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Location: Atlas - Schnee Manor
Time: 1900

Days have passed, as Weiss is going for another flight test, this time, wearing the boots and with new addition flight stabilisers on her hands. Butterfingers roll the footage as she speaks.

"Day 11, test 37, configuration 2.0." Weiss stated, "For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety." She glared at Dummy, "If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college."

Dummy complies as she continues, "Alright, we're gonna go somewhere small, start off with 1% thrust capacity. In three, two, one." Then the boots and flight stabilisers are activated, as she is slightly lifted off the ground and hovers for a moment before landing.

"Okay... So far, so good..." Weiss remarked on the test, then she notices Dummy ready to fire, "Stop." She pointed out, "Just stand down! If something happens, then come in." Dummy downcast as she continues the test.

"Let's go for 2.5% thrust capacity. Three, two, one..." Then she lifts up, higher than the previous one, but she starts to lose control and starts hovering all over the workshop.

"No, no, no! That's not where I was going!" Weiss fretted as she starts coming to the cars, "Oh no..." She starts to fly over them, then towards the table. "Argh, could be worse!..." Weiss muttered, then she comes back to the testing area. And made a solid landing.

"Okay... This is fine..." Weiss is relieved, then Dummy aims the fire extinguisher, "No!" Weiss raised her finger, as Dummy sadly complied. "Okay... Proceed the full suit-up." She ordered.

Then a few moments later, Weiss proceeds to get suited up covering up with silver metal plating, starting with the legs and arms, before the whole suit.

Weiss grabs an armored face mask as she puts on, "JARVIS, are you there?" She calls out.

"At your service, Mistress." JARVIS responds as Weiss inserts the face mask.

Inside the suit, Weiss instructs the AI, "Engage heads-up display."

"Check." JARVIS complied as holographic images and numbers appeared as Weiss takes a read at them.

"Import all preferences from the home interface." Weiss added.

"Will do, ma'am." JARVIS replied. "Its been uploaded. We're online and ready."

"Alright, start the virtual walk-around." Weiss instructed.

"Importing preferences and calibrating virtual environment." JARVIS informed.

"Do a check on control surfaces." Weiss requested.

"As you wish." JARVIS responds as the suit begins to ready and shift up, revealing it to be shiny silver, showing the glowing blue arc reactor along with glowing blue eyes. The Mark II suit is shown in its full preparation. "Test complete. Preparing to power down and begin diagnostics."

"Actually, do a weather and ATC check. Start listening in on ground control." Weiss recommended.

"Ma'am, there are still terabytes of calculations needed before an actual flight is..." JARVIS informs the issues.

"JARVIS, sometimes it's now or never." Weiss replied. "The first test flight is a go. Ready? In three, two, one." Then her boots and hand ignite, as she hovers before flies straight through the driveway and into the sky.

"Ha!" Weiss is excited to see the first flight is a go. "Not bad eh?" She continues to soar above Atlas city. She sees everything in the city thanks to her holographic screen, even seeing two kids with their parents. The two children see her with surprised looks on their faces.

"Alright, time to break the world record..." Weiss remarked, "JARVIS, what's SR-71's record?"

"The altitude record for fixed-wing flight is 85,000 feet, ma'am." JARVIS replied.

"Then let's do it! High up!" Weiss then proceeds to fly straight above the sky.

Just as she continues to fly up, suddenly icing appears on her metal suit. "Ma'am, there is a potentially fatal buildup of ice occuring." JARVIS warned as the holographic screen shows warnings.

"Keep going! Higher!" Weiss responds, just as she continues, the ice completely covers her suit, then everything shut down as Weiss stopped and falls down, screaming.

"JARVIS! We've been iced. Deploy flaps!" Weiss yelled, but no response, "JARVIS?!" She yells again, no response as well. She decides to do this herself, she manual breaks off her ice as she descends down to the ground.

With more effort, she manages to break the ice and her armor flaps are free, power immedaitly returns back as she was about to hit the traffic. She flies off, avoiding the cars that blare their horns when seeing an armored figure about to crash.

"Yes!" Weiss cheered as she flies off, above the city. That is it for the first test flight, she flows back to the manor. She reaches onto the roof of her building.

"Kill power." She ordered as the suit comply, but drops down, but crashes through the roof, the piano in another room, and down into the workshop, landing on top of a car. Dummy is there and proceeds to use the fire extinguisher on her.

Later, Weiss is out of the suit, holding an Ice pack on her head. Still wincing in pain, she tries to solve the icing problem.

Then she grabs the cup Jay gives and drinks upon it, then sees the package Jay left along with the cup. On top of the package saying 'from Jay'. She opens the package, revealing it to be the same old arc reactor in the glass box from before.

