"I'm tired!" Kaminari who had collapsed on the floor whined. It took another unbearable two hours for the remaining Class A and B students to pass their exercise. After everyone but Camie passed, they helped clear the floor, pack GunHead up who quickly waved goodbye and left.
"I wonder what's next." Pony yawned.
"I can only imagine." Toru muttered back; the two classes sat around the gym floor waiting for further instructions.
"I'm looking forward to it-" Awase stretches, "-Five is pretty cool."
"Yeah." Kamakiri nods causing Class A to glare feeling territorial. The new emotion couldn't be digested long for the gym doors opened and in walks Aizawa, Vlad, Cementoss and you.
Bakugo nodded in approval seeing the sling was back on your arm.
"Alright-!" Vlad King cracks his knuckles. "-are we ready for the next assignment?"
"Yeah!" Class B jumps to their feet feeling pumped! Midoriya frowns as he slowly gets up, brushes the dust off his pants. Class B's positive upbeat attitude used to be how his class was, what changed? The greenette turned to you, was it because Class B got your attention and Class A didn't?
Without warning the floor began to shake, the students braced themselves as the cement floor began to twist and rise, creating deep trenches as the group rose on a platform.
"Whoa." Sero looked down at the darkened trench. "What is this?"
"Welcome to your next challenge!" Vlad King shot his hands in the air, "Capture the flag!"
"Huh?" The two classes tilted their heads, not expecting something so...simple to come from you. You smirked seeing the confused looks as you stepped forward you slid off your jacket leaving you in your simple shirt and cargo pants.
"This isn't a regular game of capture the flag." You explained further as both Aizawa and Vlad King held two large boxes, they opened them to reveal black .7mm pistols.
"Are we gonna shoot each other?" Bondo looked over at Tokage.
"Close." You nod taking one of the guns, "You will not be using live ammo this time." You slid out the magazine, taking out an oddly shaped bullet from the clip before holding it up. "These are nero bullets-" You explain, digging in your pocket for a second bullet type. "-and this is a tranquilizer bullet. Both will be used during this exercise."
"Everyone lines up and takes one." Aizawa held up the box, the students quickly did as told.
"Each of you have one clip-" You called holding yours up to show them what it looks like. "There are refill stations below-" You gestured down to the trench.
"We-We gotta go down there!?" Kaminari began to sweat. As the words left his mouth lights flared to life below, lighting the pathways of Cementoss's homemade maze.
"What the-?" Momo frowned but saw Midnight sticking lights around the walls of the maze.
"Your objective is to capture the other team's flag-" You explained, "-while dealing with being under constant fire."
"F-Fire!?" Mineta shivered.
"Um-" Pony raised her hand.
"Yeah?"
"What are nero bullets?" Pony questions causing a sinister smile to creep across your face.
"If shot by the nero bullets-" You explain, "-a serum will be injected into your skin, simulating the pain of a real gunshot." Mutters broke out among the crowd. "It only lasts a couple minutes." You added, "Once you have shot an opponent, you are to not shoot them twice. If you do, then I shoot you twice."
"Oh." Pony frowned, looking at the gun in her hands.
"It's Class A vs B." You continued, "Class A is blue while B is red. You each will have five minutes to get to your team station, figure out where you want to post your flag and figure out your game plan."
"Alright!" Awase bounced on the balls of his feet, "This is gonna be fun!"
"I don't know..." Komori nervously rubbed her gym pants, "...this all seems..."
"Oh, come on-!" Sen shook Komori's arm, "-it's a little dart thing!" Sen laughed, "How bad can it be!?" You narrowed your eyes on the laughing kid.
"There will also be a sniper." Aizawa scratched his head.
"I'm sorry what now?" Momo looked up feeling the ground began to shake once more, long watch towers rose from the ground with connecting bridges wrapping around the maze.
The class gawks looking up at the high ground.
"Who is going to be the sniper?" Midoriya wondered looking around.
"It makes sense for one of you to be it." Kendov replies, "You have an extra person, which gives you an unfair advantage."
"Class A does not have an extra player." Aizawa steps in. "Camie did not complete her first exercise so she cannot participate during this one."
"Really?" Toru looked at her peers. "So then...who is it gonna be?" Aizawa stepped sideways, looking over to you as Cementoss was wrapping a weight on your left wrist as you placed the first ear plug in.
"Oh, you got to be kidding me!" Shishida complains, "She is a trained marksman!"
"She won't be using her dominant arm-" Aizawa replied, "-and her left arm will be weighed giving you the advantage-"
"But-"
"-and she will not be able to hear." Aizawa finished, "So she won't be able to hear where you are shooting from."
