UnStable World

Border

“What’s taking them so long… He said five to ten minutes…” Said to herself Aria.

From the corridor came sounds of footsteps. Aria thought that this needs to be her team but Emilie helped Osir, so why only one person is coming here? In the door stood Matthew. He saw a button in front of him.

“Pff… Those idiots celebrate their victory too early…” 

Matthew slowly walked to the button because he still was paralyzed a little bit. He was sure that everyone was on the lower floors but he was surprised when Aria fell on him with a bat. After that drones informed that “Osir’s team won, Alex’s team lost.” 

Osir was surprised by the announcement but he was happier about the victory than concerned why the announcement was a little bit late. He was that happy that he even forgot about Lucas. 

On the way down Aria caught up to Osir and Emilie. Osir waved to her but she got that serious face of her. He knew that something happened but he just gave her his innocent smile. 

“Didn’t you forget that we were fighting four, not three of them?!”

“Yeah… Alex was on the first floor, Matthew on the seconds, and Samuel with Suu at the staircase.”

“That doesn't sound right… Because Matthew was on the third floor!!!” 

“But you got him. We won, well done.” 

“Yeah… but still!” 

“Let’s go rest before our final test.”

“And why did you cool down my neck! You know It was unpleasant!!!” 

As they were leaving the building Osir remembered something.

“Where is Lucas?”

He was just behind him under the vines. Osir grabbed him and took him to the medical tent. There was so much blood on him but to their surprise, the nurse said that he didn’t have any serious wounds, just little burns. 

General gave them an hour to rest and then he would explain what kind of combat test it would be this time. 

After a long time of waiting Lucas didn’t wake up so Osir’s team would fight three on three against Martin’s team. 

As the sun was going down General Meyer started explaining the rules of this test.

“This time both teams will be on defense and in the offense. Now you’ll be fighting in the forest. On each end of the arena, there will be a button. Like last time you can win by pushing the button or by knocking out the other team. Any questions? No? Then move out!” 

11th of March 2057 Russia / Saratov

On the road to the east of Saratov, there was a squad of four armored vehicles and three trucks with normal soldiers in them. They were slowly approaching the bridge to the Saratov but on their way one of the armored vehicles exploded. There were a few mines placed on the road. Two soldiers in red uniforms left the truck to remove the mines. 

Also one of the soldiers from the armored vehicle helped them. He was wearing a different uniform. He was one of the esper soldiers. Soldiers tried to move the mines by pushing them with their rifles. One of them activated the mine. The explosion was going his way but then It stopped like there was a wall. It was an esper who was with them.

He commanded them to not stop their work. There was another explosion and Esper also stopped it but as soon as he laid down his hand he got shot in the head. One of the soldiers panicked and activated another bomb but this time there was no one to protect them. 

In the building in Saratov, there were two guys wearing blue uniforms. One of them got a sniper rifle and the other got binoculars. 

“You got a B rank esper and two normal soldiers.” Said a guy with binoculars.

“Thanks for the info. Shout if someone with A rank or dangerous ability will come out.”

“Yes sir!”

Man with a sniper aimed again and shot in the small space in an armored vehicle. He shot a driver. As he was aiming at the driver in the second vehicle someone came out of the fourth vehicle. He had long green hair and he wore a black uniform and black gas mask.

“Sir… Someone with a Serpent Rank left the vehicle…” Said the scared man.

Man with a sniper rifle fastly aimed at his head but then he saw that from his mask, gas was coming out. After a moment of hesitation, he shot. The bullet was melted by the gas. 

“What a nuisance. Leaving weak soldiers to protect the border… Just be gone…” Said a guy with a mask. 

Gas flew into the building and spread out across the whole city. Soldiers that were shooting them died and their skin was slowly melting. There were more soldiers and they died the same way. 

Saratov was a camp for the border patrol of Center School. In the city, there were three rank S espers, eleven A ranks, and twenty two normal soldiers. They all died in a few seconds by the Serpent Rank.

One of the esper soldiers left the vehicle and approached a serpent rank. 

“General Ozaki. We’re waiting for your orders.”

“We can move out, leave the bodies of dead soldiers. Nature will make better use of them than us.”