"Those bastard just won't give up, will they?" Dan scowled, the graph on his physiological change blared to warn him, realized that, he commanded "Reduce the priority level unless there's potential hazard, that's annoying"
The bleep turned off, still, the one that warned him he's being pursues aren't. The rear-facing camera shown him just that there's at least 25 of giant flying mechanical bees -if he could even describe- flying at near subsonic velocity.
He managed to prevail so far, if only because he's been creative in using the terrain. However, in open sea like this, they're far, far more mobile and soon he found himself being surrounded.
Strange enough, they didn't attack to destroy, all their effort so far is to immobilize him with sheer number -in other words, a dog pile. He was glad, either way, and seems like his gamble had paid off.
Multiple humanoid mecha launched from the direction of I.S. academy, they changed their course abruptly soon, toward his direction.
"[This is Maya Yamada, you are breaching through our airspace, please surrender immediately]"
That's quite harsh, and yet, he couldn't feel hostility in that statement. Besides, the voice is so soft, that he could be addicted. "[This is Dan Gotanda, my residence has been attacked and for whatever reason they tried to capture this unit and me]"
"[Dan, Dan is that you?]"
Ichika? Ichika is there? he felt like he's in heaven, hearing his best friend's tomboyish, subdued voice "Yes it's me, Ichika is that you? I'm glad"
"You have a lot to explain, but we had to get rid of them first"
Dan clenched his teeth, with the way those bandits designed, there's no way of putting a human inside, he knew this form the first glance, and he had taken at least two of them and found that's indeed the case.
"Shoot to kill, they're unmanned, no room for pilot"
He bent his mechanical knees to create asymmetric air drag and made a very fast sliding movement, turning 180 degree in an instant. He unleashed his one and only weapon so far, an over-sized large caliber handgun.
The first and second shot managed to hit, throwing one of these drones off balance, subsequently sunk and explode underwater. the rest managed to adapt to his amateurish attack pattern, and he had to thrown the empty magazine into the canister in his hips, who swapped the magazine with a fresh one mechanically.
A brilliant white flash soared just above his robot's head, the speed of which is quite amazing. It's somewhat larger than most I.S. model he knew form magazine and games, but he could see the human that control it.
A man? He thought unbelievably, A real, male I.S. pilot?
The sole guy managed to destroy the formation of the drones by sheer balls alone, the rest took this to their advantage to attack the distraught horde by delivering a systematic barrage with their weapon.
As soon as they lost three more members, the drones decided to ran out of the battlefield using very powerful booster, accelerating upward like missile, and disappear with twinkles.