As soon as the doors opened up all the participants rushed to their rooms to get their things ready to leave.
5 minutes after the end of the meeting, each participant received information about the fly that would get them to the test area.
30 minutes after the end of the meeting, most of the participants had left their rooms and were heading for their respective hangars, which were basically incredibly spacious almost empty closed rooms within the building from which the planes took off.
40 minutes after the end of the meeting, Seth got to the hangar where the plane that was going to take him to the test area was already waiting. It was a huge jet-like-shaped military cargo plane with a pair of turbojet engines on each wing and two other turbojet engines on the back.
Seth was one of the first ones to get to the hangar however the rest of the participants arrived shortly after him. Among the participants that were present in the same hangar as him, he recognized some students from Knox Academy and a couple of students from Hyperion Academy. However, from what he could see of the group he was in so far was that every group was most likely mixed up with students from different academies.
Unlike the meeting from before, now all of the participants were carrying their weapons, which were quite varied showing all the different fighting styles among the participants. However, some participants weren't carrying any kind of weapon whatsoever, probably because their ability had a direct application as a weapon or because they were confident in their martial arts. Though, the former was the more likely.
60 minutes after the end of the meeting, the hangar doors were closed. By then, around 500 participants were present in the same hangar as Seth. Some seconds after the hangar's doors closed the plane's rear cargo door opened and a man could be seen standing inside it.
"We will now begin boarding!" said the man, catching everyone's attention. "Climb up the cargo ramp in an orderly manner!"
The boarding didn't take too long and in a couple of minutes everyone was on board and the cargo door closed.
"How's it going?" asked the man to the pilot as he entered the plane's cockpit.
"We are still waiting for take-off confirmation from the control center."
"~Bravo 837, prepare to take-off~," said the radio.
The pilot quickly started pressing buttons all over the cockpit as the plane came to life, its powerful engines making the whole hangar vibrate, and slowly, it started hovering above the ground.
While this happened the wall to which the plane pointed started to open revealing the outside of the building. Since there was no need for a track for the plane to take off there was nothing on the other side of the wall. In fact, the wall that just opened was part of the outside wall of the building, it was another hidden gate.
Once the gate was completely open the plane slowly started moving before it accelerated extremely quickly. Once it passed through the gate, it closed again and blended with the rest of the building. While at the back of the plane, the participants were a little taken aback by the sudden acceleration.
"Take this time to rest since you won't be able to do it for the following week. We will get to the test area in about four hours," said the man from before through the intercom.
However, no matter how hard they tried, most of the students weren't able to sleep due to nervousness or excitement.
'Well, I'm not saying no to a good nap,' thought Seth as he closed his eyes, quickly falling asleep.
The sound of a loud alarm woke him up.
"We just entered the test area airspace!" said the man through the intercom. "Under your seats, you will find parachutes you can use to jump from the plane. You may decide when to jump, however, anyone who hasn't gotten off the plane in 2 minutes, that is when we will be leaving the test area airspace, will be disqualified. You can also find a quick guide as to how to use the parachutes on your interaction menus," as he finished saying this the plane's rear cargo door started to open.
The vast majority of the students quickly took out their ID cards and checked the parachute's instructions. However, some of them put them on and headed for the back of the plane, trying to decide when to jump.
After quickly checking what to pull in order to open the parachute, Seth put it on and also headed for the back of the plane. He had expected to see something of the city and be able to decide when to jump based on that, however, he couldn't see a thing. There was nothing but a thick layer of grey clouds as far as the eye could see.
Rumble!
Suddenly the sound of thunder was heard and shortly after that a quick lightning shot through the clouds before another thunder was heard.
'That's a f*cking storm…' thought Seth as he looked at the clouds where several flashes of lightning could be seen shooting through them followed by thunder.
Seth looked at his side and saw that by then more students had arrived, they were all looking with scared faces at the storm below them.
"Seems like a gathering of cowards!" said an orange-haired girl with a smirk as she passed by the different participants. She quickly turned to them as she got to the edge of the ramp, showing them the middle finger with both hands. "See ya losers," she said before jumping backwards off the plane and into the storm.
Her words seemed to shake some of them since shortly after her some participants also jumped off the plane and entered the storm.
"F*ck this!" Seth said before also jumping off the plane.