"Uh huh." She replied to Shinji. "But, I think Mister Stiff there has a toy we don't, so we might not need to." Yoshiko commented. The Ex-Neko then giggled a little when he addressed her the way he did. "My mommy used to call me that. Said something about a video game character too." Yoshiko recalled vague descriptions of this other 'Yoshi' and just before she drifted off in thought, she heard Taela's voice. Yes. Neko were made for war; some people actually forgot that. Hell, even she did from time to time. And when she finally got inside her own Ashigaru, her lip was curled in sorrow; Yoshiko didn't have one mom, she had two. And one was gone for good. She replied with a nonchalance, "Yeah. I'll watch your ass for you Taela." The tone of voice left much open for interpretation.

A Wait of an Hour or so later, the Atuan started buzzing with something. it was called a Klaxon horn, and it was annoying. It's purpose, not to annoy as it did, but to warn everyone aboard that the ship would be transitioning back into realspace, and allowing them to make their quick drop through the Atmosphere of Kennewes and onto the target for investigation.

the ship began to shake slightly, and then suddenly, the bridge crew got quite a surprise. Pulled out of Hyperspace a bit early, the Atuan was set upon by a few Mishhuvurthyar ships, something that was not a good thing. Using the thrusters at full power, the tiny ship began to rattle and the Frame team would be very confused as to what was going on outside. Suddenly, Arah's voice could be heard over their comms. "Sorry, But we'll have to hot-drop you from low orbit. We can't stick around for very long, and need to be sure to be away from you guys when everything hits the fan. Well. When it hits the fan again." The ship rocked, and some tools began flying around, and the hissing rush of the atmosphere being drawn out of the Mecha bays and into holding tanks, told them that it would be a very interesting ride.

Fourty-five very bumpy seconds later, the armored bay doors on either side of the ship opened, their edges glowing white-hot from the friction of microatmoshpere. It was obvious that this was where they dropped, as the restraints released and allowed the Frames to move. Shinji, Meena, and Unit 05 made their way out immediately, dropping through the atmosphere and down towards the swampy Planet below. Hopefully everyone else would get out along with them.

This. . . is inconvenient. Taela thought as the Frame activated and leapt out of the side of the ship. A few stray shots nicked the outer shell, but nothing major. As the colossal machine began to fall, she began to wonder whether it was just bad luck that her first time in a Frame was not only a combat mission, but also with experimental weaponry and ejecting out in a hotzone. But, she staved this thought off to check on her systems. It had appeared that all the weapons were synced properly according to her computers. Now, all she could do was wait. . ..

....And wait. As Yoshiko fell through the atmosphere, she decided to let out a happy "Wheee!", if only to try and pass some of the time as she fell at several hundred miles per hour, streaking through the atmosphere and surrounded by who knew how many tons of government-contracted or sponsored killing-machine to-be. 'Oh wait! I know the answer to that! What was it, what was it...ah! About 31 tons of killing machine!' the absent minded girl thought to herself. Yoshiko wiggled her toes and vaguely thought of what they were doing. 'Just land and kill anything that shoots back I guess.' Frankly, she probably didn't even remember much, or anything of, Kelly's briefing. It was safe to assume she was in for a surprise.

Even though Kelly's Asura was lighter than the Ashigaru's of his squad mates, he was falling faster than them, accelerating towards the ground at a constant rate. As the cloth tarp that had been covering the frame was burned away by the heat of atmospheric re-entry, the rest of the pilots could clearly see why, using both their MK1 Eyeballs and sensor suites: Kelly had activated the frame's IAPD, and was rocketing downward towards the target location.

Inside the war machine's cockpit, its pilot smiled as he ran over the list of weapons available to him, deciding to open up with the micro missile pods as soon as he could. Amused, he thought to himself about the person who had given this frame to him. "Well, it seems that Javier really did deliver on his promise to give me something good. Lets just hope this has some substance to back up its flash.

The six frames dropped through the atmosphere, five at terminal velocity, but one just a bit faster, straight down over their target. After what seemed way too much time but wasn't actually that long, warnings started popping up telling the pilots to begin taking action or the suit would be forced to do so for them. They could see, a few miles from their landing area, a mid-sized compound that seemed innocent enough for normal situations, but was currently being used to hold up against a Mishhu attack at the moment. The six frames would find themselves dropping into a very hot zone, as AA fire finally began to make its way up towards the Origin machines.

