I Don't Own Anything I'm Just A Crazy Fan.

Chapter 76: Ténèbres tombant.

With Shiji Ikari, above Paris.

The young Imperial starfighter pilot looked down towards the major metropolitan city below them and terror rose in the young man. He had read up on the last 3 decades of his new home universe and its alarming high rates of bioterrorist attacks. Usually resulting in mass casualty events with the appearance of BOWs. He remembered seeing the news feed from Lanshiang and Seoul, but it was a whole lot different being inside of one as the event was just unfolding.

"Mein Gott, shit has hit the fan." Purple 5, Wolfgang said over the team's comm channel. They could see swarms of infected already filling the streets.

"You can say that again, hijo de tu puta madre!" Purple 2, Diego shouted over the comms, before they could hear him fighting off wrenching, trying to hold down his stomach.

"Hey güey, what got under your skin?" Purple 4, Eduardo said to his squadmate's outburst.

"I saw some poor bastard being ripped apart by a hoard of those things. They had to add a high def camera on these birds. Ay dios, I'm not gonna sleep right for a while."

"Look alive boys, the Emperor is in some trouble and our radar is picking up a lot of bandits! 3rd and 4th generation fighters based on the signatures. And we got some enemy Infinite Stratos in the area. Our units should keep them away, but stay alert. In theory we should be able to fight one, but I would rather not test that today if we can avoid it."

"Roger ma'am!" All the pilots said in unison as they saw the [Revolution] had pinned down their Emperor. Locking on with Proton torpedoes, they let loose a volley of 5 red spheres.

With Seth

The orange mecha noticed the lock on and moved to avoid incoming salvo. He was about to shoot at those annoying insects flying about, but he was stopped as he saw another orange mobile suit headed his way.

After avoiding the beam fangs on what he assumed was a recreated [Gaia] Gundam, the clone noticed that like the other Imperial mobile suits, it had that engine deceive on its back. He received a warning from the Gundam's sensor that a massive energy build up was aimed at him. He turned and saw a heavily armored Gundam type, charging a beam at him. Cursing, he moved to avoid the strike activating the wings of light on his machine.

That was when he finally noticed the large black box structure landing. It seemed to be just the right size to hold a mobile suit. His suspicions were confirmed when he saw the Gundam he nearly tore to pieces open up, and a man in a white pilot outfit got out.

"Dammit, it's a new machine!" He knew that the situation was getting bad, but it would get a whole lot worse if he allowed Seth to get to that box. He raised his beam rifle up and locked onto the pilot in white. He was about to fire on Seth, when his mobile suit was shaken violently by the [Gaia] ramming him. His beam rifle was forced upward causing the shot to miss.

"Like I let you hurt him!" Stella roared over the open comm at the clone. Her normally kind demeanor was tossed out in battle.

"You crazy bitch!" Ichika shouted back as he moved away and ready himself to kill this woman with his beam rifle, but once again he was targeted by that fat Gundam. Moving to avoid another shot, he failed to notice that [Gaia] had transformed into his humanoid form and had a beam saber drawn. Deploying a wrist mounted shield barrier, he blocked the incoming slash, and used the palma fiocina but Stella jabbed at the forearm of the [Revolution], causing the incoming attack to miss. She followed this up with a kick to the side of the attacking mobile suit.

He rolled, dissipating some of the attack, but was quickly struck by two pink beams from Anya. Luckily the [Revolution] had variable phase shift so the beams didn't do nearly as much damage as it could have, but it was taxing on the energy level. But He could alway fuel it with the S2 organ he had in his possession. Seeing an opening, he used the wings of light and rushed behind a few buildings

A little bit earlier Seth arrived at the large black box and the door opened to reveal a new white mobile suit with this red glas . Unlike the normal 2 horns that most Gundams had, this one had four. There were beam tonfa attached to the wrist as well. He could tell the frame was reinforced, as the beam magnum was normally too intense to be used by normal mobile suits, and the armor was made of that new titanium lunar alloy they developed in low G, called Gundanium. He couldn't figure out what this red glass looking armor was. He looked at the forehead of the machine and saw the letters RX-9 on it.

"What is that red armor?" He said out loud as he opened the cockpit and sat in the machine the external cameras activated and unlike his old machines, this one had a 360 degree cockpit. To the Emperor it looked as though he was floating on a chair in the outside world.

