Chapter 10: The Excavation and The Return of the Emperor (Part 1).
Last time.
"That is something That we both cannot wait for." Athrun Inquired As he mimicked Cagalli.
Normal POV
4 Hours Later (2:35 Pm)
Everyone Was Getting ready to try to Excavate the Battle ship . Every one of the crew from both ship's are helping dig this thing out . Nora however is helping out as the SR MkII had The power lifter That was similar to the Junk Guild's power lifter , and with the massive claws/Bucket's She is making very good process with helping out . But The other pilot's where on watch as there suit's are around the excavation site . Keeping an eye just in case the Cultists try to attack here.
'When will we reach that ship.' Nora Though as She is in the deepest part of the pit and already making possess . The deepest point is already 50 meters deep , and with Nora already had expanded it and made it another 40 meters deep , But now she was hitting part snow/ice now so she was thinking that she is getting close .
"Any Process ?" Kira asked through the Comm.
"I think so ... it's part snow and part ice ... So i think that w... What the hell ." Nora replied but was cut short as the Power lifter had dug another 5 meters but when it was about to what aperes to be another snow block when She only hit ice causing the blades to blunt faster .
" I just hit ice ... only ice." Nora reported bluntly.
"Be careful . just in case that there is water underneath you " Kira warned .
"Dont worry." Nora said as she is now heating the shovels so it would go through the ice more quickly.
1 hour later (3:37 Pm)
"Uhh Guy's?" Nora kina asked through as she had dug another 20 meters but right now The ice underneath The SW MkII Power lifter is starting to crack .
"What?" Kira then asked .
"I think I reached ... AAaaa." Nora started but then screamed as she fell though the ice and impressingly there was no water underneath her but instead a very large cave that that probilly leads to the Astrid itself . However she is still falling until she gained control on the last second and instead of smashing into a bunch of large stalagmites ; She barely managed to hit Flat ground but not perfectly as the Power Lifter Legs Hydraulics could not take the pressure and so a massive crack formed on both legs ... making the whole power lifter from the waste under ... Useless
"Nora!!" Heine Said , very shocked As the GOUF had went through the hole to check on the SR MkII , Thankfully He can breath as he saw that the MkII just Got out of the damaged Power lifter Pack and Started to get up
"Dont worry Heine ... I am just shaken . Not stirred."Nora replied as her SR MkII just got up .
"... Where are we ? I don't see the Astrid anywhere." Heine Stated .
"Uhh it's a underground tunnel , The Astrid it's most likely to be at the end." Nora Re-Sated .
"Ill Get back to the surface and get Nicol . Both Nicol and your suit's have Nuclear generator's and the Strike Freedom Needs to guard just in case Those cultists attack again." Heine Explained as he Bossed up and out of there leaving Nora there as She Ejected The Crippled power lifer . However it may still be used if salvaged.
3 minuit's later(3:41 Am)
Nora was simply just waiting up until The DeathScythe came through the hole holding The Flight Pack in it's arm's.
"Id think that you may need this, so that we wont have to cut through the stalagmites. " Nicol said through the comm as he helped The SR MkII Attach the Flight pack and now they can Explore the cave without wasting time.
40 minutes later.(4:27 Am)
Both Nora and Nicol are Talking to pass the time and thankfully The other's where not on the channel .
"So Both you and Heine Meet like THAT...Wow now that's instresting."Nicol complemented .
"Yea ... It was like we just 'Found' Each other ... Huh." Nora Started until a Glint from the corner of her eye .
"What is it?"Nicol Asked as he starts looking around just in case .
"Over there." Nora said as she make her MS point where the glint is and thankfully both of the suit's Sabers can make good lights , so the Deathscythe Activated the Anti-Ship Beam scythe and ilumanated the hole area. What they found kina disappoint them however they where getting close. There was a large CIWS turret about as big as half a MS there apeares to be Heavily damaged from a crash.
"Whoa ... that one big CIWS Turret." Nora said in shock.
