The 342nd squad

The chief looked very serious at every cadet, but none of them flinched, Yasu on the other hand let out a sigh and put his hand up.

—Oh, one with modals, let’s see, what is it, young man? —Kaminari point at Yasu.

—I just want to know one thing, since this wasn’t supposed to be what we were going to do, then all the scrap that we collect, are you going to take it or do we get the chance to keep it?

The chief looked at Yasu with his eyes wide open, the others took a glance at him as if he was the biggest idiot on the planet, and later a smile formed Kaminari’s face. He laughed a bit and clapped.

—So you are one of those, it’s been a while, yes, you can keep anything you want as long as it is not from a foe and pass the scanning area.

Yasu smiled at Kaminari.

—Let’s start with your names, you, the collector of things, let’s start with you.

—I’m Yasu de Cruz, 22 years old.

Yasu de Cruz a young man, dark blue short hair, on the average height with a slim body.

—Kinda brief but it’s ok, let’s continue with the rest in order —Kaminari pointed with his finger at the person on the left of Yasu.

—Yuzu Marin, 24 years old

Marin is a woman that has wavy medium length light brown hair spoke, it was a little bit smaller than Yazu, and with a slim body too.

—Makimo Nazu, 31 years old

Nazu on the other hand had her hair short in a dark green color, she was taller than Yazu, a tall woman with a well-built body, enough to still make his body be slim despite some muscular tones on her own body.

—Shinmo Ryu, 35 years old

Ryu was the oldest and taller of the group, he was well-built, with short hair that was being pulled behind him and a frondose beard.

—Kuroki Sakura, 25 years old

A woman with long black hair, she was the one that scolded the guy that whined about being in a group. She was at the same height as the member next to her, smaller than Marin and with a more fragile looking body.

—Ginta Amano, 18 years old

Amano was the one that Sakura scolded, the youngest of the group, with dark blue medium length hair, he seemed a little strong but due to his height and complexion it didn’t shine that well.

—Santano Midori, 29 years old

Finally, Midori, a man with short dark green hair, he was in the middle of sizes, in the middle of Nazu and Yasu, he was well-built as well as Ryu, but not in the same level, Ryu was beefy while Midori was still a bit slim.

—What an interesting group, I was expecting to know more about all of you but it seems you don’t like that… meh, time will tell, now, let’s see what’s on those boxes then! —Kaminari smiled while rubbing his chin.

Everyone was about to open their cases when an alarm started sounding across the building, everyone got out of the room and looked surprised, the chief took everyone’s shoulder and saw us while he was smiling.

—Is good to see you all prepared for action but this isn’t what you think, your seniors are arriving, if it was an emergency a color would have been flashing the entire room.

Kamanari and the others watched one of the doors open and three figures came out of it. They were wearing strange dark armor, when they took a step out of the door their helmets started to retract, leaving his neck and part of their chest visible.

A tall man with a machete in his belt, he had a mustache and had a strong body complexion, his face was marked and with a few scars, and his hair was very short. He was holding a full bag in one hand.

The other member was a small man holding a big flask on top of his head with his hands, and on his hands was a big pair of gloves. He was half of the size of Amano and Sakura, with an orange hair reaching his neck, and with his forehead exposed.

The last one was a woman, her expression was cold, red eyes and blonde hair, tied, having just one tail, she was holding another full bag and on his back she had a morning star without spikes.

—Welcome back, squad 101, glad to have you back —Kaminari put his thumb up.

The three of them put the bags and the flask on a table with the rest of the investigation team, the chief looked at us and clapped his hands one time. They were speaking about the things they found and finally walked towards Kamari.

—Chief, I will give my report for its research. I'll be in the rest zone with my group, if anything happens let me know —the man had a serious gaze.

—As reliable as always, thanks Pedro.

Pedro bow his body a bit and moved out with the rest of his team

—Alright, as much as I would like to see everyone’s weapon before jumping in the depths, I think the best way to find out is to make you feel like a group will be practicing on the scene.

The chief started to touch his watch and drag out an image to project it infront of us.

—This is sector E on the 1043 floor, there are still some anomalies there, and we still haven’t explored all of it, so, you are going there. It should be an easy mapping mission but one never knows.

—Hold up, you say you pass the two thousand floors and you send us in the middle of it? And you haven’t explored it in its entirety yet? —Amano said a bit agitated

—Woah, woah, calm damn, kiddo —Kaminari move this hands back and forth with his palms open

—Don’t! Call me that… —Amano frowned

—Ah sorry —Kaminari pat his head—. I know you are not kids, everyone in her-

—I know… you don’t need to say the rest…, sorry for my misconduct, I got carried away… —Amano looked down and closed his eyes.

—Huh… C’mon, don’t put this in a heavy mood —Kaminari sigh—. I don’t like when things get too serious, sure this is important but let’s try to do it with the least weight possible… you are right…, I’m sending you there and we haven’t explored everything yet. I assume some of you already figured it out, but we don’t know the exact length and depth of the depths. Like I said before, it can be done in the next floors or it could continue for another thousands of floors.

Kaminari pointed at a screen, there were a lot of black spaces and some of them were cut in the middle.

—This is just the 2D view, but that’s all you need now, this mission should be easy enough for all of you, I want to explore until you feel satisfy by the results if it is too long, we were still going to monitor all your movements so if anything goes bad, we got all of you cover.

—What happens if something goes wrong and you can’t help us? —Ryu said.

—Then you will be with the same members as the squad 101… this is not an easy job to take, all of you are brave enough to be here, and I appreciate that, I won’t let any of you die even if I need to get down there, after all, I’m your chief, and a chief is nothing without his soldiers.

Everyone looked at the chief’s pride and confidence, it poured a warm ambience even when no one was making a sound.

—Come on, everyone to the backrooms, there are armors ready to wear, you shouldn’t have any problems unless you put the wrong one on, but it is made exactly for each one of you so it’s not going to be any problem.

The team went to our backrooms, divided by our genre, the team entered the room, and started to change, the armor was black and one that should be put into pieces

It was robust but lightweight, it would appear that it can be easily broken or torn into pieces for the form of the octagons around the armor but was very thick, the neck had a lot of space around it and we didn’t get any helmet.

“So, everyone receives this type of armor” though Yasu.

The armor was made not only for our complexion, height, wight and esthetics, but also for the artifacts that they gave us, the watch had a special place, the armor went in a perpendicular form at some point of the forearm and rise again when it reached the watch, the armor had an internal plate that cover the forearm to not make the skin expose.

The gauntlet made a fusion with armor and had a special compartment for the laser that hid itself, the pin was occult in our clothes but the armor had the logo on the same space that our pins went. The med kit was behind the armor and the lantern could go anywhere in the armor since it could be moved easily.

It was time to leave the room and that the team receive further instructions