Daughters of Yamatai JP Featuring
@Cowboy as
Sanda Hoshi
@Yandere as
Tatsugami Kozakura
@hyralt as
Kwabba-an Ternifac-xuralkhi
Guest starring
@Soban as
Cheilith
"That's our signal, see you down there," Kozakura's voice buzzed in Kwabba-an's helmet, then she watched for a moment as the dragon woman's power armor moved away. Her eyes were drawn first to the distinct shape of her helmet that wrapped around her antlers similarly to how Kwabba-an's wrapped around her antennae, and then once she was too far away to clearly see her antlers even at the maximum 300x zoom of her Armor Integrated Electronics System, she watched the segmented armor around her tail.
"This is awesome, thanks for the music to jam to Beat-Bug," a familiar voice sounded. It was that of the woman with whom she had briefly chatted back on the YSS Presurgence.
"May my music guide your big aether sword to its target, comrade," she replied with a smile. Then she shook some focus back into her head, and began her own descent, blasting at full speed towards the beacon blipping on her display.
"Xuralkhi-hei, the beacon's compromised careful on your descent!"
The words made her heart skip a beat, but she focused on the rhythm of her instrument and felt a calm come over her as her practice and training kicked in. In quick succession, she switched her Combined Field System (CFS) from propulsion over to stealth mode to make her invisible to sensors, switched on her photonics array to give her optical camouflage to make her difficult to target visually, switched on her Turbo Aether Plasma (TAP) engines to resume propulsion, and started a timer. Running the CFS in stealth mode without an onboard remote detection device made her completely blind, but it was a calculated risk that let her descend through the space above Sakura Fleet Depot without being targeted.
When her timer displayed the amount of seconds she had roughly estimated, she dropped out of stealth and switched her CFS over to shields. She had overestimated how far she would get, but this felt like the safer of the two directions in which her estimation could be inaccurate. The depot was still dozens of kilometers away, but well within teleportation range. She disappeared.
Kwabba-an reappeared a few meters above the surface of the ground and away from the wreckage of the main tower, then flew over to press herself up against the rubble. She swiveled her head to scan what was going on around her. The weapons fire that erupted around her transmitted out over her broadcast channel, and she continued to play her improvised melody along with it.
"Sanda Hoshi and Tatsugami Kozakura, I have my feet on the ground. Do you have eyes on a way into the depot? Also, we need a shorter way to address each other."
The ant musician's Time-Modulated Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) Radar picked up a signature on the other side of some rubble. When the signature didn't respond to her Identify-Friend-or-Foe (IFF) transponder ping, she flew into action while she was waiting on a response from her cohorts. Kicking on her TAP engines, she flew over the pile of debris and descended onto a Kuvexian in heavy power armor carrying a massive gun. Luckily for her, the kuvie had been distracted, firing at some other target, otherwise the big weapon might have torn her apart. She lashed out with her Aether Beam Sabre-Rifles (ABSRs), thrashing at the other's power armor as it reeled around to try and fight back. Her attacks came fluidly with the rhythm of the music that she played, and as the creature tried to line up its weapon on her, she used her lower arms to swing her solid Zesuaium bass guitar, using it to knock aside the barrel of the Gatling gun before it came to point at her. A moment later her sabres found a weak-point in the armor just at the neckline and dug in, causing the Kuvexian to crumple to the ground. Without pausing, she sought cover against a nearby wall and looked for her next target.
Sanda jumped a short way then realized that the giant power armor wasn't following her. She turned and looked back, only to see the giant power suit with it's head blown off. She went back to the suit and stood over it, as if posing for a picture.
"Haha. Not so tough are you." Sanda scanned the area around her, looking for more targets when she heard Kozakura call out over the comms. Letting her know that she had landed but the rest of her transmission was cut short.
"Tatsugami-Hei! Tatsugami-Hei! Where..." Her own transmission was interrupted by more plasma fire. She returned fire while seeking cover of her own.
