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Life outside the city is hard. ever since a strange vessel landed three years ago, the world has been plagued by sinister extraterrestrial cyborgs (uh.... yeah.) called the <dunno.. I'll refer to them as grey mesa, just as a joke>.

Life in the city, however, prospers. despite the constant assaults by <grey mesa>, the city has managed to get along fairly well. The city is defended by the large mech organization known as the Alliance, although the city leaders have been known to hire other teams likes Hobs and Red Dragon to carry out some tougher assignments.

and Red Dragon? the most exclusive team in the league has been getting by exceptionally, carrying out odd jobs for the city and, more importantly, advancing in the mechas league. ever since the death of their disgraced pilot Johnathan Swift two years ago, they haven't lost a match. Their new pilot, Ray Blitz, remembers nothing but victory. literally. Ray Blitz knows absolutely nothing of who he is or how he is so good at piloting the team's mechs. his earliest memory is waking up with the team surrounding him, and then himself asking who he was.

after an easy semifinal win in the <annual> tournament, Ray Blitz's team leader <bob> tells him that his next opponent is the Black Pyre top pilot. <bob> has heard whispers of some secret, new mech being designed by black pyre that will cripple any Red Dragon mech easily. He orders blitz to go and steal data on the mech, so that they know its tactical weaknesses and can win.

Blitz objects, but eventually sneaks into the hangar and sees a reworked version of the BP Opposition. he steals its specs from a terminal, and the team works on a way to beat it. at the championship match, blitz manages to win (not that easily). the Black Pyre team eventually figures out about the data stealing, and gets really pissed at him (wouldn't you be?)

a few days later, the city leaders hire the red dragon team to surprise attack <grey mesa> in an area south of the city. the team, however, is attacked by another <grey mesa> unit that somehow knew they were coming. a few of the RD team members are killed in the attack, but, thanks to help from the desert nomads, the majority of the team survives and beats back the enemy.

Red Dragon, furious at the misinformation given and loss of team members, goes to the city leaders and learns that they got the information from none other than their rival team, Black pyre. red dragon quickly connects the dots, and finds that black pyre has made an alliance of sorts with <grey mesa>. red dragon, with the help of some Alliance and Hobs mechs, confronts the powerful new hybrid BP/GM mechs.

most of the hybrid mechs are defeated, although two particularly obnoxious ones manage to slip into the city. blitz recognizes the first. it's the upgraded opposition model Black Pyre, with some new parts from <grey mesa>. in his mech, Blitz pursues the two mechs, eventually leading him to the city's history-museum analogue. the BP team leader challenges him, but is again beaten. Blitz runs into the museum, and is shocked to see a creature he somehow knows to be the <grey mesa> leader self-destruct his own mech. with so few exits, Blitz thinks he can easily take down the mech-less GM leader. however, there are a few antique mechs in the museum. nothing usable, right?

maybe not to humans. after a short monologue, the GM leader leaps into perhaps the most famous and powerful mech in the museum: the SHFH-DC001 "Yeesa." using some mysterious GM technology, he starts it up. blitz escapes to his mech, and the two do battle. Blitz eventually manages to damage the Yeesa enough that he breaks into its cockpit and manually kills the GM leader. the GM leader monologues some more, finally dying with speaking the words "we will still win... and you will live in fear...Johnathan Swift."

Blitz's memory returns just as his team does. he confronts <bob> about his identity. He confesses, tells him all about it with a smirk on his face. then, he detonates Blitz's mech with a convenient super-secret self-destruct device. all of the red dragon team jumps into mechs and gangs up on him, but are a little surprised when Blitz gets into the damaged SHFH-DC001 (if he had escaped, they guessed he would go to the RD hangar to use an RD mech.. which they controlled with convenient self-destruct devices).

he wins. then what? Blitz realizes he cannot possibly stay in town. He's ruined his life by destroying the team, decorated war heroes. He has the league against him, the city... and most of the (underpopulated) world*. So he blasts a hole in the town walls with his mech, and… leaves, to live out a nomad's life in the desert until he dies. At least, that's the plan…


*actually, they kinda need him, with GMBP mechs poised to over the city. but he doesn't know that, yet...