Chapter 9 – Flames!!!
Disclaimer: As I've said before I do not own GS/GSD and some characters in this Fic belong to Gundam Seed Dark Destiny as I've said before (I hate disclaimers)
29th November, 1:00pm; Pillar of Heaven, Command Room
"Lady Mina! Enemy Forces detected Four Nazca-Classes, Sixteen Inca-Classes and a Minerva-Class Battleship!!" shouted the Controller in charge of the Fortress' CIC.
"Well, that Man kept his promise, typical of the Zalas!" announced Prayer from where he floated "do we fight!?"
"We do, you don't!" announced Mina and even Andrew looked surprised "the ZAFT Ships of Terminal must escape, go and board the Eternal, when the enemy is deep in conflict can you escape with the Terminal Fleet!!"
"Very well, thank you" smirked Andrew and Mina nodded.
Mina turned back to the battle at hand before she turned to face the two men behind her "ready?"
"Yes" nodded Gai Murakumo as he stood from the chair he was sitting on.
"Let's ship them out!" grinned Lowe Guele as he also stood, they were to get to their Astrays and launch.
Meanwhile the entire of the Allied Forces were gearing up for an attack, the Serpent Tail Nazca-Classes were gearing up for battle on their own terms, the Junk Guild were using experimental weapons that they had created while the Athha Loyalists began launching their Izumo-Classes, a counted Five Izumo-Classes were gathered including the Sahaku's personal Izumo-Class: the Izumo itself. Astrays and Murasames began to launch out of every hanger and were covered by Triple Barreled Beam Cannons and "Igelstellung" 75 mm automatic multi-barrel CIWS including missile launchers, Mina noticed that they were fairly even in technology and numbers however it came down to talent now, unfortunately it seemed the Dark Celestials had armies of talent just waiting to be used which gave them the advantage.
1:15pm; Outside Pillar of Heaven, Battlefield
Asuzur dodged the Chrome Destroyer away from the two nearest Murasame and blocked their strike with the two drawn beam sabres, next his unit's hip claws also drew beam sabres and cut the undefended Murasame in two halves, next he drew down his 'Reaper' Gamma Tank Cannon before firing at the nearest group of enemy forces.
"Tch, maggots, you should all die!" screamed Asuzur as he fired his Gamma Tank Cannon time after time at enemy forces.
The Cronos Arrow dodged the enemy fire in Mobile Armour before firing his Super Scylla 2 Cannon which destroyed an entire line of Astrays, however no matter how many of the Allied Forces were shot down there were more to replace them, Zake made the Cronos Arrow flip so that it could transform into Mobile Suite mode.
"How annoying, they just keep coming, makes you want to destroy them all!" shouted Zake in fury as he activated his beam claws, he slashed at two Murasames but when they blocked the slashes he instead kick with his two leg beam claws.
The Death Shot fired its EEQ7R extensional arrestor out from both of its composite shields which damaged the armour of three Murasames and caused them to explode, next it activated its built-in beam sabers and slashed two more Murasames, three Astrays fired at the Death Shot however it dodged away and activated Mirage Colloid before releasing the Mirage Colloid equipped DRAGOONs to fire down on the Astrays leading to their destruction.
"Hahaha, all these enemies, are nothing more than target practice!" laughed Jake as he fired his built-in beam sniper rifles at the enemy forces from under cover.
The Battle continued with beam rifles firing and Mobile Suites exploding from the constant fire from Ships and Mobile Weapons alike, death blazed throughout the entire of the Allied Forces' space before a purple explosion marked the destruction of Nazca and Inca-Classes, the battle would not end easily unit one side admitted defeat or met the other's conditions.
Meanwhile; Meteor City: Government Building, Krane's Office
Krane stretched in his chair before looking towards the screen showing the Minerva leaving port for its next objective, as soon as their objective was completed the sooner that Krane could initiate his Coup D'état and place himself as Emperor of the new Neo-ZAFT Empire, everything was so far going according to plan in order for Krane to gain absolute power within the ZAFT Forces.
"It seems that everything is going according to plan, however, why didn't you tell Vega or Cagalli for that matter about the Psycoframes?" questioned Courtney from where he stood near the room's eastern wall.
"It is unnecessary for them to know that their units are the test bed of the Psycoframe, the frame will be revolutionary, especially when it comes to Newtype powers" explained Krane with a smirk "those machines: Rapier, Reaper and Genocide, were built with the purpose of testing the three prototype Psycoframes!"
