Mission name: Collapse the Tunnel!
Mission rank: B
Objective: Save EVERYONE
Location: Bordercamps
Reward: 500 ryo +3 EP
Mission Description: “We can’t hold on here! This place is overrun! How the hell did they find the tunnel!? … We can’t outrun them like this! You! Take a team, and take this ignition switch. It’ll detonate the charge we set further down the tunnel, but you have to get close to use it because of the walls.”
Mission Details: One of the many Iwa escape tunnels they used to enter the nation has been overrun with bandits of varying ranks, chasing Iwa ninja back up the tunnels and into their country. But, least you all be cut down, you’ve been chosen with 5 other ninja to face the tide, and attempt to blow the charges to cut off the enemy.

The cave is filled with Bandits of varying ranks between D-B and the occasional A. All have X-1 stats of their ninja rank as well as Bukijutsu. All of them are wearing mixed armors of heavy and light of their ninja rank as well as weapons of all shapes and sizes. Note: Only the charges will collapse the tunnel due to the chakra reinforced stone the walls and ceiling are comprised of. Must be within 20m to blow the charges.

Verdandi moved through thee hysteric masses of Iwa soldiers and civilians. They were moving past the tunnels to get back towards the camp and into freedom. The tunnels are long stretched and thee retreat would take at least another hour. The problem was. The bandits were not far behind the masses. Having already taken down several soldiers that tried to fend them off. The ones that were supposed to blow up the tunnel already dead. The only hope to get the lot of them to safety, was to push back into the front waves of the bandits and detonate the tunnel to completely shut off their possibility to march further. Verdandi was very aware that the guy assigning her to this duty, did this solely because she was probably the only B-Ranked ninja in this retreat group. Verd had been originally tasked to safeguard the retreating forces anyway. So finally getting her hands onto an active objective rather than just following the troops and hearing people fall to the enemy was way more her thing. The guy placing the detonator into her palm already ran for it and once the troops were incoming for them, four of the supposedly five helpers ran for it as well. Verd stared down at the last guy standing strong and showed some guts at least. Smiling her most perverted grin as her eyes started to glow with thick heavy Hyouton chakra.

"Don't worry my friend, courage will always be rewarded. I however need both my hands free if this is supposed to work. Why don't you carry my burdens?" She smiled down to him. However, there was not much time for proper introductions. Some low ranked soldiers were already incoming for them. Verd shortly stepped away so the first one missed her with his spear. Grabbed him by the neck so he wouldn't accidentally run into her new friend and then toss him to the wall so she could bury her long A-Ranked Katana deeply into his guts. Twisting the blade and pulling out so he could fall to his knees and stay there to bleed. More were incoming. But funny enough they were all compressed down to this one tunnel. Verdandi inhaled shortly, the next incoming four soldiers were crawling into the tunnel towards them. Verd lifted her palm and slowly, tiny, beautiful ice born birds would start to form from thin air. The little fellows first twirling around Verdandi until all eight of them were given life to. Until at last Verd pointed her palm in direction of the incoming bandits. The birds moving forwards to hit them into their legs. Collapsing them to the floor one by one by cutting their legs wide open. Verd just had to walk past them and stick her blade into each of them once. "We just have to keep moving forward. Eventually we'll get to the detonation site. Just keep pressing that button every once in a while!" she chuckled and kept moving, her blade ready to taste more blood as it was.

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Chakra 315 / 350:

Verdandi smiled her usual wicked smile from getting a lot of playtime when she was in rage mode. Getting to smack people in the face whom clearly deserve it always brought the adrenaline rush up her neck. Verd could see that a multitude of lower ranked enemy's were incoming for them, probably a dozen or more. Verd decided that a quick solution for the lot of them was necessary to proceed. So she lowered her head and used her majorly superior speed and reflexes to jump straight past them until she was in the middle of the lot. Having sheathed her katana, she would have to step on some heads to get where she wanted to but their reaction time was no match for her speedy movements. She was already forming wind seals in her palms on her way there and once Verd stood in the very middle of the lot she would instantly exhale her powerful wind chakra. With a sudden blaze, invisible blades of fuuton chakra would start to slice their way into her enemies. A round sphere of chakra splat the enemies against the close walls of the cave before the cuts would be aimed at head and throat level, slicing their faces and throat skin into carved flesh. Whomever was not left behind blind and screaming from the wound received to their face, was now holding onto their throat and feeling themselves bleed out. Verd quickly unsheathed her blade to give whomever was left standing the mercy killing they deserved. Probably.

