J-Corps Sin
The shadows hid him well. Vision gave a loud yawn as he watched the road for his shift. Him and Meltdown had been waiting for sixteen hours, and there was still no signs of the convoy. He began to wonder if they had gotten off a messenger in time. The AC pilot they had captured was easily convinced to give up all the information he needed. But it seemed that no one had ever known when the arrival of the shipment would be. Hearing a small knock on his AC hatch, he hit the button, opening it. Meltdown crawled in, grabbing a seat at his feet. "Still nothing. Here, I brought you some food and a drink." he says silently as he hand the items over. Removing his helmet with the nightvision viewscreen, he took the food with a nod of thanks. As he began eating, Meltdown began to speak silently. "We'll wait another two hours. If there is still nothing I am going to take FireStarter and head to the AC garage in Downfall. I'll contact Ren, and we'll see if something has changed." Vision gives a simple nod as he states this, then goes back to his food. Meltdown slips out of his AC, and heads back to his own AC, which had to be covered in a stealth net, simply put, a heavy net intertwined with leaves which makes any type of AC completely undetectable by scanners of other AC's. Mirage needed no stealth. His radar jammer, and his natural ability to blend into the shadows was enough for him. The time slowly drifted by, until the hour was up. Meltdown left as promised, to contact Ren about the mission. Vision kind of wished it was him going. He looked over his AC specs, then pulled out a book and started reading. There was no reason why he couldn't keep studying. Finally, something happened. His silent alarm came to life, and the helmet was instantly equipped. Looking out, he spotted a copter circling the area. MT version 2-air tactics unit. A scout. It looked around, then passed right near Mirage. Vision kept still, leaving all of his power off. He couldn't afford to warn the convoy about his presence. The MT flies away, as Vision, turns on his AC, and prepares to fight. An AC suddenly came into view, then three others. The convoy had arrived. Two were armed with high power laser cannons, one with a rifle, and another with a thousand-rounder machine gun. That would be a problem. Mirage wasn't equipped to fight distance fighters. Oh well, he could at least take out the trucks. Flicking on his Warhead launcher, he took aim as the first truck came into view. Looking over at it, he sighs as the AC's block it from view. He was going to have to deal with the AC's first. All of the AC's were powered down, so it could easily be said he could fire and possibly take one out before it could even counter. Maybe two if they were close enough. Taking careful aim, he prepares, he unleashes the hell as his warheads fire.
Meltdown had left without anyone around. So it was safe to say Vision would be fine. He continued on his path, still thinking this was stupid. The road signs got more clear, and finally, he arrived in Downfall. Downfall was a small village consisting of ten families. It was one of the extensions of the Silent Nest, and as soon as they looked at his code, he was given access to the village. It took him only minutes to find the garage. Hooking up to the network, he sends an E-mail to Ren. "Meltdown reporting. There is absolutely no sign of anyone coming. I suggest we pull out and take this one as a loss. What do you think?" Meltdown waited patiently for his reply...
