[color red][center][h1]Arrish Duval[/h1][/center][/color]
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[color red][center][h3]"Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them."[/h3][/center][/color]
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[color red]"Mema-ka, I've been hacked. Mema please, take this drone off of me.[/color] Arrish repeated again and again over his stolen communications while all he could do was watch his dear Horst move out from under his control and stomp its way towards his allies. The movements were being fought back, but Arrish was no confident hacker and with every stolen step and jilted movement he could only watch in horror as he became the very enemy of his allies.

[color red]"Please, Memaka, all you have to do is shoot it.... please don't let it end like this... please I'm relying on you."[/color]
[color red]"I can't... I know you can't hear me but I'm begging you, it isn't over yet, we can still win we can still"[/color]

He clattered over his controls and Arrish's emotions were finally getting the better of himself. Could one cry tears of frustration in a virtual simulation? He had seen hackers out on the field do works of great power, he knew their strength but never before had he been on the opposite side of one. The enemies he faced were just something to be destoryed.. but now he knew. That was when Mema-ka finally began to move.

[color red]"Yes! Yes! You see don't you! You hear me Mema-ka, don't you? What— no what are you doing, Mema? Mema! MEMAKAAAA!!!"[/color]

He could only watch as his would-be saviour flew not towards him or aimed it's sights at the drone that was controlling him, but took off at incredible speeds towards its only destination. It would go flying into the abomination that was Cockroach and Squid, the framewerk igniting in a beautiful display of fireworks that would likely have taken out both pilots in glorious eruption. One could only hope that would be the last anyone saw of bug on this battlefield, but even Arrish questioned if bug could truly be taken down. Maybe in that, they were cut from the same cloth. 

Arrish found himself audibly screaming, beckoning for Mema-ka to come back and free him from this hell that guinevere had imprisoned him in. Was this really going to be how Apple would lose? Not fighting to the very end with their teeth grit like angry dogs, but in an explosive suicidal blast that didn't even change the state of the battle? Arrish slammed his hands against the console and lowered his head.
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[center][b][Indomitable Will][/b][/center]
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[color red]"No. No. I refuse to go down this way. I am not some whimpering dog, or a zealot with a suicide wish. I do not face death, face loss and allow myself to give up. "[/color]

[color red][b]"I am the Arrish Duval, unwavering son of the house of Duval. This is not how I will fall. I will not give up. I will keep fighting. They will have to tear me down limb from limb before I stop fighting, and I will fight even still!"[/b][/color]


First things were first. He wasn't going to be getting anywhere useful with that damn drone outside of his beloved Horst. If he was going to be able to do something about it then it meant putting his own life on the line.[color red]"My lady, you've always fought for me. Now let me fight for you, my dear Horst."[/color]

Arrish freed himself to the devices that were holding him down and would tear off anything unessential that was holding him back. He would climb out of the hatch and with an [b][Eagle Eye][/b] with his [b][Mauser][/b] He would make a clean shot through the drones that were interrupting his system. He would climb onto Horst if he had to. Anything for a sliver of victory... He wouldn't give up. He wouldn't go down laughing. He wouldn't throw himself to the wolves, but he would fight, fight, and fight until his very last breath.

The deed done, he would climb back inside and begin to reassert control over the Horst once more. He only hoped that Team Mango didn't have any more drones or tricks up their sleeve.