Chapter 6-Witches VS's A-Law's
"Miyafuji, your request to have Michiko Yamakawa moved to your quarters was to be denied by the staff, but the reasons behind it caused them to allow it, as well as to transfer Gertrude Barkhorns young sister Christiane Barkhorn transferred here since she was released not too long ago, and Miyafuji, I am sorry for what happened, if we had known we would hav-.."
Minna never got to finish as Yoshika, with a very dark look on her face left the room and Minna stopped talking, Minna then turned around to face the desk behind her, and slammed her arms into the desk, and looked again at the already large amount of pictures of the destroyed village and was filled with anger at the ones who did it and also herself for not being able to do anything about it, and her anger went to rage as she saw the picture taken by the ELS in full color, showing the dark crimson Arche Gundam, her anger all the way to the breaking point.
In the hall was Barkhorn who was leaning on the wall outside as Yoshika passed by her, carrying a small necklace with a ruined ring at the end, the ring that was her mothers.
As Yoshika left, Barkhorn with an enormous level of rage that had built up in her, smashed her fist straight through a wall, completely destroying it, and panted hard at this, then grit her teeth in sadness and anger, feeling an amount of helplessness at the situation.
Perrine, was walking in the hall as well, heading for Sakamoto's room when she saw Yoshika walk with a look of sadness with a hint of anger, and she walked by Sakamoto's room when they heard Mio from inside say, "Miyafuji, could you come inside please."
If it were normal Perrine would be having a fit over it all, but she also saw what had happened as well as the death of Yoshika's remaining family, then saw that Yoshika was walking past, not paying any mind, but then Perrine blocked her way and said for her to go inside, something that took all her will to do, since she had a rather strong affection for Sakamoto, but that had been beaten down by what she had seen.
Yoshika then entered the room and found her captain sitting on her bed, a bandage wrapped around her hand, because she had followed Yoshika in Exia, and discovered the destroyed town and later Yoshika outside the destroyed clinic, and since she had taken her wooden sword with her she had squeezed in her grip with such force and anger that it broke, cutting her hand up, and next to Sakamoto's bed was the torn apart remains of a picture, which showed the Arche Gundam.
"Miyafuji, I will tell you this, you deserve revenge for what happened…..this thing took away your home, youre family, and almost your best friend…but don't Yoshika….you still have things that are worth much to you…don't throw them away, instead let me do it….I can do it because I am ready for it and I have already experienced the sensation of revenge in my life, so let me do it, let me be the one to kill Arche."
Yoshika stood there, then turned around and left the room, while in anger Mio threw her sword at her stack and soon broke down and started crying, feeling she could not do anything.
Shift
At dinner, Yoshika had somehow been able to cook along with Lynette, and even ion her mental state cooked food that was not her regular cooking and while not as health based, was still healthy, and she served it, but everyone could tell from the test that it was still good, but in only the good cook sort of way, as the emotion in it all had been sucked out of it.
Then the ELS hovered by and Marseille spoke up, "Hey ELS, you know who that was don't you"
"Yes, but I have no true data, only a picture and its name, no more, but ELS 3 has what you are looking for."
No sooner did ELS on finish saying what it said when second ELS appeared, and said that it was from the third ELS to arrive, and that it would tell them what it knows.
"The unit that attacked Yoshika's town is known as the Gundam Arche, a mobile that was based off the designs for the Gundam Throne Zwei, and is itself a custom-made mobile suit, built to be piloted by one of the most vicious mobile suit pilots that existed, and who was very close to the top of the list, Ali Al-Saachez."
"Who is this Saachez, though by the name I already don't like him," said Marseille.
"To put it off to a start, he is personally a self-admitted enthusiast of war, conflict, and above all violence: he is underhanded, ruthless, selfish and above all else, takes pleasure in the suffering of others. In the very fact of it, his one and only wish was to experience battles and went directly into fights for the sheer joy of it, in short he is a man who only lives to see the world burn around while he laughs in happiness and amusement at it all."
The ELS's words and description set the witches anger a bit high, even the gentle Sanya herself started getting a very dark and angered look on her face, the ELS 3 continued.
