The Common Warstrider has already been damaged by the attack of the fuel-bolt launching Solar, leaving it unable to effectively tear off the small bundle of golden fury now on its chest, and its arms abruptly go limp as the cockpit is opened, and the pilot within stares in terror, looking notably beaten up, before being easily pulled out and thrown to the ground, leaving the way open for King.<br/><br/>The Noble Warstrider's pilot can see what King has planned as the common Warstrider, and as the Solar dashes for the cockpit, he growls. 'It won't be that easy for you, Anathema! These warstriders are designed to be impossible to take over without the proper Essence to attune them! You think we'd drop such gifts into your hands?!' he asks, the long hook sword sweeping down at the Zenith caste, sweeping down with all the force of an avalanche of stone onto the Solar's head. With a single spin, however, King sweeps his blade around in an arc, still surrounded in a golden burst of light, the bleaching light of the desert sun at high noon, that eliminates all shadow, and leads the jade daiklave downwards into the sand, sending up a huge plume, and sending him past Saffron, landing in the cockpit.<br/><br/>The cockpit, even though he's never been in one before, seems familiar, the sort of thing that you know you've seen a thousand times before, in another lifetime. The cockpit closes automatically, and... goes red. The screens light up, with a very distinctive symbol: A sunburst, with a red circle with a line through it covering said sunburst, and a countdown. It would appear that the Essence Lock in the Warstrider is designed to explode if it detects improper Essence...<br/><br/>And as King watches the countdown begin, he feels a sudden wave of heat from the hearthstone, and looks down to see a slot, clearly meant to hold a hearthstone, but currently empty.