Valkyrie's Flight
Cosmic Era year 111: 25 years after what is called the Colonial Civil War, where two titanic forces commanded by Ronald Pinkerton, a former Colonial Corp of Engineers officer, and William Adama, commander of the Colonial Fleet, fought for a battle of supremacy. The Colonel lost, but a number of organizations were spawned from the conflict, from a reborn Blue Cosmos to the Universal Century's corrupt police organization, the Titans, which still run rampant and, to boost their numbers, use the same cloning technology Ron created during the Colonial Civil War. 36 year old Maria Avalonia-Pinkerton, daughter of Nova Avalonia and Ronald Pinkerton, during a visit to a museum, took up her father's Mobile Suit, the 28 year old ADF-X01A2 Morgan, to defend the rebuilt Junius Seven against Titans-operated CDF-01D GN Darts.
Prologue: Death of Peace
Maria knew the Morgan.
She created the CDF-06 Susanowo from the suit after it was fully restored.
Like her father, she gained an eye for design.
But she'd never gotten inside of a Mobile Suit, let alone piloted one!
'What would dad do?'
The Darts were closing it on the Morgan.
She activated the DRAGOONs.
They fell off, but they tracked both enemy Darts.
The eight weapons fired, destroying one of the Darts.
The second one ran off, fearing for his life as the Morgan took aim at him.
"Darts may have FTL and GN drives, but they do need a mothership nearby. But I can't do anything in this thing with the OS like this!"
She began rewriting the OS.
'My father was a genius when it came to Mobile Suit and Operating System design, but this is a mess!'
She rewrote it quickly, making it pilotable.
Others tried climbing into the other museum suits.
"Don't be foolish! Most of these are just shells!"
Two suits, the Strike used to kill her father, and the Impulse, activated.
"We're Colonial Mobile Suit pilots, little girl! Name!"
"Maria Avalonia-Pinkerton!"
"Shit, boss. It's the heir to the Pinkerton name. And she's got the Morgan, of all MSs..."
"Your turn! Name and rank!"
"Marie Hawke, ma'am!"
'Ma'am? I'm from Morgenroete. Wait...oh, shit!'
"Don't tell me...anyone in Morgenroete has a Colonial commission?"
"In times of war, Major."
"And you are?"
"Ryu Zala, Captain in the Colonial Mobile Suit Corps, and your new XO as of this moment."
"I'm not military! I'm from Morgenroete!"
"Everyone in Morgenroete has a military commission; besides, you're the daughter of the man who created the Colonial Mobile Suit Corps!"
Maria sighed.
"My mother did this, right?"
"Your mother?"
"My full name, retard: Avalonia-Pinkerton. My mother is Nova Avalonia!"
"As in Vice-Admiral Avalonia, the commander of the MS Corps?"
"The same."
"Well, it was made during the Colonial Civil War..."
Maria pulled out a revolver.
It belonged to her mother: a CCE issue S&W M29.
"Ok, I know that museum suits are never recharged, but try to get the damn things ready. Where's the closest ship?"
"The Psycho."
"The flagship of the fleet? Shit, you must be good."
"Are you kidding? We suck! We're barely techs!"
"Well, today you're pilots. Get ready!"
The Morgan walked to an airlock built to transport exhibits into the museum level.
"The nuclear reactor's offline. No wonder the DRAGOONs aren't working the way they should. The battery's relying on a Mk V GN drive that hasn't been tuned in 25 years! I'd better get the reactor online, or I'm screwed."
Then the Strike and the Impulse joined the Morgan in the airlock.
"You know, we're Viper pilots and MS techs. We're not cut out for this work!"
"Shut up! We're the only ones that can defend this PLANT! Get ready: we're launching out!"
Maria got the reactor online.
"ADF-X01A2 Morgan, Maria Avalonia-Pinkerton, launching out!"
Going mach 3 in 5 seconds, the old suit left the colony and entered space for the first time in years.
Maria, having never piloted a Viper at high speed, was anything but prepared.
"HOLY SHIT!"
Unlike her father at age 73, she didn't have a Gundanium skeleton, nor any kind of piloting training.
Battlestar Psycho: Admiral Leland Adama commanding
"This alliance is falling apart! Half the members of the Earth Alliance are led by Titans operatives, ZAFT and the PLANTs don't trust them and we haven't had any contact with the Anno Domini universe in 20 years!"
"Admiral, sixteen Titans MS carriers were spotted near Junius Seven. Two of our techs and a Morgenroete designer are going after them."
"What Mobile Suits are they using?"
"A Strike, an Impulse and...I don't believe this. The Morgenroete designer's piloting the Morgan!"