Nicol Only Sighed and continued to move on as Nora tagged allonge
Another 40 minuit's later.(5:10 Am)
'When will we reach that ship.' Nora Thought as She is currently keeping a eye out , Since Radar Wont Be Usefully down here , She had to keep her Eyes open for any Signs Of that they are on the right path ... But Due to boredom , Nora Tried to have a another conversation Nicol To Pass the Time again.
"... Hey Nicol." Nora said
"Yea?' Nicol said trying not to hit anything with the active beam scythe Because one good chunk out of the wall's and the hole tunnel system would collapse .
"Did you Have a GF? ... Before you ... 'Went away'." Nora asked
"Well to tell you the truth . I do not . " Nicol said bluntly.
" Well... I hope you find one." Nora Hopefully assured .
"Well... Thanks." Nicol said slightly Blushing.
"I think we are nearing the end of the tunnel . This last room shall do. however I cant tell how large it is. " Nora Said as They both Got to the mouth of the Room. However Nicol went in first because he has the brightest source of light but when he got over the hill . He gasped.
"Nicol!" Nora said as she bossed toward where Nicol Is however once She herself got there , She was as stunned as Nicol. There slightly covered With snow , Lies the Ship that can End the War. The CCS Astrid.
"Wow ... When Glexen Meant one point five kilometer's ... He wasn't Kidding... This Thing is HUGE." Nicol Said in almost utter surprise , Even they are only about 350 Meters away from the Ship's main hull . It still looked Pretty Big , Nicol estimated that it was at least 85 meters tall , 90 at the tallest point , and from where he is ... it was at least 80 meters wide also.
"This is enough proof that ..." Nora Started But then Kira Came on the line.
"Those Cultists are coming here, They wanted to Try and 'Stop us' ... Look who talking. ... but first Report." Kira Warned/Made fun of/Asked.
"Well ... Glexen wasn't kidding about there being a Huge Ship here... We have found that ship ... but it was Bigger than I expected ."Nicol Said with the Shock from the huge ship underneath here starting to dissipate.
"Well Get back up here. We need you two here Before They get here." Kira Then ordered , Two 'Yes Sir's' went through the comm , and now both Nora and Nicol went max speed towards the Exit.
50 Minutes later (5:57 Am)
By the time Both Nicol and Nora got out of the Cave, the SF, the GOUF, two ZAKU Gunners, the New Sword Calamity, and the Slash ZAKU, were already fighting off all the previous Gundams from before. However, the ZZ had what Nicol called ' Armor Module'; unlike the Original AM for the ZZ. It used the Upgraded FAZZ Armor Module that can reattach (best replacement of word). Over it's shoulder, it held one of the second most powerful MS-carried weapon in it's days. The Hyper Mega Cannon, which today can only Rival the PBC In Sheer Power. The Cannon is currently on the pack of it as the Twin Beam Rifle is blasting away at the two ZAKU gunners.
The Mudrock Gundam seems to have a liking against taking on people who are out of her League. She picked a fight with the Sword Calamity. Already Athrun made it into close combat thanks to the ATVS. Currently, the Mudrock is actually holding off the Anti Ship Swords with her own beam sabers which is a very impressive feat.
The Newly recognized Crossbone Gundam had went for the SF trying to at least damage the Wings that held the Funnels. However, the SF already had deployed all of it's funnels, and now it is having a hard time trying to get near the SF.
The Justice which had been re-constructed, decided to go for the Akatsuki. It, however, was a big mistake as Cagalli had all of the Funnels disconnected and went after the Justice, keeping in mind that the normal Justice's Nuclear generator can fit inside the damaged IF. She took extra care in trying not to damage the Generator.
The Normal Zeta decided to go for the Slash ZAKU; however it is staying far away from it is it just started blasting away at the ZAKU with it's beam rifle. The ZAKU however had the Trident out and is trying to get near the Zeta, but the Zeta has the Beam saber already out and is keeping the ZAKU in it's toes. Even with the larger weapon, the Zeta was fast and is parrying, blocking, and dodging most of Stellar's Swings.
The Leporid Destroy finally has its own Sub Flight Lifter as it's hailing Emerald Death on the Archangel, but has switched targets when it saw the SR MkII. Currently, the only things that the MkII can do are block or dodge, as the Destroy is to far away to use the Beam Rifle.