"I shall tell you some history about him, but only this part, so you shall be able to get a clear overview of this man, he used to serve as a freedom fighter in the Krugis Republic, if you call terrorism and holy war things of freedom, and created the KPSA, his own group and into this group, instead of placing adults or soldier age males, he instead he used young children, some even younger than ten years of age, and was consisted almost entirely of child soldiers, and he subjected them to the most brutal training and used brainwashing and religious manipulation to make the children fight, and he had them become everything from being front line troops on the battlefield fighting impossible odds and dying most of the time, to becoming suicide bombers, sending them with large amounts of explosives to blow themselves up in violent terror bombings across the globe. However there is one part of it all that makes me see him as a true monstrosity in human skin, and that was when he had the children prove their faith to god by doing the most awful thing that could be done….. do you wish to know what it was, though I know your rage is at its lim-."
"Tell. Us. Now." Said a right now very close to enraged Minna, and the ELS looked like it was getting itself prepared for what it was about to say and then it spoke.
"He had them prove their faith to god…. By having them murder their own families."
KRACK! The breaking of a plate was heard, and it was Barkhorn who in such burning hot rage sent her fork through the plate and the table as such a rage as she never experienced before took over, the other witches themselves had descended into a rage that several were shacking with it, and the ELS continued.
"He is a not a man, he was a true monster, an unchanging murderer, and deserves only the most violent of deaths. I shall tell you now, should any of you fail to kill him, he will run around like mad, killing and murdering for his own pleasure, and in my opinion, his death is the currently at the very top of my list of personal things to do, so if you don't kill him, I will."
With that everyone's appetite had pretty much vanished and they all marched of elsewhere.
Shift
Yoshika was in a fury as she practiced sword strikes on a pole outside, and then Mio and Minna saw her, then they saw as Yoshika swung both the swords at the metal pole, and instead of the swords breaking the power she put into the swing was so great that the pole broke in to from the strike and Yoshika was left on the ground panting hard, as Mio and Minna watched then saw Michiko and Lynette standing behind them with a very worried look on her face.
Shift
A large ELS was descending from space and would arrive with two new mobile suits and another item that holds the same if not greater importance than the other.
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It was night time and both Eila and Sanya were heading out, and this left Yoshika to ponder her thoughts in the hangar, and was watched by Shirley who was working on her Striker, who tried to say something but had nothing, then suddenly ELS 1 began to pulse.
"I have a long-range lock on several GNN signatures coming this way, there is one signature that stands out and according to scanners its GN signature matches only one unit, GUNDAM ARCHE."
At those words Yoshika ran straight into 00's cockpit and took off, Shirley only gritting her teeth and reporting to the others what had happened.
Shift
Eila and Sanya were on their patrol when they received word of the GNN's incoming as well as Yoshika in 00 joining them, and also that it appeared that Arche was with the group.
The two stood their ground and then Eila had a sudden headache, and it grew worse, and Sanya's long range communication abilities were being hampered by a sudden influx of GN particles and then saw the formation of GNN's coming at them, they looked like the ones they fought before except more advanced, and some had large lances while others had GN rifles and large GN thrusters on their backs.
The ELS told them the identity of the units
GNX-609T GN-XIII and GNX-704T Ahead's.
According to the ELS, they were high performance mobile suits that had three times the mobility of the GN-XI, and were very swift and quick, and had GN lances that had four GN beam guns within for good firepower, allowing the lances to be both ranged and melee weapons.
The Aheads were armed with GN rifles and had Pistols and sabers, as well as an overwhelming edge, then they fired.
The GNN's with lances fired beams in bursts as the GN beam launchers fired at them in volleys, and the Aheads attacked with their rifles, nearly hitting Sanya, who had recently gotten a newly created GN rocket launcher which was created using data from the ELS and the gundams, creating missiles and using a crude Karsland made and pre-fueled GN condenser, replacing her "Fliegerhammer." She fired the GN rockets at the GNN that attacked using its lance and the rockets hit, and this time the injected particles hit the core and the GNN was destroyed.
This in turn caused them to consider Sanya the threat, and fired at her, their beams being a more red-orange color, and their particles also being that color, and fired at her, almost hitting her, then Eila pushed her out of the way of the way of the enemy attack but got burned on her arm and torso from the near misses. Then as if it was to be, they were surrounded and it looked like curtains for them as three of the fifteen unit GNN squadron surrounded them and charged their attacks, but then three cutting beams appeared and blasted through them, destroying them all.
Sanya turned and along with Eila, saw the 00 coming in and it fired at an ahead, which maneuvered as fast as it could, but was ultimately shot down, then came three of the lance wielding GNN's and soon only eight units remained, with four ahead types and four lance types.
