WELCOME TO TEKKETSU NO KYOJIN REMASTERED.

If ya dunno, this is a remastered version of a previous story I wrote months back. But let's not dwell on that old variant. This one's, probably, better. Hopefully. And I oughta tell you to watch IBO S1 for a better understanding on what's going on.

So, chronologically, this story takes place after the events of Iron Blooded Orphans/Tekketsu No Orphans Season 1 and after somewhere before the events of the first episode of the first season of Attack on Titan/Shingeki No Kyojin. Have I confused you? Maybe. Well, if I haven't, I suggest you watch IBO S1 to get a better idea on what is happening.

I suppose you have a question right now, if you're a new viewer of this story. Why Mikazuki Augus? Why Iron Blooded Orphans X Attack on Titan? And why have I used Mina, Mylius, Nac and Annie instead of Eren, Mikasa, Armin and Levi? Well… why not? Fanfiction is supposed to be about imagination, so welcome to my twisted mind. Also, can you imagine the Strike Freedom or 00 Qan[T] in place of the Barbatos? The Titan pandemic would be solved very quickly.

Also because I hate Eren. Don't get me wrong, he's alright… for the least part. But if you think too hard about it, Eren's just a badly written OC. No offence if you have an OC like Eren, since Eren is in an anime and yours is in a fanfiction or in your mind..

Regarding the Barbatos, it will be in its Sixth Form Battle Damaged, which was what it looked like at the end of the very end of IBO S1 after the battle with the Ein. I did consider using the Hi Res look for it… but it costs too much to use. And, in a way, this is one of the few stories which uses the Barbatos/Mika post Lupus (though to be fair, there isn't much in the IBO crossover/story segment. At least when compared to the other Gundam stories). On a weapon related note, I'm adding the extra feature of allowing the Autocannons on the Barbatos to detach and enable the Arm Motors (the arm missiles used by the Fifth Form in the battle against Kimaris in Earth's atmosphere) to be used as last offence weapons when the Autocannons are out of ammo.

Also, the Barbatos will have a white Tekkadan logo on it's right arm 'shield', just because.

(P.S, the side hip skirts of the Sixth Form, according to Gundam Breaker 3, are named Land Boosters. And in this story, I will be changing the code names of the Gundam Frames (ASW-G-08). It'll be like, for example, the Gusion Rebake being codenamed ASW-G-11r and the Full City being labeled ASW-G-11rFC)

One more thing before we start, this story WILL contain a ton of OOC (out of character) Mika moments. It is labeled friendship after all. And Mika himself will not be paralyzed on the arm. It's kinda a need for later chapters. Though his eye will still be slightly blurred.

Also, you can skip the italics below the intro. It isn't too important if you know the events and what happened in the first season of IBO.

With that said and done, let's get this going. ENJOY.

Tekkadan…

Known also as 'The Iron Flower', this rather new Military Group originated from the Mars Sphere in the Solar System (of course), formed in P.D 323, three hundred and twenty three years after the Calamity War. However, despite how young this group was, they quickly grew famous, or infamous, thanks to their first job, escorting the Maiden of Revolution, Kudelia Aina Bernstein, to Earth.

However, every company, no matter how noble their intentions are, are about to have a… darker history. Before they became Tekkadan, they were CGS, the Chryse Security Guard. It's purpose was to take job requests from Third Party divisions, such as escort or just normal missions. Of course, there was the occasional high risk mission. And high risk missions required the use of powerful armaments.

CGS had the usual assault rifle/pistols, but they also employed the use of TK-53 Mobile Workers, which is essentially a box on three swiveling wheels and armed with twin medium calibre 30mm Machine Guns. Optional armaments included twin six tube missile launchers. It also included the Alaya Vijnana System, something I will cover in a bit, and twin Smoke Dischargers, or in layman's terms, twin smoke grenade launchers.

CGS was split up into three groups. The First was made of adults, led by Haeda Gunnel, the 'leaders' of the Guard.

Second and Third were made of mainly young teens and Human Debris, orphans taken off the streets to be sold to other people (just think of a human trafficker), and with a few children.

And of course, when you have a group with adults taking the lead, you have a recipe for disaster.

Which was essentially what happened. You see, on their days without jobs, CGS would employ the second and third teams to do the heavy duty jobs such as laying down landmines in case an opposing company tried to take them, or if some thief tried to step in… either or. The first core was pretty much slacking off 24/7 while the last two would be doing the heavy lifting for them, or cooking and serving meals. And trust me, whenever they failed a simply task, punishments were harsh and painful.

Due to these harsh conditions, the Second and Third Corps ended up losing almost all of their humanity to adapt to the situation. In addition to that, they would very often train themselves to the peak of their physical limits, meaning they had a ton of muscles. Even the youngest members who were at the age of (probably) 13 could take down an adult.

The Second division was made almost exclusively of Human Debris, with no apparent leader. Though noteworthy members included the Space Guts, Akihiro Atland, probably the manliest teen you'd see, Chad Chaden, a rather impressive fighter when using a Mobile Worker, and Dante Mogro, a rather nice guy if you get to know him. Third Division, on the other hand, was made of kids who volunteered. It was led by Orga Itsuka, a teen at about Nac's height (doesn't help that we dunno how tall Nac or Orga are) with lilac hair done up in an… interesting way.

Members of the Third Core included the ever lovable Biscuit Griffon, a pudgy boy with some brains, the friendly Norba Shino who had an affinity for magenta, Eugene Seven Stark, the blonde badass, and Mikazuki Augus, the ace MW pilot of CGS.

Members of the Second/Third divisions came equipped with the Alaya Vijnana System, an organic system built nearly three hundred years ago by Gjallarhorn as a device to link a Mobile Suit pilot and his designated MS/MW to a deeper tone. On the Mobile Suit/Worker side, the AV system would be in the cockpit area, specifically right on the cockpit chair. But for the pilot side, it was not so simple.

You see, the AV system was implanted right into a child's spine, which explains the AV placement in the MS. On paper, it sounded like a good idea. But in reality… it wasn't that great. The AV system implantation process was like russian roulette. You had a ⅙ chance to get through the process, while the other ⅚ was the chance of you either dying or, worse, getting paralyzed for life. But it was a risk to take if you wished to use your mobile suit using its full potential. Either that or you're gonna end up hanging yourself with your own bandages if it fails. Either-or works, I suppose. And unfortunately, if you were going to be in CGS, you needed the AV-System.

