>>6064204 (You)#This time, PTRT makes a good point.
"You see that glint of metal on that hill, son?! That's one of our MEKKs! It is one of our duties to rescue it and its pilot, if possible!"
SHDO agrees, it is one of their secondary objectives - to find out what happened to the MEKKs that were sent into the portal before you.
MEKKs, short for Mechanized Equipment to Kill Kaijus, are one of the humans' rushed inventions in the wake of the Kaiju threat. Basically a Kaiju-sized piloted robot made from heavy duty industrial equipment and military-grade arms and armor, they were barely enough to go toe-to-toe with the Kaijus that invaded Earth.
That being said, as Legion climbed over the summit of that hill, a worrying sight greets it. The MEKK lays broken in the middle of a shallow crater, some of its limbs torn apart. Its multipurpose antenna jammed into the stony ground, like its right arm - while its relatively intact weapons pod rested nearby. By the looks of the gouges on its armor, it appears the MEKK has run afoul of a local Kaiju. There seems to be no human life-signs nearby...
The sub-AIs bicker again...
>CHOOSE ONE>□ PTRT "This MEKK fought good for [DATA CORRUPTED]. Protocol dictates we must activate its self-destruct in case of no survivors!">□ FLRA "Hold on! Let's look for clues, I'm curious about what kind of Kaiju it fought!">□ ROAR "HAH! METAL BOX NO MATCH FOR KAIJU! USE ITS BONES AS YOUR OWN, MAKE WEAPON!">□ SHDO "A fallen warrior... let's check its black box data. I shall avenge you!">□ COMM "Or perhaps let me interface with the onboard systems - with luck, we may get info on what their objectives were!" 