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Location: Boreas - Military Base
Time: 0920

Inside the section of the base, an Atlas Captain watched a readout over the area where Weiss fought. Along with everyone else seeing this.

"What the hell was that? Were we cleared to go in there?" He asked towards the readout.

"No sir, they were using human shields. We never got the green light." The analyst replied.

"Put me through to State. They're going to be all over this." The male Specialist ordered.

"Get those monitors up!" One of the analysts calls out.

"We got a bogey!" Another informed.

"Wasn't Air Force!" A third one is confirming the bogey.

"We got the CIA on the line?" The Specialist asked.

"I've got them on the line. They want to know if it's us." The Captain informed.

"No, it definitely is not us, sir!" The analyst responded. "Not even the Navy nor the Marines."

"Then I need answers! Can I please get eyes on the target?" The Specialist ordered.

"Negative, negative. Cannot identify." The analyst replied.

"Get me Colonel Atar from weapons development down here now!" The Specialist demanded.

Meanwhile, Weiss continues to soar through the Vacuo sky. Then back inside the base, Fenix arrives as the Specialist informs him, "We ran an ID check and cross-referenced with all known databases. We have nothing."

"Any high-altitude surveillance in the region?" Fenix asked.

"We got an Atlesian Airship in the area." He noted.

"Got a minimal radar cross-section, sir." The analyst called out.

"So, this thing just appeared out of nowhere? How come it didn't show up on the radar?" Fenix wondered.

"Got a minimal radar cross-section, sir." The analyst informed.

"Is it stealth?" Fenix asked.

"No, sir, it's tiny. We think it's an unmanned aerial vehicle." The analyst responds.

"What are we dealing with here?" The Specialist asked Fenix.

"..." Fenix decides then made his choice, "Let me make a call." He replied as the Specialist nodded as the rest prepare to see who the anomaly is...

As Weiss continues flying, she got a call from somewhere. She goes for it, "Hello?" She called out.

"Weiss?" Fenix calls out but his voice is muffled by her flight.

"Who is this?" Weiss asked.

"It's Fenix." He replied.

"Sorry, hello?" Weiss couldn't hear him properly.

"I said it's Fenix." Fenix repeated.

"I can't hear you. Speak up, please." Weiss responded.

Fenix was confused by this, then he hears the loud noises coming from the flight happening in the background, "What in the hell is that noise?" He asked.

"I'm driving with the top down." Weiss lied.

It seems Fenix takes the lie for now, "Yeah, well, I need your help right now." He said.

"What is it?" Weiss asked.

"Well, we've got a weapons depot that was just blown up a few clicks from where you were being held captive." Fenix explained.

"Well, aren't you glad that someone is doing the job for you?" Weiss asked while having slight exhaustion.

Fenix then notices it, "Weiss... Why do you sound out of breath?" He wondered.

"I'm not, I was just jogging around the city." Weiss lied again, but this time Fenix is later not buying it.

"I thought you were driving." Fenix replied.

"I was driving to the other side of the city, where I'm going to jog." Weiss explained her lie.

Fenix is confused by that since Weiss never tries those activities. "...You sure you don't have any tech in that area I should know about?" He asked.

"No." Weiss simply replied.

"Bogey spotted!" The analyst pointed out the screen, showing the armored figure who they don't know is Weiss herself. "Sabre 1, come in hot."

Fenix watches this happen, "Okay, good, 'cause I'm staring at one right now, and it's about to be blown to kingdom come." He replied.

As soon as Fenix replied, Weiss noticed two fighter jets coming up behind her. She recognised these types, Atlas Sabre Fighters. She's in deep trouble.

"Time to go..." Weiss muttered as she makes a turn, and the two jets commence the chase.

The pilots maintain the chase as they noted the others, "Command, this is Sabre 1. I've got the bogey in my sights." One of the pilots reported.

Fenix is on comms as he heard and responds, "Sabre 1, what is it?" He asked.

"I've got no idea." Sabre 1 replied.

"You have radio contact?" The Specialist asked.

"Non-responsive, sir." Sabre 1 responded.

"Then you are clear to engage." The Specialist stated.

Weiss sees the jets are gaining, "JARVIS, supersonic." She ordered. And suddenly she proceeds to go supersonic as she manages to break the sound barrier multiple times.

The pilots remarked by this, "That bogey just went supersonic. I got a lock!" Sabre 1 stated.

The fighter jet then fires a missile that is locked onto Weiss. As it comes closer to the armored figure.

"Inbound missile." JARVIS wanted.

"Flares!" Weiss yelled.

Then her armor shoots out flares as soon the missile got exploded by the flares which nearly knock her away. The pilots recoiled and steer their jet away from the explosion.

"Bogey deployed flares!" Sabre 1 shouted.

