Everything was going well until what seemed like an electric discharge shot from their portal and hit the XX-frame. It seemed to travel the length of their huge mecha and the portal flickered. That was concerning. Several people pointed it out as well. I wondered what happened to them. "Status Report. 05-010. Magnetic 05." their leader commanded. "It's too much! We- we can't h-hold it!" 05 screamed in pain. That was not a good sign. Before the leader could say anything in response, another discharge of teal energy hit them. This time, it went all around them before there was a loud explosion. All communications went dead. Both clan leaders in the command center scrambled to regain connection with them on their end. Everyone watching was very unsettled and upset. None more so than Water and Magnetic Clans. They might just have lost a member of each of their clans. I stood up and said "What the hell just happened!? We need to figure this out." Others demanded results. After the minute, we got visuals back on the screen. It was a really low resolution and there was tons of static.
No sound was audible for another 6 minutes. From there, all that we could hear was a pained groaning. I certainly did not like the sound of that. No one else did from the look of it. We were all anxious to know if they were both okay. Things were quickly looking like it was not the case. "Status Report! 05-010! Magnetic 05! Respond!" the coalition leader frantically called for them. There was a pause with a bit of static. "The warp gate was too unstable with the energy we had to generate it. There was a big discharge of energy which caused an explosion near the groinal plate." 05-010 said very weakly. "What is the status of Magnetic 05?" the leader of Cold Clan asked. It was what everyone in 05's clan wanted to know right now. There was another static filled pause. "05 sustained critical damage as a result of the explosion. He ran out of energy after healing most of his internal damage. Without a functional pilot in the role of Positive Charge, operation of the XX-frame is impossible." he reported. They were dead in the water. "Understood. Conserve energy" the coalition leader said to them.
All of the cyborg clan engineers got together in the command center with the officers and began talking. It took them an hour before they came back to us in the theatre. I looked at them. The Sonic Clan leader got our attention immediately when they cleared their throat. She did not need to do that. "From the data we collected we have determined that opening a warp gate of that size is indeed too risky for a single XX-frame as it becomes much too unstable to maintain." "And about the pilots!?" I asked them. She looked at me. She said. "Both are in critical condition. Magnetic 05 is unresponsive in the Positive Charge position. 05-010 is too injured to replace him for a return journey. We will need to launce a rescue mission. The only way to heal them would be for another XX-frame to join them in the cockpit. One of the pilots will have to enter their XX-frame and deploy a energy generator to give them enough to self regulate and become operational. In order to maintain a stable warp gate, we theorize we need 5 XX-frames." That was a very tall order. We had to act now. There was no time.
I stood up and looked around me. It was our time to shine. "PBJ Clan, listen up. We are now undertaking the rescue mission of the coalition pilots and will support them in their efforts to maintain a warp gate." I announced to everyone gathered. "Hell yeah we will!" Paul said loudly. "Wooo!!" Brett cheered. Everyone got up and got ready to leave. "Wait a moment! How are you going to execute that mission. You need an full XX-frame to do that!?" the leader of Cold Clan demanded. I did not say anything. I did not owe them any answers. I needed to go and get results. The general got up and followed us as we left. "What now!?" he asked. Looking at him, I said "You already know what we have in reserves. We have to go now. If the Void confederacy see them in that state, they will attack and destroy them. If we get there first, we'll have the advantage. With a 3 on 1 fight, they will back off." He just sighed. "Fine. It's not like we have missiles that go that far." he said. It was a resignation. "Don't worry. It's just 1 big XX-frame. They will not get more." "You guys have 3!" he snapped. That was so true.
