Field Training [Class Zero :: Morning]

Note: Jackie's Health should be 133, as he was healed by Sera

EDIT: Movement should be One down, two left, two up, and then one more left.

It was awful. The Terrorists capitalized on her order for retreat, quickly surrounding Joseph. He would be executed. The others would be safe but if this were a real scenario he would have died instead of fallen as he had. It was a tough choice and one she made regretfully, to save the others at the cost of one. But the one was her fault. She had killed him herself when she gave the order to step out of cover. Susan might as well have pulled the trigger herself.

The woman stood shuddering as she tried to stay in control of herself and not break down any further than she already had. Susan wanted to leave. She didn't belong here and this was proof of it. The Cadets held no place for failures. While she held her shaking arm in front of Hatsuhara she could hear his kind words of encouragement that came like chiding. She didn't want to hear it, especially not know. No amount of gentle words  would change what happened nor what was about to.
"N-no don't, Hatsuharu i-i-it's-!" She gave him a tear-filled pleading look, fearful of her prediction just as she'd said. If Hatsuhara went out there he would be surrounded and killed. Yet she could tell from his warm smile that nothing she could say or do would make a difference. He would go out there regardless. When he placed his hand on her shoulder shoulder her arm would fall with her posture.
"*sniff* ...okay..."

She wasn't agreeing with him, but she had accepted that this was the way things would happen. Her negligence would cost lives. She had to turn away from him, she didn't want to visualize his kind, smiling face before watching him be gunned down. Her eyes followed him as he left and she felt a tightness in her chest. She was truly powerless even when she was there, she couldn't have stopped Hatsuhara from running to his death. That would be her fault too. But rather than succumbing to the eruption of shame and guilt that she was feeling Susan began to strategize. Even if she was  a poor tactician and wasn't fit to lead this unit she was confident that the sudden absence of information would be more harmful than not. Her subpar strategies were better than the alternative, directionless chaos and confusion. She wouldn't stay to provide support because of a newfound resolve or any acceptance that she had to.

Susan merely wanted to stop breaking the promise she gave to the Prince.


Now that the terrorist before him was dead and the team had caught their bearings Sera could breathe a little and focus on what was important: securing their fallen comrade.
"Um, mission support what do we do? Joseph is-"

Cadet Hatsuhara is entering the battlefield, Cadet Kerrigan will be taken care of. Cover his approach by surrounding the center machine gunner. You will be converged upon by the rear force soon, eliminate all current threats before you can be surrounded and overrun.

Nearly as soon he witnessed the text scroll across his vision a Persona would pick the downed officers limp body up and deposit him a safe distance from the battle as Hatsuhara entered the battlefield. Sera moved with his team as he relayed the support woman's advice.
"Let's surround this one, the enemy is getting backup and we don't have a lot of time left!" Sera would summon his Persona to sap the strength of the Terrorist next to him as he cut off the other's retreat, drawing his blade and lunging in for a stab.

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Susan would protest about the matter of him going out on the field. It was a matter that the Cadet wouldn’t fight against as he tried to calm the woman and help with the situation instead before leaving. Though his words didn’t seem to work very well. The woman remained wound up, but in the end seemed to understand she had no choice but to let him go onto the field with the others.

Before leaving, the idol paused as he looked back at the woman with a serious expression. “Stay strong,” he would tell her and then looking away he would go out into the chaos that was the battlefield.

He didn't come out on the field to be hero. No he came onto the field because he wanted to get a down member out of harm's way and aid the others as he could. There was nothing more or less to his actions as he took Joseph's position on the field. Being stuck between to enemies was something that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end as his body remained prepared for action and his eyes shifted from one enemy to the next watching them. Unlike demons which didn't phase him no matter how disturbing they were, there was something about his target being human instead that rubbed him in an uncomfortable manner.

Was the idea of killing a human bothering him or was there something else there that made the situation uncomfortable? Well...whatever it was he had no time to ponder it a ton since he needed to focus on the task at hand. He could worry about his wandering thoughts and feelings later. Right. Here we go.

And what a lucky break he got. This round the enemy did not attack him, but instead seemed to go for Sera instead. He didn't like that and while his eyes did narrow at the gunner, his eyes would shift and focus on the other target ahead of him instead as he heard the commands from the one called Sera. Knowing what he had to do, he would move from his current position to close the distance and face the enemy. Being before the enemy, he felt some part him wanting to falter, but before it could take over him, he felt the familiar price of pain his persona demanded every time it was summoned; however, unlike most times where he would give the commands and summon the creature, it seemed this round the persona acted on some sort of impulse that even Haru wasn't aware he had. All he knew was that the creature formed on its own and charged up the attack it wanted to use. As it did this the persona was laughing and enjoying itself seemingly even more than it did around demons. But why? Did it want to kill humans? Did he want to….?

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Note: This is supposed to be a Follow-up, not a turn. Ignore the Movement.

With another enemy dispatched Sera was feeling more confident, even when he came under fire and a round struck him in his shoulder nerve. It seemed as if they were finally gaining the upper hand, though he took heed from the woman giving him instructions through his vision.

You will be ambushed by the enemy cavalry soon but not immediately. We will be preparing to retreat once that happens, they are no longer guarding the exit. Take cover in the meantime, Cadet Jackie will be overheating soon and I will be covering his exit.

Sera was actually quite surprised. Didn't she want them to defeat every Terrorist? Wasn't that the point. Well... he wasn't in a position to question things yet, so this must be the best plan?
"Um... our support in the back said she's coming in for Jackie, because he's overheating? I don't... really understand but take cover! We'll be defending his exit!" Sera would summon his Persona once more to give medical aid to his comrades before taking a defensive stance against the woman that shot him. He could feel his shoulder throbbing, wincing with the memory...

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Well the enemies were going down; however, the older Cadet did not let this go to his head as his eyes took in the wound on Sera and saw the gunfire go towards Takeru. On top of that, it looked like more enemies were on their way. Hmm. They could stand and fight, but...with one man down and injured members he wasn't too sure how wise it was to keep fighting. They could only get lucky for so long. Besides...

His mismatched eyes would drift to Jackie who was displaying high power, but what happened when that power was gone? As if reading his mind his answer came shortly after as Sera relayed a message from Susan to the group. The guy was going to overheat? Like as in a machine overheating or something else? It was peculiar, but the Cadet only focused on the simple matter that it meant that they would have two down instead of one. That wasn't good and it seemed Susan understood this issue since her command was to retreat.

"Understood." Was all the Cadet would say before giving a nod of thanks to Sera as he was healed. Being quick on his feet, he move back to his position by the rock to get out of range of the gun lady, but also to keep an eye on the two approaching them from afar....

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