Converging Idiots

Squad 1 was assembled in their ship as they made their way through space. This time though it was the teacher Mrs. White piloting the skip. Nathan and Maya both sat at the weapons systems clearly being on edge. Allison though stood behind Mrs. White just watching space go by them at an incredible pace as always and had a smile. This went on for a while after getting in the space ship following Mrs. White waking Allison and Maya up and then giving a very basic description of the mission though she had rather pointedly not explained much or rather what she had explained was vague at best. Allison slowly crossed her arm as she shifts her gaze to her teacher. "Hey Mrs. White when are you gonna explain everything?" Mrs. White glances up at Allison quickly before looking in front of her again. "As I said we are retrieving an unexplained source of power in the form of a gem from inside a massive black alt-" Allison cut her off as she began speaking again. "No, I understand that, but this is an overreaction isn't it? There is no way the headmaster was that upset at you for a mission that ultimately succeeded. We have gotten away with worse as they are very lenient with the top of the top. But this time he acted like it was an unprecedented failure or crime that he wouldn't have expected in a million years." Mrs. White sighs heavily at that as Maya and Nathan turn in their chairs to face her as well. Nathan speaks up "Yeah... And I mean... At your hearing they seemed really, really, mad. Also, this mission seems pointlessly dangerous. Would the punishment they gave you really have been bad enough to resort to this? Plus, those other things you said...." Mrs. White looks over at Nathan before looking up at Allison and then back to what was in front of her. "It's sort of complicated... Or actually no. No, it is not complicated but it's still hard to explain." Maya raises a brow at that and opens her mouth to ask for more of an explanation, but Mrs. White continues on her own. "The headmaster is... Well he has trained many of humanities greatest heroes, so he deserves respect. That being said he has unfortunate tendencies. Two to be exact and we have recently had a fight regarding both so now he is mad at me. Firstly, he sees the teachers of the academy, me included as children just as much as the students. He sees himself as an all-knowing father figure, Especially in regards to me as I'm young enough that I used to be his student. This tendency I normally left him alone as I figured it was just a problem that comes with having to train children all the time and that he is in his later years. However about two or so weeks ago he went over the line. He said something that belittled both my abilities and opinions as both the thoughts of youth and well..." Mrs. White just sighs before continuing. "The short version of this story being that he thought he was there to help guide me when really he was just in my way. We had a rather bitter argument and did not speak for a couple of days. We did both get over it and I went to apologize four days later. However, he.... made some rude comments and came onto me in a very... Inappropriate way. This prompted another argument in which we both went too far and said a few things that I at least regret. His second tendency is his interest in much younger women. He had made an advance on me when I was still a student. We had both put it behind us but this new advance and the creepy way it was done. Well long story short we are not on speaking terms and have not been for more than a week. He has been looking for some excuse to punish me as he feels scorned and I have no patience for his bullshit. Which is probably why he let you go on that mission before. I do not know that he knew it would go wrong... But he knew that I had a hearing with the department of human resources about the sexual harassment that day meaning I would either have to not file my formal complaint against him or that I wouldn't go on the mission giving him an excuse to punish me."

Mrs. White's students, all three of them looked at her with horrified expressions and she just sighed. Nathan was the first one to speak up. "That is completely unacceptable! Mrs. White, we don't need to go on this mission we need to go speak to someone in authority!" Allison nearly spoke over Nathan as she started as soon as his second sentence ended. "Yeah what the hell? If I had known all that I would have shot the old pervert when we gave him our mission report." Nathan cut Allison off as he started talking again. "Also isn't this mission actually a suicide mission anyway? He said teams of battle mages who have graduated, several of them died trying to get this done." Allison opened her mouth to cut Nathan off, but Mrs. White spoke over the two of them. "With the information that the headmaster has it would be reasonable to assume that this is a suicide mission. However, I am somewhat more informed. I was told I was not allowed to investigate this project as it was too dangerous but that does not mean I didn't. Between small scouting missions I was able to take here and there and I also had one of my friends from my old squad check it out as much as she could. We have an entry point and a general idea of where we are going. I also know how to safely navigate the asteroid field. I have no doubts that we can do this." Allison was quick with her response. "Yeah but why are we doing this in the first place if the headmaster is being such a fucking creep!?! You don't have to prove anything to him!" Mrs. White nods at that. "I agree I don't have to prove anything to him. However, I got him to give official permission for me to go on this mission that I had always wanted to do anyway. The mission will take some time and even if we get done quickly, we can hold off on returning to report our success which would give the human resources committee enough time to go over the sexual harassment case. Additionally, when we bring the gem directly to the high council, we all get to show him up. Both because A we did something so impressive but more because he said it couldn't be done and there for let this powerful artifact sit there for over 6 years unused." Mrs. White smiles at her own cleverness before letting out a sigh and turning to her students. "This is all of course that you are okay with helping me with this. I mean it's not really fair for me to drag the three of you into this for my own ends." Nathan looked up to Allison who looked back to him and then to Maya before looking to Mrs. White with a smile. "Of course, we are on your side. Plus, I have got to say I like your mischievous side Mrs. White maybe there is hope for you yet!" Based on the look on Mrs. White's face that, that brought up she must have found the prospect of that horrifying.

