"Gah! Son of a bitch!" Amane shouted out, using her other thrusters to break her fall. "Max," Shinji said, his eye twitching. "Am I imagining things or us that your bastard of a brother's voice?" Before his friend had to answer, Akira charged in, slashing with his beam swords. But the attack didn't end there. He immediately chained into another slash, and then another. And while the white machine's pilot was distracted trying to avoid bladed death, Hana seemingly came out of nowhere and stabbed a knife extending from the palm if her mech's hand.