a mech story

not sure how much i can continue..i'll just give it a try..

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"How was it?"

Clank

Captain Jean. Tall, well-built stood a good height of over 1.8m. His bleached-blonde hair was a stark contrast to his tanned skin and his teeth was as white and shiny as ever. Strong-jawed yet with light-brown eyes that twinkle or wink whenever he drops a joke or two with his subordinates or catching a girl's glance at him.

Jo. No one knew when she joined the force. However she herself was a force to be reckoned with. Eyes cold and silent, as her snowy-white hair bobbed short with slightly spiked-ends. She was a person of few words - and had been fewer since some time ago. She out-skilled all the young recruits and surpassed all privates in her techniques and - within less than a month's training - was recruited by Captain Jean who was determined to breach all protocols to include her into his squadron. "She's not just some any talent," he typed in his 2-page proposal (and among all other reasons to have Jo in) - to submit to Lil Hua, one of the superiors in the council (after a night's drinking challenge by her already tipsy self, sending her to her room, adding her favourite flowers - which he asked her and heard the answer all slurred up but still sharply understood by the ladies' man himself - in her vase), "she (Jo) IS technique."

As usual after every practice or actual warfare, the snowy-white haired rookie would be maintaining her mech. Jean wished every fella in his squadron would be do the same but too much of maintainence..

"Hey, give it a rest already." Jean knew: one more sentence and she would shut her shield, away from everyone. "Hey, yea, listen.."

The shield was already half-closed.

Jean's voice went into a commanding tone. "There's an official announcement."

Jo had been granted - by the council after Captain Jean almost-breached-protocol-second-request - official absence for all briefings. The captain stood in silence as the shield re-opened with deliberate slowness.

"The Songs will be here to join my squadron -" raising his voice above the whirl of the shield which was closing again -"they have chosen Ren's darling for a total haul makeover so -" he dropped his voice as the shield re-opened -"you'd better be prepared. And that's an order, rookie."

He thought he saw a pale expression of his rookie froze in horrified realisation - replaced by an expression of resolve -

before the shield closed back for the day again.