Then, Sanya felt an intense feeling of fear in her body, and then she saw that the 00 was not looking at the GNN squadron, and she followed her gaze until it settled on something that caused feelings of rage and fear to fill her.
Hovering nearby was a very thin looking gundam-type unit, with large panes around the legs and holding a very large sword, and its armor was an incredibly dark crimson color, dark to the point it looked like it was painted with blood, and dark red particles only served to make it more intimidating.
They suddenly saw 00 charge and clash with the unit, then it activated beam sabers at the end of its feet and tried to slash Yoshika, but she moved 00 even faster, getting behind the enemy, which did a backslash, but too late and then it was kicked before 00 went into TRANS-AM mode, going after it as it tried to get away.
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Michiko felt helpless as the events unfolded, she wanted to help her friend Yoshika, she wanted to help bring back the Yoshika she knew, or at least to see her safe.
"Michiko, go outside, what will arrive at the center of the base will be a device that will unlock the 00's true strength, and it is you and only you who can use it, now hurry, before it becomes to late."
Michiko realized what the voice must be and went outside as dark clouds rolled in and looked at the horizon, which she thought was as black as the darkness that had gotten into Yoshika's heart, but she would help stop the darkness, and she would save her friend.
Then from the sky, a very advanced type of fighter came, which appeared to be carrying a large arsenal of weapons, and it stopped in front of her and she was absorbed from the bottom, where it had the similar green glass-like armor as the other gundams where the witches entered their gundams, except it was a diamond- shape design that was above and below the cockpit, and Michiko went through the thread-form, which left her both uncomfortable and aroused, but she focused and said the units name.
"Michiko Yamakawa, unit is GNR-010/XN XN Raiser, heading off to the battlefield."
With that it took off to the battle zone.
Shift
Yoshika was in one hell of a fight against the Arche, and was being assailed from multiple angles by its much faster and more powerful GN fangs, which were attacking from all sides, leaving her little maneuvering room, and she immediately activated TRANS-AM again and sliced through four of the fangs, but Arche had ten and vectored the other six in, but Yoshika was faster and closed the gap, knocking a beam saber away and out of its hand, but she had pushed 00 over its set TRANS-AM time limit and then the GN Drives overloaded and shut down, and then Yoshika began to fall as 00 fell, being followed by Arche.
Sanya and Eila looked in horror as Arche was about to deliver the final blow on 00, but then a swarm of GN missiles came in, one hitting the left side panel as well as the two GN fangs that had been recharging in it.
00, finally able to fly when the drives finished their self repair, turned and saw Raiser, and then a screen appeared and she saw that Michiko was the pilot of Raiser.
"Michiko what are you doing here," said a slightly mad but mostly worried Yoshika.
"I came to help you Yoshika, and also an ELS said that 00 needed this thing for something," her friend replied.
Then the ELS voice came through the system, "Correct, Raiser is not only an armed GN craft, but is also the key to unlocking the 00's full power, which is done by docking Raiser with the 00, as it allows for the full stabilization of the GN Drives, without Raiser, the GN Drives would release more energy than they can take and de damaged or worst, so hurry and unlock the full potential of 00."
Then in Michiko's cockpit, a system activated and she found it was also a Haro system in it and then the Haro system says:
0 raiser docking mode, 0 raiser docking mode
The Raiser and 00 soon activate their docking systems, and then the Raiser docked behind the 00 and its wings came together with the 00's, connecters connected the Raiser to the Drives and soon the 00 Raiser was ready, and Yoshika attacked Arche, this time she was starting to overwhelm it as Michiko insured a perfect power distribution throughout the system.
Eila and Sanya were awed by this until they realized that they were surrounded by five GNN's, but then an GN energy blast came from space, taking out four of the five, Sanya killing the last one with her GN launcher, and they looked to see a large-ELS that was in the shape and function a Virgina-class MS Carrier, then the large doors on its front came open, revealing two gundam units, though one was smaller than the other and Sanya chose the larger one, Sanya the smaller, and boarded the units, went through the procedures, before saying the unit names:
"Eila Juutilainen, unit is GN-007GNHW/M Arios Gundam."
"Sanya Litvyak, unit is GNR-101A GN Archer."
They both took off, Eila using the GN Rifle on Arios to take out to two GNN's, then noticed the rest getting very far off, and then they chased but wouldn't make it in time, then a system came on in both units.
