Gundam 00: Phoenix
Another Casualty
Middle East, September 4, Ptolemaios II
Tieria looked at Lyle with deathly stare in the small holding cell. He may have changed to a kinder soul over the years, but something like this was unacceptable. Celestial Being was not to be used by another factions for their own advantage and spies were definitely a threat to their organization regardless who they might be.
"You can stop with that stare," Lyle said to Tieria, slightly annoyed. "I did make a few calls to Katharon, but they were for a damn good reason. You want people to stay locked up in that place under A-Laws? Have you not heard what they do to prisoners?"
"That's not the point," Tierra replied back coldly. "Celestial Being is not some organization that you and Katharon can take advantage of. Our goals may be similar in a sense, but you need to remember we're not out for the Earth Sphere Federation, we're against A-Laws."
"And the last mission you went on was against A-Laws and we're against them as well. I don't see why it's so hard for just giving small pieces of Intel like that. It's not like I'm going to give away any secrets of Celestial Being."
"It's a risk we cannot afford. Secrets being leaked out by was the reason we ended up being crippled. I will not have that happen again," Tieria then said firmly. "It's also one of the reasons your brother was killed. If we weren't put into that desperate situation he might still be alive and would not have to be here filling in his place."
Lyle looked at Tieria with narrow eyes before leaning against the cell wall. "I understand, but just to make it clear, please don't say I'm simply a replacement of my brother. We may be twins but we're still different in our own way. For future reference don't compare me to him, alright?" he said with a slightly offended tone.
"I'm going to guess you two were not on good terms?" Tieria inquired curiously.
"You can say it's sort of like that," Lyle simply replied back sounding like that was not going to go any further. "I won't leak anything else out, I'll even make sure Katharon can help us when we need it to make things up," he then told him.
"I hope you'll stick true to your word." Heading to the door Tieria took one last look at Lyle before heading out of the room, leaving the door open.
Setsuna, what are you trying to get us into by recruiting people we barely even know or trust? Tieria thought to himself as he took a right down the hallway towards the ship's bridge. He may be Lockon's twin brother but they're two different people as he said, be it better or for worse.
On the way down he dumped into Nena tired, sad expression on her face.
"Nena," he began. "I'm going to guess there's bad news to be heard," he asked though he already knew what it likely was.
"Ya, Federation just kicked the crap out of the Rising Phoenix forces... in their own base. So the change of plans was to head to Katharon's base unless, you have any objections, which I'll be surprised if you don't," she said with a sigh before she looked in the direction of Lyle's cell and looked rather surprised how the door was left open. "I'm going to guess you talked to him."
"I did, though I'm not sure if I made the point across. Whether or not he continues on we'll need him to pilot Cherdium, and I may not like it, but he should improve our relations with Katharon since he knows them quite well, and from the change of plans on that will be needed" Tieria answered back before he continued on to the bridge while Nena continued the other way.
Upon entering the room Tieria looked to see nearly the entire crew was situated there discussing matters.
Stepping forward he spoke, "I hear we're heading to the Katharon base. Is that correct?" he asked.
"Ya," Lasse nodded, "We can drop the Princess off there and maybe get some information from Katharon if they're willing to give it. Any information we can get against the A-Laws will be useful."
"That's useful though–" Tieria suddenly stopped midway through his sentence as he felt some strange presence and a voice.
"Tieria Erde, you are an Innovator and you will become one like us and help guide this world," he heard the words go through his head.
"Tieria, are you alright?" Feldt asked in a concerned voice. "You look like something spooked you."
"No, I'm fine," Tieria replied. "I just thought I heard a voice. Must just be my imagination."
"I don't know," Feldt continued still looking at him in concern. "Almost nothing causes you to react like that. You need to tell us what just happened."
Tieria turned to her. "If you want to know I heard the words 'you are an Innovator and you will become one like us and guide this world," he repeated those words he had heard in his head to the rest of the crew.
"Innovator?" Setsuna then repeated, confused who that was. "Do you have any idea what that is?"
"Is it some group trying to bring out crazy new ideas?" Mileina then guessed though she appeared to be also thinking if it meant something else.
Tieria could only shake his head. "I've never heard of the title of Innovator before." He had no clue what an Innovator was or what it meant, though someone with that title likely used Quantum Brainwaves if they had just managed to speak to him through them without warning.
