Outside Cluster 26

“Careful! There’s still a lot of wreckage floating around.” 
“Yes Sir!”

The security cameras projected live footage of Shinn in his Canard on a large screen as the students of the academy begin to crowd around.
“Is that Shinn?"
“Cool!”
“What’s he doing out there?”
“Look!”

“Hmph, he’s just showing off” Kerry tries to declare smugly to Erisia, who doesn't even acknowledge him. Erisia continues to bore a hole in Asuna's back while she stares at the screen with bated breath.

‘That place? How useless, how am I supposed to meet up with Akira here? There’s Feddie suits all over the place!’ grumbles Francis watching the two in his Rick. He shifts his head while their communication continues.
“Keep your eyes open for Debris”
“I know.”
‘A GM-79 Trainer. How dull’ Even with Marie’s warning about ammo a trainer wouldn't even serve as a warm up in his mind.
“Well, we might as well take it out!”
Francis slowly brought his Rick from cover to get into position to take out the GMs.

Shinn slowly approached the wreckage of the GM in his Canard, tensing up the closer he got.
“I have a visual on the GM cockpit’s pod. Beginning recovery… ”
“Understood. Be careful.”
“I’m not detecting… anything at all.”
‘We have to take his body back to Earth for the family’ Shinn thought as he grabbed on to the pod.

“Shinn watch out! We got an unknown contact coming at you!”

“Aah!”
Shinn barely shifted to the side in time for his shield to block the incoming fire.
‘I don’t have any weapons loaded… Goddammit!”

“Our GMs are under attack!”
Give me all the information we have! Where the hell is Lenny?!”
“Sir these may be the same mobile suits which attacked Achilles!”
“Lenny’s GM is not responding!”
‘Inept fools!’ The commander couldn't stand the pilots and directors he was forced to work with.
“Keep trying! Send out backup at once! Contact the Salamis! Signal our alert!”

‘An alert? So soon?’ Meyer couldn't believe what he was seeing on his screen.
“What’s the emergency?”
“Sir there’s been an attack on training mobile suits near a wreckage, they’re sending a request for backup”
Meyer checked the coordinates of the wreckage on his screen before quickly coming to a decision.
“It’ll only take me a minute to get there from here, I’ll head in, you two provide backup, make sure to stay at max range”
“Yes Sir!”
Meyer turned the Delta around before speeding off in the direction the skirmish had begun.
‘Well looks like I found the training exercise I was looking for’