fandomhigh | So You Say You Want a Revolution: Week 9, Period 3

"Hope you all enjoyed your guest teacher last week," Aly said, looking tanned from a week in the Copper Isles. "The Doctor gave you all a good report -" she smirked, remembering the exact words "- except for something about not arguing about grammar? Good call, life's way too short."

She gestured to the class to gather around the cut open (think dollhouse) scale model of the school. A scale model in all aspects like only the Danger Shop could provide. The school was set up as a working castle with an outer wall, guards, an armory, and all sorts of little people wandering about to do their daily jobs, milking cows, making bread, patrolling the walls, sharpening their swords, etc. The Principal's Office had been transformed into the throne room of a tiny king. "You're working in your groups today, and what I'd like you all to do is come up with a plan to infiltrate - and hold - this castle. You're getting way more information than you'd normally have in a situation like this so make use of it. Also you can use any personal powers or skills you have in your group, but I'd rather that's not all you focus on. If someone can melt the stone of the outer wall, that's great, but you still might need someone to subdue the fighters inside or the talk the King into surrendering. Use all your resources including those listed on the board to make up your plan." She glanced around, looking for any questions. "And I can't promise that your class next week won't be actually carrying out these plans."

When she flipped around the white board, the board only read:

Use your imagination. No guns. Bombs are fine.

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"Securing the ground floor. The windows are weak spots and the kitchen is dangerous because it opens into the cafeteria which is a big open area that'll allow access to the rest of the building and is harder to defend because of weak cover. If we had a choice about how to get in, I'd go through one of the upper levels."

"Aerial assault?" Rinoa asked, impressed at how much thought Kyle had put into this. "Do we have aerial units? Are we allowed to assume we have them?"

She could cover the aerial aspect herself, if need be. But she didn't want that as public knowledge just yet.

"How many units do we have, anyway?" she asked. "It's gonna take a sizeable force to hold the castle without spreading ourselves too thin."

"Depends on the tech we have," Kyle supposed. "But yeah, what we do will depend on how many people. If it's only our group, we should probably try for quiet infiltration instead of a full assault. If we can get in via the upper levels, gas canisters are probably the way to go. Something to knock everyone unconscious, then go in with gas masks and take the next level. If there's gas, assuming there's no one immune, people will try to get away from it. We can drive out as many of the people as possible. The important thing will be to make sure no one holds up in the library or in here. They're too easily defensible."

Rinoa was going to stare for a few seconds. Why did the Forest Owls not have someone like Kyle involved? Seriously. They might have gotten a lot further, if they did.

She turned over his plan in her mind, and looked for potential difficulties.

"We'll have to be careful," she said, finally. "If we're driving people out, there will be a lot of chaos. If the King's bodyguards are any good, they'll use that to try to get him out, too."

"Do we want to keep the king?" He wasn't used to fighting people.

"I thought we did," Rinoa said. "I guess if we get the castle empty, and he's somewhere else, that's kind of like a surrender, isn't it?"

She frowned, drumming her fingers on the table. "What is it we want?" she said. "I mean, are we taking the castle because we're making a statement, because we want to end a war, because it's a bargaining chip to use to get something else back?"

"I don't know. I'm only used to taking control of resources." Whether that meant stealing, destroying or commandeering property from the machines was what made each mission different.

"I was our strategist," Rinoa said. "So for us, we were trying to get the president of Galbadia, but we wanted to capture him alive. We wanted to make him release Timber. Killing him, or killing his underlings, would just rouse public support against us."

"The Principal's office...I mean throne room is pretty well protected. You've got a room on top of it and there's no easy way in." He crouched down to get a better look. "What's under the building?"

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