Eventually one of them had escaped and was running towards her companion. He was however, by all means capable of taking that one down by himself. Verd nodding in approval and moved further down the tunnel. Soon having to face her first B-Ranked enemy. The man was thicc by all means. He had fat muscles and was so tall he barely fit into the tunnel. Donning a large two-handed hammer he would come at Verd and stomp his fat weapon to the ground. Leaving a major hole where Verd just stood but a second ago. Making her realize that he wasn't her to joke around. His elbow hitting Verd's stomach and tossing her back a little. Leaving her out of breath for a minute. But also making the ice princess pretty damn mad at him. With little regard to what he possibly wanted to achieve here, Verd formed the seals for suiton, sheathing her blade once again to accomplish such. The wild water wave she exhaled ran down the giant like he was a child. The confined small space of the tunnel didn't leave much way for him to dodge or for the water to not-hit him straight in the face. Despite of making no damage, it pushed him back and down on the floor. Verdandi however, wouldn't wait until the man enjoyed his shower. She moved in and conjured a weapon specific for this situation. A smaller katana, very thin, more like a needle, it would come into existence after a simple snow hand seal and she would grip it tightly.

While the water was still pinning down the giant. Verd would jump into the air and come down flying with a somersault that gave her intense momentum. The C-Ranked ice blade would stuff its thin needle form straight into the man's stomach, before its contact with suiton would proceed to slowly freeze the ice covering him. Ver moved the needle and watched how blood spilled from the giant's stomach while his body was slowly frozen to the ground. His corpse neatly sealed into a frozen sculpture to the floor. Verd left the needle where it belonged, in the guys stomach. Checking if her companion was about to catch up so they may move forward.


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Chakra 265 / 350:

Dandi didn't really get much of the young boy's own adventure but she was certain that it wouldn't be his last one today. The two of them were getting closer to the point where the bomb was supposed to be buried. But the closer they came the more enemy ninja would be evident to be flooding the area. As soon as Ryo was close, Verd grabbed his palm and tugged him along. She would use her strength and speed to move fast enough to pass through many rooms and corridors while bandits hissed at them. Not long until Ryo would realize that there were seemingly hundreds of enemies following them. By now. Verdandi had a good sense of coordination and despite the fact that the cave tunnels started to branch out further and further she instinctively knew which direction she would have to aim for. However, she did pass the right corner a few times causing some awkward situations where she had to run past the bandits again that just picked up her trail and were supposed to follow her. Verd giggled as she sometimes had to tug Ryo in a bit closer to her so she could properly adjust his momentum and keep him pulled to the same speed without hurting him. Eventually they came closer and closer and had seen what seemed or felt like thousands of bandits in the whole cave system. Verd wondered if Ryo was aware what would happen to them if he actually pressed that button.

Once they arrived near the bomb. Verd saw that the bandits haven't been lazy either. The way was closed down. Barraged. The former hallway cave tunnel to the entrance of the enemy side had been completely shut down. Potentially to prevent a counter attack? Or did they know the bomb was there. Verdandi didn't have the time to bury her way completely through the pile of mud. It'd mean that she'd waste a huge amount of chakra. Instead she formed a thick ball of dense chakra. A small Rasengan. Pushed it tightly to the wall and blasted a rather large hole into it. Peeking through Verdandi was pretty certain that there were no or barely no enemies behind the barraged area. She turned around and gazed at Ryo. "Alright buddy. Since we kinda have to get out of here the way we came in. I'll have to sort of make a way for us out and… do my thing. I need you to climb past this hole and run forward. Press the button and when you hear it go 'boom' you better turn around. The first explosion doesn't yet trigger the whole set but we'll have limited time to get out once the fireworks start." Verd smiled. Giving her friend a leap of trust by pushing him gently towards the hole in the wall. Verdandi would hence turn around and stare at the seemingly endless number of enemies incoming for them from the hallway. She was already charging her chakra. Hyouton would start to glow all over her skin. It was time for a massacre.