"The Morgan? Who's piloting it?"
"This is ironic: Maria Avalonia-Pinkerton."
"Ron's daughter? That's begging for trouble!"
The Admiral got up.
"Contact those suits! And find out if Junius Seven is intact! I don't want another Bloody Valentine fiasco on my hands!"
"Yes, sir!"
Back with the museum suits
The Morgan dodged GN beam rounds from a Titans-produced GN-007 Arios.
"You're a quick learner!"
"I'm a Pinkerton; we always learn quickly! That's why my father was the first Colonial MS pilot!"
Using her father's signature twin bladed beam saber, Maria attacked the Celestial Being-designed MS.
Cutting the suit in half was no problem.
The pilot, a grunt from the reserve corps, was killed instantly.
Three Civil Astrays, the mascot MS for the Titans, opened fire with their beam pistols. Maria blocked the shot with the lightwave shield.
"I'm getting pretty good at this!"
She shot down two Astrays, then combined the two rifles for a final shot.
She took the beam pistols and rapid fired them.
Then she had an idea.
The Buster Rifle was still mounted at the hip.
"No time like the present."
The two weapons were put into the slots where the beam rifles would've been.
It worked. She combined the two rifles, forming what her father called the shotgun of death.
She grabbed both rifles and fired, hitting a cloaked GAT-207 Blitz.
"How the hell did she do that?"
Ryu's Impulse dodged an attack from a GN Dart, but the Dart exploded in seconds.
"What the?"
He looked up.
A Colonial Mk VII Leo, one of the few After Colony MSs used by the Fleet, had destroyed the Dart with a beam round to the chest.
"Hey, little brother."
Marina Zala, pilot of the CDF-AC-001 Leo, was a member of the Colonial Corp of Engineers: one of their spec ops pilots.
"Marina? What the hell are you doing here?"
"My job! What are you doing in a 25 year old MS?"
"Following orders!"
He fired at a GN-XIV and destroyed it.
"And you flunked the exam, how?"
"Couldn't understand the OS! Making heads or tails of it..."
He shot another GN Dart down.
"Was impossible!"
Then they saw the Pegasus-Class ship.
It was in Titans colors, just like the report said.
"Admiral said there were three of you. I know your flunky's around here somewhere." "Marie's not my flunky!"
"Well, where's the third suit?"
The engines on the Pegasus-Class ship exploded.
"Holy shit! What the hell was that?"
Then she spotted the suit. 25 years on, and it was still feared in MS circles as the ultimate Mobile Suit of its' time: the Advanced Colonial Defense Fighter-eXperimental Zero One Alpha Two Morgan. (AN: Yes, that's what ADF-X means)
Marina gulped.
The Leo was the best spec ops suit her squadron had (as it was run down) and even an experimental Mk IX Leo stood no chance against a Morgan series suit!
"Hey, guys! Who's the guy in the piece of shit?"
"I'll give you piece of shit, you little-!"
She fired at the Morgan, but the pilot, a woman blocked the attack using a beam saber. "Hey, I'm just saying! That Leo's, what, 17 years old? The 05 Caprica Flag was better then that thing, and it was older!"
"What's your name, kid?"
"I'm 36! You're the kid!"
"But you sound like you're 16. You're an Avalonia!"
"Correction, Zala: I'm Maria Avalonia-Pinkerton, Morgenroete's main designer of Mobile Weapons!"
"Aw, frak! A Pinkerton? That means you're the Colonel's kid!"
"And the second Pinkerton to pilot the ADF-X01A2 Freedom Morgan!"
And that's the first chapter of the second THAB series, focusing on his daughter: Maria.
The name also reflects her callsign: (which she will not be given for a few chapters) Valkyrie.
Ron will appear in this series as a primary villain, but his villainy will be eclipsed by both Hiling Care (who survived the final battle of AOHAH) and Wang Lu Mei, who is obsessed with Ron enough to actually rape him.
And, I'm sorry, Grea, but no Star Wars, just anime and Gundam.
The Gundam series' in this trilogy include:
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (a semi-canon universe where Ron didn't show up until the beginning of the second series) and Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (See Zeta Gundam)
Eureka 7 (one of the first mecha animes I ever watched)
Mobile Suit Turn A Gundam (The only Gundam that has a fucking mustache!)
Now, this won't be updated that much: I need to get my hands on Zeta Gundam and Turn A Gundam, which is going to be a bitch.
Wish me luck!
Next Time: Maria is pressganged into the Colonial Fleet just as the Titans declare war on the Colonies and her allies.
Ja Ne!