Each pilot sat in their cockpits as the mechanical voice spoke, “WARFRAME Battle, combat mode, startup. Please set your base reader. Beginning display. Field selected: Forest.” The screen displayed a lush green forest with rolling hills and a large lake. The light glistened off the water’s surface. Each of the pilots complied and placed their respective base readers on the console. The information of their frames appeared on their respective base readers and a holographic image of their respective WARFRAMEs appeared above the console.

A blue light passed by each frame and the frame’s surroundings changed to a single room with a long tunnel. The eyes of each of the frame glowed. Rosenkavalier, Jakqoo, and Mantaraia’s knees bent and buckled. The blue light that lit the room turned red and sparks flew as the platform that appeared before their feet catapulted them to the light at the end of the tunnel. All while Anna said, “Anna Fischer, Rosenkavalier. Silver Vanguard, here we go.” On the other hand, Vincent said, “Vincent Porter, Jakqoo WIP, launch!” While Justin said, “Justin Walker, Mantaraia, launch.” An exit port appeared over the battlefield and the three frames exited the port and landed on the battlefield.

When they arrived, the trio found their opponents, standing atop a hill not too far away. There were two violet-colored Angel-type frames standing on either side of the team while JoJo’s frame was in the middle. It was an ash-colored Champion-type frame wielding a halberd and it had two large circular shields resting on the left shoulder, and they were stacked on top of each other, and a cannon on the right shoulder. Anna was stunned and perplexed at the sight of JoJo’s frame, “That is not a Joust!? JoJo usually uses a Joust. What the heck is going on here?” Justin commented, “It’s the Champion version of a Joust, Gareth” JoJo was smirking in her cockpit, “That’s right. This is the Gareth that I’ve modified and painstakingly assembled. This is my J-Gareth!” JoJou pointed her halberd at Anna, “Anna, just like last year, our team, Song of Victory, will be the one to triumph in battle. I swear this, on the shields that were entrusted to me by my brother George, the previous captain of our team.”

All three frames of Song of Victory flew into the air and fired upon Silver Vanguard. The two Angel types fired from their beam crossbows, while J-Gareth, fired missiles from the shield on its shoulder. The attack from the three frames forced Anna, Justin, and Vincent to scatter. As they moved, Anna told them their plan of attack, “Justin, none of them have actual airborne capabilities. Take to the sky and cover us.” Justin responded, “Roger, Roger”. Anna then communicated with Vincent, “Vincent, we’re going to pick them off one by one.” Vincent asks, “Which one are we going after first? Also, I know we are against bullying, especially when it comes to bullying girls, but will I be condemned for this?” Anna commented, “Forget the morality of it for now. Besides, this won’t be considered bullying. It’s a strategy, pure and simple.”

“Now come on, let’s go.” Rosenkavalier dashed through the battlefield shooting beams from under its shield. Vincent’s Jakqoo did the same and fired its machinegun. The bullets and beams flew toward the three members of Song of Victory, but they were able to easily dodge the attack. The three frames zig-zagged and avoided the hail of attacks. “Two primary attackers and another providing suppression fire. Anna, your formation is practically transparent in my eyes.” Then once JoJou was close enough, the J-Gareth leaped into the air and was about to swing its halberd when she heard her name being called out by one of her subordinates, “JoJo, watch out” and she was alerted to a shot that had fired and was headed in her direction. The attack was unleashed by Justin. He had fired from his cannons. After being alerted of the incoming danger, JoJo halted her attack and quickly backed away, so as to avoid another sneak attack.

The J-Gareth continued to back away, “This guy is not bad. Let’s head to someplace where we can find cover.” Both of JoJo’s subordinates answered, “Roger”. As the three frames were dashing away, Justin was in the air and he had locked on to them, if he could take out their captain, then the rest would have been easy pickings. Unfortunately, things do not always go as planned. When Justin had the J-Gareth in his sights, he became frustrated. Because just as he was about to pull the trigger, Vincent suddenly appeared and blocked his line of sight. The Newb had appeared out of nowhere and was chasing after the trio from St Agatha. Justin scolds Vincent, “Move it, Vincent. You’re in the way.” Vincent ignored Justin’s rant and continued to chase after the trio. Even Anna was unable to stop him. “Vincent, don’t rush in. They’re baiting you.”

Vincent chased after the three frames as they went around a ridge. Once he was out of sight of his teammates, Vincent found the J-Gareth dashing towards him. “Just one of you. This is going to be easy.” Inside her cockpit, JoJo sneered, “You are so gullible.” Vincent fired his machine gun and missiles from the missile pods attached to his legs at the J-Gareth but it easily blocks the hail of bullets by taking one of the shields on its left shoulder and holding it in its hand as it charged. While the shield blocks the bullets, JoJou swung her halberd and deflected the missiles.

She kept charging in with her halberd and her defense had already caught him off guard when she unleashed a surprise attack on him. The two purple Angel frames leaped up from behind J-Gareth in sequence. One of them aimed its crossbow at him while the other raised its pike. Vincent spoke out in surprise, “The other two were hiding behind the big guy.” Mister Myers, who was watching the screen exclaimed, “Slipstream Charge. This girl is using the tactic of Team Earthbound.” The sister that was beside him drank some hot tea and chuckled, “You got that right, Brandon. Taught them everything they know, and then some.” Mister Myers eyed the sister that sat beside him, “You are really sneaky, Alice.” The sister chuckled even harder, “That’s Sister Alice to you. And I take that as a compliment.”

JoJo swung her halberd, but Vincent was able to evade it, although just barely. However, the second attack had hit him. His left shoulder-mounted missile pod was destroyed as he evaded the halberd. Just as the second attack had finished, in came the third attack. The second Angel frame swung its pike at Vincent’s Jakqoo. While he was dodging the attacks, JoJou said, “Rushing in alone like that. I don’t know whether to call you brave or just stupid. But I don’t hate something like that in a guy.” The third attack connected. The pike had left a large gash on the Jakqoo’s chest as it fell into the lake with a splash.

After seeing Vincent fall into the Lake, Anna became worried. The battle had tipped in JoJo’s favor. Justin saw the entire thing happen, and he was unable to stop it. “That idiot. How could he fall for such a simple trap? I guess all that talk about being good at FPS was just empty boasting.”