<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Jerrod McKenzie</strong></span><br/><hr/><br/>"Of course!  I haven't really much going on at the moment, we can leave right now."  He followed her out to the car, getting in the other side as she buckled herself in.  A few minutes later, and they were heading along the streets of San Miguel towards the Battalion compound - it housed everything for the Girls.  Training facilities, their living quarters, stations for their Lightspeed Frames and more.  Really, the only thing they ever needed to leave the compound for were missions, the occasional public even, and having 'a night on the town,' though that last one wasn't hard, plenty of places had popped up right next to them, even going so far as to offer special discounts if the girls came in and offered patronage.<br/><br/>(Business owners had learned very quickly that the Lightspeed Girls had a following, and people paid attention to what they did.)<br/><br/>"Really?  That would be great!"  One of the problems was figuring out how to make pilots for the Frames.  It always seemed to be hit-or-miss with them.  The idea of how a Lightspeed Girl was born went like so: at the age of seventeen, recruiters from Battalion came around to the secondary schools, asking for volunteers, of which there were always quite a few.  The prospective girls were brought in and tested for compatibility with any Lightspeed Frames that had become vacant.  Frames were interesting pieces of work - they somehow reflected the personality of their pilot in terms of weaponry and special systems as they self-upgraded.  Yes, self-upgraded; that was their big boon, they could learn and evolve with their pilot.  But, when a new pilot connected, one who could activate the Frame, it reset itself to what it had been originally.<br/><br/>And given that it was very resource-intensive to make new Frames, this recycling was<em>key</em>to operations.<br/><br/>"Sure, sure, take whatever medical tests you need to.  I'll be happy to help in any way I can."