When Sam's suit exited the tunnel's entrance, Sam's velocity was such that a skidding stop was unavoidable.  Even though the slowing and stopping of unit three wasn't the most graceful, some would say it had it's won style, as Sam brought the Gundam mobile suit slowly dropped to a knee to allow the knee-armor's three studs to act as additional breaking assitance.<br/><br/>As the machine slowed, and ultimately stopped, Sam's attention was finely tuned on the machine's hands, which he monitored carefully.  He had a eke in there, or more appropriately, an enemy pilot who'd just surrendered to him.  Again, Sam thought that if the circumstance were different (Yeah, if there wasn't a fucking war!), he might've found the girl attractive, even going so far as to ask her out.  Not now, though.  She was considered the enemy, and Sam had much more pressing things to think about, like the aftershocks reverberating through the Rift valley, after a huge section of it sunk further into the Earth.<br/><br/>Finally, though, the aftershocks were over, and Sam felt safe enough to lift the top hand of his suit, to check on his captive.<br/><br/>"You okay, lady?"  Sam asked, not really knowing what else to say, or how to even say it.