3rd person POV:
Covered in a stealth cloak that hid Solas from all types of sensors, with Captain Trudian and First mate Cynthia on the Gear shoulder, Yn slowly flew towards the reserve thruster.
Cynthia: So this is what is like under a stealth cloak? This heat... Feels as if I'm being cooked in an oven.
Jacklin: Bare it out, Cynthia. But I'll confirm this heat is quite something.
Cynthia: Yn, are you sure you're not making things more difficult than they have to be?
Yn:(coms) Hey, this is all the cloak. But if you want to learn the difference, I'll turn up the heat.
Jacklin: There will be no need for that. Simply get us into the thruster before we begin experiencing heatstroke.
Yn:(coms) Aye Aye Captain.
Floating quietly into the intended location, Yn removed the cloak, giving the first mate and Captain some relief from the heat.
Walking further into the thruster, the three discover that a hole has already been broken through the construct.
Yn:(coms) Did someone beat us to it?
Cynthia: It's either was the Hot Shot or the Crescent.
Jacklin: That's unimportant. Simply stay on guard.
Slipping into the hole, Solas began moving through the maintenance halls of Aphrodite city.
(Opening theme)
Inside the city Aphrodite, a woman with orange hair, tanned skin, and wearing a red pilot suit, sneaked through the city, as Crescent-controlled Gears were patrolling the streets.
(Ryuka Chuma)
Ryuka:...
Sneaking into a building through an open window, Ryuka saw several people who weren't able to leave due to Crescent.
Most people didn't notice her, except a small few.
Making her way to the cellar, Ryuka looked around, until she eventually found what she was searching for.
The fuse box. Which was the control unit of all the electricity of this building.
Running up to it, she found it to be locked.
Ryuka: How old school...
Ryuka: Lock...meet gun.
(Bang)
Pulling out a beam pistol, she shot the lock off the fuse box relatively quietly.
With its contents now free for her to mess with, she promptly began setting things up so the power would be rerouted at a certain time to one building in particular.
She had already achieved this with several other buildings.
Ryuka:(mind) This should be enough...
Closing the fuse box, she pulled out her gun and shot the Crescent spy who had noticed and followed her down to the cellar.
They weren't a trained soldier by any means, their espionage aptitude was proof of that.
Walking up to the corpse, she looked down to see they were some guy in their early twenties.
Ryuka: Another body to hide.
Dragging it away from where they fell, Ryuka hid the body behind a pillar. Patting the body down, she found a communicator like the other Crescent spies.
Being useless to her, she left it with him and simply left.
Or attempted to leave.
Ryuka failed to notice is that Crescent had learned after the other few spies she had put down.
Failing to report at a certain time, several Crescent foot soldiers began gathering around the building she was inside.
Making matters worse, they had one gear with them.
Crescent pilot:(speaker) The person responsible for harming our own is to come out immediately with their hands up.
Crescent pilot:(speaker) Citizens in the building if you bring the one responsible out, you will not be harmed.
Crescent pilot:(speaker) If you do not aid us, we'll be forced to consider all of you our enemies until the matter is settled.
Ryuka began climbing to the roof of the building as the people inside began panicking.
Ryuka:(mind) So these conspiracy theorists have learned to be more like soldiers, eh?
Ryuka:(mind) I can't get caught, not after how close I've gotten to succeeding in my mission.
Ryuka:(mind) These people might have to pay the price for the greater good... Sorry, but it's you or more.
Arriving on the roof, Ryuka prepared to wait until the Crescent gang invaded the building so she could more easily escape by leaping into a neighboring building.
That was until she heard the gear pilot shout.
Crescent pilot:(speaker) What the stardust!? I'm sinking!!
Ryuka:?
Looking over the edge, Ryuka watched as the crescent-controlled gear was sinking into the street. The street somehow became superheated, causing it to be in a more molten liquid state.
Ryuka:(mind) What's going on? Are the wires under the street superheating?
Ryuka:(mind) No... That can't...
Fearing that the street might explode, the Crescent units left, leaving the gear sunken in the street.
Ryuka: I guess everything worked out.
With it no longer being necessary for her to leap off a building, Ryuka made her way back down and exited the building during the confusion.
As she snuck into an allyway, Ryuka noticed how a nearby manhole cover began moving, until it popped off the ground and a young man in a pilot suit came to the surface.
Yn: Now where am I...?
Ryuka:(pulls out gun) Who are you?
Yn: Huh?
Turning around, Yn saw how this stranger was pointing a gun at him.
Yn:!?
Yn: Whoa, whoa, put the gun down.
Ryuka: Answer the question, who are you, or I will shoot you dead on the spot.
Yn: I'm ace pilot Yn Direx. And if you shoot me, I'm going to kick your ass!
Ryuka: Did you not hear the part where I was going to shoot you dead?
Yn: I did, just chose to ignore it.
Ryuka: Ignore it?
Yn: Yep. I have a city to save, so I can't die.
Ryuka:?
Ryuka: Y-you said you were an ace pilot? Who are you with?
Jacklin: The United Space Research And Peace Union.
Ryuka:!?
Turning around, she saw Jacklin and Cynthia point their guns at her.
Cynthia: We're here to help Miss Chuma.
She tells the Hot Shot, to get her to drop her weapons.
Ryuka:... We can't talk here. Let's go somewhere else.
TO BE CONTINUED...