Vision hammer the trigger on the shift, the pod opening with the click. Boosting into the air, the wave of warheads fired, striking into the chest of the AC. The resulting blast was enormous. It lit the sky, as Mirage hit the ground, and began running towards his intended targets. The other AC's instantly sprang into action. As a whole, they raised, and fired their weapons. Mirage slid easily out of the way of the bigger, slowler laser cannons easy, but still suffered a sudden assault from the one with the machine gun. Hitting his boosters, he got out of the stream of bullets. He dashes towards the AC's, slashing as he goes. The laserblade rips through the hydraulic's of the machine-gunner's leg, stopping his ability to turn. The other two AC's turned, firing their laser cannons, but Mirage was nowhere near the shots, as he flew right fast, just taking small shocks from the exxplosions. He hit the ejector, and the Warhead launcher explodes off his shoulder, landing with a thud on the ground. The machine-gunner let's loose another flurry of bullets as he gets in front of him, then deciding he had had enough, he hit the boosters, put them into Turbo, and hammered into the thing's head with his laserblade. It let out one satisfying beep before it exploded off it's shoulders. Ripping the machine gun out of the AC's motionless hand, he hits the boosters, shifting up and back, then aims the gun down, pointing between his own AC's legs, as he completely narrowed down the target range of the machine gun. As the body of one of the other AC came into view, he pulls the trigger of the machine gun. The body of the AC instantly suffered from the concentrated spray at it's head as it rocked, bullet holes appearing all over the head unit as he continues to pull the trigger. Landing violently on the ground, he hears the explosion of the head of the other AC. Twisting right as a laserblade wizzed by, he hears the sound of a hydraulic mechanism in his core being heard. His power output instantly began to drop. Looking over at the other AC, it began to charge a particle cannon, intent on destroying Vision and Mirage in one brutal blast. But Vision was a much better pilot then that. Hitting the auxilary pumps, the energy flared back into his engine, as he stared back at the cannon reaching critical mass. He opens his intercom, and in one defying roar, he screams, "I'LL KILL YOU FIRST!" His hand slides under the right shift, flipping over the cap, then hammering on to the ZeroBlade system. The boosters instantly flares to life igniting the earth behind it on fire. Putting both hands on the shift, he pushed forwards, the AC instantly flying at the one with the particle cannon. The Moonlight extended out, twice it's normal length, the boosters screaming with power. He was gone, speed so incredible he wasn't even seen. He reappeared right in front of the other AC, as the cannon reached critical mass. The moonlight made one massive swipe, then died down instantly. The cannon fired into the air uselessly as the AC fell backwards, split nearly in two. Mirage rocked with force, the left arm a smoking heap, the moonlight still present, but looked like hell. Turning around, the trucks came into view. Running towards the trucks weakly, he raises the gun with his right hand. His targetting system was screwed to high hell, but he needed to pull the trigger anyways. He would not do so yet though. "Attention transport vehicles. All drivers please evacuate, or you will be destroyed along with your trucks. You have ten seconds to comply." Instantly, truck doors opened, and men jumped out the trucks. Vision blinks as they run to the back of the truck, and women and children start jumping out of the trucks into their arms as they evacuate. Hitting the sound and speaker, he says out, "What's going on, why are there women and children here?" Hitting the red-eye's x-ray scanner, no weapons were spotted. All of it was women and children. One of the men holds his hands up in surrender, and yells out, "We don't want to die. All we wanted to do was get them to the damn hospital in Downfall. Why won't J-Corps let us heal the sick?" Vision's jaw drops as he hears the man say this. The men he just killed...were guarding women and children? "Get back in your trucks, I am going to escort you there myself." The men nodded thanks, and the trucks were re-loaded. As they started driving, Vision began moving Mirage with the in a flanking maneuver, waiting and watching. His generator was running dry, but he had no choice but to help as he could. Getting an idea, he shut off the power to the moonlight, instantly giving him a little more power. He would need to modify the zeroblade system so that it wouldn't wreck the AC whenever he used it. The speed it gave him completely limited which way he could move, but he was betting with enough strength, he could probably get it to turn. The trip was fairly uneventful, as him and the leader of the convoy sat discussing what types of sicknesses they had. All of them had been infected by a chemical that was dropped in the water by J-Corps, or Jechtech Fighting Corps, the people responsible for the many MT's in the world. They had been testing it out as a potential weapon to wipe out terrorists. Since the village was poor and secluded, it was decided it would make a good target. Vision slowly became enraged at this, watching the road way. Little did he know, in about three seconds, he would have even more of a reason to be angry....
Meltdown looks at his computer when the e-mail arrives. Opening it quickly, he finds Ren's logo, and smiles. The message was short, but it was directly to the point. "If they aren't there yet, chances are they aren't coming. What a waste. J-Corps will pay us anyways though, I'll see to that! Get back to Vision, and tell him to pull out." Meltdown stood, jumping into Firestarter. He begins driving out of the city, when overhead, he sees Air Combat MT's flying towards where he had left Vision. The J-Corps insignia stood out on them, as flashes of light started to appear on the roadway heading towards them. Meltdown instantly hit his boosters, and headed towards the fight.
