*** A minutes earlier ***
With fist covered in flames Ramon dashed forward and as he came close Ethan clasped his hands together creating a small force field right against where Ramon hand aimed for and before it could it, as if time was paused captain Wyatt came in between the two, subconsciously considering the flame hands as more of a threat he flicked it away and just then a force had hit him from the back nearly forcing him out of his speed mode pushing him forward slightly. But he quickly caught himself regaining his balance before giving a glance at Ethan 'this boy' he thought grabbing them both he left the training room. But all the student saw was their disappearance.
"pft" Sam sighed "he just doesn't think"
"and that f*cker who can't shut his mouth just made us lose twenty percent of our squad point"
"I don't know why they set up this stupid grading system, you can't force people to be reasonable"
"I swear I must beat some brains into that boy"
"and what? you want him to come hunting you till he kills you or you kill him, or just makes sure he takes you with him to the grave?
"what, why will he..."
"I'm telling you, guys like him are unreasonable, he just doesn't think, better stay clear of him and let the battles deal with him"
"wait, what are you saying" Sam asked
"I'm saying guys like him don't last long he doesn't think things through and just act on impulse and ego, hence falls into danger and dies".
"and you don't think it's wrong to analyze someone like that, it's not cool" rose said.
"whatever" Luke said as they continued to match forward leaving horde of dead beasts in their wake, the students weren't that much distracted by Ethan's drama, having learned from their previous mistake they quickly recoverd themselves, adjusting to maintain the formation as not to create a hole in the army.
More beasts were pouring over as if there was a waterfall of them somewhere most were basically rank D type beast and weren't much difficult to deal with with but the endless flood of them would have exhausted the best of the former humans long ago but the student continued aiming, shooting and slashing while moving forward bit by bit. the horde had laid waste to a lot of buildings that the student were now doubting if there could be any survivors but they knew that there would be as long as only the building collapsed on them but weren't attack by the beasts themselves, the beasts seeing most of their comrades dying had flew into rage and more of them were now rushing to the cause of it. seeing the overwhelming horde of beasts charging over and now encircling them had made them changed their formation.
platoon A still maintained the arrow like shape while platoon B and C had formed an arc beneath it, and if one was to look from above it looked like a drawing of a drop of rain engraved on the ground. while all this was going on the rank A type beast had decided to halt his momentum after wreaking a few buildings with lighting, which made the year two student realize that it is actually an S rank type beast because he seems to be observing the battle
***
In one of the rooms among the school buildings a man is seen scrolling through series of data, seconds later the door slid open
"oh, captain Wyatt, you are here" Evelyn said
"yeah, pulling some data an interesting kid" Wyatt said
"really, so who caught your fancy now, don't tell me you finally found someone to mentor, a speed ability user?"
"oh no, nothing like that, he's actually a first year student who hasn't even trained his ability yet, but for some reason his ability has quite the power above his age" Wyatt replied
"now that's interesting, who's the kid" Evelyn asked
"Ethan Temi, his father is quite the famous businessman allowing different cities to share techs and inventions with each other"
"oh yeah, but I wonder how he survives travelling to cities with horde of beasts outside each city walls, and alone as at that, moreso I heard he didn't even go through the training process, and only obtained the privilege of going through cities because his wife vouch for him and he implanted the AI" Evelyn
"you got quite the detail there"
Evelyn chuckles
"well maybe his gene unlocked some lady luck's power"
"there's something like that"
"I don't know, but it's not impossible, you've seen beasts these days unlocking strange and powerful abilities"
"well his luck ability must have played a big part in getting married to his wife, she's the strongest lightning ability users I've seen"
"Lady Sarah?" Wyatt asked
"exactly"
"wow, now I'm falling for my theory more and more"
"so you didn't exactly believe it before"
"well, it was just a speculation" he paused "wait but the child ability is quite different"
"well, he could be a variant and cases where child ability is completely different isn't rare"
"I'm not sure he is a variant what he used feels like a force field"
"force field?"
***
Suddenly his scenery had changed, he was about dealing with the stupid Ramon who thinks he could say whatever he likes and get away with, no! not with him he'll never let anyone trash talk him as they like, he cares little about any rules anyway, because to him in the end only strength matters, and only those who has strength are worth is respect or anything to him at all, well except his friend. He couldn't see anything as a fold was placed on his face and his hands cuffed to something limiting his mobility to a sitting position, he tried using his ability but couldn't interact with any element both in his body and outside his body that was when he could feel something on his neck which made him realize that a gene suppressant has been placed on him, to top it off he couldn't sense any presence around him at all as if he was placed in an isolation chamber of some sort, this made him realized that he had been imprisoned possibly waiting for his punishment to be dished to him and like that he sat there and slowly hours tick by.
***
The company of students had already been surrounded for hours now with no way to move forward, sure they could retreat but their mission was to rescue as many citizen as they could which is becoming more like a secondary mission as seconds ticked by, now they were realizing that it seems like survival, endurance, battle adaptability and gaining battle experience is what this training was all about but until the rescue mission was completed or their platoons almost taken out they had no reason to retreat. While many had been injure to varying degrees only few had eliminated. those who had been eliminated and unable to fight due to serious injury or passing out had been taken off the training room by captain Wyatt as he had returned from is little research, even when he was away he could see everything going on through his contact and when needed he is readily available. After hours of battle when it finally seems like the number of the beasts were reducing bit by bit,the wolf like rank A type beast which had been watching the battle all the while let out a mighty howl, this was not his first howl in the battle, but this one finally gave meaning to all his previous howls as it seems he had been giving commands and now the beast horde started acting strangely...