Speranza - The Breakthrough

First few seconds after emergency unplugging were always horrifying. Like if she suddenly went nearly blind and deaf. And now, of all the time, when he needed her the most... or rather, when he would need her the most if not for her panic and anguish that could strike him off balance. -Georgius! Please...- Speranza cried, urging herself not to think about all the horrors she had just witnessed. -Okay. Brace yourself- he answered with a strange voice. It was something he's never done before; an emergency plug-in. And for a milisecond before it happened, she had a realisation why. An emergency plug-in meant a certain depletion; in her case, depletion was followed by a short-term memory loss. He was not doing it for himself. It was for her. But she didn't have time for a single thought before a wave of data flowed into her brain like an avalanche. Speranza gritted her teeth. He. Needs. Her. Now! Georgius felt the shiver of an emergency plug-in too. For a brief moment he went nearly blind and deaf from an info-flow of unprocessed data - and suddenly it stopped. Or, to be precise, it become the best info-flow he had ever seen. It meant that Speranza was serious. He knew everything now. All the guns, light and heavy, traces of shots, mechas, even the atmosphere itself - he knew everything. And when the shipyard's shields gave up five seconds and another destroyed mecha later, he was ready. -Black Squadron, positions to drop the charges around the battleship. How many do we have left? Four of six, Speranza answered before the pilots did. Quick math... -Jasnos, drop your charge on the target A. Designating Target A! -Target A, acquired. -Black Squadron, descend on full speed. Georgius over.