Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 38

As I began drifting off to sleep, alarms were suddenly blaring.

My eyes shot open, and red lights were flashing before my tired eyes in my room. I looked at a screen that popped up but was too dreary to read anything.

Rubbing the sleepiness out of my eyes, I look at the screen that reads emergency sortie, all available pilots are being called, situation developing.

I rub my eyes again to see if I'm reading it correctly, but it remains the same, and I wonder what is going on. Our aias is being repaired and we were resting, so to call everyone means something big is happening.

Reading that Norn, who was sleeping on her bed on the opposite side of our room, said in a lazy and groggy voice.

"What's with all the noise?"

As I got out of bed, Norn covered her ears with her pillow to block out the noise, which, to my pleasure, I dragged her out of her bed, letting her fall onto the ground.

"Hey, what was that all about?"

I felt slightly happy that she fell on her rear end because, again, I was the responsible one for this week, which I was laughed at when I had to be responsible for writing up a report to Commander Sharp as a punishment for both of us causing a mess at the training area again.

"It's an emergency sortie; I don't know what it is specifically."

Rubbing her rear end, Norn ran to her closet while I went to mine to change into our circuitry suits.

Putting on our matching jackets to cover ourselves since it was skin tight, we ran to the hangers.

As we ran, we saw the base was even more busy than usual. There were pairs of pilots and aviators running to the hangers.

They all made way for us since we took priority, and as people were making way for us, coincidentally, we met up with Scott.

The three of us were surprised that we were running into each other, but it wasn't really the time to be surprised.

Norn asks Scott what is going on right now and why everyone is being sent out because Scott is an aviator and he is wearing his flight suit, which includes a helmet directly connected to his brain, meaning that he can get a constant flow of information.

"Any updates on what is going on?"

"Yes, apparently base 38 has been attacked. I don't know if I'm seeing this footage correctly or not, but a gate somehow opened up directly in the base itself."

"What? How did that happen?"

I was surprised that it happened because gates are normally open in places away from human civilization. I wonder if it was intentional or just bad luck that it happened that a gate appeared in base 38.

Reaching the hangar, we separated into our respective machines. There were already aiases being moved up from their ports and into the airfield to be airlifted, as well as APCs and other transport aircraft being sent out.

At our port, maintenance personnel repairing our named aias were getting out of the way for us to sortie.

As we were being plated up, I asked the people plating us how much they had repaired our Aias.

They told us that they managed to repair most of the damage; however, they weren't fully done with the right arm's repairs but still usable and to take it easy with the right arm.

Putting our helmets on while going up the elevator, we made sure everything was secure and working properly. Then we used our helmet, similar to Scott's aviator helmet but specifically made for named pilots, to call for Commander Sharp to know what was going on.