Octavia was nervous, she’d never shared her ‘hidden’ love for anime and cosplay with anyone but something about Cai made her feel both easy and uneasy but also enough so she had invited him to the holodeck, she’d spent so much time playing adult that she sometimes forget she was still rather young. She had donned her purple wig and was wearing a female mecha pilots uniform which meant it was a little revealing and left little to the imagination as the fabric clung very tightly to her body, to her side was a pistol and on her back a katana. Beside her on the helipad was the large mecha ‘Dante’s Endavour’ the mecha was huge and painted in purple and yellows with a large eagle in the middle. The weapons of choice, a 120mm high-velocity repeating Gauss cannon attached over its shoulder and typically stowed, a katana and a small bolt pistol which fired High-velocity armour piercing HESH rounds. It was a pretty decent Kaiju killing machine.

The main reason she had invited Kai was that Dante required a Co-pilot, and usually shed just use a hologram but it was nothing like having a real person.

As she sat on the edge of the large platform she kicked her feet back and forth throwing rocks and screw which had been left out on the helipad into the water 100ft below her. It was warm and the sun at least felt good on her back, if Cai didn’t turn up at least she was able to have a moment to herself.

• Mecha Pilot Octavia Raain