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Aliza was just about to proc the flight mode of her fight or flight response, almost regretful for Hicks as she couldn't reach him. However before she could even press through the trees she was suddenly hailed by another voice. This one was certainly different from the captain. "Ah?" Reinforcements. Something that suddenly lifted her spirits, or so it seemed. Abigail's response made the girl stop once more, wondering if her retreat was the right choice. She watched the mech fly by and attack one of the bots straight away, offering the final blow to Aliza.

Aliza felt rather guilty now. She was about to leave one of her squad mates to face death alone while she ran away. Granted she didn't know this man very well, but still he helped her along. So at the very least she wanted to do something about this. "...fine. I'll fight." She responded back, not quite composed yet but stable enough to fight at least. "At least until Hicks can snap out of it." She figured the only way Hicks can really calm down is to destroy the targets. So she aimed her head gatlings at the softened mech and followed up with a stream of bullets.

Aliza casts Focus, then she takes aim at the weakened Legionary 1 and fires out her Head Gatlings to finish it off. After the battle she uses Hit and Away to move to 16, 5.

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"Roger that. We'll move to your location!" She called back and then tried to communicate with Hicks. "Hey Hicks, we gotta move to the ship! They're gonna help us!"

...no answer. He was more or less in his own little world of revenge.

"....Hicks?" And she went blank faced. He was out the door it seems and wasn't really listening at all. "Hey Hicks seriously we have to move...uuuh..." Still no response. Aliza wasn't sure how to really approach this, especially considering all the mechs around them. "Aaah...mm..." She...had no choice. "...I'm sorry..." She gritted her teeth a bit. As much as it pained her, she started to make her move to escape. Hoping Hicks would somehow make it out of this somehow.

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Well Hicks was a bit too preoccupied with avenging his fallen buddy at the minute.

Aliza was still in her blue screen of death. At this rate she more or less might be screwed if she couldn't reboot in time. However, something did help speed that up a lot. A soft female voice, which stood out to Aliza a lot. A reflex during her days at the academy when her girlfriends called her out from her space case moments when she star gazed. Somehow it got her to come back to reality. "A.ah...?" She took a look around assessing the situation. Yeah, still bad. Sledge was dead, Hicks was going Rambo, and there was a hail from a ship not too far off from their point. "...y.yes?" She answered back, trying to keep as composed as she could. Wasn't working as her voice broke a little. "T.this is...mm...hang on..." She cleared her voice and took a breath. "A.Aliza Silvavolke. Sorry for the delay captain...right now one of our squad mates is dead and uh...things are kinda going downhill for us so ahhh..." Yeah, clearly still a greenhorn.

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The trio kept the good fight going alright. They even managed to bring down an enemy bot through their efforts. Yeah, the power of teamwork! "Ha ha!" Aliza grinned behind her controls. "We did it!"

"Don't let your guard down rookie!" Spoke Sledge. "They won't take to that kindly..." He turned his gaze toward the leader who didn't do much at all other than watch. Strange. 'Hm, what's this one's take in all this...he hasn't moved at all.' Well sadly the Legionaries took their chance to react...onto Sledge. "!"

"Sledge watch it!" Hicks called out.

"I know!" The man shouted, trying his best to guard all the incoming damage. He managed to evade some shots from one and braced in for a clubbing from the other. The third one managed to hit him right in the shoulder with a beam, taking off a chunk of armor. However the bold man was still standing tall. He won't be defeated so easily. "H.hah, that all ya go-!" However that sudden burst of moxie turned south quick when he saw Esther move. The leader hadn't made a move until now, but suddenly he felt like he wished he didn't. "Tch!"

Esther approached with a sharp blade drawn out with a very clear intent to kill. Every bone in Sledge's body told him that he could not defend this one. He had to evade. So the man tried...yet his reflexes were too slow and the knife drove it's way through the cockpit. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHH-!" The man had a blood chilling scream as the cold steel smashed it's way through to him. His life was gone in the flash of an eye.

"!" The young Italian girl was too busy celebrating their small victory, however the scream broke her out of her high and brought her mood plummeting into the floor. She witnessed the soldier's mech fall limp from Esther's grasp, hit the floor, and implode on itself. "........" Her eyes widened at this scene. It was...staggering to say the least.

