Editing City Series:Volume6d Chapter5 (section)

===Part 4===

It arrived suddenly.

After starting her fall, Hazel turned to view the ground 20 yards below her. That was when a dull sound like breaking rock reverberated through her body.

She thought it had to be Karl’s footstep, but while the massive Heavy Barrel was turning her way from 30 yards away, he had not taken a step yet.

The blue and red Barrels were flapping their wings and performing attitude control in the air near where Karl’s fist had missed her.

…''Then what was that sound!?

She heard it again and managed to ascertain its location this time.

It came from the road she was currently falling toward.

A sound like something tearing through rock rumbled from the underground facility. She also heard the sound of heavy metal tearing and snapping as the source revealed itself.

One portion of the road broke and lifted. The pavement swelled up like someone tugging upwards on the center of a cloth.

“Come to me, Neue Kaiser!” shouted Hazel, twisting her body.

The tip of the protruding asphalt broke open and a black metal fist burst out.

The yard-wide fist was surrounded by chunks of asphalt and pieces of the underground structure as the hand opened and extended its fingers upwards. The force of the movement sent the scraps of metal and asphalt flying away.

The rumble whipped up the wind.

The open hand jutted straight up, revealing a shoulder joint covered by a Panzer Kleid.

“!”

Hazel landed on the metal palm.

The metal hand supporting her continued to move upwards in the powerful wind. The wind blew from the shoulders, face, chest, hips, legs, and toes to break through the ground and emerge onto the surface.

This was Neue Kaiser.

The sight devices in the facial structure shined bright. Its output levels remained at near overdrive. She could tell no one was piloting it.

…''It’s unmanned, but its owner showed me it can be remote controlled at the library last night.

All of its thrusters were currently being used to keep it floating above the road. Its actions came from its nature as a Heavy Barrel, from its Lives and the combat records in its memory, and from the will sent out by Hazel’s Messiah eye and Hazel herself.

“Thank you,” she said atop its hand.

It answered her thanks by landing back on the ground after bursting up from the underground hangar.

With a metal crash loud enough to shake the ground, the white 11yd machine stood on the road and roared.

“––––!”

Its voice rattled the windows of the nearby buildings and caused the three Heavy Barrels about 50 yards away to back up just a bit.