Pleased to Start Over

Mech Engineer: System V. System 2.15-2.17

Pleasing Start-Over Chapter 28: Arc 2 Parts 15,16,17

Author: 橘子 

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Arc 2.15

The talks would formally begin when all the teams, who were sent for negotiations, arrived. The third and fifth fleets' special ops team members were beginning to escort the negotiation team off the ship and head to the designated location. When the ship's alarm suddenly rang. Everyone immediately stopped in their tracks and heightened their senses. Cade immediately contacted the observation room with his communicator, "What's going on?"

"Vice captain, a planet with several volcanoes are emitting smoke. It looks like they're about to erupt. Our intelligence team and important equipments are still on that planet." The observation team quickly and urgently reported.

Auray's communicator received the rescue order from the captain, so he immediately led the team to ship's deck to quickly follow the new mission orders. The fifth fleet crew was also given rescue orders shortly after the third fleet received theirs. Jared also led his team away and set off quickly. Some of the members of the negotiation team were slow to react. They looked at each other confused while the people who knew the situation's severity looked very anxious.

"I must apologize to both Duke Lucaron and Duke Sovdeli. I'm afraid it's no longer possible to attend today's negotiations. Allow me to send you back to your rooms to rest." Cade pressed down the anxiety building in his heart and said calmy. He wanted to quickly return the two dukes to their rooms, so he could see the situation in the command room.

"How can we rest at a time like this? Take us to the command room to see what's going on." Duke Lucaron frowned and said. He continued to say that the negotiations hadn't even begun, yet such a matter had occurred. It wouldn't be worth it if they had to incur such a huge amount of casualties and damage.

"Yes. Please follow me." Cade obliged and escorted them to the command room.

The third and fifth fleet's captains were in the command room watching the rescue mission take place. Cade led the negotiation team immediately from outside into the lounge beside the command cabin. It was separated by a glass wall and the entirety of the command room was clearly visible. The sound from the command room could also be easily heard. This allowed them to view but did not allow them to interfere with the command room personnel's work.

After arranging the negotiation team's needs, Cade and Canette entered the command room from a different door to observe the situation from beside their captains. Previously, Green had been discussing something with his captain when the alarm sounded off, so he followed his captain into the command room as well.

All of the rescue team mechs were obstructed by thick, black smoke. They were unable to determine the location of the intelligence team on the planet. They also didn't dare to land haphazardly, so the atmosphere was very tense. Only Henry, who was piloting the Z-801, could barely see through the smog. However, his vision didn't allow him to see too far into the distance. He would be able to find members of the intelligence team and quickly rescue them, but this only applied to his one mech. With the speed of a single mech, he could attempt to rescue everyone, but no one knew when the volcano was going to erupt or even what would be come out from it either.

At the moment, the staff in the command room was tense as the busily worked.

"The visibility has been set to the highest level, but I still can't see clearly!"

"We can't determine the exact location of the intelligence team. Their signal's lost."

"It's too cloudy to recommend flight altitude. Please fly carefully to avoid hitting the rocky mountains!"