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Kamon's face was a mask of horror when Chris revealed that Nick has changed sides. but he quickly composed himself, now wasn't the time for dwelling on the past, what was going on was that they were enemies now. He was quick after John, everyone on top of Chris at once. Swinging the massive blade towards Chris, he knew that if he blocked it, he would be attacked by either John or Koza, faster than he could move. He fought in silence, not wanting to distract himself with his own voice.

"I just want to understand this...the last thing I remember before recent events would be a day in the research lab, where I worked." Marie furrowed her brow in thought, and then her face became stark white as something dawned on her. "Adal...what if I'm not the real me? What if I really did die in the explosion?" She fell into the floor, her lip quivering as the truth sank in. "I don't remember the explosion...because I wasn't there. I'm not Marie. I'm her clone."

"I...don't know. I'm so confused, right now. The research lab was on Earth, near Lake Victoria. I don't know what I'll do if I find out I'm not really me! What'll John think?"

An explosion rocked the mobile plant. "I don't think we're in a position to leave here. We'll have to find out electronically. I'd like to go fight with John...but his mobile suit is scrap, and he borrowed mine. He's an excellent pilot, though. Even with that new juggernaut Backdraft dug up, he's more than a match for Chris. With Kamon, Byrd, and Koza fighting with him, there's no way they'll lose."

((INTERUPPTION!!! scream because i can, that and i'm waiting for Ky to post, don't wanna fight without him now do we?))

"You're lucky i don't have my rail gun. Remember the battle at Geist End? that was a fraction of what my new one has." Byrd struck as Kamon's blade was caught, firing two missiles, then slashing with his beam saber. Chris' arm was damaged and the left eye camera KO'd, but the gundam was otherwise undamaged. "Damn!"

"My turn." Kamon moved out of the way just in time for Koza to blast Chris with a full barrage from the mini-gun till it dry-fired. Then he was about to shoot with his Dobergun, when Nick attacked. Koza fired at him, striking him in the head. "We didn't leave you! We thought you were dead. Your father's grieving for you!!!"

"Surely you didn't think it would be that easy, Chris. All of these suits are installed with the latest in Backdraft-design nanotech, stolen from you and donated to them, courtesy of our own Adalwulf Van Zandt. And don't bother with Backdraft shutdown and self-destruct protocols...they have been removed from the programming, now." Soon the damaged suits reawakened. "That's a very impressive suit you have, there. I'll bet it won't absorb bullets, and that energy shield won't stop them either!" John made use of the machine cannons, peppering the suit with solid gunfire. John motioned for his allies to do the same.

Marie clicked, keyed, tapped furiously on the mobile base's main computer terminal. She was searching for clues in the Backdraft's research that might lead her to the truth. She was seeking to answer one question: "Was I cloned from the original, or was I simply reconstructed?" Marie had found little in reference to nanite infection in humans. She kept searching, however. While the battle raged on, she stumbled across a folder called 'Project Misericordia.' Marie struggled to remember her Latin studies. The word misericordia literally translates to 'miserable heart,' but was used in conversation like the English word, 'mercy.' Intrigued, she investigated it further. She was shocked to finally find reference to enhanced soldiers. She could find nothing of her origin, but there were photographs of Marie, in her current state: infected with nanites, but otherwise whole. In every photograph, she was unconscious as experiments and testing were performed on her body. She read farther. Apparently, she was the only one to survive the process...her heart pounded, and she laughed out loud with joy as she read the next section.
"Cloned subjects, despite being genetically enhanced during gestation, proved unreliable and insufficiently resilient. Only Subject M. S. lived through the procedure. As sophisticated as we Backdraft scientists claim to be...nothing we have produced is a match for what God has made. Subject M. S. survived, due to her stability as a perfectly human specimen." She cried aloud with relief. She was real. She was Marie Silenus, and no one could take that from her. After the beating of her heart slowed down, she read on. Her jaw dropped when she realized a hidden purpose of the mobile base. A team of scientists, sympathetic with the Gundam pilots, had been working on a weapon. A weapon intended to oppose Chris, right under his nose. She had been rebuilt and enhanced, to help her serve as that weapon's user. Marie signaled the other pilots on the base, and told them she needed their help. After a hurried explanation, she said "It's here. On this base. And it can fight on even ground with Censura."