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Seven Swords, Kurenai

1

Kurenai stood behind, lingering on the starting line for a good part of the exam time. She noticed when Gyuuki went past her, seemingly not noticing that Kurenai remained immobile, but that was not an issue now. The time Kurenai allowed herself to have was to observe the city from afar and take a good look at the patterns of everyone's movements, allowing her to easily determine where was the place why the highest chance to have an unclaimed card.

Kurenai also noticed something more worrying from this range, the ruin were being slowly devastated by a giant war machine that approached like a juggernaut trampling all under its feet. In fact, right now the steel behemoth was ready to let itself be known by bombing a good part of the city with heavy FLUX charged mortar shots from an angle and distance that would make counter him from within the city all but impossible to counter. Worse yet, the hulking giant was right on the path to the exit, which meant that to go out one would either have to fight, or evade it.

The only thing that made Kurenai not think they were completely insane by bringing a war machine like that to a test such as this is that it was using concussive shells. They packed quite a punch, but at least wouldn't kill you on spot. With her battle plans ready, Kurenai took one, two, three step and then, disappeared in a blur of speed...

2*

Kurenai took the time to fetch a card as the giant robot was still taking aim. "The Page of Cups, huh? I wonder if these have any special meaning beyond the mentioned by the Director?" Kurenai said to herself as she inspected the card, before pocketing it safe under her cloak and getting atop a building near a few other students that were fighting the assault drones, bow in hand. "You all down there", Kurenai shouted her peers bellow as her bow produced a steel arrow with an explosive charge fitted at the tip that she aimed in a wide firing arc, "there's an enormous gunship ready to rain hell over us in the direction of the exit. I suggest yo get done soon and be ready to fight it, because I don't see any way to escape other neutralizing that threat." 

As Kurenai shouted to the other students, her voice echoing thanks to the acoustics of the derelict buildings, the robot fire a first volley of three mortars that would hit random targets over the city, if not for, "Increase FLUX charge, multishot mode." Kurenai said to herself before two other arrows appeared on her bow and she shot them all at once, hitting the bombs and setting them off, the huge explosions rocking the whole Downtown Ruins, sending flying concrete and shattered glass everywhere.

"Anyone else that can use ranged attacks, find higher ground and help me cover the ground forces!" Kurenai shouted, hoping that the other applicants had the least bit of brain to understand her plan. "Those who cannot, maneuver using as much cover from the buildings as you can, but the gunship is in a mostly open area, be ready for its point defense weaponry once you reach the exit! What is that!?" Kurenai finished laying out her strategy, but as soon as she did so, she surprised to find that there was, someone riding above the gunship's main gun.

*because of lack of time.

The Rampaging Tiger, Itsuko Mariann Kanzaki

Meanwhile, away from there in another building, a short blond-haired girl was sitting at an old, but nearly intact, executive chair with her legs crosses over the (seemingly mahogany) desk, admiring the style of whoever owned this office god knows how much time ago, and eating a hot dog that by now had run cold, with a bit of a dark expression. Damn, she never even had the time to eat something and that duo of delinquents had too drag her into trouble and then disappear when they thought that they would have more playing hide and seek or preaching about La Revolucion.

"Heh, let them be, this sweetie here is right what I'll love to have once I get my hands at mom's- damn!" The girl rolled to the side when a troop of assault drones invaded the office, one of them going as far as shoot a rocket at the desk, destroying the priceless hardwood artifact.

"Goddamnit, these creeps found me again? I'm starting to grow tired of you, bo...ys?" The blonde began to say as she lifted her body from the middle of the rubble and tried to dust herself, before she noticed that one of the robots was stepping on her half-eaten hot dog and grinning with its shiny metal face. "Ha... ha.. ha..!" It seemed to mock her with a robot laughter, or perhaps it was just the blonde's imagination, who knows?

"Oh boy, you're so screwed now!" The blond girl said, as the drones pounced her with swords, staffs and guns, quickly pilling on top of the short girl, as they tried to take her down, only to... "Go to hell, pests!" She yelled as a blast of golden plasma and a gargantuan tiger's roar shook the building, which she jumped away of, landing besides the even bigger robot bellow and shouting to her friend who was atop the gunship. "Hey, Eos! I don't mind if they guys are your pals (or made by mom's company, by the way), but nobody mess with my food and goes away walking, hear me?" After this, Itsuko kicked the last of the robots who followed her to a nearby wall, shattering it's hull and crushing it under a layer of debris.

The Electric Princess, Eos Shiraihime

"I told you to stay away from them, haven't I? They wouldn't have attacked you if you wasn't trying to play the CEO game." Eos retorted to her teammate, even though she was a main cog in the robot liberation move, her friends still were more important to her, so she would let Itsuko slide away... this time.

Anyway, "where is Dana? I thought we had agreed on this plan, yesterday." Eos asked before getting a shoulder shrug fro Itsuko, that clearly wasn't informed of any changes in their plans as well. Eos sighed trying to resist the urge to facepalm, considering that their leader was the least one who could actually follow any plans.

Leaving that aside, the Eos turned toward the city, and (using the gunship's sound system to propel her voice through the ruins) she said, "Stop this genocide right now, murderers! It's about time the robot slaughter should have ended! If you refuse to leave us machines on our won, we will be forced to defend ourselves. Hear me, brothers and sisters, unite and fight back the oppressors! Our time has come!" Interestingly enough, Eos' speech had little to no effect on the canine and flying drones, but the humanoid ones became twice more determined after being graced with rallying words from the Electric Princess herself, whoever would face them from now on would be having a hell of a tougher time.

"Ready the next volley Delta", Eos said, petting the metal monstrosity bellow her feet, "we shall show them that we machines are people too, even if we need to use force!"
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