"This is insane!" Monoma grips his blond hair.
"No this is awesome-!" Sen bubbly laughed.
"We are going to all get shot!" Monoma shoots back.
"Only if Five can find us!" Sen defended as you walked over. "Besides the little dart thing probably won't even hurt. It'll be like a pinch-" You rolled your eyes, tired of Sen downplaying your exercise. You pulled the training gun from your holster, pointed and fired it into Sen's thigh.
"AH-!" Sen dropped to ground holding his leg crying out as his friends crowded him.
"Does it feel like a pinch?" You wonder.
"You-You shot me!" Sen held his leg, glaring up at you.
"I sure did."
"This fucking hurts!" Sen went on.
"It sure does." You nodded, "It's not something you want to be hit by."
"Why would you do this-!?" Tears pricked Sen's eyes. "-do you have any idea how much this hurts!?"
You raised an eyebrow, turning to the shaggy hair kid without saying a word.
"Oh, never mind-!" Sen quickly wiped his eye, not wanting to show he was crying in front of his peers.
"Five." Cementoss's voice turned your head, he handed you a black rifle.
"What is that!?" Monoma pointed.
"An R93 sniper rifle." You answered, gazing through the scope.
"I-I know what it is-!" Monoma cries, you doubted that. "-I mean why do you have it!?"
You look from the student then to the high up towers.
"Can you see from up there?" You retorted.
"Wh-What-!?" Monoma looks at his teacher, who tightly nods letting his student know it's ok, Vlad glanced over to you, still feeling the sting when he caused you to lash out.
"How is this fair exactly?" Jurota questioned, crossing his arms over his chest. "We will have an active sniper shooting at us, but we can't retaliate?"
"If you get a shot-" You say walking past the two classes, "-feel free to take it."
"Wh-?" Awase's mouth drops open. Looking over to Sen who remained on the ground cradling his leg you smirked.
"It didn't hurt that bad-" You called over to him as you began to walk away from the class, "-you're being dramatic."
"Dr-Dramatic!?" Sen shoots up forgetting the pain in his leg. "Come over here and let me shoot you! Then let's see who is being dramatic-!" Bondo held Sen back from following you.
"Also-" You turned to look at the group of young heroes, "-I have no idea which type of bullet I will be firing-" You smirk at the horror scribbling on their faces. "-the bullets are already mixed in the magazines."
"Wha-do we get any pointers on how to not die!?"
The two classes watched you place the last ear plug in cutting off your hearing.
"Don't run in a straight line?" You shrug brushing off the laugh as you gave a thumbs up to Cementoss. You brace yourself as he raises you to the towers.
"You have five minutes." Aizawa calls.
"It begins now!" Vlad Kind tightens his fists. "Find your flag and get ready! Let's go Class B!"
"What!?" Monoma shivers, Kendov sighs, dragging him by his shirt she follows her jogging class, jumping down into the trenches of the maze.
You watched from one of the far-left towers through the scope of your rifle. For Class A, they decided to leave their flag where it was placed. Momo, Toru, Fumikage, Jiro, and Sato guarded the flag while everyone else broke out hunting down Class B's flag.
You noticed however after a while, Bakugo, Midoriya and Shoto weren't searching for the flag, they were hunting their opponents. It was smart really, getting rid of as many enemies as possible, making it easier for the weaker players to focus on finding the flag.
Class B was different. They didn't seem to have a real plan; everyone was just running around without direction, and no one was assigned to watch their flag. After a while Reiko and Setsuna seemed to be the only two who came to understand someone needed to stay near their flag.
"Hm." You hummed, seeing the two different styles of classes A and B. Bondo showed up in your scope with a heavy hand; you pulled the trigger; the echo filled the gym, and you watched Bando fall to the ground hard. You didn't hover over him long; you continued finishing for students.
One by one you pulled the trigger; the goal was to hit every student so no one can come claim there was favoritism among the classes. Your scope found a white and blue jacket but for a moment you hesitated.
You observed Mina as she spoke to Tsuyu, you shook your head, looking through your scope again you found her soft pink skin, settling on her shoulder you pulled the trigger, the shot rang through your ears as your heart clenched watching her drop to the ground. Tsuyu's features pinched together in terror frantically looking around, grabbing Mina's arm she dragged her around the corner of the cement wall.
After taking down a dozen more students you began to feel bored. This felt like shooting fish in a barrel, how as no one captured a flag yet?
