Whatever it takes

Fallen Comrades

Nevada/Stonehenge Base

"Now I'm sure most of yall know that we had a small meteor shower last night, now your probably wondering why this is so important. From what we can tell only two meteors have made planetfall that wouldn't be so worrying if some of are astronomers didn't take these."

Two pictures appear on screen, it's hard to make out but it appears to be two mechs inside the fireballs.

"Now one has landed not that far from the imperium of Lorren are imforments have confirmed that they have made contact with it and confirm it's a NEXT although the Lorren's are keeping us away from it believing it to be a warrior sent by there goddess."

The screen switches to a red flag with a yellow sword and sickle in the middle.

"Now I'm sure you've heard of are new communist "friends" the Socialist Republic of Arkland, they almost match us in terms of tech so we're handling them as a serious threat, don't even get me started on the first contact incident."

The speaker pinchis the bridge of his nose "Fucking idiots" he quickly returns to the briefing

"The second object made impact deep inside there territory almost hitting a major population center are spys haven't given us much information but there close to finding out if it's another NEXT and where it's being kept, now until we get an update. Thermidor, Overlord, and Rook you will be going to Lorren to hopefully make contact with the LYNX. Strayed, Victoria, and Lycan you will be assigned to the first fleet who are patrolling the north sea close to the SRA and await for an update from are spys, briefing dismissed."

Imperium of Lorren

Thermidor glided over the water as he was flanked by two other NEXT.
The heavy four legged one was piloted by Rook its Loudout consisted of a lot of heavy ordnance , the second one was a medium class piloted by Overlord its loadout consisted of mostly energy weapons.

"What's the the plan Thermidor?"

"We're to gain the trust of the Lorrens and find out who the LYNX of the unknown NEXT is."

"Sounds easy enough, just blow up a few Theocracy camps."

"That might happen sooner than later, recon has spotted a large force of Theocracy forces moving on the Lorren capital."

As soon as the group started approaching the harbor to the city they could already see some civilians taking notice of there approach a few fled into the city while the others stayed and watched the three massive machines land infront of them.

"Remember, keep your fingers off the trigger and make sure your Primale Armor is down last thing we need is to melt an entire district by accident."

Knights poured out from within the city some visible shaking as they stared down the Titans infront of them.

Soon a knight commander made his way through the ranks quickly addressing the three machines infront of him "has the goddess also sent you!?" The commander spoke in a language Thermidor didn't understand but that wouldn't be much of a problem.

Unsung moved, kneeling to the ground to let its pilots out. As Thermidor climbed down the retractable ladder from his cockpit he peaked into the mind of the commander quickly leaning his language in a mater of seconds.

"I'm sorry but could you repeat that" Thermidor asked in fluent Lorren as if he had spoke it for most of his life

The knight commander was taken aback as this stranger spoke his language "I asked if the goddess has sent you as well?"

"No although we are looking for someone similar to us, he fell from the sky." As Thermidors words left his mouth he could see the knight commander visibly tense. Taking this chance Thermidor peered back into the man's mind quickly finding what he was looking for.

From the pov of the knight he could quickly identify the looming NEXT, the single chess piece emblem visible
"Malzel" Thermidor whispered.

"He did mention others, although he is currently in the audience of the king"

"Ah in that case then we request an audience with the king as well" Thermidor asked, at this point they were getting quite the crowd gather around them whispers filling the air around them

"The king...isn't currently accepting audience's from outsiders."

"But it's of upmost importance we not only wish to find are friend we wish to help you and your country with the current...predicament that yall are in. We come from nation across the ocean and we wish to give you aid."

"Like I said the king-"

A knight ran around the corner of a building Shouting at the top of his lungs "Commander!" He pushed himself through the barricade of other knights until he reached the commander and gave him a letter as he spoke again barley getting the words out as he tried to catch his breath.

"His...highness has requested...that he see the stranges immediately..."
The commander opened the later and stayed silent as he read the letter.

"Looks like his Majesty has taken notice of you" the commander looked toward the massive citadel that sat on a hill over looking the city "fine then, fallow me and leave your..Titans behind"

Overlord, and Rook disembarked there NEXT and fallowd the knight commander to the citadel.

As the massive doors opened they were greeted with the sight of a man standing infront of the king, his bulky build immediately recognized by Thermidor. As they stopped right behind the man he looked back, his eyes widening when he met Thermidor's gaze.

"Ah yes, the outsiders I believe you two know eachother." The king said as a smile spread across his deathly pale face, to say the king looked dead is an understatement he looked drained of blood his movements were also slow like he could barley move.

Malzel and Thermidor stayed silent the whole meeting only talking when needed. Eventually the king agreed to whatever Mazel had proposed before they got there. While he also agreed to make diplomatic talks between the US and Line Ark.

As the final preparations on the agreement were being made a knight barged into the throne room "your Majesty we're under attack by the Theocracy!"

The king went to get up only to collapse back down on his throne his servants rushing to his side "your Majesty you haven't recovered fully yet, your going to kill yourself if you keep pushing it"

As the king and his servants argued back and forth both Thermidor and Mazel said the same thing "we can deal with them" both looked at each other as the words left there mouths.

Socialist Republic of Arkland

We see a green reverse legged NEXT and it's pilot tied to a chair "tell us how it works or we'll just tear it apart and reverse engineer it" I voice called out although the LYNX could not see its origin.

After a moment of silence a figure stepped out of the shadows revealing the owner of the voice, a middle aged man in a brown trench coat with a black and red military cap on.

The man snapped his fingers and electricity ran through the chair and into the LYNX who howled in response, after a few seconds it stopped leaving the pilot hunched over breathing heavily.

"Tell us or we'll scrap it"

The LYNX looked up to met the cold uncaring glare of the man "if you so much as scratch Lisa I'll kill you."

The man closed his eyes for a moment and breathed in deeply and breathed out before approaching the tied up LYNX "if you just tell us how it works and give us the plans to it this could all be over with, you could go back to your cell and we wouldn't have to do this anymore."

The LYNX spat in the older man's face. The man had a look of disgust run across his face as he wiped the spit away with a handkerchief "double the voltage" he snapped his fingers again before walking away, the room filled with deafening screams.