"Psycoframes can combine with a Newtype's mind, their abilities are enhanced as well as the connection between remote weapons and Newtype, also the wireless energy transfer system is more effective with the Psycoframe giving the orders" pondered Shane as he remembered Krane explain them during his last conversation with the Head Scientist "in other words, it is an internal form of Phase Shift that benefits Newtype Potential, it makes the Computer System act with Artificial Intelligence and is able to combine the mind of the Newtype pilot with the mind of the Artificial OS System and thereby increase the overall interlocked combat performance of the unit and the pilot"
"Indeed, that is why these tests are so important, we'll be able to equip the Cockpit of all DRAGOON Equipped Mobile Suites with Psycoframe systems and bring in the era of the ultimate Newtype warriors!" announced Courtney with a smirk.
"Yes, it's only a matter of time" smirked Krane darkly as he sat back in his chair like a proud royal, next, Krane would have to deal with Gilbert and Rau; Djibril wouldn't be a problem.
3:15; Outside Pillar of Heaven, Battlefield
"Damn it!" screamed Gai as he fired his Blue Frame's Tactical Arms Gatling Gun at the nearest Mobile Suite, his unit had just been dive bombed by a Garuda in Mobile Armour mode that was trying to keep him occupied.
"How annoying, we need to get rid of them, now!!" shouted Mina as she dodged out of Mirage Colloid and used the energy absorption claws of her Gold Frame to zap the energy of a ZAKU II Shadow that was unfortunately nuclear powered.
"But there is so many of them!" shouted Lowe in his Red Frame as he slashed at the nearest ZAKU II Warrior.
"Resistance is irrelevant, you're all going to die!" laughed Asuzur as he fired his Gamma tank Cannon at a group of Murasames before having to lift his beam sabres to block a large solid sword "who dares!?"
"Gai Murakumo, head of the Serpent Tail Mercenaries, finally friend to Mina Rondo Sahaku who is the Noble Woman of the ORB Union in Command of the Pillar of Heaven!" announced Gai as his Tactical Arms in Sword Mode before striking again against the beam sabers.
"Very well, if it is friendship that moves you, then I'd love to see everything your 'friends' with taken away in the blink of an eye!" grinned Asuzur as his hip claws drew two more Beam sabers and slashed at the Large Sword sending the Blue Frame back from the force of the attack.
"Goodbye" muttered Zake as he turned the Cronos Arrow into Mobile Armour mode and gripped the bridge of a Serpent Tail Nazca-Class before activating the 'Super Scylla 2' leading to the ship's imminent destruction.
"There is another unit here with Mirage Colloid? I'll deal with it!" announced Jake with a smirk as he charged the Death Shot in the direction of the Gold Frame's personal Combat.
'Yes, destroy them all, the Neutral and the Old Peace keepers have no place left in the new world' announced Krane via his still growing Newtype Powers 'unless, they either become useful or I see a reason for their constant survival, destroy them all!'
And the three Supreme Commanders did as they were basically told, for above all, they were members of the Dark Celestials…and the dream Krane was planning to build.
Meanwhile; Near Dark Celestial Homeland: L6, Battlefield
"Hahahahahahaha!!" laughed Steven with yellow rings around his iris as he launched the beam covered Spherical Breaker of his Rapier unit at the incoming enemy reinforcements, ORB sure did have a lot of spare forces and technology, for such a small country.
"Just die!" screamed Vega with a green ring around his iris as he also fired his Genocide Gundam's "Chaos" multi-phase Super Particle Cannon which destroyed an entire Agamemnon-Class Carrier that was in ORB Colours.
"Hehehehe!" laughed Kirsty with a blue ring around her iris as she fired her Reaper Gundam's "Hell Magma" High-Energy Plasma Induction Cannon which the beam bended between the ranks of several Astrays and Murasames causing them to explode.
"Those guys, their testing the units with the best combat levels I've ever seen, rated at 98%!!" announced the Head Scientist from where he stood near the Captain's Chair on the bridge of the Minerva "I see that the rings around the Iris are a side effect of being linked to the Mobile Suite mentally via the Psycoframe, after all the colours of the rings are the same as the eyes of their unit, it is like Krane simply helped design this unit personally for these three!"
"Krane is the strongest Newtype ever imaginable, he can even defeat Cyber-Newtypes, I don't think he can predict the future however who knows what abilities he can gain from gaining more Newtype power" pondered Heine before turning to look at Arthur and grinned cruelly at the Executive Officer and Part-time Captain "makes one wonder how far he is going to go, right, Arthur!?"
"Y…yes sir" whimpered the greenette under the gaze of the vassal of the Supreme Commander of ZAFT, Arthur had come to fear Krane for not his dismissal of emotions but instead the cheerful emotion he sometimes gave off regardless of what the recent business was about, Heine feared Krane in the fact that he cared not for methods so long as they were carried out without question.
