panic expecting the fire alarm to sound but nothing happens. Matthew begins to calm down realizing that the alarm wasn't set off. Matthew gasps as he thinks of a great Idea to escape the girls and turns around to tell Ichika.
"Dude, look..." Matthew whispers to Ichika, grabbing Ichika's attention.
Ichika then looks to see what's behind Matthew and gasps as Matthew opens the fire door slightly before closing it.
"Are you crazy!?" Ichika whispers to Matthew.
"SHUT UP OKAY!" Matthew shuts Ichika up as Charles looks over to Matthew and sees the fire exit.
"The fire alarm on this door is off. I think we should escape through the emergency exit." Matthew tells both Ichika and Charles. Earning mixed reactions from both Ichika and Charles before nodding in agreement.
"Good. On cue, run out the Emergency exit alright?" Matthew then takes two large steps towards the girls, grabbing their attention. He clears his throat. The girls begin quieting down as Matthew inhales and exhales and yells "HEY! LOOK! IS THAT BTS OVER THERE COMING UP THE STAIRCASE?! OH MY GOD! IT'S TOTALLY IS THEM!" Matthew screams at the top of his lungs and then points towards the end of the hall where the elevator and staircase are located.
The girls squeal and look down the hall but see nothing. The girls then look back to where Matthw is supposed to be but find nothing but the emergency door closing and making the infamous click as it stops.
Matthew's P.O.V
"HAHAHAHA!" Matthew laughs as they scurry down the stairs. "IT ACTUALLY WORKED! HAHAHA!" Matthew cries like a madman.
As Ichika begins to laugh as well, they all suddenly hear a door being slammed open roughly, quickly accompanied by a bunch of quick footsteps and high pitched voices. Seconds later, the fire alarm rings out. Everybody panics as a stampede of girls to run down the stairs as the boys pick up the pace whilst dodging the doors in front of them opening.
"WHAT IS THIS?! A CHASE LEVEL FROM A 2D PLATFORMER GAME?!" Matthew yells, dodging another door opening.
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID THE FIRE ALARM WAS OFF?!" Ichika holars to Matthew as he dodges another door.
"I THOUGHT SO TOO! MAYBE IT'S ANOTHER DOOR THAT SOUNDED THE ALARM!" MATTHEW YELLS BACK.
"IS THIS WHAT YOU GUYS DO EVERYDAY?!" Charles inquires, jumping off a flight of stairs and running down the next, closely following his new friends.
"NOT EXACTLY.. *HUFF HUFF*...BUT YES TO ITS EXTENT!" MAtthew answers in between breaths.
"WELL... I GUESS I BETTER GET USED TO THIS THEN!" Charles remarks.
As the boys begin to lose their breath, they finally reach the ground floor. Ichika swings open the last door where the boys are immediately met by the sun, blinds them temporarily before Matther takes the lead. The boys make a mad dash towards Arena 1 and enter the Arena's underground locker room where Matthew proceeds to lock the door behind them.
The trio tries catching their breaths, taking a seat on the benches remaining silent for a solid 3 minutes.
"Welcome to the I.S Academy! Where the girls will chase you everywhere!" Matthew jokingly says getting a nod of agreement from Ichika and a serious and worried look from Charles. Awkward silence fell on the trio. Then Ichika stood up, making his way to his locker with Matthew and Charles following suit.
"So Charles, this is the underground locker room of the Arena. Each arena has their own locker room for the designated years, like Freshmen get to use Arena 1's locker room and Arena 2 is used by the sophomores and so on." Ichika explains.
"Since it's your first day, you get to choose your locker like me and Matthew did. Ours are right next to each other for instance." Ichika then stops and points to his locker and unlocks it with his key and shows his locker's contents to them. Matthew and Charles nod in approval until Matthew walks over to his locker, opens it with his key and shows Ichika his locker contents.
"WAIT, WHAT THE?! WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE A TRENCHCOAT AND WHATEVER THIS THING IS AS YOUR I.S PILOT UNIFORM?!" Ichika exclaims.