Even outside of CGS, life was definitely harsh. Well, less harsh… but still rather harsh nonetheless. The government, Gjallarhorn, had not much of a liking to the little red planet. Though they did recognise the autonomy of people residing on Mars, primarily Abrau (P.D 205), Oceania Federation (P.D 208) and the African Union (P.D 236) segments of Gjallarhorn, recognised their autonomy, residents of Mars still remained subjected to harsh economic agreements, prompting Mars to enter an era of puppet governments.

This went on until P.D 302, a movement begun to protest the economic disparities between Mars and Earth. It went on until P.D 314, during the "Noachis July Assembly", a younger Miss Kudelia Aina Bernstein calls for economic independence, from Earth. It got support from pretty much every Martian city. By P.D 323, her movement was essentially successful, and all that was left to do was to get to Earth and switch the false current government of Mars with a reliable one. The former Prime minister of Abrau and a wily veteran of Earth sphere politics, Togonosuke Makanai, an old dude with a bitchin fine beard. Seriously, look it up.

Miss Bernstein was known as the Maiden of Revolution for a reason. Her most powerful weapon was her voice itself. Despite having no real physical attributes, her nac for speeches were pretty much legendary. A pacifist by nature, she always looks to end battles or problems with least bloodshed.

As you might expect, Gjallarhorn did not like that someone was trying to call for independence in Mars. But they could not simply send an armed squadron into Chryse to kill the one who was calling for their independence, for obvious reason. So all they did was cut off her from all air spaces.

Not letting up, Kudelia turned to CGS, primarily the Third and Second Corps, to send her there on October 21st. The young miss hired them mainly because she wanted to experience how the kids felt in the company. Unfortunately, Gjallarhorn's Mars wing caught word of it, thanks to her father, and sent their own Mobile Worker forces to kill her. Any other force would turn Kudelia in, surrender and perish, or just let themselves die. But unfortunately for Gjallarhorn, CGS wasn't gonna go down without a fight. Arming themselves with all they had, Mobile Workers and rifles, they took a stand.

Well, at least the Second and Third Corps did, as the First Core immediately evacuated. However, Third Core leader, Orga Itsuka, predicted it and set several flares in their truck, using them to give their enemies a distraction. It worked, and they even destroyed several of their MWs. At that time, it seemed as though they were about to beat Gjallarhorn.

Until the Mobile Suits known as the EB-06 Grazes showed up. They were the backbone of Gjallarhorn, the main mass produced Mobile Suit. Standing at 17.8 metres/58.399ft/700.787 inches tall and weighing 30.2 tons and powered by a single Ahab Reactor, the Graze was, at that time, said to be the culmination of current tech (for the most part), probably because of it's low development and operational cost.

A trio were sent to try and kill Kudelia, led by the pilot known as Orlis Stenja and followed by the experienced Crank Zent and the young Ein Dalton. While they did successfully destroy a few Mobile Workers, they ultimately failed to kill miss Bernstein, primarily thanks to Orlis who apparently forgot about what he was supposed to do and went after who he expected to be the leader. He wasn't wrong, and he began to give chase to a Mobile Worker piloted by a CGS worker named Eugene and Orga.

Before he could deal a killing strike with his Graze's axe, however, the ground exploded, and from the dust emerged a new Mobile Suit, emerging from the earth like the devil, returning to get revenge on those who imprisoned him. And the last thing Orlis saw was the massive 3.75m Anti-Mobile Suit Mace of this new mobile suit.

When the dust settled, the remaining members of CGS Third/Second group and the final few Grazes saw what had killed Orlis. Standing at exactly 18 metres/59.055ft/708.661 inches and weighing in at 28 tons, the Mobile Suit had an oddly humanoid look to it, which made sense as it was built specifically for Alaya Vijnana use. It was known as the ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos, piloted by Mikazuki Augus.

With the aid of the Gundam, the Second and Third Cores pushed back the Grazes. Though after the battle was over, they were beaten savagely by the First Core, who were furious that they made enemies with the government (which was pretty fair, tbh). The First Core were ready to beat the heads of the Second and Third Corps into a fine red paste, but Orga insisted that he'd be the one to take the hits. Which he did, painfully.

At the end of it all, the Second and Third Core decided that they had enough, so they killed the First Core, aside from a few members, and set off to earth by themselves, with their company rebranded as Tekkadan. Following this, Crank Zent, a survivor of the previous battle, challenged the CGS ace pilot in a duel. If he won, he would claim Kudelia and the bad blood between Tekkadan and Gjallarhorn will be forgotten. Though he didn't consider the fact that he would be the one who lose. Yet, Tekkadan made use of both his and Orlis' Grazes, combining them into a single Mobile suit for their own use, known as the ED-06/tc Graze Kai (Kai is custom in some language). It largely used Crank Zent's Graze unit, with the head, backpack and shoulder units replaced with new, white units. The unit was first used in Mars's atmosphere by Akihiro to assist the Barbatos. Spare parts from the two Grazes were given to the Barbatos, specifically the shoulder pads, which were painted Barbatos white/blue to match the colour scheme. .

The route to Earth was horribly agonizing. Yet, even in the darkest days in the route to Earth, there were brighter times, making several powerful allies, such as Teiwaz, an organization in the Jupiter Sphere which was not as controlled by Gjallarhorn as the Mars spheres, allowing it to be runned, as most would call it, like the (Gunpla) Mafia. And the Montag company, which I won't talk about due to spoilers. In addition to allies, they also gained a new Mobile Suit, a Gundam Frame known as the ASW-G-11 Gusion, now called the Gusion Rebake, piloted by ol' Akihiro, who relinquished the Graze Kai to Norba Shino, who gave it his magenta touch and some parts from Teiwaz (shoulder pads and the rear skirt armour), with a longer commander fin. As for the Devil, the Barbatos, it went through several upgrades, using several different weapons and armour parts in each variant. It was upgraded a total of seven times, at one point having a large black thing on its chest (Reactive Armour) and a pair of hip boosters stolen from an EB-05 Schwalbe Graze to counter the Kimaris during the Earth atmosphere battle.

Long, long story short, Tekkadan got to Earth. Now came the big problem, getting into the location where Kudelia needed to be at, the Edmonton Parliament, which was heavily guarded by Gjallarhorn. If that wasn't enough to deal with, Gjallarhorn also sent in waves of EB-06js Graze Ground Types to try and snuff out Tekkadan. However, they underestimated the power of Tekkadan, or, if you will, the power of two Gundam Frames, a Graze Frame armed with an AV-System, and twin Rouei units sent from Teiwaz to assist Tekkadan and piloted by two of their top pilots, Lafter Frankland and Azee Gurumin. For a few days, the Mobile Suits held the line while mobile workers tried to break in, until Gjallarhorn reinforcements came for them. The first to arrive was the modified Gundam Frame, ASW-G-66t, Gundam Kimaris Trooper, modified for ground use.