From her new vantage point, Kwabba-an saw a set of Daisy power armor standing atop a set of giant power armor. With a quick glance around, she flew along her cover from one wall to another in the direction that she had seen the Daisy. When she saw the telltale flash of plasma weapon fire, she peeked around the wall she was pressed up against and tried to figure out where it was coming from.
"I see a Daisy under fire. Is that you, Sanda Hoshi? I cannot see its origin," Kwabba-an broadcast out over the standard Yamatai channels.
Sanda knelt down and began returning random fire. She heard a Kwabba-an ask if she was under fire and laughed sarcastically.
"No, I'm just getting my hair done. Where are you?" She looked around for the music-playing bug.
"Oh, my mistake," Kwabba-an replied in earnest, but continued to try and aid the Daisy.
"I am up against a wall near a set of giant armor. I do not believe the enemy can see me. I will try to approach."
With that, the ant-like woman continued her movement along walls towards the giant armor atop which she had seen a Daisy moments before.
Sanda located the four-armed Mindy suit. She still couldn't see where the enemy fire was coming from but by the number of shots flying at them it had to be at least a half dozen. Sanda believed she could probably take them herself if she could find them but the smart thing to do would be to try and draw them out and take them in a cross fire with Kwabba-an.
"Just call me Sanda, It means Thunder which is exactly what I plan to bring down." Sanda said with half crazed laugh.
"Look, I'm going to try and draw them out, see if they'll show themselves. When they do. Blast them!"
"Roger that, Sanda," Kwabba-an responded promptly and readied herself by bracing one of her ABSRs against the side of the building. She knew from training that her Mindy's CFS would compensate for the recoil of the weapon so the bracing was wholly unnecessary, but it still gave her some feeling of preparedness.
Kozakura continued her game of cat and mouse while the other two were linking up, she heard their transmissions and moved her lips to reply but no words came out. Her eyes continued to scan for the threat, they'd moved while she was in cover but where to? Heart still pounding she ducked back into cover as plasma fire splashed right past where her head had been. Playing back the footage her helmet had captured she located her foe's new hiding spot.
Kami preserve me, she thought in the instant before she dashed out from cover and over a segment of open ground before leaping into the air with assistance from her Mindy's propulsion. Her sights lined up and she squeezed the trigger causing a burst of aether fire to shoot from the weapon's barrel. The Kuvie merc she was locked in battle with was slower to respond and fired in a panic as Kozakura's shots landed home.
Plasma wizzed by Kozakura's body and she quickly boosted to the right and then landed adjacent to the wounded Kuvie. With a swift spinning motion she drove the knee spike of the Mindy's right leg into the abdomin of the Kuvie merc. Upon pulling her leg back a mixture of blood and mechanical fluids drained out from the wound as her enemy collapsed to the ground.
Sanda took a deep breath then jumped from cover and ran towards Kwabba-an while blasting the away with both her Plasma rifle and her 50mm Gauss Cannon. She ducked into some new cover, fired more carefully, then ran again. This time she headed away from her bug friend so that the enemies eyes were following her. A plasma shot grazed her shoulder and Sanda fell behind some crates, activating her stealth as soon as she was behind cover, then rolled several meters to the right behind some other crates, hoping the enemy would think she was down and come running.
Kwabba-an saw (and heard through her visual to audio transcoder circuitry) the simultaneous flashes of Plasma and Gauss cannon fire. Using this as a distraction, she flicked on her TAP engine and flew up in to the air to try and guage where the enemy fire was coming from. When the Daisy stopped firing and sought cover, the enemy started shooting again. Kwabba-an responded by lining up her ABSRs and firing twin beams in the direction of the power armor that was firing at her compatriot in the stealthy armor. Both beams went wide, and she growled to herself and disappeared.
