ECHELON: Mercenaries

Name: ECHELON: Mercenaries
Author: ayama_ru

by ayama_ru

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Twenty-five tons of hyper-tuned steel. A cockpit reeking of ozone and sour candy. For seventeen-year-old Lia, it's her sanctuary. As a pilot for the Vagabonds—a notorious creed of rogue mercenaries operating out of the mountain fortress of Alamut—Lia lives for the high-G chaos of the battlefield. She doesn't care about corporate borders or political treaties, much to the dread of her mercenary siblings. But when Lia’s dangerous obsession with her Core, Pathfinder , threatens to consume her, her siblings force her into a soft exile: a mandatory holiday in the neon-drenched city of Saffron to learn how to live like a normal teenager. Far from the grime of the war zones, Lia finally tastes the teenager mundane life and stumbles into a chaotic, love-hate friendship with Kai, a quiet, melancholic guy who moonlights as a low-tier pilot. It feels like a harmless escape—until Kai invites her on a special corporate sabotage contract. Its a trap. To save the siblings who love her, the people she discredit, and the home she lives in from the imminent doom she caused, the reckless mercenary girl must return to her Core, face the ghosts in her machinery, and unlock a dark, genetic secret she was never meant to discover. Some weapons are built. Others are born. Greetings! I've been writing stories on my binder notebooks and I long to be an author, here behold, my first project! (Please don't mind the grammars and sometimes queer writing styles and interpretations, what can you expect from a region deep in the wilderness of Southeast Asia?)