In Wang's days the ships had been upgraded and looked rather Jules Verne-ish. Wang's personal vessel had resembled a fanciful dragonfly. It still did a trail of smoke and sparks, but that drive system had been in place for awhile and was preferred by many of the Mongoian traditionalists.
Yan did away with the drive system for something more dependable and fancied the "every available surface has a weapons port" approach.
The Unnamed Emperor didn't do anything involving the ships.
The interim government had put smoke-and-spark generators on the ships not equipped with the old drive, that way they could have it both ways.
Captain Beatrix didn't like the smoke-and-spark thing, prefering approaches and takeoffs that were like her swordwork - clean and precise.
Her ship, the Savior, resembled some huge (60') hummingbird. and was nearly as manueverable. She cut a screaming path through the Terran atmosphere and the wing guns sent pulses into the most likely tunnel for Hastur as she came around.
When it was obvious that Steiner had his ships in hover, her reaction was instant.
Hitting the button that sent a little hologram projection of her to the Vindicator. "Steiner. What's the sitrep?"
"What's the outfit?" Steiner asked, gaping at the red bodysuit, flowing cape and long boots.
"The Emperor is coming in an outfit like this, but a male variant. I had someone research and prepare a similar costume to show my solidarity with the new Emperor." Beatrix began to smile a little. "Like it?"
"Oh.. YES! Yes. It... suits you," said Steiner. "Oh ah. The sitrep! Yes. The enemy deemed 'Hastur' is underground. Per the request of our allies, the Senshi, we are following it and shooting whatever sticks out of its tunnel."
"Hello?! Oh, I got it working!"
Beatrix knelt, clenched fist over her heart. "My princess. I am here to deliver an additional war machine and pledge my assistance to you."
Saturn in her Gundam gulped. "What am I supposed to do? This kind of thing hasn't happened before!"
"Accepting would be a good thing," remarked Pluto. "Whose war machine?"
"For you, Princess Pluto," said Beatrix, waiting for Saturn to get over her fidgeting. "The one for Uranus will be next? Where is she?"
"Jaaaaannneeee! Stop this craazy thiiing!" Uranus shouted out as she whipped around in the wind, her hand barely clinging to the handrail as Usagi somehow managed a barrel roll.
"Where's the brakes?!" squealed Usagi.
Uranus had a sudden image of the vehicle coming to a dead stop and herself shooting past it into the distance. A glance down revealed that - gee were those dental floss things roads?! They were awfully high up. "NO! NO BRAKES!"
"So, the Pluto Knights were ready to go, as was the Saturn Gundam. The Pluto mecha was delayed, as were the Saturn Knights, so that's what happened there," said Pluto thoughtfully.
"Exactly," said Beatrix. "I wanted to present the Saturn war machine to her directly, but time was considered essential. No offense but I feel that the cute and nice young Princess of Saturn would bring qualities to the position of Empress that are needed."
Pluto waved it off. "I just don't think that I'm the giant robot pilot type."
Venus held a sign over her head that proclaimed: [Cute & Nice & Single! H] Rei held up her hand and waved it around, as this was the anime and not manga version. Ami raised a hand and blushed. Makoto made a muscle gesture and had this speculative gleam in her eye.
"I see. Would perhaps one of the other princesses deign to use this... minor gift of the Emperor?" Asked Beatrix, knowing how they played this sort of thing at court even if she preferred something more direct and to the point.
Hotaru looked up. There went Haruka-papa overhead again.
"Maybe I should try to stop them?" Hotaru asked aloud.
"I'm getting ready to stop them," said a voice as the second giant robot began snapping cables as it got up from where it had been strapped to Beatrix' ship.
Hotaru recognized the voice and realized that this was:
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