"Lets see what you got." Seth brought up the specs of the machines and was looking for information on the red armor.

"Psychoframe? Oh this is what Tabane was talking about."

"Correct pilot Fairs." A familiar voice stated to the pilot in white.

"Stargazer! Been a while buddy, so they stuck inside of this a..." Seth was trying to find the name of the machine.

"The μ (Mu) Gundam is the current test bed for many prototype systems intended for use by the Imperial Royal family. Its successor unit is already being built, but this should suffice for now. Its reaction time is far above any active mobile suits thanks to the psycoframe. Activating the destroyer mode on the machine will remove the limiters placed on the machine for a short amount of time however the full effects of the pyschoframe system is unknown at this time."

"So I get to play with the newest toys. But why are you here?" He was wondering why Stargazer was loaded onto the machine. AI helped, but wasn't necessary for the operation of the machine.

"Prior activations of the destroy system with the psychoframe resulted in the test pilots becoming unconscious and the mobile suit took over, entering a berserk state. Addition of an AI alleviated the mental strain of the pilot and allowed regular usage of the machine." Seth was surprised he had heard nothing about this. Though he tended to allow the mobile suit research and development teams to do as they pleased, so long as they produced good results.

"There is the matter of fact that activation of a full body psychoframe was never performed."

"Why is it equipped with a full body now?" Seth questioned.

"We were moments away from the first test run, when you requested a machine."

"Why didn't they send your main body?"

"My main body was torn down and the frame was used for this machine. It was the quickest way to produce a testbed, as the reinforced frame would have taken far longer to produce. This is me reborn in a sense, pilot Fairs. You also signed off on it."

"I did?" It must have slipped his mind in the mountains of paperwork he was having to do on a daily basis.

"Do not worry Pilot Fairs, all will be well in this untested system."

"How are you so sure?"

"I have a good feeling about us."

"Very well. This Seth Fairs, Mu Gundam! Launching!" Seth said as the green eyes of the machine came to life. Unlike most Imperial suits, the GN drive engines were not on the exterior, but they were internalized. Grabbing the Beam Magnum they had sent inside the box, he raised the body of his new machine. Getting up he noticed that the [Revolution] had jumped towards a few buildings to gain cover. Raising up the Beam Magnum he charged up a round. The mobile suit recoiled from the force of round, and the aim was slightly off. Using the full might of his thrusters, his clone avoided the attack. The surrounding block was decimated by the beam magnum.

"Shit it's too powerful. Neo, where's that damn beam rifle!"

"It's above you now." Placing the beam magnum onto his new machine's back, he looked up and saw two modified gunship droids carrying the new rifle, and his replacement shield via a grapple beam. He commanded the droids to fly lower, allowing them to deliver their packages and return to the Star Destroyer. With his more reasonable weapon he could now join his two ladies who were engaging that enemy Gundam, and were doing quite well. Stella and Anya were pushing Ichika to his limits.

Meanwhile with the Dunois sisters

Charlotte and Diana had rushed towards the city to assist the survivors of the initial bioterrorism attack. The two saw the streets being filled with infected, and the non-infected attempting to survive. As the two got closer to the epicenter of the attack, a full head mask materialized on both machines. Only a matching dark orange or dark blue panel of transparisteel covering for their eyes allowed for visibility.

"For your safety, I've equipped face coverings. You have around 12 hours of internal oxygen. If more is needed, return to the ship for restocking, mistress." The AI Jeanne said to both of the sisters. The situation they were in was now just starting to set in.

"Help!" A man screamed on top of a car that was being surrounded by the infected french citizens. Charlotte had undergone a simulated bioterrorism attack in the amusphere, since it was an option, but a simulation was way different. They were real people she shot at in the simulation, unlike now. Diana had no experience whatsoever in this two girls froze, unable to fire.

"HEY!" Blaze shouted at the two girls as she opened fire on the infected. Saving the man on the car roof. A red cloud of mist was all that remained.

"You two need to get in gear. The infected are already gone, there is nothing we can do for them, but we can save those that remain. Ok ladies." Blaze said to the two teens. Even behind the masks, she could tell that they were hurting on the inside. She remembered how Seth cried the first time he had to fire on infected people the first time, back when he didn't know she existed. Even now there was still remorse inside of him when he had to kill. She could only imagine how these two girls were feeling.