Matthew sighs in annoyance.
"I thought you knew by now Ichika but whatever. I'll say this again but this time it's for Charles." Matthew responds.
"So my I.S is designed for high altitude fighting like at 40 thousand feet in the air where it is colder and is very thin which makes it hard to breath. A reason why I have a helmet/mask gear with a hose connected to my I.S which has a built in air tank that should last about 34 hours atleast. The clothes, like the trench coat and pants and boots, are to keep me warm. If you ask, no, my clothes will not slow down my I.S's reaction speed. So when I move, there are no delays to my movement." Matthew explains getting "oh's" from both Charles and Ichika.
"That's pretty neat, if I do say so myself." Charles compliments.
"Yea. Lucky for you that you don't have to wear these tight ass things." Ichika adds.
"Is it really that tight?" Matthew asks.
"Yea, no shit it is! The damn thing squeezes my junk in many areas." Ichika complains.
"Junk?" Charles inquires.
"He means his dick." Matthew bluntly responds.
Charle's gasps at Matthews response which confuses Matthew as he looks at charles in confusion.
Did I say something bad to Charles that offended him?" Matthew thinks to himself, feeling guilt build up on his shoulders.
Damn I must have said something bad that offends the French and now Charles is looking at me as if I'm some sort of racist or something worse in French. Matthew thinks to himself as he quickly thinks of any excuses to change the current subject.
"You know speaking of our I.S pilot uniform, I think we should all start getting dressed before the girls arrive." Matthew states matter of factly.
"Oh shoot! I almost forgot about that!" Ichika expresses as he begins to undress.
As soon as Ichika removes his shirt revealing his naked torso, Charles gasps as he throws up his hands to cover his face.
Matthew and Ichika, hearing Charles gasp, quickly turn their attention to Charles and give him a weird look.
"What's wrong, Charles?" Matthew asks in a concerned voice.
"Yea, did I do something wrong?" Ichika asks, tilting his head to the side.
Charles moves one hand just enough to let him peek at Ichika before responding, "Ermmm..no you didn't do anything wrong. It's just that I'm not used to dressing out in the locker room with other boys because... you see... I was homeschooled for almost my entire life." Charles responds with an embarrassed tone.
Ichika and Matthew look toward each other baffled before looking back at Charles. Who is now crossing his arms but has his back hunched over and his face is red as a tomato.
"There is nothing wrong about getting changed in the locker room Charles, trust me. Once you start changing out in the locker room more, it gets less embarrassing." Matthew reassures.
Ichika nods his head in agreement. As Charles's face fades back into its original color, he straightens himself out again.
"If what you say is true, then when we dress up... ermm please dont look at me?" Charles squeaks.
"Okay...? It's not like we were going to watch you or anything." Ichika concludes, turning back around and continues changing his clothes. Matthew turns around and begins to undress before coming up with a brilliant idea.
"Hey Ichika! I'll race you! Whoever can get changed first wins I don't know... 5 yen?"
"Alright! You're on!" Ichika answers as he begins to pull his shirt on. Matthew quickly strips off everything except his boxers before shoving his I.S issued pants on. At the same time, Ichika finishes putting his I.S issued shirt on and begins stripping his pants and boxers off. Charles gasps once more, grabbing the attention of both Matthew and Ichika.
"How did you get dressed so fast?" Ichika exclaims, ignoring the fact that Charles gasped.
Before Charles could respond, Matthew cut him off.
"Haha! Jokes on you, Ichika! I'm already done putting my shirt on!" Matthew points out.
"Ichika stares at Matthew in disbelief. Matthew begins puting his boots on whilst Ichika just stands there with his pants down with his junk hanging out.
"Ichika quickly regains his senses and begins pulling his tight pants up. At the same time Matthew has finished tying his boots and already put his trench coat on and has begun putting his mask on.
After a while, both boys finish changing with Matthew winning and Ichika paying Matthew 5 yen.