Weiss descends out of control until later she manages to get in control, she now continues her flight while still being chased. One of the jets manages to target her, and proceeds to shoot out bullets as she dodges the stream of gunfire.

Just then the bullets manage to hit her armor which staggers her, Weiss needs to do something... She decided.

"Deploy flaps!" Weiss shouted, as her suit does as she said, which pulled her back towards the jets.

"Holy!" The pilot exclaimed as they tiled away from the sailing armored figure.

At the base, the analyst lost visual contact, "That thing just jumped off the radar, sir." He stated.

"The sat visual has been lost." Another one responded.

Meanwhile, the pilots look around to see the armored figure is gone.

"No way that's a UAV." Sabre 1 remarked.

"What is it?" The Specialist asked.

"I can't see anything." The second pilot responded.

"Whatever it was, it just bought the farm. I think bogey's been handled, sir." Sabre 1 assumed, seeing the enemy is gone.

Fenix is also confused, just then he gets a call from Weiss herself, and he takes the call from his scroll. "Hello?"

"Fenix, it's me." Weiss calls out, tho her voice is strained.

"What is it, Weiss?" Fenix asked.

"Fenix, I'm sorry, it is me. You asked. What you were asking about is me." Weiss admits.

Fenix is even more confused, but releases what she meant to say, "Weiss!" He hissed, "This isn't a game. You do not send civilian equipment into an active war zone. You understand that?"

"This is not a piece of equipment. I'm in it. It's a suit. It's me!" Weiss explained.

Fenix then realised and widen his eyes. The Specialist noticed, "Fenix, you got anything for me?" No response and a head shook from Fenix caused him to call the pilots. "Mark your position and return to base." He commanded.

Back to the two jets at Vacuo, they complied.

"Roger that, Command." Sabre 1 responded. Just as they fly off, he noticed on the second jet, sees the armored figure holding onto the bottom belly of the jet. "Sabre 2! On your belly! It looks like a person! Shake it off! Roll! Roll!" He exclaimed as the Command sees this, with Fenix surprised like others.

Saber 2 hears this and tries to shake it off by swerving, Weiss nearly lost her grip and finally, lets go as she crashed onto Sabre 1's wing as the jet falls out of control.

"I'm hit! I'm hit!" Sabre 1 exclaimed.

"Punch out! Punch out!" Sabre 2 yelled, as Sabre 1 complied and was shot out of the jet which just in time exploded. The pilot himself is hurling down from the sky. "Sabre 1 is down!" He informed the Command.

"Sabre 2, do you see a chute?" The Specialist asked.

"Negative! No chute, no chute!" Sabre 2 replied.

As Sabre 1 fell down, he tries to pull the parachute but to no avail. "My chute's jammed!" He exclaimed.

Weiss sees the falling pilot and heads straight to him and attempts to save him, "Sir, I've got a visual on the bogey." Sabre 2 noticed it.

At the Command, the Specialist responds, "Sabre 2, reengage. If you get a clear shot, you take it." He ordered.

Fenix steps in, "Specialist, we don't even know what we're shooting at. Call off the Sabres." He ordered.

Specialist retaliated, "That thing just took out a Sabre Fighter inside a legal no-fly zone! Sabre Two, if you have a clear shot, take it!" He demanded.

Weiss comes closer with Sabre 2 on the chase as the pilot aims at her, "You've been re-engaged. Execute evasive maneuver." JARVIS informed.

"Keep going!" Weiss yelled as she manages to go at the falling pilot. The pilot panics but Weiss breaks the panel as the jammed chute has finally been released. The pilot is saved.

"Good chute! Good chute!" Sabre 2 remarked.

Everyone in the Command cheered in relief, knowing the Sabre 1 pilot was alright.

Weiss flies off and has not been chased by the other jet. Meanwhile, Fenix calls to her, "Weiss, you still there?" He asked.

"Yep." A simple response from her relieved him.

Fenix sighed, "You're crazy, Schnee." He muttered, "You do realise you owe me a plane. You know that, right?"

"That's fine." Weiss replied nonchalantly, "But you do know, I did not cause the crash." She noted, "Now, are you going to come by and see what I'm working on?" She asked.

"Nope." Fenix shook his head, "The less I know, the better. Now, first off, what am I supposed to tell the press?" He questioned the current situation.

"Why not use the training exercise use, doesn't that work?" Weiss suggested.

Fenix deadpanned, "It's not that simple..." He said.

Location: Atlas - Military HQ
Time: 0950

At the press conference in Mantle, Fenix is on stage telling the audience.

"An unfortunate training exercise involving a Sabre Fighter Jet occurred yesterday. I am pleased to report that the pilot was not injured. As for the unexpected turn of events on the ground in Gulmira, it is still unclear who or what intervened, but I can assure you that the Atlas Council was not involved." He informed them.

