"What are you talking about William? You did nothing but piss your pants and fall over."

"Dude Garret, your mother."

Wow, what a comeback, I thought. "If you wanna claim rights to fucking my seventy-year old mother, go right ahead."

His face turned red, "Fine, then Ay-"

I cut him off by raising a fist. "Don't even."

Aylis walked into the hangar and nodded at us, Moby beside her. "Good job boys, unfortunately, there's we still haven't got a place to go to his from Mirage, and now Crest too."

"I've got an idea," I lowered my fist and walked toward Aylis, "Remember the robot pilot from FlashTactic? Well there was another one identical to it in the Crest AC. I wonder if Navis or Kisaragi have anything to do with this as well."

Aylis nodded, "It's worth a shot. We'll try Kisaragi first, seeing as the HQ is closer." She went back to the transport's cockpit, leaving Moby with us.

Moby walked over to his AC and reloaded the ammo with the supplies the transport had, which were rather plentiful. Will and I followed his lead and did the same for our ACs.

"Kisaragi HQ is almost in view guys." Aylis mentioned over the PA before she gasped.

"What is it?" Moby sounded interested.

"Kisaragi HQ has been demolished!"

"Shit, guys get ready to deploy." I hopped into my AC and fired it up. The other two followed.

"Aylis take us in, we're gonna find out what happened."

After a short bit, the hatch opened and the three of us stepped out. I could make out about three ACs that were still moving, two Torments and a FlashTactic. They hadn't spotted us yet. "Aylis get the transport away from here. We don't need it to be destroyed. Moby, William, what say we take these guys man to man?"

Moby followed and started to aim his decent to one of the Torments. Will was a bit reluctant but still aimed for the other Torment. "Gee thanks guys," I said sarcastically as I aimed for the FlashTactic. As soon as I could I opened fire with my machine gun. Catching Enigma's attention as bullets hit its AC's back. As I finally landed both of us had fired a good number of shots.

FlashTactic boosted at me, swinging his laser blade. I blocked with my own and shot a rain of bullets through his AC's gun arm, disabling it before it could do the same to me. He pulled away and armed his chaingun. A bullet cam from behind me and knocked the chaingun off.

"You can thank me later Garret," Aylis boasted over the radio. I looked on the radar and saw Cupid's signal coming from a close by mountain range.

FlashTactic tried his blade again. I faked trying to defend against and boosted backward as he got close. Another shot from Cupid went directly through the center of FlachTactic's core, and it quickly stumbled and fell over, leaving a large groove in the ground as it skidded to a halt at Shyft's feet.

"Thanks Aylis," I said as I ran to the site where William had dropped.

"Garret, thank God you're here, please kill him for me." Robo was in bad shape, it had no arms and holes everywhere. The Torment aimed a bazooka at Robo's core and fired. Robo dropped, Will's scream cutting off quickly.

"William! William answer me. Dammit William, talk to me." He was dead. I jabbed my laser blade into Torment's core and pulled it out, beginning to hack and slash wildly. "You fucking piece of shit!"

After a bit of makeshift swordplay the Torment lowered ad small streams of oil spatter out of the core, letting me know that I had hit the pilot directly. "Moby, you didn't die on me too did you?"

"Hell no, I've been waitin' up here with Aylis for you. C'mon, let's go, we gotta find out about Navis too." I looked reluctantly at Robo's metal corpse then made my way back to the transport. Halfway there, Moby launched a grenade near William's corpse, kicking up enough dirt to bury him. Not a worthy grave, but the best we could do for now.