"But how were you able to change into your uniform faster than me?! Hell! You even have more clothes to put on than I do." Ichika complains.
"I could ask you the same thing, but I digress. Back when I was training to use the I.S, my drill instructor would time me on how fast it took me to dress out. She would then use that amount of time it took me to dress out to the amount of time I needed to run as my warm up." Matthew explains.
"Oh I see. So logically you would get faster in order to shave the amount of time you would have to run for." Ichika says putting two and two together.
"Correct! Now it's your turn to explain yourself, Ichika." Matthew confronts quickly, pointing at Ichika in an accusing manner.
"Well, I would've won if these things weren't so darn tight, you know? Like the shirt is all fine and all, but it's just the pants that are very tight because my things keep getting caught on these pants whenever I pull them up." Ichika explains.
"Oh I see what you mean," Matthew begins to chuckle to himself. "I'm not going to lie though, but your I.S uniform looks kinda gay on you." Matthew teases.
"Yea, I guess..." Ichika agrees, kinda hurt by Matthews claims. "I would've been happy if the uniform was just a jumpsuit or whatever those fighter pilots wear." Ichika says to Matthew.
"I can definitely agree with you on that. Hell, I think you'd probably look good with a dark green jumpsuit on." Matthew replies.
"Really?" Ichika asks with uncertainty.
"Probably." Matthew responds, causing both boys to laugh with each other before calming down and looking towards Charles who looks as if he saw a ghost.
"You alright Charles?" Matthew asks with a concerned voice.
Charles snaps out of his gaze towards the wall and looks towards Matthew and opens her mouth to speak but the sounds of opening doors cut him off as the shuffling of feet and feminin voices fill the room.
"Aww shit! Looks like we gotta go now!" Ichika exclaims throwing his uniform into his locker before closing and locking his locker. Matthew follows suit followed by Charles. The trio then run out of the locker room and into the Arena where they make their way to the class line up and stand there awkwardly looking away from each other.
"So…" Matthew begins grabbing both Ichika's and Charles' attention.
"Charles, about your uniform, It looks really comfortable. Was it custom made for you or something?" Matthew awkwardly asks, feeling his face turn red.
"My uniform? Ah! Yes, it's an original by Dunios, you see." Charles responds with a smile.
Matthew sighs in relief at Charles' reaction.
"Dunios?" Matthew mumbles to himself. "Wait, do you happen to be related to that company by any chance?" Matthew inquires.
"Why yes! My Papa is the CEO of Dunios and as you know, Dunios is the largest I.S related corporation in France since 2011." Charles explains
"Ha! That explains why you have class. You come from a prestigious family, that's why." Ichika blurts.
"Yea.." Charles responds quietly, looking a little hurt.
Matthew, sensing something wrong with Charles, is about to ask him until...
"Alright! Orimura! Yamamoto! Dunios!" Chifuyu's voice rings out from behind. The 3 boys straighten themselves out as if they were in the military standing in attention for their Drill Instructor.
"Which one of you thought it was a great idea to set the fire alarm off?!" Chifuyu barks. As she stands right behind Matthew with her arms crossed. On command both Charles and Ichika point towards Matthew who in return points towards Ichika.
Matthews P.O.V
'YOU TRAITORS! You're supposed to stay silent and not rat me out but no you go ahead and rat me out! Damn you both!" I mentally scream to Both Ichika and Charles.
"Yamamoto, is this true?" Chifuyu asks in her usual authoritative-like voice.
My face turns red as Chifuyu asks me that question. I feel myself start to heat up as I begin to wish I never had a trench coat on.
"Did you set the fire alarm off? Yamamoto." Chifuyu asks again, but more forcefully.
I begin to sweat as she repeats herself again, knowing full well that she'll smoke me in a few seconds from now like she did to me a couple years back when I accidentally tore the hinges of her bedroom door off. Matthew gets a flashback of that event. Chifuyu screamed at me whilst I attempted to repair her door until accidentally tearing the hinges on the actual door off which caused the door to fall and crush me which knocked me out as well.
