Thor's Ascent

The Year is Cosmic Era 115. Three years after the presumed death of Ronald Pinkerton, the Titans continue to fight against the Colonial Fleet, retreating to their strongholds in the Koprulu Sector. Raynor's Raiders continued to fight them, but the Titans were overwielming the elite forces of the Raiders. Only the Colonial Fleet could defeat the Titans, and the one squadron with the most experience was the 807th Tactical Fighter/Mobile Suit Squadron: the elite Valkyrie Squadron.

Prologue: A Mystery of Epic Proportions

Titans-occupied planet Agria

Dozens of Minotaur-Class Battlecruisers orbited the now-volcanic planet Agria.

Ron's GN nuke spamming turned the reserve planet into the second Char.

Next to Tarsonis, it was the perfect fortress.

But 15 year old ships against one of the flagships of the Colonial Fleet?

No chance.

Beam rounds went through three ships.

The Japan opened fire on the Titans fleet.

The Minotaurs were over 7 decades more advanced then the Japan, which was, in a sense, just a heavily modified Valkyrie-Class Battlestar, but the Black Knights were the best.

They destroyed 18 Minotaurs before joining the Colonial Fleet.

But the Titans reequiped their oftly weak and miss-catagoried Baikal-Class cruisers, turning them into newer, more useful Volga-Class frigates.

The Japan, flagship of the Black Knights, stood no chance against them, and the new Athens-Class battlecruisers built by the Titans were more powerful then the Minotaur-Class.

Then two very large ships jumped in.

They were the Pegasus-Class Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus, flags of the Fleet.

"About damn time!"

"Sorry we're late, but the assholes on Korhal wouldn't let us by. 807Th, launch!"

The 807th Tactical Fighter/Mobile Suit Squadron, originally a ground unit led by Ronald Pinkerton which transfered to the Fleet and was renamed Chaos Squadron after stealing a Cylon Raider and killing most of their troops, was dismantled after the Colonial Civil War, but was reformed with the famous ADF-X01V2 Valkyrie as its' core, and using the same Mobile Suits that (hopefully) killed Ronald Pinkerton: the GAT-X105 Kai Strike Gundam and the GAT-FJ108 Raigo Gundam.

With the loss of two MSs and one pilot, the CDF-X06 Susanowo Gundam and Ryu Zala and his ZGMF-X56S kai Impulse Gundam, their strength was halved, but Kallen Kozuki and her Pinkerton-designed JGAT-X606B Guren Gundam-basically a Morgan-sized Guren with a head mounted cockpit-had transfered to the 807th, leaving the Black Knights without their badass ace.

Untill now.

Four MSs, the ADF-X01V2 Valkyrie, rebuilt from the remains of the original Valkyrie and the ADF-X01A4 Morgan's data-Maria discovered failsaves on the Morgan's frame and wisely left it alone other then testing-with all of the Morgan's advanced weapons technology, the GAT-X105 kai Strike piloted by the daughter of Setsuna F. Seiei and Lunamaria Hawke-although they never married: Lunamaria died in childbirth-Marie Hawke, the Guren piloted by Black Knights pilot Kallen Kozuki, a customized CDF-06 Susanowo piloted by the last child of Cagalli Yula Athha and Athrun Zala, Marina Zala, and the Raigo, piloted by Kira's son, Joesph Yamato.

The Titans were barely putting up a defense.

"Admiral, quick question."

Maria sighed.

"Go ahead."

"Isn't Agria supposed to be the second hardest nut to crack in the entire Koprulu Sector? These guys suck!"

"Looks like these guys are moving out, Valkyries. Take what's left out."

There was a reason they were called Valkyries.

Most of the Squadron, sans Joesph and Lelouch vi Britannia, it was all female and they were like Norse Valkyries.

"Understood. Let's get them!"

The 40-year old CO was Admiral Maria Avalonia-Pinkerton, daughter of the famous-and crazy-Colonel Ronald Pinkerton, who, are examination of his medical record on board the Nahel Argama, was cleared of all of his crimes when it was discovered that he was controlled by Hiling Care and Wang Lu Ming, via nanites ment to cure his schizophrenia.

The Titans just jumped away, not bothering with fighting the Valkyries.

"What the fuck?" "Same here! I was expecting a fight! And I haven't tested the radiant pulse yet!" "You've get the chance, Valkyries."

"DRADIS contact, sir! Looks like a ship."

"Check if it fits in the warbook."

"Sir, it's the Solaria."

"What?"

The Battlestar Solaria was destroyed during the Fall of the Colonies 43 years before, and no one bothered to make another one.

The Titans considered it unholy to enter the Colonies without taking over Earth, so they were out of the 'Who stole the Solaria' contest.

The RvB mercenaries couldn't use it, as they used Mobile Suits, and the Junk Guild was dissolved at the end of the Colonial Civil War.

But who the hell would use a wrecked, 40 year old Battlestar?

"Let the Knightmare Corps check it out. Valkyrie Squadron, escort the Knightmares to the Solaria."

"I thought you considered Knightmares to be useless."

"One of the few times I actually agree with your father on weapon usage, but the ship isn't designed for Mobile Suits."

"True. We'll fly escort."

"Not what I do best, Maria."

"We're on the clock, Kozuki."

"Sorry, Admiral. What in the nine hells? Contacts incoming! Viper-sized!"

"Pull the Knightmares back!"

It was too late.

The cones rammed into the Knightmares, and metalic crystals grew on the frames and on the pilots.

They were dead.

"Launch Darts and Susanowos! Activate Beam Igelstellungs and target those things!"

Then a pair of Minotaur-III-Class Titans battlecruisers jumped in and opened fire on the Solaria.

The cones turned on the Titans, giving the Colonials time to pull out.