The Kimaris, piloted by Gaelio Bauduin, took on Mikazuki Augus' Barbatos, which was now upgraded to it's Sixth Form, armed with a Wrench Mace, Longsword, Twin Autocannons and heavy duty armour. To counter that, Gaelio's Gundam was armed with a small, boxy shield, a massive Destroyer Lance which was larger than the Gundam itself, and a small sword which was sheathed in the shield as an emergency weapon. While the Kimaris battled the Barbatos, a second MS arrived. It was 22.2m/72.835ft/874.016 inches and tipping the scales at 38.6 tons, it was known as the EB-AX2 Graze Ein, a custom made Alaya Vijnana user specific MS. The system it used was much more enhanced than those found in the Barbatos, Gusion or Ryusei Go, which allowed it to react faster than all three of them combined. With this power, it destroyed the twin Roueis and the Ryusei Go with ease.

While it was finishing off the Ryusei Go, however, a transmission from the Tekkadan squad came through, alerting them that they've breached Gjallarhorn's defences and are inside Edmonton. It seemed to enrage the pilot, who abandoned the outskirts of Edmonton and went straight for the source of the transmission, towards the area where Kudelia Aina Bernstein were at.

Thinking he was victorious, Bauduin felt his energy renew itself as he got ready to finish the much hated Barbatos off, but a certain red Mobile Suit came in and distracted it long enough for the Barbatos to pursue the Ein.

Edmonton

Edmonton… the capital of Canada's Alberta province, sitting on the North Saskatchewan River. As of P.D 312, it was known the second largest city in Alberta and Canada's fifth-largest municipality, tipping the citizen scale at 932,546. As of now, PD323, it crushed the scale with a total population of 1,321,426, making it the sixth-largest census metropolitan area in Canada.

With a population as large as one million three hundred and twenty one thousand four hundred and twenty six (more or less), it'd be hard to believe that the entire place would be abandoned up to the point where one could compare it to a scene in a horror movie, if it wasn't for the fact that there were quite a lot of armed Gjallarhorn guards around the city, keeping guard of a ghost metropolis. Each were wearing the Gjallarhorn special operations armour and armed with standard issue assault rifles. Their orders were to secure the city, of course, and deal with any unauthorized personnel in the area with extreme prejudice. And for some extra security, multiple Gjallarhorn humvees were situated in the middle of the roads to block vehicles which did not have authorised access to the city.

With their extremely tight security, most could assume that no one would dare enter the city. However, one could safely assume that they never expected a pair of TK-53 Mobile Workers, both of which flanking a jeep, to come roaring through the desolate streets of Edmonton. One of the soldier groups in the city attempted to stop the two Mobile Workers and their convoy when it headed towards their blockade, though they didn't account for the Worker up front to not stop coming towards them at full speed, with the two holding the line dashing out of the way when the Mobile Worker blasted a 30mm high powered round at their jeep to get it out of their way.

The impact of the shot sent the Gjallarhorn humvee flying back. If that wasn't bad enough the Worker knocked the thing out of the way, allowing it to continue its journey to the parliament.

While they roared through the streets of Edmonton, the people inside the jeep began riling up. Specifically a blonde teen with seriously thick and long hair, dressed in a red shirt with a white line through her shoulders and some sort of navy blue ribbon in her neck. This was none other than Kudelia Aina Bernstein, the Maiden of Revolution. On the back seat was the ever awesome and wise looking Togonosuke Makanai, sporting a bitchin fine black robe and wooden staff, looking as cool as ever with his white beard and eyebrows.

Up front at the driver's seat of the jeep was the ever adorable Atra Mixta. She was a petite little 14 (more or less) year old with an adorable light blue sweater and pink hair done up like a neko.

As for the Mobile Workers, the leading Worker held Tekkadan leader, Orga Itsuka, a boy/teen with tan skin, lilac hair and an ugly scar running along his body, and Takaki Uno, a blonde shota who was the one piloting the MW up back, a Union Worker of sorts. The pilot of the Worker who guarded their flank was unnamed.

Within the jeep, Kudelia turned to face Makanai, looking a little distressed. "How much further until we reach the Parliament?" she asked, sounding a little anxious, which was rather justified as she was supposed to convince the people in there to vote for Makanai, and also because she was worried that Gjallarhorn Mobile Workers were coming for them. She had little to no doubt in her mind that with their current numbers, they would have little to no chance to defend themselves.

"Take a right, at the next traffic light…" replied Makanai, glancing towards Atra. However, before he could finish his sentence, the lights of Edmonton began to act up, and after a few seconds, they blank out completely. The group was left wondering at first, not sure what was happening, though Takaki, Atra and the worker who brought up the rear were busy driving to pay it any mind.

"What is this…" asked Orga anxiously as his hair flowed with the wind, looking around at all the blanked advertisements of Edmonton, not noting the subtle sound of incoming thrusters. It wasn't until when Takaki spoke up that he realized what was going on.

"Boss! All our comm links besides LCS have been cut off!" informed Takaki. "Our radar as well…"

Narrowing his eyes, Orga stood confused for a moment, before he finally heard a somewhat familiar sound. Though by then, he knew what was going on. Turning back, he looked into the sky as an incoming figure approached, menacing in its navy blue/grey colour scheme and armed with twin axes. "Are they serious…?!" exclaimed Orga, sounding somewhere between bewildered and horrified. "They're in the city with Mobile Suits?!"

Before the words 'Mobile Suits' left his mouth, the MS came crashing down behind their Worker and in front of the jeep and the Worker covering the rear. The impact sent the Worker up front fly forward a tad and caused the jeep to overturn. Oddly, the Worker up at the rear was unaffected. The amount of dust which was kicked up on impact was intense.

"That's it… I remember now…" said the MS via it's public comm links as it looked up into the sky. "I… I'm sorry, Lieutenant Crank(nee)... I was supposed to obey your orders… and capture Kudelia Aina Bernstein…

In front of the MS, in the driver's seat of the overturned jeep, Atra sat there, slowly recovering from the impact. Well, not really sitting there, more of hanging there with the seatbelt of the jeep keeping her up. Once she recovered, however, she quickly noticed that someone was missing. "Miss Kudelia?" she muttered, wondering where she was.

She was, in fact, already out of the jeep, rather quickly as well. Stepping towards the new Mobile Suit, she faced it bravely, with an unfaltering stoic look on her young face. "I am Kudelia Aina Bernstein!" she spoke up to it, her voice harder than the alloy harder of Mobile Suit Frames. "Is there something you want with me?"