As everyone listens, Lilith is a part of the audience, but she looks unpleased and is suspicious about this unknown person who intervenes at Gulmira.

Location: Atlas - Schnee Manor
Time: 1010

At the workshop, Jay is walking down but sees the windows and the glass door has been destroyed, he looked the area with bewilderment until he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey! Be careful with it!" Weiss' voice exclaimed as Jay walks to where that voice is from.

"It is a tight fit, ma'am. The more you struggle, the more this is going to hurt." JARVIS informed.

"Be gentle about it! This is my first time. It's supposed to be designed to come off... Ow!" She winced.

Jay walks further as the voices became louder.

"Please, try not to move, ma'am." JARVIS advised.

"What is going on here?" Jay calls out, only to see Weiss in her armored suit, as the machine around tries to remove the suit with a such difficult process. Weiss turns to the voice as she sees him looking shocked.

"..." Weiss is silent before giving her response, "Let's be honest, this isn't the worst thing you've caught me doing."

Jay can't believe what he saw, then he noticed the damage on her armor, "...Are those bullet holes?" He questioned.

Location: Vacuo - Unknown
Time: 2000

Somewhere at night, there's the campsite for the terrorists from the Branwen Tribe, just then a convoy of dark SUV vehicles arrived at the desert campsite. Then they stopped, and then the men got off with armed weapons and the one in charge is none other than Lilith herself.

She walks up meeting the leader with a burned scar, "Welcome. Compliments of Weiss Schnee." He greeted.

However, Lilith is not happy, "If you'd killed her when you were supposed to, you'd still have a face." She mentioned the capture of Weiss Schnee, revealing she and the leader work together.

"You paid us trinkets to kill a princess." The leader responds.

She doesn't like his response, but she does not have time for that, "...Show me the weapon." Liltih demanded.

"Come." The leader said as she leads her to one of the main tents, then he stopped and turns to her who is followed by her men, "Leave your guards outside." He demanded, Lilith turns to the guards and nodded as they stayed behind.

Inside the tent, he and Liltih entered inside, he shows her the grand prize, "Her escape bore unexpected fruit." He showed off the nearly reconstructed original armor.

Liltih inspects the suit of armor, "So this is how she did it." She remarked.

"This is only a first, crude effort." He explained, "Schnee has perfected her design. She has made a masterpiece of death. A man with a dozen of these can rule all of Mistral. And you dream of Schnee's throne. We have a common enemy."

Liltih glared at him as he continues, "If we are still in business, I will give you these designs... as a gift. And in turn, I hope you'll repay me with a gift of iron soldiers."

Liltih smiled as she was about to give him a pat on his shoulder, only to suddenly hears a high-pitched noise and be suddenly paralysed. He can only gasp as his veins appear pulsing and shaking on his neck and head.

Meanwhile, Liltih is wearing an earset that protects her from the noise, she gives a sadistic smile as she settles him down to the chair.

"Technology." Liltih stated. "It's always been your Achilles' heel in this part of the world." She smiled as the leader stared at her and can't do anything. "Don't worry. It'll only last for 15 minutes. But... That's the least of your problems."

Lilith heads off the tent as the entire campsite has been comprised by her men as they gathered the terrorists as prisoners.

"Crate up the armor and the rest of it. All right, let's finish up here." She ordered as one of them commanded the others as they shot down the rest of the terrorists.

She takes her scroll while she's in the car she entered, "Set up Sector 16 underneath the arc reactor, and I'm going to want this data masked. Recruit our top engineers. I want a prototype right away." She commanded.

After all... She needs this armor to be made.

Location: Atlas - Schnee Manor
Time: 1230

On the next day, at the workshop, Jay has already been settled down by the reveal as he sees Weiss is working on her armor who she now claimed as her Mark III armor.

Just then Weiss notices him, "Jay, do you mind if I send you on an errand?" She requested.

"Um... Sure." Jay replied.

Weiss smiled, "Good, I need you to go to my office. You're going to hack into the mainframe and you're going to retrieve all the recent shipping manifests."

She hands him the flash drive. "This is a lock chip. That'll get you in. It's probably under Executive Files. If not, they put it on a ghost drive, in which case you need to look for the lowest numeric heading."

"What?" Jay exclaimed at this request. "And what do you plan to do with this information if I bring it back here?"

"They've been dealing under the table, and I'm going to stop them. I'm going to find my weapons and destroy them." Weiss explained.

"Weiss, you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all of this again." Jay replied.

Then Weiss turns to him, "Jay please." She begged. "There is nothing except this. There's no art opening. There is no benefit. There is nothing to sign. There is the next mission and nothing else."

