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"Finally!" said Otto as they reached the front of the queue, glad to be free of the ribbing about his paintball skills which had lasted the whole twenty minute wait time. When you went into the preparation area you were supposed to change into your suit first but in reality the torrent of kids headed straight for the armoury. There was every type of modern warfare gun in there, the only catch was they had been weakened so they didn't shoot far and they were full of paint instead of bullets but this didn't deter the students jostling each other to get the best ones. Block and Tackle muscled there way through the wall of bodies and each placed an identically beefy hand on a weedy first year scitech student's shoulders. The boy had managed to get his hands on a pair of hefty AK47s for him and his mate.

"Where you going with them?" said Block or was it Tackle with a voice full of pretend kindness. Tackle twisted they boys wrist round painfully so he dropped the guns,

"Very big guns for little boys" he said with a smirk, "I'll be confiscating these." Shelby grabbed an old fashioned pistol off the wall and fired it into Tackle's nose. Paintballs aren't dangerous but when they paired with close range and a pissed off Shelby they result in injury. Tackle's nose exploded and he howled in pain stemming the blood with his hands while Block went after Shelby with an animalistic roar. Shelby dodged Block's clumsy grab and managed to snatch the two AK47s from where Tackle had dropped them. Shelby ducked a punch as she handed the guns back to the scared looking boys,

"There you go squirts, I suggest you run off to the changing rooms now before-" she deflected another attack, "you know what I mean."

"Th-thankyou" one boy managed to stutter before he darted off to the changing rooms with his friend. As soon as they were gone Shelby spun round and slugged Block with a sturdy punch in the stomach, emphasising it with an exaggerated,

"ker-pow!" as Block doubled over.

"Really Shelby?" said Laura raising an eyebrow. Shelby grinned slightly maniacally,

"I'm just warming up."

"May I remind you that the only violence in the arena is with paintball guns." Wing replied.

"I'm just doing my good deed for the day" Shelby said defensively,

"Since when did shooting someone in the face and punching someone in the gut count as a good deed." Otto reminded her,

"Er hum" Shelby faked clearing her throat, "this is the higher institute of 'villainous' education. I saved two nerds, that's about as much as my moral standards can take."

"Anyway guys we'd better scoot" said Laura slightly anxiously indicating the blue LED ringed cameras that had just tilted towards them. "For all we know there's a whole classroom of staff up there watching us."

There wasn't a whole classroom of staff up there at watching the feed, in fact there was just one. Nero hummed to himself as he zapped a bowl microwave popcorn, he knew he should send someone to intervene but the boys' injuries didn't look bad and he didn't want to ruin his chance of watching Raven with a paintball gun. There was a special counter at the side of the room for making popcorn and Nero deliberated over sweet or salty. In the end he went for salty because it seemed the most villainous of the two and he grabbed his bowl and settled himself in the arm chair. The tired paint splattered students were trudging out of the arena leaving a trail of multicoloured paint behind them. When they had all gone through the small door at the side, huge water jets blasted from all around the arena, not completely cleaning the paint but at least showing the difference between old and new. He was still worried though that Raven wasn't going to go so he sent her a message on his blackbox, 'u still up 4 it?' he drummed his fingers anxiously waiting for a reply. His blackbox dinged to indicate that he had received a message 'gd yeah omw right now!'. Nero smiled to himself and popped a piece of popcorn in his mouth, he was all set to watch the show.