World 1-6: Schale
"What are you people doing?" Rin complains. "Walk faster! We must reach the Schale building before they do something to it!"
We quickly leave the GSC Headquarters, progressing to the Heliport outside where a large helicopter awaits us.
I have seen those machines during our kart races with everyone, and my trips to New Donk City to visit Pauline with Mario. Heck, we have power-ups that resemble the blades on this thing!
But this helicopter in particular... seems so advanced, armored, and filled with, most likely, guns. Like if it was made for battle, I can tell that much! must be able to shoot so many mini Bullet Bills at once! This for sure could be even stronger than Bowser's Airship armada!
I can't help but admire the majestic metallic beast in front of me... and then I notice that everybody else is climbing inside the heli. Oh god, h-hold on! D-Don't leave me behind!
I don't want another hot air balloon incident happening to me again! That was enough embarrassment for me!
I quickly climb onboard the machine and sit down next to Rin, in front of Hasumi's seat.
As I put my seatbelt, (because safety is top priority after all), Rin calls me.
"Sensei, here. Take this with you." She then gives me a small rectangular device and a headphone, similar to the one E. Gadd gave me back at the cafe. Is this the Bluetooth thingy?
"We will be in contact with you through this, so please don't lose it." She asks to which I nod.
The chopper starts taking off, getting me by surprise as I take my head towards the window beside me as the aircraft slowly rises to the blue skies.
This view is astonishing! It's almost as beautiful as the prospering land of the Mushroom Kingdom! The city goes on and on without end, just like Rin told me!
I know I'm capable of flight thanks to the many power-ups such as that feather from the Island of Yoshis, or the leaf from the Tanooki Tree but... this feels different. Very different!
The girls quietly stare at me, my face brighter than a Shine Sprite upon looking outside.
"Um... Have you never ridden a helicopter before, Sensei?" Yuuka asks me out of curiousity.
"No. But I have flown before... But it's nothing like this." I say, my eyes still glued to the glass.
"... How do you fly without a chopper? A plane?" Suzumi questions me, confused by remarks I made.
"Well... I did-a ride on a hot air balloon before, but no. I flew-a without a machine or vehicle." I explained.
"Then how...?" Hasumi tries to understand what Luigi Sensei is trying to say.
"I have-a my ways, girls. I'll explain it once-a everything is solved, I promise." I tell them, leaving the girls very curious.
Although I say that, how am I gonna explain that I'm able to obtain superpowers by eating and collecting mushrooms and flowers? Or in this case, feathers and leaves?
But with the power-ups, I usually have to focus so much to not hit my face on a wall and getting a good landing that I forget to observe the scenario in front of me.
Sigh... I'll leave the explanation for another time after all this chaos.
"... Is this perhaps related to the strange items that the GSC president wrote about on the letter...?" Rin mumbles to herself.
"Is everything alright, Rin?" I ask because I didn't hear her correctly.
"N-No. Everything is ok." She shuts down immediately.
And as for Chinatsu? Polterpup is glued to her lap, not wanting to leave the elf girl's side as she pets the dog quietly and happily.
I guess he found a new best friend in Kivotos already, haha!
After a few minutes contemplating the different landscapes and territories my eyes could observe, especially the different climates which somehow kinda reminds me of the weird lands of my own home, the pilot picks up a radio and starts talking.
"Ladies and Sensei! We are fast approaching the outskirts of Shiratori City District of Utnapishtim! Soon you will be able to see the Schale Building!"
As she says that, I can't help but look outside. What I see is simply amazing!
A whole territory divided into two main areas: A Residence Hall and an Office area... And weirdly enough, there's a huge garden close to its Office Area!
And in the center of it all, stood tall a huge building below some of the halos in the sky... That must be the Schale Building, no doubt about that!
"Wow... How did the GSC President obtain so much land for a single club?" Yuuka asks Rin.
"Beats me. But our Chief of Finance didn't notice any type of embezzlement involved so if I have to guess... She took it out of her own pocket to build all of this." Rin says out loud, surprising Yuuka.
"Wha? But how did she get so much money in such a short amount of time!?"
"I don't know... But she told me once that her twin Azula found a "easy way to get rich" and well... it seems to have worked." She said.
