"For the second part of this exercise, there will be a drastically different setting," Giza said as the image of an oil rig came on screen. "Here the hostages will be set in multiple locations, and there will be more villains, who are far more well coordinated. The location of the hostages, and the type of villains you face, will change each round, and you will have to find out information on your own."

"However, all of you will be split into these teams," Giza said, as the screen changed, showing the teams.

Fu, Sansan, Mu.

Himiko, Alice, Ken.

Aka, Kano, Tenko.

Kiba, Sakio, Shina.

Yaba, Ji, Inu. Nara.

Le, Shiruku, Yami.

"Wait why does one team have four?" Kiba immediately asked. "Unless we count the triplets as one, in which case they only have 2?"

Giza shrugged. "It's just how the numbers panned out. Now then. The exercise you be considered a success if you take out all the villains, or rescue the hostages. Although you might find that harder considering the location is over water. And of course, the exercise will end in failure if any of the hostages are killed. As stated, the villains will have communicators, and generally be more competent. So a more stealthy approach will do you well in most cases. With that said, let's begin."

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Fu and Mu approached the docking area underwater, inside of a Sansan bubble.

When they reached their entry point, Mu exited the bubble into his pocket dimension.

Afterwards, they waited a while, until Mu returned.

"I took care of the guys in the docking area. And the guy in charge." Mu told them. "So their communications should be a bit off."

With that info, Sansan surfaced, and let the two onto the docking area.

Mu then used Fu's blood to draw a map of the entire area while giving a detailed listing of all the villain's quirks(at least the ones he could find out about), and where all the hostages were located.

And with that, they moved out.

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The first area of concern was the cafeteria, where many civilians had been tied, up, and watched over by two villains. One villain with an obvious elephant quirk, and another person looked rather normal and thus had an unknown quirk.

"Huh." The elephant villain heard something. Something…slimy. And started looking around.

"What is it?" The other villain asked.

"I don't know. Heard something…kinda wet." The elephant villain said as he looked around.

"Dude, we're over water." The other villain said.

And then, he suddenly heard a sizzling sound.

By the time he realized what was going on, it was already too late. Sansan popped out of the ground beneath them and grabbed and consumed their bodies whole.

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Meanwhile, on the helicopter deck, where even more hostages were being held, two villains with guns stood guarding them.

Suddenly, two giant arms grabbed their feet and dragged them through the ground. And after a few gunshots, they were silenced.

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Inside the hall of the worker's personal quarters. All the workers were locked in their room, a monstrous werewolf villain stalking the halls. Waiting for orders.

That's when Fu came into sight.

"Wa! A hero!?" The werewolf tried to pull out the communicator, only to find he didn't have it. As Mu had destroyed it beforehand.

Fu then launched tendrils at him, restaining his limbs, and then shoving them down his throat to keep him from breathing, until he passed out.

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Sansan and Fu continued taking out the villains in groups, while Mu messed with their communications, and freed hostages until finally the exercise was complete.

Next up, it was Himiko, Alice, and Ken's turn.

First, Himiko had Ken turn into Ripjaws, and sneak her close to the rig, before tossing her onto it, using his jaw.

Afterward, Himiko snuck through the base, lurking in the shadows, and then hiding in one of the bathrooms.

When one of the mooks finally went in to do their business, as soon as they sat down on the toilet, Himiko fell from the ceiling and put her knife over his neck.

"Unless you want to start gushing out of a different hole than you intended, you're gonna talk. A lot." Himiko said.

"Y-You won't kill me! You're a hero!" The villain said, only for Himiko's knife to dig into his skin, not quite drawing blood, but getting scarily close.

"Heroes CHOOSE not to kill…most of the time." Himiko reminded him. "Do I seem like a hero that doesn't like to kill?"

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The leader of the operation was looking down at everything from the boss's quarters. A few hostages tied up behind him for good measure.

Suddenly, the door to the office opened, and one of his mooks walked in. "Sorry, boss I just got some bad news."

