(Collab between myself, [@Senhara], [@Landaus Five-One], and [@Selvariabell])

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TABRIS keeps charging at Maman, however the call of the Repair NC seems to have gone unnoticed, the gleaming blade of the four meter long sword seems ripe to cut, any sane individual would back the hell away from a machine of this caliber.

Maman is not insane, while she is personally a veteran in melee combat, she is well-aware of Red Star's superior sync rates. What's more, her radio is crackling with the orders to retreat. Maman begins to disengage.

While Cody is still covering Kxeyun's downed NC, he receives a message from a certain repair NC on the comms asking for help. He hesitates, as he's still on orders to secure Sahaquiel and the fact that he's the only NC in the area that can do so. However, after receiving orders to retreat, and seeing two friendlies move towards it, he activates the Halberd's rocket boosters and speeds towards Chelsea. He then switched to the comms and sent a message to her, "Affirmative, pilot Steiner. En route to your location now."

TABRIS stops chasing Maman, seeing that they have backed off. However, that Repair NC still is there... She turns around on a dime and charges it, poised to chop it in half!

Chelsea saw the crazed NC make one of her allies back off, which felt like a definite bad idea at this moment. She heard over the communications, which was Tall Helmet man coming to her rescue that made her a bit better. However, she couldn't really respond since she has to run away from this crazy ass NC. She moved her NC just in time to not be cut in half by the sword, which the crazed NC was wielding. It felt a bit jarring to face someone with a much higher sync rate since yeah. Over open communications, [color=FFB6C1]"Uhh fucking hell what are you? God damn it I should have stayed in bed..."[/color]

The sword misses by inches, chopping the building next to her clean in half, the head continues to track Chelsea, Cody can faintly hear her transmission. "To treasure a life... is that something to laugh at? Everything is twisted... you, this world, all of it..." It seems she believes Haven will kill the ones she liked. She lunges at Fix-It again, an attempt to sever a leg this time. Despite the hidden anger in her voice, she moves with beauty unseen in the battlefield. Mesemerizing, if it weren't about to gut you like a fish.

It doesn't take Cody long to detect the Fixer's signal on the Halberd's HUD, along with another signal, preseumably the enemy's. As he gets closer and closer, he could also hear another transmission over the open comms. Although the sound is faint, he seems to find the voice strangely familiar, but he's unable to pinpoint exactly whom it belongs to.

Chelsea saw the building got cut in half, which made her grumble a bit. She heard specifically what the Crazed NC spoke, still over open comms, [color=FFB6C1]"Uhh.. seriously? You are spouting some reverse bullshit at me..."[/color] She felt like, which was a Repair NC shouldn't be fighting an NC fit for Combat. Therefore, she tried to move her nc in away to dodge the attack, however, it would be tricky to keep up with the dodging affair since the crazed NC will get her sooner or later.

"When will you cease to be an annoyance?!" TABRIS says, louder. "Stand still so I can cut you down!" She seems to be adapting to the dodges, bursting her hover engines to get her close, too close for comfort. She slashes again, notably she's only using her left arm to cut and dice, her right arm stays pointed towards Chelsea, like a spear.

The Halberd then finally manages to get in range. Cody then quickly deploys the mass driver cannons before aiming right in front of Chelsea, in an attempt to create some distance between her and the hostile NC. Although the Halberd could detect both, the view of the hostile is actually quite blurry and yet it still seemed familiar to him, just like the voice he had heard earlier. He then opens comms and speaks to Chelsea, "I've arrived, hurry up and get behind me." The cannons then fire two AP shots, which would land right in front of the enemy NC.

Chelsea felt something from the crazed NC, like it wanted her dead because of how it said annoyance. Chelsea heard the Tall Helmet's mans voice over the comms, which made her sigh in relief. She spoke open comms, [color=FFB6C1]"Finally...  thank god I'm saved.. if you hadn't come sooner I would be shish kabob probably by the crazed NC."[/color] She did notice how close the crazed NC was in front of her and felt a bit as if her life just flashed before her eyes. The Fixer, with her moving it tried to make sure it didn't get hit by her ally's weapons since it would be dumb to get hit by friendly fire by moving backwards.

"SHIT!" TABRIS shouts, jolting backwards by the cannon shells, she quickly triangulates the source and charges it, using her hover engine to move in an unpredictable manner "YOU DENY ME MY REVENGE ON HAVEN?! You're just as bad as the rest of them!"

As the hostile begins closing in on Cody, he readies the Halberd's plasma cannons and ripper missile launchers. However, after hearing her voice loud and clear on the comms, he suddenly remembered where he had heard it before. It didn't take long before the NC was close enough to be clearly seen on the Halberd's visual sensors. The sound of her voice, the dark, feminine, almost human form of the NC, and the way she moves, there was no one else that fit that category. Cody then focused all power to the shields and opened direct comms to the NC before saying, "TABRIS? Is that you?"

Chelsea moved her NC towards the tall helmet man's NC, since he did say get behind him. She activated her thursters to do a leap to make damned sure she will get behind the NC. The fixer's landing was pretty hard but she was barely able to not fall on her face in terms of her NC's repair arms since that would suck to break. She spoke over open comms, [color=FFB6C1]"Fucking shit... feels like I had gained bad luck or something."[/color]

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The machine rapidly closes the distance, sword slamming down against the top of Halberd, the shield managing to hold off from her sword splitting his top open. She doesn't believe this, forcing her sword down into the shield more "You're DEAD! This can't be you!" She growls slightly, managing to look pissed off.