Vision watched in utter horror as one of the trucks behind him blew to smithereens. Looking into the air, he saw the source. Stealth planes were flying above, dropping bombs. Their insignia's stood clear, then without waiting another second, he raised the machine gun, and fired. The MT's dodged the bullets with ease, Vision unable to hit because of his lack of any FCS at the moment. Finally, plotting out the flight path, he gunned right into it, and let the MT's themselves fly onto the bullets. Three went down, though there were at least another twenty flying around. The trucks picked up speed, as Mirage moved in position setting himself between them and the MT's. Their fire on him was merciless. Within minutes, the pump in his leg was grinding, ready to blow, his body riddled with bullet holes. His machine gun fired again, striking down another two, but that was all before he ran out of ammo. As he waited for what would probably be the final wave, his alarms sounded, noting the presence of an AC heading towards him. It was Meltdown. Vision gave a cry of joy, opening his intercom yelling, "Knock those junk heaps out of the sky!" Meltdown instantly complied. Duel chainguns opened fire, hammering into the MT's. Three of them fell in the first barage. Hitting the trigger on his boosters, Meltdown lifted off, the tank legs giving a slight groan. He fired out with his rifle, striking into the MT's over and over. Three more fell. The rest fell to his chainguns, leaving him only slightly damaged in the end of the attack. Mirage had remained inactive during the fight, but now, after standing, withstanding an assault, and taking overkill damage, it malfunctioned, finally stopping it's movements. "Meltdown, Mirage is out." There was a momentary silence, then Meltdown hit his spotlights, and scanned them over the AC. He gave a concerned look, then looking at the left arm, and the scorched laserblade, he says quietly over the intercom, "You should be more careful with your laserblade. I don't know what your doing with it, but it's generally not a good idea to let it scorch itself. Your frame is going to take some serious work, and I don't have the money for that. We might have to throw a cheap AC together from spare parts and scrap until we can get some cash." Over their intercoms, they both heard a slight cackle, then the sound of a man's voice appear. "Raven's, this is Ren. I heard about what happened from the convoy leader. I am sending a skimmer to pick you up. Vision, good job. The garage here has opened it's doors for you two to repair your AC's. The convoy leaders have also left fifty thousand credits each, the as agreed on with the former guards. I'm proud of you two. And J-Corps has now officially made an ennemy of the Stealth Nest. It's bad enough they lied to us, but then attack us too? Just not smart." Vision smiled as the floating platform approached, skimmer as it was called. It wasn't much. It was basically a floating platform used to move AC's around and over deep water or bad earth. It took them only an instant to scoop up Mirage, Meltdown driving along beside it in preparation of another attack. "Ren, why didn't you tell me who you were?" Vision sudenly popped the question that had been on his mind. "I abandoned you and your mother Sen. I couldn't risk telling you who I was until you knew the reason for my contacting you." Sen simply nodded, realizing that the way he had been brought in was in fact the tactically correct method for it to be done. Climbing out of Mirage, Vision walks over to the edge of the platform, seating himself hanging his legs over the edge. His mind returned to the horrific scene he had witnessed when the J-Corps had dropped a bomb on a truck load of women and children on their way to get medical treatment. He wouldn't let that slide. He would take revenge for them, every last one of them. He already began plotting the death of the
J-corps.
