"Unregistered mech pilot, this is the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. Shut down your engine and exit the cockpit."
Amara's Gipsy Danger had barely fled any distance before it ran into Winter Ajax.
But Amara did not surrender without a fight. She pretended to give in, then unleashed a massive cloud of smoke bombs.
Winter Ajax stood eighty meters tall, so the smoke bombs could barely conceal its heels. Gipsy Danger, however, was extremely compact. Using the smoke to hide its trail, it swiftly fled to one side.
"Stop!"
"You have violated Section Fourteen of Article Ten by piloting an unregistered Jaeger."
Gipsy Danger nimbly darted through the ruins. Though Winter Ajax appeared clumsy and slow, it easily kept pace with every step.
Clack, clack!
Seeing that simply running would not solve anything, Amara gritted her teeth and steered the mech back onto the main road. It flipped over, curled into a ball, and rolled rapidly forward.
Boom!
The rolling Gipsy Danger curved around the pursuing Winter Ajax, bounced off a patch of rubble, and crashed straight into an abandoned building.
"Did I lose it?"
Having successfully hidden inside the building, Amara turned to look at the hole she had smashed through. Her expression immediately changed.
After all that flashy maneuvering, she looked back and found she had accomplished nothing.
Winter Ajax had not been shaken off at all. Instead, it extended a palm larger than Gipsy Danger itself and reached into the hole.
"Let's go."
Seeing this, Li Si stopped watching the show. Project Armor rose into the air again, and halfway through its ascent, numerous hovering components dismantled from the Multi-Function Combat Platform flew out of Amara's warehouse.
"Warning! Flying objects approaching."
The moment Winter Ajax detected them, Li Si and Tony Stark, clad in armor, had already