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

[ugyuuya]

Sounds almost like the origin of the Volk Data. After a long and drawn out series of operations a Russian TSF division tried to assault and capture the hive. They sent back a runner with map data every 15 minutes and after the 8th runner the BETA surged up out of the hive and the division was never heard from again. That data was used in the development of second and even some third generation TSFs and provides most of the data that is used for hive assault training.

I would hope that Sara was spared the worst of what happened with the Balmung team though. There's no way an eight year old could have been able to appreciate what occurred and it could have dealt some real lasting damage.

[Yuuya pauses for a minute before speaking again.]

You mentioned her Grandfather ran the organization. Don't tell me her parents were... [Yuuya's face carries an expression you haven't seen from him as of yet. A desire to be wrong tinted with fear and just a bit of horror.]