[h1][center][color red]Arrish[/color] & [color=82ca9d]Mema-Ka[/color][/center][/h1]
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Arrish cursed himself for not taking an Aimed shot at Minerva before she darted away and out of sight. He could still feel the memory of it as though it had all happened in slow motion. The heft of his spear and the line up of it straight into her body, but before he could even make a swing she was gone, darted off to the side.

Arrish didn’t hesitate. Instead he pulled up his comms and messaged Mema-ka right away [color red]”For the duration of this battle, I’m making you my honorary knight. You first quest? Heh, let's just say we’re going hunting for the hound of the battlefield.”[/color]

[color=82ca9d][b]"I read you. King Arthur. Relocating the holy grail south. Argo may be attempting to flank our position! Explosion to the north! Keep your guard up."[/b][/color] Mema-Ka replied swiftly with a seldom shown moment of amusement, having seen Argo dash around the buildings, not knowing where it would appear next, the explosion to the north-east of their position also was telling that someone just got blown up. But who? That was a concern for later.

Mema-Ka moved his raptor on top of the Logic Diver, extending its extra pair of arms to pick it up, placing the egg-shaped framewerk against its back, like an oval backpack. Moving to [color=f7976a][b] [S-23] [/b][/color] using extra arms to lift up Logic Diver, reducing movement, so the Raptor made a smaller jump to make as much distance as it could. [color=f7976a][b][S-23][/b][/color] to [color=f7976a][b][U-23][/b][/color]. It then peeked around the corner with its [color=f7976a][b][Marker Light][/b][/color] seeking to hit the Argo if possible, and readied its [color=f7976a][b][Free Reaction Shot][/b][/color] with the same weapon, expecting to see movement from the north, either behind the building where an explosion was felt or further north. The other team had framewerks that were able to conceal themselves. He wasn't the kind of person to leave any loose end.

[color red]”Better keep it to Lord Arrish, My knight. We wouldn’t want to start an international incident.[/color] He kept the amusement out of his tone, very serious stuff, but he had a smile on his face he couldn’t keep away.

Arrish’s thoughts slowed down and he thought about the small details that had happened so fast; There was what happened to Lucius, even if Arrish had been too busy to see what happened to rex artus, the radio silence was enough to cue him that something had gone wrong and the damaged frame had been within his line of sight.

Then there was that cute little display Bugatti had given him; What the hell was that? Arrish gritted his teeth and wondered if it was bait or if someone had pulled the wool over his head. Unless… Astolfo was… He shook his head and dismissed the thought. Head back in the game, Arrish. Don’t dawdle. Don’t hesitate.

[color red]”Something is wrong, mema-ka. That damn cockroach is up to something and I’m going to find out. Stay with Elora and reconnect with Aurora, my knight. I’m trusting her safety in your many hands.[/color] Arrish pulled his bastion back out of the virtual stone and brought his multi-form rod back into his hand, transforming it into the greater piercing spear. The hydraulics in horst’s legs clicked into place before launching herself forward in a horizontal leap from building to building.

[b][Marquess to Q-27][/b]



[color=82ca9d][b]"A bit too early for that, no?"[/b][/color] He had replied to Arrish's mention of starting an international incident. The forest-green haired man allowed his hair to momentarily cast shadow over the top part of his face, a soft smile shaping on his lips for a brief moment, but vanishing almost as quickly as it appeared. There was a time for words and a time for action, right now they were in the latter. Sentences were to be kept brief... after all.

[color=82ca9d][b]"Very well."[/b][/color] Mema-Ka replied swiftly to Arrish's latter words. It was after all what he had planned all along to do. He couldn't help but scoff slightly on hearing Arrish insisting on calling him a knight. He was no knight. He was a bishop, and the last rites were going to be given. For how many? Time would tell. Which team would come out on top? Did it even matter in the long run?

[color=82ca9d][b]"This is Raptor! Returning to base with damaged Logic."[/b][/color] He relayed over the team comms.

Arrish’s brow tightened the moment he saw the flicker of Argent WIng through the Horst’s optics. [color red]”So, that’s how it is, aye?.”[/color] He hefted his heavy assault gun and began to fire into Argent Wing’s position. He had been aware that one of Mango’s best tactics would have been to launch a sneak attack on Sleepy’s position, what he wasn’t expecting was to run into the hornet’s nest

Argo and Cockroach had been among the list of potential threats to Sleepy, was Argent Wing on that list too? He cursed himself for putting Horst near the center of it and without knowing Cockroach’s position he wondered if he somehow had placed himself into a death trap.

Still, something bothered him. These were the people he was going to be fighting against, and in an ambush attack they had placed their fastest in the same spot. If they were going for stealth, wouldn’t a two or three pronged attack have been their best bet for going unnoticed? Maybe Team Mango hadn’t been as glued together as thought.

[color red]’Or maybe, I’m underestimating them’[/color] Together they had nearly taken down Elora, and he didn’t need a reminder about what happened to Lucius. Argo had slipped away without taking much of a strike, and Ava was basically unscathed. Maybe they didn’t [i] need to take down Sleepy to win. Maybe they just needed to play to their speed, and pull idiots like himself into their own little deathtrap.

Horst landed with and leveled her gun to where Ava had been at. [color red]”So, you’re the one who took down Lucius, Ava? Well, you’re about to find I’m a much better dance partner.”[/color]