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✦ The control room was a dark-ish room filled with a bunch of screens being watched over by a handful of people. Everything in there looked confusing to Vivian but that didn't matter. She wasn't the one who had to understand any of this. "Who is the head engineer in here?" She asked the room, grabbing the attention of an older man who was standing behind someone tapping away at one of the screens. "That would be me. My name is Elias Gordon, and who might you be?" He didn't know who she was which she found quite amusing. "My name is Vivian Smith, Princess of Alstair and heiress to the throne. Now can you explain to me what it is that you actually do in here?" The look on the man's face when she introduced herself was definitely one of the most amusing things she had ever seen. Though he soon recovered from his shock and went on to answer her question. "Well you see your highness this is where we keep in contact with all of our pilots. We also watch the status of their mech while they are in battle to make sure that none of them are about to go down. If someone's me h takes to much damage we immediately call them back in. If they choose to keep fighting however that is their own decision, we are not allowed to issue any direct orders." The explanation was simple enough, and she understood everything he told her but one other question came into mind. "Could I get connected all of the pilots as well?" There was a brief pause from the engineer before he gave her a light shrug of his shoulders. "I don't see why not." ✦
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✦ "The controls in here are a little different but I think as long as you know how to operate any other type of mech you should be able to figure this one out fairly quickly. Just know that if you ever need to contact command at anytime you only have to call out to them. They'll hear you. Good luck, and please lead us to victory sir!" There was a new found confidence in Patrica as she went through her explanation before running off to go get into her own mech. "All pilots please take your positions. Launch is in one minute, I repeat launch is in one minute." Elias's voice rang out through the hanger as he spoke into the intercom. The engineers that were in charge of the control room were frantic as they went to-and-fro, opening hanger doors and pulling up the operating mechs onto the screens around the room. Vivian just sat back and watched all of them while Elias gave a countdown from twenty over the intercom. She looked down at the screen that Elias had given her along with an ear piece before pressing "Nech One" on the screen. "Good luck out there Jonathan." She said calmly as Elias gave the signal for the pilots to go. ✦

✦ The engineers went about putting up the defensive walls around the kingdom like Jonathan had suggested but this did little to calm Vivian down. What if someone needed to get back in and they couldn't? "We are on it Mech One. Defenses are up and your mech is still at one hundred percent. But please try to to keep from crashing it again these machines are not cheep to make. Do you find this amusing princess?" Elias asked, turning on the princess when she began to laugh at the randomness of the crash. She quickly stopped laughing however when the head engineer glared at her. "No sir I didn't find it funny at all... Please continue. Don't stop on my behalf." She smiled at the man who just shook his head before going back to his job. "Ah don't listen to him sir, you're doing a great job for a first time in one of these babies. Go ahead and finish getting the feel for it. The guys and I will cover you." Patricia encouraged through the communication line as she and four others quickly converted their jets into mechs, landing a few yards away from their temporary leader. ✦
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✦ "I call dibs on the far right one!" The female mech pilot cackled into her communicator before taking off after her target. "Mech four how many times do you have to be told to stick with your team! It's to dangerous to go alone!" The head engineer snapped to his communicator while Vivian looked at the moving blip on his screen that was Patricia. "I've got this'd though! I won't get hurt, I promise!" She started the fight off with a punch to her target's arm, or at least she assumed that it was an arm since it was hard to tell with how strangely it was constructed. This knocked it back a few steps before it was upon her as well reaching for the head of her mech where she was located. She quickly deflected it, using the shielded arm of her mech. "See I got it al, under control!" ✦

