(((OOC: God damn you guys move quick)))<br/><br/>Keira strolled aimlessly back from the barracks area to the mech hangers, not really going anywheres in particular, but just walking for the sake of walking. She figured she would go snoop around outside the nearest enemy firebase, maybe fire a salvo from her rocket pods to kill off some ammo or fuel supplies. That was the perk of being in a more lax unit, and also of having a stealthier mech than most. Of course stealth came at a price. Where other mechs could survive head on missile strikes, Keira depended heavily on avoiding enemy fire or dealing with it directly. High explosive chaingun ammo could make quick work of her and her mech if she allowed it to. And it took a single missile to put her mech out of commission, two to put her out of commission with it. It could tip over at the worst of times but as she entered the mech bay, walking right past the rest of the squad, she forgot about all of that as the lean black mech came into view. "<strong>Delta!(The nickname she reprogrammed her AI to respond to) Activate primary unit.</strong>"<br/><br/>The mech stirred slightly and Keira tapped her foot near the bottom of the mech. Suddenly it burst to life, the legs extending straight and then quickly collapsing back down into a squat. Keira nodded in satisfaction and quickly hopped in, plugging herself in as her vision of darkness was replaced by a lightly blued view of the front of her mech. All the systems came online quickly and soon her mech was bustling with life. "<strong>'Atta girl....boy..err...</strong>" Keira bit her lip, realising she never assigned a gender to her mech.<br/><br/>Keira slowly began to move the mech towards the hangar door before the squad leaders voice echoed into her ears. She listened quietly for a second before her screen popped up with a 3D holographical map in her left field of vision. She studied it as it laid out her location and the location of stranded teammates. Keira quickly kicked her light mech into gear and burst out of the hangar at full speed, coming to a sliding halt just near the gates. Keira piloted the mech uneasily over steep terrain as she slipped off into the left flank of the enemy forces. After several minutes, Keira finally stumbled across a series of long range rocket mechs lining up for attack. She squinted and quickly activated the cloaking stealth mechanism. After a few seconds, the main engine shut off and the auxillary engine kicked to quiet life and a small circle appear in her lower right vision, indicating the stealth systems were online.<br/><br/>Keira piloted her mech down a river slide and across a dried riverbed where the enemy mechs were. She was only a few hundred feet from them when she turned on active tracking. Immediately several of the mechs fired large fires and small round counter-measures as they detected a tracking radar. Keira positioned her mech so it wouldn 't fall over and locked on to several targets. Her miniguns immediately began to open fire, spewing hot lead towards the motionless mechs as her rocket pods jumped to life and erupted with smoke and the eerie sound of rockets moving through the air(Picture an MLRS battery).<br/><br/>The rockets smacked into the mechs at high speed. They fired back, and the counter-measures on Keira's mech immediately burst into action firing hot plasma up at the rockets before they could even obtain a curve in flight. The enemy mechs exploded with a tremendous explosion as steel and parts from weapons flew off in every direction. "<strong>Boss, this is Stokes, I took out several rocket mechs near the riverbed and also what looks like a command and control mech. I'm going to circle around and watch out for enemy reinforcements moving on your location. Stokes out.</strong>" Keira said into her radio as she disengaged the rockets and active targeting, moving her mech quickly past the burning ruins of the enemy mechs.