... Wait. Azula is in the Mushroom Kingdom... And E. Gadd said that he "accidentally" dropped a Double Cherry on that portal and it ended up in Kivotos so...
Did Azula bring a bunch of gold coins from my home and just throw them into the portal to give all the money to her twin?!
...
Better not to think about it. I'll just stay quiet on this one. Good on them for exploiting that portal. I don't know anything!
Sigh...
But before anyone could comment on this mysterious gain of funds, the pilot quickly turns the vehicle around, dodging what seems to be rockets. I remember the big bad Koopa King using the same type of weapon before!
"AMBUSH! STARTING EMERGENCY MANEUVERS!" The pilot screams as she tries to leave the area, only to be blocked by more rockets.
It seems that the thugs were planning to catch any airborne transport trying to approach the building by surprise, and unfortunately it has worked on us!
The pilot skillfully dodged every rocket that tried to hit us, which I must say, is worth a medal. I have never seen this kind of driving outside of the gravity wheels and paragliders from my racing days!
"Wait, that's...!" Chinatsu points to something... no, someone outside the helicopter, on top of a building!
"T-That's the Fox of Calamity!" She proclaims, making everybody panic as the individual points a massive rocket launcher on her shoulder onto us, preparing to shoot.
"GET US OUT OF HERE, NOW!" Rin screams to the pilot, who seems to be crying.
"I CAN'T! THE LZ IS TOO HOT!" She tells her, not knowing what to do.
I can feel the smug coming from the black fox as she shoots the rocket towards us.
Rin's POV:
...
All hell broke loose.
...
The plane fills with screaming and begging, telling the pilot to drop down... but it's all futile.
"C'mon, you are our pilot! Get us out of here right this instant!" The irritating member of Millenium exclaims while the pilot complains about having way too many enemies down there.
"Damn it, if only I wasn't so big for this helicopter...!" The Justice Force representative curses.
"I can't shoot it down! That rocket must have protective armor!" The person accompanying the Trinity representative tries shooting the rocket, only for her bullets to ricochet from it.
"I-I don't know if I have enough medical supplies for a full-on impact!" The prefect team medic worriedly says.
Hehe... Was I so stupid to think I could do the same work as you did, president?
...
I hate this.
...
I don't wanna continue being the acting president, but if I don't... then who is gonna do it?
Ayumu? She's too shy for that...
Aoi? She's too strict...
Kaya? No way, she's an idiot...
Momoka? ... I must be going crazy. Is this what they call 'Life flashing before your eyes'?
...
This is gonna hurt so badly... hehe...
I close my eyes and prepare myself to bear what will be a very painful and explosive hit...
...
Only to... not feel anything? The explosion never happens.
What happened? I can only hear some kind of... vacuum cleaner?
I open my eyes in amazement as I see Luigi Sensei using some kind of vacuum apparatus to create strong winds to not only stop the rocket, but make it spin in circles, taking off its speed and slowly suck the volatile ammo to his machine...
"Rin, girls! Don't-a panic!" Luigi claims.
"If you girls are ever in-a distress, you can always-a rely on me! After all... I'm-a more than just a teacher. I'm-a the one who will be responsible to help-a every single student in this-a place, hehe!" He raises a hand, giving a thumbs-up.
... I don't know what to say, really.
Cringy?
Quirky?
But somehow... I feel like what he said might be true.
The rocket then gets stuck inside the nozzle of Sensei's machine, stopping the winds as well.
As Luigi takes way towards the fox, he says.
"No one under my-a wing will get hurt, because I won't-a allow it! No, I refuse to let-a it happen!"
He then shoots the rocket with a mighty blow from his machine, launching the explosive bomb at high speed towards the fox, which quickly evades, still not understanding what the hell just happened.
"Rin." Luigi Sensei looks at me.
"Y-Yes?" Still perplexed, I respond.
"I'll be-a going ahead. You girls try to catch up with-a me once the LZ is safe!"
W-Wait, what does he mean by...
"?!" Everybody is caught off-guard by his next move.
He jumped.
He freaking jumped off the helicopter.
WHAT THE FUCK!
Everybody, including me, the girls in the helicopter, and even the thugs watch in horror as Sensei quickly drops into the street floor.
As he reaches the ground floor, everybody closes their eyes with the exception of Yuuka as they do not wish to see the splattered body of the one who was supposed to help us save Kivotos! How are we going to bypass the scan now?!