Reappearing next to the enemy, she began hacking away at the Kuvexian, screaming out in musical fury and simultaneously stepping up the tempo of her bass. This time, however, the enemy threw an elbow in her direction, catching her off guard and causing her to lose her sense of the beat for a moment. The moment in question was just about long enough for the Kuvie to line up its rifle, and without thinking she tried to spin out of its sights as it fired off a blast at point blank range. The plasma shot caught her, but only glancingly off her shoulder's CFS shielding.
Without leaving her enemy a moment to fire again, Kwabba-an rose her sabres and slashed once across the barrel of the weapon pointed at her and simultaneously stabbed upwards into the joint of her enemy's armor at its neck. The result was that the weapon was cut in half, and in her frantic movement she managed to completely cut through her enemy's neck, causing its head and body to fall away in two different directions.
Kwabba-an had half a thought about how she probably ought to feel bad about having taken a life, but quickly regained her focus and sped over towards the Daisy that had been under fire.
With her landing situation finally secure Kozakura looked around for a good vantage point. Finding the stairs up to a catwalk she made her way higher up.
"Hoshi-hei, Xuralkhi-hei, I've taken care of my little problem. Where are you two? Trying to keep my eyes out but there's a lot of smoke obscuring things."
Now that she had a moment to take stock of the battle field without being fired at, Sanda checked her scanners and located Kozakura. She was to Sanda's right and about 40 meters away. Sanda couldn't see her directly because of the smoke.
"We're just to the south of you, Tatsugami-Hei. We'll move towards you and regroup."
Hearing the long sequence of syllables that formed her and Sanda's names spoken by Kozakura's voice, Kwabba-an scrunched up her face within her helmet as she tried to think.
"Perhaps we can refer to each other as Daughters of Yamatai? Or daughters for short? Or perhaps sisters?" Kwabba-an suggested.
Keeping her stealth suit activated, Sanda moved cautiously forward towards Kozakura. She made it to just under the catwalk where the reporter had taken up overwatch and reapeared. She opened her comms again,
"Tatsugami-Hei, I'm right under you. Kwabba-an, you see us?"
When she realized the Daisy was in stealth mode, Kwabba-an resumed her travel in a northwards direction, given that Sanda had said they were south of Kozakura's position.
Kozakura blinked as a friendly sudden appeared below her,
"I've got a visual on you now...sister," she replied somewhat awkwardly to Sanda. The Yamataian in Kozakura clearly was not used to such a familial designation with one she had met just twice now.
"I do not see you, Sanda," but Kwabba-an cut short her transmisson as her UWB radar picked up a signature on top of a structure to her north. This time, the radar signature did respond to her IFF transponder, correctly signaling that it was a Mindy.
"Never mind, I believe I see our sister."
Sanda remained silent for a moment while activily scanning with her eyes and sensors. Daughters of Yamatai, that sounded cool, but calling one another sister was a step too much for her. Especialy in the middle of a fire fight. It wasn't that she did like her fellow fighters, far from it. It just made the tough Nepleslian wasn't use to such things.
Kwabba-an took a risk and flared her TAP engines to quickly fly up to what she presumed was Kozakura's position. When she spotted the familiar Mindy with the tail and antlers, she smiled to herself, but any other reaction she would have made was cut short when multiple plasma blasts whizzed by her armor.
"I have given away our position, sisters," Kwabba-an announced as she span to return fire in her ABSRs' pulse mode, while also redirecting her TAP drive thrust to try and put some cover between her and the incoming blasts. She didn't expect her pulses to hit anything, and they didn't, but it gave her a chance to reach the safety of the elevated position that Kozakura had reached, where she promptly pressed herself flat against the ground and tried not to think about how she'd drawn the enemy to them.
Kozakura was initially glad to see Kwabba-an, but upon receiving more fire from the enemy forces she instantly dropped to a kneeling position and returned fire, though with only a submachine gun her effective range was much shorter than the rifle bearing forces set against them.