The Mobile Suit stayed eerily silent for a few seconds before lowering its head unit to face Kudelia. It looked like a Graze unit's head, only somewhat more demonic. Rather abruptly, a unit on its head unit swiveled down, revealing a blood red, mono-optic. "So, you were here all along…" muttered the pilot of the MS, his voice literally dripping with poison, venom which was biting at the chance to melt Kudelia's throat. "I went to collect you at CGS…"

While the MS kept speaking of events of the past, it failed to notice Orga getting out of his Worker, grumbling about the rash decision Kudelia made. "That idiot…" grumbled Itsuka, climbing out of the MW. "Takaki, be ready."

"Hai!"

"If you had come with us… Lieutenant Crank(nee) would not have died…" continued the Mobile Suit, it's voice sounding even more hateful, and Kudelia noted how it's manipulators seemed to tighten more around it's axes. "Besides…"

As it rambled on about a past experience on Crank(nee), it didn't notice little Atra racing out of the overturned jeep. And it also, somehow, failed to notice the Union Mobile Worker aim it's cannon at it. Through his Worker's interface, it's pilot saw it's unit number and name.

'EB-AX2 Graze Ein…' thought the pilot, gritting his teeth as he aimed his Worker's main cannon at it's cockpit. Even if it didn't pierce the Nanolaminated armour of the cockpit unit, it would provide a good enough distraction for Kudelia and his boss to escape. He knew that he would most certainly die after that, but he was willing to make the sacrifice. "Gotta create an opening which she can use to escape…"

However, before he could lock onto the cockpit, a movement on the Graze Ein's shoulderpad caught his eye. Swiveling the turret to face it, the pilot widened his eyes when he saw a chaingun fold down from it. It quickly revved itself up before blasting his Worker. Six shots, and the Worker was nothing but scrap which exploded within a few seconds. The unexpected scene made Kudelia turn back in shock, but the Graze didn't stop it's yapping.

"That's right…" said the pilot of the Mobile Suit. "Lieutenant Crank(nee) died because of you…"

"Because of my actions, many lives have been lost!" retorted Kudelia, effectively cutting off the Graze. Taking the slight shock which the Graze most likely felt as an opportunity, both Atra and Orga dashed towards the blonde, hoping to get her out of the way. "But that is why I cannot stop now!"

The Graze didn't seem to like that as it raised it's right arm unit, in turn raising one of its axes. "That ego…" it muttered. "I shall teach you!"

Shifting its axe so that it's larger, cutting edge was pointing down, the MS got ready to crush her. Though as it did, Atra got to Kudelia and tackled her friend back.

"Miss Kudelia!" she yelped as she sent Kudelia onto her back. Yet, while they flew back, a loud noise was heard. It sounded… familiar to both of them. Neither girl had enough time to turn their heads toward the source, but they did have time to widen their eyes ever so slightly when a familiar looking shape came blasting past them, dragging a massive weapon with both manipulators. And before the axe of the Ein even got halfway towards her, the newcomer used it's weapon to block the axe, the subsequent impact creating a shockwave which sent everyone tumbling backwards.

Very slowly, the dust settled, revealing Atra holding onto Kudelia, who did likewise (which was adorable), and with Orga below Kudelia. Once the trio recovered, and after the dust had settled, the three of them were able to see what had come to their rescue. Though Orga already knew what it was. "Of course…" he muttered, smirking to himself. "You wouldn't let us end in a place like this… right, Mika?"

The unit which intervened stood at 18.8 metres, with primarily white, red, blue and gold Nanolaminated Armour, twin Graze Ritter shoulder pads and twin Land Boosters. In it's manipulator was a multipurpose deforestation, construction and mining tool repurposed as a weapon, the Wrench Mace, and on its backpack was a Longsword.. When viewed through systems, the name of the MS would be labeled as the ASW-G-08fs, but most knew it as it's real name, Gundam Barbatos (Sixth Form).

The left side of its V-Fin/antenna was snapped off, but it was a consequence of combat.

Within the cockpit, it's pilot, Mikazuki Augus, looked up from the monitor of his Gundam Frame to face his new opponent. "Let's go," he said. "Barbatos."

As he said that, the data in the Barbatos' Alaya Vijnana acknowledged his command, giving him a little more data to work with, causing the Mobile Suit's optics to flash green. However, even though the Mika kept the Barbatos' leg units locked firmly to try and keep the Graze from advancing, the knee units were slowly but surely giving way to the pressure that was placed on the Gundam.

"Mikazuki…" muttered Kudelia thankfully, though she was still shocked, a feeling which was drowned out by the feeling of thankfulness she had towards Mika. If the lad never existed, she'd be dead multiple times over. However, the Graze seemed to feel opposite feelings towards the Gundam, it's single cycloptic optic blasting a darker, more menacing shade of red as it put more strength into both axes, attempting to push the Gundam back, but it's opponent held its ground.

"You!" exclaimed the Graze in a pissed off tone. "The sinful child that killed Lieutenant Crank(nee)!"

In the cockpit of the Barbatos, Mika just felt confused. He vaguely remembered the name, very vaguely, but not enough to remember Crank Zent, the Barbatos' second kill ever since the end of the Calamity War. "Who's that?" he asked, genuinely confused. And it seemed to enrage the Graze, who raised it's left arm unit in an attempt to strike the Barbatos.

"How dare you?!" exclaimed the Graze, ready to strike, though the arm was intercepted by the Barbatos when it was raised, stopping it dead in its tracks, though at the cost of the Barbatos sliding back about two metres.

"Stay still," said Mika sounding irritated as Orga got Kudelia and Atra back towards the jeep. As the girls kept their eyes on the Gundam, Orga helped Makanai, who was still stuck, out of the upturned jeep.

"Get me out…" requested Makanai, in which Orga replied that he was doing so.

"Boss…" came a voice behind Orga, making him turn to see that Takaki got their still functional Mobile Worker to their location.

"Takaki?" questioned Orga, but he simply shook his head, not willing to ask how Takaki got the Worker behind him without him hearing it. "Nevermind, we have to hurry. So long as we're still here, Mika can't move properly."

"Hai!" replied Takaki as Orga finally freed Makanai from his slight dilemma. As he did, Atra tugged on Kudelia's dress.

"Miss Kudelia… we need to go!" she said, making Kudelia nod.

Both Mobile Suits were stuck in a clash with their respective weapons, though the Graze was clearly winning the duel, slowly overpowering and pushing the Barbatos back. Despite that, the smaller Gundam Frame stood its ground valiantly, both it and its pilot unwilling to let up. "Unbelievable… your sins…" said the Ein's pilot as it pushed the Gundam back. "... they do not stop… they keep growing…"

Mika didn't really pay much attention to that, mainly because he was wondering how he'd get out of this situation without harming Orga or the others. Though, his answer came in just a few seconds when his comm-links came to life, with Orga's voice coming through it. "Sorry for the wait, Mika!" he yelled, making Mika turn back to glance at the moving Mobile Worker and spot Orga, Kudelia and Atra on it, with the girls sitting on the top of the Worker while Orga hung onto a railing. "We're on our way to the Parliament! I'll leave the rest to you!"

