“All clear too,” Diaz said as she reloaded her shotgun one last time before booming it off on the dying Mechanoid.
“All clear as well,” Yinn reported and that was when Old Fammet hacked into their intercoms via Tellie.
“Yeap, yeap. The radar is all clear too. No more baddies around. Diaz must be satisfied with the-” Click was about to compliment her teammate until a loud shrieking noise interrupted their sweet victory.
“All clear my ass! Get all those dead Mechanoids in as soon as possible. They will be valuable for the creation of your new War Maidens.” Old Fammet shouted into his microphone.
“Also, Commander Jin is it? Bring that tank back into the workshop. We see if we can use it or not.” Old Fammet added and Jin smirked.
“That’s my intention the whole entire time. Why else would I risk myself getting so close to it? Without any reason?” Jin said as he went to the front and started pulling the tank by himself.
“You know you can drive this thing, right?” Diaz remarked which Jin ignored. “Oh, you are just showing off, aren’t you?”
“Far off the mark. I take this as supplementary training.” Jin spoke to Diaz in a sarcastic tone which made her roll her eyes before climbing and going into the tank to operate.
“Too bad for the Diamondz, I am taking this tank for myself.” Diaz was delighted as she pushed the dead Mechanoid away (while ensuring he is really dead.) and resume the tank systems so that she could have control of it. (After all, she would not dare to reboot it herself and found herself locked out of it.)
As she started to have a hang of the controls, Jin immediately hopped on and started telling her to move closer to the Mechanoid corpses where he could pile all of them up on the tank and move back to the workshop.
Yinn and Click also assisted by taking Old Fammet’s ride, a truck with relatively big cargo space out of the workshop the moment Old Fammet released the security lockdown. There, they started to bring all the dead Mechanoids into his Workshop as Nie started to identify and process each of the possible working parts along with Tellie.
On the other hand, the moment Jin had brought the pile of corpses along with the tank to the workshop, Old Fammet once again ordered them to see if there were any salvageable parts from the fighter plane that crashed and the rest of the helicarriers.
“At the peak of noon?” Jin asked as he pointed as his stomach.
“Do you want your Mechanoid or not?” Old Fammet asked
“What does that have to do with helicarrier parts or even fighter plane parts? Do you wish to make my War Maiden into some kind of transformer?” Jin questioned and when Old Fammet queried what was that, thinking it had to do with stepping up or stepping down electricity until Jin told them that it was basically something that transform. He even gave the answer using a truck turning into a robot as an example and returning back into one whenever the needed to.
“No, it is not that, it’s possible that the helicarriers might have additional Mechanoids in their storage compartment and for the fighter jet, it’s more for personal entertainment. I just want its engines to research. Part of it is fine as well.”
“You just want a piece of it as a trophy.” Nie said especially when Tellie managed to destroy one which could possibly be one of the best achievements a War Maiden could ever achieve and that rendered Old Fammet speechless for a moment or two before grumbling to Nie to work faster.
“Lol, looks like a jackpot. I see whether I could get it or not.” Jin said as he hollered Diaz.
“What? You want me to drag those scrap junk back?” Diaz complained and Jin pulled his rank just this one.
“It’s an order, besides, I am helping you aren’t I right? But get your shotgun in case those Mechanoids within the compartments can be violent.” Jin said as he too went to Nie’s SUV and took a shotgun as well.
“I thought you preferred your P90 submachine gun. It’s rare for you to take a shotgun.” Diaz said as she saw him using the same model as him. A pump action tactical from Remington.
“It’s better to have a shotgun at such close quarters… I think? Besides, I will need the firepower since you will never know if they are hiding behind the door waiting to pounce on us.
“Lol, that will never happen. They need to be activated.” Diaz said as she was about to waltz out the area.
“Stop jinxing stuff, Diaz!” Tellie shouted from afar and at that point, Jin already started to bring more ammunition with him.
“You believed her?” Diaz looked at Jin’s frantic collection of ammunition.
“Why not? It’s better to be safe than sorry. Also, tell Yinn to drive the truck to us once we gather the remaining parts.” Jin said he now took another shotgun and wrapped it behind his back. Diaz sighed and acknowledged Jin’s orders.
“They are a good team, aren’t they?” Nie whispered to Old Fammet.
“Yes, it’s rare to see the Mechanoids being treated not just as a team but as a family.” Old Fammet nodded his head and thought to himself until Jin looked back at him.
“I want a Medic War Maiden as well as a close combat capable War Maiden. Tellie, give him the data on your Medic War Maiden that had fallen. As for the close combat one, wait till I return before we decide on that.” Jin said as he waved and ran out into the forest to get the Mechanoid parts.
“This guy, not appreciating me and even commanding me around? Who does he think he is?” Old Fammet smiled as he grumbled.
“You did say you show them a real War Maiden. You better prove yourself right or else I am not paying a single cent!” Jin heard what Old Fammet said despite their distance apart.
“That rascal.”
