[center][h2][color=00aeef]Fallen Angel[/color][/h2][/center][hr]
[color=00aeef]"Well, Stel, welcome to the jungle. They say it gets worse here every day."[/color] the teenager said to herself as she did her final check over her controls. Pretty simple to her, but somewhat alien at the same time, her lack of experience with her AUG would probably show itself rather quickly, she imagined.

"It looks like everything's been handled already, so all that's left for me to do before you deploy is to wish you good luck and happy hunting~!"

A few seconds after that final comment the Red Power's comms shut off that particular channel automatically. A feminine voice rang out in Stel's earpiece, [color=ed1c24]"She should really change her voice synthesizer to something less grating."[/color] Adam. The AI that ran on the Red Power seemed somehow annoyed at the other of its kind.

[color=00aeef]"How can you think it's grating? You don't have ears. Is it, like, a bad waveform or something?"[/color]

She was met with silence and the light for incoming comms being turned back on in full, just before another too hyper voice came on. But something didn't seem right to Stel about what she said. [color=00aeef][i]Ultima MAs...?[/i][/color] She didn't get to continue the thought before another voice chimed in, "Banshee" apparently, and the only information gained was that there was another fast AUG onboard. One that was choosing to attack the communication capability of their target. Another voice, this time identifying as "Watcher," expressed similar intentions. 

[color=00aeef]"Probably for the best that we go with them."[/color] Stel said under her breath. This was all for the purpose of testing her AUG, and she had a hunch that-

[color=ed1c24]"We are absolutely [i]not[/i] playing cleanup here."[/color] Of course Adam had a problem with that, why wouldn't the AI have a problem with its pilot's desires? 

[color=00aeef]"Look, I'm not saying we're here to clean up, it's just that I reeeaaalllyyy doubt that there's nothing there but regular Mobile Armors. If the choice is between destroying their stuff and destroying their talky stuff, I think the smart play is to do the talky stuff. If they have an Augment, it'll be guarding their important stuff, right?"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"You think that an Augmented Armor is going to be guarding their communication network and not their mystery package?"[/color]

[color=00aeef]"More that I think they're going to have their network near the most defensible place, which is probably where they'll put the package."[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"... That's not a terrible thought, but I can tell you're trying to play to my sensibilities, so I'll respond in kind. It would give us more battle data to target their units than their installations."[/color]

Shit. [color=00aeef]"But we might not get a chance to target a stationary setup again for a while, and we'll probably be fighting a bunch of Armors more often, so the data collection side points to my idea too!"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Fine, but we're destroying any Armors we come across, even if they're out of the way. I'm not built for slow or quiet, I'm built for quick and loud. Got it?"[/color]

Stell sighed. [color=00aeef]"Alright, deal. You target, I'll pilot. But that does mean we're not going with the arrowhead, right?"[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Correct, we'll launch with the anti-comms. Opening outgoing links, let them know."[/color]

Oh, good, [i]she[/i] had to do the talking. Stel spoke into her mic, [color=00aeef]"Uh... heya. 'Fallen Angel' here, we'll be going with the... Banshee? Her and... the guy going with her. Oh, and anyone else with them. Sorry."[/color] A few seconds of dead air passed as she had a minor panic. [color=00aeef]"Hey, cut the comms alrea-"[/color] Maybe it would be a good idea to become more familiar with her communication controls...