After her suggestion, the group went last the doorway and walked down a long hallway taking care of more enemies as the three wondered how exactly Bronya was gonna use the mechs.

Their questions were answered as after a bit further down they looked to their left to see a row of powered off mechs as they approached them, with Bronya then having a couple of holographic screens appear in front of her as she began to interact with them.

"Password protection disabled. Pilot access granted. Combat systems activated. A trojan? No...it seems like a minor Honkai leak. Minor event categorized. Moving on. Anti-Entropy specialist combat mech armed and ready." Said Bronya who successfully managed to get the mechs to power on as the other were impressed.

"Woah! This is super cool! I wanna pilot this one!" Said Kiana pointing to one of the three mechs which Bronya immediately rejected.

"Negative." She said which got Kiana upset.

"Hmm why not? It's my turn to do something cool." She said with a frown.

"Mech piloting reacquires at least 10,000 hours of training. Candidate pilots must be well versed in the basic principles of EM theories, fluid dynamics, and aerodynamics." Said Bronya which got a sigh from Kiana.

"Ah really? You must be kidding. This mech looks simpler than a bike." She said.

"Stop fooling around Kiana." Said Mei.

Alex noticed that there were only three mechs available to pilot as he then offered his opinion.

"Judging by your suggestion to take the three mechs for use, its clear that you will pilot one and Mei will pilot the other so help keep her stamina stable right? That just leaves one mech left to pilot. If I were you, I'd let the snowflake pilot the third one. Even if she has no experience I'd rather let a teen with no experience pilot a mech than a 13 year old with older experience." Said Alex.

"Hey thanks! Maybe you aren't all that ba-HEY WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN SNOWFLAKE!?" Shouted Kiana.

Though she didn't want to, Bronya knew Alex was correct as she begrudgingly gave in as Mei, Kiana, and Bronya each entered their own mech as Alex decided to climb up and ride on Bronya's mech trusting her to provide the most safest ride out of the three.

With that settled, the three mechs were on their way to the end of the path as now they were easily plowing through the remaining enemies and beasts like nothing.

After a couple of minutes, they reached the end of the hallway as one of the mechs wound up exploding seemingly from damage but the group of four managed to easily jump away and back onto the floor in front of the doorway that led into the control room.

"Heheh! How's that? My piloting skill is simply spelled with awesome." Said a confident Kiana with a smile.

"Awsomely inept." Bluntly said Bronya.

"Huh!? But I reduced all those hostile mechs to slag!" She shouted.

"Kiana idiotka has destroyed the only operational mechs we managed to hack." Said Bronya.

"Can't do anything about that. But at least we've destroyed a ton of enemy units." She said still being upbeat.

"True but you somehow managed to press the self destruct button after the battle was done." Said Alex.

"What? How'd you know?" Said Kiana being in genuine shock.

"Uh, anyways since we can't pilot the mechs anymore, lets just move on with the mission." Said Mei wanting to get a move on already. "According to the prints of the battleship, the bridge is beyond that door, right?" She asked.

"Affirmative." Confirmed Bronya.

"Alright then. Let's bust through and seize control of this bad boy." Said Alex as they walked through the door and after walking through one final corridor, they reached the end to meet what seemed like the main control terminal that powered the air ship as Bronya approached it and began to take control.

"No hostile units at the bridge. Project Bunny 19c, force access into the main control system." She said ready to break through any security systems until she got shocked at what she saw on her hologram.

"No login passwords...full administrator's privileges granted...non conformance with standard protocols."

As the process went on, Himeko's hologram suddenly appeared for a chat.

"This is strange. They're just giving us a free battleship? Be careful Bronya. The enemy may have hidden a few trojans in the code." Warned Himeko.

"Major Himeko, the Bronya found a strange mail in the master control unit."

"Mail?" Asked Himeko as Bronya began to read what it said.

"It reads, 'Dear Kiana! Greetings. We hereby return you the battleship Selene after 14 years. You shall ascend the throne and rule this world. But before that, you'll need to find four keys. Lighting of Conquest, Fire of Affliction, Storm of Desire, and Death of Tranquility. P.S. The password to the bridge is your birthday." Said Bronya finishing the email.

"Wait. Why's this mail written for me?" Said a confused Kiana.

"Kiana, do you know anything about this? Do you know anyone who would write letters like this to you?" Asked Himeko.

