Darkness Sky started up on its own without a pilot, startling quite a few maintenance personnel in the Yajenar hangar. Just as they contacted Commander Jill, Darkness Sky shot out of the hangar.
Come to think of it, many mecha had the ability to start up on their own. Among the mecha Xiao Ran knew, quite a few could not only start themselves but also follow a pilot's orders to perform simple tasks. For example, several of the AS units carried by Danner's Son had this capability.
Achieving this function only required installing a simple AI in the mecha. Such an AI did not need to be particularly advanced; as long as it could start the mecha and make it move, that was enough. Naturally, such a basic AI was incapable of combat.
Xiao Ran's Darkness Sky was not equipped with any special AI, but Haro had always remained aboard the machine. That was why he had felt comfortable leaving it in Yajenar's hangar rather than transferring it to the Nadeshiko's hangar. Haro's intelligence could not compare to Nine, Brave Express, or even the mutated Artificial Intelligence R in Sousuke Sagara's Arbalest. In this world, R's mutation had become even more terrifying, and its intelligence was fully comparable to those robots of Brave Express.
Even so, Haro, sitting in Darkness Sky's cockpit, could still do many things. It could not control Darkness Sky in battle, but controlling its GN Dragoons and making the machine start up and move posed no problem at all. It was because Haro had received Xiao Ran's message in Darkness Sky's cockpit that it started the machine and sent it charging out of Yajenar's hangar.
Xiao Ran had given Haro only one order: protect Princess Ange, who was fighting the dragon. Thus, after flying out of