The gift

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Unity Group's finance-related problems have eased over time. Nowadays they are pretty much gone and situation is back to how it was before.

But now, you get a reminder why the problems started in the first place.


"Holy crap! It's like Christmas came early!"

Loni's here. And so is his new unit. In the hangars, equipped with twin beam katanas, stands a stark white unit. The top of the line one of a kind prototype - the BrightSaber.

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What about the old FightSaber? It's still being used, as a matter of fact someone is taking it through a training course right now. It jumps from cover to cover swiftly, shooting down target drones with gravity blasts while avoiding their counter fire.

Once the course is over, the time and score displayed are impressive. Browsing the results database would show that despite the unit being underequipped compared to its loadout from before, it scored higher than Loni ever did. But he's not the pilot this time.


"Yes, that's acceptable. I can work with this."

Ilinka is.


"Nice, Ilinka. This is a much better ride than a crappy old Gespenst. Now you won't need rescuing all the time anymore!"


"..."

By the way, Desta's nowhere around. Maybe the third of the Gavin party is not in mood for Christmas spirit.

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"Ugh!"

Loni tries to block the gut punch, but has the air knocked out of him anyway. He goes low, but that's just a part of his counter attack as he sweeps a kick to knock you off your feet!

"I'm trying to save lives too! Just because I can't save everyone doesn't mean I'm not!"

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[Which is a smart move, given the distance its hard to avoid and if Raleigh jumped it'd leave him open to a follow up... which is why the Jaeger pilot plays dirty by throwing his weight forward as hard as possible right at Loni in a tackle. That same advantage that Loni had was going to just be flipped right on him.]

Bull! I don't hear about you helping anyone else except for people you know!

[Between the last hostage situation Loni's crew was involved in as well as the fact that for all anyone knew Loni was sitting around with a thumb up his ass while he was waiting for the Brightsaber and hardly did anything except for chasing the Lady's Good Men, its hard not to come to a conclusion like that.]

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"Those guys are trying to screw everyone over! They don't just...!"

Interrupted by the tackle, Loni tries to salvage the situation by changing his low sweeping kick, moving his leg up to throw you off balance and maybe use the momentum to kick himself back, too.

"They don't just attack me and my friends! They attack everyone!"