From the corner of your eye a shadow brushing over the white cement caused your brows to pull together, a flicker of confusion flashed through your mind but quickly you jumped back dodging Kosei's punch. You snapped your head around in time to watch Jurota's fist collide with the side of your skull.
You stumbled backwards, quickly gaining your footing, you blocked his next punch, grabbing his wrist, you used his momentum to slam him against the wall of the tower. You spun on your heel; eight members of Class B had surrounded you.
"What are you gonna do now Five?" Sen held a devilish grin, cracking his fingers.
Inside the maze, Bakugo punched Shihai, dropping him to the ground. Sweat glistened Bakugo's skin as he reached down, grabbing Shihai's gun, tossing it behind him to Kirishima who panted.
"It's gotta be around here some place." Kirishima breathed, feeling his heart pounding against his chest. The red head looked above to the towers, it's been a while since he has heard the rifle go off, were you out of ammo?
The two took off running down the endless maze, there was barely enough light to light the paths. As Bakugo and Kirishima rounded the corner they collided with another pair.
"Kacchan-!" Midoriya raised his hand as Bakugo quickly pointed his gun at the greenette's face. "-it's us!"
"Midoriya-?" Kirishima exhales, placing a hand on the wall trying to catch his breath, "-Todoroki? I thought you guys were taking the other half of the maze?"
"We did." Todoroki replied, "We didn't find anything."
"Or anyone." Midoriya added on as the four walked forward. "We haven't spotted anyone from Class B in a while."
"Maybe we took them all down?" Kirishima guessed.
"Then wouldn't the match be over?" Todoroki pointed out.
"Oh yeah." Kirishima sighed with a nod, rubbing his still aching arm from your nero bullet. "Man, this is intense."
"Yeah." Midoriya nodded, "Never knowing who could be around the corner, or when (y/n) can strike, it's nerve wracking."
"You guys think it's weird we haven't heard from her in a while?" Kirishima wondered.
"Not really." Shoto touched his aching leg where you shot him, "She was firing so rapidly, it wouldn't surprise me if she is out of ammunition."
"But we have refill stations." Midoriya ran a hand through his damp hair, "Wouldn't she have one too-?" Midoriya was cut off by a swing of someone's arm. Midoriya quickly leaned backwards to far, he fell onto his ass. Kirishima quickly reacted by drawing his weapon and fired taking Reiko down, officially emptying his clip.
Bakugo flipped around without hesitation, fired three rounds at Setsuna who tried running around him, but he clipped her leg. The two Class B students withered in pain on the ground as the four Class A students took off in a jog away from them before they recovered.
The four rounded the corner and stopped dead in their tracks.
"No way." Kirishima breathed, a smile blossoming over his face as a shining red flag stood before them. Bakugo held his infamous grin as he walked over and ripped it off the pole.
"About damn time." He replied, holding his cocky smirk looking over at his three peers. After a few heartbeats the floor began to shift and morph under their feet.
"What's going on!?" Kirishima became alarmed, dropping lower to the floor.
"We got the flag." Todoroki watched as the trenches slowly rose to floor level, "The match is over."
"Hell yeah!" Kirishima cheered, hands in the air.
As the floor levels out the Class A students beveled around seeing students from both classes either pass out or on the ground riding out the pain from the nero bullet.
"Guys we-!" Kirishima went to celebrate but three teachers sped past them, confusing the spiky red head.
"Cementoss-!" Aizawa's voice was borderline distraught. "-get those towers down!"
"What's-?" Midoriya felt confused watching Cementoss drop to the ground, slamming his hands to the floor.
The four turned hearing a cry of pain, as the towers began to shrink and dissolve, they watched Sen go flying over the bridge's wall. His arms and legs were flailing as he landed on the ground with a heavy thud.
"What the hell?" Bakugo and Kirishima looked at one another.
"This isn't their fault-!" Vlad pointed to the livid Aizawa.
"This wasn't in the rules!" Midnight spats back.
"It wasn't not the in the rules!" Vlad defended.
"What is going on?" Komori asks her fellow classmates who just shook their heads, having no idea.
"She isn't supposed to be in hand-to-hand combat right now!" Midnight snaps, eyes desperately watching the towers move like molasses.
"Five said if they had the shot, they could take it-" Vlad went to interject but she wasn't having it.
"Yeah-" Midnight nodded, "-from their weapons, not climbing the towering and ganging up on her!"
"Wait what-!?" Toru ran over to Midoriya and the others, "-what did I miss!?"
"Whatever it was-" Kirishima had a sickly feeling bubbling in his stomach. "-we missed it too."
