A couple of Alister's shots went right into the barrel of the cannon and caused a bit of a flare-up with its main laser, but McCree maneuvered the beast out of the way enough to avoid any crippling hits. "Don't look the brother's much of a threat anymore," the pilot said to the gunner over the SATCOM link, though they were only separated by a few meters and a higher platform for Alex in the cockpit, so the link was mostly for the benefit of their support crew outside. "It'll take a hundred lucky hits from that little gun to bring the Hades down," Axelson confirmed, ceasing fire completely on the older Malrain. "Let's go after the newbie. They're probably not expecting us to see her as more of a threat than Alister. Bet she's getting ready to open up on us as we speak."<br/><br/>Without even a last attempt to gun the Zero down, the spherical MW pulled away from the fight in a hurry and returned to the starting area where it had last seen Mira, carpet bombing the area with lasers and missiles as it passed over to draw her out. Apparently, Axelson's methods indicated he was either terrible at ammo conservation, or the mech had enough in its stores that he didn't even have to bother.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Anastasia watched the sea as she walked, finding it hard to stay focused on the conversation about the MBF when her budding relationship was still on her mind. She had already sacrificed watching the explosive match-up between the Malrains and the mystery pair in order to come to the beach and sulk about it, so maybe mech battling wasn't as much at the forefront of her thoughts as it used to be. "I don't think you can say anything is the single most important quality. It comes down to a lot of things, and I can't really say if skill is more important than personality or vice versa, or if it's even just in the name or the ability to brand. I mean, 'Gigasteel Joe' and the 'Dukes of Disaster' were pretty much brand names, but it's kind of hard to do the same with 'Mattias Malrain' or something like that.<br/><br/>"I guess it's different for everybody. You could probably get popular just by how recognizable and powerful your mech is, while Alister Malrain's is pretty basic and he doesn't have any personality, so he gets by on skill. Then there's Monty, who's getting pretty popular because of his quirks and his showmanship, and Jill has a small following thanks to her personality and, to be honest, her good looks. Beth Raines has her good PR and philanthropy, Sardar Sangma has his movie star attitude, the list is pretty much endless. I guess that doesn't say much about what turns a star into a legend, though..."