The message is also here in the box, 'Proof That Weiss Schnee Has A Heard'. Weiss smiles at that, she then lets this slide and keeps it. Then she goes back to the holographic screen.

"Notes." The screen showcases the suit's design, "Main transducer feels sluggish at plus 40 altitude. Hull pressurization is problematic. I'm thinking icing is the probable factor." Weiss noted.

"A very astute observation, ma'am. Perhaps, if you intend to visit other planets, we should improve the ecosystems." JARVIS suggests.

"Connect to the sys. co. Have it reconfigure the shell metals. Use the gold titanium alloy from the seraphim tactical satellite we use in space. That should ensure a fuselage integrity while maintaining a power-to-weight ratio. Got it?" Weiss instructed.

"Yes. Shall I render using the proposed specifications?" JARVIS asked.

"Do it." Weiss replied as the render is processing, she checks the news on the holograms.

The news started to play, "Tonight's red-hot red carpet is right here at the Atlas Concert Hall, where Weiss Schnee's third annual benefit for the Firefighter's Family Fund has become the place to be for Atlas' high society." The reporter informed.

This perked Weiss, "JARVIS, we get an invite for that?" She asked.

"I have no record of an invitation, ma'am." JARVIS replied.

The reporter continues, "...Hasn't been seen in public since her bizarre and highly controversial press conference. Some claim she's suffering from post-traumatic stress and has been bedridden for weeks. Whatever the case may be, no one expects an appearance from her tonight."

Weiss is annoyed by the news attempted to think her actions are insane, just then JARVIS called out, "The render is complete." Weiss ignores the news and looks at the sketch, her armor is now fully gold.

"...Too much ostentatious, don't you think?" Weiss remarked.

"What was I thinking? You're usually so discreet." JARVIS responds with a hint of snark at his comment.

Weiss rolls her eyes, then she looks through the holographic screen to see something, then she noticed on the camera, she sees her outfits such as that white, a bunch of blue colors dresses. She has an idea.

"JARVIS, try configuring the dresses' colors into the suit, blend in with the gold suit." Weiss requested.

"Yes, that should help you keep a low profile." JARVIS agreed as later on the suit is complete. "The render is complete." As the suit has blue and pale blue colors with a small amount of white and gold on her armor.

Weiss takes a look and nods, "It's good. Fabricate it. Paint it." She ordered.

"Commencing automated assembly. Estimated completion time is five hours." JARVIS informed.

"Alright." Weiss nodded as she gets up, "I'll be going to the concert. See you soon JARVIS." She walks off.

"I'll be waiting for you, Miss Schnee." JARVIS replied.

Location: Atlas - Atlas Concert Hall
Time: 1945

Weiss is driving in her own car, she now arrived here as she leaves. She's in her own dress as she sees many people, and Lilith is there talking to others.

"Weapons manufacturing is only one small part of what Schnee Industries is all about, and our partnership with the fire and rescue community..." Lilith speaks.

Weiss stares as she walks up to her, but she accidentally bumps someone. She recognised who the man is, "Sorry about that Monty." She aplogised.

"Nah, it's okay." The man named Monty replied. "Sorry about that." He let her go through.

Weiss smiles and nodded with thanks, when she walks off, her expression changes back to serious as she heads to where Lilith is.

"We're going to have a great quarter." Lilith smiled, then she sees Weiss arrive. "Hey... Weiss, what a surprise."

"I'll see you inside." Weiss sternly replied as she enters inside.

Lilith replied. "Hey. Listen, take it slow, all right? I think I got the board right where we want them... And she's gone."

Weiss is inside, as the crowd is in here mingling around, with a band playing the tunes and others talking in the bar.

"Miss Schnee?" A voice makes her turn to see Clover Ebi. "Agent Ebi."

Weiss recognised him, "Right, you're the person from..."

"Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division." Lucas replied.

"...You really need a new name for that." Weiss speaks with a deadpan face.

"Yeah, I hear that a lot." Clover smiled, "Listen, I know this must be a trying time for you, but we need to debrief you. There are still a lot of unanswered questions, and time can be a factor in these things."

"Fine." Weiss admits, "Let's just put something on the books."

"How about the 24th at 7:00 p.m. at Schnee Industries?" Clover suggested. Then Weiss glances at the crowd and sees Jay wearing a suit.

"Tell you what. You got it." Weiss replied. "Now excuse me." She walks off.

Jay is just waiting until a voice perked him up, "You look great." He looked surprised to see Weiss here.

"Wei- I mean Miss Schnee?" Jay is surprised, "What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Just avoiding the council agents." Weiss mentioned Agent Clover.

Jay raised his eyebrow by that, "Are you by yourself?"