"No! Sensei, you big dummy! He... He's fine?!" Yuuka scolds him, only to quickly be confused by the fact that Sensei seems to not have sustained any injury from the fall whatsoever as everybody open their eyes and see him fine as dandy.
After doing some... stretches(?), he starts running at a fast pace! What is going on?! Anybody would die, or at least break their legs by falling from this height! And he just started moving like nothing happened at all!
But then it clicked to me... The letter! I remember it!
[Dear Rin-chan.
Me and Azula won't be able to come back for the unforeseeable future. But do not fret.
I sent you a hero! His name is Luigi Sensei.
At first, you may see him as a coward or timid man trying to make sure everybody is ok... But he is more than that! He's amazing! Especially when someone is in need of help! I can guarantee it! Your jaw will drop once you see him in action! It's like nothing can stop him! He can even use strange items to become even stronger and do impossible things!
Luigi Sensei is the hero Kivotos needs in these times of chaos!
So please... Trust him.
With love, GSC President.]
Luigi Sensei, just where do you come from? I'm so curious...
Wakamo's POV:
What just happened?
That helicopter somehow created a gust of wind that swallowed my beautiful rocket and sent him back to me like it was a toy. I even put reinformed armor so that it wouldn't be easily destroyed by feeble bullets.
It doesn't make sense!
Are you telling me that the disgusting GSC managed to find a new weapon that could counter me?! Disgraceful!
I refuse to accept this. But for them to bring this kind of force... That building must have something valuable to them! It's the only answer that comes to my mind!
... I must get there, and destroy everything. They don't deserve what's inside of it, those charlatans!
It was at that moment that something happened.
The thugs I convinced to cause as much chaos as possible started gasping in horror, for some reason.
As I turned around to see what was going on, I saw him.
A green man with a green cap jumping out of the helicopter and quickly falling to the street below.
Hmph. As if I would care for that. In fact, it will be interesting to see the GSC losing one of their assets.
But what I saw wasn't someone falling and suffering a huge injury.
Instead... I saw him completely fine after hitting the floor. And running like nothing ever happened after moving around a bit.
How?
And not only that... His aura. I can feel something... familiar to it. As if... he's kin.
...
No matter, I must get to the building before him... Maybe I'll even get to meet him in person, who knows?
"Heeheehee...~ I can't wait for what's going to happen next~." I say while giggling.
It seems things will be interesting from now on~.
Back to Luigi's POV:
Phew! Thank goodness this world doesn't seem to have a strong gravity like in the paintings me and co. went back at the castle! I was scared I would end up hurting myself.
The benefits of being a jump master, haha! But with that, I was able to see all the rocketeers that are on the rooftops!
There were around 5 of them...
Alright, it's finally Luigi's time to shine!
I started doing a few stretches and running as I hear something.
"Sensei! Sensei, are you there?" I hear Rin's voice from the headphone piece she gave me.
"Yes, I'm-a fine, Rin!" Upon hearing my voice, she relaxes.
"Thank god, Sensei. Unfortunately we cannot land until the rocket launchers are dealt with. If you can take care of them, we'll appreciate it." She gives my first task.
"Okie Dokie, Rin!" I happily tell her.
I started running towards the buildings where I saw the girls with rockets.
While doing so, a few more students with the black X mask appear, but this time with different weapons. They seem eager to stop me in my tracks as they aim their guns in my direction.
"Be careful, Sensei! They are armed with Snipers, Sub-Machine Guns and Assault Rifles!" Rin warns me.
I have seen them using them through the window of the GSC building, but up close I don't know what kind of damage they could do to someone like myself. Especially since the guns people used on the fighting tournaments were just like these.
It's better not to risk it.
I hid behind a few debris that were scattered through the battlefield as the girls commence the firing of the tiny bullet bills.
What I have learned during the Rabbids incident back home is that I must take out high priority targets like rockets and snipers before dealing with the small fries. I can see a few of them back there.
Alright… Let's do this!
One thing that I also noticed during the elevator ride with Rin is that those guns need to reload, differently from my Suction Destruction. Once they need to reload, it's time to strike!
I wait for it to happen… NOW! The girls are changing the little boxes under their guns!
