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Chapter 1 - Colors
The tall woman walked into the command of the de Daanan. the operators were stunned by her, none of them had ever seen her before. she stood in front of Tessa.
"Captain Testarossa." she said in a slightly deep voice, she couldn't be older than 17.
"Captain Hikari." Tessa replied.
Captain? Kalinin thought.
"I request your permission to follow the Arbalest to land and help them out." she said.
"Permission granted, you know i don't have much power over you Katreas." Tessa replied. (i know Katreas isn't Japanese but i like it. it's pronounced kah- tray-as)
"Thanks Tess." Katreas said and left command.
"Who was that?" Kalinin asked.
"Captain Katreas Hikari. she helped me create Mithril. she's a second captain, her sub was blown up a few weeks ago and they're working on getting another one." Tessa said loud enough for the whole room to hear. Melissa saw her walking down the corridor.
"Hey! who are you?" she asked.
"Relax Sergeant Mao, I'm no intruder. in fact I'm going after Kurz and Sousuke." Katreas said.
"Oh, you want me to take you to the Arm Slave dock?" she asked, following Katreas.
"No, I will however need you to help me unhook my AS." she replied.
"I it an M9?" she asked, getting interested.
"No. it's closer to the ARX-7." she said.
"I've never heard of that before." Mao said and looked at the woman's strange body armor. it looked like her own but thinner and had gray color bands.
they reached the bay and they walked to a large, covered AS. they began pulling the cover off, Melissa paused in awe. it was beautiful. it was pure black and had curved lines of armor not hard angular ones. it's eyes lit up as soon as Katreas' hand touched it. it opened and she climbed expertly into the seat. it closed and she stood it up. all together up right it stood 16 meters high, a monster. the roof hatch opened and she moved tot he launch area. she took off directly. Melissa waved her off, the technicians were in awe of the nimble beast. the missile containing Arbalest followed her out.
Sousuke and Gauron battled in AS' using their Lambda Drivers. as Gauron was about to shoot his energy field at Sousuke a black figure rammed into it. Kaname and Kurz were awed by the monster that now reared in front of Gauron.
"You will never win, Gauron. surrender." a computer voice said from the unknown machine.
"who's in that?" Kaname asked, pointing an accusatory finger at it.
"Mao? no I've never seen that AS before." Kurz replied.
"Well well, this is a very nice surprise. first Kashim then you, Sora. you can't make me give up, i lost once but not again." Gauron replied the threat.
"Sora? that's a girl's name." Kurz said and got that perverted look on his face.
"Fine, if that's how you wanna play." she replied and tackled Gauron, when he was on the ground she blew his head off with a 57 mm. the robot stood up and helped Sousuke's AS up. both of them walked to Kurz and Kaname and sat down. the pilot's climbed out. Sousuke went to see if Kaname was alright then turned to the stranger. it pulled it's visor off and greeted them with a Woman's friendly face.
"Oh, wow." Kurz muttered.
"Hello, I'm Katreas Hikari." she said.
"I think I've heard of you before. you're a captain on the Fire Storm." Sousuke said.
"Captain?" Kaname looked at teh woman.
"Fire storm, didn't that get blown up a while ago?" Kurz asked.
"Yes, I'm helping out Captain Testarossa." Katreas replied.
"How old are you?" Kaname asked, she kinda liked this hard-core woman.
"16." she replied and flinched as gun fire hailed them.
"Shit, Sousuke take Kaname, I'll get Kurz in my AS. run for the beach." Katreas ordered and helped Kurz up. she walked him to her AS. Sousuke saw her load him into another Pilot's seat. he picked Kaname up in Arbalest's hand. they ran through the bullets and to the cape. Katreas was an amazing shot. he jumped from the tip of the cape onto the submarine. Katreas flew over and landed in her spot. the doors closed and they submerged.