Valkyrie's Flight: The Lost Sagas: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
The Year is Cosmic Era 92. The Colonial Fleet has begun to recover from the Colonial Civil War, while Ronald Pinkerton prepares to fight against a new Neo-Zeon threat. With the creation of the SYSTEM-99 Turn A Gundam and the CONCEPT X 612 Turn X, Ron has created damn near unstoppable weapons, but he cannot use them against his enemy, Char Aznable. He now prepares Londo Bell for war.
SCVA-77 Ra-Cailum: near colony Sweetwater with SCVA-76 Nahel Argama and SCVA-75 Argama
"All hands, prep for assault. Neo-Zeon forces incoming."
Ron looked at the RGZ-95 ReGZ, or Refined Gundam Zeta.
It wasn't refined, that was for sure.
"Colonel, can the Morgan sortie?"
"The black hole reactor's increased the mass of the Morgan, but she's more agile and faster then ever. She can fly."
"Good. We've got a number of Mobile Suits inbound, and you're the best hope we've got."
"What, no hope in your Jegans or the ReGZ?"
"I said best hope, not only hope."
"Morgan, you are clear for launch." "Copy. Colonel Ronald Pinkerton, ADF-X01A4 Morgan, engaging!"
RGM-89 Jegans, Londo Bell's frontline MS, were blasting off to engage the Anaheim-built Geara-Dogas and a few Jagd-Dogas used by Neo-Zeon.
'Can't blame Anaheim. They're a corporation: they get paid, they supply MSs to anyone.'
Ron preferred to use the Strategic Naval Resource Institute or SNRI for MSs: they were owned by the military, and their work was a hell of a lot better then Anaheim; hell, the Jegans came from SNRI and, for a cannon fodder MS, they were really good.
He saw a long life ahead for the Jegan. (AN: That's a reference to Gundam F91, where the Jegan was seen in combat with Crossbone Vanguard forces a number of times, and fought under the worst circumstances)
Dozens of Geara-Dogas attacked the Londo Bell forces, but soon got blasted by a High Mega Cannon shot from Judau's Double Zeta.
"Nice shot, but we've got more incoming! Braves, ZAKU Warriors, DOM Troopers, and-hell, there's a RED MS incoming!"
Ron helped design this one: the MSN-04 Sazabi.
Elle's RX-178-2 Gundam Mk II Kai fired at the Sazabi, but Elle had only piloted the Mk II Kai for a few months.
Char was piloting the Sazabi for over a year.
"So, Colonel, you have yet to kill me!"
"Really? Then why aren't you fighting me?"
Char pulled out a beam saber and attacked the Morgan, but Mondo's Mk II fired on the Sazabi, and was joined by Kamille and Roux's MSZ-006 Zeta Gundams, along with Beecha in the MSN-00100-2 Hyaku Shiki.
"This is between me and Char! Stay out of it!"
"Then you haven't noticed the Geara-Dogas that are less then a few hundred meters away?"
Ron turned the Morgan's head and saw a number of Geara-Dogas and DOM Troopers pointing very big guns at him, then cursed his hatred of 360-degree monitors.
Ron deployed his DRAGOONs and told them to destroy the Geara-Dogas and DOM Troopers.
"Like I said, me and you, Char!"
"No, just the Captain, Colonel!"
A Jagd-Doga impaled the Morgan, but missed Ron by millimeters.
He wasn't in the mood to go into a new body just yet.
Still, it gave Ron an excuse.
"Funnels, Fangs!"
"Oh shit!"
Ron dueled with the Sazabi, striking where the cockpit should've been, but Ron remembered that they placed the cockpit in the Sazabi's head.
Ron still smirked.
He charged the chest-mounted MA-80V beam assault cannon.
"Hey, Char! You damaged my MS. My turn!"
Ron fired, crippling the Sazabi, but the Morgan was damaged as well.
"Bright, get my ass back on board. Char destroyed my cockpit."
"Neo-Zeon forces are retreating. I guess Char wasn't going to risk anymore of his pilots to kill you."
"He'll be back."
"He always will."
SCVA-77 Ra-Cailum: near colony Sweetwater: three hours later
"He occupied that colony without firing a shot. Despite the fact that most of the colonies are semi-independent, they want to support Neo-Zeon."
"I agree. When you took control of the Federation Government for two years, you put in a number of changes that would make sure that another Neo-Zeon War would be delayed at least, like having no say in colonial elections. But even then, there are a number of people who were loyal to the Principality of Zeon during the OYW. They hid Char's forces, and-"
"Colonel, the 360 cockpit's been installed."
"Thank you, Astonaige."
"A 360 screen in the Morgan?"
"Semi-360 screen. I've have the seat freefloating, with a rotating Strike Freedom-style frame installed, so it will limit my vision to a point, but I like it that way. Now that ambush won't happen again."
