3rd person POV:
Temporarily joining up with the U.S.R.A.P.U trio, Ryuka took the three to a much more safer location, where they would be able to talk amongst each other.
Keeping her distance, Ryuka sat on a convenient table.
Ryuka: So you three really U.S.R.A.P.U?
Holding out her smart device, Captain Trudian revealed her credentials which The Hot Shot inspected.
Jacklin: I'll be taking lead on this operation from henceforth. So inform me of your plans.
Ryuka: Tch... I have rerouted power from a few buildings to my gear. I'm going to draw out and shoot the leader with a pinpoint shot.
Cynthia: You have a gear? Where is it?
Ryuka:(looks up)
Cynthia: You cloaked it on top of the roof?
Ryuka: The last place they expect a Gear to be.
Cynthia: Still... If it's constantly cloaked it must be quite hot in there.
Ryuka: Eh. The heat never bothered me, anyway.
Yn: Hold on, I don't get why you need extra power from other buildings?
Ryuka: The leader of the Crescent who has taken over Aphrodite, is staying tucked away in the president's building.
Ryuka: They're only going to come out, once they have completely modified a Gear they stole.
Yn: What kind of Gear?
Ryuka: Cypris, Venus's pride and joy of a Gear. It's extremely high on defense. That's why I needed to pack some extra punch.
Jacklin: So if we were to draw out this leader, then you could end it in one shot?
Ryuka: I can get rid of their defense, I can guarantee that.
Jacklin: In that case... Yn.
Yn: Yeah?
Jacklin: Draw out Venus's pride and joy.
Yn:(grinning) Aye Aye Captain!
(Meanwhile, in the presidential office)
A woman sat behind the president's desk, watching the final touches being added to the Venus Gear, Cypris.
(Crescent Venus general: Mary Peitho)
Mary: Hm-hm... The armor should be enough to get that Solar gear Luna wanted.
Mary: It will definitely help the cause against the corporations who dared try to withhold technology.
Mary: I can see it now... Them screaming as Crescent crushes those clods to the ground...hehehe...
Mary: I wonder if Miss Luna will leave me in charge of Venus?
(Rumble)
Mary:?
Turning her gaze out the window, Mary saw Solas burst out of the ground, flames gushing out from the Gear.
Mary:!?
Mary: At least I don't have to go through the hassle of searching for it...
Speaking through a communication device, Mary began shouting.
Mary: Is the transfer system ready?
C-Engineer:(coms) Yes, ma'am!
Mary: Then prepare to launch it, I'm hooking up to it!
Ending the call, she then takes out a mask, she places it around her head. Then she pressed a button on the side of the mask, causing her to lose consciousness as her mind his transferred into the gear.
Outside, Yn was quite easily gaining everyone's attention.
Yn:(speaker) Come out Crescent! Don't worry, I'm just going to punch a hole through all of you!
Yn:(speaker) Nothing that bad!
Cynthia:(coms) Hey! Stop it with the flames! You're in a city with hostages in almost every building.
Yn: Tch... Fine, fine... Freaking innocent lives... They need to learn to grow a pair.
Multiple Crescent gears stolen by the police arrived.
Modeled after a Gear of an old hero from a thousand years ago, these red gears were built to aid police officers in everything they could need in combat. Somewhat cheap, these mass production Gears were still a threat.
(Red hero model: Civil Guardian)
Solas ran towards one of the Gears and dropped kicked it down the street.
Jumping back to his feet, Yn got hit from behind by a few grunts with guns.
Jumping behind a building, Yn grabbed an empty car on the street which he tossed across the air, into one of the Crescent shooting at him.
The car exploded, making the Crescent tumble back and shoot at their allay.
More Crescent-controlled Gears then arrived and began firing at the Solar Gear, who was extremely limited in what he could do in the middle of a city that had people in the buildings.
Yn: More grunts, no boss!
Lighting his hand with burning flames, Solas sent a wave of fire down a street with Civil Guardians on it.
Yn:(speaker) Hey, whoever is in charge! I know you have a strong Gear!
Yn:(speaker) Either you come out, or I come to drag you out and smash you to bits.
Yn:(speaker) Like a raging beast, that's anger cannot be quench until its enemy is scattered across the ground in many bits!
(Crash)
Yn:?
Turning to the president's building, Yn saw a Gear that had crashed out of the building.
A blue bulky gear that had eight shields floating behind it like a cape, the pride, and joy of Venus's gear technology menacingly stood tall.
(Venus's pride and joy: Cypris)
Yn: That's it? Come on, Solas! Let's trash it!
(Venus battle theme)
Taking a running start, Solas leaped towards Cypris, with a burning fist at the ready.
Yn: HIYA!
The eight shields, floating behind it, promptly moved in front of Cypris and lined up to make a heavy line of defense for the Gear.
With a loud boom, Solas punched the shields in his way, but only managed to push himself back with that attack.
