After being offered an alliance by the Eurasians, NADUR captain agreed to cooperate in future missions. However, both sides would find this unusually difficult.

  After the battle, the members of each unit were now free to move between the two space battleships. They now were sharing supplies and info about Harbinger positions. But, like instinct, the two parties still despised each other and argued from the smallest to the biggest of issues.

  At midday, the two captains organized a combined dinner from both forces to create a bond and hopefully remove the awful looks from one another. However...

  "Your food is like water; there is no flavor at all!"

  "Your food is a mess; try the thing called plating."

  The Eurasian raise her eyebrow in disagreement.

  "Design does not matter in the topic of food! Only taste does."

  "Says the people who throw their vegetables around and call it a meal!"

  "Says the people who eat as if they never go hungry!", replied the Eastern European.

  "Says the people who drink beverages that isn't even aged!", responded the Western European as she crossed her arms.

  Clearly, the dinner was turning into a fest for arguments between the two cultures.

  "Hey Eurasian, how much are you paid? Enough for a bottle of water?"

  "What do you mean? The state provides for us and protects us well, we can certainly afford more than a bottle of water!", the soldier said back to Jolina.

  "I heard you people can't even start a business. So backwards."

  The Eurasian was offended.

  "Backwards? We've achieved peace, prosperity and equality your nation can only hope for."

  "Sis, what are you doing? Stop trying to make a fight!", Justin said to his sister.

  "What? I'm just being honest.", she laughingly said.

  "You are being an arrogant capitalist pig!", proclaimed the Eurasian.

  Just after this, Jolina's face turned red, red of anger as she turned around slowly while gripping her fists.

  "Pig? Did you just seriously call me a pig? Oh, you've got it coming you Eurasian!", she shouted as she launched her arms to the soldier.

  However, in the last moment, someone grabbed her arm and pulled it back. It was Luna.

  "What are you doing, Luna? Don't try to stop me!"

  "Maybe you've just had a bit too much to drink sis, let's get some rest."

  Jolina nodded in discontent.

  "No, no, no! We haven't resolved this yet!"

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  "You can try again another day just not today, okay?"

  Jolina then turned her head to face the Eurasian.

  "You'll have it coming, mark my words!"

  After a short moment...

  "Oh, yes. I haven't quite introduced myself, have I? I apologize for my sis' behavior earlier."

  "No need, she's the one who has to apologize."

  "Well anyways, I am Anastasia, Anastasia Morozova. Nice to meet you."

  "And I am Justin, Justin Aldridge, the woman earlier was my sister Jolina. Nice to meet you too."

  Meanwhile in storage room 1 of the Zabytaya...

  "I hear you're the head engineer over here?"

  "Yup, that's me, Boris Nikolaev at your service."

  "I have a deal, if you give me a tour of your vehicles, we'll let tour you of the same."

  Nikolaev thought for a moment and decided.

  "Sure, that seems fair."

  "This is the main Hangar of the Zabytaya isn't it?"

  "Yea, it is. This where we keep the most important of our forces, like our volk tanks."

  "How do those things work?", Franks asked.

  "Well, they're tracked vehicles that are lightweight but very maneuverable. They are Eurasia's main Battle Tanks since 2068. Next, I'll show you, our aircraft."

  "Oh, sure.", he agreed with interest.

  "These are DMP Attack Helicopters. They're only for support yet they can be outfitted with almost any weapon."

  "That looks like the counterpart of the FOBPA's."

  "You can say that, except for the fact that your nation actually copied us."

  "What do you mean copied? You can't possibly be saying that when the average face of you Eurasians screams copying Western tech."

  "I guess it's really built into NADUR people to be arrogant huh?"

  "And I guess it's really built into Eurasians to be feeding of what NADUR gives them."

  At this point, you could guess that this sparked another argument. However, the two head engineers had something in common.

  They were both the light kind, the one that always laughs and doesn't get mad easily.

  So, instead of arguing, they laughed, something no one could ever think people from two opposing nations could ever do together.

  "You are a funny guy!", proclaimed the NADUR head engineer.

  "So are you comrade!", answered the Eurasian head mechanic.

  But as they kept walking, they approached a compartment that the Eurasian had saved for last.

  "You remember that time where we saved you with a beam?"

  "Oh, yea that one. What's with it?", Franks raised his eyebrow in interest.

  "Well, I want to show you how we did it."

  But as the compartment opened, Franks' jaw dropped.

  "An 18-meter-tall humanoid vehicle, built with a sniper rifle capable of a battleship's main cannon shot, the latest model of Eurasia, the Object 277 Laniakea, or as we call it, the Russian Simo Hayha."

  "No way. I thought only the NADUR had this technology.", he said,

  "We thought only Eurasia had this technology."

  Both engineers were shocked, they could not believe that somehow, two opposing nations got the same technology almost at the same time as well. It was all too convenient to just be a coincidence.

  After the combined dinner, the Eurasian captain bought upon the crews of both ships to an announcement alongside Eleanor.

  "This dinner is not only to make bonds with each other, bonds with our rivals.

  But also, we gather you here to enjoy a meal before our two forces enter a battlefield, Amsterdam. This combined force shall work together to bring down what we think may be a Harbinger nothing like we've seen before, a core-type."

  The soldiers gasped, they didn't know they were heading to such a dangerous place.

  "A core-type? What does that mean?", Suzina asked Justin.

  "It means that we're fighting an enemy a whole lot stronger than those hunter-types.", Jolina interrupted.

  A core-type was nothing like a Hunter-type in almost every category. Thus, maximum cooperation between the two forces is needed.

  "Rinmann, the captain summons you to Nova's Hangar 3.", Luna called.

  "Oh, on my way!"

  Later at Hangar 3...

  "Oh, there you are Rinmann. I would like you to meet your partner in the following battle, Eurasian pilot Andrei Sokolov. Andrei, this is Suzina Rinmann."

  "Oh! Hello there partner.", greeted Rinmann.

  "Greetings.", Andrei replied.

  "Oh, come on, what's with the gloom?"

  "Why did I have to get paired with a chatterbox."

  Rinmann was surprised at Andrei's attitude.

  "Don't worry, I'm sure you two will get along soon. After all, you are both pilots."

  "What do you mean captain?"

  "Apparently, your Aegis? Yea, the Eurasians have one too and that guy is the pilot."

  Suzina was stunned.

  "The Aegis? They have an Aegis?"

  "Aegis-like vehicle, uses a sniper rifle instead of a rapier like yours does, but you have to work with him, understood?"

  She became bright, she was excited to work with the pilot.

  "Yes, ma'am! I'll work with him to the best of my abilities."