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Izana leans forward in their seat anxiously listening to the broadcast of Akai's team and the sortie to eliminate gauna 487 with all the other pilot cadets. They sat in one of the lecture rooms, all watching the live video feed and the audio transmissions as the team first engages the gauna. Everything was going perfecting. They first used their Heigus Particle Cannons to reduce the ena (the rapidly regenerating false body of the gauna) and expose the core (the true body of the gauna) thus allowing the team to kill the gauna and end its threat to Sidonia.
Their maneuvers were perfect, synchronized and flawless. Within 30 seconds of engagement, the core was exposed and Akai was closing in to strike with the kabizashi (the only weapon that could penetrate a gauna's core), when there was suddenly screaming over the comm.
Collectively, all the cadets drew in their breath, watching and listening with horror as it all fell apart. Akai was the first to fall, pierced and captured by tentacles formed by the gauna's ena. Momose lost control then, forgetting the mission and screaming for the gauna to give back her finance.
More shots were fired, both from the garde unit's Heugus cannons and their railguns, but Izana could only hear the wet sound of Akai's death.They covered their mouth, suddenly sick.
Midorikawa and Kashiwade (Izana couldn't help remembering them joking about how they were going to beat the gauna) try to salvage the mission and pull Momose back, but within a minute all pilots were dead.
Stunned, Izana's gaze flicks to Midorikawa's younger sister,Yuhata wasn't it?. They couldn't help but feel sorry for her lose. For all their loses. But the battle wasn't over yet.
"Fire the heavy mass cannon now!" The Captain orders, coolly, over the bridge's comm.
"Roger. The target's gauna 487. Prepare the heavy mass cannons." The Commander's Aid replies before the combat feed is cut out.
The cadets turn to look at each other, stunned from the battle and confused as to why the feed was cut. Izana stands to look for Nagate when an announcement cuts through all the speakers throughout Sidonia:
Action erupts around the room and before the call to fasten gravity belts is spoken, every cadet is making their way out of the room to the nearest safety rails. Izana is pulled along with them, though they try to shove and push to make their own way and not be pulled along. The cadets don't panic, but it is a near thing.
The first rails Izana comes across are already dangerously full and so they continue, stooping to help another cadet who has fallen regain their feet. It takes more effort than it should, which makes them realize the gravity is shifting. Based on the axis, and the vibrations through the floor, Izana is stunned to realize Sidonia is accelerating, and at a diagonal at that. This is bad, very bad. Sidonia's artificial gravity is rated to only work for 1G of acceleration and at the perpendicular, not diagonal! As the floor of the hallway starts to rise and become an incline, their fears are confirmed.
"Nagate!" They shout out as they spot him. "This way!"
He comes running over and they make their way to another safety rail, but it is crowded. The pitch of the floor is only rising and Izana has to fight down panic. "Over here!" She hears someone call out. Looking over, it's Hoshijiro and she's at a smaller safety railing that still has room! Izana grabs Nagate's arm and pulls him along. It's like running up a hill now and Izana's breath is becoming labored, but they make it to the safety rail. Izana hooks their belt but Nagate seems to be having trouble until Hoshijiro slaps his hands away and releases the catch.
The gravity plane shifts and all three fall towards the window at the end of the hall, their belt catching their fall and yanking the air from their lungs. Another cadet isn't so lucky. He falls around a corner, hitting his head, and tumbles down the hall to fall into the central cavity of Sidonia. Despite themself, Izana tries to reach out to catch him, getting a fingernail torn as he is knocks their hand in his flailing.
Their maneuvers were perfect, synchronized and flawless. Within 30 seconds of engagement, the core was exposed and Akai was closing in to strike with the kabizashi (the only weapon that could penetrate a gauna's core), when there was suddenly screaming over the comm.
Collectively, all the cadets drew in their breath, watching and listening with horror as it all fell apart. Akai was the first to fall, pierced and captured by tentacles formed by the gauna's ena. Momose lost control then, forgetting the mission and screaming for the gauna to give back her finance.
More shots were fired, both from the garde unit's Heugus cannons and their railguns, but Izana could only hear the wet sound of Akai's death.They covered their mouth, suddenly sick.
Midorikawa and Kashiwade (Izana couldn't help remembering them joking about how they were going to beat the gauna) try to salvage the mission and pull Momose back, but within a minute all pilots were dead.
Stunned, Izana's gaze flicks to Midorikawa's younger sister,Yuhata wasn't it?. They couldn't help but feel sorry for her lose. For all their loses. But the battle wasn't over yet.
"Fire the heavy mass cannon now!" The Captain orders, coolly, over the bridge's comm.
"Roger. The target's gauna 487. Prepare the heavy mass cannons." The Commander's Aid replies before the combat feed is cut out.
The cadets turn to look at each other, stunned from the battle and confused as to why the feed was cut. Izana stands to look for Nagate when an announcement cuts through all the speakers throughout Sidonia:
This is an anti-gravity alert. This is an anti-gravity alert.
Sidonia will undergo emergency acceleration.
All hands, fasten your gravity belts to a railing and prepare for acceleration.
Once again....
Sidonia will undergo emergency acceleration.
All hands, fasten your gravity belts to a railing and prepare for acceleration.
Once again....
Action erupts around the room and before the call to fasten gravity belts is spoken, every cadet is making their way out of the room to the nearest safety rails. Izana is pulled along with them, though they try to shove and push to make their own way and not be pulled along. The cadets don't panic, but it is a near thing.
The first rails Izana comes across are already dangerously full and so they continue, stooping to help another cadet who has fallen regain their feet. It takes more effort than it should, which makes them realize the gravity is shifting. Based on the axis, and the vibrations through the floor, Izana is stunned to realize Sidonia is accelerating, and at a diagonal at that. This is bad, very bad. Sidonia's artificial gravity is rated to only work for 1G of acceleration and at the perpendicular, not diagonal! As the floor of the hallway starts to rise and become an incline, their fears are confirmed.
"Nagate!" They shout out as they spot him. "This way!"
He comes running over and they make their way to another safety rail, but it is crowded. The pitch of the floor is only rising and Izana has to fight down panic. "Over here!" She hears someone call out. Looking over, it's Hoshijiro and she's at a smaller safety railing that still has room! Izana grabs Nagate's arm and pulls him along. It's like running up a hill now and Izana's breath is becoming labored, but they make it to the safety rail. Izana hooks their belt but Nagate seems to be having trouble until Hoshijiro slaps his hands away and releases the catch.
The gravity plane shifts and all three fall towards the window at the end of the hall, their belt catching their fall and yanking the air from their lungs. Another cadet isn't so lucky. He falls around a corner, hitting his head, and tumbles down the hall to fall into the central cavity of Sidonia. Despite themself, Izana tries to reach out to catch him, getting a fingernail torn as he is knocks their hand in his flailing.
