Group Rescue Squad Gamma

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.

Gamma Squad was going to have an interesting course. It was modeled after a type of rescue the students likely wouldn't see until late in their careers. Secret bases and facilities weren't generally open to the public and required quite a bit of clearance to enter, even in a rescue attempt. national security was very important after all. It was the military that usually took care of those kinds of rescues and was why they had a training course like the one Squad Gamma was going to partake in. Back when quirks were first manifesting, a worker at one of the military's research bases had their newly found quirk go out of control. It put the whole base on lockdown and caused a huge problem for the base in general. The result of that disaster prompted the military to develop the underground base rescue course.

That was what the students were going to take part in. It was a mock underground base. This one, in particular, was an arboretum. It housed many different plants and vegetations for all different kinds of research. In the real thing, samples of seeds from just about every known plantlife was stored safely in case the species were to go extinct. The seed bank was a valuable resource that needed to be protected and in the rescue that day, not only was the seed bank saved but all the personnel within the base as well. It was the students turn to try and replicate that feat. There were nine targets to save and bring back to the marked off section of the ground outside the entrance to the base. Right next to it was the starting line where the students were to gather before entering the base and starting the class.

A few mannequins were stuck within the major area of the Arboretum itself. With all the trees and vegetation around, it was almost like navigating a forest with steel walkways and a metal sky. One of the mannequins was stuck tangled in some vines. It belonged to one of the few known quirk affected plants. It was a carnivorous plant that used it's leaves to "smell" and "taste" meat and blood. It was attracted to it and often used its vines to ensnare its prey and bring it to its acid filled cup for digestion. While the mannequin had neither of these things, it was still tightly within the grip of the plant. And its vines were very strong, strong enough that not even a chainsaw could cut them through quickly. Somehow, the students needed to get the plant to let go of the mannequin and grab it before it was ensnared again.

On the opposite end of the Arboretum were the saltwater plants. They were in a large pool underneath the water and with them was another mannequin. It was buried up to its heels in the dirt that fed the plants and needed to be dug out and brought to the surface. Doing so was going to take a bit of time and with the saltwater around, it would be difficult to even keep a person's eyes open. The water was such that it could dissolve may other liquid-based things pretty quickly, like plasma or salvia.

Another mannequin was stuck on top of a very unique genetically engineered tree. It was about seven meters tall and was kept away from the other trees in the Arboretum. Its trunk was very thick and was about a wide as two of the students put together. Not only that, but the trunk was extremely sturdy due to its thickness and size. Chopping it down was just plain not an option. To make matters worse, the trunk also had a number of spikes protruding out of it to prevent animals from climbing up it. So those hoping to rescue the mannequin had to find some other way to make it up the tree without climbing or cutting it down. Fortunately, this tree was also special in that it fed off a specific kind of light reflected off of the moon. As such and the reason why it was kept away from other trees, it was kept dark and shaded with minimal lights on it.

In one of the side chambers of the Arboretum was a room where the plants inside needed very intense sunlight. The entire room was covered in light and there was not a single area of shade to be found, even under the plants themselves. The floors, the walls, and the entire ceiling were all lined with light fixtures to make the room as bright as possible. Even a person walking in will have their shadow diffused to the point of nonexistence. It was in here that a mannequin needed rescue. It was set with an injured leg and needed to be moved very carefully. It was also sitting among some clearly marked poisonous plants. This meant that the mannequin needed to be moved from afar before picked up manually unless the plants could be moved or cut away without touching them directly.

Then there was the ventilation room of the underground facility. It used a massive wind tunnel to bring fresh air in and out of the base. A mannequin was set up against the guard vent of the massive fan that churned the air through the wind tunnel. Its arms were stuck int he grates to keep it from blowing away. The entire tunnel was a smooth slick metal surface. Nothing was capable of sticking to the walls or getting a hold of anything to hang on to. And to make things worse, the wind was blowing so hard through the tunnel that anything under two hundred pounds would be blown away like a sheet of paper.

Near the ceiling of the Arboretum was a long catwalk the lined the walls of the main area. It was used to tend to the taller trees in the facility when it was needed. A mannequin was stuck up there at a portion of the catwalk that was in disrepair. Getting to the catwalk was as easy as climbing the stairs to the entrance of it, but part of the catwalk could no longer support itself while hanging from the ceiling. The wood that served as the platform to walk on a was flimsy and broken. It could just barely hold the weight of your average teenage boy. Anything heavier would break the wood and send them falling to the ground floor of the Arboretum.

The last three were in the personal chambers of the base. One was locked in their living quarters. The door was damaged and crushed inward in the middle, It needed to be unwedged and moved by force in over to get to the mannequin and rescue it. Messing with the door's control panel or the system for the living quarters at all would wedge the door even tighter and make it harder for the door to be moved.

Another mannequin was stuck under a collapsed bunk bed that was going to need the combined efforts oft he teens to move. It was very heavy and if moved, the stuffed that caused it to collapse would fall too, injuring anyone underneath it. It was possible to lift everything just enough to move the mannequin under it, but doing so by oneself was ill-advised.

The last mannequin was in the base's showers. All of them were on and spraying out scalding hot water uncontrollably. The mannequin was likely to be burned by the water if not rescued in a timely fashion within five rounds. It was possible to turn off some of the showers, but the rest could not be turned off without turning off the water to the personal chambers completely. This would, of course, affect other rescue targets in the chambers because it would mess with the systems in the living quarters.

The class will end once all mannequins are rescued and brought back to the safety zone, or time runs out (the event ends and the topics closed). This is not an exam, but a class. Students are here to learn and practice, not compete with the other squads to do things the best way. Mistakes are allowed. The important thing here is for students to learn to work together for a common goal. Aside from the stuff in this opening post, the topic and setting are free to use and proceed as you wish. If you have any questions, contact me on the discord. From this point on the student shave free reign and I will not be replying to the topic unless needed for something specific and by request. Have fun with it!