[center][h2]Kiryu Sento[/h2][h3]??? — Ruins[/h3][/center]

Sento let out a small disgruntled sigh as he finished trudging up towards the exit, and having been met with a city that had long since been left to nature, frowned ever so slightly.

"I take back what I said before," he said with a shake of his head. "A somber place like this feels a bit more pressing than the chaos of an apocalypse."

Not that he would ever receive a response in turn. The steady shockwaves echoing through the ruins would reveal their source soon enough—a massive metal machine that looked more like a monster than a weapon of human make. With an appearance as ominous as that, the physicist's hands moved before his brain could catch up.

As the schoolgirl beside him leapt into the fray, Sento pulled out a machine from within his coat and brought it to his waist, at which point a belt extended out from it and wrapped around to anchor itself in place. Once it was secured, the scientist pulled a pair of small bottles out from their holster—one red, one blue—and began to shake them both up and down. After a few seconds of doing so, he slotted them into the Driver at his waist in turn.

"[color=red]Rabbit![/color] [color=#2457ec]Tank![/color] Best Match!"

The voice that rang out from the Driver caused Sento to smirk ever so slightly as he began to cycle the lever nearest his right hand. A series of clear tubes and metal framework would soon form around him, paired with an enthusiastic "Are you ready?" from the device as the former filled with red and blue fluid that promptly took the form of two halves of armor.

"Henshin!"

With that declaration, the armor snapped onto Sento's body. Once the two halves were secured, bursts of steam would flare out from the vents of the armor, along with one last line from the driver anointing it's completion.

"Hagane no Moonsault! RabbitTank! Yeah!"

While Hibiki had taken the initiative to directly engage with the hulking metal creature, Sento did not fail to acknowledge that she, too, seemed to be wearing her own set of armor as he rushed into the fray after her. It was, in his eyes, far less suited for battle than his suit was...

But maybe that was just how the designers of her equipment intended? Questions to address for later.

The same could not be said about the fact that she seemed to be [i]singing[/i] as she threw her first punch at the metal monstrosity, complete with a backing instrumental track.

"Is that gear powered by singing or something?" he muttered to himself as he bent his left leg down and caused the spring on it to coil up. In the blink of an eye, Sento crossed the space between himself and the monster that the brunette had engaged. After righting himself on the ground in front of it, Sento turned back to confirm the safety of the person who had been fleeing the machine before returning to focus on the behemoth proper.

"I can't say the song's half bad, though...!" he said before launching towards one of the machine's leg joints with a kick from his right leg primed to land. 

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[center][h3]Earth — Alien Facility[/h3][/center]

With the sole visible soldier dispatched, both Fu Xuan and Qingque would find themselves at liberty to examine the corpse of the deceased in the scant span of time before the enemy forces realized what was happening. The angular body armor on the soldier's body had done nothing to protect from the attack that had decapitated it, leaving it clean enough to examine. When the question as to what was being sought after resurfaced, though, Miku was quick to respond from the other end.

"I don't think that anything on that dead body would be that useful. Miss Wynn said that we needed more technologically advanced equipment, and the weapon that blew itself up just now was the closest thing that they had on them," she said. "There's ammunition, it looks like, but this terminal isn't marking that as 'sufficient' for whatever's needed."

If one was to peer through the bottom of the helmet to view their decapitated, though, they would notice that while the form of the soldier appeared human at a glance, their face was most certainly not; if anything, it would appear as if their faces had been molded and stretched due to the modifications that had been mentioned prior. Their eyes, noticeably larger than a human's, were paired with a nose that seemed to be merged into their forehead. Any further examination would require removal of the helmet itself, though—a task that seemed less likely to provide useful information given the nature of their mission.

A glance beyond the nearby trees, however, would reveal an unconcealed facility in a clearing nearby. The lights positioned around the perimeter shone with a glaring starkness, beyond which other alien soldiers seemed to be standing guard. While some looked much the same as the lone patrolling combatant that Fu Xuan had taken down, others seemed far less human in appearance. [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1437772857546506370/1456867114227863726/latest.png?ex=69612cfb&is=695fdb7b&hm=06f92a92c1523b3eb17a586c7faccb4631ad841b9d565ed26895e3dfdc65c65c]Brutishly large humanoids[/url] and [url=https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1437772857546506370/1456867151712485407/latest.png?ex=69612d04&is=695fdb84&hm=e159b5f7d5063b813a8d2e8a9bc35b16b8f1a79c958f59298d3e4d3801595ce2]bipedal machinery[/url] patrolled the complex, waiting for enemies that might or might not ever arrive.

"That building over there seems to be where most of what we need is kept," Miku said. "There are a lot of hostile enemies guarding the area, so please stay safe."

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