Kaneda caught the chip as she tossed it to him. “got ya” he said as he began to walk back towards the platforms. They were separated from most of the gang, placed on their own small part of the highway so that they could have plenty of room to take off and land without hitting anyone or anything important.<br/><br/>Once there he  made his way to Jasper’s, it was bigger than the others…a four seater rather than simply a one or two seater like the others in his squad. “we ready to go?” He asked Jasper having to speak up to be heard over the whine of the idling engine.<br/><br/>They’d taken a look at the platforms to try and figure them out, as best they could tell each one  had a mini-jet engine running it. Jasper looked over at him, his helmet on, and a scarf around his neck, and gave Kaneda  a thumbs up. Kaneda shook his head he had no idea why Jasper insisted on dressing like he was a World War One pilot, but whatever he was still probably the best flying platform pilot in the gang.<br/><br/>Without another word Kaneda climbed up into the platform and strapped in, knowing better than to not wear his harness in this thing. “alright!” he called out, “We’ll start by moving along the highway. We will follow it for a bit then branch off into the city if we haven’t found anything by then.”<br/><br/>Jasper nodded “you got it boss” he called out quickly flipping a few switches and then talking into the platform’s radio, “Alright Eagles” he said  to his squad, who he insisted on calling “The Eagles”….his old gang’s name,  “We’re moving along the highway, I want number 3 to take the lead, I’ll follow right behind, the rest of you cover us to all sides. Keep it tight, and keep it clean, move out” As soon as he finished saying this a platform with a large yellow ‘3’ painted on each side shot up from its place and began to rocket through the air, moving above the highway just high enough to avoid hitting anything. Jasper hit the throttle on his platform and took off. The rest of the platforms following behind.<br/><br/>Kaneda laughed as they flew, yes the platforms were dangerous, yes they could be unstable, and yes it was probably very stupid to ride in them….but hell….they were fun!  As he thought this something caught his eye he squinted a bit to see better, there was a small dot on the highway…it was moving. He grinned even wider as he nudged Jasper’s shoulder and pointed “we found someone!” he called out “bring us in closer I wanna see if they’re anyone we should pay attention to”<br/>