An orange Mishhu aether bolt from one of the Killthyar caught Aiko's mecha in its left side skirt, shattering a hole in the zesuaium armor that hung there at its waist. Though she'd seen the enemy's attack coming and heard Hoshi's warning, there was little the princess could do but follow through with her slicing attack to fell the enemy mech she'd caught and take the oncoming volley where it landed. Just as the Killthyar protected their pilots within, Aiko's mobile suit had done its job just then. But the enemy had a vast advantage in number, so she knew their luck could only last so long.
Jettisoning the clutch of drone funnels from her backpack once again, Aiko did her best to evade the enemy's fire as she darted through the air. If nothing else, those gun pods would hopefully make more target signatures to confuse and draw the attention of her enemies' sensors. So she fanned them out and ordered them to return fire, tracking the Killthyar flanker while moving fast and low across the dunes to intercept it. From the distant domed metropolis, Aiko called upon the mammoth aether shock cannon she'd left there to soar high above Urtullan and prepare to fire.
"Steer yourself to land closer to the city if you are able, but bail out and regroup on Hoshi if you have lost control," Aiko advised to Rio. Part of the team's training had included dismounting in the event of catastrophic damage, and they'd even practiced continuing to fight with small arms or SLAM launchers in the event of an ejection. "You should be afforded some measure of safety when you clear your machine. One Nekovalkyrja flying away from them will not even register on their scanners."
With the flanking Killthyar closing in her sights, Aiko thrust her mecha's aether katana again. She aimed to drive it through the enemy's chest to knock out the pilot there quickly. Far in the skies over Urtullan, her cannon ascended quietly into the twilight atmosphere and trained on where the Mishhuvthyar robots had congregated. It would only get one shot before needing to cool down—and was required to return to Aiko's grasp for more power on top of that—so the princess didn't fire it just yet.
"Byrne-hei, are you able to disengage?" Aiko asked as she attempted to take care of the flanker. It was no matter if the Nepleslian soldier could not, it simply meant the princess would meet up with her next. "Incoming fire will be danger close to your position, and we may need to retrieve Yoshida-hei should she go down near the fighting."
Jettisoning the clutch of drone funnels from her backpack once again, Aiko did her best to evade the enemy's fire as she darted through the air. If nothing else, those gun pods would hopefully make more target signatures to confuse and draw the attention of her enemies' sensors. So she fanned them out and ordered them to return fire, tracking the Killthyar flanker while moving fast and low across the dunes to intercept it. From the distant domed metropolis, Aiko called upon the mammoth aether shock cannon she'd left there to soar high above Urtullan and prepare to fire.
"Steer yourself to land closer to the city if you are able, but bail out and regroup on Hoshi if you have lost control," Aiko advised to Rio. Part of the team's training had included dismounting in the event of catastrophic damage, and they'd even practiced continuing to fight with small arms or SLAM launchers in the event of an ejection. "You should be afforded some measure of safety when you clear your machine. One Nekovalkyrja flying away from them will not even register on their scanners."
With the flanking Killthyar closing in her sights, Aiko thrust her mecha's aether katana again. She aimed to drive it through the enemy's chest to knock out the pilot there quickly. Far in the skies over Urtullan, her cannon ascended quietly into the twilight atmosphere and trained on where the Mishhuvthyar robots had congregated. It would only get one shot before needing to cool down—and was required to return to Aiko's grasp for more power on top of that—so the princess didn't fire it just yet.
"Byrne-hei, are you able to disengage?" Aiko asked as she attempted to take care of the flanker. It was no matter if the Nepleslian soldier could not, it simply meant the princess would meet up with her next. "Incoming fire will be danger close to your position, and we may need to retrieve Yoshida-hei should she go down near the fighting."