"Yes. I see you wear that dress last birthday." Weiss smiled.

"Well, this is the only suit I can wear." Jay replied.

"Glad I have a good choice for wear." Weiss remarked.

"Indeed." Jay nodded.

"So, how about a dance?" Weiss suggested.

Jay widens his eyes, "Oh, no." He refused.

"Come on, it's just a dance, dolt." Weiss replied.

"Thank you. But no." Jay tries to refuse. But Weiss complied, and the two danced as Weiss notices Jay's subtle expression.

"...Am I making you uncomfortable?" Weiss asked.

"No. I always forget to wear deodorant and dance with my boss in front of everyone that I work with in a suit." Jay sarcastically remarked.

"Well, what about dancing with a close friend?" Weiss smirked.

"Since when are you this close to me?" Jay asked. "Did you really change what the news said?"

During the dance, Weiss manages to stamp his foot, tho Jay got a slight wince of pain, "The news think I have post-traumatic stress." She noted.

"Of course." Jay nodded, as they continue to dance together, he suddenly requested something "I need some fresh air." Jay shook his head as he walks to the balcony. Weiss is confused follows him and sees him taking a breath.

"That was totally weird." He muttered.

"We're dancing. No one's even watching." Weiss remarked.

"Everybody who I work with..." Jay shook his head. "No, you know why?" He asked.

"Jay..." Weiss interfered. "I think you lost objectivity."

"No, it was not just a dance. You don't understand because you're you." Jay replied. "And everybody knows exactly who you are and how every man likes to be with you, which is completely fine... But, you're my boss, and I'm dancing with you. Now others see me, Weiss Schnee's assistant, trying to..." He stops what he is saying.

"You're overstating it." Weiss responds as she goes closer to him.

"You know, and we're here..." Jay replied, then he sighed, "I would to take a drink, is that fine with you, Miss Schnee?" He asked.

Weiss is silent before saying, "That'll be fine." She said as Jay sighed again as he heads back inside.

Weiss is standing here, as she is watching Jay taking a drink, she looks sad but understands that her changes to be good might be off-putting for him.

After all, she had never done anything to him like this before. Their relationships despite as closet friends... They were never this close.

"Excuse me, Miss Schnee?" Weiss turns to see Carl once again, "Fancy seeing you here." He said.

Weiss slightly scoffed at his arrival, knowing Jay told her about him, "What do you want?" She asked.

"You have a lot of nerve showing up here tonight. Can I at least get a reaction from you?" Carl replied with an angry tone, which perked Weiss up.

"What do you mean?" Weiss asked.

"I was referring to your company's involvement in this latest atrocity." Carl takes out his scroll and shows photos, "It's a town called Gulmira. Heard of it?"

Weiss widens her eyes as she sees the town is destroyed, "When was this taken?" She questioned.

"Yesterday." Carl replied.

"I didn't approve any shipment." Weiss explains.

"But your company did." Carl stated.

Weiss can't believe she heard this, just then she realised who is the one who approved it...

Weiss walks fast, with a furious look, she walks up to Lilith who is talking with other employees.

"Weiss!" Lilith noticed her, "You okay?"

Weiss is furious at her friendly demeanor, "How could you do this!?" She shouted at Lilith who was confused until she shows her the pictures Carl gave on Weiss' scroll, "Have you seen these pictures? In Gulmira?!"

"Weiss!" Lilith exclaimed, "You can't afford to be this naive." She excused.

Weiss is frustrated, "You know what? I was naive before... But if this is how we do business. By double-dealing under the table..."

"Miss Schnee, your picture, please!" The reporter comes up as Lilith uses this opportunity to settle this down.

"Let's take a picture. Come on. Picture time!" Lilith remarked as she smiled at the camera with Weiss not even smiling. After Lilith thanked the reporter her expression changed as she turns to Weiss, "Who do you think locked you out? I was the one who filed the injunction against you. It was the only way I could protect you." She justifies her actions. "Look just leave this to me." Then she leaves.

Weiss can't believe those words spoken to her... As Lilith walks out, waving to the other reporters. Her business partner betrays her...

Location: Atlas - Schnee Manor
Time: 0750

It is the next day, as Weiss works on her newly made armored glove, finished from the render. As she hears the news play on TV.

"The 15-mile hike to the outskirts of Gulmira can only be described as a descent into hell, into a modern-day Heart of Darkness. Simple farmers and herders from peaceful villages have been driven from their homes, displaced from their lands by warlords emboldened by a new-found power." The reporter explains by showing footage of hikers witnessing the explosions happening in town from a distance.

Weiss clenches her armored fist in rage as the news continues, " Villagers have been forced to take shelter in whatever crude dwellings they can find in the ruins of other villages. Recent violence has been attributed to a group of foreign fighters referred to by locals as the Branwen Tribe."

