Though she lay on the floor, slipping in and out of consciousness, Reyna had gathered enough of her thoughts to gather what had happened. She had watched through her own eyes as Sasha controlled their every movement. It was a frightening moment, and Sasha's personality had been so dominant for so long, but when the bullet had entered her body, Reyna noticed that Sasha slipped. Her focus fell, giving way to anger and pure emotions, ironic considering that she had been conditioned not to feel anything. In her mind, Reyna could see Sasha wretching with pain and fury, like a pitiful animal. Then, her pity gave way to cold indifference, and in that moment, Reyna and Sasha were one again, two halves made whole.
She moaned as the loud noises from outside the cockpit drummed against her skull. Sounding hoarse from Sasha's yelling, Reyna sat up slowly. Hearing the last words from the pilots outside, her first concern was her zoid. "Angel! What the...?" She realized she was still in the cockpit. Memories came rushing back. This would be a difficult situation. "Xero, what's happening?" She secretly hoped that Xero would notice the difference in the way she and her former alter ego spoke. Angel was just outside, waiting further orders from Reyna, and apparently the organization had found her. "Xero, please, just let me go. You don't have to get involved in this one."
All the sudden her attitude changed. "Well you seem to be changing your perspecitive again." He shook his head. "Sorry I can't do that." He began to smile as he concentrated on aiming more activly. "You may not want me in the way. Or it may be that you honestly dont want me involved, but it is to late to stop that from happening, and you have sparked my interest. So I'm sticking with you till this is all over." He unleashed another spray of bullets at the enemy. He then ran over to the Trinity Liger and opened the cockpit. "If you are gonna fight this, I am here behind you. So lets go." Xero grinned and retracted the bars. He continued to fire as he waited for her, keeping his zoid infront of hers, taking fire while waiting.
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Reyna jumped back into her zoid, feeling much more appreciation towards Xero than before. You had to hand it to the guy, he certainly was adaptable. It had only made sense to Reyna that most people would have been too suspicious to let her regain her zoid. Angel's controls felt comfortable and familiar in her hands. First things, first, she thought. Let's get communications open. She opened up channels to Xero first, saying to him, "Well, I don't know whether you being so trusting is a flaw or a virtue but don't worry. I'm not going to let Sasha have control again."
Next, Sextus's zoid was still in the area, and it's signal had been locked into Angel's memory from the data back at base. She called over the link, "Sextus? You there? Listen, when you get this, stay away from the enemy zoids. I'm going to take them out nice and hard." There was no response. That was a worrying prospect, but she would have to trust that the pilot could take care of himself, though his recent lack of clothing wasn't all that encouraging. Finally, she opened up a channel with the group's enemies. "Alright, boys, I'll give you an ultimatum. You can let us go and tell me what you know, or we can do this the hard way."
The voice on the other end laughed, a mechanical, cold laugh. His steely voice replied, "Listen, sister, we got orders to pick y'all up an' haul y'all back to base, so if ya come quiet-like, I might just let you have a little fun with me later." Reyna wrinkled her nose in disgust. Womanizing bastard. Instead of a verbal reply, Reyna fired up Angel's systems, letting the massive zoid loose a great roar. The roar quickly turned into a rumble as Reyna flipped the switch to charge the Beam Cannon.
"Xero, get them from the rear, I'm going to provide a distraction." She didn't bother to wait on Xero for movement or response. There was no time for that. First, she took off to the right between a rock spire and a forest. The spire provided effective cover for her to turn back around to trick the enemy into thinking she had run into the forest. The Trinity Liger's joints burned and howled at the tight maneuvering, but Reyna pushed onward. Angel could take a lot more maneuvering punishment than this.
The sound of crunching metal caught her attention. Over near her right, an Iron Kong had leaped at her and missed. The Kong's fist had landed in the ground where a crater now appeared. Reyna whipped around the machine gun equipped to the tail of her zoid and loosed a volley that damaged the Kong's arm at close range. It was going to be a tight battle at this point, and there was still no sign of Sextus.
The moment Reyna was in her cockpit Xero dissapeared. The enemy couldn't see him either. He just simply wasn't there. Though the fox wasn't known for its speed as opposed to agility, it did have a good amount of both.
Not a second later and Xero was in the air, he had just run up the side of the ledge right to the enemy, he was now soaring over them. Neverwind rushed down faster than gravity normally pulled things as her claws charged. The timing was perfect with Reyna's communications. For a second when communcations initialized, the shield faltered and Neverwind's claws came shrieking through the first iron Kong's metal. The second one immediately doubled his concentration on the shield. Neverwind had landed behind them and was now waiting for the chase. It didn't take long for the other zoids to leave their companion in the dust as they chased their main target: Reyna.
"Xero, get them from the rear, I'm going to provide a distraction." Reyna messaged over the comm link. "Way ahead of you. As to your question, I don't trust you, I just trust myself enough to take you on if there is a problem. Who is Sasha, I think we will need to have a bit of a talk when this is all over. You are a seriously confusing woman." For a second his voice sounded unusually serious, it lightened though, as if adjusting to the person he was talking to.