I quickly get out of the debris and run into the girls, catching them off guard and shoot them with my compressed air rifle. Most of my shots miss, but the ones who hit…
Kinda ended up hitting some of the girls' faces.
"Ahhh! My eyes! I can't see!" The girl with a ponytail starts screaming, blindly shooting in any direction and accidentally hitting two of the vanguards close to her.
"A blinding weapon…?" Rin comments on my choice of weapon.
I recall it! Suction Destruction is a long range compressed air rifle that shoots high-compressed air and… has a chance of blinding its enemies!
Seizing the opportunity given to me, I raise my speed and catch up with the snipers, who started panicking and shooting.
"H-How is he so fast?!" One of them asks her fellow snipers.
"I-I don't know! I-It's like he's as fast as lightning or something!" The girl speaks as I approach her at high speed.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it! He's not normal at all! That fox didn't tell us about this guy!" The last sniper screams as I reach them.
Before they have time to process how in the world I manage to run so fast, I raise my hands against them and prepare a classic attack.
"Fireball!"
As green fire comes out from my hands, the girls are quickly one by one hit by the flames, some running in circles as the fire burns their backs. I kind of feel bad for them…
"I'm-a sorry girls, but I'm in-a hurry right now!" I apologize for burning them, seeing how their hair became puffed and smoked from the fire as they fall to the ground unconscious.
Now, only the rocketeers left!
"S-Sensei! H-How did you make that fire appear?!" Rin is shocked by my display of power as the girls gasp in surprise.
"I'll-a answer your questions later, Rin! Not-a right-a now." I ask her.
I see her figure nodding from the rectangular apparatus, her shaking a bit from the helicopter dodging.
I see their rockets flying above me, trying to hit the helicopter where the girls are. I must get there, and quick!
I see an alleyway beside me. Lucky!
I stand between the two buildings and focus. It's for the…!
"Wall… Jump!"
I start by jumping onto the wall on the left and quickly jumping to the right one, raising the height by each jump.
Soon, I reach the rooftop of the building to the right, where the rocketeers are located.
"S-So fast! He didn't even take the stairs." I hear Hasumi commenting through Rin's communicator.
"W-What?! H-H-How did he get here?! One of the rocket launcher girls notice my presence, as I appear from the side of the structure, confused.
"D-Damn it! Stop shooting the helicopter and focus on the green man!" The one who seems to be their leader of their group proclaims.
Thank goodness, Rin and the others are no longer in danger. That's good!
Now, to take care of these rockets once for all!
"What happened to the units on the street floor?!" The leader demands answers.
"I-I don't know! We lost contact with them!" One of the minions responds while the leader grunts.
Taking down the girls below was a good idea.
The girls in front of me start shooting rockets in my direction, one shooting while the other reloads. It's really good teamwork, not gonna lie.
I could either wait for their ammo to end or go all out… but that would totally end up with me being hurt.
Hmmmmmm… Say, I'm kinda curious about a thing. If my gun can shoot high-compressed air… does that mean I can combine the air inside of it with my Fireballs? I never tried using that during the invasion of rabbids.
I put my left hand on top of the green light of my gun and focus. Green fire comes out from my hand, except this time I try to put said fire on the instrument in my right hand.
I hear a *beep* sound. Oh my goodness, it worked! It seems that I can shoot heat compressed air bullets after all! Does that mean this thing has the medals' powers as well?
I aim my gun towards their leader, just to test the efficiency of the fiery menace I ended up creating and shoot.
The only thing I see is the girl screaming in agony as the heat imprints on her body, her body sweating as she runs side to side, trying to pull out a fire that doesn't exist and falls unconscious.
… I hope I didn't put too much power into it.
"B-Boss! What happenHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" The girl tries to understand the situation, only to fall victim to the same thing that happened to her boss as I quickly shoot the other girls, making them too scared to deal with me.
"S-Sensei…" Rin and the others kinda feel a bit intimidated by the brutal power I just unleashed.
I swiftly approach the fallen students and check their bodies, see if they got badly hurt or something.
…
Thank God, it doesn't seem to have caused any permanent injuries, just a few burns. I was scared that I might have caused too much pain for them… I need to better control the output of this thing.
After checking them, I saw that the helicopter I was in managed to land safely, dropping the representatives' students.