✦ "Wow he moves so fast!" One of the other pilots said while he shoved his own blade through the center of the junker mech, killing the pilot in the main pod. "How is he taking out so many at once?! I haven't even seen any of the generals fight like this!" Anouther pilot exclaimed as she dropped missiles on the enemy from above in jet mode. "You're catching a few admirers sir. Maybe after this your status with the princess won't be 'complicated'." Patricia and the other pilots snickered at her remark while the girl tore the head off of one of the junker mecks, throwing it to the side like a rag doll. Meanwhile back at the contro, center Elias was sending the princess a curious glance. "I-I don't know what she is talking about! Don't look at me like that..." Vivian blushed profusely, Elias just decided to shrug it off before talking into his communicator. "Mech Four and Mech One be careful. You're getting to close to the big enemy mech and the others are to far away to back you up." He warned the two. His words made Vivian suddenly very nervous as she watched the two blips, that were Patricia and Jonathan, on the screen.✦
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✦ One of the pilots screamed as he was crushed by one of the spider mechs. "Jonas! God damn it that is it! Sir we have to do something fast! The kingdoms defenses cannot withstand those things for long!" Patricia yelled into her communicator as she got herself well out of reach of the large mechs. The remaining four pilots looked to their commander hoping for some plan of attack. "We need more pilots out there stat! Get them ready and get them out there! But don't open the field for to long, we can't afford to let those things in!" Elias order as Vivian brought the communicator up to her mouth. "Jonathan what are those things?" She tried her best not to sound terrified, after all she was behind the defensive barrier. She had no reason to be scared... Yet. "We have six more pilots coming your way! I wish we could send more but these guys are all we have at the moment!" The man began opening the defensive field just long enough to allow the new pilots to go join the battle, only to start closing it up once more when they were all out. ✦
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✦ "Me?! I've never fought end anything in my entire life and you want me to come up with a battle plan? Jonathan that is absolutely insane and... Wait!" Vivian exclaimed, startling a few of the engineers with her sudden outburst. "There is a large cannon in the castle's courtyard. It's under the fountain and you need royal clearance to activate it, but I don't know how to use it! I would need a soldier to operate it for new." She stammered out quickly, looking to Elias for an idea. "Princess you go active that weapon and I'll make sure that there is someone there to use it. Now go! We have things covered in here." That was all Vivian needed to hear before she ran off. "There was a cannon under the castle?! How come no one knew about it?" Patricia asked, watching the mechs nervously as they got closer to the castle. ✦
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✦ "Alright I'm here!" Vivian panted into her communicator before kneeling down beside the fountain and feeling along its side. "Princess what are you..." The female soldier didn't get to finish her question before Vivian removed a rock from the side of the fountain before taking a key from around her neck and shoving it into the keyhole that was revealed. "Into the fountain now!" She snapped at the soldier before dragging her into the fountain. There was a pause that made Vivian start to wonder if the cannon still worked then the ground beneath the two began to split in half and fall out from beneath them, breaking the intricate fountain head as it did so. They fell down onto a platform that housed a large cannon on it and a control pad to operate it. "Elias if it's possible I need you to open the top of the defense field. We won't be able to use the cannon if we crash into the field first!" There was silence on the other end of the communication line for a second before she heard Eliasgive her the go ahead. "Princess it is asking me for a passcode." The female soldier told her when the cannon stopped rising. She wasted no time in punching in the passcode, giving the soldier full access to the cannon. It took a few seconds to position the weapon where she wanted it, but once she did have it right the soldier pressed the trigger button. This caused the cannon to let out aloud whining noise before sending out a blast of light that obliterated one of junker mechs. "It worked! You guys will have to cover the cannon! It has a recharge time of five minutes. But it worked!" She cheered into the communicator, watching the soldier as she began to reposition the cannon while it was recharging. ✦

✦ Vivian covered her ears as the cannon Baganda whining again. This time it went off and went straight through two of the spider mechs that had been practically crawling on top of eachother to get at the defense field. "Well that was a stroke of luck... Wait Jonathan that's if. You and the other mech pilots need to somehow get all those spider mechs into one place so that we can shoot more than one at a time! It will buy us some time, and we won't have to worry about the recharge time as much!" She looked back over at the soldier who had come to the same realization that she had and began aiming the cannon at another pair of spider mechs. "Princess if they are going to do this they need to do it fast. Those things are getting to close to the defense field." The soldier said calmly as she waited to the cannon to finish recharging. ✦
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✦ "You got it sir! Come on guys lets make our commander and our kingdom proud!" Various cheers sounded through the line as the other pilots flew around the spider mech, successfully grabbing their attention and bringing them towards the group that Jonathan had started forming. "Oh my god it's working... I mean! I knew it would work! Keep it up for just a little longer guys!" Her hope was being restored as she watched the soldier aim the cannon at the large mass of Spider mechs before fireing at them. The beam must of taken out at least three of them, which was good considering that beforehand they were only getting one. "It worked! It worked! We might actually see the end of this everyone's!" She cried out gleefully. Dont get ahead of yourself princess. We have not won yet." Of course Elias was right, but that didn't mean she was happy about it. "Killjoy!" The soldier kept the cannon trained on the mass of spider mechs, adjusting it when necessary. "Whoa what's going on? Why are they all collapsing like that?" Patricia asked as she flew down a little lower to examine one of them. "Mech Foure get away from there before..." "Calm down, they aren't even operating anymore. Do you think we won?" She asked hopefully. "I'm not the only one who has a bad feeling about this right?" ✦
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✦ "All soldiers are to report for duty as of immediately. This is not a drill, the kingdom is under attack. I repeat, this is not a drill!" Elias's voice called throughout the Castle through the intercom. Meanwhile Vivian and the soldier fell down while the earth began to rumble, making the cannon shake about as the walking city came to the surface. She had been about to call out to Elias about what had happen when a large beam of light his the defense shield, the force of it knocking over the cannon and the platform that it had been raised on. "The cannon! The princess was on there! I'm going in to save the princess!" Patricia wasted no time in flying off towards where the cannon was falling, her mech getting out of its jet mode in time for her to reach out and grab the princess and the soldier before she crashed to the ground. "s**t! The princess is secured but my mech is trashed, I hit the ground to hard. I'm going to get the princess back to the control room then see what I can do about getting another mech." She said calmly as she opened up the hatch of her mech before going over to check on the two women who were currently encased in two giant metal hands. ✦
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