Debriefing5: Casefile1: The Wolf Pack
It has come to my attention that a student is rising in the ranks. He is also one of the most fearsome pilots in the Academy since the expulsion of HP-05 and Hp-06. His ID is #24. (Adolfo) He is always seen in the company of #51. (Heloise) These two plus HP-03 (InuAcosta) are referred to as the Wolf Pack. This is because of their personal emblems. #24 has a crimson wolf head with a scar over the left eye. #51's emblem is that of a left profile of a white wolf with a gray lotus at the forehead, and HP-03 has an emblem of a steel blue with a white crescent below the ear of a wolf's head in the right profile position. #24 and HP-03 in a heated rivalry, there record stands at 1-1-1.
Report Submitted by: Instructor Albion
Chapter5: The Crimson Wolf vs. the Blue Wolf
On this Monday morning all students were asked to gather at L-3 around the arena at 5:20a.m. for the weekly arena schedule, and to hold a match between two of the instructors. All the students didn't want to come but since it was mandatory most tried to get there.
The main Arena on the L-3 floor was a large dome that was covered in a transparency of thick protective glass for viewing and seating area around it and of course a large screen for people to get a better view of the action.
It was about 5:20 before most of the students were able to reach L-3. It seem that the elevator was on the frits and everyone had to hop a ride on a transport bus to be shuttled on up to L-3, but two student made it on time the two were Adolfo and Heloise.
Adolfo was of an average height. His hair was a crimson red spiked up and over his left eye was a scar. His eyes were a cold blue, and he sat in his seat cross legged and his arms folded on his knee, and in his hands was a silver chain that had a crescent moon on it.
Adolfo was alone until Azriel sat beside him. He looked Azriel's way before returning his sight to the arena.
"You know Adolfo, you owe me." Azriel said relaxing in his seat.
Adolfo looked Azriel's way with a puzzled look. "What you mean?"
Azriel scratched his head for a second. "The designs you and Heloise stole from me. You know the ones you and her pilot." This caught Adolfo's attention. "You thought I wouldn't notice?"
Adolfo shook his head. "Nah, but I needed something with kick, and you left the plans in Dr. SubAtomic's room. So I took them with no regret, beside-" He paused to run his finger over the scar running along his eye. "He needs to pay for what he did to me."
Azriel shook his head. "Its not Inu's fault. The two of you went for the kill and he walked away unharmed. If I remember correctly that match ended as a draw."
Adolfo didn't want to hear it. All he cared about was settling his and Inu's score. Nothing else mattered. "So what do you want Mr. Conductor?"
Azriel stood up and brushed his pants off. "Nothing yet, Crimson Wolf." He started to walk off but stopped suddenly. "Oh, and don't call me that. I hate being called a Conductor. It sounds sinister." After his words he just walked off to take a new seat.
Adolfo sat there in his seat thinking about what he and Azriel had discussed. He though about Azriel's nickname "Conductor." Azriel had his hands in so much that some could say he ran the Academy. Azriel had been known to disappear for days on end and no one knows what he does in that time.
Adolfo was glazed over and didn't noticed as Heloise a tall pale girl with long flowing white hair and soft gray eyes. She sat down and rested her chin on Aldofo's shoulder. He didn't notice her till she blew into his ear.
Adolfo jumped a little. "Hey? What ya do that for?"
Heloise looked up and stroked her chin. "Nothing, just wanting to see if you were in."
Adolfo had always been puzzled by Heloise, because she was strange. She was quiet, kept to herself, and always seemed off in the distance when she talked to anyone. Aldofo wouldn't have ever got to know Heloise if it hadn't been for the accident. She was assigned to the Medical ward for training and she was his nurse.
30 minutes later
30 minutes later all the student had gathered and it was almost time for the match to begin. Azriel and Inu had gotten a pair of seats in the far back of the arena. He sat there in almost complete silence.
"You know something Inu?"
Inu had pasted on his face a look of confusion. "What bro?"
"You and Adolfo. He really wants to settle the score. How bout you?"
Inu looked around as people took seats around him before answering. "I don't care. It doesn't bother me. I'd take him on now if I had too."
