Miles Sherman pulled Zoe Pierce back, his voice rising again. "Zoe! We have to go."
Streaking beams of light and mechas illuminated the sky as if it were dawn. The roar of cannon fire was so deafening it was nearly impossible to hear anything else.
Zoe Pierce was all but yanked back to reality by Miles Sherman.
The image of Shannon Stone running forward was still reflected in her eyes, the figure shrinking until it vanished completely.
"Let's go," she said loudly, her eyes flashing as she came to her senses.
"Deploy the mechas. We need to get out of here," Miles Sherman said, relieved to see Zoe Pierce back to normal. 'The way she was staring at Shannon Stone's back was unsettling. I have no idea what she was thinking.'
With no one else around, Zoe Pierce summoned her mecha and, with a light leap, slipped inside.
Once inside his mecha, Miles Sherman felt his frayed nerves begin to settle.
But a moment later, an urgent call came through.
