[@Lunar Templar]
Well, yeah, but let's be honest, the Tryon 3 team deserved to be the protags.

[@mcpop9]
Your mech was holding still for several seconds charging its super fuck-you beam as you berated people for using cover in a firefight. That's plenty of time to line up a kick. In fact, I'm surprised nobody else decided to take advantage of the situation. 

The mech isn't undetectable to, say, SONAR, LADAR, minovsky detection, and... well, pretty much anything that ISN'T visual detection and RADAR. I wasn't aware that thermals were included in the typical gunpla sensor suite, so that's my bad.

Again: There is no shortcut for a straight line. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Short of actual, literal teleportation, you can't have a shorter path than a straight line. This is a fundamental constant of reality.

On a side note, [url=https://youtu.be/8rQgvNaDlGU]this is the extreme result[/url] of such a kick in the series that inspired the Kuuga Custom. I elected NOT to have it turn mechs into thermonuclear devices. :P