This was the day that everyone working at a transport service hated, this was the day that was going to test everyone's wits and stamina. This was the day that everyone in Kirjath Arba decided to send packages to every corner of the city, and they didn't want just any transport service to do it. No, they wanted Giro Express.
The head of the company, Girouette himself, made sure that no worker sat while they planned the transportations.
"Are we ready to head out?" Giro asked one of his first employees, a Reploid named Sho. Sho was a Reploid that didn't have a red marker on his forehead, meaning that he was built illegally. He wasn't a bad looking Reploid, with platinum blond hair and youthful freckles, but if anyone but Giro had found him, Sho would have been dismantled where he stood.
"Yes sir!" Sho confirmed. "Anytime you're ready, we'll move the shipments out and we can start a long… long day…"
Giro gave Sho a comforted smile and was about to give him a kind word, but he was interrupted by the sound of an alarm. Sho could hear the quiet alarm as easily as Giro could, and seemed to be a bit confused by it.
"I need to take this." Giro told the younger Reploid. "Go make sure everyone else is ready to move out."
"Yes… sir." Sho agreed slowly.
"Thank you Sho." Girouette told the Reploid gratefully before heading to the main office.
After getting into the office, Giro made sure no one else was in the room before locking the door. The Reploid then pressed a button on his headset that silenced the alarm and set him on a radio frequency to an airship of a group of vigilante protectors.
"Giro we need your help immediately." The leader of the protectors said from over the headset. "The Guardians have done all that they can, and we've led off most of the Mavericks, but we can't get to the route. The Guardians have evacuated as many people and Reploids as they could, but if the Mavericks aren't stopped, they'll just keep on coming and we'll need your abilities with Biometal Z to completely keep them at bay; possibly even stop that altogether."
"Good morning Prairie." Giro said into the headset quite charmingly. An annoyed scoff on the other end clued Giro in on the leader's thoughts of his relaxed nature.
"Girouette, we need your assistance in Area H!" Prairie breathlessly told him over his headset. Giro frowned. Today was not the best day for the Guardians to need his help with Model Z. The entire staff of Giro Express had been preparing for the excess shipments for weeks, going back on it now was not only going to mess up the employees, it was going to make the costumers upset as well.
"Prairie, you know how busy I am today." Girouette started to say, slightly hesitant. "I'll figure out a way to get over there as soon as possible, but it's going to take a while. We might be looking at another fifteen minutes at the least."
"I know how busy you are." Prairie told him, rather shortly. "But we need backup, and you're all we have."
Giro let out a conflicted sigh as he looked over to Sho, who was preparing the take out the shipment.
"Can you hold out for another ten minutes?" Giro then asked. On the other end, Giro could just barely hear Prairie let out a sound of uncertainty and fear induced annoyance.
"Yes." Prairie agreed. "The Guardians might need to fall back a bit, but we should be able to make it another ten minutes. Thank you Giro."
After the connection was lost, Giro quickly made his way over to Sho, trying to act as if nothing else was wrong.
"Sho, I'll need you to oversee the shipments today." Giro told the illegal Reploid. Sho looked up at Giro with wide eyes.
"Excuse me?" the Reploid asked, almost sounding as if he had misheard Giro.
"I have an emergency to attend to and I'll need you to oversee the shipments today." Giro told him. "I need to go immediately, I have complete trust in you and I'll be back as soon as I can."
"But where are you going that's more important than these deliveries?!" Sho demanded as Giro started to leave.
"I'll be back as soon as I can!" Giro replied from over his shoulder. All Sho could do at that point was stare as Giro disappeared out the door.
. . .
Area H was in a bigger mess than what Giro had been anticipating. The Guardians had held back as many Mavericks that they could, but there was still an incoming stream that made it impossible to reduce them all. At the outskirts of the area, Giro pulled out Biometal Z from his pocket and took his stance to call upon the Biometal's power.
"Model Z, MegaMerge!" Giro commanded.
'Biolink established, M.E.G.A. system online!'
As the Biometal started to wrap itself in Giro's own systems, the Reploid closed his eyes as he allowed the transformation to take place. When it was over, Giro opened his eyes again to see that the Biometal was now an armor, and they headed into the mess of Area H headfirst.
'The Guardians did a rather decent job of clearing out the Mavericks. But I can see why they had problems, the Mavericks are acting as if they're being controlled by a stronger force.'
"What do you think our first line of action should be?" Girouette asked the Biometal.
'Where there are crumbs, there's a messy eater that leaves them. Follow the way the Mavericks come in Girouette, you'll find the one is charge of this operation in no time.'
"Got it." Giro agreed with a nod. Moving forward with Model Z's held and guidance, the two worked through the Mavericks and straight into the heart of the ruined area.