I've completed my training, if I remember correctly, Cray said that I needed to train first before I can properly battle. Now that I have trained, I can go to battle. Or at least, I assume so.

When I left my training room, Cray told me to go to my bay and select my mech. He recommended to me that I should practice piloting vehicles next. I got nothing else to do, so why not?

I'm in my bay now. Bay 02 specifically, the one with the tall mech. But some of its parts are taken off.

It now only has one leg on the right, it's missing some of its body, and it only has two guns on its right.

I don't know who did this, probably Cray, but I suppose it's a good chance to try out them tools.

My tools are still at the front right of the bay. Taking the Cube Placer, (I'll just call it that for now.) it now has a mech leg selected, with a "1" on that small screen.

Taking the tool, I point it towards my vehicle. A full scale hologram of the leg appears at the place I'm pointing. When I point it at the floor, the foot of the leg is there. Moving it around, it sometimes turns red. I assume I can't place it there.

But pointing next to the other leg, I pull the trigger. A real leg appears in that place with a similar process to my helmet and pistol wasp. The only difference is that this is a lot quicker. Almost instantly.

The screen on my Cube Placer now says "0". Not that I'm complaining. But how do I choose a different item?

I want to select...a...cube?

The item was suddenly replaced by a white cube! The screen says "26" on it now. So if I think of the item I want, this tool selects it automatically. Neat.

Pointing at the places where the cubes are missing, I pull the trigger again and again. Until all of the chassis is fixed. I now have 20 of these cubes left. That should do me, shouldn't it?

Now for the guns. Plasma Pulsers specifically, with that selected...uh...

How do I get on top of my mech?

...

I have an idea!

I can stack a bunch of cubes in front of the mech, climb up the stack, and get on top of the mech. There's probably a more common way to get on top than this, when I'm done, I'll ask Lava or Cray about it.

Selecting the cube again, I point the Placer in front of the mech and placed a cube.
I get on top of it, jumped, and quickly placed another cube under me on top of the other one.

I repeat this process until I'm on top of my mech, I also ran out of cubes. No matter.

Selecting the Plasma Pulser again, I point at the places so that they are symmetrical with the other side of the mech.

After that, I'm done! But I found another trigger on the Cube Placer. Pointing at the top of my small stack of cubes, I pull that trigger. The top cube disappeared!

Selecting the cube again, I notice that "1" is displayed. Doing it again at the next cube, it also disappeared while the "1" turned to "2".

So this trigger collects the cubes. That might come in handy. So I collect the rest of the stack, ending up with 20 cubes again.

Now that the mech is ready, I think I'll take it for a spin.

I did NOT expect the next thing to happen!

Looking around, I notice something... odd... I feel different, it looks like I'm in the training room again. But I just feel different, like I'm in a different body. Is that it?

Oh... my...

That IS it!

I've taken the shape of my mech and immediately got transported to a training room. How I now see my surroundings is pretty much the same, the only difference is that I can look all the way around without turning my body.

My guns are always looking at the point I'm looking at. So if I think about firing...

BANG

One of my guns fire.

BOOM

Since this vehicle is using plasma launchers, the projectiles are slightly slower than SMG and Laser, but they explode on contact.

Moving around, my 'legs' feel normal. But as the same time, they feel different.

Before I got in my mech, my legs just had one knee, but my mech legs have about two knees each. One facing forward, and the other facing backward.

It's weird how it already feels normal.

I'm just repeating myself now. I'm just repeating...ok, stop now.

Ahem.

This training room is different from my previous one. There is already terrain around me with some structures and traditional 'targets' dotted everywhere.

I see something glowing on top of one of the structures. There's a shallow slope I can walk on. Doing so, I find that the glowing thing is just a holographic arrow pointing downwards.

Am I supposed to just go there? Walking as close to the arrow as I can, a red vehicle appears across the room.

This vehicle is different: a mech, much larger than me, despite me being in a mech myself. It has a lot of electroshields on it.

But this vehicle isn't doing anything, so I might as well just shoot it.

BANG BANG BANG BANG

Using all four of my guns, four explosions occurred on the red mech. I destroyed a lot of it, but it's still standing. On one leg.

BANG BANG BANG BANG

Another volley of shots should finish it off. Which it did so. The mech exploding entirely, just like the previous one.

It's so satisfying.

Now, is it possible to 'exit' my mech? As in: leave my mech, but stay in this training room?

Funny enough, I actually did so. I found myself suddenly 'on top' of my mech. I felt myself as the way I did back in my bay.

So I can just 'transform' into my vehicle and back at will...

I wonder how a tank or hovercraft would feel like...

Auther's note: Entering a vehicle for the first time. Since they don't have any pilot seats, how are they controlled? This chapter explains my idea.

I have got 1 review to respond to:

Guest (Chapter 6): "That was really good chapter. Will you incorporate a new tutorial mode into a story (when you receive a cube manipulator, finish a basic bot, drive it around and destroy enemy bot) in some way? Also, holo-field changing during the
training was an awesome idea. By the way, will there be tesseracts and other meta-bots in this story of yours?"

Rynowm: "Believe it or not: I've had the idea of the tutorial in this chapter before I received email of your review. Seems like it's pure coincidence.

Stories do need some original ideas, they make them interesting, so I came up with 'my' training room.

I dunno about the tesseracts and meta-bots, we'll see though, we'll see..."