Pleased to Start Over

Interstellar Military Cadets 5.12

Pleasing Start-Over Chapter 64: Arc 5 Part 12

Author: 橘子

(T/N: I need to put a warning again. The author is trying to spice things up and add a little BDSM elements into the story, but I have the feeling that she doesn't know anything about it.
*Don't follow Tangerine Boat on these matters please. Also, please do not go find her to complain. She tried, received feedback already, and made the decisions she made. It's been years since this was originally published.
*It feels like Fifty Shades of Grey, where the author knew next to nothing about how BDSM is supposed to happen.)

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Everyone assumed that Danny and his group had already reached the designated area to obtain first place. In reality, they hadn't. The Lion Corps had set dozens of obstacles throughout the path to the designated zone. Unfortunately for Danny and his group, not a single one of the obstacles was easy to deal with. To make matters worse, the Lion Corps had set it up in a way where the cadets had to successfully complete the entire obstacle course in order to reach the designated zone.

Now the cadets understood why they needed to reach the designated area instead of being beamed up to the airship after obtaining the gems. If it was like before, when Qiao Chen was still pretending to be weaker, than he might have made a whole show about how difficult the obstacle course was. However, the two major energy blasts he just shot out made him pretty tired, so he just wanted to go back and rest as soon as possible. Qiao Chen started up the system to help him throughout the entire course. Qiao Chen, Dick, and Justin took the shortest route through the obstacle course. They quickly surpassed Danny and his group who had finally reached a little over half of the course.

Qiao Chen wiped the dirt and smoke off his face. Then he took out the gems from his storage pocket and gave one to Dick and Justin. The three of the set the gems onto the first place machine, and their images and names immediately appeared on the screen. The second place machine hadn't received its gems, so they weren't able to immediately return to the airship. The trio plopped to the floor and rested as they waited.

Danny and his group finally completed the obstacle courses. However, when Chad and Benji saw that Qiao An was in first place, they felt complicated emotions churn within. Danny was jealous when he saw Qiao An in first place. He was seething with anger too because he wanted Qiao An to die from the bear beast attacks. He hated Qiao An. He hated that even when there were two beast bears, he still won first place and left him in the dust.

The cadets that weren't able to collect the gems still had to go through the obstacle course too. They would all return to the airship once all the cadets finished the course. The process of completing the obstacle course was one of the key points for the Lion Corps to score the cadets on.

As more and more cadets completed the obstacle course, Danny noticed that everyone from the beast bear attack were coming back all in one piece. He was very surprised. He thought that Qiao Chen had followed his action to abandon them and escape safely. Since more cadets were scattering in, Danny thought that the following cadets had abandoned the remaining cadets to escape too or that the others had gave up on the competition and had the Lion Corps save them. Danny brushed it off. He knew that the instructor had stated previously that if they gave up, then the soldiers would step forward and save the cadets in distress.

Qiao Chen's group and Danny's group had sat on the opposite sides. As the cadets began pouring in, they chose to sit on Qiao Chen's side as they waited for the other cadets to complete the competition. Chad and Benji got more and more uncomfortable when they saw the cadets move over to Qiao Chen's side to sit. Danny had pulled them both out of the situation before they could react. Then, when they realized what was happening, they wanted to go back and help their comrades. However, Danny convinced them that they wouldn't be able to fight against the two beast bears anyways if they did. He told them that if their group had been injured by the beasts, then there'd be no one to represent and bring glory to their country.