"Neverwind, prepare to execute maneuver Alpha 0-7-4-9, Confirm?"
Smoke covered the pair allowing them to blend perfectly in the darkness. The foxed stepped backwards silently out of the smoke, keeping himself hidden from the enemy as the pair now dodged in between trees.
Xero reappeared as the moonlight dissapeared, the smoke jetting once again from Neverwind's smoke dischargers blocked out the moonlight above them as his fox landed on the back of the Iron Kong, forcing it into the ground before it could move enough to even attempt to dodge Reyna's fire.
The fox jumped off it's opponents back and back into the forest, dissapearing once again. "Reyna charge your beam cannon again. Elephander coming your way. He rounds the rocks in 3... 2... 1..." Just as he finished the countdown, sure enough a heavily equipped custom elephander rounded the rocks corner and it looked as if Reyna was trapped up against them. Despite if this was really the case or not, Xero acted accordingly. Just as she had her chance to fire, the following moment, he zipped in front of her with his smoke dischargers on, creating a smoke screen between the elephander and her, giving her a shot to move without being noticed. Despite how easily the Kongs seemed to be taken out, Xero knew that the elephander was no joke, and that at least one Kong was partially operational.
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Sextus was about half way down the side of the mountain when Xero began deploying his smoke screen around himself and Reyna. He was relieved that they hadn't paniced in the face of the Iron Kongs. The Elephander was still slowly rounding the ridge though. As it lumbered out to face the cloud of black smoke, bolts of energy whizzed out of the smoke cloud and crashed against the Elephander's pulsing bubble of a shield. Nothing seemed to go through the shields and the Elephander began firing into the cloud with his machine guns.
As the Elephander trotted fowards, Sextus watched its purple shield bubble move along the ground in unison. It climbed to accomodate a boulder and, once past, retained a hole silohuetted after the boulder. The hole was there for only a few seconds as the shield workerd its way back down to he ground to fill the hole. At that moment, Sextus felt a rush of exuberance assisting in the calculation of his idea.
After a few moments, he keyed on his comm to Xero and Reyna and offered his advice, "I don't think we're gonna get anything through that shield while that Elephander has his way. I noticed though that the shield is generated from the top and makes its way down to the ground iin order to shield the Elephander. If you and I can push the Elephander onto its side with our big ole Zoids, Reyna, the shield won't be able to connect with the ground and protect the Elephander. The Kong is gonna do everything it can to keep us from getting close to the Elephander though. Do you think you could buy us a little time to go Elephander tipping, Xero?"
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Reyna was just about to go for the other Iron Kong, leaving the Elephander all alone, but then the Elephander had decided to charge her and end it right then. If it hadn't been for Xero's quick thinking, the massive zoid that had been bearing down on her would have buried her under a mountain of rubble. As she ran Angel through the smoke blindly, hoping the branches she hit weren't large enough to pierce her cockpit windshield, she could hear the Elephander bombard the area with mortar weapons. "That thing is going to be impossible," she muttered, wheeling Angel out of the smoke.
The Iron Kong was near her position, and, luckily, it hadn't seen her yet. Reyna charged the Kong, intending on taking it out in one blow with a Dozer Claw attack, but suddenly, a shot came just past the Kong and hit her mid-leap. As she and Angel skidded to a halt on their side, the Kong realized what was going on, and turned to attack Reyna, but she was gone, already up and away from the ditch she had been in. Angel was being pushed to it's limits for speed, but hopefully it would help as Reyna slammed full-force into the Elephander.
"There you go, Sextus..." she said. Then, she laughed lightly and coughed up a bit of blood. The crash had done a number on Angel's systems and smashed in the zoid's plating. Reyna could barely move but to get cut by the razor-sharp metal. "Guys, I don't think I can do much more in this fight..." She coughed painfully again. "We better end this quickly."
"Guys, I don't think I can do much more in this fight..." Reyna coughed painfully again. "We better end this quickly." Xero heard her over the vid comm.
"You got it" He nearly whispered into the mic. The fox flashed into view in front of the Iron Kong, now facing the Elephander. Behind him the Iron Kong split perfectly in half down the center, the cut looking as if a laser had done it. The Elephander was attempting to get up from being knocked over by Reyna. The thing's bottom was visible and vulnerable without it's shield.
"Your gonna regret messing with people I find interesting." Xero whispered into the mic again. Xero and Neverwind ran in underneith the Elephander's shield and spun around just as they where about to collide with the elephander, letting their vibro-blades cut through the stomach, cutting it open and exposing the zoids innards. "If you want to do more than disable it do it now." Xero said as he ran out of the shield bubble just as it faded, having cut the inside shield generator. The message relayed quietly over the comm. As he flipped his blades back in from their hidden spot on the back. He coughed a little into his elbow. Xero, dont go getting sick on me. We have to return to the base like nothing ever happened. No one knows we even go out at night. It would raise suspicions if you came back in bad shape. Neverwind commented a little worried. "Ill be fine, lets just concentrate on keeping those around us in check." Xero smiled as a bit of blood leaked from his forehead, an injury from the last maneuver, having gotten bumped around in the cockpit a little.
