<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/f/f3/Max_Cosarina_-_Macross.jpeg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Lt Maxine "Max" Cosinara<br/><strong>Callsign:</strong>Phade<br/><strong>Date:</strong><em>Flashback</em>02 March 2032<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Moon Airspace/Training Area<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lt Cdr Zilkin Kaverosky, Closed<br/><hr/><br/>Max grinned at Zilkin's suggestion.  His remark made it sound like Max preferred something a bit more intense and a bit less intimate.  Of course he wouldn't know about her previous encounters, but there was the chance he had referred to something a little more recent.  From Max's point of view, they both played the long game, regardless of how tired Zil was, so she could only assume he figured Max for someone who preferred quick intense encounters.<br/><br/>Zilkin's innuendo aside, Max knew how the man thought.  It was what had drawn them together in the first place.  Intellectually, and philosophically they were ying and yang and that made them both extremely dangerous together and almost impossible to predict apart.  It actually made her wonder why the commander of the base hadn't put them together, outside of the fact that there really had been no documented connection between the two pilots.<br/><br/>What was didn't matter, what is became the only thing that mattered and that included Zilkin's attempts to counter her moves.  She'd caught him off guard in the beginning, that had been her strength in the opening volley, but now that he was aware they were actively engaging one another, they would dance around each other until one of them made a mistake.  Max decided it was a good thing she hadn't scheduled the training flight for a specific time frame.<br/><br/>She knew Zilkin was calculating, anticipating, predicting.  He'd always liked to think he could predict which way Max would go, or which way she'd jink or jump based on some tactic.  In reality, Max felt her movements long before her body drove the mech in that direction.<br/><br/>"Oh I know you prefer something more methodical Shin...it's a good thing for you that kind of dedication works in the bedroom."  Max teased as she used the asteroids to keep a distance between them.  As he blasted past her, Max shook her head with dismay,<em>Here we go again</em>She thought tracking his progress behind her.  Almost at the same time they both changed to GERWALK mode.  Zilkin unleashed a salvo of fire from his rifle followed by a single missile the computer simulated on her HUD.<br/><br/>"What, like I didn't expect that?"  Max joked as the four missiles she'd fired around the back side of the asteroid she'd stopped beside just as Zilkin changed came back into tracking view."[/color]  She used the threat of a Mech in front or two missiles coming from the side to divide Zilkin's attention long enough for another missile to intercept his.  The blast covered her long enough to push off the asteroid with her feet and reset her momentum perpendicular to Zilkin's incoming fire.