Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Char's Counterattack
In UC 0083, three Mobile Suits were created: RX-78GP01fb Gundam Zephyranthes Full Vernian, (screw everyone: if the official dub says Vernian, so do I!) RX-78GP02A Gundam Physalis and RX-78GP03S Dendrobium Stamen Gundam. After Operation Stardust, the GDP was shut down and all data erased. However, the Mobile Suits still exist.
(1) E.F.S.F
(2) Red vs. Blue
(3) Assault Waves
(4) Mobile Suit
(5) Delaz Fleet
Opening theme: The Winner (From Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory)
Area near MSC-07 Albion
(3) GN-001M Gundam Exia was an upgraded version of the GN-001R Exia Repair, using a Minovsky reactor and a GN drive.
In short?
If the Grim Reaper had an MS, it would be the Minovsky Exia.
"TOO FAST!"
If Setsuna wasn't shitting his pants before, (Inertial dampening or not, you would feel the exhilaration) he was now!
GNXIIIs, Aheads, Hizacks and GM IIs were being cut down faster then Saberfish fighters in the One Year War by Zaku IIs.
GN-002M Dynames and GN-005M Virtue were ripping the ones Setsuna didn't get (which was a lot, due to his inexperience with anything as fast as the Minovsky Exia) to pieces.
"Hey, jackasses! Leave some of them intact! I want those GN Tau drives!"
"We're trying!"
"Set the damn weapons to level 1!"
"On it!"
(4) GN-003M Kyrios, built from spare parts and fit with a Minovsky reactor, was doing what it did best: scare the living fuck out of the enemy.
Marie was in a Jegan, hanging onto the Kyrios.
"Don't even think of hurting Allelujah!"
Both Gundam Mk IIs impaled a trio of Aheads' cockpits, and Ron's unit was rushed by what looked to be another Gundam Mk II.
"We're on even ground now, Gundam!"
"You again? Will you fuck off?"
"Never!"
The Solomon Sea was a battlefield once again.
And there was nothing they could do to stop it.
Nothing.
CBS Celestial Being
(1) Ribbons was pissed off. Again, not easy to do.
"Boss?"
"These humans are pissing me off, Saachez."
"I'll get in Arche and kill them for you."
"No. I will need to deal with these humans myself."
He looked at Ali-Al Saachez.
"But I think you're itching for a fight anyway."
"I'll get Arche. You?"
"Reborns."
Area near MSC-07 Albion
"D'oh!" Graham had kicked Ron's Mk II into an asteroid.
"Ow. Fuck, it's like I landed on a-"
He looked behind him and saw two Mobile Suits.
"Oh. That explains everything."
Then he remembered something.
Or rather, Gato did.
"Oh, fucking A."
They were RX-78GP01fb Gundam Zephyranthes Full Vernian and RX-78GP02A Gundam Physalis.
Still intact, too.
And by the look of things, an old Magellan-Class battleship's nuclear stores were scattered all to hell on the asteroid.
"Fucking A!"
GN-001M Gundam Exia
(1) Speedy and powerful as it was, Setsuna could barely handle the damned thing.
He was used to 00 Raiser, which was a bit slower.
The Minovsky reactor was from a damaged Jegan (the MS was trashed, but the reactor was just fine) and was pumping M-particles into the weapons and propulsion systems. As CB's original GN drives were less powerful but didn't need to be refueled every few years, there wasn't a point to make sure that the 3rd Generation Gundams could handle the upgrades that the GN drives got.
However, with a suped-up GN drive and a Minovsky reactor, Exia was barely holding together.
"Attention assholes!"
Three Gundams approached from starboard.
"This is Commander Ronald Pinkerton of the Earth Federation SpecOps Force ECOAS."
ECOAS stood for Earth Colony Asteroid, but was in fact the remains of the SpecOps part of the Titans. And if Ron served in the Titans, A-LAWS were screwed.
"I have a very, very big bazooka pointed at your fleet at the moment. Stand down, or I'll fire!"
"This is Kati Mannequin, commander of the A-LAWS force you are currently threatening. Why the hell should I surrender to you when we're winning?"
"You are an idiot, then. Londo Bell forces, what does RX-78GP02A mean?"
(5)"OH, FUCK!"
Issac was a mess, Kendra and Hammond stopped fighting, and the Albion stopped firing.
"A detailed explanation to our friends?"
"That fucker can't have another warhead! It only had one!"
"I reloaded it. Nuclear weapons are so easy to find around here.."
The A-LAWS forces stopped fighting.
"You have a nuke?"
"Didn't see that coming, did we? Think fast, because there is no way you can take out me while taking out the Albion. It's one option or another: die in nuclear hellfire, die at the hands of Minovsky beam rounds, or surrender. I. Don't. Care."
He did have a point.
Numbers or not, nukes made losers into winners.
"Fuck it. We surrender. Getting hit by a nuke isn't fun."
"Very good. All A-LAWS MSs, dock with the Albion. You are now Prisoners of War. Same with the warships!"
Setsuna looked at GP02A with dislike.
Nearby
"A-LAWS got beat by some asshole with a nuke, boss."
"In the end, these fools are dead. Shall we?"
MSC-07 Albion and area beyond
(2) "Captain, two heat sources!"
"Neo-Zeon?"
"No, sir! Their speed indicates that they're GNT drive-powered MSs! The lead unit's three times faster then the Gundam Full Vernian!"
Ron's image appeared on screen.
"The next time someone says three, my boot's going to report up their ass!"
"Well, a temperamental man."
A green haired man appeared beside Ron.
"Who the hell are you?"
"Ribbons Almark, leader of the Earth Sphere Federation and the Innovators. Your better."
