"Match you?" she replied. "I'm going to best you!" If she stayed at that range, she would have been torn up by his whips. And if she pulled back, she could use her other weapons, but he would've just torn them apart. So she instead chose to close the distance and stay on the inside. Darius was sur
Both of them used various jets on their mecha to quickly stand back upright and face each other. They had truly met their match with each other. If they had met under different circumstances, they would likely have become comrades. "I'll also admit you're not bad," he replied. They sized each oth
Mia cried out in anguish when her brother was killed, but now she was all alone with no-one to comfort or console her. Her sobs echoed flatly within the confines of her core. She had already prepared herself for this moment, but it still struck her hard. Experiencing loss was nothing new to her. It
The e-war squad leader looked at his comms display and raised three fingers in the air for a moment. Then he went back to work. "Thirty seconds," Tyrant replied. Eva sighed as she thought of Miko. She had a feeling that she would have had no problems with this hack by herself. "Make it fifteen,"
Eva immediately shot a few bursts at Mia, but she had narrowly evaded them all. Mia was as skilled at piloting as her brother! Perhaps even better. The e-war wing was furiously chopping away at their code, and the breachers had finally stripped away the siblings' NetDef. They quickly pushed their
During the last few cycles that remained of their time at the academy, the surviving cadets helped try to put the training yard back to the way it was before. With everyone pitching in, from the sergeants to Commander Riddell himself, things more or less got back to normal. At least, on the surface
Some wept. Meanwhile, journalists and their cameras were poring over the proceedings as it happened, and broadcasted the funeral throughout federation space for all to see. It made for amazing propaganda, and many hoped it would lead to a surge in military applications. To the powers-that-be, it w
Although she wasn't a fan of doing drills until she couldn't stand, she came to realize its importance. Over time, she noticed how those drills had honed her, and the other cadets around her. They made them much tougher than they thought possible. But she didn't realize just how critical they were