Nena suddenly then appeared into the room from behind the door. "Tieria, did you just–" She stopped her sentence upon seeing everyone giving her the look that told her what had transpired. "Guess that answers that," she said sheepishly before stepping back into the bridge.
"Before we continue to figure what an Innovator is, Tieria, we need to know if you want to head to the Katharon base," Lasse then said. "You are the one who often decides how secrecy will go."
Tieria pondered on the question for a moment. Would exposing Celestial Being be a threat to them or would it gain them more allies?
The group continued to wait for him on his decision until finally Tieria spoke up.
"We'll head over there, under the condition we don't bring the Ptolemaios. We can use the shuttle to ferry the Princess to their base and anything we may need," he said to everyone who all gave respectable nods of approval on his decision.
He then began proceeding out of the bridge past the crew. "Since we're unlikely to know who or what the Innovators are just by guessing, I'll be leaving to see if I can dig up anything through research. There may be more to this then just A-Laws if what I heard is true."
Saji slowly worked away on maintenance duties for the Ptolemaios alongside with Mr. Ian who seemed like a rather nice man from the conversations he had with him.
Even though he may be with terrorist which he hated, he did not mind actually being out of the cell and doing something.
"Mr. Ian," Saji began abit hesitantly before continuing on, passing Ian one of the tools. "Have you ever had objections to that Nena Trinity onboard?"
Ian adjusted the circuitry before answering, "I was doubtful at first, but she's proving her worth. She wants to make things up to the world for her crimes and I respect that. I'm glad that she took a stay with the Rising Phoenix; it completely changed her outlook on life which is why she's now with us." Ian then passed him the tool he had before he slide out from under the machinery.
"I find it hard for some like her to change, after what she's done," Saji said with a hint of anger, thinking how can someone change from a psycho killer to a repentant member of Celestial Being .
"Many people do, I even found it hard to believe when I heard the news of the transfer, but I got used to it. People's actions in violence often have a way of changing someone's mind after they committed their action. For Nena it just took abit more for her but at least it has happened other than never," Ian said before getting up with a grunt. "Onboard you can look around and find people who want to change the world in for their own reasons, some personal, others towards the main goal or both. In the end, though, it ends up with all of us wanting to end war, either because we've lost family, friends, loved ones, or even our own lives and future or just because we're sick seeing war and the things it brings with it."
"Mr. Ian, may I ask, what caused you to join Celestial Being?" Saji then asked, wanting to know this man's story of getting into Celestial Being.
"Fighting around the orbital elevator in the Republic of Congo when it was undergoing construction. I was there when Wesker of the Rising Phoenix was still just in the AEU, though I never met him face-to-face or spoke with him until both Celestial Being and the Rising Phoenix allied together," Ian said to Saji before staring at the wall remembering horrors of his past before turning to him. "Lots of good people died, especially in the Technical Corp which I was assigned in."
"Wait, aren't those guys suppose to be in the back? How can you be suffering so much out there then?" Saji asked. It sounds impossible for units in the rear-line to take more casualties then the front.
Ian sighed. "Militants made it extremely hard for anyone, but they would often come and attack us in places that we thought were clear and being in the Technical Corp you're more likely to have a toolbox and material then you are to have things weapons. Didn't make it easier when Anfs would at times come out of well-hidden positions and bring hell to our lightly armed forces. Worst part, though, were the mercenaries in the region who made the militants reasonable fighters. We went it thinking it would just be a simple walk in the park."
"Did the military fix the problem after it went on long enough?"
"They did, but there were still too few of us and too much ground to cover. More people were needed to defend the elevator as a single missile, shell, hell, even a shockwave could cause serious damage to the orbital elevator. They're incredibly fragile, especially during their construction phase."
"And now you're here because of all that?" Saji then said.
"Mostly," Ian replied back, now grabbing another tool off the trolley and heading back under the machinery, "There's a few things afterwards that happened, but you can say it was that conflict that put me where I am today." Ian paused before speaking again. "Now, you better help me get back to work, we've wasted enough time as it is. You want to get fed, right?"
Saji nodded with a small smile. Though all this fighting that Celestial Being had started had ruined his life, he was starting to understand why people do the things they do and that not everyone seemed like the monsters they had been vilified as by the actions of the group.
Middle East, September 5, Azadistan Border
Dozens of small search teams in the former Rising Phoenix base carefully patrolled the area with the night sky hanging overhead of them; the moon and the stars shining rather brightly this night.
