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Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

The screams...those horrible screams...despite the harsh mental training that Mai and even her alter ego, Seven, had taken...nothing...NOTHING at all prepared them for the anguish that both mentally felt from that scream.

The sound alone broke her concentration but as she thought, the barrier brought her time. But now at thirty percent, even Seven currently wondered if she had anything left for a suicide run.

But this was most likely it...her last mission...her last act...

Wiping the blood from her nose and quickly slipping her helmit back down, Seven then proceeded to get the Neo Angel into a standing position.

...no...stop...stop...

...commence...termination of...target...Mai...focus...it needs to be done now...

...the yelling...the pain...how...many...have they...done this to...

...you and I both know the answer to that...what we've seen...what we've done...we talked...

...I know...I'm just...sorry that I couldn't do it all myself...but this...

War is hell as the saying goes Mai...but don't be inefficent now...focus...

Then, that's when it happened...perhaps something went wrong with the Telekenetic system or perhaps it was the Cruxi in the room...but Mai then got slammed with perhaps the worst thing in her life...worse than the screaming from Elora or even Serah just now...a voice...one she didn't recognize. Both thought it was perhaps the Cruxi but for Mai, it was something that she secretly feared. Something that perhaps Seven was aware of.

Then, on her combat screen, one word showed up. And then it was said repeately. Why she killed so much. Why Mai let Seven do most of the hard stuff. Why, perhaps, she was reckless in some situations.

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"STOP ITTTTTT! STOP IT! STOP TAKING EVERYTHING FROM ME!", Mai suddenly roared.

Mai then looked up at the Cruxi Ace through her combat screen despite the word being repeated...and yet another odd occurance happened...

She saw...mom...no...she saw the original Neo Angel aka Wing Zero...the one without the wings...and it was fighting...fighting...

Fighting this very Cruxi.

"YYOOUU! You killed her didn't you?!", Mai said over the comm link.

Mai! Focus! Terminate cadet Elora! That's the only way to stop the screaming!

Stay out of this! I've fought and taken so many lives just to keep whatever I have left and it still gets taken away! Why should I continue this vicious cycle?!

Because WE will die if you don't...

...

...Mai...complete the mission...end Elora's suffering...

...I'm sorry Seven..but for the very first time...I cannot comply with that order...

That's when the Neo Angel did two things...it drew both it's Magnum Pistols and fired one shot from each gun at the Cruxi Ace.

But then activated it's mini-thrusters to pull a U turn to face Logic Gate...and sped right at it.

"EEELLOOORRRAAAA!!!", Mai yelled.

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Jake was still keeping his framework, Weissritter, in a prone position as he waited for the other two Cruxi to poke any of their body parts around the corner of the other end of the corridor.

He only hoped the rest of his team was doing ok but he knew things were going to get ugly. If there was something Jake learned about the Cruxi, the "smart" ones always had a plan B.

Sure enough, he heard the distinct slam of a door closing and quickly glaned behind and noticed the way behind him closed.

"...Seven! Serah! Katya! Respond!"

It didn't happen immedately so Jake continued to keep an eye out for those Cruxi.

But it was that yell that immedately made Jake cringe. If he didn't know better, that was Serah.

"...hey Sit rep! What's going on in there?!", Jake asked.

"EEELLLOOORRRAAAA!"

That's when his link with his team went dead, hearing Mai scream.

"Base! Jake here! We got a situation! I've lost contact with the rest of my team! Are you still tracking their sync rates?! I need something to tell me what's going on with them!", Jake said, still keeping an eye out for those Cruxi that avoided his fire before.

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Still here. Just working on the collab.

Though I should probably post something with Jake at least. He's still holding the corridor down but at least, he should probably suspect somethings up when none of his team are responding.

Actually, would he hear Serah's scream over the comms?

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

...drawing blanks here...but the one crazy idea here is, despite the screaming and the 30 sync rate, Mai may make a desperate bid...perhaps arming herself with the dual magnums, she fires at the Cruxi Ace and at Logic Gate to distract both and, out of pure madness, rams Logic Gate via her "wing" thrusters.

Course, at this point, being at 30 percent is under 60, the barrier effects of the T-system is gone so if the Cruxi Ace is mind reading, he/she is probably going to wonder why this pilot is still self-aware and perhaps react before any of that happens. Either that or Logic Gate itself takes action and destory's Neo Angel before it collides.

...heh...and another thought occured...I wonder if either Elora or the Cruxi Ace would see that Mai has "two" minds inside one body...I mean...

...Ariamis...if it comes down to it, do you want to do a collab post? I...guess I'm in a block on what to do here despite some idea's I have in mind.

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...hmm...how to proceed...I have to admit, Ammokk's post was interesting.