"We should probably push deeper into the facility..." she called out to the two others,
"If we can reach the security center I can probably take over the feeds and transmit them back to the fleet so they can coordinate our forces."
Somewhat thankful to be underfire again, Sanda took a knee and returned fire with both Plasma rifle and shoulder cannon. Her scanners were detecting hostiles all over the place.
"We've got no shortage of targets here." Sanda growled as she shot a soldier in the head.
"But you may be right." It did sound like a tempting target. They might even be able to take all of the perimiter defences offline as well. Then their allies could stroll right in.
"I am in agreement with Tatsugami Kozakura," Kwabba-an said as she crawled towards where Kozakura was returning fire.
"Our comrades will undoubtedly use this information for glory."
"Yeah, either of you have any idea where the security center might be located?" Sanda raised her shield and set her plasma rifle against it then began marching towards the nearest suit, blasting as she went. Her power shields soaked up most of the incoming fire but her phyiscal shield attached to her left arm blocked whatever made it through. The fire coming at her faltered. It was one thing to shoot at a target. It was another to shoot at a target that was coming toward you, oblivious of the fire and blasting away at you. Sanda made another four kills before taking cover again.
"I do not," Kwabba-an admitted solemnly as she pulled herself into a kneeling position next to Kozakura, once again pulsing at their enemies to provide the vague notion of cover fire before ducking back down again.
Kozakura began to move at a slow crouching walk along the catwalk towards an entrance to the depot, occasionally stopping to give surpressing fire for Sanda.
"After you deal with that squad we should probably move before more show up. Last thing I want to do is get pinned down on the backside of the facility as a noble distraction."
Sanda couldn't argue with that logic. Even if they didn't know for sure where the security center was, they did know it wasn't here by the outer wall.
"Give me some cover. I'm going to try something." Sanda got knelt down behind a scan of the surrounding area. Her Daisy suit had some advanced sensors, made with recon in mind. On her heads up display a map began to appear. Hostile contacts showing up as red dots, many many red dots, began to appear on the overlay. Yellow lines showing power cables also started running between buildings. One building stood out. It had several groups of red dots around and inside it. Plus several yellow power lines ran to it from all directions. Sanda wasn't sure exactly what it was but it was a safe bet that the building held some significance.
As Sanda called for cover, Kwabba-an pulled herself up and started blasting pulses in the direction from which they were taking fire. As she did so, she noticed that Kozakura was moving towards what looked like an entrance, so she followed along while continuing to fire.
"I think I've got something." Said the tattooed Nepleslian, as she sent the image and data to her
Sisters.
"I've got a building about 300 meters to our East that looks like it's well powered and has quite the defence around it. Not sure it's the security room but it's bound to be important to them."
"That sounds promising," Kwabba-an said through clenched teeth, frustrated that she couldn't seem to hit anything. She hadn't been awful on the firing range, but it seemed so different once the targets were returning fire.
Kozakura watched as the data poured in, it definitely looked promising. She stopped moving towards the entrance to the nearest building and leaped over the guard rail of the cat walk, using her thrusters to slow her descent she landed on the ground once more and moved to back up Sanda.
Sanda stood up and fired again. Yeah, it looked promising, but 300 meters was still a lot of room between them and the building, and a whole lot of people gunning for them inbetween. Kozakura and Kwabba-an had Mindies so they could teleport right into the building. Sanda's Daisy however did not have such tech. She'd have to activate her stealth again and try to sneak past all those guards. Luck for her, that was what she specialized in.
Kwabba-an saw Kozakura leap off the catwalk and disappear around a corner, and remembered that she probably shouldn't group up and provide the enemies with such a convenient target. A flash of plasma fire ricocheted off her shielding, and she dove to one side along the catwalk, managing to roll out of the dive without missing a beat of her music. A quick scan of the field ahead of her gave her a rough idea of the distance to her enemies before she disappeared.