Matthew shakes himself back to reality as he feels Chifuyu's glare on his back sharpen like a knife.
'Shit! Ok, I'll just tell her the truth that the girls were chasing us which led us to escape through the fire exit." Matthew panics.
He turns to face Chifuyu. She was unexpectedly a lot closer than he anticipated and ends up smacking his face right into her left boob, which causes Matthew to ricochet off and fall to the ground landing on his butt.
Matthew sits there stunned and horrified at what just happened. His mouth opens and closes it as he attempts to apologize quickly but Chifuyu's glare on Matthew intensifies as if 1,000 knives were stabbing Matthew's torso.
Matthew fearfully looks towards Miss Yamada who is equally shocked as he looks back at Chifuyu who is now cracking her knuckles.
"Get up." Chifuyu icily orders sending cold shivers down my spine.
I do as she says, and right as I finish getting up she throws a punch towards my abdomen but I quickly dodge it by jumping backwards.
Chifuyu growls and throws another pouch of which I dodge and begin to run away.
"YAMAMOTO, GET BACK HERE!" Chifuyu yells.
'Not on the hair of my chinny chin chin!' I mentally yell back as I glance back at her.
"I'm so sorry for bumping into you!" I yell back at her, continuing to run away.
3rd person P.O.V
Chifuyu growls as imaginary steam comes out of her ears.
"Orimura! Dunios! CHASE YAMAMOTO DOWN NOW!" Chifuyu barks.
Ichika and Charles had no choice but to quickly nod before turning and running after Matthew.
Chifuyu then turns her attention to the other students of her class and orders them to chase down Matthew to which they happily do.
Miss Yamada watches Matthew run for dear life as his whole class chases him down. She then looks back to Chifuyu. She is yelling to her fellow students to chase Matthew down to which they do out of pure entertainment or fear from Chifuyu's wrath.
"Ma'am..?" Miss Yamada begins.
"Yes?" Chifuyu responds in an irritated tone.
"Is this really necessary to order the whole class to catch Yamamoto?" Miss Yamada asks.
'Yamamoto is a fast kid, so yes." Chifuyu bluntly responds.
"No, I mean is this really necessary to have the whole class chase Yamamoto down for a simple misunderstanding?" Miss Yamada elaborates her inquiry of the unfortunate situation.
Chifuyu stays silent as she begins to rethink her actions.
"If I were to let this go unpunished, then Yamamoto would repeat his mistake over and over again until somebody stops him. That somebody would be me." Chifuyu answers.
Miss Yamada opens her mouth again but she quickly gets cuts off.
"Of course I am talking about the fire alarm incident if you haven't caught on yet." Chifuyu answers.
"OOOOh Ok, now I see." Miss Yamada chuckles to herself.
"What he just did is personal." Chifuyu mumbles to herself in a sinister tone as she looks off the the side.
"Eh?..." Miss Yamada inquires, not understanding Chifuyu.
"Nevermind! Shouldn't you be getting your I.S as I requested you to?" Chifuyu asks, change the subject.
"Oh yeah! That's right! I left mine in my locker back in the Teachers' locker room!" Miss Yamada responds in an embarrassed tone.
"I'll be right back, just give me 5 minutes." Miss Yamada announces as she bows goodbye before running back towards the Teachers' Locker room.
Chifuyu rolls her eyes before turning her attention back down the hall where Matthew once was and her entire class chases him down. She can hear the echoing sounds as he pleads for them to stop whilst the girls taunt Matthew by saying "Come back, Yamamoto!"
Chifuyu chuckles to herself ,finding humor in this and a reference to the past.
"*Sigh* History repeats itself... As Nikolas would say." she says as a smirk forms on her lips.
Chifuyu starts to think back to her past. She thinks back to the good and bad memories she had in high school until a loud smack brings her back to reality.
