*As Mike, Zechs, Shuuji and Raven were waiting on the Fantastic Four to land Zechs spoke up* "You sure about them?"
*Before Mike could answer Shuuji chuckled* "they are eccentric, loud, chaotic, and annoying at times but none would betray Mike. They are too pure. If anything Susie is going to lecture him for skipping so much school. I swear they act more like family than friends"
*Mike began to sweat* "Damn I forgot about school"
*Schuuji looked over* "Forgot or ditched?"
*Raven smirked* "probably both"
*about then the door to the aircraft opened and a very angry looking Susan stormed out. She came up to Mike with a frightening smile on her face* "Mike, have you been skipping school?"
*What followed was a long lecture that Mike couldn't even get a word in. Johnny and Ben were laughing at him and Reed hand already sneaked off to examine the Gundam.*
*a few days later*
*shuuji frowned looking at mike as he worked on the Gundam Marine type* "It's dangerous. The system your installing and what you want to do with it is too much for the frame."
"But the Shining, Burning, and Master gundams could handle it." *Mike argued, chest deep into the cockpit*
"If it was just that then maybe your suit could take the strain but your combining it with that trans am thing, this needs to be tested" *Shuuji responded.* "that suit isn't a high performance model. It's a mass produced suit. Even if your right about how to adapt it it was never made for that stress. Not to mention you haven't mastered the king of hearts crest"
"Master I understand but I'm just putting this in as a precaution. The danger will be extreme when we are attacked and we need a trump card" *Mike responded*
"Some trump card if your killed by the suit overloading" *Shuuji shot back* "I can just"
"No" *mike interrupted* "if I let you fight we will reveal more than just the suits. It may even get supers involved"
*Shuuji shook his head* "Kid this is dangerous. Not just the suit, your not ready for that kind of power"
*Mike exited the suit, covered in grease and oil* "I know. And if there was any other option I would take it. We are on the back foot here."
*Zechs spoke up from the corner* "how much of a danger are we talking?"
*Mike paused* "like letting the zero system into the hands of the unprepared. Sure it will win the fight but no telling if the pilot can handle it"
*Zechs frowned* "maybe I could pilot it?"
*I shake my head* "The system required someone versed in martial arts. And versed in piloting regular suits"
*Shuuji frowned* "this is just a last resort right?"
*Mike nodded* "Yeah I'm going to have other defenses in place but I wanted a fallback option"
*Zechs spoke up* "better be a last resort. I ithout you kid we are in deep trouble"
*Mike nodded.* "so far this is a prototype. It should allow me to access something like supermode"
*Raven walked in* "Still tinkering?"
*Mike nodded* "Yeah I got the three suits as ready as we can hope for. I am about to prep the base for invasion. I'm going to keep things automated. The plan is to escape to space. If we have a prolonged ground battle capes will get involved and things will get difficult"
*Shuuji nodded* "especially that one from metropolis. I doubt even I could hold him off"
*Zechs frowned* "We were contacted. One of the students at that school. Kitty Pryde. She said she wanted to warn us. The ones behind those giant robots are looking for us. And the leader of the school forbade any of them to help. Something about not letting the students get involved in a war?"
*Mike nodded* "I figured. The professor is in a difficult place and is both idealistic and arrogant at the same time."
*Talia and Mileina entered* "archangel should be ready by tomorrow, the mass driver the day after. But what do we do about the base we can't just let them take it."
*Mike frowned* "Well we have two options. One is to destroy all critical and secret infrastructure. Best way would be to pull a JOSH-A and set it to self destruct after we escape."
*Talia frowned* "I would prefer not. That plan puts people in unnecessary danger and the collateral damage would be extensive"
*Mike nodded* "Option 2 is to set the factory to continuously build autonomous defenses. This would eventually run out of resources"
*Zechs spoke up* "Neither seems ideal."
*Mike crossed his arms* "we clear the computers and take all classified and essential tech onto the archangel. That should lessen the risk of option 2"
*The others thought then nodded. Shuuji then spoke up* "Bruce Wayne wants to meet you