"Sensei, we managed to land safely. Rendezvous with the students as fast as you can." Rin informs me.
I need to hurry and meet up with them.
Hmm, perhaps this skill could help.
I duck and charge a bit of stamina to my legs and arms.
"Backwards… Somersault!"
I jump backwards and start spinning, slowly making my descent to the street's floor in no time!
As Yuuka and co. start running towards the building where I was, they can only look at confusion as they see me spinning and slowly getting down from the building.
"… Is he even human?" Yuuka questions.
"Well, one thing is for sure… He's more than what he seems to be." Hasumi tells Yuuka, surprised by the capabilities Sensei has shown them.
The other girls nod, and I finally reach the ground floor without any problems, not even dizzy from all the spinning.
Polterpup swiftly joins my side as I walk towards them.
"Hey, girls! Are you all-a alright-y?" I asked them, worried that they might have hurt themselves before I could stop the rockets.
"We are alright, Sensei. But what about you?! You jumped off the building, started sprinting like it was nothing and did all those athletic movements! You were so cool back then!" Suzumi eyes brightens as she comments on my show of skills, raising her arms in excitement.
"Hehe… This is-a nothing! I used to-a do a lotsa more back-a home. I even-a participated in the Olympics!" I blush and smile with the sudden compliment given by Suzumi.
So, is this how it feels to be a role model for other people? That feels… great.
"Excuse me, Sensei." Chinatsu calls for me. "I need to do a check-up on you, in case anything has happened."
Hmmm… I'm totally sure nothing happened, but you never know.
"Okie dokie, Chinatsu!" I allow her to check me for any injuries I might have caused from the fights.
"Good job, Sensei." Hasumi approaches me. "That was an amazing display of skill."
"Hehehe… Thank-a so much!" Really… I'm not accustomed to being complimented like this, hehe.
"Sensei! Is everything alright? Did you manage to regroup with the team?" Rin calls me, worried.
"Yes, Rin. we just-a regrouped. Chinatsu here is-a doing a quick-a check-up on me right-a now."
Rin sighs relaxed… It seems I made her worry too much.
"Check-up done. There's nothing wrong with you, Sensei… It's hard to believe."
I simply let out a smile and start scratching the back of my head.
Is it difficult to do all the actions back then? They're so easy to do in the Mushroom Kingdom, even a Toad could do it.
Relieved, Rin starts once again.
"Sensei, thanks to you, we managed to arrive at the LZ safely unscathed. In the name of the GSC, thank you." Rin smiles.
"Yeah, if you weren't with us… I don't even want to imagine what would have happened." Yuuka tells me, trusting me a bit more than before as the other girls agree.
I nodded with a smile. Perhaps I'm really becoming the hero I wish to be!
"Now." Rin catches everybody's attention to explain our next movement.
"You guys are 5km away from your objective. The Fox of Calamity was deemed the main culprit to this attack but remember that our main objective is the Schale building! Do not engage with her. Only if necessary! I'll provide air support so you guys can go ahead."
"Okie dokie, Rin! We'll be-a moving now!" I told her, ending the call.
"Alright-y, girls. Let's get-a moving!"
"Yes, Sensei!" They cheerfully raise their arms to the air as we start our journey towards the Schale building…
Only for me to stop abruptly in front of the previous 5 delinquents I took down.
"Um… W-What about them? What's gonna happen to them?" I ask my students, curious as to how justice is done in this city.
"Don't worry Sensei, Valkyrie Police School and the GSC will quickly come and take them to their correction facility. And if they are badly hurt, they will take them to the nearest hospital." Chinatsu explains to me.
"I-I see… I'm-a glad. I just hope they-a can also pick up the rocket launcher girls on the-a rooftops as well. I kinda burned them-a before getting down the building." I casually tell my squad.
"…"
"… You did what?!" Yuuka screams, catching everybody off-guard.
Hehe, it seems that I am the uncommon one in this place, hehe…
We've been running for about 10 minutes now, with no enemies in sight… something is not right.
Although, I don't think I'm the one confused here…
"Fireballs from your hand… How does someone like that exist?" Yuuka kept questioning her sanity after I told her how I used my Fireball skill.
It seems that there's a lot of things that don't exist in this dimension, differently from the Mushroom Kingdom… And I broke Yuuka's sense of logic.
