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Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Yeah. I don't mind the pacing here. Hell, I don't even check the OOC's much. Though in this case, I really should more often in case I made a mistake with posting.

Speaking of which...I also have to find time to edit the "now" Maria profile. History included since Mai did go through some serious changes with that last battle.

EDIT: Also...what are the sync boosts/EXP results and such from that last battle? Was it ever posted?

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Jake waited patiently in the waiting area. He had a tablet in his hands in which he was reviewing something of sorts. Really, he needed to keep his mind occupied considering that everything, to him, had not gone according to plan. Sure, they blew up a Cruxi controlled station and most likely got combat data on two new units they used on them.

But, as usual, at what cost? Pilots? Machines?

Devors was on one of his drunken rants but this time, it seemed to Jake that he was really hurting deep down. No doubt that he'd seen so much...that was probably the reason for his drinking habits. Not the best solution to cope but again, considering how brutal the war against the Cruxi got and most likely the critical state of Elise, you just find any way to get through the pain.

Both physical and mental.

When the doctors said that Jason could go in and see Serah, Jake tried to follow. Thankfully, the nurse didn't say anything to Jake. She simply nodded and let him follow Jake in.

Not too far from Serah was Mai. No...Maria now. She was one bed next to Serah as a matter of fact so he wasn't too far from Jason. While Jake was glad that she looked ok, it still hurt him to see her like this.

For that matter, how many coma's or even servere injuries did she suffer daily to always wind up in here? What exactly did she go through in her lifetime? Jake did have some rough moments, even more so involving his family, but this...

Sitting down on a chair next to Maria's bed, Jake brought out his tablet again. He got to work on bringing up a "recording" of the sync rates of his infiltration team during the mission. When Jake held down that corridor and the trap was sprung, he didn't really hear anything good.

But it was that horrible yell he heard briefly before his comm link with his team broke and then he heard nothing.

From what he heard Maria said though, the Cruxi did do something to Elora. More than likely, the Cruxi used Elora against his team. But then she broke loose from her captors control and...did something to Mai to turn her into...her mom?

As part of the Recon division, Jake had made his fair share of weird reports and even heard about stuff like this but to actually see and hear it?

At any rate, he needed to see what happened in terms of sync rates during that battle if was even available at all. Even if it was, he had a suspicion that it'd be "classified" and blocked from his viewing but he'd break some rules if he had to. Like he thought before, he was getting tired of all the secrets...

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Post edited. Sorry 😐

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That was an attack. He launched thunder at the target.

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Robin
Location: subway tunnel

Robin was doing his best to escort the innocents through the dark tunnels. Things had gotten chaotic back there.

While the hero's in the arena acknowledged his presence, most seemed to had decided to stay behind even with the threat of the virus back in the arena. Though one female seemed to had followed him. Shante was it? That was the name Robin remembered seeing on the scoreboard of sorts.

At any rate, things were going smoothly till a new threat made itself known...and even in the dark, Robin watched the creature laugh and snatch one or two victim up and placed them in what looked liked a demonic sack of all things.

"No!", Robin roared but was immedately forced aside from the rest of the paniked bystandards that were trying to run away.

Robin knew now though that he had lost all control of the situation as he simply kept himself pinned to the side of the tunnel while the civilians began running ahead. This wasn't exactly leading an army of trained soldiers. These were civilians that were not accustomed to combat and deadly situations. Even if Robin had tried to calm everyone down, that "being", whatever it was, had free reign on his victims. Worse, it seemed that he was using the darkness to his advantage.

Which gave Robin an idea.

Then, perhaps for the better, one of the other fighters showed up in the tunnel...from what he remembered on the score card, his name was James.

"Shante right? Name's Robin! Get the rest of the civilians out of here and top side! I'm going to help stop this thing here!", Robin called. Still holding his thunder tome and heal staff, Robin began focusing the healing energies into the heal staff to at least illuminate the area while doing the same with the thunder tome. If someone got hurt, he'd also be ready for that too.

"Your James right? I'll light up the area as much as possible and heal you. Just don't get reckless. He's aready "taken" victims in that bag of his!", Robin warned.

He then lauched a thunder attack at the monster to see how it's react to his attack.

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Ugh man I'm sorry all. I waited for a bit before people started posting when I dropped my guard.

Ok...weird body snatcher creature...a survivor or two already taken...Robin himself about to be trampled...what to do...

*thinks*

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

As soon as the attack from Operation Slingshot was over, Jake immedately got out of his framework. No sooner than he did that he saw the medics swarming the Neo Angel.

Even with the Neo Angel mangled as it was, it still stood there though dropped to one knee to allow the cockpit to be close to the ground as much as possible. He then saw some medics near the midsection...raising a high tech strecher to help carry out it's pilot.

It soon then lowered along with the medics and Jake saw that Mai, now calling herself Maria, was out. Worse, he saw that there was some slight dark coloring around her eyes...server exaustion perhaps. But then again, she had really taken a pounding if she fought and beat a Cruxi Elite of all things.

"Mai! Maria! Talk to me!", Jake called but was held back by medics.

"Cadet Armstrong. Please stand back. We'll take care of her but due to her sync being at a hundred percent, she is still considered to be in critical condition", the medic responded.

That caught Jake off guard when he heard that.

"Wait. A hundred? But she was at seventy two when we went in!", Jake then asked.

"We don't know what happened but due to that sync, she felt every inch of pain and trauma from whatever did that to her framework", the medic responded, pointing to all the damage on the Neo Angel.

Jake then remembered the "stab" hole he saw that seemed to go clean through the Neo Angel when he was assisting Maria.

"Cadet Armstrong. Go to the waiting room in the medical ward but please, don't make our jobs harder", the medic said as they all stared to move.

Jake wondered now EXACTLY what happened in that room with the Cruxi. Then there was the status of Cadet Elora.

"Wait. What about Elora? Is she in the same condition?", Jake then asked.

"I'm afraid I've been ordered not to reveal her status", the medic responded.

"Don't give me that! What is-"

Security then seperated him from the medics as they entered the intensive care area. Jake didn't bother resisting as security led him to the waiting area.

But even he was getting sick and tired of all the "secrets" that were being thrown around...

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Man I did check up constantly then I dropped the ball...well anyways, I'll try to make a post soon.

But most likely, the now "Maria 'Angel' Twilight" will most likely be in bed, again, in medical. Reason being was that she took a hell of a physical beating and with her now being at full 100 percent sync, felt every blow so I'd imagine they be keeping tabs on her till they feel she's ok. And Jake will most likely be at her side though with a tablet. Listening to music and/or reviewing the combat data recorded from the two surviving drone...

...unless they both got blasted with the base -_-'

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Just checking in...serious downtime here waiting though...

Souls of Steel: A Giant Mecha RP

Both Neo Angel and Weissritter were following with the group as best as possible. Of course, it didn't surprise Jake that there were still Cruxi still around. But he was thankful that Black Star had one ace in the hole left with that incredible attack he saw.

"...keep...moving...", Maria slowly said over the line.

Then, the group finally managed to get into the vaccum of space as they left the station the same way they came in...and were greeted by the Cruxi fleet.

“THAT WAS NOT TEN MINUTES!”

, Katya roared.

"I said "under" ten ma'am!", Jake yelled back.

Then Jake got a warning from one of his two remaining recon drones that were left outside the station.

The plan to destory the station was now commencing.

"Oh sh-EVERYONE! HEAD TOWARDS HOME BASE AND BRACE YOURSELVES!", Jake roared.