>>6347463You panic, seeing the Strike lifting some sort of backpack into its frame.
Right as you pull away the Twin Sword rifle at it, hearing a sudden whimper from comms outgoing from it.
"What're you doing?!" The woman calls out once more as you snap back hurriedly.
"What is it doing?! Woman, I'm trying to help and getting this worked up-!?" You cut yourself off, the backpack piece finally clicking with a resounding latch as the Strike's colour comes into foray.
A weapon protruding from its shoulder as your hands tremble.
"That is-!" The woman suddenly took notice of the surprise activation "<span class="mu-i">Shut it down, I can take over from-!?</span>" The woman pulls their pistol towards the Strike as it decidedly pointed its large, cannon-like weapon at you.
"L-Leave us alone! And the colony as well! We don't want anything to do with-!" There's a strange spike of emotions as the young man i. The Strike used their loudspeakers "Lieutenant Ramius, go and leave with-!"
"Who do you think you are ordering me around!?" The woman called out as she pulled in a young asian man with a hoodie to her side, wincing as it moved her bandaged wound "<span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Shut it down this instant, Kira Yamato!</span></span>"
<span class="mu-i">Desperate cries from the civilians and the Strike's pilots come out for this... Kuzzey, now being taken hostage...</span>
And yet with all this tension in the air, you look up, instinct suddenly calling out a warning.
<span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">As one of the orbital rings of the colony explodes, an Orange Moebius and a White CGUE coming out of it</span></span>.