Although she feels safe in her cockpit, Rose can't help but to feel a slight discomfort as she feels her mecha moving around. Rose then feels tumble in her seat and feels her stomach drop as her Ant Fire falls. She did hear that this is normal for every mission, Rose just has to get used to it, she suppose....But she can't get these bad thoughts out of her head, what if her parachute burns and then she dies on impact? What if her mecha catches on fire from the speed? Sure, metal can't catch on fire but what if it does?

The bad thoughts were cut short when Rose heard something on her radio, she can't make it on what it is, is her radio broken?....Wait, It almost sounds like music but different? With curiosity on what type of music it is, Rose pushes some buttons on the radio to get a better sound, only to hear the voice of Druid.

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[color=2e2c2c]________________________[/color][/right][/cell][cell][code]Central to fireteam; come in, team. We don’t have much time, so let's ... Hey, Hothead, could ya turn it down a little? How am I supposed to ... Hello? HEY. DIAL IT THE FUCK DOWN A FEW.[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894841079730421790/hothead_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Heh heh heh."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Thanks for freakin' nothing. Look down, tough-guy; see that soot-storm? Ain't no signals getting through that——no radio, no OTH radar, nothin'!——so maybe you should listen up BEFORE you pass through the mesosphere and SOS down there like the people you're supposed to be rescuing, huh?!"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row]	[cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"Ummm; Hothead, right? What was that song? I've never heard it before ..."[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888492402212487218/mowgli_calm.gif[/img]
[color=2e2c2c]________________________[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894841079730421790/hothead_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell]	[cell][code]"They're called Scythian. You like it? You can borrow the cassette once we're back on the ship."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"I ... I would love to! Thank you! It's just that ... I've never heard music like that before."[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888492402212487218/mowgli_calm.gif[/img][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888499464002748466/romeo_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"That's Heavy Metal, baby. Wait, you've really never——"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"GUYS."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"Druid's right. Let's get to the mission at hand. (Umm, but I'm totally taking you up on that later ...)"[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888492402212487218/mowgli_calm.gif[/img][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894841079730421790/hothead_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Looking forward to it. Now let's move this along."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888484769631961128/grizzly_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Don't worry, blondie; it's our neurosis, not yours. Now get to it, wouldja?"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"YOU'RE BLONDE TOO! ... Urgh, at 1400 six days ago, we received an SOS from a mining camp belonging to an OhmCorp subsidiary. I do NOT know how. All I know is what the message says, or ... tried to say. Most of it still didn't make it through the interference down there, after all."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"How weird. And what's the deal with this storm, anyway? Is it manmade?"[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888492402212487218/mowgli_calm.gif[/img][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"For another time, I'm afraid." [audible rusting of papers, as Druid tidies a thin stack of papers he printed out for himself, presumably a transcript.] "Here’s what we made out. And I'm just quoting here: 'HELP. COMPANY. RECOGNIZE. SIEGE. RUNNING OUT. LIQUID.'"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"So they're running out of water soon ... those poor people."[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888492402212487218/mowgli_calm.gif[/img][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Could be."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888457834717655080/whiskeysour_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Everyone pull up your battle-maps."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Uh, right. With the direction and the knottage out there, our estimates put your infil about four klicks west of the mine. It's an old map, too, so expect the place to have some 'renovations.'"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][/table][hr]

Rose's map depicts a base of roughly hexagonal shape, with two entrances on the northernmost and southernmost points of the walls, respectively. On either side of this base, someone, presumably the Commander, places two markers. Point Alpha she places further to the north, in an area roughly flat but in places hollowed by quarries and blast pits. Point Beta she places further to the south, where the purplish-grey moon-rock, according to the topographical lines, forms rough, jagged hills.

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[color=2e2c2c]________________________[/color][/right][/cell][cell][code]"As for Charlie, if this really is a 'siege' like the message says ..."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/890757730925703198/hothead_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Then we know what he's doing: circling the camp and digging in."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888457834717655080/whiskeysour_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"With the enemy staying in one place, and the storm covering our approach, we can attack from any angle we like."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894862151934689300/druid_agitated2.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Exactly."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888457834717655080/whiskeysour_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Grizzly, Fairytale, and Romeo, you're with me on Point Alpha. Rookie, you'll rendezvous with Hothead at Point Beta, then liaison with the rest of us."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888484769631961128/grizzly_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"That's a roger, Commander."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888499464002748466/romeo_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"You got it, boss-lady."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/890757730925703198/hothead_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Roger."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888483437739122769/fairytale_calm.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"Yes, ma'am."[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"... Oh, uh, roger that, Whiskey Sour. (Should I call her just Sour? A nickname for a nickname?)"[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/888492402212487218/mowgli_calm.gif[/img]
[color=2e2c2c]________________________[/color][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894861717702594570/druid_staticky.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"As for your exfil, the bad news first: a day on Triton-5 is 148 hours long. Granted, we've been moving reverse-revolution, so maybe halve that, but t̴h̷e̸ ̸p̸o̷i̷n̸t̸ ̴i̸s̵,̴ ̴w̵e̷ ̶w̸o̴n̶'̷t̵ ̸b̵e̵ ̴s̸e̴e̴i̵n̷g̸ ̸e̵a̸c̵h̴ ̶o̴t̶h̴e̶r̸ ̸f̵o̷r̷ ̸a̸ ̶f̷e̶w̴ ̷d̷a̵y̷s̵.̴"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"Druid, we're losing you."[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894877147284520980/mowgli_staticky.gif[/img][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894861717702594570/druid_staticky.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]"S̴h̴i̵t̸.̴ ̴W̷e̵'̶r̶e̵ ̵o̶u̸ ̵.̷.̴.̴ ̴f̸ ̷t̸i̶m̸e̶.̷"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"Druid? You alright?"[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894877147284520980/mowgli_staticky.gif[/img][/cell][/row][row][cell][right][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894860466759806986/total_static.gif[/img][/right][/cell][cell][code]" ... "[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"... I think we lost him, guys."[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894877147284520980/mowgli_staticky.gif[/img][/cell][/row][/table]
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[color=2e2c2c]________________________[/color][/right][/cell][cell][code]"L̷o̴o̴k̵s̸ ̸l̷i̴k̶e̸ ̷t̷h̵.̸.̵.̶.̷.̷.̵.̸.̸.̵.̵.̸.̶.̴.̶ ̵x̵f̶i̵l̷,̷ ̸l̴a̸d̶i̵e̷ ̴.̶.̵.̷.̷.̴ ̸e̷e̷ ̸y̸o̶u̵ ̵t̸o̴p̴s̶i̸d̴e̶!̷"[/code][/cell][cell][/cell][/row][row][cell][/cell][cell][right][code]"... See you soon, everyone."[/code][/right][/cell][cell][img]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/617914243760783381/894877147284520980/mowgli_staticky.gif[/img]
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Rose then turn off her radio and clinch on to her seatbelt, knowing that even if it will be only her and Hothead, she'll be somewhat alone for awhile.