Since the discovery of the Golden City and the secret of the Golden Tower - that it was not just a factory of advance EXO technology but a gateway to other dimensions, the balance of power has changed yet again. Where once Meca One and its robots overwhelmed in legions, they have been reduced to numbers comparable to the humans they have not so far exterminated. It has been a bloody and costly war, but just as the tide was turning in the humans favour, the robots has showed that they can adapt as well as any mammal in a new environment. Ryo's accidental imprisonment in the parallel desert world with the bulk of the deactivated robot armies gave him time to examine the pulsed out robots and mechas, and to improve the humans use of technology in the Golden Tower that was transported with him. When he finally returned in the original Grand Titan re-designated "XS" with more power, abilities and improvements, he immediately set about modifying the human mechas and victory seemed imminent.
However, Meca One rediscovered teleporter technology from the Martian colonies and used it to capture nearly all the humans and their mechas and the tide turned yet again. A logical machine would have eliminated the human threat there and then but Meca One was no ordinary machine, Sensei Keiken built him to be more human and that was his mistake. Meca One wasn't just an efficiently cold and calculating machine, he was also the most ruthless and he developed a taste for it.
The few humans that remain free were now going to try and turn the tide once again. Only this time there would be far reaching consequences for the robots if they succeeded.
Modified Stealth Hunter/Bombers were on their way to the robot's mine headquarters, Hikaru moved on ahead in his Silent Strike S, a fitting name for his mecha as he was to deliver the first strike in this most important of operations. With his high velocity sniper weapon the three listening posts are disabled before they detect what has hit them, paving the way forward for the Stealth Hunter/Bombers.
Takeshi is now on a sole mission to take on all the heavy mechas guarding the humans in the slave labour camps. Ryo has added even more bells and whistles to his "XS" but he is just one man in an EXO frame. The robots are now aware something is afoot with the destruction of their listening posts, but they do not know what or where. The first thing to secure are the human prisoners. Hikaru lets loose. His particle beams hit their targets, he fires his missiles and his Gatling rips apart anything that gets too close. The robots send in air support, the jungle terrain make it difficult for Sonic Phantoms to fly by and be effective. Which is just as well as the robots only have two remaining flying crafts of that type, however they have several recommissioned Fire Vultures. Heavy flying mechas, built not for speed but to hover spewing rivers of fire. Not effective against Stealth Hunters but against a Grand Titan they have an airborne advantage, something Ryo has accounted for in his design of the "XS". Hikaru fires booster jets, not the type for supersonic flight but the type to cushion great drops and to take great leaps and suspended flight. The Fire Vultures are easy prey now, but their numbers are causing problems as they come in from all directions.
Ha-Ya-To's Falcons storm in and relieve Hikaru. Their light mechas are less well armoured but their smaller and more manoeuvrable EXO suits easily compensate against the less evasive Fire Vultures which leaves Hikaru free to take on Thunder Furies. Humans in Uplink mechas appear, the artillery is here against the Senteries. Suddenly a large mecha rips through the skies through the flying robot mechas and lands squarely on top of a Thunder Fury, it looks like a Blazing Falcon and it's tearing up metal. Ryo is onboard. "I did it!" he screams. Did what? Takeshi looks to the east and he sees humans. Lots of humans. Some soldiers but mostly civilians carrying heavy weapons and charging downward towards the robots. There is an enormous crash. It's not nearby. The robots pause and all at once they synchronise their actions and turn and flee. The Stealth Hunter/Bombers have hit their target, the mine has collapsed.
What's happened? Ryo has determined the location of the surviving humans and has rallied them together, a ragtag bunch of old men and untrained civilians but they are determined and know this is a vital strike against the robots. The soldiers are locked up on holding camps waiting to be processed, but they are being set free by Hi-Ya-To's company of mechas and joining in retaliation to their mech il captors. The mines have been hit be deep ground penetrating explosive warheads and collapsed. Meca One no longer has his supply of raw materials to build robots, no robots no mecha pilots. Game changer.
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