Chifuyu looks down to find Matthew on the ground a few feet away with a girl on top of him giving him a tight bear hug. The crowd of girls, Ichika and Charles surround Matthew as two girls pick up Matthew's limp body from the ground by his arms and carry him towards Chifuyu.
The girls stop in front of Chifuyu and Matthew weakly raises his hands in defeat and says the following words.. "I surrender." He says as he lifts his head weakly towards Chifuyu.
Chifuyu almost smiles but keeps a straight face. She then gives Matthew a soft punch in the Stomach which causes him to gasp out in pain as he lunges forward.
"Next time, don't set off the fire alarm! You got that?" Chifuyu scolds.
"Yup... I got it. It won't happen again." Matthew responds, still in pain.
"Let this be a lesson to you all! The next person to set the fire alarm off for fun, will end up in the school infirmary for the next 6 weeks! UNDERSTOOD?!" Chifuyu announces.
"YES MA'AM!" The class rings.
"Good. Now, everybody line up in four rows!….NOW!" Chifuyu orders the class
"Yes Ma'am!" The class yells as they line up.
The two girls holding Matthew drop him as they hurriedly line up. Matthew slowly picks himself up, clenching his stomach and limps his way towards the back of the last line to stand next to Ichika.
Once everyone is lined up, Chifuyu begins to doroll call as class finally begins.
"Today, we will be as I said before, We will be doing joint practical training with class 2 as soon as they are ready." Chifuyu announces.
The whole class turns their attention to class 1-B as Miss Suzuki begins briefing her class on what they are doing for the day.
"As Matthew studies class 1-B, he spots and locks eyes with Rin. Matthew nods hello to Rin who smiles and nods hello back.
"Hey... um Matthew?" Ichika whispers.
"Yea?" Matthew whispers back.
"Is it me or is it cold?" Ichika asks.
"I don't know, it's pretty warm for me since I have a jacket. Ask Charles." Matthew whispers back.
Ichika turns to Charles and asks the same question.
"Hey, Charles?" Matthew hears Ichika whisper,
"Yea?" Charles whispers back.
"Is it cold or is it just me?" Ichika replies back with a voice crack.
"Mmmm... it's not that cold but yes I guess...Why do you ask?" Charles asks back.
"Well it's just that uh-"
Before Ichika could finish, Charles gasps, followed by slapping skin.
Matthew who is now oblivious to their situation faces Ichika, who is red as a tomato, and Charles with his hands on his face once again.
"What happened?" Matthew pokes.
"We.. umm…." Ichika signals down to his crotch where his hands are. Matthew, seeing this, starts laughing.
"Dude! Wtf!" Matthew whispers.
"Shut up! It's cold." Ichika retorts. His face turns a brighter red than before.
"Dude! Point it down!" Matthew whispers, trying not to get the attention from the girls who are lined up in front of them.
"That's what I did in the locker room and look at it now! It won't go down." Ichika then takes both his hands out of his crotch and immediately after, a small bulge forms.
Matthew can't help but let out a loud snort, which now catches the attention of the two girls in front of him. The girls turn around towards him and Ichika quickly and not so obviously covers his tense situation.
"The girls confused at what Ichika is doing begin to Follow his arms down towards his crotch but before they could see, Matthew blurts out "HEY! WHAT'S THAT IN THE AIR!" Immediately the whole class looks up to the sky. They all looked up, curious to what he was talking about.
"What are we looking at?" One girl asks.
"You don't see that dot in the sky?" Matthew retorts as he turns his body towards Ichika.
"What a dot?" Another girl asks.
"Just keep looking!" Matthew hollars back.
"Alright Ichika, this might hurt so Ssshhhh!" Matthew whispers loud enough for him to hear, takes a step back and readys himself.
"What are you doing? No, wait!" Ichika throws both hands to cover his crotch as Matthew kicks his dick causing Ichika to yelp in pain as he falls to the ground clenching his now limp dick in his left hand and the other hand to support himself on the ground.
The whole class turns towards Ichika and Matthew who are pretending that everything is normal.
