[center][h2]Rozaliya “Rose” Tarasova[/h2][/center]

Rose was stone-faced as she sat through the briefing, listening attentively to the information but without much of a reaction to what was being said. Like they’d expected, they were being used to support what was left of the Japanese military in their attempts to reclaim Saitama, making use of the newly acquired power of the Chi-Mechframes to advance a conflict that had previously been against them.

Splitting their numbers was, against all of her predictions, not about giving them time to rest [i]or[/i] to overwork them. The decision was just… a strategic one. Two of them would babysit the troops and keep them safe while the others would look to take out the big threats before they caught wind of the people about to march right into their claws. And of course, she was given the role of one of the hunter-killers, most likely because the capabilities of her suit were far too compatible with the role.

Honestly, she hated that her Chi-Mechframe had turned out the way it did sometimes. It was cathartic as hell ripping warped to shreds but she always ended up being placed right in the thick of it as a result.

After that they were dismissed, with only thirty minutes to prepare themselves which seemed like it was cutting things a bit too close given how important this mission supposedly was. But she wasn’t an officer, she wasn’t the brains. She was just the meat.

But it was nice of their commanding officer to tell them not to throw their lives away. Really, it was.

Following the others to the engineering bay to collect the core of her mechframe, Rose proceeded down to the hangar with stiff shoulders and a rigidly straight back. She held her head high and kept her chin raised as first Hoshiko and then Jennifer suited up and jumped. The soldier tried not to grimace as she took a deep breath and slapped the thick circle of metal with the red stone at its centre against her chest, the device sticking to her and beginning to grow and spread across her body. Within moments Rose could feel the strength of her armour begin to flood her body, her nerves lighting up and her posture becoming less forced and more confident as the mechframe spread to cover her arms and leg before finally reaching her head.

Walking forward, she felt the balance of her body shift forward as the tail extended behind her and her arms grow heavy as the large blades began to form. Stepping up to the edge of the hangar floor, right up to the open doors, Rose looked down to see Hinotori and Albion plummeting to the ground.

Skipping the declaration the other two had given, Rose simply waited until the Horizon was passing over a suitably tall enough building and stepped off, beginning to fall towards and then passed the building and reaching out an arm to jam the cracking red blade into the concrete and use the drag to slow her decent to a survivable level.