"I know you two have never seen shit this bad before, but we have the power to change LOOK OUT!" Flame brought out a massive red and black medieval looking shield with a golden serpent embroiled on it, that tanked the incoming gray beam of energy.

"Oh the Wall of Jericho. To think such a tool would be in your arsenal." A familiar gray haired woman with soul piercing blue eyes said as she flew above the group.

"About damn time, I was wondering when you would show up." Flame said as steam rose from the shield.

"You two, get out of here. She's out of your league. Help the people, now go!" Blaze said as she brought out two red energy blades and charged at Flare who brought out one energy blade of her own while charging up her beam cannon. Flame raised up her railguns and loaded acid rounds.

Meanwhile on Reach.

Houki along with the rest of the IS training group entered one of the commons areas inside the base and what was appearing on the TV shocked them. They some footage captured earlier as the [Napoleon Boneparte] fired her main guns in anger, then came footage of the Star Destroyer's meger complement of forces, engaging the incoming Umbrella forces and the fight betweens the giant mechs.

"What the hell happened?!" Natasha asked out loud as they watched the news feed.

"What did that woman just say?" A man asked in Korean.

"I don't know, here let's call for a droid." A woman responded in Korean, but before either could ask for a droid to translate, Tokko Sun-Hi spoke up translating for them.

"We're wondering what's going on with the screen."

"There was an attack. After an initial invasion force, some sort of bioweapon was unleashed in the city." Tokko translated as the woman spoke up.

"A bioweapon, Umbrella?" Iris asked as there weren't many organizations with the capability to launch an attack, but on this scale to catch an advanced nation as France off guard was both shocking and concerning.

"News didn't state, but ah the live feed is coming back."

"I'm Jack Winters with the BNN for our international viewers." The newscaster spoke in English with a polish british accent.

"To say the situation here is dire is an understatement. An unknown organization have unleashed a bioweapon into the streets of Paris. Downtown Paris is a complete cutoff and the western region of the city is the battleground of at least dozens of Infinite stratos, along with giant machines known as mobile suits. I cannot even begin to imagine the death toll. The city was cram packed with people for the ceremony scheduled tomorrow." The man reported. A woman newscaster inside of a studio spoke on the screen.

"Jack, what about you and your team? How are you holding up?" The woman anchor said as a follow up question.

"Well Donna, we have had to run several blocks where there are active infected in the streets. I believe he ran far enough away from the-" Jack stopped speaking as he looked towards his left and saw a group of infecting shambling his way. That was until they spotted him and his team before they roared and ran towards the new crew.

"Donna, we need to go! Run into the building!" Jack shouted as the infected ran towards the news crew.

"Oh my god, Jacob! Jacob move!" The news reporter said to the cameraman. The camera panned around and there they saw a swarm of infected getting very close to him. Naturally he began to scream.

As the closest infected got dangerously close, a blue bolt of plasma struck the attacker in the chest, the force of the bolt knocking them back. This was quickly followed up by a swarm of blue blaster bolts as destroying the attacking infected. The camera panned over to the origin of the blast rounds and showed around a dozen men adorned in white and orange full body armor wielding weapons not seen before, along with them were battle droids.

"You lot ok?" The closest Imperial trooper said to Jack.

"Ah, yeah, thanks you saved us!" The new reporter said with relief in his voice.

"Veitz, check the cameraman for any bites."

"Yes Captain McFarland." Another trooper responded as he approached the downed cameraman and began to examine him.

"No bite marks or scratches...Some minor bruising, he's clean. They got lucky." The trooper reported.

"Alright, we've set up safety points outside of the major metro areas of the city. Head there, the closest one is about 3 km down the road."

"Wait, we need to report the-"

"This is a goddamn outbreak. A civi like you is gonna be lunch for one of the infected. If you have a brain, you'll get out of here and report from the safe zone." The Captain poked at the news reporter chest as he spoke to reinforce what he was saying.

"Droids are programmed to save human life at all cost, if an infected finds you, run to the droids. One-two-one move out!" The Captain said as he ran towards downtown Paris. The Cameraman turned his device towards the location the Captain had specified to see more Imperial forces coming. Several [LAAT] gunships flew overhead with their distinctive engine noise with its doors open. Inside they saw more men in full body armor along with several droid gunships carrying battle droids in their collapsed form.