20 Clop-Class frigates and a number of Minotaur-III battlecruisers joined the Londo Bell forces just 1000 km away from Sweetwater.
"We can't attack the colony until-"
"This is Char Aznable of Neo-Zeon. For almost 100 years now, the Earth Federation has controlled space. The Principality of Zeon challenged that. We were beaten, and after the One Year War, we went into hiding. The Delaz Fleet began Anti-Earth Federation operations, but thanks to Kou Uraki, pilot of the RX-78GP03 Stamen Gundam, the operation intended to crush the Federation failed. On June 22nd, UC 0083, the Titans were formed to destroy Anti-Federation forces and Zeon remnants, but they abused their power and turned it against the people they were supposed to protect. The AEUG fought the Titans and destroyed them, but Haman Karn's Axis Zeon took control of Earth. The only ones to fight against them were the AEUG, now called Londo Bell. The Federation's incompetent attitude ends now! I, Char Aznable, leader of Neo-Zeon, declare war on the Earth Federation!"
Jarid and Judau chuckled.
"Sure took his time. I bet you would've just gotten to the point."
"Adolph Hitler had control of Germany for 12 years by use of propaganda and oration skills. Ghiren Zabi used the same tactic. Me? I hate propaganda and I just tell it how it is without bullshit. Char? He's a combination of me and Ghiren: half-truths rather then lies and using his skill as an orator to make a speech and sell it to the people. Sweetwater is full of pissed off Spacenoids, all of them supporters of Neo-Zeon."
Ron got up.
"As supreme commander of Londo Bell, I, Colonel Ronald Pinkerton, declare war on Char's Neo-Zeon. Get our entire force up here, now!"
The men in the room scrambled to get their forces ready for what Ron loved most: full on war.
"Sir, most of our forces are still reequipping with the Jegans!"
"We'll use the Gundam Team, and get Amuro Ray up here! He's getting that ReGZ!"
"Aye, sir."
"And tell that new girl-what was her name again? Ensign Chan Agi?"
"Yes, sir."
"Tell her to check up on Nu Gundam, RFN! I want that MS operational!"
Earth Federation GHQ: North Bay, Ontario
(AN: Jaburo's gone, and I also live there, so why not use it as EFGHQ?) The city of North Bay was little known to most people, and on Colonel Pinkerton's request, the Federation Forces made the old base under the city into the new EFASF GHQ.
Amuro Ray was awaiting transfer into space, after his promotion to Captain.
Bright no longer outranked him, but Colonel Pinkerton still did.
"Captain Ray?"
Amuro looked up to see a Lieutenant standing in front of him.
"Yes?"
"Your shuttle to the Ra-Cailum is ready to take off. Colonel Pinkerton will speak with you on the flight up."
He stood up and thanked the Lieutenant.
A few minutes later, Amuro boarded the shuttle and took off toward the Ra-Cailum.
SCVA-77 Ra-Cailum: near colony Sweetwater: four hours later
Ron turned and weaved through Geara-Doga fire and chuckled at his genius.
A simple mod, and it didn't even need a new model number!
Then a new MS, or rather, a refit Sazabi-MSN-04II Nightingale-fired on the Morgan.
Ron transformed and pulled out his GN Sword III Kai.
Char wasn't getting another chance. He swung at the head, but the same Jagd-Doga blocked his GN Sword.
"Cockbite! This is between me and Char! Now you pay! DRAGOONs! Kill him!"
16 DRAGOONs launched from the Morgan, all hell bent on killing Gueni Guss.
His Jagd-Doga launched Funnels, but DRAGOONs were faster and a hell of a lot harder to hit.
"Now, where were we, Char? Oh, yes, me killing you."
Ron hit a beam saber rather then Char's cockpit, but it had the effect of forcing Char to back off.
By the look of things, Char pulled out the big guns: his new flagship, the Rewloola, was firing on the Ra-Cailum, and launching huge numbers of GN Flags and even Strike Daggers to hold off the newer Jegans and hunter-killer Braves.
The Nahel Argama and her sister ship, the Argama, returned the Rewloola's fire, but the Neo-Zeon ship dodged it using the one thing Char hated: Trans-Am.
It sped toward Sweetwater, which was a no-fire zone for both Neo-Zeon and Londo Bell.
Exus and Mobius Mobile Armors dueled with larger ZAKU Phantoms and GOUF Igniteds using their Gunbarrel pods and it was a slaughterhouse.
The Londo Bell forces had been training with their MAs since the end of the First Neo-Zeon War, while the Neo-Zeon forces, operating from Mars and the asteroid belt, had barely gotten three months worth of training in on their equipment.
Elle, one of the worst pilots in Londo Bell, was having the time of her life, taking out GOUFs and Geara-Dogas with ease.