Popping back into existence some distance away, the ant musician looked using the Optical Tracking System in her armor's skin, giving her a somewhat confusing view of her entire surroundings all at once. It took her the span of half a second to orient herself before she saw three enemies turning her way from their position grouped up behind a chest-high wall that had been giving them cover until she appeared behind them.
With one more use of her teleportation module, the insectoid woman was suddenly next to them. It is important to mention at this time that many cultures who develop their theory of music independently of outside influence do so in combination with a theory of dance that is deeply intertwined to the point of being inseparable. It is with an understanding of such a theory that Kwabba-an began to move.
Kwabba-an's Sabres traced sinusoidal paths through the space that her enemies occupied. These paths had opposing peaks and troughs were perfectly synchronized with the rhythm of her fingers on the strings of her bass and the steps of her feet. As she tore through them, she couldn't help but sing out a wordless tune that rose and fell in harmony with her movement. When the last of the three Kuvexians fell, Kwabba-an couldn't help but feel disappointment as she ducked behind the wall and wrapped up her leitmotif of carnage.
Kozakura tapped Sanda on the shoulder to get her attention before using hand signals to gesture that she was going to move towards their objective. Sprinting away she used the readout on enemy positions to help guide herself from cover point to cover point as she moved along the ground toward the enemy's fortified location. Looking over the building it was a medium sized structure with a second floor that was larger than its base. The top most floor looked as if it was lined with windows except security shutters had been drawn shut over them. She didn't want to assault it from the bottom up but moving into the building from the second floor was probably a bad idea. As she surveyed the building she noted two guards posted at an entrance on the first floor.
Sanda gave Kozakura a thumbs up and watched her move out, admiring the way she gracefully moved from cover point to cover point. Sanda took a deep breath and activated her stealth again, disappearing from sight and sensors and began moving towards the building's entrance.
Looking around, Kwabba-an found herself lost. At least she wasn't currently under fire, she thought to herself, as she tried to calmly scan around. When her radar showed a friendly some distance to her east, she assumed it was Kozakura, and resumed her darting movement along walls and obstacles in that direction.
Weapons fire erupted around the musician, kicking up a fine mist of debris around her. Kwabba-an dropped to the ground and waited a moment for the cloud to dissipate enough for her to find the nearest obstacle to crawl behind. Peeking at her radar readout, she saw the friendly reading somewhat ahead of her along with a couple of presumed enemies further still.
"What is our plan, sisters?" Kwabba-an asked of the others on their shared channel.
In a hushed voice Kozakura responded, "I see two guards in front of an entrance to the building. I assume they're firing at you, so I'll take them out." Taking a deep breath she mentally prepared herself to teleport closer. Kozakura had never liked teleporting, something about all of your molecules being in one place and then suddenly in another gave her the willies. As she exhaled she stowed her submachine gun and drew the two aether blade katanas, before blinking out of existence and reappearing at the chosen destination. The moment she blinked back into existence the guards started to move but they were too slow. The closer one was quickly bisected as the blade in her right hand sliced clean through their environment suit from just below the arm pit, through the chest cavity, and to the opposite hip.
As the second guard turned and readied their weapon, Kozakura was already moving. Circling sideways to get around the falling body of the first guard, Her left hand swung her blade in upward arc across the space infront of herself, slicing the guard's weapon in twain. However for her troubles the broken weapon was hucked at her, bouncing harmlessly off her Mindy's armor. With a flick of her wrist Kozakura changed the direction of her blade and cut back downward, slicing through the second guard. Though while that was happening two shots rang out from a ballistic small arms weapon. Kozakura looked down to see a small caliber pistol just before it clattered to the ground. Panic ran through her mind at first, but she felt no pain. She did however get a blaring warning about armor integrity levels that did not help with the initial panic. Though on closer inspection her integrity was holding, but she'd just had a really close encounter that left her heart pounding even harder than it had been previously.