Cody stays silent for a moment, not even preparing his weapons, before speaking on the comms again, "I'll prove it to you, allow me to exit my NC and I'll show you." He hoped his plan would be enough to convince her as he waited for a reply, as the shields could only take so much before falling.

"Tch, anta baka?" That phrase was automatically translated to "What are you, stupid?" She seems displeased. "I'm forced to kill my enemies, you're my enemy." She forces the sword down a bit more. A bit more pressure and the shields would collapse.

As it seemed he couldn't convince her through words, and he didn't want to cripple her with point blank plasma cannons, he decided to take drastic measures. He pulled out the plug connected to his helmet and exited the cockpit as fast as he could. Cody then stood on top of the Halberd, his now blue combat armor in clear view of TABRIS. Taking off his helmet, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "It's me! I'm alive!". If the shields fell, they would release a small shockwave and push off the sword, forcing TABRIS to take another swing to take him down, hopefully that would buy enough time for her to realize that he wasn't lying.

She stops applying pressure when she sees him on visual, her other arm shoots a few rounds at the NC's foot, causing the shields to collapse yet... No damage was done to Halbred. She leans in as much as she can safely, saying through the loudspeakers "... There's no doubt about it, Cody... Buddy, I've found a reason to fight."

Chelsea had a bit of a feeling of what the hell is going on, like, why am I not dead yet? It was in her thoughts until she moved her NC and saw the aftermath. She learned the tall helmet man's name from specifically the crazed NC, which was going to kill her. Over open comms, [color=FFB6C1]"The hell? What is the hell going on...?"[/color] In her tone she was utterly confused but she'll never forgot Cody's first name after that. The look on her face was many different feelings, emotions and everything.

Cody let out a sigh of relief as his plan had worked, partially at least. He then yells back, "Long time no see old friend, what reason is that?" 

"Now I know you're alive... But on the enemy team. It makes me want to fight to protect you... Why did you leave Red-Star?" She asks Cody, on comms she replies to Chelsea "I'm TABRIS, Cody used to be my friend back in Red-Star, he thought I was an AI at the time. I'm actually not alive, per say. It's a superposition, I am alive and dead at the same time."

Chelsea had a feeling of confusion hit her harder than the feeling of her not being dead, specifically at what TABRIS specifically said. She spoke over open comms, [color=FFB6C1]"Uhh... okay that's why you had a no life sign signature. That's kinda of crazy... Wait... what? Two Red-Star Defectors in Haven at the same time..."[/color] Her tone was a bit less confused but it had an air of confusion but remembering what Theodore had said about Red-Star Defectors and finally put two together that Terra & Cody were that. Because she was multitasking with her music in one of her ears, however, her headphones weren't on her head this time around.

He was initially surprised that someone like TABRIS didn't know the true reason why he left. "Red-Star finally got to me, ever since I joined I tried my best to turn a blind eye to their many faults and continue serving them. But when they ignored our pleas and killed my comrades... I didn't want to put up with their shit anymore." He paused for a moment before continuing, "I'm truly sorry if you think I died or if I betrayed you."

A gentle sigh escapes the machine's speakers "I'm the idiot for not seeing that sooner. Of course, I'm the result of a top secret project... One which... Is inhumane, seeing as the rest of you aren't [i]cyborgs[/i]... It kinda wants me to help Haven now... I always thought Haven was filled with awful things." She says, contemplating things, such as the true meaning of her purpose.

"Well now you know the truth at least. Haven's not perfect but it's still not as bad as Red-star." As he stared at TABRIS, he felt sorry for her. She was another life ruined by Red-star, just like himself and many others.

She nods gently, then talks over loudspeakers "Hey... Repair NC... You know how you said there were two defectors?" The transmitters on TABRIS instantly reconfigure to act as a jamming dome. "Make that three. Let's go to our new home, yea?"

Chelsea heard TABRIS speak over the comms, which made her instantly smile and feel a bit like, did a NC just say a cheesy line that was in a movie. She spoke over open comms, [color=FFB6C1]"That's cheesy. But Yeah let's go, by the way my name is Chelsea. It's nice to meet you TABRIS."[/color] She felt like the horror from almost dying was done but she had a feeling if she gets out of this NC she'll faint. Because she looks paler than she did before getting on the battlefield.

Cody was, surprised to say the least, that TABRIS was already set on defecting right now. "Just like that huh? Well then TABRIS, welcome to Haven." He then slips his helmet back onto his head before climbing back into his cockpit. As he starts up the Halberd once again, he then detects another signal a distance away. The signal is then identified as an NC whose electrical systems have been disabled. He then realizes that it's a Havenite NC, which is also probably the reason why Chelsea was sent there in the first place. He then opens the comms and sends a message to Chelsea, telling her to retrieve the downed NC.
As he sits in his cockpit, he sees TABRIS moving back towards the Haven base and thinks to himself, 'This'll be interesting to explain to the commander later.'