Sergei Smirnov had taken it upon himself to oversee the search for any clues the remainder of the Rising Phoenix went and capture anyone who was left behind or rescue them if that was the case.
Despite how late it was he felt no need for rest and the same went for many of his own men. Their victory here, one of the few actual first against the Rising Phoenix, had caused a renewal of energy for the troops to press forward with their given tasks now knowing they had put a heavy blow to their enemy, possibly even the nail in the coffin for their operations in the region.
A soldier then came up to his small command post on the ground. "Sir, we found several more soldiers who have surrendered to us, we're taking them back to the Gobi."
Sergei nodded. "Carry on," he replied back to the soldier who saluted before heading back out onto the field.
The small line-up of captured soldiers emerged into several light post that had been set up guarded by several Federation soldiers who were keeping a very close eye on them.
This made Sergei glad that the enemy had not continued to fight on despite being left behind. He'd rather much have less blood spilt for both sides if he could. They would also get more information this way if they were lucky to have a captured soldier speak to them on. Interrogation would have to be used though if nobody stepped forward, though they would have to be careful to not tread too heavily towards aggressive means to get the information they desired.
"Sir," someone said before waiting to see if they had caught his attention.
Sergei gave a slight nod while watching the soldiers march past. "What news do you bring?" he then asked.
"Well, there's group of A-Laws' force coming to meet with us within the next few hours," he was told by the person.
"Are they Major Lindt's group?" he then asked curiously. "If that's so tell them any prisoners here are under Federation protection and that we've got the rest of this area handled. We have more than enough soldiers here to check things out."
"Actually," the person brought something out and handed him a data pad containing the info over his shoulder which he grabbed. "It's Colonel Kati Mannequin group. They did not say as to why they were coming here and would discuss the matter in person. This order is directly from command on both sides."
"On both sides you say," Sergei replied as he read through the data pad containing the order. There were no details but it looked like something was about to go down. He then handed the data pad back. "Whatever it may be we'll be ready. Thanks for the report, soldier, you may get back to your duties."
The soldier saluted. "Sir, yes, sir." And with that the soldier went off.
So Kati is coming here, that mean Soma and Andrei are also coming since they're with her. Sergei then frowned at the thought. Guess it's just something I'll have to get through.
He then stepped out of his command post to see Corporal Sierra and several other pilots chatting, sitting on top of an abandoned Viper tank.
"Well, how many aircraft did you shoot down?" one of the pilots asked Erica.
"Less then you," she replied back raising two fingers with her right hand.
The male pilot talking to her gave her an odd look. "Only two? I expected more. I managed to get five," he said boastingly.
Erica shrugged. "Not easy when I'm trying to cover your asses from that Gundam. I also downed two of those new planes, not those old Aces they're using within ten seconds of each other. Like to see you do that."
"W-Well..." the pilot stumbled. "You've got a better machine!" he then burst out rather violently causing several laughs from the rest of the group including Erica. "I mean it. It's an unfair advantage when she's a fucking super soldier and the fact she has that thing."
"Sorry to interrupt." Sergei came up to them and instantly all of the pilots stood at attention, getting off of the tank giving him a salute.
"At ease," Sergei signalled to them with the raise of his hand before lowering it causing them to lower their salute. "Despite the fact you were in combat not long ago, but you're not requiring rest at this hour tells me you people need something to do to keep yourselves busy."
One of the pilots raised their hand with Sergei accepting, letting them speak. "With all due respect, sir, we did our duty today and we won here, don't you think that warrants some rest? I mean, the soldiers here got it covered, right?"
"I could send any of you with them to help find any remaining Rising Phoenix soldiers in the area, but that's not the case." He then put his hands behind his back before continuing. "Would anyone of you be interested on a scouting mission of the region? The sooner we can find what's left of the Phoenix the sooner this can all end and move back on to Katharon and finally secure some sort of peace in the region."
Several voices went about discussing the matter in quick whispers before Erica stepped forward.
"I'll volunteer. The Serene's the fastest machine we've got. If I ever get into any sort of trouble I'll be able to run or fight. The sensors on the Serene should also be abit more powerful then the GN-X IIIs–every bit helps."
"Always have to show us off by taking jobs from the colonel, huh? Well, good luck with that," the pilot Erica had been speaking with said with jealousy before he walked away.
