Editing City Series:Volume6c Chapter2 (section)

===Part 8===

Hazel felt her vision blur from the landing and bouncing, but she still saw Berger.

Inside the frame, she was strapped to the sidecar by the seatbelt, causing her vision to spin rapidly leftward. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Berger land on the deck and run her way.

She barely had time to look to her surroundings. The world continued to spin around her and she felt the wind before he came into view again.

“B-Berger!!”

The frame hopped port across the deck.

She saw pieces of the buffering structure scattering from below the frame. She was lucky it had survived the initial 50 yard drop at all.

The frame flew low in the air and gently began to drop again. Berger observed its arc and…

“Is it going to hit the edge of the deck or fly right off!?”

“I-I can’t tell!!”

Berger smiled when he heard her response from the flying frame.

“!?”

He suddenly looked toward the bridge and lowered his head.

Hazel tried to look that way too, but everything was still spinning around her. On the second rotation, she saw a gun emplacement next to the bridge turning toward Berger and beginning a horizontal stream of fire.

Berger ducked low and slid feet-first along the deck.

He slipped below the flying bullets and aimed his MG 34…toward her.

…''!?

Her confusion was soon answered by the wind produced by the flying ship. Her frame was headed toward the edge of the deck, so at this rate, she and the frame would collide with it at considerable speed.

She heard the gunfire from behind her as her vision spun rightward. Once the spin brought Berger in front of her again, she saw him giving up on that and throwing the MG 34 away.

“Handle the rest yourself!” he shouted.

“Okay!”

Whatever the case, she had to agree. She undid her seatbelt even as the centrifugal force flung her around.

She was nearly thrown from her seat as she grabbed the S-41G Device stored between the sidecar and motorcycle.

She spun around until she could again see ahead of the flying frame. The wall that formed the edge of the deck was right there. The MG 34 had broken it down some, but not enough.

The flying frame began another rotation.

It would crash once it faced forward again, so that was when she would make her move.

So she took action. She shut her eyes, gritted her teeth, and pulled some destruction cards from her hip holder while the centrifugal force and night wind whipped at her hair.

Her fingers refused to do what she told them, so she only managed to keep three of the cards in her grasp. The ten or so others scattered throughout the sidecar. She felt them on her legs as she pasted the three she had on the S-41G.

She pressed her knees against the inside of the sidecar to hold herself in place. She angled her body diagonally and raised the sword overhead.

She would use the momentum of the frame’s rotation to send the diagonal strike into the wall.

She opened her eyes to see the wall full of bullet holes directly in front of her.

And she heard a voice behind her.

“Goooo!!”

“Okay!!”

She shouted to resonate with the Device.

She used a single “ah” sound.

The sword changed the three cards on its blade into triple explosions of light. Three empty cartridges were ejected from the sword and it accelerated.

She slammed it into the wall.

With a destructive sound, the light destroyed the wall in a radiating pattern.

“…!”

The airborne rubble struck the frame and crumbled.

The frame’s course was unchanged, so it flew right past the edge of the deck.

It fell off the ship altogether.

Hazel grabbed the frame, leaned out from the sidecar, and looked up at the aerial warship.

It was so big. Even bigger than the two-hull warship she had once seen from the Sylphide.

…''And so many ships like that are flying around for the war.

Once her gently rotating view turned skyward once more, the aerial warship was far above her.

She also saw a dark figure flying down toward her.

She held the frame’s parachute release cable and waited for him.

She just knew she was going to go limp and pass out the instant she handed that cable to him.