"Entrance secure, I think I'll let you two take point in breaching it though," Kozakura said.
Kwabba-an waited patiently until she heard the sound of Kozakura's voice, at which point she took a quick glance up over her cover before hopping over and closing the distance to her comrade.
"Understood," Kwabba-an intonated her understanding as she studied the entranceway, then looked down at the blades of her ABSRs.
"Do either of you have any explosives, sisters? I fear my blades may not cut it."
Sanda reapeared behind the two. She glanced down at the two guards sliced to peices.
"Nice work." She stepped up to the door and took her last charge of explosives and set it to the door.
"This should work. Be ready. They're sure to have some tough guys in there."
Kwabba-an, who had been expecting the answer to be negative, quickly flew for cover once Sanda began pulling out the explosives.
Kozakura had shook her head in response to Kawabba-an but quickly moved to get behind some cover while Sanda placed the charges. While waiting in cover she sheathed her blades and switched back to the submachine gun as she didn't know how tight things would be inside.
Sanda moved back and to the side out of the blast range. She smiled as she said one of her favoirite things.
"Fire in the hole!" The blast blew the doors inward. As soon as Sanda pressed the button she was moving forward, blasting away with the Rifle. Inside the room were about a dozen technicians seated at various moniters and computer stations. Behind them were three Kuvexian power armor suits.
Once the worst of the blast seemed over, Kwabba-an had an idea. She dropped flat to the ground, but used some power from her CFS to float just above the ground. She then proceeded to fly into the room after Sanda, her ABSRs at the ready.
Screaming a Nepleslian curse Sanda rushed into the room. Her fire was directed at the Kuvexian power suits. Those were the greatest threat. Comprable to a Mindy, they had the speed, power and armor to make short work of the
Daughters of Yamatai.
Kozakura rushed in behind the others and then fanned out once inside the building. Her eyes quickly processed the targets and instantly moved from the technicians to the suits of power armor. Flicking a switch from burst fire to full auto, she began to unload in longer somewhat controlled bursts of rapid aether fire at the nearest suit to herself. Due to the confusion caused by the blast they still had the upperhand for the time being.
Flying just above the ground allowed Kwabba-an to quickly put herself in melee range while avoiding the exchange of weapons fire flashing overhead. Her experience with cutting into Kuvexian armor below the helmet gave her the idea that their other joints might be potential weakspots. With this in mind, she pointed her ABSRs at the knees of one of the suits of power armor and accelerated.
Sanda only had a few rounds left for the big 50mm cannon but she made good use of them. Despite being in such a tight space, the tattooed Nepleslian fired at point blank range. At such close range, even the heavy armor of the Kuvezian would take some serious damage. Even as Sanda prepared to fire a second time one the the enemy suits rushed her with an aether blade. She was barely able to jump out of the way before another attack was launched and Sanda had to duck under the powerful blade. The next swing knocked Sanda off balance and before she could recover the Kuvezian thrust its blade into her into her shoulder. Sanda dropped her plasma rifle as her arm went dead but was able to roll away before her attacker could follow up.
While one of Kwabba-an's strikes glanced off the heavy armor, the other managed to cut through the knee joint, but not as cleanly as her previous ones had. Her enemy struck down from above with some kind of blade, and she used the saber that had delivered the glancing blow to block a fast flurry of attacks.
Sanda tried to stall for time. Her suit would rearm itself and she'd be able to use her right arm again but it would take a moment. She drew her plasma revolver left handed and fired. Her attacker retreated and returned fire with its own sidearm. Sanda ducked down behind a computer console and kicked the tech cowering there out of the way. A green light appeared on her HUD, indicating her arm was working again.
"About time." She muttered. Her rifle was out of reach so she switched her revolver to the other hand. She stood again and shot at the closes target she could see. Unfortunately, it was one of the techs. The Kuvexian was using them for cover as it moved closer to her position.