"Man, that Gregory needs to be taught a lesson or at least have a longer fuse before he loses it," one of the other pilots said before looking at Sergei. "Should we bring him back here?"
"No," Sergei said looking at the pilot who was walking away. "Just let him be. He'll have to grow up, eventually."He then turned to Erica. "May I ask, how often do people in the Federation either get jealous?" he asked.
"Well," Erica muttered to herself softly, recollecting certain events before responding with. "A considerable amount of people from all ranks and status in the military, but I'm used to it. Now, I better get going." Erica then walked off towards the Sahara which had landed nearby between two jagged points in the hillside.
Sergei then looked at the group of the pilots. "I'll let you be off, you're all dismissed."
All the pilots gave a quick salute before they went back discussing matters near the abandoned tank while Sergei went back to the command post to prepare for the arrival of an old friend.
Europe, September 5, Spain, Rising Phoenix European Headquarters
Daveral watched as the Phalanx was transported inside one of the large cargo planes that had four Ace Phantoms forming a wedge around it.
There were a few more of these similar formations– the Rising Phoenix was rushing to get some men and supplies to their remaining forces in the Middle East. The work would continue through the dawn and likely into the other, though he was being sent out first to meet Flint.
It had been a very long time since he had seen his old friend and it made Daveral wonder if his friend still had the cocky, laid-back kind of attitude or if the past few years had changed Flint into something completely different. He also wondered the same thing about Nena, though he likely did not have to worry too much from what he had been told by Wesker as she was now with Celestial Being which stopped any fears that she may revert back to her old self, despite how impossible that may sound after all that's happened four years ago.
So much time had passed by without him hearing from them at all. He wondered if he would still know them at all or feel like a stranger to them. They had barely kept in contact over the years, even though he said they would all keep in touch at that fateful moment where he left to find his way life, away from fighting.
And now, here he was, back fighting, but not for a cause that proclaimed to end war but for the fact he promised he would return if he was ever needed. His motives had not changed since the day he began. He would never have the dedication Flint or Nena had for the cause of ending war, but regardless he would do his best and fight to make sure his friends and comrades would continue to live on. Life was just far too precious to waste despite what human history may show.
Speaking on his team, he wondered whose Helana's replacement would be. He had heard no news on who it may be or when they were going to be joining him. It made him abit annoyed and impatient that he did not who this person would be or what their machine. Things being shrouded in mystery and then appearing out of the blue always annoyed him.
Won't be too long before I'm back in the thick of it. Hope my skills haven't rusted too badly, he thought then to himself, his eyes still following the Phalanx as it disappeared into the massive cargo plane.
It would not be much longer before he would find himself back to where he was four years ago.
Middle East, September 5, Azadistan
Feldt's eyes followed an incoming bogey on Ptolemaios' sensors. The thing had just come blazing through the air at high speeds from out of the blue without warning.
Zooming in with the ship's long-ranged cameras, Feldt saw the exact same machine that the Rising Phoenix had fought in the battle just days ago.
She did not know if they would go by unnoticed even with the holographic camouflage active as it was coming awfully close to their location and there was the possibility of here being more Federation mobile suits ready to come to its aid should they open fire.
This was not a good situation, however, most of the Gundams had already made their way to the Katharon base leaving only Nena and Allelujah left onboard and Feldt had no idea if Allelujah was ready to sortie from his ordeals in prison.
Immediately Feldt then turned to Mileina. "Get the Nena on standby, we've got an unidentified Federation machine heading in our direction. It may even know we're here despite the camouflage."
"Already on it," Mileina responded back quickly. "Miss Trinity make your way up to your machine and standby in the container. We've got an incoming mobile suit from the Federation heading our way fast so you may want to make it snappy," she announced with her usual light-hearted discretion.
"I hope we don't actually have to fight this thing and that its just passing through," Lasse commented. gripping the ship's controls, ready to make any manoeuvres as necessary. "From what we've been told by Flint, the pilot of this machine is likely the best out of the best."
Ian then appeared on Feldt's screen. "I'll man Ptolemy's weapon systems. I'm also taking the kid up to keep him under supervision."
"Understood," Feldt replied and then was suddenly surprised by seeing Allelujah pop up on screen. "Allelujah, are you heading out there?"
