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Blade was charging down the corridor for the access hatch, ready to do some serious heavy duty hunting, when Sergius's voice suddenly chimed in on his comlink. *Hey, everybody, we need to make a repair run. There's a Hive City I picked up on the scanners last night, and the odds are that they'll have what we need. So...nobody leave. We're heading out in force shortly.* "s**t..." Blade mumbled as he slowed down to a halt while pressing on the ear-piece of his comlink. "Affirmative." Blade replied to Sergious's transmission. "Sorry, buddy. Looks like we'll have to bug hunt another day." he informed James through the comlink, who had no doubt already gotten the message. Blade then took a detour from the Gestalt's access hatch, making his way through the workshop area to get to the rear section of the Crawler where the Mech's were stored.

James sighed as he got the first message ans put the saftey back on his gun before he stood up and started walking on the roof of the Gelstalt towards the rear of the giant vehichle. "I know, looks like we might not die in a firey explosion today," He replied to Blade seeing as how his 'special' bullets had the bad habbit of not shooting then exploding when they were tossed like grenades. Once he reached the back the engine mechanic stomped on the roof until he found the hatch, opened it and slid down the ladder into the mech's hanger.

Once inside he jogged over to the Alex, the only stormchaser type mech and posibly the least armed fighter in the Gelstalt, James climbed up the leg into the cockpit in the chest and flipped a switch. With a few quiet whirs the engines came alive and the redhead tested the limbs by taking a few steps and moving the arms around in circles before 'hopping' out of the hatch into the desertbefore closing the cockpit protecting himself from anything that could happen.

"I wont," James replied as he made the Alex give a rough salute, "Though it woulda been a hell of a lot worse if I hadn't gotten their leader with an EMP." Once the conversation was done, at least until someone else was going to comment, he had the mech move around towards the car and look around to see if he could spot anything that was still standing he could use as target practice. Once he realised that the tree already knocked down by the Fenrir was pretty much the only thing there James shrugged inside the cockpit and fired five shots at it to check and see if everything was working right, and since it was the tree was left as a smouldering pile of ashes.

"Friggin' repair runs..." Blade grumbled as he finally made his way inside the Mech hanger. "I'm tellin' ya, man. Solar power..." he mumbled to himself as he noticed the Alex was already gone, so James must have beaten him there. "Huh." To his left he noticed Logan and Koraj suiting up. Blade shot them a smirk as he began making his way up the stairwell to his Gunboat Mech, the Albatross. "You know, you guys should really come prepared!" he called out to his comrades from across the way as he pointed to his chest, which bore his datafilm suit. He was almost always wearing one. He then approached his Mech's cockpit, which was the chest. "Alright, AL'..." he mumbled as the chest area of the machine expanded open upon voice recognition. "Let's ride." he said after jumping inside and flicking the lock switch to close the cockpit back down. The darkness of the interior suddenly began to glow in neon green as the buttons and various output displays lit up with a shiny gleam. "Okayyy..." Blade mumbled as he flicked a few switches to take the Albatross out of standby mode, and activate the reactor core. After completing all necessary procedures, Blade piloted his Mech; stepping out of the hatch and into the wasteland. It was then that he noticed the Fenrir and the Alex were firing off their artillery. Blade didn't really understand why James and Valco were bothering to calibrate their guns, when they were only making a repair run. Blade was a gunner in every sense of the word. He knew that all of his guns were calibrated correctly. So instead he fired up the auxiliary thrusters of his jet-pack, which elevated him slightly off the ground into a hover, before his altitude gradually began to climb...

((Just waiting on Zerg and we can head out.))

Sergius shook his head, holding back a quiet laugh. "Its all just a thing of pride, Chrys," he mumbled, flicking a switch on the dashboard of the car. The platform that the car was parked on lurched downward, lowering them down to the ground. The exhaust roared as Sergius stomped down on the accelerator, sending the car and trailer launching forward. He tapped the commlink in his ear, accessing everybody at once. "Alright, we're headed into the Hive City as soon as Logan and Koraj get their asses out here. Be on your toes, this place is new to all of us. They could end up being hostile."

"What do you mean when we get our asses out? We've been following you for quite some time." Koraj torched back. "Sure your radar aint screwin over again?" He asked.

<< srsly, I had already posted. It was bottom fo page 7. >>

Sergius laughed quietly, setting the car to cruise at 20 mph, putting it within the speed range of all of the Mechs moving, although significantly lower than the speed of the Alex. "Alright, Valco," he said clearly over a private comm channel, "Get 'em moving. Just follow me and we'll be golden." He laughed to himself as he closed the comm channel, helping himself to a rare sip of water out of his canteen.

Valco laughed within the cockpit of the Fenrir, punching one of the squad command buttons within his mech. As he tapped one button a green arrow was transmitted to the HUDs within the other mechs of the squadron, and he placed a radar beacon over the car, marking them to follow it. "Alright, guys," he said, opening the comm channel again. "Stick close to the car and keep your weapons ready. This area was reportedly hot with pirates from what I heard off of some other traders and captains." True to his own word he slid up a power bar, charging up the modular plasma cannon attached to his ST cannon.