Across the city teams of Imperial forces from the 121st and 315th from the [Nobunaga] and the [Ieyasu] respectively. They were not alone, the French military from bases all across the country were rushing towards the capital in an attempt to assist in the unfolding disaster. With the BSAA Eurobranch informed of the situations, teams were coming from the surrounding nations. Though the French president had authorized the usage of Imperial forces on French soil, she was a little shocked to see just how quickly the Eternal Empire was able to deploy a sizable response force.

It was at this moment that the news crew decided that the world had to see this and they would be the ones to report it.

With Shinji.

"Incoming hostile aircraft. We're being locked on!" Stated Shinji's commanding officer. True to her words, warnings began to blare in his ears of a lock on from a heatseeker. For Imperial Starfighters, they used noise flares, which confused the missiles and most of the time losing the lock on, and with being much smaller than traditional flares they held a few dozen. There were onboard jammers for a small local area around the star fighter to allow it to confuse the it was possible for most Imperial star fighters to defeat most known missiles by turning, causing the missile to miss its target, though in gravity this would have immense G force pressure on the pilot.

Purple and Cyan squadrons flew in the direction of the lock on and activated their jammers. The missiles fired only for them to lose the lock and their warning to stop.

"Enemy fighters are entering visual range. Commander, how do you want to engage?" Wolfgang spoke over the comms.

"Save your torpedoes for bigger targets. Engage with your laser cannons. Pick a dance partner and help out a friend if needed." The flight leader spoke.

"Roger." The other four members of the squad said.

"Hey Ikari, bet you $50 credits I'll shoot down more than you." Purple 2 said.

"You're on!" The young pilot said.

"Hold tight, don't let these punks scare you." Cyan team leader spoke over the comms to the two squadrons. The teams acknowledged the leader's words, but remained silent as the enemies approached.

Shinji looked down towards his targeting computer and the outline of an F-14 Tomcat from the front few appeared. His crosshairs lockon and the distinct beeping indicating a solid lock sounded. He pressed down on the trigger and fired. The laser cannons on his Z-95 headhunter roared to life as blue bolts erupted. They raced across the sky, striking true. An explosion appeared where the jet once flew. Wasting no time he focused on the closest jet, flying next to his last kill, and once he got a solid lock,he once again allowed the guns to come to life. Earning another kill. He was not the only one to score a kill. The teams had shot down a few of the several jets flying their way as the two lines of fighters approached.

The jets and starfighters cross paths and Shinji banked hard to his right and was soon on upon another fighter, a Russian designed Su-27. Once more a solid lock on and once more a fighter shot down.

"Damn, Purple three has 3 kills already!" One of the Cyan team pilots said over the comms.

"Hey leave some for us!" A female pilot from Cyan said.

"Damn you really want those 50 credits Ikari?" Purple 2 meekly said over the comms realizing that he was going to lose the bet at this rate. All Shinji did was smile in his cockpit as he targeted another aircraft.

Meanwhile with Seth.

The white mobile suit shot at several of the remaining Umbrella units as their numbers began to dwindle. Mostly now focusing on the hundreds of old Jets that were flying in the area, but the star fighters were making quick work of them, but there were a few unknown fighter drones among them that were able to damage the Vulture droids. Seth saw Shinji flying around wiping out anything that got in his crosshairs and to be honest, it was a shock to see how quickly he was adapting to being a proficient pilot. It was a little scary, the once meek pilot of Unit 01, was now dominating the skies.

Turning his gaze towards the orange mobile suit, who was dodging all his attack, and saw that Stella leaped on the machine. Her GN drive gave its full might and forced the suit back. However, the [Revolution] was not a normal machine. It had no limiters so its full might could always be unleashed. Its wings came to life and pushed back on Stella's [Gaia].

"Let's see how you like this!" Roared Stella as she entered Trans-Am. Her mobile suit glowed Red and grabbed the left arm of the orange Gundam, she flipped it on its back with a judo flip. The unexpected action caught the clone completely off guard and was almost struck by a follow up beam saber. He rolled away but a section of his wing was damaged from the attack.

"Damn right wing is unstable. Flare, how are things on your end!" Ichika shouted over a private comm.

