A Kiss With A Fist
:Trapping an Angel:
"Setsuna, you take the left flank and I'll gather the rest from the right." Lockon ordered after reciting the mission's plan from the screen, orders given directly from Veda.
"No."
"What?" Lockon said.
"Leave the full center to me and gather the rest of the strays in the far corner southwest from here."
"But Setsuna!" Lockon was baffled. "That's going against the plan!"
"The plan is to disband. How we do it is up to us initially."
"Not according to Veda. If we stray—''
"Veda is following the belief that Al-Saachez's camp is spread and equally distributed. But in reality it's not as simple to divide it in half. Let me attack from the forefront and you'll round up all who retreat. No one will escape, at least not with a gun in their hands." Lockon did acknowledge that he had a point. The camp's formation was well off Veda's predictions.
"But the whole main center to yourself?" He was still doubtful of Setsuna's plan. Many probabilities were amiss in the young boy's expectations yet he couldn't start numbering them off the top of his head in the heat of the moment.
"I can handle it! Go!" Setsuna already broke ahead leaving Lockon with no choice but to bear to the left and follow through Setsuna's plan.
"Well if this doesn't work, I'll make you pay for cleaning up your mess…again." Lockon scoffed.
"You're off course! You're off course!" Haro chirped.
"Yah, I know Haro! But that kid has a mind of his own. I don't know what's gotten into him of late!"
"Haro worried! Haro worried!" The orange orb blinked. Lockon smiled for the machine's comfort.
"Don't worry, we both got this. What's a few scavengers gonna do?"
Setsuna was relieved and surprised that Lockon actually trusted him to lead the operation away from Veda's plan. Lockon trust me. This situation is bigger than Celestial Being. It's about me and my past. As a true Miester, I must relinquish one in order to become another. I must face and get rid of my past for the sake of my future.
"Boss! The blue one is coming right at our main camp!"
"Well grab whatever you can and shoot at it!"
"What about the other one?"
"What other one?" Ali hissed as he began assembling his gun.
"The one coming right at us!" Ali Al-Saachez looked up into the sky, and a Gundam was staring back down.
Several yards away Setsuna was doing quite a number on the few mobiles that decided to come and attack him.
Mobiles too! Damn this group has everything! But they're not the one's I want. Where is he? He can't be far from his main camp. If I remember correctly he would be in the heart of the fight. Dammit! Ali, where are you?
"Fuck! This is a waste!" Setsuna cursed.
The mobiles that were dead gave the others reason enough to retreat. They were about to speed off into the air until they were shot down a few miles away.
"Not gonna let you guys run away that easily from us." Lockon grinned, still surprising himself on how good of a marksman he remains to be.
"Nice shot! Nice shot!" Haro tweeted.
"Thanks Haro. It seems this job was as easy as Allelujah said. I'll be home way before dinner at this rate." Lockon grinned as he looked around.
For he was right. Much of Ali's encampment was destroyed, his mobiles now gone, and his men—if not dead—scattered and running into all directions of the jungle. Whatever was left of this rouge bunch of mercenaries is now over. The only thing that troubles Lockon was why Sumeragi appointed two Gundams when it was clear only one was needed to clear out this rat's nest.
Meanwhile Setsuna was seeing the same scene as Lockon but disappointed it was over, for he still has yet to see the main goal of his plan.
"Setsuna," Lockon transmitted.
"What." Setsuna answered with a gloomy tone.
"There's nothing left for either of us to destroy. They're done."
"But what about—''
"Setsuna." Lockon interrupted. Setsuna said no more. It was Lockon's turn to lead. "We're done here. Prepare to withdraw back to base. This mission is complete, target has been destroyed." Setsuna sighed. He wanted to ask Lockon if he killed or even saw Ali, but than it would mean in explaining why he changed Veda's plan and why he exposed himself in Moralia.
"Roger." He said and gave up in his hunt for Ali. To escape the bitter disappointment faster, he pulled Exia out of the jungle before Lockon. He didn't bother to wait for his comrade for he wanted to leave the memory of such a loss as quickly as possible.
