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Ep.1 New Wings, New Light

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"Is everything ready?" A man asked grabbing his coffee cup.

A man entered and sat down as the door closed, sealing the conversation away. The conversation went on as depicted. Nothing out of place, just another covered up situation.

"Yes." The person said sitting down, leaning back." They won't know what hit them or why it did."

"Good." The man said grinning through the darkness.

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"I said careful!" Andy yelled staring down his friend through the monitor. "We don't need a screw up here!"

Andy slowly moved his M1 near his companion, taking his helmet off to scratch his black hair. His friend Keta, in his Orb flight suit kept messing around. Keta waved back throwing the wire cutters around. Just a routine turn the bomb off in deep space exercise, nothing special to these two. Almost going through something 12 times can make it seem boring. Training got even worse for Keta and Andy, from frontal MS assault to stealth and ground tactics. All had to be repeated over and over before getting a passing grade.

"Just cut a damn wire!" Andy yelled impatiently, throwing his arms around inside the training cockpit.

"Ok, ok." Keta sighed moving the cutters up to a wire.

Slowly adding pressure the wire snapped and the fake bomb went silent. Keta exhaled as he moved away from the bomb to be picked up by Andy. Suddenly a big flash ignited the room blinding Andy and Keta.

"Congratulations gentlemen, you are both dead." Saga said calmly, then bursting into laughter. "Let's try it again, Keta next time without blowing yourself up."

"Shut up!" Keta yelled waving his fist at the black window as the walls turned from the hologram to their pale white color.

Andy exited the training cockit as Keta left the hologram room slamming the door as he pouted. Keta walked into the locker room taking off his helmet, running his hand through his spiked hair. Andy came in throwing his helmet to the locker floor, grabbing Keta's collar, shaking him around.

"You screwed it up, AGAIN!" Andy yelled shaking his friend around. "Now we have to do it again!"

"No we don't." Keta said struggling around.

"Why not?" Andy asked pulling back, loosening his grip.

Keta moved his hand up, inside holding the keys to the M1 deck. Keta quickly put them away in his helmet that he hadn't let go of.

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"Put those MS back immediately!" Saga yelled, his blonde hair waving around as he bolted around in his seat. "You're screwed if you don't put those back right now!"

"Can't we just have some fun first?" Andy said flying around, weaving between and next to Keta.

"No!" Saga yelled throwing his hands down.

"Ok fine." Andy said hitting a button as he brought his hand to the controls.

A green beam shot out of the barrel of the M1's beam rifle, blowing apart some Murasame on the ground. The explosion consuming the ground, creating a slight crater as everyone in the control tower watched in aw.

"Oops." Andy said chuckling, cutting transmission to the tower.

The two pilots flew around the base for a few more minutes, performing aerial maneuvers and screwing around only the way high school seniors could. Finally running out of energy the pilots slowly glided to the ground, Keta landing on top of a linear tank. The cockpits opened as they both walked out chuckling. Looking at each other they both started to laugh as ground crews started to surround the M1s.

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"I guess we kinda deserve this." Andy said sighing, looking at the bill. "Well at least it's not too big since we convinced them it was an accident."

"Well we'll pay it out later, let's go home." Keta said grabbing his backpack from the locker, looking at his watch. "Wow 11:38 already, we should get out of here."

"Yeah." Andy said following Keta out the door." School is gonna be a drag."

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Next Chapter:

Tensions are high as Orb comes under attack from an enemy that was thought to have not existed. People die as the battle ensues and people know little of why they are fighting. As the confrontation continues the two pilots are thrown into a war that wasn't suppose to happen. Wait for the next chapter, Worthless Battle for Survival.