"I'm caught up by those two again, but overall the attack was a success. That ship is still undamage, but we had no clue on the type of shields this ship had. My scan shows it would survive a Reaper beam."

"Not surprising, it's about the size of a Sovereign-class. What's the status of the submarines and where's the [Normandy]?"

"All subs have successfully escaped, but the [Alicorn] and the [Bicorn] will need repairs. Their hulls received minor damage. Ace reports she'll be in your area in 5 minutes."

"Damn, Tell them to head to Costa Rica for repairs. I can handle these 3 for that long." Ichika closed the chat with Flare, before opening a comm channel. "All remaining [Zaku] units, begin to overload your reactors."

"Understood." All the remaining [Zaku] pilots said in a monotone voice. Clearly these pilots were under some kind of control. Ichika pulled out his remaining beam boomerang, but was forced to use it to block an incoming beam saber, from a white mobile suit, with glowing red armor.

"What did he pull out of his ass this time?" The clone wondered as he saw this new machine, before his head began to hurt immensely.

"My head! What the hell is he doing?!" Ichika yelled in pain as the headache was coursing throughout his body.

"Ichika! It's your biotics, whatever the hell this new suit is doing is affecting your biotics! Get away from it!" Flared yelled with genuine worry in her voice.

A little earlier with Seth, he had spotted the orange mecha and charged at him. That was when the suit started to come alive. A screen appeared on the 360 degree monitor and showed the words [Destroyer mode].

"[Destroyer mode]?" The Gundam began to glow red from the pyschoframe armor and a flood of information entered Seth's mind. It felt like piloting an Evangelion, but more intense.

"We fight together as one, pilot Fairs." Stargazer said inside his head. Gripping the controls he ready himself for this new experience. He engaged the thrusters and was taken aback by the sheer force of the unrestricted engines, but soon adapted. He deployed one of the beam tonfas and slashed at the [Revolution] who had a beam boomerang deployed, blocking the attack. It was when the two entered a bind, that he sensed the pain from the clone inside the cockpit using the force.

"He wasn't in pain before?" Seth was curious why the clone was in pain. The clone suddenly kicked Seth, before he activated the damaged wings of light and flew away at high speed. Knowing this chance couldn't be passed up, he took out the beam magnum and aimed carefully. As he took aim he saw one of the wings of light start to flicker before it shut off completely. Causing the suit to spiral off course. Seth fired and the beam formed a multicolor sphere before unleashing its fury towards the orange Gundam. Seth saw on his monitor a glowing red object moving towards the Gundam and deployed a red barrier, to his shock, tanking the beam magnum round. When the smoke cleared a bright red monoeye mobile suit of unknown make was standing protecting his target. The glowing stopped revealing that the mobile suit was using trans-am and to his add on top of Seth's shock, the mobile suit was using Red GN particles.

"It has a GN drive! HOW!?" It was clear someway Umbrella had acquired the schematics for GN drives, but not only that they had unlocked Trans-am.

The new red mobile suit grabbed the Gundam and pulled it away. Seth brought up his rifle and Anya was charging her GN burst charge. A massive pink sphere of GN particles formed in front of the maroon machine before she fired it. The attack forced the two mobile suits to dodge and Seth fired. However this time his attack hit something, but it wasn't what he aimed at. That ship the Empire discovered in Antarctica. A shield surrounded the ship and took the hit, but it appeared the beam did no lasting damage. A lower hanger opened up and the two mobile suits entered, before the ship recloaked and flew away.

"Seth, Anya, hurry back!" Stella yelled over the commlink.

"What's wrong?" Responded the Emperor.

"Remaining mobile suits are attempting to overload their reactors! We need to stop them before they explode! There's only a few remaining, but they're moving a lot faster."

"Neo, send us the coordinates now!" On a small map on a separate monitor located near Seth's lap, a map of the city of Paris appeared with dots labeling the location of the remaining mobile suits. Allowing the thrusters to unleash their full might. The force from the engines pushed the Emperor back into his seat as he raced towards the closest machine.

Back with the Dunois Sisters.

The two sisters had been fighting side by side against the onslaught of infected citizen and rogue unmanned IS units that broke away from the Imperial pilots who were tasked with eliminating the machines. Neither sister was not sure how, but as they continued to assist the uninfected citizens escape from the hellscape that was downtown Paris, the easier it got. Neither could focus on the fact that they were mowing down their fellow countrymen, when they had a mission to save those who remained. Their workload became lightened once the Imperial and the French military reinforcements arrived within the city, assisting the survivors escape to the designated safe zones. Allowing the two to catch a moment of peace, but in a battlefield, the situation can always change.

