Our Sun is setting...

[empress_without_a_throne]

[The battle against the NUNE wound up spiraling into other things... which entailed the first formation of Solaris's newest, strongest combiner: SolSavior.  The same machine now returning to the Sakihama Base, triumphant after kicking serious ass.  Reason to celebrate?  Not this time.]

Sara... you...

... Don't be dead out there.  Please don't be dead!  You... we're... the Savior team... and if you're gone then nothing will...

[Yeah, she's been like this ever since the first battle with a new threat -the Indalph- ended.  The Director's granddaughter -her best friend no less- missing and possibly held prisoner, though most likely dead.]

Dido... I'm sorry.  Putting you in danger like that, ordering you to launch with Sara's machine... that's not what you signed up for.

This isn't anything like I thought would...

Comments

[empress_without_a_throne]

I wouldn't go that far. Hetepheres's machine was plenty capable of standing up to hers. She was too smug in her perceived invincibility... so when that illusion went crashing down it was almost a joke how easy it was to beat her.

And the only reason we formed SolSavior... is because I wasn't going to settle for anything less dealing with her. Not after what she did to the Solego and what the Indalph might've done to Sara.

[dolorous_sensei]

I'm sorry to hear that. losing a friend like this for the first time must be hard. Moreover, your best friend...

[empress_without_a_throne]

[She nods.]

And it was just... during a brief bit of scouting. Not a massive battle just... doing some recon and sudden extradimensional invaders.

... Life really can come at you at any time, from angles you didn't even know existed.

[dolorous_sensei]

It's depressing how little we can control about our survivability. We can have the best training, the best teamwork, and just a random bullet can hit us.

I wish I could ask you to keep your hope up, but...