/RECORD 1/ DUO/ 9th/5th/144CE
Duo was happy to be outside again and surrounded by beautiful women but then again, do those women have telekinesis? Well he just found out, the hard way.
"AGH OH, actually that wasn't so bad." He said lying upside down on his bed.
He had just been through an interesting interrogation, just arriving on the ship he was cleaned and then asked to answer some questions, though he did call tag on the bed.
Stretching his arms he laid back on the bed things were good, just good, he had never felt more alone…
From what the asari told him he was to be taken with his Hard Suit to a place called the Citadel, mostly for a proper inquiry as to the incident, though he was still a prisoner of war, the council forces were to just have him locked away, besides what could one 17yr old pilot do?
-Seven Hours Later-
"Hello? Can somebody answer the door?" He asked for the 70th time.
For the last seven hours he was doing 200 push ups, 150 stomach crunches, and 50 chin ups, there was honestly nothing to do, and they forgot to feed him.
The door finally opened.
"Finally, geez you girls can really take your time." He said mocking the asari commando.
"Were arriving at the citadel within the next two days, if you continue to act like a child, I might have to restrain you."
"Restrain me? That's a little far for little old me, umm, you wouldn't know what's going to happen when I arrive do you?"
"Probably a talk and an investigation and interrogation and then lock you inside a cell till this blow's over." She said plainly.
"Well that's a relief." He said candidly.
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11/5/144CE
Shanxi
Orbital Docks
Wings of Freedom: Bridge
Mai Ri Ramius, the captain of the Wings of freedom was a pleasant woman, she had the same hairstyle as her great grandmother did, in all aspects she looked almost like the spitting image of her ancestor, that and she had her grandfather's humour.
She was supposedly the best captain available, well for the oldest ship in the fleet, the Wings of Freedom was the first ever ship to reach FTL, this and her grandmother served aboard the ship long ago.
The Freedom was supposed to be much like the Archangel, with the exception that it was 750m long and had more engine power than most of the old ships in service during that period of time; the old ship resembles a mixture of the Archangel and the Minerva.
She had been proud to have been chosen to captain such a grand ship, though the years have caught up with the old girl, the recent refit made the ship an assault cruiser and carrier if need be, seeing as it was originally made for MS rather than MG mobile gear suits.
Mei was one of the close relatives to the Yamato family, but she had never heard from them since C.E. 134, the families had kept this close tie but the recent addition to the family had left without a word, he was supposedly on Shanxi for pick up.
She had also arrived due to an emergency call that came from a research team near a relay that had returned the entire area was being packed with as many ships as possible, and the satellite defences that were being positioned in orbit.
Looking down at the blue world, she wondered how far humanity had come after so long and now this.
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Rey Yamato sat in the shuttle to N10 Orbital Dock; he had an uneventful trip from Eden Prime a colony near the Arcturus. Rey was young barely 15, since he left home, it wasn't because of family troubles; it was because he wanted to leave.
Rey had brown hair slightly messy but handsome all the same, slightly tan skin from living on Eden Prime and light grey eyes, in anyone else's view he looked quite normal, wearing his white jacket over his blue skin tight shirt and long cargo pants, he sat on the seat of his chair watching the final approach to the dock.
Kiara Yamato was his sister, though she was in the room behind, he really couldn't focus on why she had to be here, it wasn't as though she decided to follow him, she was younger by 2 years and she had still been in secondary school.
"Rey, are you listening?" A brown haired girl said.
"Miriallia, what is it?" He asked.
"I was asking you about what we were going to do aboard the Freedom, I mean you know the oldest ship since production and powerful, I'm still amazed you have a relative that is captain of the ship."
He was not as thrilled to be walking on the oldest ship, but he was interested in meeting his relative.
"Mei is the captain, but I don't know her that well, she was there when I was born but I never talked to her as much, but yeah the ship is hers."
Just then, Sai and Kun with Derek came down the aisle.
"Hey, did you guys hear?" Kun said excitedly.
"Hear about what?" Rey asked.
"There was an attack at the new relay, they said an entire fleet of ships took on just a few escort frigates, but they say there were hundreds, the reports are sketchy and all they can say an attack is imminent."
The news seemed bad.
"Wait so we could be at war soon?" Miriallia asked.
"If not right now, the UEG said to be sending support along with the other colonies, and the PLANTs are sending in the first to third fleet."
"So it's that bad?" Rey asked.
"Yeah, at least we should leave soon, once the Hyperion Corp loads all the gear on to the Freedom, we should be departing to Advent."
"That's good to hear."
"Well we should at least not drop our guard, the attack…"
'ALARM'
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"Captain, we have contacts along the L2-5, unknown contacts have changed course towards Shanxi." Helmsman Ito said.
"What, they're already here? Quickly, alert the transports to bring the ALPHA into bay, and get the shuttles out of harms reach."
"Aye, Ma'am." Ito said.
The whole dock came to life as everyone scrambled to their stations, the defences quickly turned to bear their weapons on the direction of the approaching fleet.
The shields above the cities on the planet flared to life, and the defenders began their standard formation above the planet.
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Admiral Hal Burton watched as the fleet dispersed to engage the unknown contacts at L2.
The flagship Montgomery was an Argus Class Battle Cruiser, 1.5km in length and with over 5Gottfried beam cannons and 60 CIWS Vulcan interceptors with 40-60missile pods, the Montgomery was the most well equipped ship in the fleet and one of the most powerful.
