[color=8dc73f]"O-Okay. Just stay right there."[/color] When Koehler actually listened to Elora's pleading despite his delirious condition and forfeited out of the match, Elora sighed. She did slightly regret losing a teammate, she couldn't deny that, but she cared more about the well-being of her new comrades and possible friends. She did not want him to push himself too far, like what happened with Alexei. She shook the sad thoughts from her head and opened up the Command channel.
[color=8dc73f]"Diver to Command, do you read me? Cadet Koehler requires medical attention. He seems to have some kind of delirium. Please."[/color]

Once Elora got a response, she looked at the map, and gasped when she saw Macabre knocked a far distance. The battle was turning uglier by the second: despite Elora's attempt at subduing the powerful Frame, Lora still kept pushing herself, and actually managed to perform the charging tackle on Ryan and his Macabre. Her thrusters shorted out with heavy black smoke from that move, unusable for the rest of the fight, but the resulting impact was enough to crack Macabre's torso. The Framewerk first attempted to stand, but doubled over, it's extremely light structure compromised to the point that it couldn't support itself any more. Then with a loud, metal-screeching noise, the Frame's upper body dislocated from it's lower body and bent from the lack of support when it took a few steps forward.

[color=8dc73f]"Oh no...Ryan...I..I'll...."[/color] Elora's voice wavered, and then she lowered her head. She opened up a voice channel with Lora. [color=8dc73f]"You may think I'm helpless without my friends...but you're wrong! I'll avenge my friends!"[/color] With a snapping of fingers, Elora programmed the Data Drones to focus their fire on the Caliburn's second weakpoint: the heels of her feet. With that much laser fire thrown at them, even from a weak source like her Drones, was sure to heat up the joints to the point they would bend due to the Framewerk's massive weight, and break under her, causing the entire Frame to fall down. Diver then rounded up to the front of the Caliburn, and fired her ABR at the third and final weakpoint of the Caliburn: the armpits. Elora's objective was to disable her weapon-arm by shooting into the armpit, where the armor was thinnest, and disable the entire appendage.
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[color=f26522]"What are you doing, Cadet Koehler? Get back in there and fight like a man, dammit!"[/color] Lorenzo ordered through the microphone. [color=f26522]"If you think you can just sit the mock battle through-"[/color]

[color=0054a6]"Professor, I think there's more to his situation than apparent cowardice."[/color] Ritsu slightly moved her index finger towards the lower deck, where personnel were making reports on his condition. "His readings have turned abnormal, likely caused by an external chemical reaction. Cause seems to be narcotics taken after the physical examination, but before the briefing."

[color=f9ad81]"..."[/color] Lorenzo was quiet, but his tomato-red face and lip-biting teeth told more than enough about his reaction.
He pressed another red button, and Roxy turned limp with his systems shutting down while it was leaning on the tower.

[color=f26522]"I'm going to kick that drug-snorting junkie out of my project faster than you can-"[/color]

"Uhh, sir, not to interrupt, but these aforementioned narcotics, they also affected his Synchro Rate. In fact, they resulted in a positive rise."

[color=f26522]"Move!"[/color] Lorenzo stepped down to the lower deck and shoved the scientist off of his station, and leaned on the monitor that showed a graph of Koehler's Synchronization Rate. Ritsu followed behind. [color=0054a6]"Maybe we could keep pilot Koehler around for a while longer, if only to properly research the...unexpected qualities of his consumed substances."[/color]

Lorenzo grumbled, but then nodded when he went back to his seat in the upper deck. [color=f26522]"His use of narcotics will be heavily monitored, and when there's any signs of drug abuse or violent reactions he'll be kicked out."[/color]

[color=0054a6]"Of course, Professor."[/color]

Lorenzo sighed, and was about to return back to his observation when another report came in: "Sir, Macabre has taken critical damage. His chassis is ripping in half!"

Without saying a single word, Lorenzo deactivated the Macabre, and the Framewerk fell down, its two separate halves hitting the ground at separate times. Lorenzo went back to watching the monitors with clasped fingers, more miffed than previously.

[@Penultimate_Pi]