Allelujah nodded back to her. "I'm not going to sit by while Ptolemy is in potential danger and don't worry about me. I'm fine." He then disappeared off-screen.
"I hope you're right," Feldt murmured, concerned that Allelujah was still recovering. "If anything happens to him up there physically, we may not be able to help him."
Erica watched the ground as she listened to a song going through her helmets headset. It was a simple modification she did so she wouldn't hear nothing over the comm. channel while she patrolled Azadistan.
From what she had seen passing through the area, the country was a mess. She could see the bright flames on the ground illuminating the darkness below and smoke filling the skies. This country was just right near civil war and it made her wonder if the they would be heading in to stop it. Just didn't seem right to let it go on for too long when they were right beside the country.
Looking around the area on her screen and sensors there appeared to be nothing out of the ordinary in the area aside from what was currently going on and she had no orders to intervene, just patrol and look for the Rising Phoenix.
Her patrol was just about up since she had already made two passes thanks to the Serene's incredible speed in mobile armour form.
Setting a course back she then noticed something unusual down below. Immediately she had her machine transform to mobile suit mode to get in closer to the thing that had caught her eye, a silhouette of some sort.
Immediately she shut off her music and got ready for anything as her machine got closer to the silhouette she saw the outline was more pronounced and looked like the was something folding over the edge of the object that was concealed.
Suddenly the field dropped with a radiant pink particle beam whipping toward her.
"Oh, shit!" she cursed, her eyes had widened in complete surprise as the Serene backed away and transformed to get away as several missiles came flying towards her which she promptly shot down. "Command, I've found Celestial Being's mother ship!" she screamed only to hear static on the other end, despite having switched back to the regular channel.
A Gundam then launched from the ship, an orange machine which transformed and raced towards her after transforming into a fighter-like jet while a greyish black Gundam launched after it, firing its rifle at her.
First thing that came to Erica's mind was to fallback as she made her way away from the vessel. The further she got the sooner she could try and contact command again and advise them of this new development on just how close one of their enemies were.
"Allelujah, pursue the target, don't let that machine get away!" Lasse said to Allelujah through the comm. with Allelujah giving a simple nod.
Arios then accelerated, quickly gaining pace with the Serene which was racing off as fast as it could.
"Allelujah, I'll try to keep jamming their communications lines, but it's up to you to get that machine. I simply can't keep up," Nena then told him as the Vier quickly became a dot to Allelujah.
Allelujah gave another nod. "Understood, Arios commencing interception mission." He then pushed the throttle even further forward with the speed now beginning to push him back in his seat.
Now in range, he fired Arios' beam rifle that was mounted underneath his machine showering his opponent with particle fire.
The Serene took evasive action by immediately climbing causing Allelujah to follow who let off another long burst causing the machine to then dive and then make a hard turn right.
Allelujah followed the Serene, but suddenly he saw it disappear from his screen as he overshot it which made him let out a growl as his sensors showed the machine was now behind him. It had used his speed against him and its manoeuvrability at lower speeds.
Two particle beams then were fired which forced Allelujah to evade by banking left, but Erica quickly caught on machine boosted towards him and transformed, firing one of its arm mounted GN Vulcans furiously at him while closing in using the machine's previous speed to propel it further towards Arios.
Arios took a couple of hits that rattled the cockpit as particle beams roughly dispersed off his machine with force that caused him to slow.
"Damn it," Allelujah grunted. "Without out my Quantum Brainwaves I can't react as fast."
He then heard Erica laugh over his channel. "From what I hear, you're supposed to be a super soldier, so what gives? Aren't you suppose to be better than this? I've seen fighter pilots that were harder to hit!" The Serene then slashed him in an effort to knock him out of the sky.
Arios instantly then transformed and drew its beam saber to counter. The two blades then collided sending out sparks, but the Serene's heavier physical blow began to get the advantage over the Arios' saber.
"Just who are you exactly?" Allelujah then asked as Arios quickly sidestepped to the Serene's side and brought his beam saber down only for it to miss with the Serene gracefully dodging as it were second-nature.
"Glad you asked!" Erica shouted proudly with a grin. "Erica Sierra, nineteenth super soldier of the Ascension Project's third generation. Ruined my life, but it made me who I am now and all that will allow me to put you down!" The Serene then with a swift movement punched Arios in the head before swiping at him with its blade.
Arios evaded before switching to its beam rifle and sprayed shots at the Serene and used his machines speed to keep his opponent at a distance.
