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((I got it! My handles are going to be like JOYSTICKS!! biggrin Thrust button on right, fly button on left. razz And the vehicle mode enabler will be... switch or nudder button. Yay!! ^___^))

Rain's face was showing emotion for the first time in a long time. It was fear, mostly. Mixed in with freaked-outness. She took her foot off the pedal on the far left, the speed pedal, and Eden slowed down and stopped. How'd that get there? she wondered. Shaking her head, she turned the handles to the left, turning Eden left. Moving them right, Eden turned right. "This is.. so weird..." she said.

((*thinks* Still need to figure out specifics on what controls do... Oo`))

((Darn... I was thinking something like that for the arms. razz Like... glovies that control the arms. Umm.. think of that suit the peoples wear in GundamG as an example, if you've ever seen it. razz ))

"You got me..." Rain said, still a little shaken up by the "get Eden to move" experience. She looked around at the outside. She saw dark clouds and the explosion of the hangar, which made her a little more nervous. Being in the sky reminded her of all those dreams she had had while residing in the building. There were just a few differences. In her dream, she was on some board, it was sunny, and she wasn't in Eden. With things going the way they are, maybe I will do that... she thought.

For the first time, she noticed five little blips on the radar screen infront of her. Two were moving towards a group of three, which she figured was herself, Kayako, and Gray. "Kayako..." she stared up. "Who're those two coming at us?"

From inside the hanger the alarms were still going off. Several guard had chased after them and were firing there weapons up at the sky. The LFO's were to high to be hit by the bullets but it made returning nearly impossible.

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Inside the Foundation an old man sat at his desk. through binaculars he watched the air show and gnashed his teeth.

"This is not as we planned Xellien." Decard said under his breath. "You have crossed me." The founder grimaced and dropped the glasses onto his desk.

Turning around in his desk he sent out a page. "Survelience. Record all movements in the air. I want a full account of how the Eden responds. Also, give me the video footage from inside the hanger."

"Radio tower. Continue monitoring all frequencies. I want the airwaves to be given top priority. Contact the Main Tower at Joy Divisions Military base. Inform them that we have 2 unknown craft in our airspace.

"Security, Send out the assault tanks and any air based vehicles we can spare. I want those LFO's recovered with minimum damage. We cannot afford for them to get away. We can less afford for them to be damaged again."

Over the speaker a gruff voice responded,"Sir this is security detail Quasor. We have three terminus series ships that can be sent up.. but sir. Do we really need to do that. After all we can easily track them with.."

"It would not do to be so obvious Quator team. They expect a fight. We cannot disappoint them. Besides. I must see how the Eden responds to it's new pilot."

"...Understood Professor Decard. The recovery group will be dispatched."

Closing the signal the old man turned again in his chair. He knew it was a dangerous gamble. He had not received the answers he so wanted from the pilot Gray. Nor, had there been a chance to examine the inverse drives. Xellien's fortune was far more than it should have been. Sure that was not a coincidence.

Something would have to be done to retrieve these experiments. Their psychotic team had made a mockery of the Aghea Squad and proven unstoppable within the foundation. Decard wondered if it was a mistake. Kayako had not been like that before.

During her first stay with the foundation she had often fought against the members of the staff. The dead soldiers from her escape had only been the culmination of many outbursts.

Her temper was becoming a well known trait. Perhaps that was why Xellien had chosen her. The reports had said that the inverse drive fed on strong emotions. Gray and Kayako were the perfect subjects to test the drives on from that respect. However, they were also unpredictable.

"We must watch now." he said. "Watch and listen."

(((Damn you...! And, if you edit mine, you have to edit Sho's too, it was HIS idea for the building to self-distruct, not MINE!!)))

They weren't answering....maybe they hadn't heard her. Kayako tried the comlink again, messing with the frequency until Rue's face could be seen clearly on screen in front of her. This time, he looked up at her voice.

"Rue...are you listening?? We need help over here! Those enemy ships are gonna come after you next!!"

Gunfire passed by within only a few yards of Senturi and Kayako's position. The clouds above them exploded in fire and gun smoke, covering the sky and the stars in a layer of falling black soot.

'Damn them...! Those stupid insects are mine!!!'

Senturi turned. Guns fired. More explosions of red and white shined through the ashes, lighting up the airspace over the foundation with formations of fire and metal, raining down on the grass below, covering the once-peacful scene.

A few moments later, Kayako appeared on Eden's screen again, looking a hundred times more serious then anyone had every seen her, though at the same time seeming to be enjoying herself completely. Her tone was low, and harsh.

"Rain, listen up! You need to find your weapons! I can probably handle these guys, but they'll probably send more in. I don't know what's up with Grey, but he's not being of much use. Your gonna have to defend youself!!"

(((Ok Tolly, get ready, Kayako's about to go psycho again...)))

"Hmph. What idiots...."

Kayako closed her eyes, and smiled a wicked smile that hadn't crossed her face for a long time now, not since the battle at the Rehk when she'd killed that other pilot. She bowed her head in the cockpit and laughed a little, finding the idiocy of their so-called 'enemy' the most amusing thing around.

"Morons......you make things too EASY!!!!!!"

Senturi whirled around in the air, jolting backwards as the twin panels opened and the hook-ended chains that has stayed dormant for so long shot out, aimed at the ground. A loud crashing sound of twisting metal rang through the air as they hit, embeding their sharp edges inside two of the enemy mechs, then a horrific slash of ripping and shreding as they expanded to their true size, ends bursting forth out of the steel cases of the units. Kayako laughed, taunting them as they struggled to get free of her trap.

"COME ON!!! FIGHT BACK!!!! You can do better than THAT can't you??!"

In a sudden jolt the chains retracted, sending the mechs flying into the air towards the owner of the embeded weapons. Out of nowhere, Senturi's shoulders opened, and it's guns revealed them selves, instantly locking on to the incoming objects.

Inside, Kayako smiled, opening the commlink in the entire airspace, including connecting to the enemy soldiers inside the mechs at her mercy and the monitering system at the Novak Foundation. The personnel manning the video surveilence room could only watch, as the transmission continued on, showing the entire scene clear as day. On the screen of the captured men, Kayako smiled her wicked smile one last time as the mechs flew forward.

"Too bad....looks like the soldiers here aren't much fun...now DISAPPEAR!!!!"

Shots rang out. A cloud of gunsmoke engulfed the sky around Senturi. Metal twisted, the dying screams of two men echoed through the system link, even reaching the foundation.

As the smoke cleared, the tangled steel bodies of the enemy mechs lay sprawled out on the ground, blood-colored oils coating the grass.

In her cockpit, Kayako bowed her head, panting.

"R-Rain...the last one's yours...."

The bloody oils of the mecha on the ground began to burn. With it the wet grass turned black and a dark smoke rose from the carnage. It drifted across the air.

The last mon-suno charged. Heading for Eden is let loose a volley of missles and aimed it's gun at the new craft.

Rue's comm was bursting with white noise and static. He tried to sync his comm with the incoming signal of the unknown LFO, but they models were too different without a direct link he would never be able to connect with them.
"Nic, this is Rue. I'm going in there, they seem dangerous, but I wont engage. Watch my back, but don't attack. I want to see if i can get some kind of communication with the one that just destroied the UF"
The Knight burst forward, hitting a jetstream of trappar from the explosions that pushed it away. The white knight made good time getting closer, but with such violent fighting technique, Rue wasn't about to endanger the White Knight.