Azriel turned his attention as the arena floor became alive as the combatants' AC emerged from the floor.
"So bro who you think is gunna win?" Inu asked as Ablion's AC Juggernaut emerged.
AC juggernaut was a heavy Humanoid type equipped with a mid-weight solid EO core and LIROS arms supported on the JACKEL2 legs with QUEEN Head and had high booster power boosters. The AC had on its left shoulder a triple missile pack and on the other was SEIREN2 radar. It had vertical missile extensions. On the right arm was a basic Laser Rifle and on the other hand a standard Bazooka.
The color of Juggernaut was mostly black except for the joints that were white and the detail an aquamarine color. Its right arm was the only exception because the colors were reversed.
Albion's AC was a design that specialized in attack, but was mobile enough to keep up with most average speed ACs. Albion AC looked as its reputation had said it to be, a monster.
Next to emerge was SubAtomic's AC Atom Smasher. The AC was completely electric blue with a bright lime colored eye. His AC was a Reverse joint using the legs with the second highest weight load. It had the SEE head and the lowest energy drain arms. The core was The E2 light weight EO core, and he used the BIRDIE2 boosters. It had the SKULL2 right arm dual laser rifle and on the left was also a dual laser rifle. On its back was a HARPY orbit pack and on the other shoulder was a LAGOON rail gun, and the thing that was different was the extensions. They were large and spiral in shape.
Azriel took a look at Juggernaut and shook his head. "No I think Sub got this one." Azriel began to rise out of his seat.
"What you mean?" With a confused look on his face. Azriel sat back down before explaining it to Inu.
"It's simple. First Inu what kind of weapons does Dr. Sub use?"
Inu thought hard about it, but could think of an answer. He looked over to Azriel looking confused, and Azriel sighed. In reaction Inu's hands shot out to protect himself. "Don't hurt Inu!"
Azriel sighed again. "I'm not going to hit you. Dr. Sub uses an almost completely energy base weapons system. His AC would normal be unable to support those kinds of weapons on the fly. So Albion who uses a largely solid weapon system has the advantage in weapon selection, but Dr. Sub's AC has greater mobility and that would normally be a huge factor, but it falls back down to the weapons Dr. Sub uses. To skip a lecture those extensions are supplement generators of a high output kind. Basically those generators give off more energy then his main generator. Those extensions with supplement his generator giving his AC far more energy then it could every use, a virtually limitless amount of energy that could be used for Dr. Sub weapons. The down side is that it produces a lot of heat, and if the AC overheats the extensions would shut off till the AC exterior temp drops to a moderate temp."
Inu looked more confused and he scratched his head. "Inu head hurts too many big words."
Azriel shook his head. "Just watch the match."
Dr. SubAtomic and Instructor Albion were awaiting the signal to begin. Albion was ecstatic. This was the first AC match he's had in years and he so missed his Arena days. He was ready to blast Dr. Sub and his chicken AC into next week. Dr. SubAtomic on the other had been going through his final checklist.
"Eve are the supplementary generators active?"
Eve is the name of a combat AI designed by Dr. SubAtomic because his personal piloting skills were a little less then average, but with Eve by his side he was as good as any B rank Raven, of Course Albion was an Aclass Raven.
"All system are in the Green Dr. SubAtomic. Atom Smasher is operating at desired capacity."
Dr. SubAtomic nodded and braced himself for the match to begin. He had all his faith in his machine, and he calculated as many variables that would affect the outcome of the match and the odds were in his favor.
Albion and SubAtomic were given the green light and Albion was aggressive off the bat. He switched to his triple missiles with vertical missile extensions, and EO. He didn't move as he launched his missiles swarm.
SubAtomic on the other hand didn't attack at all, and he evaded most of the missiles easily enough, and he had no worries about running out of energy anytime soon thanks to some major help from his combat AI Eve.
Albion decided to become more aggressive and started to close in on the airborne AC and started to fire with its left arm bazooka. It seemed that Albion had this in the bag till SubAtomic startedhis counter attack.