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With Angel disabled for the most part, Reyna was almost down for the count. With a good oomph of energy, she mustered her zoid into a standing position. "Right... What's still working? Communications, life support, movement. Weapons offline, but still there. What's this though?" By the status array, a small piece of the terminal had broken loose. Underneath, a light was showing, a pale yellow at first, but as her zoid fired back up, it flared into a brilliant green.
Reyna was lost on this piece. She had worked with Angel since she was a small child, and she knew the inner workings back to front, but this gauge eluded her knowledge. She tapped it and immediately felt a tickling sensation in her head, right at the spot where the butterfly device was connected. Suddenly, a wave of system functions flowed into her head. The sheer amount of information flooding her mind made her dizzy. All at once, she knew everything about how the zoid was doing. In her head, she could check the systems, the current functions, and even what seemed to be a mood or feelings emanating from the zoid.
My...still functions. We will..., a voice echoed through her head, intermittent at first, caught with heavy patches of static. Reyna was suddenly berated by an unknown consciousness. The mind was cold, calculating, and harsh as it tested barriers. My, my, what have we here? My runt of a pilot has some interesting memories. When they installed the Psycomm System, I couldn't understand why it wasn't working, however, now I see that they blocked it. Time seemed to stop in the cockpit for Reyna. She was actually interacting with Angel, in her mind. Just now coming to that conclusion, are we? Well, I don't think sitting here will do us much good, so why don't we go ahead and end this? I can still function quite well.
The mind seemed to force Reyna's grip on the throttle, pushing her towards the Kong, despite her zoid's condition. Now, there. He'll be up in range for a Dozer Claw in a moment. Angel's controlled voice smoothed Reyna's stress, allowing her a clear head as the Dozer Claw cleanly introduced the Kong's chest plate with it's steel-laden spine. The crushing blow destroyed the Kong, ending any attempts to attack again. Now, all that was left was the Elephander, disabled by Xero's earlier attack. "Xero? I got the Elephander." She said as she carefully aimed the Beam Cannon. Her zoid's cold, steely voice echoed in the void of her mind. That's it. Just to the left, so we knock out the main movement controls. The last blast ended the battle, as all the zoids were ruined once and for all.
Sextus rested his head on his controls in relief after seeing the Elephander go down. It was a miracle, he thought, that he, Reyna, and Xero were able to work efficiently together. After all, he still had to worry about both of them coming after him to some extent. Reyna was dangerous because of the device controlling her while Xero was just an unknown variable. Xero had given it his all in the battle though, which Sextus took note of, but he still wasn't ready to discount the possibility that Xero was involved just yet.
The battle had been the adrenaline rush that he needed to bring him back to his senses. The stresses of a problem he didn't know how to solve and extended sobriety were taking their toll on him. Without the break afforded him by the battle, his companions may have been wondering if he had a device on him that made him go crazy too. His head was cleared but he still didn't have any answers. He knew the coincident that brought him into Reyna and Xero's company wasn't likely to limit their damage to just one battle.
Sextus quickly surveyed the wrecked Zoids before comming his teammates.
"I'd say we did pretty well for never having worked together. But where do we go from here? A doctor or scientist? I really have no idea who'd be able to help us with your problem Reyna. It's, well, a unique one amongst my experiences. We've got your back though, so don't worry. How are you doin with that by the way? Feeling like yourself?"
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It was with a tired grin that Reyna replied to Sextus. "I think I'll be alright. I don't want Sniper to have to deal with this though. I'll just head on out." The whole of the events of late had gotten to her. She had been through a capture, an escape, a fight with those who came to capture her, and a fight with her inner self. The inner fight had been the roughest. She had someone in her head looking to destroy her personality, someone viscious and cruel. It had been tough, the last day and a half. It was like it was all a dream, though, as if it wasn't real.
"I think I figured out what they did though. Have you ever heard of a sentient zoid?" I'll thank you not to talk about me without me around. With that the massive zoid came into view. Tell them that it was a Psycomm System. I'm ashamed to think that my runt of a pilot couldn't handle being captured. They pushed your mind rather hard and... "Shut it," she replied angrily, looking fiercely at the zoid. She turned back to Sextus on the screen. "Like I said, I'm fine, though, I've got some... things... to work out. I appreciate everything, but Sniper doesn't need a load on it."
She intended to go elsewhere, make a name for some other team. After all, Sniper was a stepping stone on her way to bigger things. She turned Angel around, abandoning Xero, whom she had not seen recently, and leaving Sextus. With a last look over her shoulder, she waited to see if Sextus had anything to say. If he didn't then she was done. That would be that.
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