And the Front Fell off

==Meta==
Date/Timing: After they launch but before Pitfall, probably at night. 
Setting: Just outside the Hong Kong Shatterdome 
Notes: Inspired by this and copied over from this. 
==Text==
Cheung, Jin, and Hu navigate /Crimson Typhoon from the Shatterdome hangar to Scramble Alley. At the rather straightforward interchange of unmoving conveyor belts, the HUD flickers. 
The comm crackles. 
「「This is Tse. /Typhoon, we're reading a jump in heart rate.」」
「HUD's doing something weird,」 reports Hu. 
「「Copy that. Keep going and we'll take a look after the test.」」
「Copy—」
The ground falls out from beneath them. 
「—!」
/Crimson Typhoon smashes against the bottom of Victoria Harbour, face first, with an audible crunch of broken glass. 
Sure enough, when Cheung, Jin, and Hu pick /Typhoon off the seabed, [the sight's cracked, a massive crack spiderwebbed through it]. 
After a brief debate as to the merits of sitting up versus staying put until a chopper cradle takes the Conn-pod away, they push {over} to sitting, but with a bit too much force and /Typhoon whips over almost into a barrel roll. 
And the HUD dies. 
But they're sitting, at least. 
Something lands in /Typhoon's lap. 
「LOCCENT?」 calls Hu. 
「「/Typhoon—」」 
Snickering in the background. 
「「Your spotlight just fell off.」」 
Cheung, Jin, and Hu wonder how exactly that could've happened. 
「「The crunch was audible, actually.」」 
「「We're—」」 
More snickering. 
「「We're looking at /Typhoon's facial muscles—if /Typhoon /had facial muscles—」」
Officer Lo chimes in: 「「The naked insides, as one might say. Lotta whirling gears, blinking lights—」」 
「Is something wrong?」 asks Hu. 
A beat. 
Officer Lo says, 「「I'm pretty much trying to cover up all of LOCCENT killing themselves laughing.」」
「Hardy har har,」 grumbles Jin. 
「What should we do?」 asks Cheung. 
「「Can you get the HUD working?」」 Tse asks thickly. 
「The mic still works,」 notes Jin. 「We can just talk to it.」
Cheung clears his throat. 「AGNIS? Present diagnostic.」
The interface responds in garbled, angry Slavic. 
A /thawk. 
「「Typhoon, we're reading one hundred percent alignment—this's /incredible—」」
Stands to reason, of course; Cheung, Jin, and Hu are of one mind: 
/Cherno Alpha will /pay.
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