Rage (Chapter 5)

The twelve students sat in the classroom chatting and laughing with each other. Suddenly the door slammed shut and the lights went out, turning the room pitch dark. The students quieted as each heard the click of clip sliding into a gun. One of the students felt the the cool metal of a barrel of a gun against her temple. She reached for her own gun and the area of where the arm of the person would be. She swore as she felt empty air in both her holster and the place next to her. A second later, another student swore as the same thing happened. Four others students experienced the same thing a few seconds later. Then suddenly the lights came back on, blinding the students for a few seconds. When they were able to blink their eyes back to normal they saw five student Z28 guns on the teachers desk and Joseph leaning against the desk.

“The students sitting in this classroom today are the best that the Paladins have to offer. Yet I was able to disarm six of you easily. And before any of you even think it, what I did was not a Knight only manuver. The headmaster did the same thing to my class when I was your age.”

One of the students raised her hand.

“Yes Gonzalez?”

“Did any of you pass the test?”

“Actually yes, two of the students did. One of the students had taken their sidearm out the moment the lights went out and had it at ready. The other used a small sidearm that they kept in a trick holster in their sleeve after they realized their primary firearm was being removed from the holster.”

“Which one were you?”

Jospeh smiled softly, “I was the one that took their sidearm out at the beginning.”

“Who was the other one?”

A slight shadow passed over Joseph’s face, but disappeared just as fast.

“Let’s start the lesson.”

Joseph held up each sidearm and called out the owners’ names to come collect them.

“Gonzalez, Akira, Wierzbowski, LaPointe, Sanchez, Briggs.”

After the students had sat down again, Joseph turned to speak to the class, but before he could say a word, the door opened and the headmaster walked in.

“Central…” he spoke to the computer.

“Here Headmaster.”

“Briefing room 6, go secure.”

There was the sound of a lock turning in the door and the window turned black.

“Room 6 has been secured.”

The headmaster, Robert then turned to the class.

“Sorry to interrupt but there is a matter I need your full attention on.”

“We’ve just recieved word of an uprising in the Katar district. We need an undercover group for this, but it has to be something different than the usual teams. In this case it would be you all posing as high school students on a field trip with Joseph posing as your instructor. Before I continue, I need anyone who is not willing to take the assignment to step out of the room.”

No one moved, they sat there looking at Robert, waiting. He walked to the front of the room next to Joseph. Joseph turned his head slightly and whispered to Robert.

“Back into the field again, eh.”

“More than you know old friend.”…

Tenchi

“The cultivation of the mind, the body, and the soul, and we must always cultivate the soul.”