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Verdandi sighed and waved for the kid as he went off into the hole. She glared forward and at the various people crowding the tunnels. She would slowly raise a thick ice armor on her skin and exhale a pained scream before jumping into the fray of them. Slicing her blade through the lower ranked ones seemed no problem. The genin-level enemies would sink to their knees, only able to deal with the heavy wounds of the A-Ranked blades cuts. Verdandi's sword soon activating its saw form. Each cut starting to cause her enemies to bleed. Eventually as she reached the central point of mass, Verd placed a simple exploding tag at one bandit. Freezing his feet in place and running away in a psychotic giggle while she could hear him scream and try to remove the tag from his frozen body, before he would blow up along with about a good twenty soldiers next to him. Verdandi's demonic way of slaying her blade through the masses, would soon reap up panic in the eyes of her enemies. A lot of the lower ranked criminals that previously mocked her and wanted to slay her so bad were now retreating back into the tunnels. Verd hunted quite a few of them down on their retreat. Making sure to slice her sword past their backs and over their spines. Reaping her saw blade along the bones to cause direct bone damage and leave their skin wide open for a lot of bleeding potential.

Sometimes, between the masses of weak, she'd face once again an equal. The hammer man had been the first. Now there was a young boy with a spear. Verd chuckled still in bloody frenzy as she attacked him. Walking up the walls aside her with supernatural walking expertise. Jumping down on him from above. Quickly changing her motion to a somersault as she avoided the spear and sliced a first katana hit straight past his face. His bloodied expression slightly disgruntled and very angry. Continuously he would push against Verd and try to spear his weapon into her guts. Verd just avoided left and right with her majorly superior reaction and dexterity. Laughing still in an odd frenzy of bloodied joy. Soon moving in between his legs and cutting his knee caps up. Coming up above him from behind before she pulled her saw blade down over his back across his spine, ripping his flesh wide open right from the start. Verd would watch how he sank to his knees and screamed out a guttural gasp of pain before she would slice her blade in from behind and cut her way past his torso and past his heart. Crushing it with the piercing part of the blade. Leaving the man to instantly be freed from his remaining pains. Verd turned around. Most enemies seemingly dealt with. But eventually she'd hear the boom coming down from the corner where Ryo had gone to. The explosion slowly exhaled itself into the cave system.

Verdandi quickly ran back to catch up with the little boy. Grabbing him quickly by the arm. Pulling him onto her back and grinning as she whispered for him to sit tight. With her fullest, quickest burst speed, Verd would dash past the lot of her enemies. Hundreds must still be in the cave system. The ones near the central explosion had already died. The heavy exhale of the force was coming closer to Verdandi. It was about to catch up. Ryo would probably see how the hundreds of people behind him just slowly dissolved within the powerful explosion or got buried in the rubble of the collapsing tunnel. Just as the explosion itself was about to catch up to the two of them. Potentially swallowing them as well. Verdandi exhaled a wind technique. Slipstream Dash. And in a blink of a second she passed the remaining distance to the exit. The wind enhanced hyper speed movement coming close to a teleportation. Ending up outside, back in the sun. Along with all the civilians that had successfully fled the whole tunnel system. Verd would exhale her deep surprise of having made it out in time. Despite acting all reassured about it. She was honestly under the impression that it'd end up being a suicide mission after all when the boom went off that powerful. Considering that the man who gave them the ignition switch was heavily surprised to see them would underline such fact. Verd would walk by him and drop the switch in his palms. Winking.

She'd give little Ryo a tight heartful hug. Thank the good boy for having done his job oh so well after all and then, with another sudden blink of an eye she would disappear from anyone's view. Another last mission of those she was finishing up were done. Time to catch up with her stuff and get ready to go home. Back to Kiri.

[EXIT]

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