Yn: Okay, so it has a pretty good defense...
While Solas was still flying back, Cypris pulled out their gun and opened fire on Yn.
Mary:(speaker) Hehe...
(Bang,bang,bang,bang)
Spreading a volley of bullets across Solas's body, Yn was thrown off balance and fell into a building.
Yn:(grunts)
Luckily it didn't collapse, but Yn still had to move before Mary focused Cypris's power onto him.
Ryuka:(coms) Hey, kid. I need you to get those shields lined up again.
Yn: Can't you just shoot it now?
Ryuka:(coms) It has an auto-block feature. At best, I'll only get one shield and we want to get rid of all of them because its armor is just as strong.
Yn: So picky... I would just shoot it-
(Bang, bang)
Yn: Son of a-
Not only was Cypris firing at him, but the grunts as well.
Running up to one of the grunts, Yn tried to grab it, however, Cypris jumped in its way.
Solas attempted to get to a spot where the shields weren't guarding, but they followed him around Cypris.
Mary:(speaker) You can't break through Cypris's defense, so you might as well surrender.
Yn:(speaker) Please, I can easily break through your crummy shields! I just don't want to.
Mary:(chuckles)
Mary:(speaker) You sound quite young... Listen, Crescent isn't in the business of harming kids.
Mary:(speaker) I'm sure the leader of Crescent, Luna, won't hurt you if you come quietly.
Yn:(speaker) Kid...? Come quietly....?
Yn:(speaker) Well look at who knows all the words to piss me off!!
Solas couldn't help but begin to heat up at Yn's emotional burst.
Yn: HHHIIIIYYYAAAAA!
(BAM)
Solas threw a devastating punch which was blocked by one of the shields. But with flames flaring off of Solas, his power increased, forcing Cypris to line up its other shields to add to the defense.
Yn did not yield when all the shields were up and he was being shot at by the grunts, he pushed on.
Yn: Is this good enough for you?!
Ryuka:(coms) I can work with this.
A building began rumbling as Ryuka's gear stood up and toss aside its camo-cloak.
Aiming at the shield, Ryuka quickly pulled the trigger, sending a large bolt of plasma at Cypris
(BANG)
The plasma bolt flew across the air, zipping past Solas's head, and pierced the eight shields.
After it penetrated the eighth shield, the plasma bolt dissipated, before directly hitting Cypris.
Mary:!?
Shocked, Mary and her guards all turned their heads towards Ryuka's black and grey Gear.
(Special Forces Gear: Sniper model)
Ryuka: Ah~ it's so satisfying hitting a target after waiting so long.
She detached the long barrel of her Gears sniper, for it was too heated up for any more use.
Opting to turn it into rifle mode, Ryuka leaped down to the streets, shooting the grunts at their weak points to disable them along her way.
Solas then grabbed Cypris and tossed her across the air, back into the presidential building where it first crashed out off.
Ryuka then arrived near Solas and handed him a spare gun her Gear had. Taking it, Solas and Ryuka's gear then had their backs against each other, while Crescent grunts surrounded the two.
Ryuka:(coms) Make every shot count.
Yn: Yeah, yeah...
(Bang bang bang bang bang bang)â´
Lasers and bullets began flying across the city.
Ryuka kept on moving as she fired expertly into the enemy's weak points. She was like this because her Gear didn't have the best defense, for it wasn't made for that.
Yn in the meanwhile was less elegantly running around the city shooting and hitting gears with Solas's targeting system, regardless, he was still getting shot and not doing much to the enemy.
That infuriated Yn, along with the gears that shot him from behind making a turn only to get shot from behind again, a reoccurring problem for the young ace pilot.
Luckily for him, Ryuka provided supporting fire which helped him.
Ryuka:(coms) New plan, I shoot you focus on Cypris because my weapons aren't going to do anything to that-
Speaking of the opponent, Cypris cut off Ryuka, slamming her into a building.
Attempting to run only for Mary to grab Ryuka's Gears arm and point her weapon at her, the Hot Shot knew Cypris's gun would shred through her Gear.
Seeing as her gun wasn't going to do much damage to her, Ryuka shot her own Gears arm off to escape.
Cypris still managed to hit Ryuka's Gear with a few bullets.
Ryuka:(coms) A little help!
Before Cypris could fire at Ryuka again, Solas came up and lifted her arm up, forcing her to shoot the sky.
Elbowing Mary back, Yn felt a shot bounce off of Solas's head.
Yn: These guns are really pissing me off!
Turning around to shoot at the grunt, Yn sees that he and Solas had accidentally melted the gun, making it useless.
Making matters worse, Cypris riddled Solas with shots, making Yn's anger grow even more.
Yn:(mind) Can't go full burst near buildings... All the guns suck like a vacuum...
Yn: Solas, have any decent range capabilities? Preferably one that doesn't get Cynthia and the Captain screaming down my ear like old hags!
