*Beep*

"Huh?" Genocide growled. A distorted voice roared over the inter-com. "HQ to Genocide!" - What!? Headquarters? He was on down-time, why would they-.. "Come in Genocide!" - He sighed, in the distance the hundreds upon hundreds of missiles crashed down upon the earth, and shattered it, leaving nothing but a massive crater in it's wake. "Genocide here.", the energy beam he had fired had vanquished both of his foes, as far as he was concerned. "Return to base." the inter-com commanded. "Return to-.. What? Why!? I'm on a fucking mission he-.. " - "Your down-time is cancelled. We're launching a preliminary assault on the Angar-Ryllan armada, a hit-and-run if you will. You're on the first wave." 

They really wouldn't let him do his own thing, would they? Sheeshush. He was having such a good time and all. "What about the mecha?" He asked. It wasn't easy peasy getting that massive steel construct around, especially not after entering orbit. "Leave it. You will be compensated for it's loss." - Huh, they must be desperate to go to such a length to get him to join that assault. Expecting one hell of a battle, no doubt. Great. "Angar-Ryllan, huh?" Edmund said. "I suppose I haven't got a choice. Departing now, I'm done here anyway." He flicked a switch, and he was dropped down into the pod-jet below. It was about this time that Ysolda was half-way through her chanting. 

Edmund put on his seatbelt, pushed the joystick forward, and pulled a red emergency lever hanging from the ceiling. A winged escape pod shot out of the mecha's mouth like yet another missile, before it's engines roared loudly and propelled it into the distance and up into the sky at 1500mph, leaving nothing but a smoketrail behind. Well, that and the mecha itself. 

Not that it mattered, because excactly three seconds after taking off, Edmund pushed the self-destruct button, and the mecha and it's three nuclear reactors, both it's primary and the two located within it's drill-fists, detonated instantly in a humongous blast of unparalleled destructive nuclear power. Would be a shame if Ysolda and Erde happened to be next to it when that happened.