The smell of burning fuel and charred metal suffocated the sky that day. The ear splitting roar of burning thrusters could be heard echoing across shredded streets. The streets…… oh how they burned….. Littered with flesh bound to broken bones…… police franticly tried to evacuate what was left of the population. A small boy looked on from the corner of a street….. Just a block away several missiles impacted the ground and sprayed the building in front of it. A NEXT slid to a stop and fired off a few rounds from his machine guns….
There was a heavy thud and the earth shook causing the boy to fall. he looked up in time to see the charred NEXT's arm drop to the ground as a beam of light ripped through the building behind him and thin out into nothing. The thunderous roar of boosters activating deafened him. A much heavier looking NEXT decorated in soft white and blue pastels and a single crystal blue eye slid in front of him and brushed the NEXT's hand aside and impaled his large burning blade deep into it's neck.
The boy watched as the blade sunk in…. the fallen machine pitifully tried to grasp the other's head as it slowly sank to the ground. The larger NEXT's single eye ran along the LED strip and stopped on him….. As his blade shattered and retreated back in to his forearm a small trail of fire followed him as his entire body slowly and gracefully turned towards him, the single bright eye subtly returned to the middle of its head. A second machine soared over him and landed at his side…. This one was a dark silver and was a light weight Mech.
It leaned forward and used it's thrusters to glide across the street towards entrance. The boy was knocked down by it's sheer velocity. He stared up at them from the ground several other enemy NEXT swarmed around the large glacier colored giant like locust and followed the dark NEXT towards the tunnel out of the city. The NEXT stepped forward with a heavy thud and boosted forward, as the little boy stared when it passed by its over boost began charging. The very energy from the air was condensed into it and concentrated and was released…….. For a split second his burning wings stretched out then vanished into concentrated pillars of fire.