"Oh! Hey guys! It turns out the dot was just a seagull. My bad." Matthew then forces a fake laugh to make them believe him.
"Oh really? Damn, I didn't see it. Oh well, I'm just tying my shoe here. Nothing to see here!" Ichika announces."
The class stares at Ichika with confused and irritated looks before shaking their heads in disappointment as they turn back around. Except Chifuyu, who is now angrily glaring at Matthew.
"Matthew just waves at Chifuyu, glaring at him even more before turning back around to face class 1-B.
Matthew joins Ichika on the ground and passes Ichika a hand warmer which he accepts.
"That was close Ichika. Use this to keep your dick warm and next time put a sock on it to prevent another hard on." Matthew scolds.
"Yea thanks a lot." Ichika sourly and painfully thanks as he stands back up and gently shoves the handwarmer in his crotch.
After a short while class 1-B lines up next to class 1-A. Chifuyu begins to speak.
"To start today's practical training, we need a demonstration!" Chifuyu begins. "Orimura! Alcott! I want you to.. ''
"Miss Orimura!" Miss Yamada Yells as she runs up from behind Chifuyu.
Chifuyu sighs in annoyance, turning around to face Miss Yamada.
"Yes, Miss Yamada?" Chifuyu asks.
"Miss Yamada, who is now wearing her I.S uniform, stops in front of Chifuyu as she catches her breath.
"Miss- *pants*..* pant*...Miss Williams…*pants*.. wants to speak with you." Miss Yamada says as she tries to catch her breath.
On que, a young woman dressed in an all white jumpsuit runs up from behind Miss Yamada and abruptly stops in front of Chifuyu. She bows hello to Chifuyu who in return bows hello. The woman in question has dark brown hair, dark brown eyes and is wearing a very thick black pair of glasses giving her a beautiful but nerdy appearance.
"Miss Orimura." She begins.
"We have finished repairs on Matthew's I.S, but we need him to take it on a testflight for any sort of duel to see if it has any other problems that could alter his performance in an actual battle." Miss Williams states."
"A duel you say?" Chifuyu murmurs to herself.
She then sharply turns towards her class and yells,
"Yamamoto! Orimura! Alcott! Step Forward now!" Chifuyu barks.
"Yes Ma'am." Cecilia chirps whilst Matthew and Ichika nod in acknowledgement. All three make their way towards the front of the class and stand in a military attention.
"For our demonstration class, I will Have Yamamoto fight Miss Yamada, Orimura and Alcot at the same time."
"Wait, what? Isn't that a little unfair?" Cecilia inquires.'
"Let me finish, Alcot!" Chifuyu bluntly responds.
Cecilia opens her mouth to retort back but closes it.
"If I remember correctly, Yamamoto's I.S was built to destroy multiple I.S units before being destroyed itself. Am I correct, Yamamoto?" Chifuyu quizzes.
"Yes, you are correct." Matthew responds being formal again.
"Then in theory, you should be able to take out three I.S units with ease, am I correct?" Chifuyu quizzes again.
"...I guess." Matthew responds with a hint of uncertainty in his voice.
"Is that a yes or a no?" Chifuyu interagates.
"Yes! Of course I'm able to... It's what I've been trained to do." Matthew answers with more confidence.
"Good." Chifuyu then turns her towards Miss Williams.
"Miss Williams, hand over Yamamoto's I.S and do a systems check with him. While you and Yamamoto do that.." Chifuyu then switches her attention to Miss Yamada and her team. "I want you three to devise a plan against Yamamoto."
"You got it." Miss Yamada salutes.
She then pushes both Cecilia and Ichika to the side where she begins devising a plane, whilst Matthew and Miss Williams go through with a systems check.
"This should be an interesting Battle." Chifuyu murmurs to herself before turning to her class and lecturing them on the importance of having a battle plan before a battle.
After 5 minutes of planning and 5 minutes of a system check later, both parties are now in the air flying 20 feet from each other.
