"A-a girl!?"
The blonde girl frowns.
"What were you thinking all this time?"
"Uh... But!"
Boom!
Rumble rumble!
The girl faces the other side of the hallway as she's thinking of running in the direction.
"Just go! There's something I have to check here first!"
"That's easy to say, but where do I go? I can't exactly return!"
The girl stares at Garren intensely as he replied. He didn't know what to say as he stared at those determined eyes until he saw another hallway and grabs her hand.
"Let's see... Here, this way!"
The girl is startled at his sudden action and berates him.
"Let go! You idiot! Idiot..."
As they are running Garren looks behind his back and stares at the blonde girl, he noticed that the girl is shedding tears as she uttered those words.
*sob* "I never expected to get stuck in here..."
"D-don't worry! I'll help you get out of here! There are still shelters left in the factory district."
Both Garren and the mysterious girl kept running in the hallway. Running for their lives as they don't wish to die inside the research facility. As they continued to run, Garren saw light from the end of the hallway.
"There!"
As they approached the light, they are welcomed by a gigantic factory. Easily 50 meters in height, 160 meters in length and width. Garren hears gunfire coming from below on where he stands, it seems that they are standing on top of what seemed to be an elevated catwalk located at the walls of the factory. He walks on to the edge of the catwalk on where a handrail is placed to prevent people from falling, as he looked down, he sees UEF soldiers fighting the people who are wearing maroon-colored space suits. The intruders are getting the better hand against the UEF soldiers, dwindling their numbers as seconds pass. On the corner of his vision, he sees a gigantic truck seemingly to hold something on top of it's back. There, he sees a mobile suit lying on top of the back of the truck, the Mecha is 20 meters tall and 4-5 meters in width, painted in white, yellow and blue. The Mobile Suit is built like a human, it looks like it was designed after the proportions of the human body, except it's gigantic. If it wasn't for its size, you'd mistake it for a person wearing full body armor. The Mobile Suit is barehanded and doesn't look to be carrying any form of armament used for combat. Beside the Mobile Suit, is another truck that seems to be carrying another Mobile Suit of its own, but the Mobile Suit looks different from the first one he saw. The Mobile Suit is of the same proportions as the first one, though this one has two rifles on its waist and a cannon sitting on its back. The Mobile Suit is also painted Red in most parts, with a little tinge of black, and a Sharper looking face, shoulders, and a pointed torso.
Thud!
*Sob..* "I knew it... The Earth Alliance's new mobile weapons... Father, you've betrayed us!"
A browned haired lady wearing an orange cap who's fighting the intruders below turns around and aims her submachine gun above on where the shout came from.
Garren saw her aiming at them, and he quickly knew that the girl messed up for shouting. He grabs her hand and immediately ran away to where the catwalk is going to take them. The lady notices that they are wearing civilian clothes and they appear to be young, she withdraws her submachine gun getting a better look at the two.
"Huh? Children?"
Garren continues to run as he holds the blonde girl's hand, bringer her with him as he runs to where the catwalk would take them.
"Crying won't do you any good. Come on, run!"
As they ran on the catwalk, Garren sees a flight of stairs going down, they descend the stairs and continued to run forward. Going forward, they see one of the evacuation elevators heading down to one of the escape pods.
"Some people seem to have evacuated here."
Bip-Biip!!!
A beeping sound came from the comm-panel of the elevator.
"Is there still someone out there?"
"Yes! A friend and I need to get in. Please let us in!"
"Two of you?"
"Yes!"
"We're already full here, there are more shelters in the left block. Can't you make it there?"
"Then please take my friend! She's a girl."
"Alright then, I'm sorry!"
The elevator doors slide open, the elevator itself seems to only be able to hold a single person. Garren signals the blonde girl to get inside.
"Come on. Get in."
Seeing her hesitation, he grabs the girl and pushes her inside the elevator. The girl tries to struggle as she grabs the ends of the elevator's door.
"What are you doing!"
"I'm trying to get you to safety! Just get in! I'll go to the other side. I'll be alright. Hurry!"
Garren forcibly pulls her hands out of the elevator's doors, she shoves her inside the elevator as he pushes a button on the elevator's panel to close the doors.
"Wait!-"
The doors close down before the girl could speak to him, the elevator quickly descends to where the shelter is located. Garren quickly turns back and runs to the catwalk to reach the left block of the factory. Whilst running on the catwalk he turns his head to the side, seeing the UEF soldiers and factory workers dying one by one. One soldier cries his officer's name as the last flames of his life fades away.
"Lieutenant Monrue..."
Monrue witnessed the death of one of her men, she immediately docks down for cover as a dozen bullets pass above her.
"Tsk!... Korey! Sean! Get the Mobile Suits started!"
Garren sees a CAIT soldier sneaking behind the Lieutenant on top of one of the catwalks and is aiming at her back. Garren stops running and shouts at her.
"Watch out! Behind you!"
The lieutenant turns around behind her, and swiftly aimed and shot the guy trying to shoot her from behind. The CAIT soldier dies as she shot him with the last bullets of her submachine gun. The remaining soldier in her retinue kept fighting off the intruders but soon ran out of luck as he was shot thrice on the chest and one on his forehead. The lieutenant dropped her submachine gun and pulls out her pistol. she dived out of cover to shoot the intruder who killed her remaining soldier.
Bang! Bang!
The enemy received two shots from his right shoulder and a bullet in his neck that ended his life. The lieutenant looks back at the teen who warned her.
"Come here!"
"Thanks, but I'm going to the remaining shelter pods in the left block! Please don't mind me!"
"There's nothing but a door there!"
"Huh?"
Boom!
The hallway on where Garren came through exploded, hindering his way to the left block of the factory. Garren decides to go back and try to run down the catwalk to where the lady is. The Lieutenant goes to the truck on where the unarmed Mobile Suit is carried, she hollers to Garren at her location.
"Over Here!"
Garren jumps off the handrail of the catwalk and lands directly on the Mobile Suit's shoulder. As he landed, he suddenly slipped and falls off on the hard metal armor of the Mobile Suit.
A factory worker holding a rifle shoots at one of the Intruders wearing a spacesuit. He successfully ended the man's life with a bullet inside the enemy's head.
"Tom!"
A CAIT soldier wearing a maroon space suit calls out, as his friend dies from a bullet in the head. He does a battle cry and fires at the man who killed his friend. He aims his weapon with bloodshot eyes and fires at him.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The factory worker received three bullets in his chest, one penetrating his heart which served to kill him. The man slumps down to the ground and dies.
"Sean!!"
The lieutenant aims her pistol at the intruder who killed Sean, but before she could pull the trigger, the intruder swiftly and skillfully aims his gun at her and shot multiple bullets. Most of them missed but one bullet penetrated her right shoulder. She flinches and drops her gun due to the pain coming from her shoulder wound.
The intruder tries to shoot her for the last time to end her life, but his gun suddenly jammed. Irritated from his gun malfunctioning, he drops his gun and pulls out a knife, charging at the Lieutenant. Garren sees this, and he immediately gets up from his position and jumps to the Mobile Suit's torso on where the Lieutenant is. He arrives at where she is sitting down, he looks at her and crouches and sees that blood leaking out of her shoulder.
The intruder climbs up at the Mobile Suit's leg and runs up to the torso to kill both the lady and the new arrival. Garren looks on to the charging enemy and sees his dark blue hair and face. He's shocked to recognize who the charging enemy is.
"J-Juno?"
Juno stops charging as he heard the man in front of him say his name. He looks at the blonde-haired man and is also shocked by recognizing his face.
"Garren?!"