Chapter 22

[Andre's POV]

"I believe you have weapons at your disposal that could defeat your enemy. Use it wisely!" Dorothy advised Andre, talking from her feed.

"Roger that, ma'am!" Andre replied and received data from the enemy SynthMech unit from Dorothy's smart phone.

"I see…" Andre thought as he read the information from his feed.

Seeing that Andre's unit had stopped moving, the enemy SynthMech attacked. He rushed toward Andre, thinking that he gave up. Andre leapt back and then planted a mine before him.

A loud explosion soon followed as the enemy SynthMech landed on the mine. "What!?" the enemy exclaimed after the loud explosion.

"How dare you!!!" the enemy angrily yelled using his loudspeaker and tried to attack. However, what happened next shocked him. His SynthMech unit's leg was damaged by the mine.

"You cunning little!" The enemy tried using his SynthMech's weapon to attack.

Andre blocked the attack using the armor on his SynthMech's arms. "It's my turn!" Andre said and attack using the Shock Baton of his unit. "Taste the wrath of a hundred thousand volts!"

The attack landed near the chest cavity of the enemy SynthMech unit. The shock caused damage to the enemy and penetrated inside, shocking the pilot, incapacitating him.

As the enemy SynthMech fell to the ground. Andre felt relief and looked at the energy remaining for his SynthMech suit. He only had forty percent energy remaining.

"These things sure are not energy efficient…" Andre commented and looked at Dorothy Dawn and the extraction team's coordinates. "I may still make it in time!"

[Marrick's POV]

Marrick was aboard the Mech, piloted by Sheila. They were heading towards the coordinates given to them by the commander. It was located at the port area where the submarine was.

"Are we sure we'll make it?" Marrick asked Sheila.

"Yes, we will." She replied.

An awkward silence followed the conversation. The tight cockpit of the Mech designed to accommodate one person did not not help.

"By the way, how long have you been piloting a Mech?" Marrick asked, trying to break the awkwardness between the two.

"Five years… I was a pilot from Greenstone International." Sheila replied to him.

"Five years? That's quite a long career!" Marrick complimented her.

"It's all luck, you see!" Sheila replied and continued, "Luck was what kept me alive and this..." She took her pendant, which she had designed like a shamrock with four leaves.

Suddenly, they heard of a loud explosion. They saw the flash five hundred meters away, west from their location.

"It's close, what it could be?" Marrick asked Sheila.

Zooming at the location from one the panels of her monitor. Sheila noticed it was two SynthMech suits fighting. Sheila noticed that one of the SynthMech suits was disabled and was finished off with an attack. The defeated SynthMech suit fell to the ground.

"Who could it be?" Marrick asked himself and thought of Andre then looked at Sheila. "Can you communicate with that SynthMech?" He referred to the victorious unit that stood at least fifteen feet tall.

"I'll try. I hope I can connect with him!" Sheila replied and used her communications line to connect to the SynthMech unit. "SynthMech unit, are you an ally? I am Sheila from Zanderthine Corporation!"

"SynthMech?" a familiar voice replied to them.

Marrick, who could notice the voice, replied, "You dumbass, never thought you could pilot a SynthMech, and win against one!"

"You… Beaverface!" The voice replied and he laughed, "It is me, Andre, you numb nuts! Who is the pilot?"

"Long story short, Andre. We need to rendezvous with our allies." Marrick replied.

"You're right! We must make sure that we deliver the doppelgänger and the package safely. Let's go!" Andre said.

"Roger that!" Marrick replied and looked at Sheila, "He's our friend alright!"

Sheila smiled in relief and said, "I guess your friend saved us from the trouble. Let's head to where our allies now!"

"Roger that!" Marrick replied and then yelled to Andre, "Lead the way!"

"I don't take orders from a beaver face!" Andre joked, which made Marrick and Sheila laugh.

"Let the lady do the honors, then." Marrick replied.

Marrick and Sheila inside the Mech joined Andre in his SynthMech suit. They headed to the coordinates to where Dorothy Dawn and her extraction team were located. They proceeded cautiously as the enemy may ambush them.