SubAtomic let loose a series of orbits along with activating his EO, and supplemented that with fire from his left arm dual rifle. Now Albion's AC was more then capable of taking a few hits, and since his he was on the offensive defensive. He just kept up his firing pace. SubAtomic was managing to evade the bazooka, but was now taking hits from the triple missiles.
SubAtomic wanted to speed things up and switched to his railgun and Started to fire the high-speed rounds. After two shots Albion's AC Juggernaut was overheating as the AP started to drop fast. He was out of energy and a sitting duck!
SubAtomic made the switch to the SKULL2 and began to descend as he blasted Juggernaut relentlessly. It was a decision made by the judge to call the match and declare Dr. SubAtomic the victor.
Inu sat in his seat at amazement. Azriel had been correct on saying Albion would lose. He didn't think any one AC could use so much energy with out the AC having to recharge.
Azriel on the other hand felt a bit disappointed. He had expected a closer match then it had been. "That was stupid. It was not fare for Sub to use those extensions. They aren't even finish, nor have they been test till now in actual combat."
Inu looked over to as with his head tilt to the right slightly confused. "What? How do you know?"
Azriel had a sly grin as he answered. "Because I help build, test, and developed those."
Inu shook his head and turned his attention back to the arena floor where Albion's AC was be hauled out of the Arena and to the garage. Then the Head Mistresses voice came of the PA system.
"That was a good match, but back to business. There will be two ranked Arena matches and 3 unranked this week. First tomorrow will be a ranked ladder between Adolfo…"
In the stand Aldofo was praying he'd be paired up with Inu, as so he could finally settle the score and put the mutt in his place under his heel.
"And Hiroshi."
Adolfo jumped out of his seat in frustration. "I'm beating down that mutt one way or another. Its time I stop waiting for a chance and make one!" Heloise briefly looked up at Adolfo and dragged him back to his seat and shushed him.
Later that Day
"InuAcosta? INUACOSTA! Wake up!" It had turned out that Inu had fell asleep while Albion was lecturing them, and his snoring was disrupting the class. "Ms. Sarah could you please?" Sarah nodded gleefully and swiftly grasped Inu's throat firmly and started to ring his neck.
This got Inu to spring to life gasping for air. He tried hard to say something along the line of "Psycho Kitty!" He started to laugh his annoying jackal like laugh, but though she herself was enjoying herself, she had to let go.
Sarah released her grip and Inu began gasping for air. Albion too enjoyment in the suffering of Inu and everyone one knew it.
"Lets get back on subject. The topic was overheating and the problems it causes. We were on point number three. Heavy weights though able to carry more weight are slower and without energy are almost helpless as my match with that cheater SubAtomic. He is a cheater for using both generator extensions and a combat AI."
Albion's ranting went on for a while and it all became a more and more dull. The actual learning part was dead and Albion was getting obsessive about his loss, but to their luck the bell rang and everyone was off.
Azriel was quick to get out of the class, and Inu was curious about the rush, and so Inu stalked Azriel in the shadows. Azriel had moved to the elevators leading down to storage before Azriel caught on to Inu.
Azriel turned a corner and waited till Inu was in sight. He jumped out an confronted Inu on his little stalking.
"You know you shouldn't be down here." Azriel said as he crossed his arms waiting for a reply.
Inu shook his head trying to think of something but noticed he was drawing a blank. "Well you disappear now and then, and I wanted to know where you go."
Azriel sighed. "It's top secret, but I'll be back in a couple of days,also in the mean time try not and get into too much trouble while I'm away, cause I'm not gonna be there to bale you out."
Inu nodded. "Ok I'll try but no promises."
Azriel nodded and started to walk towards the elevator and stopped. "Oh, and by the way. Adolfo is looking for ya." Azriel then went to the elevator punched in some numbers and flashed his ID before descending into the depth of the restricted area.
Inu went on his way up to the garage. It was his scheduled time for him to practice. He was scheduled for a survival test. The idea of the test was to see how long he can last before his AP drops to 0, and to see how many MTs he could destroy. This test was in a group of twos. It was Inu and Adolfo.
