Karako darted around carefully and quietly, doing her absolute best to not be spotted. Ground combat wasn't her thing. She preferred to be in a mobile suit, dealing with other mobile suits, vehicles, sentient machines, whatever was thrown her way. There was a certain vulnerability to running around with a rifle and it left her uncomfortable. Sure, she was capable of defending herself but she didn't have to like it.

She could hear other suits around as she reached the hangars. She couldn't see any from where she was but she wasn't about to wait around for them to show up. Karako bolted into one of the buildings, scanning the rows of GM units and others' personal suits. Her shiki didn't seem to be in this particular hangar so she peered out the door and then made a break for the next one.

A shadow went over Karako as a suit flew by so she quickened her pace to a sprint. This one have been easier with one huge hangar on-site. As she reached the door, the shadow reappared followed by a burst of beam rifle fire. Karako cursed under her breath as several impact explosions erupted on the ground, each one getting closer and closer to her. She kicked the door open and dove in, avoiding being pulverized by a beam rifle shot. Someone sure didn't have any idea of fairness.

Quickly scanning the hangar, Karako spotted her personal Hyaku shiki suit and wasted no time bolting up the stairs and onto the catwalk leading to the suit's cockpit. The hangar rattled as the suit outside landed nearby. Karako quickly got into the Demon Shiki and powered it up. The red mono-eye lit up and scanned the hangar. The suit's viewscreens lit up and dimmed as the image of the hangar interior came into view.

"Alright, you son of a bitch, let's see you take me on in this." Karako smirked.

As if on cue, the roof of the hangar was peeled up as if were the top of a can of sardines. Again the hangar rattled. The other suit peered inside, scanning the various mobile suits inside. Karako raised the shiki's beam rifle and shot the other suit's head off.

"It wouldn't have killed you to wait for me to get out, asshole..." she muttered.

Karako switched on her comm link and fussed around with the various controls.

"This is Lieutenant Karako. If anyone is out there and gives a damn, given the situation, I am deploying the MSN-00100 Demon Shiki at my own discretion." Karako waited in case anyone had stuck around at the control center and had orders. All was silent. "Alright. If there are any friendlies out there listening, let's light a fire under their asses!"

The metallic purple mobile suit stepped forward, breaking through the catwalk. Karako uttered an unenthused "whoops" and continued toward the large sliding doors ahead. She pressed a button on the control panel and the automatic doors opened. Karako fired up the suit's thrusters and took off for a better vantage point.