With his new 'orders', Mika couldn't resist a smile. After all, Orga's orders were everything to him. "Yeah, I got it," replied the boy as he swiveled the Barbatos' Land Boosters back and blasted them at full speed, or at least enough to send the Ein back enough to land a kick on it's waist unit. However, to Mika's slight surprise, the Graze kept itself upright, though not enough to stop him from swinging the Wrench Maceat it. He was real surprised, however when it blocked the Mace with both its axes, with it's torso still bent back. "Darn it…" muttered Mika, thinking he slipped up.

"Lieutenant Crank(nee)... at this rate, your tears will not stop…" said the Graze mournfully, but that tone slowly changed as it stood itself upright. Mika only blank in confusion at that. "With this fight… I…" continued the Graze as it forced the Wrench Mace onto the ground, cracking the concrete. "I will make him repent!"

"Mikazuki…" muttered Kudelia, still stunned that Mika got there in time to save her skin once more, though Makanai's manly voice pulled her back to reality.

"We're running out of time!" exclaimed Makanai, something which Orga didn't really like as they turned on a tight curve with their Mobile Worker, which thankfully didn't overturn.

"I know!" retorted Orga grumpily. "But thanks to Mika, security is lax here. They're all concentrated on him and that Mobile Suit… so don't worry… I'll get you there… and then I'll put an end to all of this…

"Right, Mika?"

Hearing Orga's voice through the comm link of his Gundam seemed to renew Mika's energy, in a good or bad way as he shifted back on his seat and widened his eyes to show small, dilated pupils.

Blasting right towards his opponent, the Barbatos swung it's Wrench Macetowards it in an upwards motion. Surprisingly, the Graze dodged the strike and retaliated with an axe to the chest unit, only stopped by the Barbatos' blue arm guard. The guard gained a large cut as a result, but it effectively stopped the axe in the air, even if the Gundam did stagger a little. Using the opening he had given himself, Mika launched the Barbatos' leg unit towards the Ein, making it stumble back.

The boy followed it up by swinging the Wrench Mace towards the Ein, but he didn't account for it to recover so quickly and catch the Mace with it's manipulator. The unexpected defensive movement caught Mika a little off guard, though not as much as when the Ein launched it's fist at the Barbatos' waist unit. When it pulled its fist unit back, it began spinning until it became a 'drill' fist. And when it hit, the drill fist nearly busted a waist pipe.

Thanks to the punch, the Barbatos was sent back a tad, though Mika managed to keep his MS' footing on the ground. However, once he recovered from the slight launch, the AV system of the Barbatos flared up, making Mika shift the Gundam to its side, just in time to block an axe swing from the Graze with its left Ritter shoulderpad. The shoulderpad managed to stop the strike at the cost of being sliced in half.

Acting quickly, the Graze sent an axe downwards to try and down the Barbatos, and another, and another, all of which were avoided rather easily, though it had the side effect of kicking up a ton of dust which shielded both Mechanical Titans from view.

Not too far from the battle

"...commander?" said a bazooka holding soldier after a while as the Barbatos swung it's Mace at the Graze, narrowly missing it by an inch. "What are our orders?"

"I… I don't know," replied the unit commander, who had his helmet's visor flipped up so that he could view the battle with his own two eyes to confirm that he wasn't hallucinating. "All I can confirm is that one of the Mobile Suits in there is ours… but it's hard to believe… it's colouration and physical attributes makes it… makes it look like the devil…"

Relentlessly, the Graze landed yet another strike which narrowly missed the Barbatos, close enough to make Mika grimace but not enough for him to lose focus. Quickly, he sidestepped to the right, causing a downswing to miss his unit and for the Ein's axe to be lodged into the ground. Acting as fast as his instincts and muscles allowed, he got the Barbatos to swing the Wrench Mace at the arm unit of the Graze, though the EB unit retaliated by letting go of it's axe and kicking the Barbatos at the waist, making it fall on it's rear and lose its grip on the Wrench. The strike rattled Mika a little.

"This is the perfect form of the Alaya-Vijnana…" said the Graze's pilot as he pulled the axe out of the ground. "It is not like your crude one… the power to unify humans and Mobile Suits…"

"The Perfect Alaya-Vijnana?" echoed Mika, clearly not understanding that. To him, everyone's AV System, regardless of how many spines they had, were about the same. What really mattered in his eyes was the person's skill, not their tech, a mentality shared by a majority of Tekkadan. So hearing someone call his AV System 'perfect' was a new experience.

"You are nothing… nothing…" continued the Graze, pointing it's axe at the Barbatos. And with a mighty downswing, the Ein swung it down, though by then the Barbatos had dodged out of the way with a fancy backflip and landed right behind the Wrench Mace. Crouching, the unit quickly scooped the Mace up and held it with both manipulators, though not quick enough to avoid the axe which the Graze tossed at it. The weapon struck the right shoulderpad, breaking off the larger part on the side. "But a mere defective one!"

The sudden strike made the Barbatos lose its footing for a split second, though Mika quickly recovered. Using the slight confusion to his advantage, the pilot of the Ein performed a side swing, which the Barbatos ducked under and retaliate with a strike of its own. Because of how big it's weapon was, the Ein couldn't duck under it. Instead, it leapt over the Mace and tried to land on the Gundam. Swiftly, the Sixth Form leapt out of the way, making it land on nothing and kick up a ton of dust. Using the dust to his advantage, the Barbatos performed a 'roundhouse swing' with the Wrench Mace. Unfortunately for Mika, the Graze reacted quickly, deflecting the strike with an axe and causing the Gundam to stumble back.

Gritting his teeth in uncharacteristic annoyance, Mika placed a foot of the Barbatos back to steady itself. Once it was steadied, Mika grumbled silently to himself as he rotated the held the Wrench Mace in the Gundam's manipulators. Though it was subtle, Mika was feeling some sort of emotion, called fear if he wasn't wrong. It was something he has yet to feel for quite some time, and he wasn't familiar enough with it to acknowledge it.

Instead, he kept his mind on survival.

Somewhere near the Parliament

"Boss, I got a call from Miss Atra!" informed Takaki as he crouched in front of a computer within a small building situated not too far from the Parliament of Edmonton. "He made it to the assembly."