Even the newest pilots in Londo Bell, the famous 08th MS Team and rather infamous Kou Uraki, were killing enemy Mobile suits with ease.
Fa, now using her GN-006 Cherubim Gundam, was having the easiest time thanks to her GN Rifle Bits and her Haro's stabilizing actions.
Neo-Zeon GNXIIIs died at the hands of Haman's Reborns Cannon/Gundam, and Ron was stuck dealing with Char.
"Funnels!"
"Fangs, fly!"
Char and Ron were dueling for supremacy, and they were using everything they had to do it.
Then Ron got a break in the form of the RGZ-96 ReGZ.
"Amuro. I'll let you handle Char."
Char looked at the ReGZ, then got a beam saber to the gut of the Nightingale.
"I've had this thing rebuilt, Amuro. I don't want to do it again." Ron broke off and began attacking random groups of Char's military might: Minotaur-IIs, Nile-Class battleships, Volga-Class frigates, the Rewloola and any other Neo-Zeon ships.
It was a quagmire, and one of Ron's favorite ways to fight.
Then one of Ron's friends showed up.
"Colonel, I'm here. Where do you need me?"
"So, the Nightmare of Solomon lives."
Anavel Gato, the Nightmare of Solomon, was found in Granada, barely making a living due to the fact that he was crippled.
How did he survive ramming a MA into a Salamis?
Easy: the cockpit armor did it's job and protected him from death, but the frame broke both his legs and his left arm.
Ron found him and nursed him back to health, in return for revenge on the bastards who forced him to attack the Salamis: survivors of the Cima Fleet, now loyal to Char Aznable.
His weapon of choice?
The new ZGMF-S09A Stealth Justice.
"Uraki, I don't want to hear it. We both work under Colonel Pinkerton now, and we both have a job to do."
"He's right! Engage!"
Neo-Zeon forces landed back on their ships and turned toward a resource depot: Fifth Luna.
"Intercept them!"
The Minotaur-IIIs in Londo Bell's fleet charged their Yamato Cannons, but the ships in Char's fleet engaged Trans-Am, and the positron cannons were useless.
"All forces, engage Trans-Am and speed to Fifth Luna, flank speed!"
They sped to the asteroid.
Cue the beginning of Char's Counterattack!
The difference because Minotaur-Class battlecruisers:
Minotaur-I: basic type, beam Igelstellungs and Yamato Cannon only.
Minotaur-II: added Gottfried cannon on top of bridge, Igelstellung Zwilling (German word for 'twin', like Siamese Twin) 90mm beam CIWS.
Minotaur-III: added Gottfried cannons on port and starboard sides, thicker hull plating, Mk II Yamato Cannon and Mk V GN powerdrive.
Mobile suits of the Chapter:
RGM-89 Jegan
General Characteristics
Overall Height: 20.4 meters
Head Height: 19.0 meters
Max Weight: 47.3 metric tons
Empty Weight: 21.3 metric tons
Power Plant: Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output: 1870 kW
Propulsion: Rocket Thrusters: 12700 kg, 2 x 9200 kg, 2 x 8800 kg; Vernier Thrusters/Apogee Motors: 12
Sensor Range: 14200 meters
Max Acceleration: 1.03 G
Accommodation: Pilot only, cockpit in chest
Armor: Titanium Alloy/Ceramic Composite
Armaments: Beam saber, 3-slot Hand Grenade Rack, Vulcan Gun Pod
Optional Equipment: Shield, 2 x 2-tube Small Missile Launcher, Beam Rifle, Bazooka
An MS used only by Londo Bell during the Second and Third Neo-Zeon Wars, but soon entered service with the regular army some time shortly after UC 0100. It served a good 45 years in the Federation Armed Forces until a few years after the Crossbone Vanguard Incident, when it was replaced with MSs like the RGM-110 Heavygun. An excellent MS, even with it was just a cannon fodder Suit.
Author's Note: Remember the B-52? The Big Ugly Fat Fucker? That's been in service 60 years. The Jegan is just like the B-52, only it's Mobile Suit.
RX-178 Gundam Mk-II Kai
General Characteristics
Overall Height: 19.6 Meters
Head Height: 18.5 Meters
Max Weight: 50.1 Metric Tons
Empty Weight: 33.4 Metric Tons
Power Plant: Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output: 19300 kW
Propulsion: Rocket Thrusters: 4 x 20300 kg
Vernier Thrusters/Apogee Motors: 10
Sensor Range: 13900 Meters
Max Acceleration: Maximum thruster acceleration 2.50 G
Accommodation: Pilot only, cockpit in chest
Armor: Gundarium alloy/Ceramic Composite
Armaments: 2 x A*E-Br*G-Sc-L Beam Saber
Special Equipment and Features: Flying armor, FXA-05D G-Defenser, Movable Frame, Panoramic Cockpit
Optional Equipment: MA-87-C Beam Rifle, RPW984 600mm Hyper Bazooka, RX*M-Sh-VT/S-010 Shield
The upgraded version of the Gundam Mk II, piloted by the more elite pilots and veterans of the Neo-Zeon War. Lighter and built to last, with Gundarium replacing titanium.