If she's like that with just my Fireball… I better not tell her about the other power-ups... She would probably freak out.
The girls simply shrug and come to the same understanding while I tilt my head a bit to the side.
Suddenly, Rin calls me.
"Sensei, you guys are almost at the Schale building! Be careful!"
"Understood-a! We will call once-a- !" Before I could finish our call, gunshots were fired towards us, making us seek shelter behind some debris.
"Enemies inbound!" Hasumi screams, alerting everybody of the confrontation ahead of us.
"I'm-a sorry Rin, we are engaging in-a combat!" I tell her.
She quickly analyzes the area from the helicopter.
"Sensei, there's a lot of delinquents with miniguns, they won't allow you to peek for an attack this way." Rin gives me the information.
We quickly hide behind some building debris and some destroyed cars as the bullet bills pellets hit our location.
"Sensei! We need to fight back!" Yuuka says to me, her eyes filled with determination. "We will show you what we are all capable of!"
The girls nodded as they wish to show off their skills to me. To be completely honest… I don't want them to get hurt, but seeing as this world is different from mine, especially when it comes to their amazing resistance to these bullet bill pellets, I'll comply.
"Alright-y! I'll help-a you all with coordination, so show-a me what you all-a got!" I tell them, making them smile in return.
Yuuka is the first to move, getting out of the cover and shooting our enemies, immediately becoming their main target.
I want to stop this at once as I see her getting shot, but I need to be strong…!
I do notice something. Yuuka pulls a… calculator?
She then starts pressing buttons on it, activating what seems to be a blue barrier around her!
Is this like the bubbles from the tournaments? Although I don't think she's going to faint when that thing comes off.
I sigh with relief upon seeing the mini bullet bills ricochet from her shield, protecting her from any harm while she pulls another gun from her back and shoots a stream of bullet bills at her enemies.
As quickly as she activated it, her shield turned off, exposing her to danger as bullets start hitting her.
As fate tends to be cruel, a girl using a white coat and white hat accompanied by a huge minigun appears and starts revving her gun. Yuuka is in danger!
"Suzumi! You and I will deal with-a the gunners who escaped Yuuka's flank before they-a have a chance of hurting her too much. Hasumi, you will deal with the-a one with the big gun! If Yuuka gets hurt, Chinatsu will heal her!" I explain to them our next course of action.
"Roger that!" They hear it loud and clear as they prepare for their attack.
We leave our cover and quickly approach Yuuka's position, giving her much-needed assistance. I quickly utilize Poltergust's blow feature to spray the battlefield with dust, hiding Yuuka from our enemies.
"Ow, that hurts! What the heck?! Are they using JHP rounds? That's cheating!" She complains out loud.
"Just take cover, Yuuka. And besides, hollow-points aren't considered illegal." Hasumi tells her, trying to calm her down.
"Well, they are illegal at our academy starting now! That might have left a mark!" She groans, but goes to cover as she was told.
Polterpup approaches Yuuka and starts licking her, worried. That somehow manages to calm Yuuka down as she pets him.
JHP rounds? Hollow point? What is that? One of the many things I'll have to learn later.
"Chinatsu." I call out. "See if-a Yuuka needs healing, please." I ask her.
"On it, Sensei."
Chinatsu approaches Yuuka and checks if she's badly wounded. Luckily, it seems that the barrage of bullet bills didn't cause too much damage to her.
"Phew… Thank you, Chinatsu." She thanks the elf, who smiles and nods in return.
Now with our vanguard healed, we are prepared as the dust subsides and the delinquents start shooting us.
I shoot compressed air shots towards the remaining snipers, some end up blinded and becoming easy picks for Hasumi.
Suzumi however, shows me extreme prowess with her combat rifle, quickly shifting from aggressive to assertive in different situations. But what gets me by surprise is the weird tube she throws at her enemies, which blows up into a light explosion, some of them fainting while others get stunned. It's like she's using a throwable version of the Strobulb! She took down groups of them in mere seconds!
Chinatsu picks her targets based on their status, mostly focusing on the blind and stunned ones, which is ok, since she's mainly a doctor.
The white coat girl, seeing her squad being decimated, starts to panic.
"Y-You will pay for this!" She shoots in every direction, forcing us to hide once again but this time she's not giving us time to fight back.