As the battle was about to commence the fleet began dispersing Neutron Jammers across the entire field, the turians began to lose communications and started to panic.
Though calm was returned as officers took charge of their ships and formed about with the rest of the fleet.
The sight was covered with hundreds of ships on both sides, though the colonial fleet found themselves outnumbered, the turian forces found themselves out gunned and outsized.
175 against only 85 were not even odds.
"Bring the fleet to bear at L2 and bring the Gottfried's to maximum charge; are the light wave barriers ready?"
"Yes sir all green across the board, CIWS active and targets marked."
"Good, bring us about and prepare to deploy MG units."
The entire fleet faced off with the turians, as each reached firing range, though the turians got first volley.
MA rounds split across space, and impacted with the colonial fleet.
The ships shuddered as they made contact, Hal Burton watched as the fleet absorbed the fire.
"Return fire." He ordered.
The turians had expected a lot less of a response as the beams from the fleet suddenly began melting their ships, as they had been struck by MA rounds the turians suffered a staggering blow.
In the first volley the turians suffered the loss of 65 ships and a number of fighters, with only the colonists losing a group of 15 to highly concentrated fire.
The fleet began to approach ship to ship, though with the numbers on the turians side they began to slip their fleet past.
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"Captain, four ships on approach to the docks, we are under orders to evacuate the dock." Ito said.
"Right then, we should depart now, helm bring us to…"
'BOOM' An entire section of the dock was struck by a MAC round, tearing apart the lower dock shrapnel scattered across the deck, exactly where Rey and the others were boarding.
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Rey watched the explosion destroy the lower dock, he and the others were nearly killed by the blast, and he moved a piece of dock that fell on him when he sheltered Kiara.
"Are you alright?" He asked as he shoved the metal off his back.
"Yeah I'm fine, but where are the others?" Kiara asked.
Looking about Rey remembered they had managed to enter the ship as the explosion occurred.
"Don't worry they made it on when the blast happened, Kiara get on board, I'll deal with things out here, just go." He said moving her into the hatch.
The door sealed before she could say anything.
Rey looked back at the wreckage of the dock; he noticed that a transport rig had stalled outside the ship, in plain words ALPHA was printed on the side.
He also saw the bodies of crewmen, who had been working, but he ignored them as much as possible, he was used to animals that were dead when hunted, and this seemed to be blocked out of his mind.
Looking at the rig he moved to it and pushed the open button on the container it was carrying, he had to move the rig for the ship to close the doors.
When the rig opened, he found something that would change his life.
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(Gundam/Astray and Murasame)
A large Mobile Gear was situated in the rig, it was grey and white, he remembered from his child hood about the mythical GUNDAM, but the very suit in front of him was real, it was the GATX-105 Strike but mixed with another suit.
He had used plenty of simulators during his time, including the one similar to the Strike Freedom.
Stepping inside the container he found a modular skin suit pod, releasing the contents, he stripped down to suit up, and sitting inside the modular unit in attached the necessary exoskeleton to his body.
The suit finally finished attaching, with a helmet attaching to his head, the HUD showed that the suit had a personal shield system, it also marked on the HUD the Gundam.
Stepping inside the suit, the nervous system attached to the neural network and activated the Mobile Gear, the HUD suddenly changed with, the colonial symbol appearing and GUNDAM OS activating.
The suit came to life, and detached from the rig.
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At this very point in time, the Captain watched as the enemy ships began approach.
"Damn, how long will it take the crews, before we're loose from the wreckage?"
"Another ten minutes Ma'am, and that's if we're lucky."
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Rey was unsure as how to use such an advanced suit, but he had the priority of getting everyone out alive and safe, moving closer to the wreckage of the first attack he began pushing against it, it wouldn't budge.
"Come on move." He said as he began to strain.
Another three seconds he began to pressure the suit to its limits, and the wreck finally moved clear.
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"Ma'am something's cleared the lower deck, wait receiving a signal, it's the Gundam."
"What who's piloting the unit?" She asked.
"Unknown, I can't reach the pilot, alert an enemy landing shuttle is on approach."
"Fine, signal the suit using direct laser and tell him to protect the ship."
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A beep came over his HUD and a message popped up.
/ALERT ENEMY ON APPROACH/
DEFEND THE FREEDOM AT ALL COSTS/ P1
/END/
He hadn't even been in the suit that long and he was already being told what to do.
But he had little time, searching the armoury inventory, he could only locate three weapons, M51 Beam Repeaters in the head, and the 2 Energy Katana' loaded on the sides, with two beam pistols.
He activated the defensive systems and the Phase Shift Armour (PSA), the suit hummed to life, the outside quickly coloured itself with Blue and White the eyes lit up green.
His reactions and speed increased with the suit, it was like walking normally, and then running.
Removing the pistols from the holster he took cover behind the wreckage that he moved just as the contacts landed.
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Back in the battle over Shanxi, a lone MG type zipped across open space, the smaller fighters chasing it couldn't hit it, but still fire was exchanged, the MGF-B1 'BLAZE' was part of the colonial forces, it possessed a head mounted beam interceptors and shoulder cannon, the suit was also integrated with a beam gun in the left arm, and a large sword striker in the right hand. (It's like the GOUF Ignited)
"This is Vincent anyone out there?"