Mandalorian Grit

The next morning at the Mandalord palace, Central. The crowd was estatic for the final words that the Galactic Civil war was over.

"Man," Akisu said as he walked with Abena through the crowd. "I can't believe how many people showed up for this."

"Well nothing beats royalty." She said. "I just wish Falco could be here."

"Hey, Keilara isn't here either." Akisu tried to jump over the heads of the taller people. "He's part of the police, and she is in the security team."

"Well, it looks like I have an excuse, then." Naoto, dressed in pale blue jeans, a green t-shirt with the R.A.F symbol on it and black leather jacket, snuck up from behind them.

"You look great!" Abena hugged him, almost knocking him backwards.

"OOF! Thanks... I think." He said. "Akisu, you still don't like drinking milk?"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A MICRO-SIZED HALF-PINT WHO DIDN'T GROW UP BECAUSE HE DOESN'T DRINK MILK?" He yelled as he kicked Naoto in the shin.

"He never said that much, Akisu." Abena sighed.

Naoto rubbed his shin to make the pain lesser. "I can see that you still git it."

"So, are you nervous?" Akisu asked.

"Me? Nervous? Nah. I've been on plenty of big assigments without Vertigo squad to back me up."

"I meant about wedding."

"Oh... that," Naoto's face went slightly pale. "O.K. know I'm nervous."

"Naoto," Abena said. "You are the hero of Titan. I think I can speak for everyone in the System today when I think you can handle something like that."

XxXxXxX

In an Alley way, a human soldier was setting up a mobile missile launcher behind a dumpster. "Team B is set. Poor visibility on the castle. But a sniper's nest aiming at team A's location."

In a building on the other side of the square, looking out at Central. Another team of humans set up another missile launcher. "Team A is setting up. Team C and D are in their Knightmares.

"Understood, team A. Team B, switch objective to taking out the snipers." The blue eyed human sat in the cockpit of his custom Knightmare. "Teams A, C, and D mission is still go. Repeat: we're still go."

XxXxXxX

Inside Central. Lara-Su rubbed Aaron's shoulders as he took a deep breath. Lara was dressed in a purple and gold trim kimono and had a brown leather bandana running down all of her dread lock. While Aaron was dressed in a royal blue kimono with a white haori with a pattern of black diamonds going around the bottom. Mace was in child size green kimono, while Gemia-Su wore a pink one.

"Ready?" Lara asked lovingly.

"Ready." Aaron took a coming breath, while the twins chuckled at their father's stress.

XxXxXxX

"Ready, Akisu?" Abena asked.

"Ready!" Akisu hung from a lamp pole so he could over the crowd do to his size. "DON'T CALL ME SMALL!"

XxXxXxX

Naoto sat on the feet of Marcos, while scanning the roof top with his scanner. "Alright, Keilara. You're ready for this, girl."

XxXxXxX

"All teams: final check." The blue eye human smiled.

"Ready."

"Ready"

"Ready."

XxXxXxX

The crowd roared out with victorious cheers when the Royal family came out on to the balcony, over looking them. While in the building across the square, Keilara Santorini found the missile nest.

"So it's true. No news is good news." She prepped a stun grenade. She threw it in, it explode causing the two man squad to stumble around in blindness. Aaron started to give the speech as she pulled out her handgun, shooting one of them in the shin.

"You're on your own!" The other soldier regained consciousness faster than his partner and decided to run for it.

"Get back here!" Keilara chased after him. Using her Mandalorian strength, she knocked him out with one punch. The wounded one was able to ignore the pain long enough to prepare the missile. Keilara pushed him off the controls and restrained him.

"That was close." She sighed in relief, but found that the pods were not armed. "What! There's no missiles?"

XxXxXxX

In the alley way, the human soldier prepared the missile for the snipers. "Fire!"

"I'd rather you didn't." A six foot jutte pinned the man to the ground. "I never thought Charlie would find the technology to send more of you here."