"Hasumi, can-a you take her-a out? I ask.
"But of course. Hold them off while I focus my shot." She requests of us.
"Alright-y! You heard-a her, girls!"
"Yes, Sensei!"
We fast approach her location, pressuring her into using her ammunition. If there's something that I have learned while fighting these girls is that they rely a lot on these bullet bill pellets. They don't seem to know how to perform close combat as proactively as I do.
Soon enough, after distracting her for a bit, her gun starts to click. As she looks, her bullet bill box behind her back is empty!
"Hasumi! Now!" I scream, giving Hasumi her desired moment of glory.
"Roger!" She then breathes in and focus on her target, her aura growing stronger as she finally pulls the trigger… releasing a huge shockwave alongside her bullet bill, knocking the girl unconscious the moment it hit her.
As we gather together to continue advancing to the building, I can't help but be impressed.
"Girls! You all-a are amazing!" I tell them, happy to see that they can handle things themselves just fine.
The girls blush slightly. It seems that they also aren't accustomed to compliments, huh? I understand you, hehe.
Rin calls me after the combat ends and we continue to move on fast.
"Sensei, the Schale building should be in front of you! Do you see it?" Rin asks.
As we clear the road using the Burst function of my Poltergust. We finally reached the plaza in front of the Schale building.
"That's it! We entered the entrance area of the Schale building!" Yuuka says it.
…
There's just a small problem…
"… Huh? What's that sound?" We start hearing some kind of steering wheel noise.
I know this sound like the back of my hand! It's a tank!
"Take-a cover everybody! Now!" I order them to do so.
As they do, a brownish colored tank with dark green marks appears before us, threatening us with his huge cannon.
This tank… It's not like the metal and wood tanks from King Koopa's army. This is made fully of metal material! I don't know if this thing has a weakness or something…
"Be careful now, Yuuka! That's a Crusader Tank!" Chinatsu warns her about it.
"It's a Type-1! The same is used at our academy! How did they manage to get their hands on one?" Hasumi questions it.
"Must have been stolen! But I doubt normal thugs would have been capable of stealing it by themselves…" Suzumi says, concerned about something.
That something ended being someone as a girl shows up on top of the tank. It's the same girl from before, who tried to hit us with a rocket!
The girl wears a short black kimono, accentuated with golden and white cherry blossoms, a lace choker on her neck and asymmetrical leggings and boots, where the left leg adorns a glossy red sock with a black strap attached to her thigh while the right leg uses a ripped flower-patterned legging with a bluish black shoe and her halo looks like a black cherry blossom with red outlines and a red star in its center… But most importantly…
The mask of a fox that she's wearing and her tail… She's really a fox, huh.
"Well now. It seems that the puppies from the General Student Council have come to play. How adorable." The girl says with a soft, yet mocking tone of voice.
After saying it, she turns around and starts walking towards the Schale building.
"Damn it! She's gonna get away!" Yuuka complains.
"So that-a was the Fox of Calamity?" I question my students, tilting my head a bit.
"Yes, Sensei. That's Kosaka Wakamo, one of the seven prisoners that escaped the Correctional Facility earlier today. She's a suspended student from the Hyakkiyako Academy and very dangerous." Chinatsu explains to me.
"Is-a that so? She looks-a a bit lonely…" I say as my eyes follow her.
"Girls, for now let her go. Our main priority is the Schale building, remember." Rin tell us.
But it doesn't take long for the tank to aim its tubular cannon towards us.
The building is right in front of us… I wanted to talk to that girl but the mission needs to be finished first… I'll have to do something, and quick!
"Alright-y. We need to be quick!" I say to them.
I then press one button, freeing the green goo from its glass capsule.
The girls squeak as they see the slime transforming into my image.
"Girls, this is-a Gooigi. He will-a help us." I tell them.
"I-Is this… A monster or something?" Rin tries to reason with me about it.
"First a ghost… then a firebender… Now a slime tamer?" Yuuka murmurs to herself, although I can still hear her.
The others were kind of confused, until Suzumi approached the slime and touched it.
"It's like jelly, huh?" She looks at her hand, filled with slime now… and licks it, catching everybody off-guard.
"Mhm, tastes like coffee!" She speaks. Seriously? That's weird.
