Take down A - A queen, a Knight, A dragon [exam]

After weeks and weeks of stress, the time had officially come for the licensing exam. Of course Eli was nervous! However, he was also bolstering with confidence. The first of the three tests he would complete was the disaster control, where Eli rescued some volunteers from an Earthquake. He started out noticeably nervous, but by the end of it he had gotten comfortable enough to where he could rescue people decently well, being sure not to use too much of his quirk so as not to get exhausted. Then came the speed rescue, where he was actually meant to rescue more volunteers, but this time 3 of them had been taken hostage! Eli mainly had focused on the ones scattered throughout, not wanting to waste his quirk too much. He left the hostages to his fellow examinees.



Now though, it was time for the main event. The equivalent of a boss fight in a video game. Eli was buzzing with excitement and anticipation just thinking about it. The man supervising the Exam seemed dull as he explained the only real rule, don't break the place basically which made sense. For one, it was very expensive to hold these exams, especially with this being the first one and it being a yearly event for third years. The last requirement to graduate. Not only that, in a real situation like this you would want to reduce property damage while catching the villain.

The intern then handed Eli, as well as his two partners for this some handcuffs, more for show than anything. The goal was to simply put these on the hero playing villain that they were to face. The three were also told to wait for the buzzer to start the final act of the exam. He looked at the large staircase leading up to the standard Japanese tower, as the doors opened up, Eli saw the female hero they would be facing step out, the hero: True Strike.

Her hair was crimson red, and she wore her usual hero outfit including the blade. Eli's eyes showed his excitement, was he gonna get to sword fight here? If nothing else her sidekicks that would act as henchman were likely to have blades as well. Bandages aligned the woman's top body, covering the top half of her body. Eli then looked at his two companions at the forefront of the rest of the 3rd years there throughout this exam, "You guys ready?" He asked Meara and Jack before looking back to the rest of his classmates, mainly noticing Yumi, Red and Risaka specifically, but now wasn't the time for conversation.

He wore a makeshift hero suit with no specific benefits, a unbuttoned jean jacket partially covered his red shirt, with his jeans being covered by a pair of brown boots. Matching gloves refused to reveal his hands and arms, covering all the way up to his jacket. A belt held his pants up while a scarf of yellow was slung across his neck. The final piece of his costume was a single sheathe strapped diagonally on his back, he was ready for the excitement. Before the buzzer sounded, he used this time to prepare for battle, making a diamond sword in the style of a falchion and a Medieval Royal Crusader shield with a blue lion printed on the front. His sword laid in his sheathe until they would begin.

Miss True strike narrowed her gaze as she looked over the small hoarde of students down the bottom of the steps leading up to her ‘den’ for this little mission, resting a hand on her hip, the other on the sword planted against the ground ahead of her, just looking over them, examining them, taking in which of them she may have to keep an eye out for and which of them she should be singling out to take down. Some of them looked weak and tired, while others seemed raring to go and full of energy. As much as she should focus on the weakest links, she knew the point of this exam was to test them beyond the tests that came before. If some of them still had energy left to give, she had to make sure that wouldn’t be the case after this test.

“Men. Move!”

Just as she yelled, the siren seemed to blare and they were given their signal to charge. The sidekicks that had been lining her sides began to charge down the staircases, but one of them seemed to push ahead of the pack. They seemed to make a variety of hand symbols, with one consistant feature. Everytime they made a new gesture the number of digits they had extended increased. First just the thumbs, then a pinkie to go with it on each hand, and so on until their whole hands were opened and crossed over their chest. Then, their quirk activated.

Barrelling down the stairs were not just the 4 sidekicks now, but in puffs of smoke, a micro army of goons replicated from the leading sidekick. Two groups of one, two groups of 2, and so on, with 2 groups of ten at the back of the pack, expanding out into a long line to make sure no one could easily sneak through the descending army and get up to the top of the stairs.

Eli and Meara were challenged with a wave of easily destructible goons wielding on theme kunai and katana as they descended the steps. If any were punches or kicked, they would fall apart as if made of paper mache’, crumbling with ease, but their own blades and weapons would seem entirely real as Eli, Meara, and the students behind them had to power a line through the first wave of ‘sidekick’.

Meara let out a loud laugh at the other blonde boys comments about never holding back. “Aye, when do either of us hold back?” She asked rhetorically. Yeah neither one of them were exactly known for holding back, be it a friendly sparring match or an actual fight. And as for strategy, that also wasn’t their strongest attributes either. As far as Meara was concerned, the only strategy in this fight was to keep things simple and smash through the paper clones before engaging in combat with the one Eli referred to as “Shadow Clone.” She punched Eli in the shoulder as she scanned the incoming wave of clones that were bearing down on them like a tidal wave. “So what ya say Eli, loser buys the other one dinner?” She said, cracking her knuckles as her quirk activated. Her familiar black and navy blue armor coating her body. “Systems at 100% ma’am” her female robotic AI informed her as her HUD lit up. “Good, let’s kick some ass DANII.” The young heroine said to the AI before both her arms turned into cannons. “No holding back right?” She yelled to Eli as she charged ahead.

Meara wasted no time in opening fire as she charged at the incoming horde. She fired a volley of energy blasts from both of her cannons. Three of her shots struck true, she couldn’t tell if they were clones or not due to her having to keep her eyes moving as the wave of goons surrounded her. Her left arm shifted from a cannon into her normal armored arm, but now it had a retractable blade that extended out about a foot from the end of her arm. A couple of the clones' katanas swung at her and she was able to block their blades with her own. As she went to blast them, two more that had Kuni came up behind her and swiped her in the back and her legs with their blades. She let out a grunt from the impact of the blades. Thankfully for her and unfortunately for them the blades left no more than a few scratches on her armor. “Nice try mates.” She said with a smirk as she blasted the two she was locked blade to blade with. Two quick blasts and they were reduced to crumbled piles of paper mache. She did a quick front roll and got some distance between her and the ones in the back. She watched as they slowly encircled her, their weapons glistening in the light. “Aight, who’s next?” She said, her tone bordering on the cocky side as she slowly spun, trying to keep everyone within her sights, daring them to get in close again.