Men scrambled from the wreckage of their tanks.

"Excellent."

Having destroyed the tanks, Kuroko turned his AS toward the hangar, he and all of the hostages had to escape quickly, before more opposition forces arrived.

Sousuke was dumbfounded, he looked at this AS and followed it since beginning after saving Kaname, this AS was fighting entire terrorist groups.

Kaname and Sousuke were dumbfounded. They watched Kuroko exited from A.S.

"Hey, why do you stand there? This is not dating time, Sousuke, took one A.S. and protect her" Kuroko said.

"Yes sir" Sousuke did not know about Kuroko, but he knew that he was his ally. Maybe he was a secret agent from Mithril and had the upper position from him because Kuroko instructed him, and Kuroko was more skilled than him. He thought in his mind.

"I will leave the task for protecting her with you. I will be waiting here and protect the hostage, and the important thing is "We must take advantage of every situation. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir"

Then Sousuke entered one of A.S. cockpit.

"Chidori!" Sousuke's voice ripped through the external speaker.

Sousuke extended the machine's left hand and said, "Grab on."

We're leaving the base now."

There was a hill to the northwest of the base, past a river and a highway. A large number of fir trees looked like a good place to hide for the time being.

Kaname poked at a finger as large as her leg and said, "You want me to get on this?"

"Correct. Sit right on the palm. Quickly."

"B-but-"

"Hurry!"

Fearing another scolding, Kaname cautiously climbed onto the metal hand. Carefully, Sousuke lifted Kaname and began to run, literally taking Kaname's breath away. She clung to the machine's huge thumb.

Sousuke understood her fear. After all, she was in a robot hand as high as the tip of a telephone pole, being swung violently about as the robot ran nearly forty miles per hour. Chances were good that anyone would be afraid.

But there was nothing she could do but ride it out.

"Don't look down," she coached herself, trembling. "Wait! What about everyone else? We can't just leave them here."

"Right now, we are the ones in the most danger. Kuroko will handle them. My comrades will come for them."

"Comrades?"

"The rescue squad." Even though he said it confidently, Sousuke was not sure whether it was true. Even though he did it to save Kaname, getting into combat before the rescue operation was a colossal mistake. True, he managed to dig up an AS, but still ...

The pursuit was a near certainty. Sousuke and Kaname were not in any less dangerous than before.

Sousuke's Savage jumped over the base's perimeter fence, busting through a thicket and across a wide highway.

"Who are you? Where are we going? What are you going to do?" pestered Kaname. "Tell me!"

Sousuke responded. "I've been tailing you ever since I transferred in."

"Tell me something I don't know!"

"Honestly, I don't know exactly what's going on. My information is that you are somehow unique. Whoever those people are, they want to use you as a test subject."

"Test subject?"

"Correct. And in order to stop that from happening, an elite soldier was sent to guard you. I am that soldier."

Still suspicious, Kaname pressed for details. "Soldier? You're from the self-defense force or what?"

"Mithril."

"Mithril? What's that?"

"It's a secret military organization without any national affiliations." The reply sounded rehearsed. "We're an elite force that prevents regional conflicts and practices anti-terrorist warfare.

"I am a member of the SRT-Special Response Team. I specialize in reconnaissance and sabotage as well as AS operation. My rank is a sergeant, my call sign is Urzu Seven, and my identification number is B3128."

"Look, Sagara," Kaname began, sounding concerned, "I know you're a war nut and everything, but I think you need help."

"What do you mean?"

''I've read about this. Sometimes, a big crisis situation will cause people to lose sight of themselves. I don't know how you got out of that plane, but you're totally delusional right now. You are just high school students."

"Maybe I'm in a dream world now, so I must enjoy it."

Right about then, an alarm sounded in the machine.

"Missile warning at four o'clock."

A guided missile from the back!

Simultaneously turning and shifting Kaname from the path of danger, Sousuke fired the two Vulcan machine guns mounted on his mech's head.

In one second's time, eighty bullets struck the missile, which exploded in midair.

Without wasting any time, Sousuke continued to charge toward the woods in his Savage.

It was a bumpy ride, but there was nothing anyone could do about that.

The barrels of the machine guns were no more than a foot or two from Kaname's head.

If Sousuke hadn't abruptly moved her to the side, the muzzle flash-the flames that spew from the guns-would have burned her, and the sound would have burst her eardrums.

"Ah, ah!" Apparently still unaware of what had transpired, Kaname stiffened and clutched the AS even tighter.

"Be patient. Just a little longer until we get clear."

Kaname couldn't bring herself to respond.

Huddled in the hand, she looked small, pale, and afraid.

Regardless, Sousuke was impressed. He expected a typical girl to be screaming her head off and thrashing to free herself from the hand.

But Kaname didn't even have any complaints as the mech pushed through the shrubs, kicking up dirt.

....

Meanwhile, Kuroko was walking around the base happily. Now all soldier was killed, more than 1000 soldiers already die from his hand.

Then he started to rob everything in this base, supercomputers, weapons, tanks, arm-slaves and etc. His inventory is so-OP. As long as it was not a living being, he could put anything.

This is what Kuroko called "We must take advantages from every situation"

If Sousuke looked at this, he would call Kuroko "Greedy Bastard"