"A-Anyway! Gooigi, run there and take-a few hits as I prepare-a my attack!"
He just nods as he goes to the open field, the tank now aiming at him.
"And-a you, Polterpup!" The ghostly pup raises his head. "Go inside the-a tank and scare the people inside of-a it!"
He simply barks and runs towards the tank.
"Now while-a he distracts the tank, who here is strong-a enough to lift me to the air?"
"What is that? It's walking gelatin?" As they see the green pile of goo that looks like a middle aged man approaching them.
"Who cares! Take it down! I don't wanna be defeated by literal sentient jelly!"
The guns shoot Gooigi with everything they got. Throwing balls that explode like Bob-ombs, bullet bills pellets and such.
Only to not do anything to the goo, which just takes the hit like a boss.
The delinquents are caught off-guard by this and freak out, thinking this jelly might lead the way back to the correction facility. Some run away while some keep shooting it, only to fail spectacularly.
As the thugs disperse, the tank can no longer ignore the green menace in front of it and fire a few rounds on him… with no effect as well.
Thanks to this, Polterpup manages to reach the vehicle and begins to haunt it, stopping the tank's movements.
I think I'm seeing it shake up a bit… Thank god it's not me inside of that thing.
As I see the funny scene unfolding in front of me, I finish what I wanted to do.
I charge a big ball of electricity in my hands and hold it steady, ready to shoot it.
"You can bend electricity as well?!" Yuuka is losing her marbles at the sight of the lightning in my hands.
I ignore it. I need to focus now, so I'm sorry Yuuka.
"Hasumi, let's-a do this!" I tell her.
"Yes, Sensei!" She responds, happy to be of help.
With the electro ball in hands, I jump in Hasumi's hands as she propels me to the air like Mario used to do with me before.
"Polterpup, get-a out of there!" I scream, hoping that he will listen and escape from my attack.
He leaves the tank and goes back to being at Chinatsu's side.
"Phew… Alright-y." Relieved, I start.
As I begin aiming it, the tank tries to quickly put me on his sight, but it's too late.
"Thunder…"
"BROS.!"
What happens next is a huge lightning bolt exiting my hands and hitting the tank with the full force of a real thunder.
Maybe it was a bit much? I don't know…
As the thugs observe the huge thunderbolt dissipate, they all begin to flee the scene as they become too scared to fight.
"H-He ain't normal! H-He can control lightning!"
"H-He's like a green thunder!"
" H-H-He's faster than a thunderbolt, no way in hell I'm fighting that!"
The thugs that were inside the tank all scream as they run away from the debris of said machine.
"Good job, girls! We showed-a them who's boss!" I excitedly proclaim our victory.
"Finally!" Yuuka says it with a bright smile.
"Indeed." Hasumi says, content with her help during my lightning strike.
The other two can't help but simply nod and smile, for they didn't really do much, but nonetheless, I thank their help as I pet their shoulders.
I decide to call Rin and tell her the good news.
"Thank goodness, Sensei. You have successfully reclaimed the Schale building. I'll be arriving shortly." She tells me.
…
Wow, the girls really made me proud of them. They showed me that even without power-ups, they can put on a heavy fight!
But what scares me right now is that fox girl named Wakamo, she did enter the club room before we were able to take down that tank.
From what the students described, she is a sadistic and destructive girl who has been suspended for causing chaos wherever she goes…
But for me, she feels like a lonely girl facing the world alone.
I wanna talk to her if possible, she doesn't see that bad…
Well… the best I can do now is to wait for Rin and plan our next move.
Author's Notes:
Did I made you wait for too long? Hehe!
This time the chapter had 6,7k words to its name! Incredible, isn't? Thank you for joining me on this road to becoming a better writer by reading the story!
I must thank my beta readers "Soundwave" and "random boat" who helped me with grammar errors and stuff! I hope this story has become bearable to read now.
After much effort, the green thunder himself finally reaches the endgame of the Tutorial level of Blue Archive. I wonder what's gonna happen next chapter. But with his skills at play, anything that comes by will be easy to deal with... right?
With that said, I must say. I decided to create a discord server.
It's on my profile.
Feel free to join in and talk with me about stories, ideas, waifus and etc.
That's it for now. Thank you once again for reading my little story~.