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<center><b><font color='e9eef0'>May 22nd, SY 2148</font></b></center>
The night had come. Another mission completed, another day you survived; despite both the Legion's and the Republic's best effort. But... the mission hadn't gone without losses.
You'd been ordered to transfer to the Spearhead Squadron almost two months ago. Since then, the squadron had suffered three casualties. The most recent one happening just a couple of hours ago.
On the warehouse where the squad kept their Juggernauts, that blackboard remained; the one where Kujo had written how many days of service you had left. He updated it every day, took the care to make the number pink with a yellow outline.
<center><b><font color=a635a7>'129 DAYS TILL I END MY SERVICE!! FUCKIN' GLORY TO THE SPEARHEAD SQUADRON!!!'</font></b></center>
In the end, you all decided to not remove it. It would stand there, in his memory.
Shin had retreated into his room, no doubt engraving Kujo's name on a piece of what used to be his Personal Mark, while the rest of the squad either spent their time either cleaning the canteen, checking the warehouse, or just hanging out in the common room. Death wasn't a stranger to the Eighty Six, and everyone grieved in their own way.
Your thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the Para-RAID activating, and the feeling of being connected to another consciousness.
<font color='3dbef5'>"Handler One to all Spearhead units. Greetings, I am your new Command and Control officer."</font color>
Your new Handler, a woman, had decided to contact them now. You and the Squadron knew a new Handler was going to be coming soon, replacing the previous one, the fifth Handler who's come and gone, as he had been driven to insanity. While you had heard some rumors about this new Handler, the fact that she had chosen to contact you all now, during the late hours of the night was... surprising, to say the least.
<font color='3dbef5'>"I've contacted you tonight to introduce myself."</font color> She said. Everyone in the base reacted differently: amusement, surprise, awkwardness...
Eventually, Shin answered her. Introducing himself by his Personal Name, Undertaker, rather than his real one, he told her everyone was looking forward to working with her, and she seemed relieved and almost happy to get an answer.
But that's as far as their conversation went. Shin wasn't really one to talk much, especially to Handlers.
