With the questions answered, Zero returned the salute and was dismissed by Lieutenant Ritsu with the rest of the group. The obvious next step was to get into his plug suit before heading to the hanger to finalize preparations for the atmospheric escape and orbital dock with NOAH. Zim looked around at his comrades as they were getting their plug suits on. Zim was as somber and stoic as ever, he was rarely roused into strong emotions. However, his brow furrowed a little more then usual today. He was just as excited as he was nervous at the prospect of facing the Cruxi. This wasn't a training mission where there was someone waiting to press a button to prevent any fatalities. This was real live combat against real live enemies that wanted to eliminate any human life that was in its path. At this same time, this was also their first, for everybody except for Herald, chance at putting the hurt on the Cruxi and defend a human settlement against the enemy of humanity. 

The first chance for Vengeance. 

Once Zim had his plug suit on he closed his locker door, perhaps too hard, as the clang echoed a little in the room. He moved swiftly to the hanger and his team of engineers and began system checks and calibrations. 

Once the time came for launch, Zim brought Blackstar out onto the launch deck and fired up the thrusters. Blackstar was smaller then everybody else's framework, and with the armor wings closed it made for a slightly more aerodynamic shape compared to most of the rest of the frameworks, so his ascent to NOAH went smoothly. It helped that when Zim lived on Fortress it was not uncommon to fly up to the asteroid barrier and weapons platforms to do maintenance, which required leaving atmosphere, and working as a Terraformer after that often required atmospheric entry and exits. As such, Zim was used to the hi-G impact on his body that exit launchers provided, could deal with drag and changing conditions. It did not take long to get docked on NOAH with everbody else. He looked forward to the transport time to discus with his combat group.