Korhal: MESSIAH Station

Thanks to the advent of trans-universal FTL drives, MESSIAH could travel as the mobile fortess of the Colonial Fleet.

After ZAFT surrendered to Colonial forces at the end of the Second Bloody Valentine War, the first things to go in were beam Igelstellungs and a quartet of FTL drives.

After the beginning of the Celestial Being/Colonial Conflict, the newly invented trans-universal FTL drives were also installed, giving MESSIAH true mobility as a battlestation.

After eight refits-the lastest to incorporate docking facilities for the new giant ships of the Fleet like the new beam weapon-enabled Zeus-Class battlestars and Pegasus-Class battlestar dreadnoughts-the top brass, including Kira, were thinking of bringing Axis Station over from the other Universal Century timeline and refitting it to the same standard, as Axis was bigger and could use larger weapons then Neo-GENESIS.

Then the flagship of the Fleet and her escorts jumped into MESSIAH's parimeter, and were given the challenge 'Husker Was Who?', something the Titans didn't know.

If they answered Ronald Pinkerton, they'd be fired on. If they answered William Adama, they were welcomed into the station.

Kira gave the right answer and the battlegroup entered the station.

Knightmares equipped with plasma cutters and repair equipment began working on Galactica's hull, while Kira walked to the command deck of MESSIAH.

Refit with technology from every timeline that they'd been to, this room would command the entire Colonial Fleet from one point in space.

"The Titans were pulling back to the Koprulu Sector at the beginning of CE 113, just after my father died, and that doesn't make any sense to me."

Kira nodded.

The Titans outnumbered the Fleet 80 to 1, and it was getting worse.

Now they were pulling back.

Why?

They could have pushed forward towards Earth and taken over the planet.

And the incident with the Solaria was more confusing.

And what happened to those Knightmares was even more confusing.

"All hands, CBS Celestial Being and Battlestation Axis jumping in. Brace for turbulance."

The station stook as MESSIAH's new 'sisters', the Celestial Being and Axis, jumped in.

Axis was fit with a trans-universal drive after Operation Ragnarok, the operation meant to kill Ronald Peter Albert Pinkerton, former CCE (Colonial Corps of Engineers) Colonel and Comannader in Chief.

After his crimes were shown to be the result of his schizophrenia and nanite tampering from his former wife, Hiling Care, or C.C, depending on who you talked to: Colonial Fleet or Order of the Black Knights.

It seemed Hiling was thrown back in time and had amnesa, gained the power known as Geass, then the Code which granted her immortality.

The Witch, as she was called, was no longer immune to GN particles, and therefor, could be killed by weapons fire based on it.

Her death was caused by the now-deceased Admiral Ryu Zala, pilot of the ZGMF-X56S kai Impulse Gundam.

He got a six rank promotion because he died and killed C.C/Hiling.

His sister Marina, named after Marina Ismail, was still pissed off by her brother's death at the hands of the Colonel, but again, Hiling was to blame.

Then Kira looked at the intel reports. "Looks like the Titans aren't retreating, but invading another universe."

"Two, if the troop count is right. One of them looks like another Universal Century, circa UC 0123, and the other...no idea."

"But we know that the bastards have billions of troops, while we, even with the 200000-strong Black Knights, barely 2 million Mobile Suit pilots, and most of them are stuck with 1st Generation MSs like the Strike Dagger and GuAIZ."

"We're gearing them up with CDF-01H Darts and newer GNXIVs, but we aren't ready for a war with the Titans of this scale!"

"We have a mystery on our hands. Why aren't they attacking us?"

"The Solaria has to be the answer to that question, but those people need our help."

Quick note: writing this was a royal pain in the ass.

I mean, I was focusing on The Lost Sagas a few days ago, and I had to get into a different mindset.

Plus, the autocorrect on OpenOffice wasn't working, and I had to spellcheck everything myself!

By the way, here's the military strength of the Titans and the Colonial Fleet, in case anyone's wondering.

Titans military forces:

1 x Legacy-Class Battlestar Dreadnought

8000+ Minotaur-Class battlecruisers of differing types

5000+ Nile-Class battleships

7500+ Baikal-Class cruisers

6000+ Volga-Class cruisers

500+ White Base-II-Class assault carriers

450 Albion-Class assault carriers

300 Minerva-Class assault carriers

149 Pegasus-II-Class assault carriers (White Base-type)

8 billion Mobile Suits of differing generations, 3rd to 8th

Colonial Fleet strength:

2 x Pegasus-Class Battlestar Dreadnoughts

3 x Phalanx-Class Baseship/station killers

120 x Hercules-class Destroyers

5 x Artemis-class Battlestar Tender

12 x Athena-Class Battlestars

16 x Mercury-Class Battlestars

5 x Zeus-Class Battlestars

126 x Japan-Class Battlestars

500+ Nile-Class battleships

750+ Baikal-Class cruisers

600+ Volga-Class cruisers

6000+ various vessels, including Archangel-Class and Minerva-Class vessels

million Mobile Suits, of differing generations, 1st to 11th

Do you see the difference in strength?

Thanks to the Valkyrie Squadron and the Gundams, they were held back, but if they were loosed, it would be the little boy and the dykes all over again. And this time, the water would destroy everything.

But here's a question. It's about everybody's favorite masked man, Zero.

How many times was he thought dead, but popped back up, alive?

By my count, 3: twice as Lelouch and once as Suzaku.

There's a hint for this story.

Next Time, on Thor's Ascent: BSG-75 jumps into the Cosmo Babylon War, and everything goes to hell once the Titans join in.

Ja Ne!

Fanfic quotes of the chapter: "Because it's either terrorists or psychopaths, and psychopaths are worse." and "We have a yacht?" - Kallen Kozuki, Your Past, My Future by Slavok