When Mirage was pushed into the city on the skimmer, cheers arose from all directions. Men, women, and children stood in the streets cheering as the bullet-ridden AC drove along towards the garage. Two men waited as Vision jumped off off the skimmer as it reached the garage door. "Thank you Raven. I am Dennis, this is my son Danny. We owe you our lives, as well as the lives of countless others. How can we ever repay you?" Vision smiled shakily, then fell forwards on his face. His exhaustion from fighting and lack of sleep, linked with the physical pressure the Zeroblade put on him made him pass out. Meltdown stared in shock as his friend fell, then jumping out of of the giant AC, and running over, he shakes him roughly. Getting nothing but a groan of pain from Sen, he gives a smile, then with the help of the convoy pilots, picks him up, carrying him into a room. The three men kept a silent vigil on him, as the medic entered and looked him over. With a quiet remark, he states simply, "He has three broken ribs, god only knows how he was able to stay in the fight so long in this condition, but he did it." Wrapping him up, the medic leaves to give Ren, who quickly comes in to look over his son. He gives a sigh of relief, then walks over joining the others. "Doc said he'll be fine in a few hours. I have never seen such dedication in someone who didn't want to be an AC pilot." Meltdown gives a nod, then states, "He is the best partner I've ever had, even though I've only been on one mission with him, I can see he is one of the greats in AC combat." Him and Ren then go on to watch the video tape of the battle, removing it from Mirage's camcorder. They watched in amazement at the death-defying maneuvers Sen had pulled, both positive that they wouldn't dare to attempt half the things he had done. As it neared the part where he used his ZeroBlade, his camera suddenly cut out, the bullet in the head finally disabling it. Ren smiled warmly to himself, thinking silently, "The Zeroblade remains a secret." Meltdown gave a little smile when the camera blurred. "Damn, he had it rough. Kind of glad he did though, if he hadn't, we might of blown up those trucks no questions asked." Ren gave a simple nod, as he walked back into his son's room, whom was already awake and sitting, eating a light meal. "Nicely done Sen. No, expertly done. Your work with a laserblade is a work to be reckoned with." Sen gave a simple nod between mouthfuls. An engineer walked in then, saying, "Your AC is repaired. We equipped some new boosters for you, Titans." Sen gave a nod, suddenly wondering what kind of pressure was going to be applied to him from the new boosters attached. Ren was quick to usher the engineer out so Sen could recover a little before having to worry about his AC anymore. Ren already had another mission for them, he needed his pilot healthy.
The shadows hid him well. Vision gave a loud yawn as he watched the road for his shift. Him and Meltdown had been waiting for sixteen hours, and there was still no signs of the convoy. He began to wonder if they had gotten off a messenger in time. The AC pilot they had captured was easily convinced to give up all the information he needed. But it seemed that no one had ever known when the arrival of the shipment would be. Hearing a small knock on his AC hatch, he hit the button, opening it. Meltdown crawled in, grabbing a seat at his feet. "Still nothing. Here, I brought you some food and a drink." he says silently as he hand the items over. Removing his helmet with the nightvision viewscreen, he took the food with a nod of thanks. As he began eating, Meltdown began to speak silently. "We'll wait another two hours. If there is still nothing I am going to take FireStarter and head to the AC garage in Downfall. I'll contact Ren, and we'll see if something has changed." Vision gives a simple nod as he states this, then goes back to his food. Meltdown slips out of his AC, and heads back to his own AC, which had to be covered in a stealth net, simply put, a heavy net intertwined with leaves which makes any type of AC completely undetectable by scanners of other AC's. Mirage needed no stealth. His radar jammer, and his natural ability to blend into the shadows was enough for him. The time slowly drifted by, until the hour was up. Meltdown left as promised, to contact Ren about the mission. Vision kind of wished it was him going. He looked over his AC specs, then pulled out a book and started reading. There was no reason why he couldn't keep studying. Finally, something happened. His silent alarm came to life, and the helmet was instantly equipped. Looking out, he spotted a copter circling the area. MT version 2-air tactics unit. A scout. It looked around, then passed right near Mirage. Vision kept still, leaving all of his power off. He couldn't afford to warn the convoy about his presence. The MT flies away, as Vision, turns on his AC, and prepares to fight. An AC suddenly came into view, then three others. The convoy had arrived. Two were armed with high power laser cannons, one with a rifle, and another with a thousand-rounder machine gun. That would be a problem. Mirage wasn't equipped to fight distance fighters. Oh well, he could at least take out the trucks. Flicking on his Warhead launcher, he took aim as the first truck came into view. Looking over at it, he sighs as the AC's block it from view. He was going to have to deal with the AC's first. All of the AC's were powered down, so it could easily be said he could fire and possibly take one out before it could even counter. Maybe two if they were close enough. Taking careful aim, he prepares, he unleashes the hell as his warheads fire.