Sanda fired twice then again had to jump out of the way as the power blade slashed at her. She had had about enough of this. Hostering her revolver, Sanda activated her own plasma blade that was attached to her right forarm. She parried the next attack then countered with one of her own. The attack caught her oponite off guard and scored a hit agaist the Kuvexian helmet. The Kuvexian backed up, seemlingly shaken at the blow it had recieved. Sanda activated her suits speakers,
"What's wrong? Scared?" She taunted. Her oponite lunged at her again. Sanda lost her footing and fell back against the wall. Sencing the kill, the Kuvexian lunged at her, thrusting its blade at the Daisy's midsection. Sanda was ready for this. How many times had she practiced this in boot camp. If she ever saw her old insturcter she'd kiss her right on the mouth. As the blade came in Sanda shifted her body and allowed the blade to pass inches from her left hip. With her left arm she grabbed her oponites weapon and pinned it against her body. Moving with lighting speed, Sanda drew her Straight Silver blade and jammed it into the Kuvexian head, right through the weak spot her plasma blade had made. For a moment, the two were helmet to helmet then Sanda said viciously,
"For Yamatai."
Kozakura for her part had dropped behind a row of consoles after needing to eject her old battery in favor of a new one. Slotting it in only took a few seconds so before long she was moving again. Though as she looked around her target was nowhere in sight. Circling around to the other side of some rows of consoles and monitors she found it, the Kuvie power armor was badly damaged, she wasn't sure if they were dead or not. Kozakura hesitated for a moment, raised her weapon, and then unloaded a burst into the helmet of the power armor.
Kwabba-an was still prone with one blade embedded in the knee of her enemy while she defended strike after strike from above. Because of this, she failed to notice her enemy carefully taking aim with their pistol until it was almost too late. Thinking quickly and with both of her upper arms occupied, she raised her bass guitar up in front of her helmet just in time to absorb the plasma fire. Fortunately, her bass was made of solid Zesuaium and the body absorbed the blast with only some carbon residue on its surface. Unfortunately for her listeners, her strings were not made of such a strong substance and snapped.
The insectoid woman's heart began to race. Her fingers no longer had anything on which to pluck out a melody, and she began to lose track of where the symphony in her ears was going. The enemy landed a strike with its blade, cutting the cable that connected her ABSR to her suit, and its aether generator. Her sabre fell back on its battery supply, but the woman who wielded it was starting to panic. What should have been the finishing blow began its arc downwards upon her, but Kwabba-an realized she still had one instrument in her arsenal.
"Oh the year was YE 43, 
How I wish I was in Kyoto now," Kwabba-an sang.
With newfound calm, the musician continued to sing out, this time managing to parry the blow that would have ended her. With her opponent off-guard, she flared her TAP engine and struck upwards, catching the kuvexian with a thrust up through its neck into its helmet. The body collapsed upon her, and she lay still underneath it, singing quietly into her open channel.
Sanda quickly recovered her plasma rifle and looked around the room. Against all odds, it looked like they had taken the secutity center.
"Nice work... Sisters." It didn't feel nearly as strange now to say that.
"Let's see if we can't deactivated the defences from here and inform the fleet that we've taken security center."
"Sounds good, it's all Yamataian tech so hopefully it won't be too hard," Kozakura replied while watching the techs scurry about and cower behind some cover.
It didn't take long for the three to secure the room. Already several other Mindy suits had joined them and helped lock down the room. Sanda had made sighed as she entered in the comms for the YSS Presurgence
. "YSS Presurgence, This is Santo Hei Sanda Hoshi of the Star Army Rangers. It gives me great pleasure to report that my companions, Santo Hei Tatsugami Kozakura and Santo Hei Kwabba-an Ternifac-xuralkhi have taken and secured the security center of the Sakura Fleet Depot. Though there are still many enemy troops fighting, the base defences have been shut down. For the glory of Yamatai."
