[color=6ecff6]"Hello everyone, welcome to my first victory~ Please watch carefully over me alright?"[/color] boasted the second pilot as the walls of the arena closed up behind the mechanical frames. Garret couldn't help, but think how unusual both the competitors mechs were. Sure this event was as much about marketing for the big corps as anything, but that didn't change the fact that spider designs were uncommon. Surely not unheard of, but still uncommon and that said nothing of the tall feminine mech that was squared off against it with a design evoking more of a school or magical girl than that of a battle hardened combatant.

Clarence was her name? She didn't sound much older than garret, but she had such confidence in her abilities and that of her seemingly almost unarmed mechanical frame. It was something for Garret to be envious of. Surely though she had some sort of trick up her sleeve or else she wouldn't be so bold? Instantly Garret was reminded of something an old friend once parroted to him, 'there are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots'. The idea being that you would either die or become more cautious with time. He wondered how much and in what way the saying would apply to her later in life and if her opponent had acted similarly in his youth. Ponderings that Garret may very well forget in the heat any number of moments throughout the day.

"With both contestants ready!" the announcer started "Let's begin the countdown!" Presumably he hit a switch saying that as between the arena and the audience a wave of light traveled from the ground to a point far above the arena creating a domed energy barrier to protect the audience from the combat they had payed to see. "Three. Two. One. Fight!"

With that the spider mech began to scuttle towards the the tower on its left, quickly closing most of the two hundred foot distance before leaping at the tower and latching onto it at about its sixth floor. A portion of its abdomen on its right side elevated from the body of the mechanical frame to reveal a bank of seven warheads of which a single missile launched away from its brethren, the Luna Fighter as its target.