"Fighter Mode, what is this?" Both of them thought.
They activated the system and then realized their Gundams were changing and then they realized that the Gundam's had become fighter craft, and then it activated a combination system and both Arios and Archer, came together, Archer on top of Arios, then the combined thrust pushed them both forward.
"I guess this is a pretty good mobile suit," said Eila.
"How so," wondered Sanya as she spoke through the communication system?
"It allows us to really work together," said Eila.
"Oh, I see," said Sanya.
They soon caught up and launched their GN missiles, destroying many of the ELS, then they split the unison as the remaining fired, and then turned into their MS forms and unloaded their weapons on the enemies, and then they realized that the ELS was speaking.
"It appears that Sanya is lucky, the Archer originally didn't have a GN drive, but looks like you got a unit equipped with it, unlike Raiser, which only has a GN condenser to power it, and I believe you should get your friend before she does something rash."
Sanya and Eila noticed Yoshika was getting farther away as she chased Arche and they turned to get her.
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Yoshika was really making her anger known, she kicked Arche many times and then cut off its leg when it tried to get her with its foot mounted beam saber, but 00 cut it off at the knee, then Arche summoned all of its GN bits and tried to blast Yoshika, but Yoshika entered TRANS-AM and fired a blast from the wing units, destroying all of the Fangs, leaving Arche wide open, then 00 charged and then sliced of the hand carrying Arche's GN sword, and then Yoshika's thought pulsed with the raw fury of her vengeance.
"It's your entire fault"
00 sliced of the rest of the arm,
"You took them from me"
00 sliced off the other leg,
"You killed my family; you killed the people in my village"
00 sliced of the other hand,
"And you tried to kill one of closest friends"
00 sliced the entire arm off,
"If you want my forgiveness, if you want anyone's forgiveness"
00 lifted the blade above its head, charged full of GN particles and then as it brought it down to kill Arche, Yoshikas final thought came,
"THEN DIE!"
"Is it worth it," came a voice.
The sword stopped inches of cutting apart Arche and Yoshika realized what the voice was,
"Mo….. Mother"
"Yoshika, don't do this, don't destroy what little good you have, please"
"But he's the one who took you and grandma from me, and who destroyed my village, and even tried to kill Micchi,"
"That is true, but this is not the way to do it, you can kill him, but would it truly change anything, it would only satisfy your anger, but otherwise it wouldn't change what happened"
"Mother… Mothe…."
Yoshika's crying was soon heard through the radio and then she asked,
"Mother, what do I do, I don't know what to do anymore, I lost the people who were important to me, I feel so alone and helpless, I don't know what to do anymore,"
"Yoshika, you know that is not true, you are not alone, you have friends and many people who care about you, and you are most certainly not helpless, you are a very strong and very capable person who can and will become someone important, I know this because both me and your grandmother raised you that way, okay"
Yoshika smiled at this, and then put the blade back as she heard this, and soon Sanya and Eila had joined her.
"Yoshika, are you all right," said a very worried Sanya.
"Yoshika, are doing okay, say something," came the voice of a just as worried Eila.
"Wes, I fine, and thank you, Eila, Sanya, thank you," said a now more peaceful Yoshika.
Suddenly, part of the Arche shifted, then the back of the unit came loose, then it turned into a small fighter like escape pod, then it blasted away at top speed, dumping the body and causing it to fall into the ocean.
"Bastard," yelled Eila as she prepared to shoot the GNN with the enhanced GN beam rifle, but was stopped from shooting when a large metal hand grabbed the end of the rifle and Eila turned to gaze at Exia.
"Soon Eila, we'll deal with him soon," came the voice of Mio Sakamoto, "and Yoshika, good job."
"Thank you, Mio," said Yoshika to Sakamoto as they returned to base.
Shift
Yoshika was in her room, thinking about what had been said, and knowing how wrong she was in her plans for revenge, not wanting it to cost her all of her friends.
"Yoshika," came a soft and familiar voice.
Yoshika turned and saw Lynette standing at the door, in her night clothes, then turned her head as the top was unbuttoned, showing Lynette's 'assets', which brought only dirty thoughts to Yoshika's mind, then Lynette spoke.
"Yoshika are you doing okay, it's just that, you were so angry and distant recently, and wanted revenge against Arche, but you didn't kill him and now you're calm again," shae stopped talking then started again, "we heard you through the radio, how it appeared you were speaking to your mother, and I guess she was the one who calmed you down."
