The day started great. Mike and Bruce had managed to hash out a preliminary agreement for cooperation by noon. Both agreed to cooperate on non military items. Such as the Medical Nanotech and the Mobile workers Mk2. As well as exploration and terraforming. Despite being paranoid for Cassandra's sake Bruce was willing to trust Mike and work with him. After their meeting they had lunch prepared by Aunt May and Alfred. The two got along famously and had spent their free time swapping recipes.
Peter dragged Tim and Barbra off to the tech labs wanting to show off. Stephanie, Kate, and Dick wanted to see Mobile Suits. Cassandra led the way to the hanger where her Blitz Gundam was house wanting to show off. Mike and Bruce tagged along mostly out of boredom but Mike could tell that Bruce was as eager as the rest to see the Mobile Suits.
As they entered rhe Hangar they saw the Blitz Gundam, Strike Rouge, and Nu Gundam standing along the wall. Megan and Kitty showed up apparently wanting to take their Suits out for a spin today. When they heard Cassandra state she wanted to show her family her Gundam the others offered to show theirs as well.
"Where is yours?" Bruce asked
"Temporarily in another Hangar this is the high security Hangar but Freedom was needed for some tests we were going to run on the mass produced suits later." Mike responded.
"What is that?" Dick asked pointingnto a Suit in the corner that looked unused.
"That is the Shining Gundam, I have not found a suitable pilot for it yet is is different than the others." Mike explained "Logans suit has a similar control system but the Shining Gundam is far more advanced and has the potential to be super powerful."
"What seems to be the issue?" Bruce asked.
"The suit chooses it pilot, in the case of Shining I can't even bring out its full potential it needs a pilot who is full of hope, who never gives up fighting for a brighter tomorrow." Mike awnsered honestly. "Even you with all your determination could not bring out its full potential."
Dick's gaze seemed to linger on it a while longer. Their attention turned to the others as they demonstrated the capabilities of the Gundams. Batman seemed particularly impressed with the Blitz's ability to vanish.
As they were enjoying themselves they heard a loud siren start to sound. "Explosions on Heliopolis all fire and emergency crews respond." An announcement blared over the loudspeaker. Mike looked at the three "pilot your suits over to Heliopolis. Help any way you can. He got on the comms calling to Brand who was out in space conducting Exercises with the Archangel, Eternal, and the first 2 Irish Class battleships. He informed her of the situation and ordered them to suspend the exercises and go to Heliopolis.
Bruce, Kate, Tim, and Stephanie left with Peter on s shuttle to see what they could do to help. Barbara and Dick stuck with Mike as he was making his way to the Freedom he dropped Barbara and Dick off at the command center before proceeding to the hanger.
As Mike approached he realized something was wrong, there were no security gaurds or mechanics in sight. Finding a bullet hole in the wall he attempted to call over his communicator. A burst of static showed that it was jammed. Mike drew his weapon before proceeding. Even if it was dangerous he had to know what was going on. Spotting a group of supervillans around someone the new Zakus he watched as they knocked one of their own put before moving to the suits. Yelling at them to freeze Bloodsport opened fire with a rifle. The others moved to the Zakus before clumsily launching them into space. As bloodport followed them in a gold Zaku, Mike managed to breach the jamming and let people know what was going on. Mike climbed into the Freedom to pursue them.
POV Dick Grayson
"This isn't good" Barbara said typing furiously. One of the techs gave her a computer to help investigate the explosions so they knew better where to send help. Mike had just come over the radio warning about the thefts and asking security to pick up one of them that had been left behind unconscious in the hanger.
Dick asked her if she could get him back into the hanger they had left.
"Why?" She questioned.
"He is going to need help." Dick responded.
As he reentered the hanger he approached the Shining Gundam. He felt a kind of destiny tying him to the machine like it was calling him. Getting in the cockpit he saw not chair, no knobs, no levers. It was a empty room that was big enough for him to stand up comfortably in. A disk began to decend over him wrapping him in a black skintight suit with a Red circle on the chest.
"What do you think you are doing?" Cassandra's voice came over the speaker. She had been notified about the breach due to Mike being busy pursuing the thieves.
"Mike needs help how do you pilot this thing?" Dick responded. Reluctantly Cassandra told him about the motion sensor and how it worked.
"It's connected to your body and will match your movmenta. It also connects to your brainwaves to use the headguns and thrusters. Think about what you want it to do."
Dick walked off of the dock before launching out of the dock in pursuit of Mike and the stolen mobile suits.
He apologized over the comms for taking it out for a spin. Mike said they could talk about it later but he could use Dick's help to contain the thieves. As Dick approached he watched in horror as multiple explosions tore the Freedom apart.
He flew forward quickly as the zakus made their escape. "No no no no." he said worridly as he tried to find his friend.