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[color=royalblue][b]"Hold on a minute, we can't just leave when there is a Fort-class approaching!"[/b][/color]

[color=gray]Mina closed her eyes as she begun to hear Haley's refusal to her orders.[/color]

[color=royalblue][b]"Captain, surely we need everyone we can!"[/b][/color]

[color=gray]The captain opened her eyes, looking in the direction of Haley's TSF. Whilst Mina admired her comrade's desire to fight the good fight, it was also a quality that she knew that she needed to break from Haley. If Mina didn't break Haley's eagerness, she knew it was only a matter of time before the American became Kasteler, or another lost soul like those that were dying on the beaches here or those that died during the culling operations the captain participated in across the Strait of Gibraltar.[/color]

[color=skyblue][b]"I happen to be well aware that 'we can't just leave when there is a Fort-class approaching,' but you--and Yu--will be."[/b][/color] [color=gray]Mina replied with rather the official tone. What gentle remarks that may have remained were now replaced with serious and almost strict replies as Mina was forced to deal with Haley.[/color] [color=skyblue][b]"However, I do not need a child, especially a hotheaded one, on the battlefield with a Fort-Class. You'll be dead before any of us can save you. Tell me, do you wish to die just as your brother did?"[/b][/color]

[color=gray]Perhaps it was a cold remark, as the rest listened mostly in silence. Mina meant well, but a hotheaded recruit could easily snap like a twig within a fire. Regardless, the captain didn't wait for Haley's reply, glancing in the direction of Yu's TSF as Mina returned to her own. Out of all those within the flight, Yu was likely the only one who was extremely strict on controlling their emotions. If anything, Yu would (hopefully) be able to balance out what raging fire existed inside Haley. If not, then it was just as likely that Haley would find herself in the stomach of a BETA or in a black body bag shipped back home.[/color]

[color=skyblue][b]"231st Grey Wolves will be enroute shortly to respond to the reinforcement request."[/b][/color] [color=gray]Mina replied to Fabel over open comms, and begun to power her TSF's thrusters for lift off.[/color]

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[color=brown][b]"...D-Does anyone copy?! This is the 154th--"[/b][/color]

[color=gray]The flight towards where the reinforcement request had not long at all thanks to the speed of which a TSF could fly at. Since the Laser threat had been cleared in the immediate area, the battalion could quickly skim over the Spanish soil without worry. However, despite their speed, they could not undo the damage that had already happened, as the battalion arrived just in time to watch a TSF be split in half by the massive tentacle the Fort-Class BETA sprouted. Another TSF was ambushed by a lone Tank-Class, the BETA leaping from the chopstick-like legs of the Fort-Class onto the TSF.[/color]

[color=teal][b]"Captain!"[/b][/color] [color=gray]An unfamillar voice spoke, yet clearly one of the 154th as they went--perhaps out of dumb rage--to fire upon the BETA that spewed out of the Fort-Class like maggots. Any form or semblance of a battalion or training that the 154th might've had was melting away like snow on a hot day, and the unit began to falter into a mess... a mess that the 231st were neede to fix.[/color]

[color=skyblue][b]"Leave the lesser strains to the 154th. Only fire upon them if need to in order to conserve ammo."[/b][/color] [color=gray]Mina explained, biting her lip as she took unofficial command of what remained of the faltering battalion.[/color] [color=skyblue][b]"Assume Arrowhead One. We need to get close, and the Fort-Class will likely lash out at us. Therefore, I expect you all to break formation when I say so."[/b][/color] [color=gray]Mina continued as the battalion began to charge forth towards the Fort-Class like bull towards a red cloth-waving Spaniard.

Anticipating the attack, Mina waited until the 231st were as close as the captain desired.[/color] [color=skyblue][b]"BREAK!"[/b][/color] [color=gray]The captain exclaimed, ordering the battalion to break formation. Mina hadn't seen anyone that had made it outside of Elise as the Fort-Class lashed downwards with its tentacle, but she had no time to worry about her comrades. Split second decisions needed to be made, and the French pilots began to stress their TSFs as they used the legs of the Fort-Class in order to accomplish an allbright turn.

The danger of doing an allbright turn was clear even for a veteran or elite pilot. However, gliding safely underneath the Fort-Class was honestly safer than being in front of it, especially when you had the freedom to unleash hell fire directly underneath the Fort-Class. Dumping what remained in their weaponry, the massive shells that fed the assault cannons blasted in the Fort-Class' soft underbelly, along with any other ammunition fired upon the BETA.[/color]

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