Lockon watched as Setsuna darted from the scene and into the sky till be became another star in the daylight.
"Hmm. Damn that was fast. He didn't even wait up."
"How rude! How rude!" Haro flapped.
"Now, now. He's probably pms-ing. You know, boys as that age." Lockon chuckled and he began his ascent. "What the hell am I talking about, I'm still a boy." As Lockon pulled the levers for lift off, a violent jolt brought him back down to the ground.
"What the hell!"
"We're tied! We're tied!"
"How the hell?" Lockon check his screen mirrors.
Around the legs of the Gundam, carbon cable wires held the machine down to the ground and the longer he stayed on ground the more cables were launches to keep him pinned to the ground.
"Dammit! I can't lift off with these things holding me down!" Lockon cursed. "Guess I'll have to break them first. Hope normal walking will do the trick."
Meanwhile Ali's men rushed with lit dynamite and stuffed them in the crevices of the Gundam.
"Hurry up guys! Keep them coming! Stuff them in the joints of his legs so he won't be able to go anywhere." Ali ordered, making his men rush even faster than before. "He can't break the cables."
"Boss look!" Ali turned to find the Gundam struggling to break free as it tried to make just one step until it stopped abruptly with the interruption of dynamite.
"What was that?" Lockon's efforts to walk stopped. The Gundam couldn't move.
"Explosives! Explosives!" Haro warned.
"Dynamite? That stuff is still around?" Lockon zoomed in and found stray members of Ali's gang leaving behind piles of dynamite in the crevices of the Gundam's joints. "That'll damage my legs!" Lockon struggled to maintain his balance under the wave of hits his Gundam took. It seemed it was non-stop. At this rate his legs will fall off completely from the damage of the blast.
"I gotta make just one step! One step will break the cables!" Lockon reached for the levers.
"Boss! The Gundam!" Ali watched, anticipating the Gundam's movements.
"Yes. Just step. Right. There."
Lockon was relieved as he heard the snapping of the cables. "I think we got it Haro!" BOOM!
Lockon stepped right on the crates of dynamite. The explosion was large enough to throw the Gundam back off its feet. Ali watched in delight as the Gundam fell.
"Tiimmmbbberrr!" Ali yelled as the Gundam crashed down. A wave of cheer followed after the dust settled. "Hurry the hell up and pin that thing to the ground. You guys! Ply open that pit up now and yank the pilot out before he makes it get back up! Now!"
Lockon's eyes refocused again with Haro's shrilling voice begging him to wake up.
"What the hell was that?"
"They're opening us up! They're opening us up!" Haro shrilled.
"What?" Lockon was soon met with the scream of a cutter and saw the point of the machine slicing through the steel. "NO!" Lockon screamed. He rushed turning on whatever he can but the Gundam was only about to reboot by the time the hatch was fully taken off.
"Going to fly off somewhere?" The mercenaries teased as Lockon threw his hands up to shield his eyes from the blinding light.
"No! Get off!" Lockon was yanked out of the Gundam while Haro flew off its resting place.
"Lockon! Lockon!" A mercenary grabbed the flapping orb and threw it in a bag. Lockon struggled free yet they pushed him from the heights of the Gundam to the dirt. Haro could hear Lockon's impact after his fall and the pain in his voice. The little orb flapped even more than before. "Lockon! Lockon!"
"Shut that thing up! It'll send a trace for where the rest of Celestial whatever's can find us if we don't." Lockon struggled to get up. He saw a pair of feet that made the order to shut Haro up. Lockon heard the crunch of machinery and cringed at the thought that it was the sound of Haro's end. Lockon tightened his fists and slowly looked up at the bastard who did this.
All he saw was the coming end of a foot about to crash down and knock him out.
"Gear up boys, we caught ourselves a little Angel." Ali grinned as the rest screamed in their victory.
COMMENT PLEASE!
Lockon is kidnapped! Haro is crushed and Setsuna is far from helping them. What will Lockon do now that his only chance of saving him, the Gundam and Celestial Being rests in the hands of one demented leader? PLEASE JUST COMMENT!
