11:57 AM, August 17 2021. Ishiyama High, Odaiba, Japan.
Late morning fills the air over the high school campus, which sports an all-male student body.
Right now it’s summer vacation and the campus is normally empty around this time.
The only exception to having students on campus is remedial class.
“So what are you going to do after class?"
“I’m probably just going to study; you know how my parents are.”
The students are currently on their lunch break, chatting away as if they’re on a regular school day.
“You really think that ‘Silverback’ as they called it can match up to an IS?”
“Just from the looks of it, I’ll say no.”
A small group of students are on the rooftop of one of the branch-buildings, just blowing off some steam they’ve got from the lessons they’ve received.
“They said that they’re going to broadcast a live demo for it in a few days. How are they going to do that?”
“It could possibly a fight with an IS.”
“Yeah, as if IS Academy will send one of their ISes for something like that.”
“If they actually did, I wouldn’t be surprised if it won’t last more than a second.”
“With the IS being the victor, of course.”
One of the students looked up towards the sky that’s partly cloudy.
“Yeah, and for the rest of our lives, it’ll be female supremacy...”
[Change]
While the students are having their chatter, unaware to them was an IS high up in the sky, observing them.
The IS has a blue-grey color to it with black on various ends on its parts and gold on the the accents of the legs and side skirts and broad looking wing thrusters and shoulders that gives it the impression that it’s heavy weaponry.
Flashing on its visor is a holographic time display, beeping while flashing the time [1200]
*Zhn-n* *Ti* *Ti*
Scanning the whole campus, the IS’s combat systems quickly determined its first target on the campus.
The IS slowly slid open its wing thrusters and shoulders while its visor’s targeting system locks on a moderate size shed.
Switching to infrared, the drone notices the shed that it’s locked on is dispersing heat via cables connected to the rest of the buildings on the campus. The IS assumed the shed its initial target, marking it for its weapon system.
*DON DON DON DON DON DON DON DON DON DON!*
Multiple missiles burst out of the IS’s wing thrusters and shoulders, rushing towards their target.
The missiles came down roaring, just flying over the track and field of the campus.
*BOOM!*
The first missile blew the shed, soon the others followed, completely obliterating the shed.
The sudden thunderous noise startled the students on the campus.
*BOOM!*
"Whoa!"
“What in the!-?...”
The students on the rooftop quickly went up to the side rail, to see fiery debris from the shed littering the field.
“What the hell’s going here!-?"
“I don’t know, but it isn’t good. We got to let a—!”
One of the students saw the IS hovering above just above the residential area around the school.
“Up there!”
The student pointed out towards the IS, which now launching a small barrage of missiles.
“Let’s get out of here!”
One of the students urged his friends as he began to bolt towards the stairway to get back inside the main school building, with the missiles heading their way.
The missiles barley missed the rooftop the students were on and hit the school’s gymnasium, causing the roof to collapse.
As the roof collapsed, the IS flew over to the gymnasium and scanned it.
[Change]
Fire alarms are blaring throughout the campus, alerting the students and faculty to evacuate.
“Damn it, power’s out!”
The students were running down the stairs to evacuate.
“How are the fire alarms going off with the power out?”
“These must have its own power source.”
“We can worry about that later, but what the hell’s an IS doing here?”
“How are we supposed to know!-?”
“Come on, where are the other students?”
“They should be out of here by now, so let’s get out of here!”
“I can’t! I’m the student council president; I’m responsible for what happens to the students.”
Realizing what he said, the group then had a serious look on their face.
“Come on, I need you help guys.”
Noticing the fierce look on his face, they all gave a nod, waiting for their instructions.
“Alright, we just have to look for any students who’re left behind. Let’s split up into pairs, we can cover more ground that way.”
“””Right!”””
“Be sure to thoroughly search each room, let’s move!”
[Change]
After searching the whole branch building, the group met at the foot of the stairs on the first floor.
“Are they all that you’ve found?”
A pair of students was leading another group of 5 students as they met up with the Student Council President.
“Yeah, this is all of them.”
“Alright then, let’s get them out!”
“Wait, what about the main and south branch-buildings?”
“For Summer classes, only the west branch-building’s used. So the main and south-branch should be empty.”
*BOOM!*
Rushing through the dark hallways, a tremor coursed through the building.
“Ugh!”
“Get down!”
Everyone squatted down to the ground to prevent from getting an injury from falling.
*Krck…* *Clang.*
A florescent light shade fell from one of its ends from the ceiling and hung above the students by its wires.
Once the tremor stopped, the Student Council president gave the go ahead to keep going.
“Go!”
Without hesitation, the students bolt through the hallways and they've reached the central court yard and bolted towards the main building.
“Where‘d it go?”
“Last time I saw it, it was heading towards the gymnasium.”
“That was about 20 minutes ago; you guys have any idea on where it went?”
“I don’t know prez. It could be anywhere by now.”
*DON!*
“Watch out!”
Just as they mentioned the IS, it’s on the south branch-building and launched a missile at them.
*BOOM!*
The missile hits the walkway’s cover, causing it to collapse on them…