Unerased Savior

[empress_without_a_throne]

1.

[SolSavior's seen better days.  Lots of them.  Even the fight with Sara had confined the damage to mostly just SolSavior's joints and more vulnerable spots, whereas this scuffle with Sol"Eraser"'s seen much of the true and honest Sol machine pushed to the limit]

The Shadow Mirrors and the Indalph... united in desires for conflict and conquest.  Justify war to provide a reason for technological advancement and growth, and just move from world to world so you're never short on supply.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Shadow Mirror's own world just drove them away...

Certainly would explain why they didn't try coming to us asking for help... or the Indalph doing anything for them either, come to think of it.

Or maybe they really just don't care.  They certainly all have a trend for disregarding the weak and undesired.

2.

[And yet the Savior team weren't the ones that got the roughest fate out there.  The memorial for fallen pilots has a new entry, and double agent status be damned...]



... Lamia...

[Mizuki's still going to pay her respects.]

I wish the circumstances of... everything... could've been better.  For your sake.

Wherever you are, whatever afterlife exists for... whatever you were... rest well.  When it came to it, you were our friend, not the Shadow Mirror's tool.  And we'll see them pay for what they did to everyone, you included.

Comments

[tiger_ken]

Its a difference of anatomy, basically. Kinda seems weird to have something dedicated to just being feet though.

[...A moment of realisation.]

Was Sara actually any good at designing robots?

[empress_without_a_throne]

If she wasn't before... she at the very least got to be familiar with the design of SolSavior when she used that echolocation trick on us. And there's been weirder combiners out there.

But... fact is, if we can somehow manage to knock SolEraser backwards and expose its feet... we have a good target.

[actuallyselfish]

"It makes a twisted amount of sense, though." Dido muses. "The fastest animal forms the feet, the bulkiest unit forms the torso, and animal with pretty much just a head forms the, well, head."

She nods. "But I like this plan, Mizuki. Maybe you and Ken could practice striking people's ankles during your training session?"

[empress_without_a_throne]

Don't think you're getting out of this too, Dido.

Going after someone's legs is hard... but if you're just aiming to knock them off-balance, you can make that an easier target. So you'll get to be the final leg of this maneuver. Ken and I'll expose the feet, and you snipe them with the Lancer's cannons.

[actuallyselfish]

Dido blinks. "Cannons? What cannons? Does ShelLancer have a mode I'm not aware of?"

She groans. "Christ: am I gonna have to install some cannons while you're away?"

[empress_without_a_throne]

[Dido gets bonked on the head for that.]

The coil-guns. In tank configuration they're forward-firing, yes?

[actuallyselfish]

"Uh...oh! Yes, the coil-guns arrays! Yes of course!"

Dido scratches the bump on her head sheepishly.

"It's funny...you said one thing and I had a different image in my head..." She coughs. "In all seriousness, the Shell Flak system is an antipersonal defensive measure...even in tank mode, it doesn't have precision aim."

[empress_without_a_throne]

And that is why we're practicing, and just another reason why we're going after the smallest of SolEraser's components. We don't need to trash a whole machine, just damage a critical component of one. The Shell Flak guns ought to be able to manage that, and if we get the timing and coordination down, we should be able to reliably hit with them.

[actuallyselfish]

Dido pouts. "Well damn. And here I thought I could weasel my way out of more training."

She chuckles. "I'll see what I can do. Maybe hit the Gebian Gym some more. Heck, once I'm done with tech work, I could visit you guys!"