Matthews P.O.V
"Hmmm this should be an easy battle.I kicked Cecilia's ass once and I can do it twice! As for Ichika, well... he should be easy to take out due to him having very little experience with his I.S but Miss Yamada on the other hand, from what I've been told, she used to be a representative contender so I should be very cautious of her." Matthew thinks to himself
"But from the looks of it, Miss Yamada's I.S looks as if it's made for sniping like Cecilia's I.S….Now if I think about it, the way they are set is that Ichika is in front of them. Both Cecilia and Miss Yamada are in the back. Which means as soon as the battle begins, Ichika will charge at me whilst both Cecilia and Miss Yamada provide Ichika fire support and drain my shield's energy significantly to the point I wouldn't be able to use my Lightsaber." Matthew figures out their plan, Materializing and activates his lightsaber and aims it towards Ichika.
The class Oohs and Awes at my lightsaber. I grin to myself as Ichika's war face turns into a face full of concern and fear. He quickly hides his fear by materializing and activating his sword and points it towards me.
"This is just like that one movie scene when Luke faces off against Darth Vader in the movie 'The Empire Strikes back.'" Matthew chuckles to himself.
"Alright! On the count of 3, you may begin!" Chifuyu announces from the ground.
Everybody nods in acknowledgement as Chifuyu begins her countdown.
"1!"
Both Cecilia and Miss Yamada point their snippers at my face.
"2!"
Miss Yamada and her team's glare intensifies on me as I open my smoke launchers.
"3!"
I deployed smoke which quickly engulfed me as I dodged/ destroyed Miss Yamada's and Cecilia's Barrage of bullets and missiles with my lightsaber. Through the smoke and the whistling bullets, I could hear Ichika's war cry as he charges towards the smoke, blindly guessing my location in the smoke. Figuring out Ichika's motives, I quickly charge in Ichika's general direction, plus with the help of his voice, I prepare myself and scream my war cry. In a matter of two seconds, I finally leave the smoke and as if I was in an action movie, time slowed before me was Ichika charging at me at full speed with his sword above his head, ready to bring it down on me. I raise my sword above my head as I scream "TENOHIEKA BANZAI!" As I scream this, Ichika's war cry quickly disintegrates into terrified screaming as he attempts to strike me down but misses terribly as he cuts down next to my right arm. In return, I slice down with all my might on Ichika's right wing, cutting it clean off. The wing sparks as it was cut off and Ichika's face is filled with shock and fear as he begins descending towards the continues to scream in fear until finally crashes to ground with a loud bang followed by a giant mushroom cloud of smoke and dirt.
Both my class and class 1-B stand there shocked at what just happened before them, excluding Chifuyu who has a disappointed face. I quickly turned my attention towards Cecilia and Miss Yamada who were still flying in their original positions, bewildered at how fast I was able to take out Ichika. Seeing this, I quickly dematerializes my lightsaber and materialized my Thompson and open fire on Cecilia, bringing her back to reality. Cecilia instantly brings her arms up to her face to protect herself from my hail of bullets before diving downwards and away as a means to evade my bullets. A sniper bullet hits and explodes on my right arm which causes me to redirect my attention to Miss Yamada who is now shooting me with her sniper. I fire back but this time I begin to fly erratically in a means to evade Miss Yamada, who somehow manages to hit me a few times lowering my shield energy even more.
"Fucking pieces of shit with your stupid aim! What next?! A Barrage Of Missiles sneak up and strike me from behind?!" I scream to myself as I watch my shield Energy change to 3243 out of 4600.
3 seconds later, a barrage of Missiles strike Matthew from behind lowering his shield energy to a grand total of 2954 out of 4600.
"That's it, Cecilia!" I scream as I turn and charge at her whilst spraying my Thompson at her.
