Pleasing Start Over

Interstellar Military Cadets 5.12

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 Chen was in first place, they felt complicated. Danny was jealous when he saw Qiao Chen in first place. He was seething with anger because he wanted Qiao Chen to die from the bear beast attacks. He hated Qiao Chen because 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 to escape safely. Then he 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. 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.

The two were still uneasy about leaving the cadets, but Danny had told them that the cadets would just withdraw from the competition if they honestly couldn’t handle it. He stressed that they couldn’t withdraw from the competition. The two bears were way out of the realm of their capabilities. To really hammer the nail into the coffin, Danny convinced them that the other cadets would forgive them later on when they brought glory to the empire. The others would eventually understand their actions in the end. Danny promised them that pride and glory would be theirs soon.