Just then Weiss' flight stabiliser glows blue as her frustration grows. "As you can see, these men are heavily armed and on a mission. A mission that could prove fatal to anyone who stands in their way. With no political will or international pressure, there's very little hope for these refugees..." The reporter explained.

With enough rage, Weiss glanced at her reflection on the window and simply raised her gauntlet hand and aims at it, just then a big energy blast is shot out of it and destroyed the window. She watches what happens as the TV continues to play.

"Around me, a woman begging for news on her husband, who was kidnapped by insurgents, either forced to join their militia. Desperate refugees clutch yellowed photographs, holding them up to anyone who will stop. A child's simple question, 'Where are my mother and father?' There's very little hope for these refugees, refugees who can only wonder who, if anyone, will help."

After the news is gone, Weiss stares at her gauntlet... She looks at other windows and proceeds to aim at them, just then she fires another repulsor blast at another window shattering it. Then she goes for another, and another... Until all are destroyed.

Weiss knows, she must do something. She must help these people.

In the workshop, Weiss is wearing her tight suit as the panels on the platform floor open up. She steps up and onto the two armored soles which appear for her.

Then later on other machines appear and being to form up Weiss' new armor as panels of metal with the color of blue, pale blue, white, and gold begin to place around her. With bolts and screws connecting the armor up, the chest armor is attached as her arc reactor glows even brightly creating a white glow instead of blue.

Then finally as the machines formed a helmet, Weiss' expression remains serious, showing her determined look before the helmet is inserted, then finally her face mask closes in. As the eyes of the mask glow white, showing her armored helmet with blue and white and with a hint of gold within it.

Location: Vacuo - Gulmira
Time: 0855

Now the armored Weiss flies through the Vacuo skies with supersonic speed, showing its blue, white, and gold color in all its glory. She heads to the town that is in danger.

In one of the villages that were attacked, many villagers panicked as explosives appear far away thanks to the Zenith Missile.

Many terrorists break into some of the houses, as they either are shooting people that are inside, or toss the grenade inside as explosions occur. Many people are screaming in fear as terrorists begin to gather the villagers. Then there's a man who is from Weiss Schnee's capture, leading the other men.

"Separate the men from their families!" The man shouted as they do as he ordered.

Meanwhile, a family is being separated as the dad was taken away with the mother and their two children, a boy and a girl are crying out. Then a boy manages to break free along with the father as they hug each other, but then they got separated.

The man grabbed the kid and he cries out to his father as he is taken away by the men. Just as they were about to be shot, everyone notices a rumble above the sky.

A blue, white, and gold armored figure has arrived and landed in front of the terrorists with a thud, the figure looks and stands up. One of the terrorists attempts to shoot the armored figure but the bullet is bounced off before the armored woman attempts an uppercut that sent the man flying to the wall.

She turns around and fires her repulsor blast at another man, then she turns to fire a blast from both of her hands at another terrorist. Then another and another, then she turns around but sees the terrorist men have taken the villagers as hostages.

She lowered her gauntlets as they power down, thinking they got her cornered, Weiss inside is scanning the targets, targeting the terrorists. Then her shoulder panels open up revealing small missiles as they shot out, hitting only the terrorists and leaving the hostages alive without single harm on them.

The boy runs to his father joined by the family as they hug each other in relief, the armored woman walks off as the child watches with comfort.

The leader is hiding as he sees his men get killed by this unknown armored figure. He takes his scroll out and attempts to call for some help. Then a gauntlet punches through the wall he hides behind as it grabs him, revealing the armored woman tosses him to the ground where the villagers watch it happen.

Then the armored woman is about to fly off, "He's all yours." She said, before heading off, leaving the villagers to go closer to the man who looks comprised of pure fear.

Weiss has done it, as she flies above the town and sees the missile launcher from her scans. Just then she got hit by an explosive as she was sent down to the ground, thanks to an Atlas Mech that shoot down the armored woman.

Weiss gets up, having her armor slightly damaged, she gets up from the crater she crashed into and faces the mech. The mech fires another round but she dodges it, she then returns the favor by launching a small missile that hit the mech. She walks away and a moment later, the mech explodes.

Men guarding the missile launcher proceed to fire on the armored foe, but once again the bullets do nothing. Weiss flies off and proceeds to shoot down the missiles which exploded.

Somewhere, a convoy of trucks drive by and the same man with a burned scar witnesses the explosion from a distance. He looks frustrated, someone is tampering with his plans.

Meanwhile, Weiss flies off from the explosion and proceeds to continue through the sky, tho she now creates other issues...

Chapter 4 Completed

...Commencing Next Chapter...