April had been in the mess hall when she heard the alert.  The earth forces had been spotted on approach and it looked as they they we’re looking for a fight.  “All hands report to stations, this is not a drill repeat this is not a drill,” a voice over the loud speaker said.  April raced down the corridors to the locker room and pulled on her white jump suit and picked up her helmet and then she headed for the hanger bay.  She had only recently been given the prototype mobile suit.<br/><br/>It was called the White Knight which April admitted was appropriate as it looked like a medieval Knight adorned in white armor.  The suit was designed with close combat in mind though it did have machine guns on the head and torso giving it some mid range weapons.  It also had an experimental system call Zero built into it.  She had yet to use the system but it was said that it would feed combat data directly into the pilots mind and allow them react faster the average pilot.  As she approached the mobile suit she saw her flight crew preforming the last checks on the suit.<br/><br/>“Chief is the White Knight ready for combat?” April asked as she grabbed hold of the lift that would take her to the cockpit.<br/><br/>“The left stabilizer isn’t quite responding the way it should so you might have to compensate with the other,” the engineer said.<br/><br/>“I can live with that,” April replied as she climbed into cockpit and strapped into the seat as the hatch closed in front of her.  Reaching down she pul her helmet on and patched into the Zero system.  “Bridge this is White Knight I am ready to launch.