"No...I'm clueless... Don't you think I'd remember if I had a friend so rich they could give me a battleship? Plus, my stupid old man probably can't write anything like this." Replied Kiana.

"Lightning of Conquest...Storm of Desire...they sound really familiar to me. Kiana! Tell Bronya your birthdate." Ordered Himeko which caught Kiana off guard.

"Huh? Why would I tell you all my birthdate? Himeko, this is just a stupid prank." Said Kiana not wanting to say though Mei went against her wishes.

"Bronya, Kiana's birthday is December 7th." She said.

"Huh!? Mei! Don't tell me that you believe this prank!?" Said an upset Kiana.

Bronya typed the birthdate in and pressed accept as the system P.A. of the ship spoke.

"Navigation privileges granted. Rerouting vessel. New destination set: St. Freya High School." Said the voice which had Kiana in shambles.

"Huh!? They really used my birthdate as the password!?"

"Well, at least now we'll be able to fly the battleship back to St. Freya High and get to the bottom of this." Said Mei noting out the positives. "It seems that the people sending this battleship harbor no ill intents."

As the two girls were beginning to focus on ahead, Alex noticed how even after inputting the password, Bronya still remained still not saying a thing.

'Something's up.' Thought Alex to himself.

Shortly after that though, a warning sign appeared in front of Bronya.

"What's happening Bronya?" Worriedly asked Himeko.

She gave no response as in front of the three, Bronya's form began to change as she spoke in a more robotic voice.

"Valkyrie System. Bio-Chip anomaly detected...force activate emergency system. Rebooting." She said as she turned back to look at them with cold red eyes.

No one could understand what was happening but something definitely wasn't right with Bronya.

"Switching to troubleshooting mode. Purge all surrounding hostiles." Said Bronya in her now robot voice as she stood up facing them, as she held her hand out in front of her, as behind her over what seemed like hundreds of cannons were aimed and ready to fire at them.

Kiana and Mei had no idea how they were gonna avoid this until Alex spoke.

"You two behind me now!" He shouted.

The two girls immediately huddled behind the boy as he clapped his hands and right as Bronya's cannons began to rain fire upon them, Alex placed his hands down onto the floor as a wall emerged in front of them and rose up just enough to barely block them from the assault.

"Listen up. Once this is done I'm gonna let a flame loose to catch her attention. You two go to the other sidr and blind side her until sense is knocked back into her!" Said Alex as the two girls nodded to his plan.

They then got into position as Alex waited for the assault to slow down.

Eventually it did as he held a hand out and snapped his fingers as a streak of fire came bursting out from the side of the wall.

Bronya saw this was just slightly let off of her assault a bit more which allowed Kiana and Mei to rush in from where she wasn't looking as they succeeded in getting jump on her as the 2 on 1 sneak attack managed to be enough as eventually Bronya had been taken down as she was laid out on the floor, slowly reverting back to normal.

The three walked up to her as Mei held her in her arms.

"Bronya! Wake up, Bronya!" Pleaded Mei.

After a bit, Bronya began to stir as she slowly opened her eyes to see Mei and Kiana in front of her with Alex off to the side.

"What happened, Mei?" Asked Bronya as the two girls had a sigh of relief.

"Great! Your finally awake!" Said Kiana.

"The Bronya...may have lost control over her chip..." She said slowly as Himeko appeared again this time on a video call.

"Valkyries are the communications back online? Bronya? Are you alright?." Asked Himeko who ended up being disconnected during Bronya's assault.

"The Bronya is alright...Major Himeko, please arrange a full physiological exam for the Bronya at school. The Bronya will not drag anyone down in any way." Said Bronya with a smile.

Himeko saw this and simply gave a chuckle before she gained focus back.

"One last thing, Alex Mustang can you hear me?" Asked Himeko.

Alex walked in front of the video call as he got his firsr glimpse of what Himeko looked like

"Here I am. Hear ya loud and clear." He said.

"This must be our first time seeing one another. Don't worry, we'll be seeing each other in person very soon." Said Himeko which confused Alex a bit.

"Hm? Why say that? Isn't my job done now?" Asked Alex as Himeko simply sighed.

"Your required to come back with Kiana, Mei, and Bronya to St. Freya High. The principal would like to speak with you once you've arrived."

Chapter 4: Complete