(trying play bit catch up here)<br/><br/><strong>Month 2, Day 8: Jareth Herman's Hangar</strong><br/><br/>Jareth swiped his brow with his oil stained arm, holding working gloves in both hands. Eberhart repairs are now complete since the last intense match and legs are now back fully functional. But he has also worked on testing new weapon which he has been working on. Finally done last check ups and bolting final bolts in he says; "Now let's see how this beauty works now. It should had adjustments right." Jareth climbs up to Eberhart and gives clearing order for the factory robots to make way and prepare open hangar doors. One hangar rorobts installs the device onto Eberhart's hand and after installation he activates Eberhart. A siren is heard and red light flares as warning for mech activation and hangar doors open and he walks out with Eberhart.<br/><br/>Eberhart is mostly same as before, including his trademark rifle in one hand. But in other he carried a massive shield! it looked similar in design to riot shields what police or military use during riots. The steel is similar what is used in Eberhart and is thick and heavy to add protection against projectile weapons. Jareth watches the meters carefully and sees the shoulder section in Eberhart which holds the shield shows red; telling it's under a heavy stress but what he can see so long he does not actually start swing it around rapidly constantly it should be fine. But to test shield weight and balance to his mech is not only reason for this walk, there are some dummy mechs which he has build with simple movement mechanic in the field and he activates them. They start jumpily move around, far agile than Eberhart but sizable enough count as standard light mech from MBF series. The dummies open fire towards Jareth and he moves siwftly as he can block the shots. The shots would not hurt Eberhart but he tests how crude it's to use the shield.<br/><br/>He sees none of the shots got through altough one was close but it went miss anyway. He watches meters how well shield holds up. So far all plates are holding together and holds agaisnt even three missiles which dummies fired on him. 0.0% dmg done. Altough firepower what shield is exposed is laughable but if it would get hurt from this then it means he needs more work to do with it.<br/><br/><em>Now to final test....</em><br/><br/>Jareth pot shots two mechs down through using cover of his shield, sees that the round side hole for rifle is giving adequote enough angle to fire and he can fire through using laser aim screen only which can be seen through small eye in tip of his gun. he orders final mech to start run and dodge and move. He moves to stand and pushes some buttons and on screen it reads;<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Shield arm: Activating operation steel eagle.</span><br/><br/>Jareth now raises his shield arm straight up, his mech's shoulders groaning from pressure but besides releasing extra steam it holds and does operation smoothly. Then parts from his shield break down and reveal four tiny plasma rocket engines around it! One in top, one at bottom and in both sides! Rockets activate their thrusters and shield starts whirl and spin rapidly, release howling sound in the desert and raise a dust cloud around him. However he is locked on target and then he tosses the shield towards running mech! The shield spins and flies rapidly after the mech, with click release a large razor blades around the shield. The mech runs and when shield is about hit it's legs, it leaps up. Not because it dodged but Jareth wanted it to, to test the homing qualities of his shield. Shield turns around in mid air clumsy slow maneuver and he tries make mech dodge it again with his mech but this time the shield had adapted anticipate maneuver and it instead sliced with loud screech ligther mech's arm off in powerful slicing motion. His shield goes off course and flips and spins around and crashes to the ground.<br/><br/>Jareth then activates the most risky operation with his shield; the return homing. The shield spins and takes off into air and spins towards him, offering it's shield arm. The shield spins and slows down in last minute and lets close range magnetic bracer fix pull the shield in and it ends up into awkward position and again pressure of the shield weigths his arm down. The bracers spins the magnetic disc and soon shield is back proper angle and position. Seeing arm cut of dummy mech and seeing the rocket fuel results; 47% fuel used with one attack. So shield has maximum two uses before it no longer cannot be thrown efficiently. Perhaps do simple ram attack in third but that's it. Jareth speaks loudly his thougths; "Hmmm, close enough. This is something what most would not expect from a shield anyway so it can do. I will save schema for factory AI so it can reproduce the shield if it gets broken down." Feeling bit surge of success Jareth brings his mech home and shuts it down. He visits shower, changes clothes and then closes up his factory and takes his car and starts drive to the city to celebrate little his success with his new weapon experiment after weeks of working straight on the hangar.<br/><br/>(Anyone feel tag Jareth for scene? He is mostly going to eat somewhere and perhaps go movie or something.)