Charlotte received a warning from her machine as a lock-on was detected and a red beam broke through a nearby building to strike her. Her new core had much more power than a previous generation core, but that attack took a staggering 1500 points of shield energy from her. Had it been her old machine, she would be dead.

"Charlotte!" Diana screamed, fearing the worst for her sister. Her HUD began to flash warnings at her with something emerging from the building. It was a [C.O.M.E.T.]. The red IS rushed towards Diana with an energy blade extended. The red blade met her blue and the unmanned machine pushed back the inexperienced pilot. Diana was able to use her thrusters to stabilize her and lessen the impact when she was pushed into a building. The shoulder cannons shifted and moved to stare her down. A pair of red spheres appeared on the barrels, preparing to vaporize her.

"Kick it away from you!" A voice said to the young pilot over the comm. Quickly raising her right leg, she forced the machine away, quickly moving away. The unmanned machine fired into the area of space where Diana was moments before. Diana saw the machine turn towards her, only for a proton torpedo to hit the machines. It penetrated the shields of the IS, allowing the following volley of laser cannon fire. It tore into the armor of the machine, before it deactivated.

"Diana, there's another!" Charlotte shouted to her sister, who was distracted. But this one's focus was not on the French IS, but the starfighter that was closing in. It suffered the same fate and was hit by a proton torpedo before being blasted by the fighter's laser cannons.

"Stay safe out there!" The pilot of the starfighter said with an accent in his voice. Diana was able to spot three written in roman numerals with purple coloring before it flew off.

A few hours later.

After conducting mop up operations inside of the city of Paris for any of Umbrella's machines and the streets for the infected citizens, Seth landed his new machine nearby one of the several safe zones, where the president and several members of her cabinet. This safe zone was directly next to the [Napoleon Boneparte] who had landed and was projecting a massive barrier that surrounded a few of the safe zones outside the city. The white machine crouched down and used his arm to lower Seth down. The Emperor entered the tent where the president was leading her response.

"Madam President, are you alright?" Seth asked as he entered the room.

"My capital was just attacked. The city battleground for a massive Infinite Stratos battle and of giant robots. Tens of thousands are reported dead or missing. I am far from alright." The woman responded.

"I meant in regards to your health. I know this is bad, I was in the middle of it."

"Physically I am. The Prime Minister gave her life to allow me and several members of the cabinet to escape, once the infected broke the perimeter." She said with a sad look in her eyes.

"I'm sorry to hear that. I read about her prior to my visit here. Seems like she was a prodigy for French politics." Seth had read about the rising star in the French government. She was young, only 25, but had been a trailblazer in parliament. Being one of the youngest elected to the Senate at the age of 24 and being made the Prime Minister this year.

"There is an issue though. My forces have reported far less infected than predicted. Intercepted comm chatter from the American forces station in France reported far less fighting than anticipated."

"What you mean, we encountered countless of the infected." The president responded.

"Yes, but the volume of the infected was too little. With the increase in population from the expected unveiling there were close to an additional million civilians from the normal population. Yet with all those counted in the safe zones, and the accounted dead infected, we're short close to 50 thousands."

"What? How are we unable to account for 50 thousand of my people?!"

"That's what I wanted to discuss with you. Is there a part of the city that could house that many people?"

"Well, there's the catacombs that run underneath the city." Now remember that the city of Paris had a vast network of tunnels where the remains of the dead were buried for hundreds of years.

"The whole city is infested!" The former Sith now realised this horrible outbreak was just getting started. The tunnels under the city were infested with the infected. On top of that, reports from his field teams showed that this virus was starting to show advanced mutated forms, with arachnid-like features showing up on those fought in the city. He wanted to stop this outbreak before any advance forms showed up.

Author Note: Hey guys, man I'm glad my notes I have been writing for the past 15 months are now being made into a chapter. Next chapter is already being laid out. As for my other work Ichika's lover, I got a serious case of writer's block, but I have every intention of continuing. Next chapter of Ichika's Lover is about 60% done, but I'll release it when I think it's good enough. Till Next Time.