It took maybe an hour for Jake, his uncle, and to my immense surprise, Diana to defeat Raymond Miller. With the XADA dealt with, those that remained turned to Miller for guidance, and once he bit the dust, they quickly regressed from a formidable army into a feral mob, incapable of more than the most basic of strategies.

With that dealt with, my next goal was obvious: make contact with the Ivonix team. From there, I needed to wipe the XADA off Earth (which was going to be easy, as my bio-research labs had managed to develop a pesticide to obliterate them from Earth), then move mankind back to Earth, and then get rid of the XADA forever.

As I had already cleared off most of the XADA from North America, Africa, and Antarctica, reclaiming Earth wasn't really much of a problem. Meeting up with Ivonix, though, was proving to be more troublesome.

Maybe that had to do with me not knowing how best to approach this. Though my AI subordinates seemed to know how to handle this better than I did.

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"Don't look weak," began Synais, "But don't be too off putting. This meeting will probably be sent to the rest of humanity, and I wouldn't put it past Thanadeous to try making a move on us if they spotted weakness."

"You've already curried some favor by wiping out the XADA on Earth. Don't waste it," intoned Kathikon. "Try to keep yourself humble - they'll like you more if you treat them as equals."

"Finally, keep in mind you're meeting with Ivonix," finished Fide. "They'll want to know about the warframes as soon as they can ask questions. They're gonna assume that these are some kind of war mech."

"Thank you all for the advice."

"Sure. So, have they agreed to meet with you?"

"Yeah. Avalon and Crimson will be the ones to act as envoys - Retrofit was unavailable. Looks like Napoleon wanted to talk more with Jonathan. Aslso, do you guys know anything about why they always seem flustered whenever I show them a picture of the Rhino warframe? I know his codpiece is huge, but nobody really seems to care about that for more than a few minutes, unless they have, well, personal issues that I really don't want to talk about."

Synais was the one to answer that. "Viv mentioned giving Rory and Cassidy some data to feed the team when Ivonix tried to hack into our network. I didn't here much about it, but Limbo and Rhino were mentioned, so there was probably an animation of Rhino using Limbo's idle animations."

"...That's the one with the rhythmic pelvic thrusts, isn't it?"

"Yeah. As funny as that image was, that might not have ben the best way to dissuade them from hacking our network."

"No shit," replied Kathi. I guess that really put her off.

"I'll make sure to apologize for that in the meeting."

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"Ok, first off, I'm sorry for that suggestive video you received while trying to tap into our network."

"Wha-You knew about that?" questioned Napoleon, a rather embarrassed look on his face. He'd decided to join in via video screen, and it was clear that he clearly had...interesting memories regarding that video.

"Your efforts to hide your intrusions were not the most well kept secrets. That being said, I understand your suspicion given recent events, and will not hold it against you."

"...Okay. Thank you."

"You're welcome. Now, why don't we start over?"

"A splendid idea. Avalon? You and Crimson are up."

"Well, here we go. I'm Jake Carloway, pilot of Warmech Avalon. Next to me is Crimson, piloted by Diana May. On behalf of Ivonix, welcome to Earth."

"Thank you. I must apologize, but I cannot divulge my name at the moment. You may refer to me as Flame, though-"

"Really? You have an...odd choice of titles."

"Avalon, do not antagonize the ambassador."

"Yes, sir."

I sighed. "No offense was taken, good sir."

"Thank you. So, may we start with the proverbial elephant in the living room?"

"Are you referring to my origins?"

"Yes."

"Well, then you might want to pull out some popcorn - this is going to be a long story."

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I gave them an abridged version of what had transpired prior to my arrival in this universe. I omitted some details (mostly to avoid causing them existential crises, and may have been somewhat misleading as the Viv's role in my travels, but they did get the main points unobscured - namely, that I had access to absurdly powerful production technology, was acting on the orders of a race of aliens, and that I'd basically fought a XADA analogue, been absorbed into it, and fought my way back out both physically and mentally.

I may have had to put some effort into keeping a straight face when I saw the entire team send in blood samples to check if they were under the effects of Narcotics or alcohol after hearing my tale. I mean, I could understand their uncertainty at what I was saying, but the fact they were immediately trying to see if they were intoxicated, instead of trying to dispute my claims (Okay, they made a token effort at that, but gave up pretty quickly) was rather amusing, to say the least.

As I finally finished my recap, they seemed to recover, if only barely.

"...Wow. You've really seen a lot of action."

"Yes I have, Avalon, yes I have."

"We can talk about this in detail later," interrupted Napoleon, "but the heads of R&D made a request while you were speaking."

"I presume it involves my suit?"

"Yes," answered Zoe. "Your warmech is unlike any ever produced, and it has an almost organic appearance. Ivonix would like at least some knowledge as to how this was achieved."

Well, here comes the moment of truth. "Well, it looks that way because it's...well, it's alive."

Before anyone could ask for elaboration, I held a hand up to my frame's face. A moment later, and the armored helm retracted, revealing the organic tissue beneath - namely, the eyes.

I think the entire team just bricked themselves at that sight.

"These suits were not built, but grown. Molded from living tissue, to be wielded by the minds of mighty warriors."

"How do you do that?" Questioned Diana. "Some wacky piece of technology? Teens with attitude like me and Jake?"

"Crimson, please do not-"

"Close enough."

That shut everyone up.

"What-"

"Look, I know you have many more questions to ask. But first, can we discuss how to deal with the actions of the group known as Thanadeous before we move on?"

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