"SLEDGE!" Shouted Hicks in the other machine, just about as shocked. His partner in crime, the other half to his duo, gone in a flash. "You bastard...!" He snarled out, about to lose it.

Speaking of almost losing it. Aliza simply stood there in total disbelief that this just happened. She was prepared for war in the academy...or so she thought. She was not at all prepared to witness a life being taken before her. "....u.uuuuh..." And here comes the blue screen in her mind. The worst possible time for it to happen as well. "......crap......"

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Well, this was it. A real battle. Her first one...though she probably wouldn't admit it. She stood there for a moment, trying to take it in. Were nerves settling in? 'Ok...ok...stay calm...terrorist attack...just gotta...uuuh...'

"Newbie!" And out shouted the voice of Sledge on the comm line.

"E.eh?" She snapped out of it.

"Look alive! They're firing at us! Hicks ordered a retreat to the woods! Follow me and use the trees for cover!"

Good thing they targeted the seasoned soldiers because Aliza was completely staggered. But those orders managed to snap her out of it. She suddenly looked determined and pulled the ear buds out of her head. Although she did forget to turn off the music, as another certain track from that robot show glared out. 'Can't let it end here...I gotta get to the stars no matter what...' "R.Roger that!" She spoke back and followed her two comrades into the woods. Once they got in position she noticed them firing at a damaged Legionary. It seemed to have been hit pretty hard. Aliza took this chance to follow up with her own shots. 'Focus...focus...ok!' Another pep talk later she managed to fire at the mech, which did indeed hit. "I got it!" She gasped out. Yeah, just like the academy drills. No worries.

However, the Legionary turned to Aliza. Which put her on edge. But fortune was on her side, for she was able to dodge just in time. "Aha!" She smiled a bit. "Alright, nice!" So this was live combat. Similar to mock rounds indeed, but those were live. It was actually giving her a real rush. What a thrill! "Alright...what's next!" She grinned. "I'm ready for anything!"

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"Mmmmhmmmmhmmm~" Yeah another tune Aliza couldn't sing boomed in her head as she continued on her marry way with a chip on her shoulder and one in her mouth....no really she's still stuffing her face full of the things. Speaking of chips they were still very much scattered about the cockpit, but she figured she'd get the chance to clean some up later. No worries!

...shame she might be dead wrong.

ALERT ALERT! As an alarm sounded off and the comms went off with them.

"Look alive newbie!" Spoke the lovely Sledge. "We got company! Form up!"

"...mm?" And the girl (still with the very delicious chip in her mouth) rose her head to the situation and well. Knock knock. It's the terrorist faction. With huge cannons. And guns...guncannons? No she's still on that silly robot show in her head. These were Legionary Mk III mechs, a bit of a retro model. Aliza remembered seeing them from her academy studies, more specifically from a book she was loaned by this nice red head who she had a lovely movie date with. But anyway! She didn't seem to recognize the green robot in the center. Was it a new model? A custom built one? Oh and uh the huge battleship behind him. A big boat, with gu-wait we already did this bit. Anyway it's like huge, dangerous, heavily armed and imposing. Sweet!

Well regardless they were here, armed, and quite ready to tear the Italian space case a new one. How did she react? Well. Let's start by her mouth opening just slightly. The chip in it didn't fall out but it did slump a bit. Just like her mood. She took a small blink at the situation and reacted as such. "....mmmmmmmuuuuuh..." It was at that point the finger food fell out and reality settled in like a ton of bricks. "...you serious?"

Yeah they were serious.

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As the pilots started waking up on the inside certain other guards were on alert. Amber Alert to be exact. It was a boring job but someone had to make sure that the base was safe and sound from the dangers of the unknown. Still...it doesn't make it any less boring, as one pilot of three would tell you as they made way through the quiet grassy location in three ANF models.

"Mgh..." Grumbled the male pilot in his seat as he tried to keep his eyes open.

"What's wrong, Hicks? Stayed up all night watching movies again?" Spoke another male voice from the pilot's comm line.

"Hah! It's your fault for giving me that flick. I couldn't get enough." Out came a chuckle from the bored pilot. "When that cop knocked out that mook on the plane and told the attendant he was dead tired I was in tears!"

Que a chuckle back from the comrade. "Yeah well I hope you brought coffee with ya. Gotta keep an ear out. You heard about that TV announcement from those Apotheosis terrorists right? They mean business and we gotta be at our best."