"You're truly willing to fight for a corrupt government who abuses their power with A-Laws?" Allelujah then asked. "You would just let them use you as a weapon?"
"Which is why I'm no apart of A-Laws and I follow the Federation military instead!" Erica shot back with a growl. "If it weren't for the Federation I'd still be stuck in a testing lab. I owe them alot for getting me out of that place. Besides it allows me to make use of my abilities." The Serene then returned fire with both its Vulcans.
Allelujah narrowed his eyes. He perfectly knew how this person felt on the matter, but he knew he couldn't change this person's mind and he would have to take her out.
The Serene then transformed and blasted towards him while firing its beam cannons.
The more I keep playing a game of cat-and-mouse the worse off I'll be, Allelujah thought as he had Arios transform and set a direct course towards the Serene. I don't have Hallelujah, but I can still fight and Arios still has a trick up its sleeves.
The Serene once more fired with its beam cannon, but Arios barrel rolled through the two shots and continued towards the Serene, trying to line itself up perfectly with its opponent.
"So you finally stopped running away? Won't do you much good, though!" Erica shouted as the Serene transformed and had its blade at the ready as it charged forward.
Arios then fired several beams off from its rifle causing the Serene to evade and retaliate with its wrist-mounted Vulcans as Arios continued closing in.
"We'll see about who's running," Allelujah said back. Arios' nose then deployed into a pincer mere seconds away from both machines colliding with each other and went glowing red as Trans-Am kicked in.
The hail of shots from the Serene hit Arios head on and punched holes in several sections of the Gundam, but it continued forth at lightning speeds, too fast and manoeuvrable to evade, its pincer catching the Serene's blade in its grasp and in an instant, snapped the top section of the blade before clutching onto the lower section of the machine.
Allelujah narrowed his eyes at his screen which showed sparks and bits of metal flying out of the Serene. "I didn't want to have to do this, but I'm not risking Ptolemy to the Federation and A-Laws," he said remorsefully as the pincers then severed the machine in half sending both sections down towards the ground.
An explosion then rocked the area nearly sending Arios out of control before Allelujah began setting a course back to Ptolemy with the combat now finished.
Middle East, September 5, Azadistan Border
From both the A-Laws and the Federation were pilots, soldiers and officers who were allowed entrance to attend the meeting on the bridge of the Sahara with their leaders, Kati Mannequin and Sergei Smirnov discussing about the recent appearance of Celestial Being in Azadistan as well as the situation the country was in.
Soma stood by the Colonel Kati Mannequin while on the other side of her was Andrei Smirnov.
Whatever Andrei was thinking about seeing his father here he gave no hint of, only giving an empty stare at the documents laid out on the table between the two colonels.
"So Major Lindt's group reported both Katharon and Celestial Being near the coast?" Sergei said looking where their foes last known location had been marked by. His fingers then traced the map over to where reports of Katharon had been. "That's far out of Katharon territory. They would only risk themselves if it was extremely important."
"It's likely Celestial Being told them they had the Princess of Azadistan onboard. That would be the only reason they would trek so far out of their holes in this region," Kati then look over at Sergei. "This heavily hints towards both sides working together. It seems far too likely to just be coincidence. You could say it's almost like when Celestial Being was first seen with the Rising Phoenix."
Sergei gave a slight nod back to Kati. "Indeed, it does." Sergei then turned over to one of his officers. "This could really cause problems for the world when three major paramilitary groups are allied together.
"Colonel," a cry then came out. "We've just lost contact with the Serene over the region, last known location in sector Blue-Indigo."
Sergei looked up at the man in surprise before reverting back to his in control expression. "Have a recon team find out what happened to the Corporal and scout our advance," he said before turning to the helmsman who was in the room. "Take your station, we're heading out."
For a moment Soma could sense there was some sadness in the Colonel before it faded away with his sense of duty. It was typical for the Colonel to do that, he knew he could not be weighed down emotion as an officer.
She too felt sad on the matter. She had wanted to meet this super soldier in person and just see how different they were in abilities since they were from two completely different programs and find out who this super soldier actually was.
"I will be heading back to my shuttle," Kati then said. "My forces will support you as needed should there be sign of activity from one of the three groups."
Kati then turned to head out the bridge door with both Soma and Andrei following her in tow with the rest of their retinue.