Chapter 39: The First Mission
`Year 4 - Month 2 - Day 15 - 0500`
`[Status: Headmaster Lira]`
`[Location: The Trash God Academy]`
`[Academy Population: 50,000 Students]`
`[Years Since Kael: 2 Years]`
`[Weather: Cold]`
`[ALERT: EMERGENCY MISSION]`
`[Location: City of Greyhaven - 300km North]`
`[Status: CIVILIAN DISTRESS - CLASS A]`
`[Threat: UNKNOWN - MONSTER SIEGE]`
`[Casualties: ESTIMATED 10,000+]`
The alarm wasn’t a bell.
It was Scrap’s voice.
Loud. Clear.
Echoing across all 50,000 students.
"All Class 1-F teams to Assembly Point 1. Repeat. All Class 1-F teams to Assembly Point 1."
Lira stood on the balcony of the Headmaster’s Tower.
Watching 50,000 kids run.
Her hands were shaking.
This was the first mission.
The first time students would leave the Academy without her.
Without Ren.
Without Scrap.
Just them.
Just kids.
Ren walked up behind her.
"You sure about this?"
Lira nodded.
"Kael would want this. He built this place for this."
_Part 1: Team Selection - 0530_
`[Team 1: "The Builders"]`
`[Leader: Mira - Age 17]`
`[Members: 50 Students]`
`[Average Age: 14]`
`[Rank: F to D]`
`[Specialty: Rapid Construction]`
Mira stood in front of her team.
The same 50 kids from 2 years ago.
The 13 year old boy was now 15.
Taller. Shoulders broader.
Name: Jax.
"Listen up," Mira said. Voice steady.
"This is our first mission."
"We don’t fight."
"We build."
She held up a piece of scrap.
"Kael Headmaster taught us: We save people by building, not by killing."
50 heads nodded.
Jax raised his hand.
"What if people try to kill us?"
Mira smiled.
"Then we build something that stops them."
`[Equipment: 50 Tool Kits, 1000kg Food, 50 Tents, 1x Mobile Forge Mark III]`
`[Transport: 10x Scrap Carriers - Student Built]`
`[Time to Destination: 48 Hours]`
_Part 2: The Journey - Day 1_
`[Distance: 300km]`
`[Terrain: Wasteland]`
`[Time: 0600 - 1800]`
The 10 Scrap Carriers moved across the dead land.
Each one built by students.
Powered by students pedaling and channeling energy.
Hour 4:
Bandits.
20 men. Swords. Armor.
Blocking the road.
The lead driver stopped.
Mira got out.
Alone.
The bandit leader laughed.
"Kids? With toys?"
Mira didn’t answer.
She knelt.
Picked up a piece of scrap.
`[Skill: [Instant Wall]]`
A 3 meter wall shot up between them.
The bandits charged.
Hit the wall.
Bounced off.
Mira looked at them.
"Leave. Or I build you a prison."
The bandits looked at the 50 kids behind her.
All holding tools.
All glowing faintly.
They ran.
Hour 8:
They passed a destroyed village.
No people.
Just rubble.
And one small toy.
Made of scrap.
Jax picked it up.
His hands shook.
Mira put a hand on his shoulder.
"That’s why we’re going."
_Part 3: Night 1 - 1800 to 0600_
They camped.
No fires.
Just tents built in 5 minutes.
Mira didn’t sleep.
She watched the perimeter.
Building small turrets from scrap.
Jax came to sit with her.
"Are you scared?" he asked.
Mira looked at the stars.
"Yeah."
"But Kael was scared too. Every day."
"He built anyway."
_Part 4: The Journey - Day 2_
`[Distance: 150km Remaining]`
Hour 16:
They found survivors.
10 people.
Hiding in a ditch.
Starving.
Scared.
Mira’s team built a shelter in 10 minutes.
Fed them.
Healed them.
One old woman grabbed Mira’s hand.
"Are you angels?"
Mira shook her head.
"No. We’re builders."
_Part 5: Greyhaven - 0600 Day 3_
`[Location: Greyhaven City]`
`[Population: 100,000]`
`[Status: UNDER SIEGE]`
`[Threat: 200+ Monsters]`
Greyhaven was big.
Stone walls.
Towers.
And around it:
Hell.
200 monsters.
10 to 20 meters tall.
Made of black slime, bone, and metal.
Screaming.
The city’s army: 5,000 soldiers.
Losing.
Mira’s 10 Carriers stopped at the gates.
"Who are you?" a guard shouted from the wall.
"The Trash God Academy," Mira shouted back.
"We’re here to help."
The guard stared.
"Kids? We need soldiers!"
Mira smiled.
"Watch."
