Dulga Tarata
Turned out Dulga was right about the electroshock grenade. She didn't seem to care much, but when Arsenal showed everyone what an EMP grenade was it did prove her theory that the rest test wasn't trying to figure out what the bomb was, but assessing it's threat. More students arrived as well, Reina and someone else Dulga didn't know. It didn't really interest her very much but something seemed off about the new guy. Dulga wasn't sure what it was but she put that thought aside as Arsenal explained things from the syllabus. Shortly after he lead everyone out of the class and to the gymnasium. Dulga thought they were just going to see some demonstrations. But once she got to the gymnasium, her eyes widen and she was even grinning underneath her mask.
"That's... A lot of guns." The armory was chalk full of firearms and gadgets of all types. She had thought the use of weapons wasn't something heroes would do, but she was obviously wrong. This place was packed to the brim with more weapons than Dulga could identify.
Dulga had to calm herself down and remember that she isn't here to peruse weapons. She's here to train and hone her abilities as a hero. First, she needed to get ammo for herself. She was worried that there wouldn't be any safe way for Dulga to use her rifle due to it's live ammunition, but it wasn't long before she found a list of ammo she could use for her gun. Narrowing down the list to a specific caliber, she was surprised to see how many gadget type of bullets were available. There was rubber head bullets, trackers, pitted, EMP, and many more. Dulga didn't even know such things could be made. Dulga decided to request some rubber bullets and some called "Flare" bullets. Apparently when shot they release a very bright light meant to track fleeing villains. She supposed it was more simplistic than a tracker bullet which needed a specific device to trace the signal.
Heading over to the firing range Dulga was slightly disappointed at how bare everything looked. Maybe it was just because she was more used to shooting while sitting in a tree, or laying flat in the dirt, but Dulga had hoped for a more varied shooting range. However there was a console nearby where Dulga could set up conditions for her targets. She chose "Heavy Cover", "Urban", and for the amount of targets she chose "High". She also selected an option to have civilian targets, just to keep Dulga's trigger finger in check. It'll be too easy if she just shoots everything that popped out at her. Once the settings were made Dulga finally opened up her box. She scanned both her thumb prints, which opened up a twelve digit combination lock. Dulga had to take a moment to remember what it was because it was the combination of both her parent's birthdays, but in a complex order. Once she figured that out all that was left was a key. But it was no normal key; it was a strange, small blade her father made specifically to unlock the case. After all, this weapon case was made by Dulga's father, for her mother.
After the box opening ritual Dulga finally took out what she had kept hidden; a Dragunov SVD with a 1p59 scope to allow some level of vision in low-light or dark conditions, synthetic parts for tighter weight without the cost of durability, and a flash suppressor to reduce the glare so Dulga doesn't get dizzy if she keeps shooting her gun. With the secondary benefit of making it harder for more perspective enemies from actually seeing where her shots came from. But that was not all. There was another gun that Dulga was given on her 16th's birthday, just a few months before her mother's death. Dulga had this gun when she and her mother went out hunting, and had been trying to get a hang of it. She made a mental note to talk to Arsenal to recommend her type of rifle: The MTS-255, a revolver shotgun. Unlike her mother's guns, Dulga's rifle had only the standard parts and minimal personalization. Despite having it for half a year now, it still felt brand new. But now Dulga was going to use it for the first time since that fateful day.
Loading up her guns with the new ammo, the Dragunov with the rubber bullets and the MTS with the flare, Dulga took position as the countdown started. Thanks to her arms Dulga was able to use both rifles at once, and she's quite skilled in using them in such a fashion. She'd mainly rely on her Dragunov to pick off long-range targets but she'd have her peripherals open to shoot down any target from medium to short range. Her remaining pair of hands had reloading duty. Finally Dulga slipped on her headphones. They'd help suppress the noise of her guns, as well as sync to her phone so she could listen to some
music while she does some target practice. When the countdown reached zero obstacles sprung up from the ground and ceiling, emulating a urban environment. Solid barriers meant to be walls, thinner but metal barriers representing cars, various poles and fences, and whatever else would be in a dense urban setting. The targets that came up were cut outs of people, some that looked like regular pedestrians and others that looked like villains. Whenever Dulga shot one the target would light up a certain color; yellow meant injured, green was incapacitated, red was dead.
After the obstacles came up the target zone was filled with civilian targets so Dulga had to hold her fire, looking for the villains hidden among the crowd. She saw one who's picture depicted a sword, so he was an enemy. Dulga shot him with a rubber bullet from the Dragunov, but on instict she aimed for his head. The bullet went into his eye and "killed" him. Two more enemies showed up, large ones that couldn't hdie behind cover. She shot each of them once in the chest with the rubber bullets but that only managed to injury them. She had to shoot them a few more times, this time aiming closer to the neck, before they flashed green and was put away. Another villain showed up but this time he was purposely hiding most of his body behind one of the civilian targets, making it hard for Dulga to get a shot on him that wasn't going to be a headshot. She had to wait carefully before firing two bullets into the target's shoulder which made him glow green. Many targets like this popped up and were either gunned down or escaped Dulga before she could get to them. But in the end Dulga managed to get 67 out of the 75 villain targets, and no civilian casualties.
"I could do better. I will do better."