"We'll see about that. RX-178PT Gundam Mk II, engaging!"
"CB-0000G/C/T Reborns Origin, engaging." Ribbons disappeared.
"Send out the G-Defenser. Ron'll need it."
The new FX-501GDA G-Defenser Mk II was launched and quickly docked with the Mk II.
The model number was different because the performance was boosted by a factor of four, and this thing could use experimental Fin Funnels.
"Hey, asshole! Ready to get fucked?"
Two GN beam rounds missed the Super Gundam Mk II's left wing binder.
"I'll take that as a no. Funnels!"
The Fin Funnels took off, and the Super Gundam entered Waverider mode.
It wasn't like the Zeta, as all the Mk II did was stand upright inside the G-Defenser and turn the G-Defenser back into a fighter. (AN: Think the G-Fighter from the original series)
"Jegan Team, take care of the red one. Reborns is mine."
The CB Gundams formed up with the Super Gundam.
"Ok, support always helps."
The Reborns Gundam Origin was a transforming MS, capable of turning into a Gundam, Guncannon or Guntank. (AN: No other way of putting it)
Against the Super Gundam Mk II, it was an easy foe.
The Super Gundam transformed back into MS mode and locked it's starboard mega particle cannon on the Reborns as it transformed from Guntank to Guncannon mode.
"Gundam Team, engage!"
The Super Gundam fired its' mega particle cannon, nearly hitting the Reborns.
It did, however, fry most of its' long range weapons systems.
"Fangs!"
The GNW-20000 Arche Gundam launched its' equivalent of Funnels to destroy the Jegans, but they were ready thanks to dealing with Jagd-Dogas and their pain-in-the-ass Funnels.
An oversized Gundam ripoff was nothing.
Issac was on anti-Funnel duty (taking out 50 Funnels on his own on one sortie) so the 8 GN Fangs were nothing.
Reborns changed into Gundam mode, shocking the Meisters, but Ron had fought against captured RX-79Gs in southeast Asia during the First Neo-Zeon War, so he just jumped into the fray.
He holstered the MPCs and pulled out the traditional beam rifle.
"Your Gundams are more fragile then ours. Still, carbon's not the best element to make Mobile Suits out of!"
He fired four beam rounds at both arms, hitting unprotected circuits.
Reborns was useless.
"Goodbye, fucktard!"
He used the left beam saber to impale the cockpit. Ribbons was dead. (AN: We all know better)
"Recover Reborns Gundam ASAP!"
MSC-07 Albion: brig
Saji walked into Louise's cell. She didn't respond.
"Louise?"
She stared into space.
"It's me, Saji." "Celestial Being bastard."
"I worked at Proud, Louise. I didn't even know Setsuna was a Gundam pilot until he started fighting A-LAWS there."
Louise knew Saji too well.
He never lied.
"Sorry, but..my parents-"
"Celestial Being didn't kill them. The ones that did were the Thrones."
"Thrones?"
"They let me read up on the attack in Spain. Celestial Being wasn't involved, and those guys weren't with Celestial Being proper."
"I think I saw something. Your sister and a man called...Saachez?"
"What?"
"A Middle Eastern man named Ali Al-Saachez. Oh, God. He murdered your sister."
Someone knocked on the door.
It was Setsuna.
"Come in."
He entered.
"Do you know a man named Ali Al-Saachez?"
"He's the bastard that trained me in the KPSA and made me murder my parents." "You were a child soldier?"
"It's...a long story."
"He murdered my sister, and Lockon said he was responsible for killing his family, too."
"Crimes that both he and I will have to pay for in the end. He escaped, but the Londo Bell Mobile Suit pilots destroyed his Fangs. He's helpless against them."
Then Ron walked in.
"Good news! Our friends in the hanger have rebuilt your Gundams! Care to give them a try?"
"Roger."
SCBB-01A King George V
Schneizel el Britannia watched as he saw new MSs being put together.
His younger cousin, Clovis la Britannia, was busy being a martinet, micromanaging all the departments on board.
He always did that when he wasn't sure of anything.
"Clovis, stop worrying."
"We've had those back-up units in storage for almost two years! I'm not sure they even work!"
The RX-192 Guren Gundam was finished, and the four RX-165 Gekkas were almost done.
Todo was helping with the RX-165A Zangetsu, an improved Gekka, and Cornelia's RGZ-91 Gloucester was just completed.
"Captain, message from SNRI. 'GNT drive manufacturing tooling up. Upgrades for RX-178 Units 4 and 5 and MSN-00100J expected within 2 days'."
"That fast? SNRI doesn't screw around."
"They aren't Anaheim, sir. They just make weapons for the military, not everyone."
"True. How will we make actual GN drives, though?"
"Helium 3, sir. Inject it into the drive, and you've got a drive that won't ever need refueling. Too bad we have to worry about helium 3 supply, though."
"Don't worry about that, Clovis. We can make helium 3 one day."
One of my reviewers was wondering why Code Geass characters were in the Universal Century.
Well, with most of the UC's aces dead, elsewhere, insane, and not even born yet, I had to pull out something. So, I pulled them out.
Still, almost every non-UC MS is going to get fucked by a UC MS: the CE MSs may or may not be an exception to the rule. I have yet to test that.
And no, THAB doesn't count: the Morgan A is a CE/AD MS. Hybrids always beat normal MSs.
Next Time, on Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Char's Counterattack: Two months into Celestial Being's exile in the Universal Century, Char Aznable declares war on the Earth Federation, with help from a new ally: Ribbons Almark. And more A-LAWS vessels are supporting them. How are they crossing over from the Anno Domini timeline? Will our heroes get home to destroy the horrible weapon known as Memento Mori in time?
Ja Ne!