"I see," replied Orga, tying his Tekkadan jacket around his waist. As he did, Takaki looked up at him.

"That means that our job's over, right?" asked Takaki, hoping that his boss would say yes.

"Yes… it will be… soon," assured Orga, looking downcast. "I'll end it…"

"Boss?"

"Takaki," said Orga, sorta cutting Takaki off. "I need a favor…"

"A favor?" asked Takaki, sounding worried. "What about you?"

"I can't leave Mika by himself," replied the big boss. And Takaki let that quote sink in for a second.

"Hold on… you're going to the battlefield?!" he exclaimed. But Orga simply smiled.

"It's my job as the boss, Takaki," said Orga reassuringly. "It's my responsibility to see this

through…"

And with that said, Orga rushed out to get into the Mobile Worker parked outside before Takaki could protest.

Back on the battlefield

Accompanied by a loud crash, a messy explosion of dust, and a pair of soldiers shielding their eyes, the Barbatos was sent crashing into the side of a building, creating a massive hole in the structure on impact. The one who knocked the one in was none other than the Graze Ein.

Currently, the Barbatos was covered in multiple scars, dents, scratches and with countless missing parts and chipped paint. The largest damaged areas were, not including the V-Fin, the chest unit, which had a massive gash on it's left and a massive dent which busted the center, and the shoulder pads, with the right side missing a piece and parts of the missing/broken off, as those were the most useful defensive gear the Barbatos currently had.

On the polar opposite, the Graze Ein was almost spotless. The dark navy blue/grey had little to no damaged areas, with a few minor ones on the waist and arm units from failed or ineffective strikes. The largest damaged area was on the left shoulderpad, which was caused by an Autocannon blast. Aside from that, it seemed almost a 100% pristine.

"Sinful child…" grumbled the Graze, and it's tone sounded more distasteful than when it roared at Kudelia. "Lieutenant Crank(nee) never intended to fight you…"

While the Graze's pilot continued it's babbling, something Mika found generally annoying in combat as he kept talking about some sort of crank. So, using the time the Ein took to babble on, he went and checked the systems of his MS.

"Only a little gas left in the thrusters…" he muttered as the AV system fed him most of the data on the Barbatos. "Even with the remaining Autocannon rounds… I can't kill him."

"Why do you not understand?" cut in the Graze pilot after it finished it's bumbling.

Deciding to reply, Mika looked back up.

"That old man was wanting to die himself," he said, which didn't really help the situation.

"I knew it…" it said, as it's optic blazed up intensely, the optics releasing what could be called 'flames', orange in colour and it seemed as though they could start a forest fire. "You are defective!"

As he said that, the MS raised an axe, not noting the Barbatos' back thruster powering up. And when it was raised, the booster blasted to life, kicking up a ton of dust and creating a smokescreen. Despite the cloud of dust, however, the Graze saw the Wrench Mace flying at it, and caught the thing before it struck the MS.

"You rat…" he cursed before driving it's last remaining pile bunker into the Wrench Mace, completely destroying the top half and slightly crumpling the bottom. Though what it didn't predict was the Barbatos coming at it from behind to strike.

Mika attempted a simple action, grab the Graze's cockpit and crushing it, or trying to shoot it with the Autocannon. Unfortunately, the Graze was too fast for his liking, and it whirled around, using the same arm it used to break the Wrench to catch the manipulator.

"You animals know nothing about the righteous path for humans!" exclaimed the Graze. And despite the firm footing it had on the ground, backed by the feet unit's suspenders, the Graze managed to lift the Barbatos off the ground and toss it to the side, rattling Mika up a tad.

While the MS was still in the air, Mika quickly recovered and activated the Land Boosters and readjusted the Barbatos to land safely on the ground. To soften the Barbatos' landing, Mika stepped down on a unit beside the feet thrusters, and the grey segments on the soles of the Gundam's feet swung down, becoming 'claws' of sorts. And once he landed, the claws dug deep into the concrete of the ground, softening the Barbatos' landing by a considerable amount.

Thanks to the softer landing, the Barbatos could recover quickly, but not quick enough to avoid a drill kick to the waist unit, shearing off part of its waist unit and making it staggering back, followed up by a double axe downswing. Thankfully for the ASW unit, the momentum which the Graze gave it thanks to the drill kick, and Mika leaping the Barbatos back, the strike missed, even if it did kick up a ton of dust, as usual.

As it leapt back, the right side of the backpack, detached and shifted upwards thanks to the backpack arm, allowing Mikazuki to get the Barbatos to reach back and grab the Longsword. Gripping it with both manipulators of the Barbatos, Mika yanked it off the backpack unit just in time to block a strike from the Ein. Not letting up, the Ein slammed it's second axe onto the Longsword, which still held together despite the amount of force against its side.

"But you laid a hand on your savior and pulled him down into his grave…" continued the Graze. And at this point, Mika gave up listening. Why bother listening to someone who was speaking complete nonsense, anyways? Besides, he had other things to worry about, like the leg joints of the Barbatos which were slowly giving way, making the Gundam fall to its knees. Though he didn't seem to be too botheredby it, seeing as he was most worried about one thing.

"Basic speed… no… the reaction speed…" muttered Mika, his mind in shambles and sore from the battle. Despite that, his voice was calm, which was probably a show of how little he valued his life. "A difference in the Alaya-Vijnana?"

"You cannot be saved now!" continued the Ein as it's/his opponent's sunk into the ground, slowly but surely moving into a kneeling position. "With your bodies disgrace by sins… you can no longer be saved… not you… or that woman!"

And that seemed to rile Augus up, making his eyes widen a little.

"And your comrades… never!" continued the Graze, enraged as it pushed the Sixth Form fully onto its knees. "I will kill you and your comrades… to purify your sins…"

If he were to say anything else, Mika would have not replied. However, this was a special occasion, as Augus didn't even hear whatever else the Graze said. He was just focused on one thing.

"I will kill you and your comrades… to purify your sins!"

That was what made him snap. No one threatened his friends and got away unscathed. If they were to die today, all of them, then that would mean that all their work, all those rigorous hours traveling from Mars to Earth… and all those lives lost for this mission, would be for nothing.

Slowly, Mika raised his head up to face the Ein. And when he spoke, the boy's voice held a rather noticeable amount of anger.

"Sins…?" muttered Mika, his pupils dilating from anger. "...Save? That… is not for you to decide… oi… Barbatos," turning his attention to his Gundam, he felt a difference in the AV System. An oddly familiar feeling which reflected his anger. And it made his order to his MS that much easier. "Just give me all that you have… don't bother holding back…"

In response to his request, the Gundam's optics began to light up, flashing even brighter than it ever shone in three hundred years, shining much brighter than ever before. The Graze took this as a threat and forced the Barbatos' arm units upwards before launching a kick to it's armoured chest unit.