"What is it? And what made you leave your post to come talk to me about it." The leader said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, you see-" Then suddenly the Mook threw a knife, destroying the boss's communicator.

The boss immediately took a shot at her with his laser eyes, but Himiko ducked under it and threw some more knives into his kneecaps.

"Agh!" The boss fell onto his stomach and shot one more blast at Himiko, but this time Himiko jumped over it, and landed on his back, out of range of his quirk.

"Here's how this is gonna go. I'm not gonna kill you. But." Himiko then stabbed a nerve in his forehead, while covering his mouth as he screamed in agony. "I can make our time together, very, very exciting. So unless you wanna figure exactly how much blood a person can lose before their body doesn't work anymore, as slowly as possible, you're gonna tell me. Everything."

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After that, it was all over.

Himiko relayed all the information to Alice. And with her quirk, and Himiko impersonating the boss. They were able to fully control their enemies movements.

Ken acted as the literal muscle, Wild Mutt allowed him to quickly, yet carefully pick everyone off, and save the hostages, without issues.

Which meant it was time for the next team to take the stage.

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Aka and Kano had a simple, yet genius plan.

Have Kano's mosquitoes carry tiny pieces of Aka, and inject them into the villains.

For the most part, this worked without issue. There were some villains with skin too hard for the mosquitoes to peirce, but there were only a couple of those. Who could easily be taken care of by the others?

It was all going well. Until a bump in the road, caused their entire plan to crash and burn.

There were two villains guarding a few hostages. One with super hard skin, and the other armed with a gun.

Kano had her mosquito go, and try to infect him.

"Gah!" The goon cried as he felt Aka try to take over his mind.

And then he activated his quirk, increasing his body temperature to a point where that little bit of Aka simply couldn't survive.

Once it was clear something was up, he turned his gun on the hostages and fired. Ending the exercise in failure.

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The next team made the exercise look like a cakewalk.

Shina casually made her way through the oil rig using her invisibility and pure silence buffs. There were surprisingly some villains who had quirks that allowed them to notice her, but Shina took them out and any surrounding mooks before they could make a fuss.

Once Shina located all the hostages, Sakio put force fields around them and carried them out of the rig, Kiba putting a stop to anyone who stood a chance of stopping this evacuation.

And with that, they'd won.

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First, the triplets swam Nara onto the docking area. Nara used her Grey Matter form, to sneak past everyone, and get into the vents.

There Nara spent hours sneaking around, transforming in and out of Grey Matter form, and taking mental notes on everyone's positions, routes, abilities, potential abilities, and every detail she could garner with her enhanced intelligence from the vents.

Afterward, she exited the vents and made it into the water, leaving the rig using XLR8.

Then when after making a careful plan, they went back with XLR8, taking out everyone at the docking area, before quickly taking over the rig. Taking out all of the villains so quickly and precisely, they never stood a chance.

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Once again, the next team made light work of the challenge.

Using Le's Chaos Sense, he was able to get a map of the whole place in minutes.

After that, Shiruku's spiders, Yami's Hounds, and Le's teleportation ended the practice in less than 20 minutes.

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"Well then, I hope this exercise has taught you all something very important." Giza said.

"Yeah, that that exercise was was rigged." Kano and Aka sulked.

"Of course it was. Did you think I would let us use such an obvious strategy without tripping you up?" Giza chuckled. "That room was designed to test your ability to adapt, and because you got overconfident, you failed. And that brings me to what I was trying to tell you, the importance, of Information and teamwork."

"I'm sure you all noticed, how much harder that would have been if most of you attempted it on your own. Or simply how much faster others made the process of completing the exercise." Giza explained. "Whether that be information gathering, or acting as muscle, we all have our parts to play, and when we play those parts together in perfect step, anything is possible. Of course, no matter how powerful you are, or how many allies you have, getting careless will always bring your undoing. Understood?"

"Yes, Sensei!" Everyone said.

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