So this is a byproduct of talking to Balrog1788, enjoy peeps. If you want more of our Zeonic Witch-Who-Won leave reviews.
A couple people have demanded an overview for those new to Gundam, so here you are. In the year 0079 of the Universal Century calendar the Colony Cluster furthest from Earth known as Side 3 declares itself The Principality of Zeon and begins a war of independence against the Earth Federation. At the time there were seven Sides, each cluster located at a Lagrange point around Earth, each 'Side' was numbered by when it was created.
Side 6 declared their independence from the Federation as well but they actually did so peacefully and they are kind of the Switzerland of the era, Side 4 and 5 were all but wiped out as the Federation and Zeon fleets lobbed nukes at each other during Operation British and the Battle of Loum.
The reason for these battles was because Zeon had gassed an O'Neill colony Cylinder and intended to drop it on the Federation Headquarters in South America known as Jaburo, during Operation British the Feds managed to destroy the colony but it actually fucked things for everyone when they did. The biggest piece landed on Sydney, Australia wiping out the city and all its surrounding suburbs, the other colony fragments landed in the Earths oceans creating massive tidal waves.
All told, by the end of what was known as the One Week War roughly six billion people were dead and the war went into a stalemate for about eight months when the original Gundam series kicked off. Zeon forces infiltrated the only colony of Side 7 and found the Federations secret weapons project, code named Project V, which entailed the Pegasus class carrier White Base, the titular hero mech the RX-78-2 Gundam, and its sister units the able Guncannon and the bloody ridiculous Guntank.
Lillith will be playing for the bad guys because, well, Zeon kicks ass, while they are fascist dickheads at times the Earth Federation isn't any better, and the original Gundam series actually played at there not really being good and evil sides. Both had heroes, both had villains, and both committed unimaginable atrocities to each other, Zeon just looked cooler while doing it.
Lillith will be introduced in this first installment at the Battle of Loum during the One Week War, the Second and Third chapters take place a couple months later as Zeon invades Earth, and Chapter Four takes place around Episode 8 of the original series if I recall correctly. Things should follow along from there
She had no idea why the hell she was here, really she'd jumped realities so many bloody times thanks to being the Mistress of Death that she'd long given up asking questions regardless. All she knew was that she was a high ranking officer in a quasi-aristocratic hierarchy and that she was considered to be the most terrifying pilot of the Principality of Zeon's Mobile Suit Corps.
As Commander Lillith Potter checked through her MS-06C Zaku II's pre-flight checklist she allowed her gaze to shift across the emerald green silver trimmed machine as a dark smirk slipped across her lips. Her subordinates all blanched seeing their normally taciturn leader grin as her war stead was ladened down with nuclear warheads, today was going to be a good day for Death's Head squadron.
"Lieutenant Gato!" The raven haired woman all but bellowed, the sharp eyed junior officer rushed to his commanders side as she slapped her data pad into his chest speaking in quick clipped tones. "What is our load out looking like XO?"
Her second in command silently scanned through the data and then nodded quickly, "The entirety of Morrigan's mobile suit force is ready to launch at your command ma'am!"
Lillith nodded knowingly as she stared at the lines of Zakus awaiting launch from the bowels of the massive Gwazine class battleship. Loum was going to be the linch pin against the Federation, they had to break the back of their fleet in order to drop the recently gassed colony on their South American base of Jaburo.
Truth be told Lillith was...unhappy about this turn of events, while she was admittedly a sociopath even she had to question the need to murder millions in an attempt to kill billions. On that note they'd also given her a massive fucking warship and a giant fighting robot, so she pushed her moral concerns to the back corner of her mind in the very real interest of blowing shit up with a nuclear rocket launcher.
Hermione would be so disappointed in her, that alone made her feel so ashamed that she once again pushed the feelings aside and pretended they didn't exist.
"MEN!" She bellowed into her comm, the surrounding pilots and technicians turned to face their leader as she stood proudly beside the reaving raven painted upon the shoulder of her Zaku. "Today, we strike against the backwards Federation in a way they can not ignore! Today we will show these Earthnoid ingrates what it means to stir the Spacenoid race's ire!"
She really hated these terms, not only did they sound retarded they also reflected the 'Us and Them' mentality in a rather poignant manner. On that note, she was one witch against twelve billion normal humans, so she'd hold her tongue on that matter until a good portion of the population was culled.
As it happened, colony drops and nuclear weapons were amazing force multipliers in that department.
"Today we rush onward to face the very best the Earth Federation has to offer! We are going up against men and women whose bravery cannot be questioned! They will be rushing through our lines of fire ignoring the deaths of their brethren as they desperately attempt to come into range of our mobile suits! They will valiantly face their own deaths in an attempt to stall us for mere moments!"
She paused as her awestruck crew stared up at the emerald eyed woman, a moment later she smirked impishly, "It's our job to make sure their deaths are in vain, no one has permission to die today, those who fail to follow this order will report for latrine duty after the battle. Is that clear?!"
The collective force laughed and saluted as one, "YES MA'AM!"
Grinning she slammed her fist against her chest then threw it above her head, "SIEG ZEON!"
Her men and women repeated the gesture as they bellowed as one, "HEIL POTTER, SIEG ZEON, SIEG ZEON!" Lillith grinned darkly at this as she shifted her normal suits thrusters to land herself on her Zaku's egress hatch. It was but a matter of moments for her to fold her pack up and seat herself in her war machines pilot seat, booting the massive humanoid mech from its rest she sealed the cockpit and evacuated the ambient atmosphere.
She really, really hated fogging up her monitors, anything that reminded her of dementors was to be avoided at all costs thank you very much.
"This is Death's Head One reporting in," Anavel quickly queued in a moment later,
"Death two standing by."
"Death three Standing by," this continued until all twenty of her men and women reported in, as the massive hanger bays doors swung open Lillith couldn't help but grin as the the vast expanse of empty space was exposed.
How many times had she done this? How many realities had Death dropped her into with nary a detail on how she was supposed to progress? Today that didn't matter, she'd chosen her side and that meant the Earth Federation had to burn for the glory of the Principality of Zeon; throwing her throttle forward her Zaku flew from the protective womb of the Morrigan and quickly began flitting through the oncoming anti-air fire.
"Death Two, Death Seven, on me," as Gato and the new girl with the cute arse, Kusenagi if she remembered correctly, formed up on her as she approached a Magellan battleship and it's two Salamis cruiser escorts. Twirling through the pitiful anti-air fire Lillith snapped a rocket off at one of the cruisers which immediately vaporized in a flash of nuclear fire, a moment later both the Magellan and the remaining Salamis disappeared in similar flares.
As all three Zaku's reloaded their nuclear rocket launchers Lillith glanced out towards the most massive concentration of Federation ships trying to hold off the colony drop, "Hey Yumi, Anavel, wanna make a wager?" The silver haired man and quiet Japanese woman both asked 'What?; at once. Lillith only grinned in return, "Bet you I can murder General Revil before the bastard has the chance to surrender. Wanna try to beat me?"
Before she could blink both Yumi's red and white and Anavel's green and blue Zaku's were bolting for the Federation's flagship, shaking her head ruefully Lillith threw her throttles forward grinning viciously in return. "Cheeky buggers..."
