[i]...Unknown Alpha has taken the rear vehicle![/i]

[i]That's a guy... right? That's not...[/i]

[i]What's he do...FUCK![/i]

[i]Unit S57 HAS SUFFERED A MAJOR HIT!UNKNOWN ALPHA RAN IT WITH OUR VAN! I REPEAT...[/i]

The transmissions throbbed into blackness. Miro was numb. Every part. Arms. Body. Chest. Legs. The smell of blood. A metallic heavy breathing. Inching closer, and closer.

[i]...I didn't kill it. I failed.[/i]

He was rocked. Everything trembled. Suddenly light. His pupils contracted vigorously. Sounds and voices, at first going painfully slow like an old tape player losing its batteries, then quickening up to a normal pace. He flexed his palm in front of his eyes, several times. He felt like if he had been beaten up. A sharp sting announced he had a bullet wound in his arm.

Dressed in bandages, he was back in the Poltava Base. His eyes quickly darted to the source of the voice. Lyn. The same Lyn he had been tossed aside like a ragdoll, probably with multiple fractures in the head, bleeding in the ground in a precarious state. She was alive, it seemed, and so was he. The impact had knocked him out cold, because he didn't remember how he got back to the base.

"...thank God, you're alive." Miro breathed in relief. "It almost seemed like a repeat of Olga's death." The young man tried to incorporate himself. His eyes darted from Lyn to Aria, and then back to himself. "I thought this timer I was a goner too... and I think that thing was still alive when i passed out." He added before sighing and looking at the two, interiorizing the words she had said.

"Don't mention it. I just can't stand these guys with their power armors and strange screeches." Miro said in return, before crossing his arms. "One of the things one learns in martials arts is to not be afraid to get hurt when unleashing an attack, anyway. But I need to polish the method. Concussions and dying are not fun." He added, his sights now set in Aria. "Are the other girls okay?"

[i] I could really use some rest and a drink right now.[/i] He added mentally.