Legacy of Earth

Chapter 13 - Iridescent Skies

In the Skies above the City of Aksai the two modified Z-13s fought above igniting the sky from the lights that came from their thrusters. Alon grinned excitedly as he fired his last remaining shots from his Gunblade at Liyab who dodged the first one but the second grazed him near the chest.

"You're quite the shot." Liyab complimented him as he fired his last remaining shots at him and then discarded the two Rifles and pulled the Kukris and closed the gap further as the two mechs engaged in close quarters combat his Kukris caused sparks with Alon's Sword.

"Is that the best you got?"

"Just getting started!"

Alon deflected the kukris and tried to punch him, however, Liyab ignited its leg Saber and sliced him upward slicing his physical sword in half. Liyab then finally activated the arm and leg mounted sabres while Alon pulled out the two spare sabres as the two locked blades again. However, this time Liyab has a head mounted Vulcan and began to open fire throwing Alon off as he swung his sabre upwards slicing his right arm off only for Alon to retaliate by swinging downwards slicing off his arm causing both of their mechs to sustain damage and back away.

"I'll let you walk away for repairs," Alon said half hoping that he'll take his word and fly off so he can get some repairs.

"I can still fight," Liyab said as Alon readied for another assault from him but a withdraw flare was released once more forcing the two to withdraw once more.

"Better not run away on the next push!" Liyab told him as Alon silently flew back as soon as he was out of range from Liyab's Zio, he quietly let out a sigh of relief realizing that he had nearly just escaped death.

Though that did not save him from the disapproving looks of Wu and Filia who immediately were staring at the missing arm from the ReZio as he flew back into the main hangar to undergo the repairs needed.

"Normally we'd say take it easy but compared to the last one, this is honestly minor." Wu shrugged as Filia looked through her tablet typing down any further improvements she can add to the ReZio.

"Don't worry Martial, in just a few hours we'll get a new Arm on that." She then turned to Alon with an amused smile. "Just make sure to not repeat that, we don't exactly have any custom made arms because if you lose that then you'll no doubt just stick to the standard Zio Arms instead."

"I'll make sure then," Alon said as he saw Dain walking towards him looking at the footage of his fight.

According to Tsuna, the Optics of a Mech were also designed to record and store the footage of the Mech that allows the crew to study the mistakes made by the Pilot but also keep track of the confirmed kills made each sortie.

"Naga, can I have a word with you in private?" Dain said walking towards him as he set aside the datapad that showed it. "Yes sir," Alon said as they followed a more secluded part of the hangar.

"I saw your entire sortie earlier and I would like to first begin praising you for your skill not only for your confirmed kills but also your ability to keep up with what appears to be an Ace Pilot for the Orthus present." He said looking at him in the eye. There was a bit of pride swelling inside of Alon when he heard that, it even made him feel that he had earned his place within the crew.

However.

"But what you did was also reckless and dangerous, what if he just lured you in to be killed by enemy reinforcements, not to mention the damage he left on the ReZio, just like what Martial and Ms. Ziora the ReZio is highly valuable to Memento Mori as a whole." He said moving the timestamp to his 'duel' with Liyab. "Which is why next time I order you to avoid doing a similar stunt in the future."