Adolfo was waiting by Inu's AC, leaning against the railing. "Your late…"
Inu looked around but couldn't find the time. "I'm here now Addy."
Adolfo's eye twitched, and he almost lost his cool. "Don't call me Addy, and you're more then an hour late. I'm already done. My time was 20 min with 100 MTs destroyed. I now hold the record, but on to more urgent business."
Inu arched an eyebrow. "Business? What business Addy?"
On Adolfo's forehead a single vein was bulging. "That's enough! My name is Adolfo, and I am the Crimson Wolf! Not ADDY!" He was huffing, and all eyes were on him, he regained his composure and went on. "I challenge you tonight at midnight. A battle between ACs, out of the boundaries in the desert."
Inu was slightly shocked by Adolfo's challenge. "How are we suppose to get our ACs out of the Garage without being noticed?"
Adolfo shook his head. "Don't worry. I got it covered. Just be here by 11:45p.m."
Inu thought about it for about a half second before agreeing to this unauthorized excursion, now it hit him what could happen. There was no safety of the academys many precautions. He could very well lose his life! Now he wished he could get in contact with Azriel for some of his "wisdom." Which was a small lecture and a slap upside Inu's head.
11:30p.m. at the AC Garage
Inu had made it to the AC garage with no troubles at all. He had made it there early and could see security walkabout the long rows of ACs. He had to wait fifteen minutes before Adolfo would somehow get there ACs out of the Academy.
Inu because he was early he did what he did when he had free time. He started to bring the portable gaming device he had in his pocket next to his chopstick. The reason he carried chopsticks on his person at all times no one was sure, and so he found a spot were he wouldn't be noticed and started to play his game. He did so joyfully for fifteen minutes and would have most likely have continued playing till someone had crept up behind.
The silhouette of the figure descended on Inu with little less then lightning speeds. He was caught off guard and was now being held from what he could tell to be a female, which he considered a plus. So now he was at the mercy of a stranger, and he was none too pleased about, but then it struck him. She was hiding him.
Inu Finally looked up to see familiar white hair, and knew that she was the person always seen in the company of Adolfo. Heloise looked down and noticed Inu had stopped his attempt to struggle.
"Keep it down. I'm going to cause a distraction." As she said this Inu was thinking 'this aint a bad view. Please take your time.'Inu nodded and she released him. He sat on the floor like how you'd expect a dog too, and waited for Heloise to cause this distraction so he could hop in his AC and get moving.
Heloise began to make her way to the nearest AC. It just so happened to be Dr. SubAtomic's. She was quick to slip past the guards and was only noticed after she was in distance of the Atom Smasher. The guards began to vacate their posts and swarm in the location of Heloise and Atom Smasher. It was too late. By the time they were there she had already got Atom Smasher moving.
Heloise had started a little mayhem, and was stomping on containers and tacking pot shots on the wall and other ACs. This was the distraction that Inu needed to sneak away before the security MTs on the upper levels descend to subdue the rampaging AC.
Inu made it to his AC Hanyou in no time at all. He was starting it up, and was waiting for Heloise to clear out the guard MTs that were coming there way. Hanyou was now with its full set up. It used the EYE head mid-weight solid EO core one of the lighter mid-weight arms on low mobility high shell defense legs. It was Equipped with the PIXIE3 machine run, and left arm grenade rifle. On his back was the KARURA micro missile pack with FUNI micro missile extensions, and SIREN2 radar. His AC was equipped with the BIRDIE2.
Hanyou's set up was simple just like Inu's style of battle. Inu's strategy was to fire micro missiles with grenade shots, and use his EO. His strategy would switch to him using only the machine gun, grenade and EO once he was out of missiles. He'd hop around just barely getting airborne to launch is attack. Though his attacks were easy to see coming, his missiles were the biggest problem. There was almost too many to avoid without the right timing.
The MTs enter the room and Heloise began to engage each one. Heloise unlike Dr. SubAtomic didn't bother turning on the AI, and if fact disliked the idea of an AI doing most of her fighting.
