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"It wasn't skill kid, it was dumb luck that I managed to dodge that all my nerves screamed at me to move from something. Lieutenant Black Star Commander of this division. I hail from Earth and technology isn't what I'm plainly interested in though I'm sure the nerds back in the bay area would be glad to take a look at your suit. I'd like to know all this little turd has to knows about this place. Besides if you want her dead you can at least look her in the eye and not kill a unarmed opponent. Now don't get me wrong stranger. I'm not one for holding hands and singing but there's a time and a place for everything." Paul said angrily as he dropped off Trinity and told Alpha Team to fall back while him, Puru, and Aker advance. "Aw yeah! Time to kick some butt!" Puru said with a smile as she followed Paul off past the jungle of large stone columns that held up the rocky ceiling above them. "Damn I hate fighting in crumby ruins. It makes me feel like I'm closed in." Paul said as he looked about. "Well I guess what happens next is up to you Saturnalia. You could disobey the big man over there in that gundam but I don't think his friends over there would enjoy you shooting their captive. Oh yeah and sorry about screwing up your name again I forgot it's a heat of the moment sort of thing." Graham said as he turned his suit around and prepared to set off after the group of two, "Yeah I'm not catching up to them anytime soon but hey I gave'em my word and I don't go back on that. So either follow me and or go with them or just leave it hardly matters to me what you do as long as you're not shooting at me. Not like a suit like this could do much against a tank." Graham said smiling as he launched and Grant's units grabbed the promptly half destroyed suit of Nena Trinity. "Yeah the boss wants her alive and while I enjoy living I'm more afraid of what he'd do to us than you if we disobeyed orders so what's it going to be you vigilante." Grant said as his men kept their guns aimed at Trintiy, at least those not carrying her, and his was aimed at her. "Ensign Grant I'm commander of this squad. Proud member of the Earth Alliance OMNI Enforcer." Grant told her politely as he kept his gun aimed. "Sir enemies are engaging the Sundown we don't have time to waste." Grant's second said as she pulled Nena up. "Well then I guess this chick better make a choice. What's it going to be?" Grant asked her as he waited impatiently with an itchy trigger finger and his only source of refuge under attack by an enemy that THEY were supposed to be surprising. Sometimes he hated his life.
"Well, it takes a big man to admit that it was luck that saved him rather than his own skill," Saturnalia said, still trying to come off as nice as possible. She didn't believe that his name was actually 'Black Star', but with all these random factions like Zeon and OMNI popping up seemingly out of nowhere, maybe it was a good idea to keep one's identity hidden. Fortunately for Saturnalia, her identity hardly even existed to begin with.
"As for the enemy captive, I'm not out for blood or anything," Saturnalia said to Black Star, trying to shrug it off, "It was merely a suggestion. I'd be just as pleased watching this terrorist rotting in your brig. In my current condition, I think it best that I help escort the prisoner back to the ship and find a way to recharge the Virtue. I wish you happy hunting." This she directed to both Graham and Black Star, and maybe even to Puru, though Saturnalia wondered if Puru was even a serious pilot.
"Ensign Saturnalia Noelle, reporting," she repeated her greeting, this time to Grant as a formality. "I will be accompanying your team back to the ship to recharge and to keep an eye on the prisoner. Captain Aker seems to trust your group, and I am grateful to your commanders for sending you and your allies to come to our aid."