Group Rescue Squad Alpha

Cian had carefully put together a number of group rescue exercises with the opening of Semper Fi. Their rescue facilities were top notch and he wanted to use the opportunity to teach his classes a very valuable lesson. The school year was in full swing and it was time that he provided them with a big challenge. That in of itself was a big channel for Cian. He had to craft puzzles for the students to make creative use of their quirks and put them in a situation where they had t work together to complete the objective. This most important part of this class was learning to work together with people that didn't interact too much. He knew that some of the students knew each other, but he designed the groups to have from different classes. This way he could do his best to ensure they weren't too familiar with each other. It was a fun idea and he had a lot of fun putting together the courses for the students. And naturally, he couldn't help but place little mental bets on how each student was going to handle each situation.

Squad alpha's course was going to be a replica of a sinking cruise ship. The military bases resources were quite astounding and their ability to create such a thing for the purposes of training was truly phenomenal. So once the course was set up, Cian called the students from their class and assigned them to this course. The classes where being divided up as the day went on and students were going to be able to complete the courses on their own. Cian and the other staff were simply going to take supervisory roles as the students worked through the course and completed the class on their own. He just wanted to see them work together.

There were nine targets for the students to rescue in total. Like with the previous rescue classes, they were mannequins the students were used to handling. Since it was still the beginning of the school year, Cian didn't want to move to more advanced placeholders just yet, though soon they would be implemented with the help of Semper Fi's advice and resources. Each one had to be found and placed safely on the target area at the start point of the course. It sat on the edge of the water where the replica of the sinking cruise ship sat. The three students, Sean, Mei-Lin, and Kirk were to line up in front of this target area and wait for the signal for the course to start. They had to find a way on to the cruise ship and to rescue the nine mannequins within to complete the class.

One mannequin was held up on the bridge. They were wearing a captain's hat to signify their role on the ship. It hung from the console in a knocked out fashion under debris. With much of the ship over the water, there was plenty of time to get him before he drowned, but to be saved the debris needed to be moved. It'd take a team effort, or some incredible strength to move it safely without injuring the Captian mannequin too much. And even with it moved, the debris was holding ore debris at bay. So the Captain had to be moved quickly before the rest fell on him and crushed him.

The second mannequin was in a much more dire situation. Deep in the part of the ship that was fully submerged, the mannequin was trapped in a glass compartment under the water. This compartment was too heavy to move as a whole and needed to be opened in order for the mannequin to be moved to safety. However, the water pressure from the water around the compartment prevented this from happening. Because this was a class and not a real person, the students had time to figure out how to save this person, but should also understand that if it was a real person, they were a top priority.

The third mannequin was at the end of a small hallway. They were in one of the suites with the hall leading up to that suite collapsed. Now the only path to the room was one that was long and needed to be crawled through. It was a very tight space, meaning those with smaller or lankier bodies would have an easier time crawling through it. In fact, the space was so small that a student's back would be rubbing up against the ceiling of the crawl space that was about ten meters long. To make matters worse, the ceiling of the space was jagged and could easily cut up a person's back if their body was too big for the crawl.

The next mannequin was at the nose of the ship, near the highest point of the whole course. It hung from the railing as if a person was trying to get as high as they could and tripped. If the mannequin's grip gave out, it would slide down the bottom end of the ship and fall into the water. Naturally, a mannequin could not swim and it was important that this one was saved quickly before it did fall. In fact, the mannequin's grip would give out in roughly five rounds.

Then there was the mannequin in the engine room. It sat leaning up against one of the ship's engines. The vibration from the stuttering motors was shaking it quite violently. And if it took too long for the mannequin to be rescued, it would be permanently damaged. Unfortunately, the engines were causing another issue. Due to the violent vibrations, an earth-shattering ringing rocked the whole engine room. The place was quite large, but the engine room was sound proof. So the sound was contained within the room until the door to it was opened. Navigating the room for a search would take some time, but the sound could be withstood with some effort and perseverance. The biggest issue with the sound was the frequency. While it wouldn't immediately affect most things, it was just at the right frequency to cause a certain type of mineral to crumble. It would be dangerous for rock-based heroes to spend too long within the room.

There was also a small puzzle room located on one of the decks on the ship. Behind a glass door was a mannequin trapped inside that needed to be rescued. The glass was too think to be broken, even with an explosion. It was a reinforced sapphire panel like the ones made for the military's helicopters. A small handheld laser pointed was embedded to one of the walls perpendicular to the glass door. And next to the glass door was a panel that would open the door once enough light from the laser it that small point. Al that was needed was a certain type of curved mirror to angle the laser just right. And the location of that mirror was two floors below that one. It was held within a dark room. Three of them existed and only one was needed to be carried up to the room with the glass door. However, if any sunlight from outside touched the reflective side of the mirror, it would dim and be rendered unusable. It needed to be protected from the light until it could be used in the correct room. And to compound to that, the hallway that led to the room with the glass door had a missing wall. It was an opening in the ship and all the sunlight from outside engulfed the whole hallway leading up to the room with the glass door.

Another mannequin was floating on the part of the deck that was touching the surface of the water. It was tangled in the many ropes that were attached to the life rafts on the side of the ship. The rope was slowly being pulled under by the stuttering blades of the motor. And in a little way, the mannequin would be pulled under to its death if not untangled safely and rescued. The problem was that there were many different ropes all colored white, so it was difficult to tell which ones tangled up the mannequin and which one was being pulled under. A rescuer needed to work quickly to save the mannequin.

There was also one mannequin in the ship's kitchen. It was stuck in the freezer that held much of the food that would be prepared over the course of the cruise. It was a very large and almost maze-like area. And with the ship tilted, the racks within the freezer were knocked over and blocking any kind of organized travel. Anyone wanting to rescue the mannequin which stood in the ack of the freezer was going to have to make the time to create a path to the mannequin to get them out safely. Doing so meant spending quite a bit of time in the freezer in sub-zero temperature.