The Ultimate 9-Ball unit hovered slightly off the ground, with all four plasma blades still deployed, and turned around, headed for the door like a bat out of hell, headed towards the Global Cortex hanger. Ezekiel would have his revenge even if it meant losing his life doing so.
He controlled the Ultimate 9-Ball unit with his mind, and with that, considerable skill, because he just had to imagine what it should do to do it. This gave him the upper hand of course.
The unit quickly hovered over a meadow stained with patches of dirt and the occasional animal, foxes, dogs, and cats, all hunting for mice and the like. The wind blew softly and the sun glared down fiendishly on Trene City, the capital of all raven operations, and launching site for the STAI2 battleship, a monstrous weapon capable of taking out an entire planet, currently orbiting the earth. The unit fired a round from it's grenade launcher, then another. They hit with considerable force the energy wall that Global Cortex had put up for protection against unregistered units and ammunition. It would be difficult to get in.
An alarm went off inside the fortress-like Trene City and several ACs could be seen pouring from the hanger like ants from an anthill. All of the greats, Ace, Royal Mist, and even Genobee, an AI in itself, were all at hand and ready to kill the Ultimate 9-Ball unit, along with Ezekiel.
The Acs lunged forward, all at the same time, launching grenade rounds, missile swarms, and plasma blade waves, but all the same were useless. The unit simply flew out of the way and deployed the four plasma blade arm weapons, and took to shredding up 2 ACs in a matter of seconds, Valkyerie didn't make it, and Vigor just hit the self-destruct button in time to take off the unit's left arm.
"Ace, what are we going to do about this think, it's impossible!" Yelled Royal Mist into his com.
"Royal, I'm not sure, we'll have to keep fighting. Two of our best pilots just lost their lives, and we'll have to defend them as well as Global Cortex to the death." Replied Ace with a sinister look on his face.
"I'm going to try and get in a power shot with my Moonlight and finish this thing off with my self-destruct function." He said with a tear in his eye.
"Ace, I'm not so sure you should do that, it probably won't do much, and we need you to help us now!" Yipped Mobius, dodging a blast from the abominable machine's grenade launcher.
"I'm going, It's been fun guys."
With that Ace set out on his journey. The Ultimate 9-Ball unit gave him a moment's notice and shot four rounds from the seemingly endless ammunition of the grenade launcher. Ace hit the over boost pedal sending his AC rocketing toward the unit at break-neck speed with the plasma blade of his moonlight drawn and ready to strike. It hit.
Ace's plasma blade struck the hover engine tubing on the defenseless left side of the unit where the arm had been prior to it being blown off by the self-destruction of Vigor's AC, Leopard. The Ultimate 9-Ball unit was motionless now, and Ace could not believe what he had just done, for he had planned on dying, but in turn had won the battle, or so it seemed. All energy from the reactor core had been cut off from the hover engine and the unit could not move an inch, almost stuck to the ground completely.
Mobius flew in as well and took a shot with his plasma blade, that of the Halberd, and severed the seemingly useless right arm of the unit. Then, without a moment's wait and consideration, a rookie pilot, Mileage flew in for a blade strike, as though it were becoming a trend, and was totally annihilated by the units now seemingly nuclear powered linear cannon.
"Ace, we'll have to take that linear cannon out or we'll all be toast, it's getting all of the power the hover engine once gained from the reactor!" Yelled Mobius.
Genobee hovered overhead as if it sensed something wrong about to happen. And it did. Hundreds of 9-Ball units appeared from atop the hill, linear cannons drawn, ready to protect their master. They all fired simultaneously, seemingly wiping out all signs of life on that one side of the wall, Ace, Mobius, and Royal Mist were among the fallen Ravens. The battle was clearly won.