Meltdown had left without anyone around. So it was safe to say Vision would be fine. He continued on his path, still thinking this was stupid. The road signs got more clear, and finally, he arrived in Downfall. Downfall was a small village consisting of ten families. It was one of the extensions of the Silent Nest, and as soon as they looked at his code, he was given access to the village. It took him only minutes to find the garage. Hooking up to the network, he sends an E-mail to Ren. "Meltdown reporting. There is absolutely no sign of anyone coming. I suggest we pull out and take this one as a loss. What do you think?" Meltdown waited patiently for his reply...
Vision hammer the trigger on the shift, the pod opening with the click. Boosting into the air, the wave of warheads fired, striking into the chest of the AC. The resulting blast was enormous. It lit the sky, as Mirage hit the ground, and began running towards his intended targets. The other AC's instantly sprang into action. As a whole, they raised, and fired their weapons. Mirage slid easily out of the way of the bigger, slowler laser cannons easy, but still suffered a sudden assault from the one with the machine gun. Hitting his boosters, he got out of the stream of bullets. He dashes towards the AC's, slashing as he goes. The laserblade rips through the hydraulic's of the machine-gunner's leg, stopping his ability to turn. The other two AC's turned, firing their laser cannons, but Mirage was nowhere near the shots, as he flew right fast, just taking small shocks from the exxplosions. He hit the ejector, and the Warhead launcher explodes off his shoulder, landing with a thud on the ground. The machine-gunner let's loose another flurry of bullets as he gets in front of him, then deciding he had had enough, he hit the boosters, put them into Turbo, and hammered into the thing's head with his laserblade. It let out one satisfying beep before it exploded off it's shoulders. Ripping the machine gun out of the AC's motionless hand, he hits the boosters, shifting up and back, then aims the gun down, pointing between his own AC's legs, as he completely narrowed down the target range of the machine gun. As the body of one of the other AC came into view, he pulls the trigger of the machine gun. The body of the AC instantly suffered from the concentrated spray at it's head as it rocked, bullet holes appearing all over the head unit as he continues to pull the trigger. Landing violently on the ground, he hears the explosion of the head of the other AC. Twisting right as a laserblade wizzed by, he hears the sound of a hydraulic mechanism in his core being heard. His power output instantly began to drop. Looking over at the other AC, it began to charge a particle cannon, intent on destroying Vision and Mirage in one brutal blast. But Vision was a much better pilot then that. Hitting the auxilary pumps, the energy flared back into his engine, as he stared back at the cannon reaching critical mass. He opens his intercom, and in one defying roar, he screams, "I'LL KILL YOU FIRST!" His hand slides under the right shift, flipping over the cap, then hammering on to the ZeroBlade system. The boosters instantly flares to life igniting the earth behind it on fire. Putting both hands on the shift, he pushed forwards, the AC instantly flying at the one with the particle cannon. The Moonlight extended out, twice it's normal length, the boosters screaming with power. He was gone, speed so incredible he wasn't even seen. He reappeared right in front of the other AC, as the cannon reached critical mass. The moonlight made one massive swipe, then died down instantly. The cannon fired into the air uselessly as the AC fell backwards, split nearly in two. Mirage rocked with force, the left arm a smoking heap, the moonlight still present, but looked like hell. Turning around, the trucks came into view. Running towards the trucks weakly, he raises the gun with his right hand. His targetting system was screwed to high hell, but he needed to pull the trigger anyways. He would not do so yet though. "Attention transport vehicles. All drivers please evacuate, or you will be destroyed along with your trucks. You have ten seconds to comply." Instantly, truck doors opened, and men jumped out the trucks. Vision blinks as they run to the back of the truck, and women and children start jumping out of the trucks into their arms as they evacuate. Hitting the sound and speaker, he says out, "What's going on, why are there women and children here?" Hitting the