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Christopher the leader of Class 1 Squad 2 or rather Class 1 squad 2 member 1 paced back and forth in his teams shared room with his arms crossed tapping his fingers on his left arm anxiously. Christopher stood at about 5"10, he has short brown hair and hazel eyes. His teammate Ashley sat on the couch resting her head on her hand as she watched him with a small smile. Ashley stood at five foot even. She has short blonde hair and purple eyes. Purple eyes being a mutation that is common in humans on her home planet of Vezzes. Christopher continues his pacing for a few more moments before looking to Ashley angrily. "How could Allison's teacher just get her out of a disciplinary hearing like that!?!" Ashley just rolled her eyes as her leader was constantly trying to outdo Allison of Squad one. The two considered each other rivals or at least so thought Christopher. Chris though was not tired of the conversation despite starting it every chance he got. "And now even more importantly they went to the unspoken alter! Like what! They are going to die! What were they thinking those idiots!?!" Ashley smiles a little. "Wouldn't it be good for us if they die? We'd be moved up to Squad one you know.!?!" Christopher stops his ranting and looks at her like she had four heads and then was suddenly in another rage. "No, no, no if that happened then I would never have the chance to prove myself better than that arrogant bi-..." He suddenly stops regaining his composure with a smile. "I'm going." Ashley not understanding what he was on about slowly sat up. "Going where? Insane? Because I think you're already there bro." Christopher shakes his head "I'm going to the unspoken Alter to make sure those idiots come back alive." Ashley's eyes went wide at that. "What in the hell are you talking about! You can't go there... How would you eve-" She's cut off by Christopher's shit eating grin. "We have a ship for a reason my dear second in command." Ashley looked like she was about to protest but Christopher started off toward the docking bay. Ashley jumped to her feet to follow him.

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Class 1 squad 1 continued through space in silence for a few hours after their conversation. Allison sat on the floor smiling happily hardly able to contain her excitement. Maya was at the weapons controls station still as blips suddenly appeared on the radar. She looked down and looked at the camera feeds showing off in every direction to try and see what it was appearing on the radar. "Hey guys I have something on the Radar here, but I don't know what yet. Keep on guard and be ready to act if needed." Allison and Nathan jumped to their feet getting ready. Mrs. White looked at the area ahead of her slowing down more than she already was so that she would have more options to outmaneuver an attacker. Suddenly the things chasing them became visible to the cameras that Maya is looking at. These monsters each stand about 9 feet tall. They have long leather wings red like their bodies. They have viscous claws on their hands and glowing red eyes. Maya turns to explain the situation, but Allison is standing over her looking at the screen and speaks first. "Well it looks like Hell's imperial buggery squad is coming to bugger us." Allison giggles as she looks over to Mrs. White. "So, uh devils? What the hell is a squadron of devils doing in bum fuck nowhere space?" Maya speaks up having not appreciated being cut off. "Specifically, these are devils from the first plane of hell simply called fiends. It is unlikely that they would be anywhere other than hell without a leader. Meaning either a powerful wizard has summoned them and intends to use them to attack us for some reason or there is a more powerful devil somewhere nearby." Mrs. White stands up as she goes over that in her mind. "Hey Allison take the wheel for a second. Keep us going no faster than 700 miles per hour okay?" Allison nods and takes the controls as Mrs. White walks toward the back of the ship.

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Christopher ignored Ashley's protests as they walked to their ship which Chris promptly opened and started getting in. "Chris you can't just take military equipment to go save your girlfriend who will probably be okay anyway!" Chris looks down at her with a glare "She isn't my girlfriend first of all. Secondly, I can and will be taking the ship. I am the captain of this squad. Ergo this is my ship." He started to close the door, but Ashley jumped into the ship before it shut. He looked over at her a little surprised. "I didn't think you'd be coming with me." She sighs. "Yeah well, it's a stupid idea but like when you die, I at least want my suit and weapons from out of the ship." Chris chuckles at that as he starts taking off. "Well take a seat then we have some idiots to save." Ashley smiled as she sat at the weapons control panel. "You know damn well Captain that the two of us are the idiots." Chris shrugs as he replies. "That doesn't mean they're not also idiots." Ashley nods. "Fair enough captain."

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Mrs. White stood at the door in the back of the spaceship as she mentally went through spells in her head. The door slowly opened as she drew her sword. The squadron of 8 different fiends where charging after them getting into an attack formation. The vacuum of space pulled harshly at Mrs. White but via a 4th level spell she cast called gravity anchor she was not pulled out of the spaceship like a normal person would have. She then slowly brings her hand up before beginning to cast fire ball over and over again blasting at fiends however before the blasts could get to them they fizzled out in the empty vacuum of space which made Mrs. White's face go red with embarrassment. "Right forgot about that..." She sighs before taking a stance to get ready for her next plan of attack. The fiends charge her speeding up as they slash at her meaning to rip a hole in her suit so that she dies of asphyxiation but as the two fiends in front slash at her she raises her arm with super natural speed and cuts off their arms with her blade before jumping up and casting Gravity anchor on the chest of one of them causing her to smash into his chest feet first. She then stabs forward causing her blade to go through his mouth and out the back of his head. She then jumps up as she causes her gravity anchor spell to target the fiend in the back whipping her all the way to him. She lands and the force of her smashing foot first into the monster's face is enough to shatter its jaw. She then forces her hand into its mouth before casting fire ball which makes the beast explode from the inside. Satisfied that it proved more effective than hurling the first ball through the void of space Mrs. White made her gravity anchor target the ship again blasting her toward the ship again and out of the way of multiple attacks from the remaining 5 fiends. The five devils turn rage clear in their faces, but Mrs. White simply took a fencing stance with a smile. "I was a little out of it when our little bout started, I will admit. But now that I'm being serious, I will finish you all with one more spell. I would hate to use more magical energy than I need to after all." The five fiends then charged her at the same time. They were careful not to be in a line so that to be able to avoid a direct attack from her. It did not matter. Mrs. White cast a spell that she designed herself years ago to pass her last test to graduate from the school in which she now teaches. She held out her hand and cast the level 5 spell called Flash Cannon. A massive beam of golden light blasts out of her hand enveloping all 5 of her targets and reducing them to ash. As the door to the spaceship slowly closes she blows the smoke off of her hand more than a little bit happy with herself.