It was the first school day of the week . Ben and his sister came to the school. He came to his class. Everyone was pretty excited about the test. Although not much information was given, everyone were speculating about the content of the test. The classes till the martial class went normally.
Soon everyone was in the underground hall in the indoor stadium. Mr. Mahaansh started to explain
" As you have seen in the announcement, this is a simulation test, where a real world condition will be simulated. This test checks multiple facets of a student. That includes their leadership capability, response to danger, physical and martial capabilities etc.…"
The students had started training in various martial arts including some weapon training. This was to make students aware about martial arts and to find their affinities with weapons. Mahaansh continued
"You have been divided into 6 teams of 5 members. I have seen the names for the team. This simulation will be set in a dense rain forest. Each of you will be a group of soldiers. You will have a mission. It is to capture a control tower in the forest. It is guarded inside out. Around 7 km around it is guarded by drones. Around 2 Km around it there are mechanical defense systems and in the 800 m perimeter around it there are armed forces. "
He paused there. He looked around and said
" Your target is to take control of this control tower, while preventing the control tower from sending message to the main base. Since you are students and do not have the clearance to know about the martial world, the simulation will be from the old world, where we did not have any martial abilities. Your opponents will be Marthyas without abilities. In this you will be normal people who will be given energy guns and armour. There will be some supplies and food. You will feel pain and hunger. If you die in the simulation, you will feel extreme pain in the real world. You will have to fight the weather, the animals in the forest, soldiers protecting the forest and control room along with your class mates. This simulation is made similar to the real world as much as possible. Also, the animals and plants in this simulation will have the abilities they have in real world. Hence, you will be dealing with super powered beasts.
Remember, if you cannot do anything without powers, you will not be able to do anything with power either. Your mind is as important as the power you possess.
You will be given sometime to acclimatize with the simulation. After some time, the game announcement will be made. Then you will have to start the game. So, members of same team stand together. We start the game as soon as possible. There is only first place in this. No second or third place. Each of the team members of the first team will be given 30 points. The winners of this class will fight with the winners of the other 4 classes. The members of the winning team in that competition will get 60 points each. That competition will be different from this"
Ben and his friends came together. Suddenly the area underneath them illuminated with a light green light. Ben looked at other teams. The floor under them had also been illuminated with different color lights. Ben slowly went to a sleep.
A few seconds later, Ben found himself along with his friends in a dense forest. They were all wearing military attire which could blend in with the forest. The rain was pouring here. They looked at each other. They had some supplies in their backpack and also had an energy gun in their hand as well as another large gun across their shoulders. They saw a timer on their hands which had 20 minutes in it. Suddenly it started.
Rais: "So we have 20 minutes to strategize.
Saarsh: I think if we have to find the control room , we need to go to the center of the forest.
Jim: That seems too obvious. Will it be hidden?
Roshin: Who knows. If it as the teacher said, I don't think it will be hidden. How can one hide the presence all the drones, soldiers and mechanical defenses cannot be hidden that much. There should be some obvious signs.
Ben: One way to find out is by the presence of drones. But how do they expect us to travel almost 10km into the enemy territory without alerting them.
Rais : On top of that we have other teams as well. How are we going to stop them. Some of them might try to sabotage others, when they see that they cannot win.
Saarsh: We cannot do anything by just standing here. We need to move.
Jim: Why don't we find a high ground? So that we can observe around us.
Ben: But we should be careful. We should look out for others and the drones as well.
Roshin: When we find the rough direction, we need to find a transportation option if possible. If we walk there, we will be tired.
Ben: What will we find in this forest? I don't know.
Jim: We can't do anything by just staying here. We need to find a point for observation."
They discussed various things. Soon the 20 minutes was over. The announcement marking the beginning of the test was made. Since they could not reach a solid conclusion, they decided to move to a point for observation.
Ben and team began to move through the forest. They cautiously moved through the forest. Ben was looking in the front. Saarsh was at the back. He was looking for any ambushes from the back. Rais and Roshin was on the lookout to either side. Jim was looking for threats from the air and tree tops. This was an amateur move. But they were not soldiers. So, they worked as they deemed fit. They did come across some animals. They moved stealthily around those animals so that no one was alerted. They wanted to find an appropriate point for observation. As they moved towards the center of the forest the became more alert. They did a preliminary search. Since they did not find much, the team decided to move to the centre of the forest. The rain was poring, making it difficult to navigate. But it was reducing. They moved cautiously through the dense forest.