"It seems that ORB has no Gundams, shame, their weapons are also outdated and therefore useless" smirked the Head Scientist as he placed a hand to his chin "how sad, too bad, it seems that ORB will be the weaker party in this new Era!"
"But, that's what we want, the less powerful countries to resist our domination the better" shrugged Heine as he looked out at the three new Models.
The Genocide fired its Duel barrelled "Balaena Xiphias MK2" Plasma Beam Cannon railguns which struck the side of a Nelson-Class Battleship that was firing its CIWS at it, the Genocide easily moved out of the path of any of the beam cannons that were firing in their direction which allowed the Genocide to fire at the enemy with any weapon without gaining any damage, it was almost as though Vega had no fear and was seeing the battlefield without any camera aid which was true to a degree. The Rapier launched its Beam Spike Covered Spherical Breaker at the bridge of a Drake-Class Escort Ship which also exploded from the chain reaction of losing their centre structure, next the Rapier dodged the enemy attacks by transforming into Mobile Armour mode while being chased by Murasames, a Drake-Class and a few Murasames fired missiles and beam rifles at the Rapier which transformed and spun its Spherical Breaker as a man-made shield to stop all the attacks. The Reaper slashed through an Astray before dodging away from missiles launched by a Drake-Class, after landing on the preannounced Drake-Class, the Reaper sliced the bridge in two before firing its "Hell Magma" High-Energy Plasma Induction Cannon at the engines which sent it crashing into a Nelson-Class thereby heavily damaging the Battleship and destroying the Escort Ship.
"I'm just glad that I'm not their enemies" sighed Heine and the Head Scientist nodded his head robotically.
"Amen to that" was the 'Mad' Head Scientist's answer.
3:30pm; Meteor City: Government Building, Krane's office
"As you can see, your majesty, we have increased the production of Mobile Weapons, Ships, full Kevlar armour and SA80 assault rifles" announced a Dark Celestial Soldier as he gave a report for both the Dark Celestials and ZAFT "also, we are reconstructing some guns into the handle of swords, thereby create the Dark Celestials' Gunblades!"
"Excellent, we will have a use for all of these new weapons in the new war, even if we reach a peace before the Finale which I hope there is so that I can derive the next act" explained Krane "we will still have increased production so that unlike the other fools, we, will be prepared!"
"And when the time comes we will easily destroy the OMNI Enforcers and crush Djibril, the Extendeds are nothing but a nuisance however, it is Djibril who is the major problem in this equation!" announced Shane with a scowl and Krane nodded.
"Agreed, he's not going to sit around and wait for us to come knocking on his door, he is going to set up barriers and try to stop us, humph, he'll have a difficult task but in the end it will irritate me!" scowled Krane before he looked at the screen at the Leana "what of the Super Space Fortress: Eclipse?"
"We have the basic outward structure of the Super Space Fortress built, however, it is hard to build a Huge Space Fortress made completely of a metal let alone Gundanium Alloy" sighed Leana on the screen "the Super Eclipse Cannon we're having a faster time with, it should be finished within six months while the Super Space Fortress will take up to between 0ne and Two Years"
"Regardless, it must be finished, I will send more workers and more Gundanium to aid in the building!" announced Krane and Leana nodded before the screen cut off, Krane sat back and sighed.
"Stressing, to lead an entire force towards a Coup D'état, isn't it?" smiled Shane as he wrapped his arms around Krane's neck from behind after the soldier had left.
"Indeed, however we can't stop now, not when the goal of the basics of a Newtype Empire is within my reach!" exclaimed Krane and Shane nodded in understanding.
"Then I will fight for you, besides, what would I be if you hadn't come along" smiled Shane as he stood straight and walked through the door at the front of the room, Krane simply answered with a smirk at the leaving teen.
30th November, 12:00am; near the Pillar of Heaven, Abandoned Space Colony: Command Room
"Why did you request a ceasefire, is there an apparent reason, or are you trying to make me mad!?" questioned Zake who was almost frothing at the mouth as he followed after Asuzur who stepped up to the consol that controlled the large screen at the side of the room.
"We'll find out soon enough" was Asuzur's answer before he activated the screen and turned to face the screen where Mina Rondo Sahaku appeared "is there a reason that you requested that we were to stop our objective, if you are not to meet our demands then we will be forces to return to the attack, you understand these requests!?"
"Yes, however, you are attacking the wrong enemy!" announced Mina and Asuzur raised an eyebrow.