The man, on the ground and his right arm twisted behind his back, looked up at the man in the dark blue police uniform. "Former Kinght of Seven? Adam Ada?"

"You're under arrest."

XxXxXxX

"Team A, did she fall for the decoy?" The blue eyed human said through his head set. "Team B, did you take out the snipers? Hello!" He threw off the head set. "Alright, all Knightmare teams, roll out!"

The empty parts of the south side of the city exploded from below and two Gloucester and a customized Gareth came from the underground sewer system. The Gloucester drove through the streets heading towards the square, while the Gareth flew over the city Keldabe. One of the Gloucester's turned down one of the main streets that led to the square.

"My lord, I have a clear route to the square. No resistance." He then spotted a man with messy brown hair reading the newspaper, and drinking coffee at a cafe style table, in the middle of the street. "What the...?"

The man, still looking at the table, left arm glowed bright orange. He then threw a punch at the Knightmare.

"Flamethrower." A eruption of fire engulfed the mech, causing it to be melted down to the asphalt. The cockpit opened with the pilot falling to the ground. He singed himself on the hot metal and was then spassing on the ground do to the pain. "I took it easy on you." He watched the man role around on the ground from his seat. "If you try to resist, I'll turn you to ash."

"Damn it... who the hell are you!" He cried in pain.

"Vince Hector. Rank: First General. You can call me Vince, or the Sniper King, hell you can call me the Flame General. Just remember the pain."

In one of the sniper's nest near the battle, the snipers had their mouth open at the sight of their Generals powers.

"Oh," A grown woman with short black hair hair, and her appearance made her look like a guy, sat on the wires next to the nest. "Is this the first time you've seen Vince use that power?"

"Yes, Second General Hector." One of them saluted her. How did he do that?"

"Besides the fact that he has the power to become, control, and use fire. Compliments of the Company. When there aren't that many people around, he has more oxygen to use. All he needs is a target, and then "Poof","

"I understand the basics idea, but how..."

"It's because he is a Project." She did a acrobatic walk across the wire and on to the rooftop. "I already took out the other purple mech. All that remains is that flying one." They soon felt a guest of wind fly past them. "And I think Naoto has that under control."

"Out of Projects, Shamans, and all other weird things in the universe. The Cheiftain is clearly not real."

XxXxXxX

"Team C, Team D! What the hell is going on?" The pilot inside the Gareth yelled to his men, but got radio silience. He then saw in his enhanced visuals that Aaron had finished his speech. "I guess those where your last words," He activated the Gareth's Surger canon. The canon charge was to slow. Something sliced and tore straight through. "What the hell?"

Suddenly, the back of his cockpit was torn straight off. "Well, never thought I would have the chance to actually fight the Knight of Two, Mack Linwood."

"Who are you?"

Naoto slung around a large sword-chainsword hybrid off his back, causing the hole to become bigger. "My name is Naoto Kuozuki-Wynne."

"Damn Eleven Monk--!" Before he could finish, Naoto tore right through him. But the damage to the Knightmare caused it to loose balance and fall into the city.

"Hey Naoto," Kin's voice came through jis ear piece. "Can you land that thing?"

Naoto threw the remaining body parts aside and took comand. "You mean, what's ever left of it?"

"Well can you?"

"It'll be a challenge," He pulled up on the controls causing it to raise slightly. Slight enough to have it skid to a stop in front of Kin. "How was that?" Kin just rolled her eyes. "What?"

"You just had to kill the guy," She sighed. "Is there one day when you can not be covered in blood?"

"Well, Ma'am," Naoto did his best uptight Sargeant impression. "I was torn. On the one hand, there's one less brit in the universe, but now Havox's got a bigger body count than me! And that just won't do, No ma'am." Naoto turned to Mack's mangled corps. "Rest in piece... Britannian Bastard."

Kin then hit him over the head with a thick paper fan.


With my right, I can destroy anything.

With my left, I create a new.

But even I can't bring back what's gone.

Next Time: Heart of a Human.

I'm only half of one after all.