Yoshika thought and then spoke, "Yeah, she told me what I was about to do, that I would get my revenge, and that I would finally satisfy all my anger with it, but it would also take away the good I have left, and that I would lose sight of what is important to me."
"Which is," asked Lynette.
"Mio, Minna, Eila, Sanya, Perrine, Barkhorn, Shirley, Luchinni, and Micchi," said Yoshika, "but especially you Lynette."
To this, Lynette got a slight blush on her face and asked, "W-w-wh-why would you say that Yoshika."
"You were the first one who became my friend when I first became a Strike witch; you helped me when we needed to cook for everyone, and were the kindest person I know and also, I uh, think you look very pretty and…" Yoshika's voice trailed off.
Then Yoshika turned and then to her surprise Lynette was blushing more red than before then said, "well I want to be kind to everyone, and I was a bit mean to you at first, but then I got to know you better, and I was able to become friends with you, and I guess we do tend to be together, and have shared a bed a few times, and…." Lynette soon trailed off, then she realized that Yoshika was holding her hand.
"Lynette, I care about you, almost as much as Micchi, but she's my childhood friend, you…. Well you mean a bit more than that."
Then Yoshika, gathering her courage finally said what she never thought she would ever say, ever.
"I…..LOVE….Y-YOU."
Yoshika then held her mouth and looked at Lynette….
… who was blushing red like a beet.
Yoshika continued, "I really like you Lynette, ever since we became closer, I saw as more than a friend and I really liked you and well, thought of you in more….um…. perverted ways, and I really like you, way more than a friend, and I am not lying about that," finished Yoshika.
Lynette, still very much in shock from Yoshikas confession tries to find what to say, she wonders about her feelings, Yoshika's sincerity of her feelings, and then…
…. she chooses her words.
"Yoshika, I…" Lynette started to say.
"It's okay," said Yoshika, " I was just being selfish and not thinking of your feelings first, I guess I should have kept us as friends, but something inside me wanted me to tell you what I felt, that I really and truly loved you, but I was not considering your feelings so I gue-."
Yoshika was cut off when Lynette suddenly gave her a hug, and realized the Lynette felt very warm and had a very nice smell about her, and then she was gently rubbing her head which felt very nice.
"Yoshika," said Lynette, " I also liked you, as more than a friend, and I also wanted to be with you, and be close to you, and I truly do care about you…. Yoshika, I also love you."
Yoshika felt something coming from deep inside her, an incredibly powerful emotion, and felt an urge from deep within as well, and when she looked at Lynette, that emotion overwhelmed all else and then…..
… they kissed.
It was only slightly surprising and then both soon pulled each other into a tight hug and kissed one another, and then they both went into the bed and, well let's just say that….
…. by the end of 15 minutes most of their clothes, minus their panties were on the floor, and both had embraced each other so closely and doing certain things to one another, both unaware that outside the window, in the Raiser, a certain childhood friend had not only seen but heard everything using Raisers sensors.
But instead of sadness and anger, she was happy, and she thought, "Thank you, Lynette," herself happy that Yoshika had found her most important person, one who can be the light Yoshika truly needed.
While she was a bit upset about not being that light for Yoshika, she cared more about her friends happiness than anything else, and was truly happy that her friends happiness had been saved.
With that, she landed in the hangar and soon she turned in for the night, happy knowing that her best friend and those she had become close with, were also happy.
Shift
Out in space, the Arche pod docked with the large Nueroi ship that had taken the form and function of a Baikal-class Battlecruiser, and it entered the hangar bay from the bottom ramps, then a crystal structure above reformed the Arches main body, and soon Arche was repaired good as new.
"Arche, so you failed to terminate the Gundams, no matter, our true forces will be ready soon, but not only will the Gundams be their enemy, it appears that a dissident group of this species has broken off from the mainstream and took the more advanced designs. You Arche, and the new attack group are to find them, and end them," said the voice that sounded in one part like a darker, more malevolent version of the ELS, and the other part was the voice of a dark, intelligent, manipulative and cunning person, one with a plan and one who appeared to be holding all the cards.
He had a plan, and was not about to let anyone stop it, as he oversaw a structure on a long half ring supported be two capital Nueroi, and knew that soon, it's finishing would spell doom for all the people on the surface.
The only hope for the world rested in the hands of the GN witches and their Gundams.
