ᴋʀᴡʟɴɢ ɪɴ ᴍʏ sᴋɪɴ--ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴡᴏᴜɴᴅs ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ʜᴇᴀʟ

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson feels the cockpit begin to heat up rapidly, sweat quickly coveing him and smoke starting to choke him. He imagine the Relinquisher reeling back, the tank in hand... And breaking it over its body... He only prayed it would happen

[Light]

A cold rush falls over them; the coolant liquid spreading across the Relinquisher as it falls on its back and breaks the container over itself. The limit bar slowly starts to fade back to blue, the warning disappearing.

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson coughs and closes his eyes, running his hands through his hair and nearly sobbing with relief... She hadn't installed any emergency coolant tanks?! No wonder this was just a prototype..." No offense, buddy..."

[Light]

A weak beep comes from it, the mech recovering still from the shock... poor baby... Signal flares behind him from the base fly up in the air, the blue lights signaling that the burying operation was about to begin.

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson closes his eyes and whispers," We... We can't let them bury us, big baby... Come on... I'll smack her around when we get back.."

[Light]

It forces itself up, the joints creaking. As it stands, it has to lean on its good leg, the other one needing repairs something bad. Beeping again, its starts moving forward towards the base.

[CrimsonMoon]

He began to tap the buttons, checking the mecha, it's functions and eerything her should have before... Crim felt a small stab of guilt but said nthing

[Light]

Far behind them, where the Engloo soldiers had start swarming into, the top of the canyon explodes. The rocks start falling onto them, and the Mecha takes that as a 'hurry up' signal. Quickening its pace, the canyon behind them starts falling down, filling it. The Relinquisher makes one last push forward, and falls forward, just escaping the last explosion. The left leg, one of the hands, and some inside parts were showing up on the screen as needing fixing.

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson crawls out of the cockpit, coughing as he sucked in the somewhat clean air. The sun felt too harsh onhis back, only then did he realize most of the back of his uniform had been burned through by the heat of the Relinquisher... The boy get on his hands and knees, the adreniline making him tremble and the pain pushing through as he stares at the ground, panting.

[Light]

"--Crimson!" A shadow casts over him, and then disappears for a moment before coming back. The brunette kneels down in front of him, "I got something for the burns, stay still, okay?"

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson vaguely recognizes the voice and growls," Put some goddamn coolant in Requis-... Re... F*ck..." He buried his face into his hands, hissing angrily," The General... Where is he..?"

[Light]

"Relinquisher wouldn't be overheating if you did what I told you--you...!" Cool liquid spreads over his back, "You don't listen to me--do you!?" she falls silent for a moment before continuing, "The second gate, Tamaril. We're to fall back there, and meet him."

[CrimsonMoon]

" He's a prototype, i've only fought with old Uxbridges beore!" He griwls and hisses, slowin his breathing

[Light]

She leans down, "He's a prototype because you were told he was," she hisses back. Standing up, she drops the medicine in front of him, "I'm gonna start repairs."

[CrimsonMoon]

Crim just snorts and lies o his stomach in the dust, shivering as he tried to ward off shock

[Light]

She puts a hand on the sticky mess spread over the robot and makes a face. Sighing, she rolls up her sleeves and climbs up inside of it, disappearing. The people of the base were moving towards the exit in large busses, the soldiers guiding the civilians that had escaped thru during his fight with the toy soldier.

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson watches them hazily... E must've done badly because he wasn't doped up like the other pilots... He frowns and closes his eyes... Or maybe he was just a bad pilot in general...

[Light]

The large mech behind him beeped--it didn't like its pilot beating themself up like that. The goo on it started to slide off, forming puddles of coolant in the dirt.

[CrimsonMoon]

Crimson eventually calms himself, repeatingthe breathing excersizes they had taught at the academy, he turns to the mech and smiles," Are you ok, big nuke baby?" He muses

[Light]

It beeps again, the visor lighting up before flashing off. It shifts into a sitting position, stretching the injured leg out. 'bETter'--it voices.