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>Approach blitz = 89 (Majour success)

"What the-?!" Athrun's comms link up with yours from proximity as their red-finned GINN turns their mono-eye at your maneuver, verniers unfurling-.

Just a moment too late as your blade hits the rifles.

One of them flies off the Red-finned GINN's grasp as the other, closer one, its barrel and receiver outright hacked off as Athrun forcibly disengages without his weapon.

And much to your chargrin and intuition, that rifle you just destroyed seemed to be yours, having been caught when-.

>Close-Quarters engagement = 26 (Minour failure)

You rock in your faux-cockpit as Athrun descended with a kick, your main camera's feedback growing haptick as he no doubt dived straight for the head.

You recover, feed glitching as you input correcting code off memory, trying to close the gap and hit Athrun with your blade as they fly and distance from you with each subsequent wide-yet-predictable swing your perform.

And with each failed swing, his machine responds with a kick, the first warning sign showing up in your piloting feed as the repeat impacts are compromising the sealing of it-.

To hell with it!

Boosting forth and tackling Athrun's machine mid-kick, your feed soon goes back to normal as you try to swing for one of their legs, narrowly missing as the red-finned machine boosts out, before jetting and zig-zagging away into the-.

The one discarded rifle floating far and away

>Destroy the rifle with a volley of missiles!
>Nail Athrun from behind with a volley of missiles!
>Chase after them and snatch the rifle for yourself!
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