Ezekiel stumbled out of the cockpit of his other, in-tact AC Keine Lust and walked down the hill slowly, trying not to injure himself in the process of doing so. He crept up towards a window, stained, blue, and peered into what seemed to be a factory.
"So this is what I was working on, it was a suicide mission! Those bastards at global cortex wanted me dead!" He yelled.
Ezekiel stood up and turned around, looking at Keine Lust with a fierce look in his eyes. He ran back up the hill, hobbling with every bit of pressure he put on his injured leg, and made his way back up to the cockpit, ready to blow the factory to smithereens and claim any parts he thought satisfactory for himself. He hit the over boost pedal and Keine Lust exploded with force, almost causing Ezekiel's ears to pop, and headed straight for the factory's main gate with it's parry blade drawn and multi-missiles on hand.
"I'll do you shit heads in and then it's onto Global Cortex!" He said shakily.
Suddenly, one of the 9-Ball units appeared in front of the massive iron door guarding the seemingly empty parts factory, full of 9-Ball units that had been defeated in battles prior to today. The previously drawn parry blade hit the 9-Ball unit and sent it flying like a limp dead body. Ezekiel deployed the disgustingly powerful plasma blade, that of the Moonlight, and hacked at the lifeless shell of the unit until it was no more.
He re-drew his parry blade and used it like a can opener to slice through the massive iron door, gaining access to the parts factory. He could do nothing but stare in awe of what he had come across. Grenade launchers, plasma cannons, hi laser rifles, everything, and it was all at his finger tips. Ezekiel had walked in on ultimate power.
He strolled down the aisles of parts and 9-Ball unit shells and an idea took over his already clouded mind.
"I'll just take one of these and re-route Sliver, Keine Lust, and Fever's battle data into It's mainframe!" He thought to himself.
Ezekiel jumped out of the cockpit and landed on his good leg with considerable balance. A shadow appeared on the wall in front of him and he sensed someone else was in there with him. He detected movement. The radar in Keine Lust's cockpit started beeping furiously and Ezekiel immediately took to it.
"Well well well, you shouldn't be here kid, it's not safe for rookies in this part of town." Said a familiar voice.
"Damn it Star Runner, I knew you had something to do with this!" Ezekiel shouted.
Keine Lust spun around to see Star Runner's AC, Moonlight, Lounging in the doorway with a lock on Keine Lust. Ezekiel hit the over boost pedal once again and shifted to the right to avoid the massive damage coming in from the Karasawa, a huge plasma rifle's, flurry of high-velocity, light blue ammunition.
Keine Lust Spun to the left and dodged several other shots and deployed 10 missiles headed straight for Moonlight's right arm unit.
"It won't be that easy to hit me kid" Star Runner said in reply to the volley.
Moonlight jumped out of the way just in the nick of time and the missiles buzzed by. Going unscathed, Star Runner fired the last 5 shots from his Karasawa and dropped the heavy weapon, making Moonlight much more agile and deadly, with a plasma blade of it's own. One of the shots fired hit Keine Lust's missile launcher, and another hit it's parry blade, instantly melting them both because of the high heat and velocity of the shots.
"You prick! I'll kill you for that!" Ezekiel shouted angrily.
Ezekiel deployed his plasma blade once again, and a Moonlight battle was about to commence. The two super light AC's spun around the factory launching waves of pure superheated plasma at the other, although none ever hit. Ezekiel hit the over boost pedal and headed straight for Moonlight with Keine Lust's blade fully deployed and straight in front of him.
"Your dead!" Said Star Runner into the com.
Moonlight jumped up and Ezekiel's attempt to end the battle turned on him as Moonlight rammed it's plasma blade through the top of Keine Lust's head, and through the cockpit, totally severing Ezekiel's left leg, and leaving him on the cold concrete ground of the factory as his AC exploded internally and fell to the ground beside him.
Ezekiel looked around with a glaze over his eyes, and began to process the situation he was in. He got up on both arms and slowly crawled to one of the 9-Ball units and gripped onto the elevation platform that led him to the cockpit. It was like nothing he'd ever seen before, like somewhat of a Bio-AC, complete with it's own heartbeat, but that didn't concern him, the only thing that did was killing Star Runner and Annihilating Global Cortex for sending him to his death. He pulled himself in, numb from all the pain, and 2 long tubes attached themselves to his head. He started gushing blood and his eyes became totally glazed over. His body flinched violently and the cockpit somehow strapped him into the pilot's seat. From there it felt to him that he wasn't himself but the 9-Ball unit, and he was in the battle. The unit stood up, and took a minute to process Moonlight's combat style. Ezekiel was motionless and yet the unit was still moving, quickly, fiercely, more deadly than the ones before it. He was now a mindless killer, and the unit could be thanked for that.
The 9-Ball unit shot forward blocking Moonlights escape and lowered the largest linear cannon to date and fired it, destroying the legs of Moonlight and crippling all of the core's special abilities, including over boost. It hovered forward like nothing that had ever seen before and deployed 2 plasma blades from each arm.
"Oh my god, it…it's Ultimate 9-Ball!" The com unit in Moonlight was silenced as the 4 plasma blades were plowed into the cockpit, ripping Star Runner's Body to pieces, staining the silver 9-Ball unit red.