MSN-00100-2 Hyaku Shiki
General Characteristics
Overall Height: 21.4 Meters
Head Height: 18.5 Meters
Max Weight: 44.5 Metric Tons
Mass Ratio: 1.08
Empty Weight: 16.5 Metric Tons
Power Plant: Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output: 1850 kW
Propulsion: Rocket thrusters: 4 x 18600 kg, Vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 12
Sensor Range: 12000 Meters
Max Acceleration: 2.37 G
Accommodation: Pilot only, cockpit in chest
Armor: Gundarium alloy
Armaments: 2 x 60mm Vulcan Gun, 2 x Beam Saber
Special Equipment and Features: Anti-beam reflective coating on armor
Optional Equipment: Beam Rifle, Mega Bazooka Launcher
The upgraded Hyaku Shiki was needed for Londo Bell's anti-Neo-Zeon operations, and thus was rebuilt by Anaheim and SNRI.
MSN-04 Sazabi/04II Nightingale
General Characteristics
Overall Height: 25.6 meters
Head Height: 23.0 meters
Max Weight: 71.2 metric tons
Empty Weight: 30.5 metric tons
Power Plant: Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output: 3960 kw
Propulsion: Rocket thrusters: 2 x 14000 kg, 2 x 13300 kg, 8 x 9800 kg, Vernier thrusters/apogee motors: 28
Sensor Range: 22600 meters
Max Acceleration: 1.87 G
Accommodation: Pilot only, cockpit in head
Armor: Gundarium Alloy
Armaments: 2 x Custom Beam Saber, 6 x Funnel, Mega Particle Gun
Special Equipment and Features: 2 x External Propellant Tank, ejectable, Psycoframe Cockpit, Psycommu System
Optional Equipment: Beam Shotrifle, Beam Tomahawk, Shield, 3 x Small Missile
Char's ultimate MS, and almost a match for the Morgan. Almost. Developed in MSN-06S Sinanju.
MSN-03 Geara/Jagd-Doga
General Characteristics
Overall Height: 29.21 Meters
Head Height: 21.0 Meters
Max Weight: 64.6 Metric Tons
Empty Weight: 28.0 Metric Tons
Power Plant: Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output: 3340 kW
Propulsion: Rocket Thrusters: 2 x 17000 kg, 2 x 13000 kg, 2 x 11000 kg, Vernier Thrusters/Apogee Motors: 17
Sensor Range: 20500 Meters
Max Acceleration: 1.27 G
Accommodation: Pilot only, cockpit in chest
Armor: Gundarium Alloy
Armaments: Beam Saber, Heat Knife, 6 x Missile, (Jagd-Doga only) 6 x Funnel
Special Equipment and Features: Psycommu System
Optional Equipment: Beam Assault Rifle, Grenade Launcher, Mega Gatling Gun, Shield, 4 x Mega Particle Gun
The MS the Sazabi was developed from, and very deadly. Gyunei Guss and Quess Paraya were pilots of two Jagd-Dogas.
RGZ-91 Re-GZ
General Characteristics
Overall Height: 21.5 meters
Head Height: 20.5 meters
Max Weight: 55.2 metric tons
Empty Weight: 24.7 metric tons
Power Plant: Ultracompact Minovsky Fusion Reactor
Power Output: 2550 kW
Propulsion: Rocket Thrusters: 2 x 14200 kg, 4 x 11000 kg, 2 x 8600 kg, Vernier Thrusters/Apogee Motors: 19
Accommodation: Pilot only, cockpit in torso
Armor: Gundarium Alloy
Armaments: 2 x Vulcan Gun, 2 x 2-tube Grenade Launcher, 2 x 2-tube Grenade Launcher, 2 x Beam Saber
Special Equipment and Features: Dummy Launchers, Back Weapon System
Optional Equipment: Shield, mounts 3-slot hand grenade rack, Back Weapon System, Large Beam Cannon, 2 x Beam Cannon, Various Missile Launchers, Beam Rifle
Amuro's MS at the beginning of Char's Counterattack. Based on the Zeta Gundam, and the first attempt to mass produce the MS. It failed and the RGZ-95 ReZEL was created from the data from it and the Methuss.
Next time, on Valkyrie's Flight: The Lost Sagas: Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: Quess and Hathaway are rescued, and Quess tries to bug Ron and Amuro into insanity.
Ja Ne!