"You're going to kill yourself, Weiss. I'm not going to be a part of it." Jay refused.

"I shouldn't be alive unless it was for a reason." Weiss explained, "I'm not crazy, Jay. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right."

Jay sighed, and stares at the lock drive before closing it and putting it in his pocket, "You're all I have, too, you know." He said as Weiss smiled which he smiled back, then he heads off to the HQ.

Location: Atlas - Schnee Industries Headquarters
Time: 1300

Jay has arrived at the Headquarters and is now at the elevator he is walking past others without attempting to interfere with them.

He looks nervous, as he walks right into Weiss' office. He sat down on her chair and opens the laptop and her desk. He uses the lock drive and inserts it, before opening it.

The computer first opens up 'Security Breach' but thanks to the lock drive, he's in without any alarms.

Jay sighed in relief, as the lock chip drive accessed all of the files which show 'Ghost Drive Found', it downloads everything including weapons, diagrams, and shipping documents, and then what perked him up is the title: 'Sector 16'. It then reveals itself as a sketch of a very large armor suit mech.

"Sector 16? What are you up to, Lilith?..." He muttered as another file open up, it is a video of Weiss' capture, and he widen his eyes in horror when seeing it.

He saw the play button as he clicks it, the video plays out, "You did not tell us that the target you paid us to kill was the great Weiss Schnee. As you can see, Liltih Grimhilde..."

"By the Gods..." Jay whispered out loud.

"Your deception and lies will cost you dearly. The price to kill Weiss Schnee has just gone up." The message then is finished.

Jay can't believe this, Lilith ordered the terrorists to kill Weiss Schnee! He needs to get out of here! Just then Lilith arrived in the office. This panics him mentally as she sees him.

"Ah, Mr. Freidrich!" Lilith gives her a warm smile, but Jay doesn't trust it as he gave his fake and nervous smile. She seems to buy it as she continues to talk, " I know what you're going through, Jay..."

He tenses up as she reveals...

"Weiss." This mentally relieves him, "She always gets the good stuff, doesn't she? I was so happy when she came home. It was like we got her back from the dead. Now I realize, well, Weiss never really did come home, did she? She left a part of herself in that cave. Breaks my heart." She said.

"Well, she's a complicated person. She's been through a lot. I think she'll be all right." Jay replied, hiding his nervousness. Then Lilith then walks up and takes a look at the computer only to see some Weiss' singing concerts, then she looks at him.

"You are a very rare man. Weiss doesn't know how lucky she is." Liltih smiled.

Jay nodded, "Thank you for that, Miss Grimhilde." He then takes the drive out, hiding it under a newspaper that he took. "I'd better get back there." He then walks out.

Just as he is about to leave Lilith calls out, "Is that today's paper?" She pointed out as Jay stopped and turn back to her.

"Yes." He replied.

"Do you mind?" She asked as she wanted the paper.

"Not at all." He gives her the newspaper.

"Puzzles, my favourite." Liltih shows a section of the newspaper with a crossword puzzle. "Take care."

"Of course." Jay nodded as he turns and walks off. As he now holds the lock chip drive in his hand as he leaves the office.

Liltih then sat down on the chair and checked on the computer, she clicks away the concert images only to see the download was 100% completed. She widen her eyes and her expression angered.

She walks out of the office and looks for Jay only to see him down already.

As Jay continues to walk away, he gets to meet another familiar person, "Mr. Freidrich?" It is Clover Ebi, "We had an appointment. Did you forget about our appointment?" He reminded.

Then Jay realised, "Nope, right now. Come with me." He replied.

This confused Clover, "Right now?" He asked.

"We're going to have it, right now." Jay stated. "Just walk with me."

"Okay." Clover replied.

"I'm going to give you the meeting of your life. Your office." Jay said as Lilith's expression became even more angered.

At the Arc Reactor area, a scientist gets a call from his scroll, "Yeah, we've been working our best to do it. Absolutely, we're... I'm going to have to call you back." He ends the call as soon as Liltih arrived as he noticed.

"Miss Grimhilde? We've explored what you've asked us, and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually..." He informs.

Liltih perked up, "A hiccup?" She exclaimed.

"Yes, to power the suit, sir, the technology actually doesn't exist. So, it's..." He tries to explain.

"Wait, wait, wait. The technology?" Liltih replied, as pointed out the large Arc Reactor. "Willaim, here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller."

"But Madam, that's what we're trying to do, but honestly, it's impossible." William replied.

Now Lilith has had enough, "Weiss Schnee was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!" She yelled at him.

"...Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Weiss Schnee." Willaim calmly responded to her.

Just then Lilith fumed, but then his words made her realise... Weiss has her own arc reactor! Now her next course of action is about to begin...

Chapter 5 Completed

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