However there was a new unit that Nicol thinks the master is using. Instead of the Gundam X. There was an even more famous one. Nicol realized that possibly the oldest unit still working. Standing with the X-290 Emperor Beta in age, is the Concept - X 6-1-2 'Turn X'. Thankfully the Neutron Jammer's are disrupting the true effect of the Moonlight Butterfly. But it is still a very powerful foe, as the Moonlight Butterfly can still act like the Wings of Light; therefore, greatly increasing it's speed. It already had his beam rifle out and is trying to blast the Deathscythe out of the sky. Nicol wasn't going to let that person who was piloting Turn X have that victory. He dodged to the left, avoiding most of the shots. However, little to Nicol's notice, the Turn X's right arm with the, rather large spike disconnected and rammed itself into the leg of the Deathscythe; it had left a moderate dent. It was the impact that literally flipped the Deathscythe over so that what everything that Nicol was seeing was upside down. Unfortunately for Nicol, the Deathscythe got shot with the Bazooka; it hit and almost knocked Nicol to the ground due to the impact from the Bazooka. Nicol recovered from that shot fairly quick and rebounded as the Scythe activates, as Nicol wants to get rid of this problem before it gets rid of him.
Back with the SF, the funnels are doing their job as they are keeping the Crossbone Gundam away. The CB realized that melee range was almost impossible due to those annoying Funnels are in the way. He put away the High Powered Beam sabers before they could get shot out of it's hand and went for it's beam rifle. She tried to take a shot but the SF was way too dam fast as it already had both of it's beam rifle out. Right when the Funnels returned to recharge, she put boasters on max and grabbed the large Muramasa blaster large beam sword and charged at the SF only to find that the SF Funnels were not exactly going to recharge as all of them went into a circle in front of the Wings as it as all of the SF weapons where activated and fired upon the CB. She was now dodging like a madman (Or women in her case) and activated the I - Beam Shield making the shot that she could not dodge dissipated on the shield ... but, one of the Rail Gun Shots directly hit the Shield projector when the beam shield went down, effectively destroying the I-Shield generator. Luckily, the CB has another one. But none of that matters as she activated all 14 beam sabers inside the Large Beam sword and charge the SF as it has taken out it's melee weapons to fend off the CB.
The SC is not having any difficulties as the Mudrock couldn't get away from the SC and from the looks of it ... the Mudrock was the one that's having the problems .It couldn't get out of melee range fast enough to use it range weapons effectively and to top it all off. Both of the shoulder Cannons of the Mudrock are destroyed thanks to the Anti ship swords. Now the pilot of the Mudrock is definitely regretting this fight.
The FAZZ Pilot decided now it a great time to waste these two pests, she then brought the Massive cannon to bear and with the help of the Bio System. She begins to fire franticly in the area where those two machines are. Now, both Tolly and Flay are really in deep crap now. They kept their Shields in front of them just in case and started dodging the massive shots before any could hit them ... and possibly destroy them ... Flay Now really disliked that Massive cannon. So she ditched the High Beam Cannon, grabbed her Beam tomahawk and went for a almost suicide charge at the FAZZ, dodging all the cannon shots along the way as she prepares the Beam Ax to try and damage the HMC.
Cylene was not impressed as she is now aiming all of her Heavy weapons at Flay's ZAKU, That includes the 2 Mega Blast cannon's (one on the head, 1 on the skirt AM) the twin Beam rifle, the HMC and the near 33 missile barrage. She then readies them and with the help of the Bio-System again, she fired off all guns at that ZAKU when they reached Full Charge.