"Cecilia continues firing everything she has at me as I continue to blast her and dodge it whilst rapidly decreasing my distance to her until finally I dematerialize my Thompson and rematerialize my lightsaber quickly. Cecilia, seeing my Lightsaber fires one last shot at me with her sniper but to no avail. She attempts to smack the butt of her sniper against my face but I quickly dodge it and cut her right wing in two. Cecilia begins falling vertically as she attempts to save herself but fails to. She crashes against the Arena's shield Barrier with a loud thud before finally falling towards the ground with a loud boom followed by a large mushroom cloud of smoke and dirt. After watching Cecilia fall I turn my attention back to Miss Yamada who shoots me in the face again. The world around me goes black as a painful ring engulfs both of my ears. I feel myself falling but I can't figure out if I'm pushing myself up or down until finally everything snaps back. I pull myself up in time from hitting the ground and redirect myself towards Miss Yamada. She raises her sniper once more and fires. I dodge the bullets just in time and attempt to ignite my lightsaber but nothing happens. I bring up my left hand and to my surprise, nothing.
"Shit! I must have dropped it when I was falling." I realize.
"I look back to Miss Yamada and realize I am way closer than I thought . My speed is now at 760 MPH. Just 10 more until I break the sound Barrier."
"SHIT! WHAT DO I DO?!" I mentally scream.
"LOOK OUT!" I SCREAM as I attempt to avoid my collision with Miss Yamada, but at the same time, Miss Yamada turns and flies in the same Direction as I am and then...
"BOOM!"
Both I and Miss Yamada crash into each other and my vision goes balck as the ringing in my ears intensifies. The world around me begins to fall as I lose my sense of Direction and then
"BOOOM!"
3rd Person P.O.V
Matthew Smacks Into Miss Yamada with a loud boom as they crash into the Arena's shield Barrier with an even louder thud as they begin falling towards the ground.
"Booom!" Followed by a thick cloud of dirt covering Miss Yamada and Matthew. Immediately after, both classes, including Ichika and Cecilia, ran towards Miss Yamada and Matthew's crash site. As the smoke clears, everybody has a good look at Miss Yamada and Matthew's position.
Currently Matthews face is engulfed between Miss Yamada's boobs whilst Miss Yamada lays on top of him. Her arms are wrapped around Matthew's as both of them lay unconscious. Half the class begins blushing and some begin laughing, whilst some begin pulling out their phones and begin taking pictures of their current state.
Chifuyu sighs in embarrassment for Miss Yamada and Matthew as Miss Suzuki begins calling the school Infirmary, whilst Miss Williams rushes her way towards them and deactivates both their I.S units and pulls them apart. She begins checking both their pulses and finds that both of them are thankfully still alive. She then pulls off Matthew's helmet revealing his sweaty face and begins fanning him before finally stopping and placing his helmet to the side. She begins taking Matthew's I.S which is now in standby mode as a watch on his wrist and Miss Yamada's I.S which is a bracelet and climbs out of the crater and makes her way towards Chifuyu.
"Imma take their I.S units to the hanger for repairs. You guys handle things here." Miss Williams remarks.
Chifuyu nods in acknowledgement and Miss Williams walks away. After a while, the school medics arrive with two stretchers and begin analyzing both Matthew's and Miss Yamada's statuses before placing them both on a stretcher before carrying them away.
Chifuyu turns to her class and says, "Well class, that was one hell of a demonstration if I do say so myself, but I digress. Alcott! Orimura! I want you to take both of your I.S units back to the Maintenance Hangar for repairs. Dunios, I want you to help Miss Suzuki and teach the rest of the class on how to walk with an I.S. unit. Got it?"
"Yes Ma'am." All three respond.
Ichika and Cecilia make their way towards the Maintenance Hangar whilst Charles makes his way to the front of the class and stands next to Chifuyu. Just like that, class begins like nothing ever happened.
"Authors note"
Well that was one hell of a chapter If I say so myself. But anyway, hopefully this chapter was entertaining for you guys to read. Also, from now on my chapter will be under 40 or 35 pages long so I am able to upload more chapters more frequently than I was before this chapter was released. This is the only change I wanted to point out so Thank you for reading and have a good day and I'll see you guys in the next chapter. Bye.
