Undisclosed Location ~ 21:22 Hours Local Time

"The enemy was frantic," Ranmaru said finally as he leaned back in his seat. His own Zaku II was currently being repaired by technicians, those on the field swore Ranmaru had the Devil's Luck or had eyes on the back of his mobilesuit's head. Regardless they had seen the Grenadier dodge a saber strike that should have killed him...

"They were on a standard patrol not expecting an assault," he murmured now as he glanced outside a window seeing a crew working on the repairs for one of the damaged battleships. Indeed the Task Force had stolen the initiative and the enemy had paid for it. He drummed his fingers against his arm and glanced over the data sheet.

"It could have been us. We'll have to step up advanced mobilesuit training back in Japan to ensure that we always field combat veterans so we never take a blow like the enemy did," he murmured.

"Now that we're here what next?" came a voice as the Captain of the Dabude-Class took a long sip of his coffee. "You took a great risk out in the field you should have withdrawn after that saber damage."

"Those who retreat forfeit the initiative that Tank Commander had competence and would have caused us much more damage I imagine had I fallen back," Ranmaru replied now. "We'll commence with the operation, we dealt the enemy a harsh blow and we need to continue leveling damage before they can mount a coordinated counter-assault," he added as he stood up now.

"Hopefully Japan will be able to deliver us some reinforcements in response to the gift we've acquired," he said with a grin now.

En Route - Undisclosed Location

So far two days have pasted since Donovan left Onogoro. Taking a break, Donovan an his fellow squad mate Osiris set camp in a clearing between a vast forest an several mountain peaks. Overlooking their coordinates, Osiris confirmed they were in one of the valleys in the Himalaya's, mainly the Nepal area. The two took shifts as one rested and the other keep guard. Several hours into the first shift Osiris received a trans over his Codec. After a brief chat, Osiris ended the comm. Walking down the side of a hill he positioned himself on, he made haste to inform Donovan of the recent intel he'd received. As he made it to the bottom he quickly entered the tent which Donovan laid.

"Don! Wake up! Got something from the higher ups," Osiris yelled as he shook Donovan. Don sat up as Osiris began explaining. "Seems they've given Alaunte a little fleet an want someone to aid him."

Don sat up an rubbed the crust out of his eyes. "Well let's go!"

"Alaunte-Chui sir, encrypted transmission from a Test Unit," came the radio officer with a very confused reaction as he approached the relaxing mobilesuit pilot. He mmmmed and opened an eye now relaxing the grip on the shotgun he had out of sight. He reaching out and accepting the paper and read it over now.

"Astray Red Frame?" he murmured out now as he shifted and sat up now. "Arigatou Ittōhei Kurai," he said motioning a dismissive hand at the gentleman to send him off and on his way he getting up now and typing in his access code for the Imperial Database at a laptop. He saw the classified insignia and the specifications that he was allowed to see as a Special Operations Officer. His eyes ran over it for a moment.

"Looks plain, and why the V Crescent, that's just begging for someone to shoot it just for target practice," he murmured now as he reached for a flask and took a sip at it making a face at the ginseng extract mix he kept on hand to keep him awake when he needed it. "And the rifle is strange as well, it doesn't even appear to have a standard clip mechanism...one-shot? What a waste..." he murmured out now. The battleship only had so much data on hand since it was based on the access of the officers in charge of these land battleships.

His eyes studied the unit one last time before he tapped a switch and put on a cap heading to the bridge.

"Meridian-Shoi we'll be receiving a pair of guests, have them escorted to the Gallope Class Battleship that my Zaku is currently being repaired at," he said calmly now before making his way to the hanger of the Gallope Class and looked over his Zaku II the technicians working to repair the beam saber damage.

"I'm sorry sir we still need a couple days in order to get your Zaku back to fighting strength," a technician replied.

"That's fine I'll actually be receiving a guest. Have the other two Zakus launch and stand guard staying alert for the enemy while we welcome our guests."

"SIR!"