Flay just now has sheer determination in her eyes as she Flores it towards the Cannon shots as she sees a Blue SEED in here eyes exploded as her Irises dilated and her pupil shrinks. Now with reaction like never before, and on the last second, she barrel rolled to the side of the HMC and one of the MBC shots. Flay blocked the 8 beam rifle shots with her now damaged shield and she ducked underneath the last MBC shot. Then Flay nearly flew faster than the missiles as they kept on colliding into each other when they tried to hit the ZAKU's legs. Now with her beam ax, She tried to slice up on that HMC but despite having all that extra armor, bulkiness and weight, the FAZZ dodged that and with it's free hand, it grabbed it's Mega beam saber and charged into close combat with Flay's ZAKU. (Flay has awakened her SEED)
With the SR MkII Nora is having some problems trying to get near that LD, already it had taken off one of the wings of the aile pack that is now having some problems keeping up with the Sub Flight Lifter. The LD was still firing away at the SGMkII, and if kept up ... the SRMkII will get destroyed, but to Nora's relief, an AI-controlled Sky Grasper With the ISWP Pack just launched from the Arch-Angel and is heading to her. However, The LD will make sure that the ISWP Pack wont get to her and so she ailed all possible guns at the Sky Grasper, locked on and right before she could fire. Tolly caught it's attention by shooting at one of the cannons that where over the hands of the LD and destroyed it.
"Nora. Ill cover ya." Tolly quickly said through the com. of the SR MkII. Nora gave a nod and started heading towards the Sky Grasper. The LD now switched targets from that SR MkII ... to the ZAKU gunner. Tolly kept up the pressure on that red suit as he continued to fire upon it. The beam cannon was beginning to overheat when Nora finally got to that ISWP Pack and attached it, but the LD didn't taken this lightly as he aimed all guns to bare and started firing at those two suits. The ZAKU almost got ripped apart as it unloaded the chest-mounted cannon's at the ZAKU, but the SR MkII Had already started firing upon the LD, causing most of the shots to be scattered as the LD Attempted to dodge.
The Deathscythe is still trying to fare Against The Turn X But is REALLY annoying for the green haired pilot. It kept on un-attaching the Spike Arm to try and ram into The Deathscythe. Then Nicol activated his SEED and dodge the attack completely. The Deathscythe then charged at the Turn X ... due to that it only has one arm ... The Deathscythe's Scythe aimed for the legs in a wide slash, but the Turn X disconnected the legs and so the Scythe missed. Now getting a Beam saber The Turn X rammed it down onto the back of the Deathscythe which made a molten slice mark ... other than that it didn't do much ... but it attracted attention of the Sazabi ... and now it has to deal with 2 suits as 8 the High-powered Funnels disconnect and started to surround the MS ... While unleashing golden beams, the Sazabi aimed the Beam Shot rifle and fired off 6 rounds that went past Rey's Funnels. The Turn X attempted to dodge but he had 'Sensed' that someone's near ... someone familiar.
'Wha?!? How is he alive?!? ...' Kane thought as the last beam shot hit the torso of the Turn X making a molten mark there when all the parts reconnected, but he noticed the fight between the FAZZ and the ZAKU.
'Well if I cannot kill him...' Kane continued to think when he realized that the red ZAKU is currently focusing on the FAZZ .'Then Ill kill her while she's distracted!' He thought as he disconnected the spiked arm as it glowing in a bright gold as it blasted towards that Red ZAKU.
Flay was too distracted by the FAZZ and by the time she heard the Alarm ... The arm was gaining speed; she tried to get out of the way and then the FAZZ's free hand grabbed the ZAKU and held it there .
"Flay! NOO!" Kira thought out loud as he tried to get to Flay and free her but the Crossbone Gundam held the SF there until the Hit was over.
Flay thought her life will now end ... permanently ... never to be with Kira again ... but it did not for her life was saved as 2 Bright ... goldish white, and dangerous satellite cannon blasts tore right through the spiked arm, completely annihilating the arm beyond all repair as it fell out of the sky.
"WHAT THE!" Everyone there inside there suit's yelled as a large, golden Mobile Armor as all 4 of the Wings of Light on the MA activated as it passed right beside the Turn X , and thanks to the Wings of Light, both of Turn X's legs where cut off.
'Shit ... He's back ... and pissed.' Kane thought as he prepared the Turn X's remaining arm and grabbed the beam saber to fend it off but, the unknown MA turned around and started to transform into the Mobile suit which everyone recognized .. it's the suit that wont stay down, the suit that helped ORB in the last war, and the suit that HE used. The 40 meter tall, heavily armed and armored AUX-390 Emperor Gundam in all it's glory.