I also knew that some "mind" trick was going to happen which was the reason why I made up so B.S. to diverting the barrier to Mai's mind over the framework itself. Seems to be the Cruxi's M.O. as of late. In this situation, I had thought Mai would be the only one able to do ANYTHING in this but...as I said, Ammo's post really threw a curve ball I wasn't expecting.

World Warriors: The Nomadic Fist (Quirky Fighting Game Influenced Roleplay)

Hello all. I'm not in this RP but I am curious if you still have openings for it. While I stink at fighting games I do like them so when I saw this, I figured, "what the hell" ^_^

The other reason too is that I happened to see a link to this from fellow RPer Redbaron. It was in his signature and he's in a mecha RP with me so that's how I found my way here.

I apologize if I'm intruding but was curious since I haven't read up on anything here yet.

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Hey Ariamis, about this:

Weissritter - Chasing after Neo Angel, setting up a defense in the middle corridor.

Jake is "in" the right corridor with the rest of the team. He's just planning to stop half way down it in case the Cruxi from the middle corridor figure out they went down that one and decide to get behind them. He's going to go prone and keep them pinned at least so Katya and Serah can focus on Logic Gate and, if necessary, Neo Angel if she commits to her attack.

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

As the team proceeded down the right corridor, pursuing the Neo Angel towards Logic Gate, Jake then spoke up.

"Ma'am. Jake here. We still have a problem. More Cruxi's were coming down that middle corridor from before. This is just a recommendation but I'm planning to go prone when we get slightly more than halfway down this corridor and assume a sniping position. If were forced to fight Logic Gate, my low sync rate and sniping won't be of much help in that chamber area. At the very least, I'll hold that group off if they try running down this way. After all, there isn't alot of cover in this corridor and I'm banking on the long distace being too hard for them to hit me. Best case, they don't try coming down this way."

He then said this.

"...Katya...Serah...I know it's rough but if it comes down to it...let Mai slash Seven do her job...I only heard rumors but the Helldivers were a group that did the..."dirty" work that normal pilots couldn't mentally handle...I can only imagine what Mai's going through right now..."

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Well...time for dramatic's...

Everyone. Brace yourself...depending on what Ariamis says or does here...Mai may kick it. She does have alot of story potential but she's also aware of mind-based attacks...so yeah...I don't know why I'm getting all depressed about it but even with fictional characters, I do hate possibly killing them off ;_;

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

...R...u...n...

Jake just heard that pop into his head when he watched his Recon drones get taken out. But after what he saw at the end of the right corridor.

...R...un...D...on't...

Jake then heard that but based on the reports he had read, knew what was possibly happening. Opening the comm line on ALL channels, Jake spoke.

"Base. Katya. Everyone. This is Jake. My three recon drones are down. More enemy units proceeding from the middle corridor but...I know this may sound bonkers but...I think Elora just told us to run through...some telepathy...but it gets worse, I found what I assumed is a Cruxi modded Logic Gate...and your NOT going to like the last image I picked up."

Back at the base where Ritsu and Lorenzo were and in Katya's framework, Jake sent the last video image of the recon drone sent to the right before the modded Logic Gate took it out.

"...this job just got ALOT more complicat-", Jake began but was cut off.

"Everyone. This is Seven. Cadet Elora has been compromised. I repeat, Elora and Logic Gate have been compromised. Switching objective priorities...", Seven droned.

"...Seven...don't you dare...Mai...we need to recuse the other P.O.W's at the very least then pull back."

"Logic Gate assuming combat mode...commencing termination of target."

"MAI!", Jake roared before Neo Angel proceeded towards the right corridor.

Meanwhile, Seven was quickly moving her hands across her framework console. She knew what was happening. Even Mai knew what was happning. She also knew that it was more than just physical warefare.

NOW it was mental. But her sync system wasn't exactly your average sync system. It was called Telekenetic for a reason.

What Seven was doing is redirecting the "energy" that was being used as her barrier based on her sync rate and redirecting it towards...herself in a way. It was dangerous to even modifty a sync system on the fly but the Telekenetic can do multiple roles if given time and preparation.

Like with the Setsuka, it could use that energy to create weapons of pure energy and fire energy blasts. In this case with the Neo Angel, that energy was used as a barrier that coated the Neo Angel as a defensive measure also based on her sync rate. But that barrier was going to do squat against a mental attack.

So taking perhaps the biggest risk of her life, she was dropping the barrier on her mech and using that energy on herself if a way that it was putting a barrier on her mind. But if Elora was turly as strong as she was suspecting...all she could do was buy time.

Seven felt Mai's distress deep down but she also knew this had to be done. If Logic Gate joined the battle, they'd probably suffer heavy casualties. As far as both of them knew, no one on her squad was prepared for any mental-based attacks.

Which mean't...it may all come down to this...