"Die and repent!" exclaimed the Ein, boosting behind it while it was still in the air and swung it's right axe wielding arm unit. It expected this to be the end of the fight.

Yet, it didn't expect it to deflect the strike with a defensive swing with it's Longsword.

The surprise was apparent in the Ein's voice as the axe dropped behind the Barbatos. "What?!" it/he exclaimed as the Barbatos kept its stance. "That… that reaction speed!"

While it was true that Mika had just done that, deflect an axe strike of a wielder of the supposedly 'perfect' Alaya Vijnana, that newfound reaction speed came at a price. Currently, Mika's right arm spazzed out as though he was on an electrical chair. Though it lasted for less than a second before it stopped, allowing Augus to grip the arm unit controller properly. However, the most visible 'wound' was his right eye and nostril.

His entire right eye was now red and bloody, and his right nostril was leaking blood like a busted drain pipe thanks to the info dump the Barbatos gave him. However, he didn't seem to notice, and if he did, he didn't care. Even better, he thought this wasn't enough.

"More… more…" he muttered, ignoring his injuries. "Give me all you've got… Barbatos!"

Heeding his pilot's command, Barbatos poured on the power, signified by the powerful green flash it emitted.

With Takaki

"Boss?"

Atop the building near the parliament, Takaki contacted Orga with through the newly established LCS comm links. As he did, Takaki set down the final LCS drone so that his leader could contact the other Tekkadan members with maximum output.

"Can you hear me?" asked the blonde. "I've put up all the LCS drones we have. You can now contact everyone on our team now!"

Over with Orga

"Good job, Takaki," thanked Orga as he drove down the desolate streets in his MW. As he did, he tapped the LCS comm link button to contact every member of Tekkadan who was still up. To his relief, the Gusion Rebake was still operational on the outskirts of Edmonton, but the Ryusei Go and twin Rouei's signals were faint. Still, he held onto hope that their pilots were still alive as he spoke.

"Can you all hear me?!"

The outskirts of Edmonton

Along the outskirts of Edmonton, a single Mobile Suit stood silently.

For the past hour or so, it had been holding its ground against waves upon waves of ED-06j,Graze Ground Types. And it did it's job pretty well, as it was essentially the only Mobile Suit still standing after it's long skirmish.

In spite of the overwhelming odds it had faced, the unit had bested everything which came it's way, even if it was extremely damaged, with countless dents and scratches all over it's coffee green chassis and with one of it's sub arms ripped off.

Within the cockpit, the pilot was was still suffering the strains which his Mobile Suit had placed on him, taking in several deep breaths while blood streamed down both his nostrils. But he managed a smile when Orga's voice came through the LSC.

"Makanai and Kudelia have reached the Parliament!"

A little closer to Edmonton

"Our job was a success."

Standing from side to side, the heavy artillery Mobile Worker units rained Hell down on the Gjallarhorn opposition. In the battle, they lost a few of their numbers, but the Gjallarhorn ones were dropping much more noticeable than theirs.

Inside his MW, Eugene Seven Stark grit his teeth as a shot just narrowly whizzed past his unit, not even paying attention to what Orga was saying.

"So… do not die here!"

The outer rim of Edmonton

"Don't die now!"

Laying on the ground in front of his destroyed unit, Norba Shino smirked as Orga issued his commands through his Graze Frame's LCS.

Alongside him were Lafter Frankland, Azee Gurumin, Eco Turbine, three members from Teiwaz who accompanied Tekkadan to Earth, and Yamagi Gilmerton, a mechanic of Tekkadan.

All three of them were very recently taken out of commision by the Graze Ein thanks to its more advanced A-V system. Thankfully, none of them were taken out of commision, only receiving scars, ones which they would wear with pride.

"Whoever dies from here on out… I'll make sure to kill you again for disobeying me!"

Edmonton

"So! No matter what…"

Coming at the Barbatos, the Graze attempted a downswing at the smaller MS with one of its two axes. It didn't account for it to dodge with speed rivaling his own, however.

"What is this?!" exclaimed the Graze as the Barbatos issued a possibly fatal strike to its arm which would have severed it. Thankfully for the Graze, it was able to pull its arm back to avoid the strike, only to lose one of its axes in the process.

"His reaction speed has tripled…" muttered the Graze's pilot in shock as the Barbatos came at it with a flurry of swings. "How is this possible… his Alaya Vijnana system shouldn't be able to give out that much data!"

While the Graze attempted to figure out how to pin it down, the Barbatos' pilot pushed on tirelessly, focusing all his might on killing the Graze. Though he did pull a small part of his mind away from combat to listen to Orga's orders.

"Live! Even if you have to crawl… or if you have to die trying!"

As he said that, Mika unknowingly smiled a tad.

'He's been wanting to say that for some time…' he thought wistfully was he dodged a strike aimed at the waist unit and retaliated by swinging the Barbatos' Longsword at the Graze, slicing off the Graze's left antenna. 'For so long… 'Don't die… just live'... It's simple when you put it into words, but he couldn't just say them…'

Once that thought was over, Mika ducked the Barbatos under a sideswing from the Graze and swung the Longsword at it's cockpit, which it narrowly dodged, though a cut did appear on the edge of the unit. In retaliation, the Graze sent it's axe down on it, a strike which kicked up a ton of dust, though this time it didn't have time to dodge a swing which knocked off a part of it's arm unit's frame.

And outside of all that chaos, the two Mobile Suits and their pilots didn't notice the Mobile Worker which stopped outside the dust.

"How is this possible…" muttered the Graze's pilot as he launched his MS' fist, spun up into a drill punch, at the Barbatos, which it blocked with it's Graze Ritter shoulderpad, though it was sent staggering back a little. "His movements…!"

With Orga off the LCS, Mika turned his mind back to combat, activating the Land Boosters and blasting his Gundam forward. Seeing his opponent coming, the Graze swung its axe to stop the Gundam, only for the unit to meet it's weapon with it's Longsword. For a moment, both units remained locked in a clash until the Ein attempted to launch a kick at the Barbatos, though it leapt back before it connected.

Landing on both feet units, the Barbatos raised an arm to block another drill punch with its arm gauntlet. As it did, the Graze swung its axe at it, though before the weapon could even get close to it's target, the Barbatos swung its blocking arm to the side, sending the drill arm to the side and allowing it to launch a punch at the Graze's head unit, shattering it's monoeye and heavily denting it's head unit. The strike sent the Ein sprawling backwards and jerk it's head to the side.