"Ah, Shit, I think we gotta do somethin' mor'en fall now" Shinji stated over the comms, igniting his boosters and thrusters and reorienting his frame to land a bit more softly on its legs, while maneuvering to avoid the AA fire, and using his frame's sensors to start picking out targets, the Telemetry of which he relayed to everyone else's suits.

Meena was a bit quicker than Shinji had been, and a little bit more aggressive in her defending herself, firing her UPL's and her Autocannon at targets of opportunity, mostly whatever she noticed firing at her.

The last Frame followed Meena's lead and began firing upon the Mushhu vehicles and soldiers down below as their descent came to a rapid close towards the soft swampy ground.

"Whoo! Get some!" she cried out. Yoshiko raised the shield in front of her, angling it in synch with her thrusters in an attempt to partially steer herself and augment her maneuverability. She darted to and fro, firing off the best shot she could muster on such short notice. However, her attention wasn't on actually hitting anything, but to keep their heads down and stay alive; she could put her foot up someone's ass when she was on firm ground, and not before. "Hehe." And then she took notice; Kelly was apparently getting the best toys out of all of them, and he was in the lead. 'No fair! Huh. On the other hand, he is at the front.' Yoshiko would ponder the implications of that, but was too busy just dodging any incoming fire and dishing it back.

The Carbine equipped to Taela's mecha was set to normal-fire on the descent down, the Neko aiming to attack any clear targets as thrusters activated. However, this plan was abandoned for a much more worrysome (For the enemy) spray of surpressing fire - once the gun was switched to rapid-fire, of course. She didn't forget her shield either, although she angled it downwards for the sake of covering more of her Frame.

"Kelly-sama," She called into her communicator, "How shall we form up once we've landed?"

Kelly grunted as his frame dodged incoming fire from the ground, slowing its descent and dashing sideways to avoid what looked to be a very powerful, very deadly energy blast, originating from a grounded NMX Landing Craft that had disgorged a mass of four light tanks, three tankettes, and a single battle buggy, along with what seemed to be a platoon of shocktroopers, light infantry, and a squad of Rippers. The shocktroopers and infantry had already begun to storm the HiGA compound with support from the battle buggy and tankettes, whilst the light tanks of the assault force had taken notice of the new arrivals. The Light Tanks moved in, trying to use their speed to surround and bombard the landed frames, heavy plasma cannons firing into the general area of the green-black-blue machines as the six rippers used the bombardment to move in close, 50mm gauss rounds impacting the shields of Taela's, Yoshiko's, and Kelly's frames, warning alarms going off in their cockpits as their frame's sensors detected the powering up of aetheric weaponry. Luckily, for the pilots, it appears that the SMDION fleet had managed to do some damage to the landing craft, knocking out its shields, atleast for the moment.


"Right, then. Taela, Yoshiko! Take up evasive manuevers, and come with me, we'll try to do something about that landing craft, its bay door is still open! Oyu, get to the compound and help take out that infantry force! Shinji, Meena! Take care of these tanks and rippers!" The dark nepleslian's Asura sprang into action, the thermonuclear hover jet in its lower legs allowing it to break through the NMX encirclement, side strafing and zig-zaging around point defense fire from the landing craft, the shielding on his frame holding up for now. "Well, ladies? Take out these turrets while I have them distracted!"

"Sir!" Shinji an Meena called out, almost in Unison. Standing next to each other, they allowed their Point-defense weapons to auto-fire at the Ripper frames, using the Frame's AI to aim, while taking their own aim at the light tanks. Shinji took carefully aimed shots, trying to do the most damage he possibly could per shot, while Meena used the saturation method of spewing fire at the approaching enemies, in hopes of slowing them down.

Oyu Boosted his frame back into the sky, Making himself a slightly easier target, but also making his movement far quicker than it had been before. He landed sever hundred yards away, on top of some of the cloned infantry, crushing them instantly, before taking off again closer to the HiGA compound. Unit 04 took a few glancing blows from the tankette's and fired back with its defensive weaponry before making a third jump towards the compound.