Jerking herself at the sound of Major Hauslieber's voice, Erza instinctively stepped aside as the crazy scientist entered. She just got a really bad feeling from the man - a sort of sensation that made her chest feel tight and got chills running down her spine. He was one of the scientists that actually performed the human enhancement. A disgusting thought, although it wasn't anything she'd ever let out of her mouth to the Major himself. The officer just gave her a short nervous glance as he begun speaking in scientific terms and then, to top it off, added some talk about alloys, samples and Colonel Sen. Several offices in the building bore marks of people's attempts to use the fiery-haired Colonel as experiment material.<br/><br/>"Samples?" a familiar rough, but young-sounding voice echoed in the room. "I hear my name and it's, curiously enough, always in connection with some crazy shit that's about to go down." Colonel Sen has grabbed another cup of coffee on the way, it seemed, and leaning on the doorway, he didn't resemble a soldier much, was it not for the tall leather boots he so lousily tucked his pants into. He didn't appear to like the idea of someone collecting 'samples' off him, and he let everyone in the office know of it.<br/><br/>"Colonel Sen!" Both Erza and the officer saluted him just a few moments after. He lazily raised his hand to his head, saluting back, and nodded to them. "Arrangements have been done. They just need to be carried out!" the officer assured him, nervously grinning. Lieutenant Bates gave him a sharp glance.<br/>"Go get it done, then." Sen shrugged, raising the coffee to his lips. Instead of a reply, he received just a surprised look, and only after he glared at the officer, he hurried off. The three of them were alone in the office now...<br/><br/>"Major Hauslieber, I hope you don't have anything shady on your mind. Superiors aren't, under any circumstances," He clicked his fingers, letting off a metallic clink, "the same as experiment subjects." A small, venomously green flame was lit above their tips, and disappeared once more as he flicked his wrist in a semicircular motion. "Besides, I'm taking your latest project into action. If it breaks down or doesn't fire, the blame's on you." he pointed his finger at the scientist, a malicious smirk curling the edges of his thin lips upwards. The cup of coffee clinked on the table as he put it down, and without much ado exited the room.<br/><br/>----<br/><br/>735090 sat down onto the chair where he was instructed to set himself down on, in a large, well-lit conference room. All six of them had to sit down onto stiff wooden chairs, surrounding a long wooden table with a lot of documents placed over it. An arcane device on one end of the room was turned towards a blank white wall, before which Major Caldwell stood, waiting for them to settle down. Finally, once no more commotion was done, he pulled all the blinds on the windows down, and the device, resembling a small box, begun working. An image of a Chimera - a Black Widow - was projected on the screen.<br/><br/>"Ouroboros subjects!" The Major called out to them. "You six have shown extraordinary success during the training you underwent so far. As such, you were chosen to undergo your first extermination task so far. The opponent you will be facing is the rank A to B chimera, the Black Widow." He pointed at the screen. "You all should be acquaintanced well enough with these."<br/><br/>The beast had a humanoid body, akin to that of an attractive young woman, but her eyes were pitch black, and eight huge, spider-like protrusions, ending in poisonous spikes, stuck out from her back.<br/><br/>The door opened and banged shut once more, accompanied by the loud thudding of military boots. "A Black Widow is a low-ranking chimera that has a tendency to move in groups, doesn't possess extraordinary intelligence, but is very strong and fast, capable of hurling a human ten meters through the air without any effort. What course of action do you take if you meet with a black widow?"<br/>Colonel Sen was infamous for his random and completely unexpected entries. It seemed that today, he was on a streak, too.<br/><br/>"Use long-range weapons and incapacitate with projectiles, aimed into the torso and head. Aim for the skull and do not hesitate to fire several bullets even though the target has been hit already! Avoid the spines at all costs and attempt to get into an elevated point for a better point of view." 735090 blurted the whole theory out without even thinking.<br/>"That's right." Sen nodded. "The spines contain a strong anesthetic that will shut your systems off in a matter of several seconds, minutes if you're big. It becomes lethal once you are exposed to more than two or three doses."<br/>735090 gulped. That sounded rather harsh.<br/>"However, the average Black Widow is not very clever. They operate in groups - break their groups down and then strike from the back." He raised his arms and mimicked firing a riffle.<br/><br/>"We are to be stationed in the Northwest district. The Northwest is a densely forested, flat area, thus finding a vantage point might be difficult. However, the terrain offers a lot of good hiding and ambush points. Utilize them." Major Caldwell gave the subjects a reassuring smile, while the arcane device projected a different image on the wall, one depicting a dense, deep forest, next to a map of the Northwest, showing the road that led through it.<br/><br/>"You will receive the standard riffles with an extra load of ammunition, grenades, and a pack of matches each. The matches," Sen's grin, not kind or reassuring like Caldwell's in the slightest, revealed his teeth, "are for burning the corpses."<br/>The look he got from the Major could mean just one thing: Good lord, Sen, are you enjoying this?<br/><br/>Because Sen was definitely enjoying trying to scare the living hell out of anyone who's spent less than three years in the military. He spent his whole life surrounded by tough men with guns and blades, and certainly didn't want his underlings to be soft - in any way at all. 735090 didn't even want to think about what was in that man's head. In fact, he was more interested about the extermination than that... It would utilize his best skill, long-range shooting and ambush. And he'd get a chance to flash himself in front of his superiors, how great!<br/><br/>"Any questions?" the Major asked, rather jaded in voice, and raised a brow at the company of six that they gathered there.