A holographic screen then popped up in front of Yn, with three dots going down the middle, horizontally.
...
An image of Solas shooting a concentrated beam of flames appeared.
Yn: You can do that? Swick.
Yn: Now just need to find a place where I don't barbecue the buildings.
Cypris then knocked Solas to the ground and pinned him to it. But all that did was give Yn an idea.
Yn: Hey, Captain. You've got nothing against me flaming up in the air, right?
Jacklin:(coms) Go ahead.
Yn:(smirks)
Knocking Cypris off of him, Solas leaped into the air, flying high above the city with fire engulfing him.
(Solas's theme)
Yn:(speaker) My soul is boiling with Rage!!!
Everyone:!?
Yn:(speaker) Its scolding heat has inspired my spirit to go beyond and obliterate you!!
Clapping his hands together, Solas points a finger gun at Cypris.
Yn:(speaker) Now taste the flames of rage!
Yn:(speaker) SOLAR GUN...FIRE!!!
A constrained beam of fire shoots out at blinding speeds. With a blinding flash, a hole is shot through Cypris, destroying the machinery for the Transfer system, leaving it defeated.
Yn:(chuckle)...
Looking down on the remaining Crescent Gears, Solas points his Solar gun at them.
Yn:(speaker) Don't think I forgot about you!
(Back at the president's office)
Mary woke up, due to transferring her consciousness back from Cypris before Yn's Solar Gun penetrated through her Gear.
Taking off the Transfer mask, Mary saw Cynthia and Jacklin holding their guns in her face.
Jacklin: In the name of the U.S.R.A.P.U, for terroristic acts of solar system proportions, you are under arrest.
Cynthia: Now tell your people to surrender.
Mary:... Fine.
With that, the battle ended. As the Crescent in the area surrendered, and the gates to the other cities were opened, Yn and Ryuka took their Gears and parked them near the president's office where their comrades were.
The two pilots sat outside on the edge of their cockpits, leaving Yn to learn what that thing Ryuka was missing which Cynthia was mentioning.
Ryuka:(stretching)
It was a shirt. Or shame, depending on how you viewed it.
Ryuka: Hey! Good job kid.
Yn: Thanks, but don't call me kid! And why are you topless?
Miss Chuma was known to go shirtless often. This was her tactic against the heat that she would be exposed to in her cockpit.
Ryuka: What's wrong, never seen a woman's chest before?
Yn: No, it's just when I win a battle, my first thought isn't to strip!
Ryuka: That's not why I do it! I don't strip whenever I get slightly happy.
Ryuka: That would be my brother!
Ryuka: I do it, so my body can breathe.
Yn: You know what, I don't know why I'm complaining. You do you.
Ryuka: I always do.
(A few days later)
After apprehending the Crescent in the area, the crew of the S.S Dawn stayed to help calm things down, along with getting modifications to the ship, as thanks from Venus.
Once a few reports were made, Jacklin approached Special Agent Chuma, in a briefing room.
Ryuka: So what's this about?
Jacklin: I won't drag this conversation along. I wish for you to join my crew and aid in the battle to stop Crescent.
Ryuka: Why you want me?
Jacklin: You're a resourceful agent, a great pilot, and an even greater shot.
Jacklin: We could use you. If only as support for Solas.
Ryuka:... You all are going to take the fight to Crescent?
Jacklin: Of course.
Ryuka: If I'm going to join... I need a better Gear than the mass-produced crap the military hands out.
Jacklin: Our next stop is Mercury, where we'll be getting Nexstar industries to make us weapons.
Jacklin: I'm sure they can provide you with something suitable.
Ryuka: You think we can get them to turn Cypris into something good?
Jacklin: If you can convince the Venus military to hand it over to us.
Ryuka:... Alright, I'm on board.
Jacklin: Then I'll see you on my ship before noon.
(The next day)
Yn was cleaning up Solas until he noticed Ryuka leaning against his gear.
Yn: What are you doing here?
Ryuka: I'm coming along. We're now partners on the war field, kid.
Yn: Call me kid one more time, stripper, and I'll kick some respect into you.
Ryuka: Heh... You seem too hot-headed for a pilot.
Yn: That's why I'm here. Other pilots lack that, to pilot this.
He gestures to Solas.
Ryuka: I don't really care... As long as you got my back, what does it matter if you're a kid?
Yn: And as long as you have my back, who cares if you're a closeted stripper?
Ryuka:...
Yn:...
The two shake hands.
Yn: Welcome aboard.
Ryuka: Thank you.
Yn: I'll let you off today, but starting tomorrow, if you call me kid. I will punch you.
Ryuka: Noted.
(Meanwhile with Luna)
Gaining more footage of Solas, Luna studied it intensely in hopes of finding the secret to unlocking more of Lunas's power.
(Ending theme)