<strong>Day 16:</strong><br/><br/>"Lastly, Mr. Montresor, we have to ask you about the one thing everyone's been talking about: your match with the West Korean pilot Moon Park at the end of the last season."<br/><br/>Montresor groaned inwardly and shifted his feet, feeling disdain toward the wide-eyed, yellow-headed journalist who was now staring at him from the couch where she and her talk show co-hosts sat. Of course that was how they had to play it: ask respectful questions about how he was planning to do better this season and what his opinion was regarding some of the new pilots, then, bam, slam him with a controversial question once he felt secure. He had done too many interviews to fall for such an obvious trick of journalism, though.<br/><br/>"Do I have to answer this a thousand times? Moon Park is an idiot. He insists on being directly involved in the repairs on his Mobile Weapon, but he doesn't know<em>anything</em>about mechanics. He probably just locked off the cooling system by accident when no one was paying attention, and that's why he overheated so quickly during the battle."<br/><br/>That earned him an incredulous look from one of the male hosts. "You really expect people to believe that Park sabotaged his OWN mech by ACCIDENT, Mr. Montresor?"<br/><br/>"Maybe if the media paid more attention to the preliminaries, you'd have an answer to that question. Put up the clip I brought in."<br/><br/>Montresor had had to pay handsomely from his own pocket to get the royalties to air this ten-second clip on public television, but it would be worth it to ruin the credibility of the smug reporters' claims against him. Plus, it was always fun to show people what an idiot Park was.<br/><br/>The short clip was from the West Korean's very first preliminary match. All it showed was a battered MW, Park's, kneeling down and lining up a shot with a brand new bazooka that he had purchased over the break. The rocket fired and shot off in one direction, while the bazooka and the arm that had formerly been part of the mech shot off in the other direction.<br/><br/>"Clearly, Park doesn't have the best repair technique in the world," Montresor said with a smirk.<br/><br/>"...Yes, clearly," answered the defeated blonde journalist. "Thank you for your time, Mr. Montresor, everyone appreciates you taking time out of your preparations to come in and give us a little more insight. Next in our Returning Stars of Mech Battling special series of interviews, we have Sardar Sangma, who will be discussing his new romance with Sally Green."<br/><br/>Montresor was quickly ushered offset by the off-camera crew and given a spot backstage where he could sit down and watch the rest of the interviews take place. Since he had nothing better to do and he was curious to see who else had been booked (he was only the second one to be interviewed), he decided to stick around and see who else would show up.