red-eye's x-ray scanner, no weapons were spotted. All of it was women and children. One of the men holds his hands up in surrender, and yells out, "We don't want to die. All we wanted to do was get them to the damn hospital in Downfall. Why won't J-Corps let us heal the sick?" Vision's jaw drops as he hears the man say this. The men he just killed...were guarding women and children? "Get back in your trucks, I am going to escort you there myself." The men nodded thanks, and the trucks were re-loaded. As they started driving, Vision began moving Mirage with the in a flanking maneuver, waiting and watching. His generator was running dry, but he had no choice but to help as he could. Getting an idea, he shut off the power to the moonlight, instantly giving him a little more power. He would need to modify the zeroblade system so that it wouldn't wreck the AC whenever he used it. The speed it gave him completely limited which way he could move, but he was betting with enough strength, he could probably get it to turn. The trip was fairly uneventful, as him and the leader of the convoy sat discussing what types of sicknesses they had. All of them had been infected by a chemical that was dropped in the water by J-Corps, or Jechtech Fighting Corps, the people responsible for the many MT's in the world. They had been testing it out as a potential weapon to wipe out terrorists. Since the village was poor and secluded, it was decided it would make a good target. Vision slowly became enraged at this, watching the road way. Little did he know, in about three seconds, he would have even more of a reason to be angry....
Meltdown looks at his computer when the e-mail arrives. Opening it quickly, he finds Ren's logo, and smiles. The message was short, but it was directly to the point. "If they aren't there yet, chances are they aren't coming. What a waste. J-Corps will pay us anyways though, I'll see to that! Get back to Vision, and tell him to pull out." Meltdown stood, jumping into Firestarter. He begins driving out of the city, when overhead, he sees Air Combat MT's flying towards where he had left Vision. The J-Corps insignia stood out on them, as flashes of light started to appear on the roadway heading towards them. Meltdown instantly hit his boosters, and headed towards the fight.
Vision watched in utter horror as one of the trucks behind him blew to smithereens. Looking into the air, he saw the source. Stealth planes were flying above, dropping bombs. Their insignia's stood clear, then without waiting another second, he raised the machine gun, and fired. The MT's dodged the bullets with ease, Vision unable to hit because of his lack of any FCS at the moment. Finally, plotting out the flight path, he gunned right into it, and let the MT's themselves fly onto the bullets. Three went down, though there were at least another twenty flying around. The trucks picked up speed, as Mirage moved in position setting himself between them and the MT's. Their fire on him was merciless. Within minutes, the pump in his leg was grinding, ready to blow, his body riddled with bullet holes. His machine gun fired again, striking down another two, but that was all before he ran out of ammo. As he waited for what would probably be the final wave, his alarms sounded, noting the presence of an AC heading towards him. It was Meltdown. Vision gave a cry of joy, opening his intercom yelling, "Knock those junk heaps out of the sky!" Meltdown instantly complied. Duel chainguns opened fire, hammering into the MT's. Three of them fell in the first barage. Hitting the trigger on his boosters, Meltdown lifted off, the tank legs giving a slight groan. He fired out with his rifle, striking into the MT's over and over. Three more fell. The rest fell to his chainguns, leaving him only slightly damaged in the end of the attack. Mirage had remained inactive during the fight, but now, after standing, withstanding an assault, and taking overkill damage, it malfunctioned, finally stopping it's movements. "Meltdown, Mirage is out." There was a momentary silence, then Meltdown hit his spotlights, and scanned them over the AC. He gave a concerned look, then looking at the left arm, and the scorched laserblade, he says quietly over the intercom, "You should be more careful with your laserblade. I don't know what your doing with it, but it's generally not a good idea to let it scorch itself. Your frame is going to take some serious work, and I don't have the money for that. We might have to throw a cheap AC together from spare parts