Heloise took advantage of the small size of the room and stood almost in front of the door and opened fire on the MTs that opened the door. The MTs were AI piloted and so she took pleasure in blasting them with as many weapons as she should.
Inu was glad he didn't have to battle against her. She was looking more and more mentally unstable for each MT the entered the room. Then Inu opportunity came and he boosted past Heloise as she destroyed her ninth MT.
Inu was in the corridors of the inner structure and realized there was a freight elevator to the surface in the garage he had just left. He was too lazing to turn around and head back, and he knew Heloise would open fire on him as soon as the door opened, so he felt safer going the long way up. He had to pass through the checkpoints between each of the 4 levels ahead of him. He would have to fight off the much tougher guard MTs at each of these check points.
Inu was approaching the first checkpoint leaving L-5. His MT opponents were heavy quads with grenade ammunition. The automated checkpoint sent out its usual message.
"Please come to a complete stop before passing this checkpoint. Resistance will be met by force, and thank you. Have a nice day."
Inu didn't bother with it and didn't slow his pace, and so he saw grenades barreling at him. He didn't have room to evade them and instead interested them with a volley of Machine gun ammo.
Inu was closing in on the two MTs that were trying to destroy him and begun firing his grenade rifle in conjunction with machine gun fire. He dispatched the two MTs with minimal effort and was on his way to the next checkpoint located in L-4.
Inu cleared checkpoint after checkpoint, and his AC was starting to show signs of stress, and he was almost out of grenade ammo. His machine gun was down to 279, and his AP was roughly 52 percentremaining, but the up was that he still had all his missiles and EO ammo.
In had made it to the surface and was on his way into the desert. He was eager to get this settled and go to bed. He felt a "stomach virus" coming on, or that would be his excuse for not showing up for classes.
He was reaching the appointed stage of the battle when a shot was fired at the foot of Hanyou. Inu looked around and saw him. Inu saw Adolfo's new AC Zenith.
Zenith was crimson color AC lined with black, and had a lime green detail color. Zenith had the QUEEN head, and the E2 EO core. The arms were the high accuracy, high shell, and high energy LEMUR2 arms. Zenith was on high mobility mid-weight legs the DINGO2. In the left hand was the high heat handgun and in the right was the GAST rifle. On its shoulder was a dual missile pack, and missile extensions five use only though. The AC's boosters were that of the GULL.
Inu and Hanyou were staring down Adolfo and Zenith. Inu at that point made the assumption that the AC wasn't any good. To him it looked ill equipped, and weak on the offensive.
"Hi Addy!" Inu had opened communications with Adolfo.
Adolfo hated being called Addy and this only fueled his rage. He was ready to tear Inu to shreds. "Lets begin?"
Inu replied with a swarming shot of missile that didn't catch Adolfo by surprise. Zenith took to the air and made a quick C movement and successfully evaded all of Inu's missiles.
Inu Began boosting along the ground when there was a sudden explosion under him. The Hanyou was thrown off balance and this is were things got fuzzy. Zenith started to deploy high level ECM that had knocked out Inu's radar and his lock system had troubles maintaining alock.
Then out of nowhere Inu was hit by eight missile on the Hanyou's left side making it wobble to the right which forced him on a mine that had exploded.
Inu was beginning to grasp why Adolfo wanted to fight under the full moon here beyond the Academy boundaries. This was the location of the legendary mine field that was set up as a defensive measure to protect the Academy from ground units.
Zenith was ruthless. He continued to deploy ECM and firing missiles. The Hanyou's exterior temperature was rising and the meant the same for the interior if this kept up. Then Adolfo switched weapons and started his vicious attack of rifle, handgun, and EO fire.
Adolfo was forcing Hanyou in mine after mine, and his AC was giving in to the stress. Then it happened. The Hanyou was too damaged to continue, but Adolfo contined to attack now blowing off the limbs.
Dawn came with Zenith stood with one foot on top of the Core of the demolished Hanyou. Its parts scattered about as testament to the battle the night before. As the sun rose over the horizon the AC Zenith emanated a red glow. It was appearnt now that Adolfo had settled the score.
N/C: Double A not just batteries