The last civilian convoy clears Junction Seven as dawnlight spills through the smoke. Guide lights stabilize, evacuation gates seal, and emergency crews begin cataloging the damage.
the battered defense mech
All registered civilians are beyond the junction perimeter. Remaining hostile units are isolated, disabled, or retreating through the eastern service grid.
Purple Heart remains in the freight chamber with Green Heart and White Heart. Noire stays above to secure the western approach, while Compa oversees medical triage and supplies.
Green Heart
The core conduits are stable, but three support pylons are compromised. This junction can hold, provided repairs begin immediately.
White Heart
Arfoire’s frame is fully restrained. Her remaining stragglers have lost coordination and are being contained without access to the evacuation network.
Beyond the locked chamber, damaged pirate machines lie silent beneath collapsed gantries. Sparks drift from ruptured conduits, and one transport lane remains buried under debris.
Noire
Planeptune is safe for the moment. But the invasion left enough wreckage to hide another attack. We should decide what gets secured first.
“I help stabilize the compromised support pylons”
SUCCESS (Great Rapidly Repairing, rolled -2)
Purple Heart crosses the freight chamber to the compromised support pylons. She braces one hand against the buckling frame while her cybernetic interface maps stress through the junction.
Her High Tech Wing projects violet stabilization struts into the ruptured joints. The pylons grind back into alignment, locking the freight chamber and buried transport lane in place.
The final brace seals with a thunderous snap, but one wing actuator overheats and vents sparks across her armor. Its flight response drops to emergency output.
Green Heart
Support load is stable. The junction will hold, though your wing system needs a careful repair before flight.
White Heart
Then the work is complete. Arfoire is restrained, the civilians are safe, and this route can no longer serve her forces.
Noire
I have secured the western approach. Planeptune can rebuild from here, provided we do not mistake survival for the end of vigilance.
Dawn brightens the smoke above Junction Seven. Emergency crews move through the sealed lanes as the three goddesses stand amid cooling machines, their defense holding and the invasion broken.
The last brace locked into place. Purple Heart’s wing actuator smoked, but Junction Seven held, its lights returning one by one.
Green Heart
The core is stable. You gave Planeptune the time it needed, Purple Heart.
White Heart
Arfoire is restrained, her forces contained, and every civilian is safe. It’s over.
Purple Heart
Then let the repairs begin. Planeptune will stand stronger than before.
Beyond the sealed gates, the invasion route lay buried and unusable. With the western approach secured, silence finally settled over the wounded junction.
Junction Seven endured, and Planeptune’s people returned to a city already beginning its recovery. Arfoire’s invasion had been contained, its damage accounted for, and its path into the nation was closed. Purple Heart remained above the junction on emergency flight output, watching the repair lights bloom beneath her. The battle was finished, and Planeptune stood ready to heal.