Not long now.

Deployment in 5...

Oh boy...

4...

Honestly, I'm a little nervous...

3...

This mech should be durable...

2...

I don't even know what I'm supposed to do...

1...

I'll find out!

Deploying!

I open my 'eyes' to find that I'm in a completely different place. Some kind of desert with mountains surrounding me. But they aren't the only thing I'm surrounded by, a large group of other vehicles and fighters, all ready for action!

But what caught my interest the most is what looks like another Protonium Reactor. I thought the grand-mothership had one already. Why is there one here?

The one back in the ship is used to power it. So what's this one for? Powering these vehicles? That could be the case.

The battle for Hellion's Crater has begun!

We're we just waiting? No matter, everyone started moving to various places. I can even see some fighters climbing onto vehicles, while others stayed on foot. But I thought-

What the... Something's climbing on my mech! I can't see it easily, is it-

"Hi Ozone!" I recognise that feminine voice...

"Sky?" I hope she can hear me, I don't want to sound or look stupid.

"Hey, I didn't think you'd enter this battle." She got to a place on my vehicle where I can see her, she seems really happy about this.

"Well, I didn't become a fighter for nothing."

"True, true. But just to let you know, allies can climb on to each other's vehicles. It's like a form of teamwork." She explained. "Just remember that enemies can do the same." Just how did she know I was wondering about that? I hope that is pure coincidence.

"Right." I'll keep that in mind. Now that I think about it, in training, I did climb onto an enemy vehicle to destroy it. Or rather, INTO a vehicle, but that's practically the same thing.

"I suggest that you follow those tanks..." She started as she pointed to my right at a group of tanks. "And help capture the North fusion tower." The what?

I don't know what this 'fusion tower' is, but I'll at least follow those tanks Sky mentioned.

"And I thought I'd be on my own, I wouldn't know what to do." I thought out loud.

"Well, our primary objective is to destroy the enemy Protonium reactor. Without that, the enemies' vehicles would run out of power, making them useless, forcing the enemy to retreat." She explained. "But at the same time, the enemy will be trying to do
the same thing to us."

"Makes sense."

The tanks are slow, which allowed me to catch up to them quite easily. But wait, if Sky's a scout, wouldn't she-

"I'm going ahead." Her voice sounded through my communicator. She immediately jumped off of me and bounced on the tanks towards the mountains, or they seem more like cliffs, followed by rapidly climbing upwards towards the top. She's soon out of
sight.

Well that answers my question, before I even finished it.

Back to the 'task at hand', the tanks started firing at a cluster of purple Protonium crystals hanging from a tower. So is this the fusion tower? I think I should do what they're doing.

With my guns aiming at it, I fire a large barrage of shots at the cluster. The explosions of each of my shots made great progress. Soon, all crystals are removed from the tower, and blue ones quickly took their place.

So is this what Sky meant by 'capturing a fusion tower'? I'll accept that logic for now, but don't expect it to stay like that.

"Your fusion shield is now active."

It's that announcement voice again. And 'fusion shield'? Sounds useful. Anyway.

This tower is placed at the bottom of a small cliff, or hill, I dunno, but there's a steep drop down towards it. I saw some of the tanks having a bit of difficulty getting down.

Me? I'm in a mech, I can just jump down, and up, with ease.

So with that 'advantage', I quickly jumped back up the steep cliff, which wasn't too high. I did make it.

But looking far ahead, I can see another one of these towers in the distance, with a group of vehicles firing red projectiles at it.

They must be the enemies.

"A group of 5 vehicles, each are around 900 to 1000 pFlops big, are at the West fusion tower. One of them has two Plasma Goliathons on it. Be cautious for that one." Sky's voice called through.

Plasma Goliathons? Isn't that one of those 'big' weapons? And what does she mean by 'pFlops'?

"Copy that." A male voice rang through. I don't recognise it though. "All units at the North fusion tower stay put. Wait for the mentioned enemy group to come to us. That includes you, rookie."

"Me?" I asked.

"Yes! Retreat back down here!"

Red shots are coming towards me, each one barely missing me. Ok, that's my cue!

I quickly jump back down to my group, or rather the group I'm in, talk about a close call.

"Just to let you know, the hovercraft in the enemy group has an EMP module. Watch out for that." There's Sky's voice again. If this is what scouts do, why didn't she come up with this kind of situation back in the training room!?

"Then we shouldn't stay too close to each other. The EMP will shut us all down otherwise." That same male voice said.

"Sounds over powered in my opinion." I thought out loud.

"Modules like that are always deadly, which makes them very useful." A different male voice said. "But not so much if you're on the receiving end. Heh heh heh." He laughed.

"Very funny, Spike." The first voice sarcastically said. "Just prepare for battle, the enemy will be here any second."

"Just one problem." It's the scout again. "The enemy group is just staying at their fusion tower. Looks like they have the same idea."

"So now what?" Someone's gotta make a move.

"Hmm... Are there any flak cannons visible?"

"Negative."

"Then our aerial units should shoot them from above."

"Do we have any?"

Multiple voices came through the communicator, each one saying that they're not an aerial unit, fighter nor vehicle. Most of them were quite hesitant.

"Clock cycle booster is activated." That announcement again. I'm starting to think that it's just a robot of sorts.

"We've captured the South fusion tower." A different female voice called.

"We gathered that." The first voice responded. "Are there any enemies nearby you?"

"Negative."

"Wouldn't both armies have about ten vehicles or something?"

"Usually, but where are the rest of the enemy vehicles if there's only 5 at the West tower?" The first male voice asked.

"Uh, you might actually want to look up." Sky hesitantly told us.

There you have it. The first part of an actual battle. I wasplanning on having the entire fight in this single chapter, but I thought it was a better idea to break itup. However, if you want the whole battle in one chapter, write a review or send me a PM about it.

The bio for this chapter is unfortunately unfinished, so I'll be going over the reviews.

I have 1 review to respond to:

Vovan1 (Chapter 11): "Finally, we are going to real battle. I hope it'll be Battle Arena. Overall, this chapter was good. I'll try to translate and post next chapter of my fic ASAP."

Rynowm: "Battle Arena is most likely going to be the ONLY 'game mode' in this story, but not certainly. And let's hope that chapter 2 of your story is as good as the first."