_Part 6: The Mission Begins - 0615_
`[Objective 1: Evacuate Civilians to Central Plaza]`
`[Objective 2: Build Defensive Structures]`
`[Objective 3: Minimize Casualties]`
`[Time Limit: 48 Hours]`
Mira split the team instantly.
`[Team A: 20 Students - Evacuation]`
`[Leader: Jax]`
`[Go to Districts 1-5. Build shelters. Move people.]`
`[Team B: 20 Students - Wall Reinforcement]`
`[Leader: Sara]`
`[Go to North Wall. Reinforce.]`
`[Team C: 10 Students - Front Line Support]`
`[Leader: Mira]`
`[Stay with me.]`
`[Team C: BEGIN]`
_Part 7: Front Line - 0630_
The monsters charged.
A 15 meter beast broke through.
Soldiers fired arrows.
Did nothing.
Mira ran forward.
No weapon.
Just a welder and scrap.
`[Skill: [Rapid Construction: Tier 3]]`
`WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH`
In 10 seconds:
A 10 meter wall appeared.
Made from the street itself.
The monster hit it.
Stopped.
Soldiers stared.
"Next!" Mira shouted.
Team C built 20 walls.
In 2 minutes.
Funneling the monsters into kill zones for the army.
A general rode up.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Saving people," Mira said.
"Without killing."
_Part 8: Hour 12 - The Problem_
`[Alert: CORE MONSTER DETECTED]`
`[Size: 50 Meters]`
`[Location: East Gate]`
The big one came.
It broke the East Gate in one hit.
500 soldiers died instantly.
`[Civilian Casualties: RISING]`
Mira ran.
Team C behind her.
The 50 meter monster was crushing houses.
A kid was trapped under rubble.
Mira didn’t think.
`[Skill: [Titan Hands]]`
She lifted the rubble.
Alone.
Saved the kid.
Her arms were bleeding.
"We can’t fight it," Sara said.
"It’s too big."
Mira looked at the monster.
Then at the city around it.
"We don’t fight it."
"We build something that traps it."
`[Project: Titan Builder]`
`[Time: 1 Hour]`
`[Materials: All Scrap in 1km Radius]`
_Part 9: Titan Builder - 1400 to 1500_
`[Titan Builder: CONSTRUCTION 0% -> 100%]`
10 kids.
1 hour.
Using every piece of scrap, metal, stone in the area.
15 meters tall.
Not a robot.
A tool.
`[Titan Builder: [Construction Mode: MAX]]`
The Titan didn’t punch.
It built.
Walls around the monster.
Cages.
Chains.
A dome.
In 10 minutes:
The 50 meter monster was trapped.
Completely.
In a prison made of the city itself.
The entire battlefield went silent.
_Part 10: Hour 24-47 - Evacuation_
Team A and B worked non-stop.
Shelters for 100,000 people.
Built in 24 hours.
Food. Water. Medicine.
No one died after Hour 12.
The King of Greyhaven came to Mira.
On his knees.
"Thank you."
Mira shook her head.
"Thank Kael Headmaster."
She held up a piece of scrap.
"He taught us."
_Part 11: Return - Day 5_
`[Year 4 - Month 2 - Day 17 - 1800]`
The 10 Carriers came back.
50,000 students were waiting.
At the gates.
Lira was at the front.
Mira got off the Carrier.
Tired.
Dirty.
Hands bandaged.
"Mission complete," she said.
"100,000 evacuated. 0 civilian deaths after we arrived."
Lira hugged her.
Hard.
"You did good."
Mira whispered: "He would be proud."
Lira nodded.
Tears in her eyes.
"He is."
_Part 12: The Aftermath_
`[News: GLOBAL]`
`[THE TRASH GOD ACADEMY SAVED GREYHAVEN]`
`[WITHOUT KILLING A SINGLE MONSTER]`
`[1 Week Later]`
10 cities requested help.
Not military.
Building.
`[The Trash God Academy: Now a Global Humanitarian Force]`
Ren trained Team 2.
Scrap taught Team 3.
_Part 13: The New Era_
`[Year 4 - Month 3 - Day 1]`
New students arrived.
100,000 applications.
Mira was now Captain of Team 1.
Jax was Vice-Captain.
At the statue:
`[HE TAUGHT US THAT TRASH DOESN’T BREAK]`
`[WE TEACH THE WORLD TH
E SAME]`
A new 12 year old asked Mira:
"Will we have to fight?"
Mira looked at the sky.
At where she thought Kael was.
"No."
"We build."
`[THE TRASH GOD ERA: GLOBAL]`
`[GENERATION 2: ACTIVE]`
`[MISSION 1: SUCCESS]`
To Be Continued...
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