PoV Musashi and Maeve
The Robotic drones had Diana pined down.
"No one mentioned theses guys in the video!" said Chung Zhang aka Musashi, referring to the droids that ran through the maze.
"Don't worry Musashi" answered Diana. "Surprises like this only make it that more of challenging ."
"How is that a good thing?" said Chung shouting to be heard over the clang as a dozen or so darts hit against the wall they were using as cover.
"The greater the challenge the greater the success" said Diana showing Chung her don't you dare even think about disagreeing with me face.
Chung wanted to argue that some more, but one look at her face convinced him otherwise.
Diana had give Chung the name Musashi after the famous ronin Miyamoto Musashi.
Chung had objected that he was Chinese not Japanese, and had the build of your average couch potato; maybe a little bit shorter.
Naturally Diana gave him the name Musashi anyway.
Suddenly Diana heard a dart come from the opposed direction.
One of the drones shut off.
Diana turned to see Matilda Chance stood peaking out from the hallway behind Diana.
"Nice Shot". Diana mutter to herself.
The drone see the new threat turned his weapon from Diana and Chung. preparing to bring down a volley of darts on Matilda.
Diana saw her chance she jumped from cover. The drone see the iminent danger changed his aim with the speed and grace of a professional. Yet it was not fast enough.
Diana got off her shot before the drone did. The done stiffened, his gun froze, and his glowing eyes faded.
"Not so bad shot myself" Diana said aloud.
PoV Loki
Nicholas's heart thumped in his chest
"Calm down, I've got to calm down" he chanted desperately to himself. Nearby he heard a gunshot and saw blood flowing on the floor under his feet
"Not real, not real its all in my head. This is just a game calm down, calm down" he repeated with growing intensity. He started walking when he realized that everyone was ahead of him. A droid spun on him from the left as he reached the intersection that the others had already passed. A dart buzzed as it passed a few centimeters from his ear. Suddenly he was six again covered in the blood of his parents weeping while his home filled up with smoke. Instantly the temperature doubled and Nicholas knew instinctively that this was not his imagination. When the dart hit him his first feeling was one of relief as his green suit began to glow an ominous light blue. Nicholas dropped his gun and ran before his memories could catch up with him.
PoV T.L.
The drones had taken them by surprise as, no doubt, their teachers had intended. One had already taken out Nicholas. That left only three of them. Thankfully the simulation was a maze of hallways that provided plenty of cover.
"Watcher, go in front. Paragon, make sure no droids are behind us" Most of the droids were ahead of them not behind. But there was no guarantee that they wouldn't send in more if too many were eliminated. Amanda stepped out ahead of him into the new hallway. Alvin saw her mistake and pulled her back as a dart flew passed her nose. Pushing her to the side he shot a burst of darts at the droid waiting to ambush them in the new hallway.
"Please try and be a little more cautious when you enter the hallway. I'd hate to be stuck with only little miss perfect to help me." Alvin said fortunately for him the sound of darts ricocheting off the walls as two new droids entered, made it impossible for Susanne to hear his comment to Amanda. A few more shots from Alvin and Amanda and the droids were stiff and motionless. Alvin turned to Susanne who, he had noticed, had not fired her gun the entire time.
"How about some help next time?"
"You told be to guard the back" Answered Susanne. Alvin didn't bother to argue instead he just rolled his eyes and motioned for the team to move forward.
