Snippet #1639113

Nathaniel walked into the large hangar area worn and exhausted. His Vincent was blackened and bullet ridden but the MVS was still shining like a newly forged and polished blade. The expansive space was dark but a single set of lights led to grouping of several people who stood at the far end of the space.

It was James and Milly, standing at a console that sat before a large shadow against the wall. They turned to him as he approached, Milly’s face was still stained with the runny makeup from her weeping, yet Nathaniel noticed that all grieve seemed gone from their faces. “I’m sorry Milly, that bastard got away.” He apologized for failing to capture or kill Zero.

“You did you’re best.” She consoled.

“Nathaniel, there will be time to discuss this all later, right now we have bigger fish to fry.” James replied before turning on the rest of the lights. A large Knightmare frame was lit up, still missing most of its outer coverings the factshperes in its shoulders and the Lancelot like head where clearly able to be seen. “It seems, this thing is more expensive than I thought, we’ve reach the end of our budget, but luckily Milly here has agreed to give us a hand. I’m going to move the Savior to the Asheford facility under the academy, they have all the equipment we could need. Also a certain someone has agreed to help as well. With her assistance I should have the dual and quad core systems up and running any time now.”

Milly smiled, but Nathaniel couldn’t tell why, “I’m sorry to trouble you, after all that’s happened I-”
“Stop, Nate, you’ve nothing to apologize for… besides you managed to-” she was cut off by a loud alarm and red flashing lights. James turned to the computer array and began typing away furiously.

“Nathaniel, we’ve got trouble, there are Knightmares surrounding the hangar!” James said as several of the monitors sprung to life.

“The black knights?” Nathaniel asked with a furrowing of his brow.

“No, it looks like Britannian soldiers, but that crest…” James brought up the images of several advancing Sutherlands. The crest that shown on their shoulders was what the screen zoomed in on.

“Marques Jule’s men… I wonder what they want…” he ran over to a Sutherland that was equipped with several additional weapons such as a blaze luminous system and MVS, climbing into the cockpit he called to the others. “I’m going to hold them off as long as I can, get the Savior and Data to Asheford!” he called before he headed off out the hangar. He didn’t wait for them to identify themselves, instead he drew his weapons and began fighting. Opening an open com channel he called out to them, “Who are you? Black Knight spies, no unauthorized Knightmares allowed, I’m afraid I’ll have to kill you for this trespassing.” He informed them before cutting off the line, he didn’t care for their excuse, this battle was just to hold them off long enough for James and Milly to escape.