and scrap until we can get some cash." Over their intercoms, they both heard a slight cackle, then the sound of a man's voice appear. "Raven's, this is Ren. I heard about what happened from the convoy leader. I am sending a skimmer to pick you up. Vision, good job. The garage here has opened it's doors for you two to repair your AC's. The convoy leaders have also left fifty thousand credits each, the as agreed on with the former guards. I'm proud of you two. And J-Corps has now officially made an ennemy of the Stealth Nest. It's bad enough they lied to us, but then attack us too? Just not smart." Vision smiled as the floating platform approached, skimmer as it was called. It wasn't much. It was basically a floating platform used to move AC's around and over deep water or bad earth. It took them only an instant to scoop up Mirage, Meltdown driving along beside it in preparation of another attack. "Ren, why didn't you tell me who you were?" Vision sudenly popped the question that had been on his mind. "I abandoned you and your mother Sen. I couldn't risk telling you who I was until you knew the reason for my contacting you." Sen simply nodded, realizing that the way he had been brought in was in fact the tactically correct method for it to be done. Climbing out of Mirage, Vision walks over to the edge of the platform, seating himself hanging his legs over the edge. His mind returned to the horrific scene he had witnessed when the J-Corps had dropped a bomb on a truck load of women and children on their way to get medical treatment. He wouldn't let that slide. He would take revenge for them, every last one of them. He already began plotting the death of the
J-corps.
When Mirage was pushed into the city on the skimmer, cheers arose from all directions. Men, women, and children stood in the streets cheering as the bullet-ridden AC drove along towards the garage. Two men waited as Vision jumped off off the skimmer as it reached the garage door. "Thank you Raven. I am Dennis, this is my son Danny. We owe you our lives, as well as the lives of countless others. How can we ever repay you?" Vision smiled shakily, then fell forwards on his face. His exhaustion from fighting and lack of sleep, linked with the physical pressure the Zeroblade put on him made him pass out. Meltdown stared in shock as his friend fell, then jumping out of of the giant AC, and running over, he shakes him roughly. Getting nothing but a groan of pain from Sen, he gives a smile, then with the help of the convoy pilots, picks him up, carrying him into a room. The three men kept a silent vigil on him, as the medic entered and looked him over. With a quiet remark, he states simply, "He has three broken ribs, god only knows how he was able to stay in the fight so long in this condition, but he did it." Wrapping him up, the medic leaves to give Ren, who quickly comes in to look over his son. He gives a sigh of relief, then walks over joining the others. "Doc said he'll be fine in a few hours. I have never seen such dedication in someone who didn't want to be an AC pilot." Meltdown gives a nod, then states, "He is the best partner I've ever had, even though I've only been on one mission with him, I can see he is one of the greats in AC combat." Him and Ren then go on to watch the video tape of the battle, removing it from Mirage's camcorder. They watched in amazement at the death-defying maneuvers Sen had pulled, both positive that they wouldn't dare to attempt half the things he had done. As it neared the part where he used his ZeroBlade, his camera suddenly cut out, the bullet in the head finally disabling it. Ren smiled warmly to himself, thinking silently, "The Zeroblade remains a secret." Meltdown gave a little smile when the camera blurred. "Damn, he had it rough. Kind of glad he did though, if he hadn't, we might of blown up those trucks no questions asked." Ren gave a simple nod, as he walked back into his son's room, whom was already awake and sitting, eating a light meal. "Nicely done Sen. No, expertly done. Your work with a laserblade is a work to be reckoned with." Sen gave a simple nod between mouthfuls. An engineer walked in then, saying, "Your AC is repaired. We equipped some new boosters for you, Titans." Sen gave a nod, suddenly wondering what kind of pressure was going to be applied to him from the new boosters attached. Ren was quick to usher the engineer out so Sen could recover a little before having to worry about his AC anymore. Ren already had another mission for them, he needed his pilot healthy.