A deep mechanical groan rolls through Junction Seven. Despite the severed network, the cranes restart under local power, swinging their loads away from the evacuation gates and over the buried freight spine.
Compa
Those containers are transmitting reactor signatures! Emergency cores, sealed inside the cargo shells. If they drop into the freight spine, the whole junction could lose power.
Compa remains beside the evacuation controls, routing civilians through corridor one. The battered defense mech guards the gates while Noire keeps the western heavies pinned beneath the gantry.
Above them, Arfoire’s damaged combat frame shudders and rises. Scorched armor peels from one shoulder, but its crimson optics snap toward the crane housings.
Arfoire
You will not reach those cores. This junction still has one useful secret, and I will bury you with it.
Hooked energy blades flare from Arfoire’s battered forearms. She drives across the gantry, firing in short bursts that force Noire away from the crane relay and toward the freight-spine access.
the battered defense mech
Local power surge escalating. Reactor containers are descending. Purple Heart, immediate intervention is required.
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure the emergency cores
Director's notewhole tale
My Friend Green Heart appear to help fight against Arfoire
“I cut the cranes' local-power feed and secure the emergency cores.”
SUCCESS (Great Reasoning, rolled +3)
Purple Heart dives beneath the swinging reactor containers, violet wings braking hard. Her sword cuts through the crane’s local-power bus, and every motor locks at once.
She catches the emergency cores as their magnetic clamps release, redirecting them onto a stable maintenance platform beside the freight-spine access. The junction lights hold.
the battered defense mech
Local feed severed. Reactor signatures secured. Additional data indicates a concealed access route beneath Arfoire’s command gantry.
A green combat frame drops through the smoke, landing between the gantry and the freight spine. Green Heart, a tall young adult woman with long emerald hair and a composed armored silhouette, raises twin energy weapons.
Green Heart
Purple Heart, continue protecting the junction. I will deal with Arfoire.
Green Heart fires a precise crossburst, driving Arfoire’s damaged frame away from Noire and splitting the gantry’s remaining weapon mounts. Noire regains her footing.
Arfoire
Another goddess? Then I will bury both of you beneath this city’s broken machinery!
Quest Complete
Secure the emergency cores
+ New Item Acquired
Emergency Cores