"Yeah yeah..." He shrugged, almost a little too relaxed. "You should be telling that to our newbie back there. You seen her right? She's a real cutie."

"Relax there partner. She's fresh out of the academy so she ain't too experienced. I'm willing to bet she's nervous too."

"Then maybe you should check up on her."

"Hm, right." With that said Sledge obliged by swapping lines over to the third robots in the patrol. "Yo newbie."

But sadly those comms happened to be drowned out by something loud coming from a pair of ear buds in the third pilot's ears. The loud sound happened to be music...J-pop to be exact. The cute girl sitting in the pilot seat was bumping her head a bit to the music, trying very poorly to sing to the music but of course her Japanese was bad so it came out like... "Do do do~ Do do dah dah~ Never eeeending stooooryyyyy~" Yeah always a fun yet awkward moment.

"...NEWBIE!"

"WAUGH!" The Italian jumped in her seat and ended up sending up some chips from a bag on her side too, she quickly popped the ear buds out when she heard her leader scream at her. "Y.yeah!? Scusate err I mean sorry! I'm alive I swear!"

"Don't you dare tell me you've been listening to that music again." He scolded like a teacher would a foolish student.

"Whaaaat? Meee?" She laughed nervously. "Nah c'mon not at all! I've been totally alert the whole time!" The poor liar said as she tried to clean up the chips. Sadly she was given away again when the bag crumpled against her hip.

"...what was that noise?"

"Static!" She covered herself, as she stopped picking up chips and remained perfectly still as to not let the bag crumple again. "Seriously boss everything's fine! Totally quiet...eheh..."

"...uhuh." Yeah Sledge wasn't pleased. "I'm not sure why they'd send someone green to help with the staff but you gotta clean up yer act if you wanna go far. Stay alert and contact me when you see anything at all."

"Right right, understood. Sorry." She bowed her head, although he probably couldn't see it or even care to pick it up. Once the line went silent Aliza took a sigh. "Man these guys are a bit stiff..." She mumbled as she tried to pick up her mess. Though chips were everywhere. "I gotta get this clean before the mission ends at least. They'd be pissed to see a new generation robot be handled like a trash can..." But at the same time she couldn't just slack off on the real reason she was here. She had to go back to the patrol. So she swapped between garbage duty and keeping an eye out around the riverside. Making sure nothing was coming.

So far so good...but we'll see how long that lasts.

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Awyea

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Uuuh here you go Mel? This the right place?

Imma just put this here regardless.

Name: Aliza Silvavolke

Age: 23

Sex: Female

Archetype: Help

Skills: Prevail, Hit&Away

Spirits: Alert (10), Trust (25), Focus (10)

Adaptabilities: Air (B), Land (A), Sea (B), Space (A)

Base Stats:

Level: 1

Melee: 5

Shooting: 9

Defense: 5

Skill: 5

Accuracy: 8

Avoid: 8

Current Stats:

Level: 9

Melee: 8

Shooting: 13

Defense: 9

Skill: 11

Accuracy: 11

Avoid: 12

Appearance: (I have no idea where this art is from hope it works)

Personality: A social dreamer is the best way to describe Aliza in a short way. She's a very upbeat girl with a thirst for talking about anything and everything concerning space. From black holes to the names of certain stars she wants to know everything about it. Her family was a bit on the poor side when it came to school so she had to flirt a lot to borrow books and get in on study sessions. This caused her to pick up some habits that more or less made her a social butterfly with preference toward both genders. But it also made her rather nosy when it comes to getting to know people. She also learned how to cook in school and is actually pretty good at it.

Backstory: Ever since she was a girl Aliza dreamed of going into space. Stargazing out in the yard at night really sparked her interest. She pursued it later in life by studying as hard as she could to join an academy. Even on her family's small wage she found a way to keep chugging through on sheer willpower, it was enough to see her through to graduation. However despite earning her pilot wings she had the uncanny luck to be turned down by more or less every organization she applied for, leaving her space cadet dreams on the wayside. She recently applied to a security detail job on the ground level to start somewhere. They took her in too. What luck! But how far will it take her?

(Side note: She's Italian and knows some phrases here and there. But she was raised in the US California to be exact.)