Whirling back to face the Tekkadan MS, the Graze's optic seemed to glow a darker shade of red, prompting Mika to swing the Longsword at it again, and though the Graze narrowly dodged it, earning a smaller cut on it's waist frame.

Not using it's axe this time, the Graze sent a drill punch at the Barbatos' head unit, shearing off it's left cheek armour and making Mika flinch in the cockpit. And that action sent it out of the dust cloud, allowing Orga to see what was happening, and to flinch at how damaged the Barbatos was. He has seen the unit damaged before in the past, but this was the most damaged he's seen in a very long time.

"Not a chance!" exclaimed the Graze pilot, and before Mika could recover, it sent a drilling kick at his Gundam's waist frame, sending the Barbatos back and causing its Additional Chest Armour Plating to drop off.

Stepping forward, the Graze stomped on the Additional Armour Plating and gave the Barbatos a death glare, or at least as close to one which a Mobile Suit could get.

"This is the end…" said the Graze, and honestly, Mika couldn't be bothered to listen.

He was tired, dehydrated, and he wanted to just close his eyes and drift into an embrace of dreams. So, as the Graze opened it's damaged helmet and glared at the Barbatos with it's single red monoeye before raising it's axe, Mika didn't dodge.

Why bother fighting this thing? He had no goal, at least nothing he could remember… fighting this thing had made his brain feel mushy. He just wanted to rest, perhaps if he closed his eyes for a moment, this would all be over…

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, MIKA?!"

That voice… it belonged to… Orga… Orga!

Blasting his eyes open, revealing dilated pupils, Mika remembered his mission.

To ensure Tekkadan was successful.

And he was going to be there when it happened. So dying was not on his list, not now. Not ever.

With his mind cleared, Mika pushed down on a button on the Barbatos' arm controller, ejecting the Ritter shoulder pads and the backpack unit to reduce the weight on the Gundam.

And, once the axe had landed, all the Graze had struck was the armour the Barbatos purged.

"What…?!" proclaimed the Graze, shocked by the sudden speed which the Gundam had just demonstrated. Swiveling it's cracked monoeye from side to side, the Ein couldn't pin down the Barbatos, until it heard the sound of it's adversary's Land Boosters burst to life. Turning back, it saw the Gundam Frame leap into the air, Longsword raised.

Quickly, it attempted to swing its axe at it, though it was too slow, as, when the arm unit was nearly at the Gundam's chest, the Barbatos' Longswordcompletely severed the unit off.

"He… he severed the Mobile Suit's inner and outer frame all together?!" proclaimed the pilot of the Graze in shock as his MS' severed arm unit went limp.

While it was still in shock, Mikazuki felt wistful inside the cockpit. Partly because he remembered what he was supposed to do, but mainly because he learnt how to use this weapon correctly.

"I finally understand how to use this…" he muttered, smiling ever so slightly as he huffed. "It was so easy…"

"You… you monster!" exclaimed the Graze, launching its still intact arm towards the unit for a drill punch. Dodging to the side, the Barbatos avoided the strike before severing that arm unit with it's sword.

"Look who's talking," said Mika in a rather harsh tone as he narrowed his eyes at the Graze.

Moving back, the Graze began to raise its left leg unit for a drill kick, something it's opponent's MS dodged before stabbing it's weapon into the leg unit, making the Graze limp back.

"Lieutenant Crank(nee)!" it exclaimed, it's voice filled with shame as it turned to the Barbatos, it's remaining leg unit straining under the weight of the torso unit and it's single red optic blazing red. "Specialist Major Bauduin! My righteousness…"

Having enough of his babbling, Mikazuki pulled back the Barbatos' arm unit controllers before shooting them forward, jamming the Longsword into the cockpit of the Graze. It was a clean cut, one which went right in and destroyed the pilot's life support system.

And as it went limp, Mika simply glared at it.

"Shut up…" he grumbled. "Orga's giving me orders…"

As he said that, Orga looked up to the sky, smiling happily.

A smile which faded when his LCS comm links went on.

"Orga!" came Takaki's voice. And he seemed alarmed.

"What is it, Takaki?" asked Orga, his happiness fading thanks to Takaki's tone.

"There's a large amount of Ahab energy build up near you…" said Takaki urgently. "It's… it's coming from the Mobile Suit Mr Mikazuki is fighting!"

Widening his eyes, Orga whirled back to face the Barbatos and activated his comm links which connected to the Gundam.

"Mikazuki!" exclaimed Orga. "Fall back, now!"

Hearing this, Mika simply felt confused, before the on screen alert came up, alerting him to an Ahab energy build up coming from within the Graze. And if he remembered what Old Man Yuki said… it meant…

'Self destruct!' thought Mika as he flipped the Land boosters back and activating them, blasting the Gundam back while yanking the Longsword out. Yet, something seemed to be malfunctioning in the Barbatos. Mika would have wondered if it was because he pushed it too far, but he didn't have much time, as the Barbatos seemed to just shut down.

Alongside that small problem, the Barbatos was being pulled towards the Graze. Not just the Barbatos, though. The Wrench Mace, Graze's arms/axes, the armour parts which the Gundam ejected, and even Orga, who was reversing his MW were all being pulled towards the soon to explode Graze Ein.

Yet, when the Barbatos and Mika came into contact with the Graze, the 'vortex' stopped, causing Orga's MW to be sent back slightly. Grumbling, he climbed out of his Mobile Worker, before widening his eyes.

"Orga!" came Takaki's voice again. "The Ahab build up is gone. But I'm not picking up the Barbatos' Ahab Wave! What's wrong?!"

But Orga didn't answer. The sight in front of him was too much.

Mika… Mika and the Barbatos… both gone. Nothing was even left, not even any of the weapons.

And for one of the few times in his life, Orga allowed himself to shed some tears before letting out an anguished yell.

A yell which rang through the Edmonton sunset and represented the lost of a friend, and something which would haunt Orga for many years from now.

Yet… the Tekkadan leader was wrong to assume that Augus was dead.

In fact, he was alive and well, fighting for a new cause…

If you're wondering, no, I dunno what kinda drug I was on when I was writing this. I'm too young to take drugs anyways.

Anyways, as of me writing this rewrite (21/10/2017), I have some some… stuff. Like Gundam Versus, for example. Yes, I now own Gundam Versus on the PS4 and my main is the Lupus, as one would expect. I'm not one for PvP though, so there's that.

My PS4 username is StrykerJ05, if you're wondering.

Also, regarding the question of who's the strongest, Reiner or Akihiro, it's simple. One could keep fighting while severely injured by a Dainslaif shot while the other was taken out by some people in fancy gear.

Not much else to say but see ya in C2.

Bah.