"Try not killing me with 'em? All I'll say is, when gravity is a thing, you're our ace if you like using the Sword Silhouette. As far as our mock here goes, I think you swing them from a safe distance so the tech-heads can record if it would end up a real hit or not depending on where I am and how I try to avoid it. Fun fact: I'm starting now," Lucia explained before she suddenly unleashed both the beam cannons at Akira's Impulse trying to ever-so-cheekily catch him off guard. The bright blue holo-beams were going straight for his mobile suit's head and chest. She expected that would be enough to finish Round 1, plain and simple.

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Kenneth meanwhile was getting ready to launch in his Murasame as the rest of the CSC pilots, save for Cronic, geared up and climbed in their own mobile suits. Whatever the Newtypes could feel, it couldn't be good if they were moving the ship. Why did there have to be trouble on Prosperity of all the ships in the expeditionary fleet? If something threatened the civilian ship there would have to be a massive evacuation.

"Boss, we're ready on the launch catapults. Do we launch or hold off for now? I don't think the Alliance or ZAFT forces will like us deploying MS without a good, solid reason." Ken said over comms as he fixed his helmet on and closed the visor. "...But if I were to throw my own opinion on this: you can probably sense just how good or bad this is, right? Shouldn't matter what we do or why if this is too important to ignore."

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Izumi and Zerenis ran through the dimly-lit industrial sector until Izzy stopped at an abandoned warehouse. The windows were smashed, the doors were forced open but someone tried to close them again. She didn't realise that at this point she was clutching the handgun tightly. That unsettling feeling was so close now - it was right inside! It wasn't really an emotional thing, just.. danger. But she'd felt it before, right before the Saviour was destroyed. Remaining absolutely silent, Izumi stacked up on one side of the slight opening in the massive doors, nodding at the other side for Zerenis to set up as well. Of course, Izzy could only use one arm - she left the countdown 'til breaching to the team leader.

There were mechanical sounds coming from inside. Quiet, not exactly a factory's worth of works going on.