"Pardon?" questioned Asuzur as he looked her young Noble Woman full in the face.
"I meant just what I am telling you, the Eternal and the Terminal Fleet were going to support us however instead they chose to turn and flee therefore betraying us, therefore you are attacking a nation of ORB Union who is no longer protecting your prey, therefore you are attacking the wrong target" explained Mina in a part-lie, part-truth.
"Indeed, however, we will be monitoring the Pillar of Heaven and request that we have checks of the Space Fortress to be assured that what you say is true" muttered Asuzur aloud.
"Of course, I'll make arrangements, good day to you Commander!" announced Mina before the screen went black.
"So, do you think that she is faking?" questioned Jake as he floated next to the control panel.
"Yes and No, we'll find out if the Eternal is there soon enough, if it no longer is then we can try and out pressure on them to see if we can get a straight answer from them!" announced Asuzur as he looked towards Zake "will that suffice!?"
"Fine, we better have the right amount of data gathered, otherwise I'm going to be pissed off for the better half of the day" scowled Zake before he headed in the direction of the hanger, he was in a real fowl mood now.
Info - And that is the end of that, I'm thinking of having Vega's team descend to Earth and attack locations belonging to the Fallen or more specifically, I'm thinking of having them attack Victoria however it's down to the population to decide.
Next time on Operation Celestial Rain - The Coup D'état Preparations! Countdown to the Newtype Empire!!!
Dark Celestials Gundam Mobile Weapon Data:
Code: ZGMF-L95IaA
Name: Death Shot
Producers: Meteor City Secret Research Teams
Powerplant: Portable Cronos Nuclear Fusion reactor with cooling system (stops Nuclear Reactor heating up at all)
Operating system: Giga United Nuclear Debilitating Assassination Module
Weapons:
1x Beam Sniper Rifle, carried in hand when in use or stored on lower back when not
1x 'Callidus' High-Energy Long-Range beam cannon
2x Composite Shield (equipped with 3x EEZ9J Retractable extensional arrestor, 1x Beam Saber and 1x High-energy beam rifle each)
4x Anti-Armour Kunai, stored in each limb
2x RQM-60F "Flash Edge 2" beam boomerang/saber, located in upper legs
Other Equipment:
Variable Phase Shift Armour over Gundanium Alloy Armour
Perfected Mirage Colloid Illusion System on both unit and DRAGOONs
Later equipped with Wireless Energy transfer System for DRAGOONs
Later equipped with Psycoframe Cockpit System (enhances Newtype powers and connects the A.I to the Pilots mind via the Newtype powers of the pilot)
Information: The Gundam Unit piloted by Jake Bonaparte and is designed for covert operations
Pilot: Jake Bonaparte
Code: ZGMF-X131S
Name: Genocide
Producers: Meteor City Secret Research Teams
Powerplant: Prototype Celestial Engine (designed with unknown particles that are code named Creation Particles and supposedly were used in the Creation Engine that destroyed Atlantis)
Operating system: Gigus Unsubdued Newtype Damnation Annihilation Module
Weapons:
2x Duel barrelled "Balaena Xiphias MK2" Plasma Beam Cannon railguns, located on shoulders/back
1x "Chaos" multi-phase Super Particle Cannon, located in chest
1x 'Gigalauncher 2' plasma missile launcher/GDU-X6 beam machine gun
1x Shield with 2x 300mm Beam Gatlinggun and 1x Beam Sword
5x Neo-DRAGOONs (1x Super Compact GDU-X9 beam machine gun and 1x Beam Shield Projector each)
1x Beam Javelin, stored in top of shield
Other Equipment:
Super SMART System new Anti-Gravity booster stream engine variation (Super Swift MAnoeuvring Reaction Transportation) located on legs for gliding over water
A single Booster engine for temporary atmospheric flight
2x "Eternal Reflection" beam shield projector in right wrist and shield on left arm
Neutron Engine (able to counter radiation with harmless radiation)
Psycoframe Cockpit System (enhances Newtype powers and connects the A.I to the Pilots mind via the Newtype powers of the pilot)
Information: The Neo-ZAFT development of a descendent of the GAT-X131 Calamity with advanced weapons and a Remote Weapon fin much like the Qubeley, it like the Qubeley before it is designed as a Newtype based weapon, it's power source uses Nuclear Isotopes to power it and gives infinite energy or so the theories behind it suggests.
Pilot: Vega Voldolt Hibiki
Code: ZGMF-X370S
Name: Rapier
Producers: Meteor City Secret Research Teams
Powerplant: Prototype Celestial Engine (designed with unknown particles that are code named Creation Particles and supposedly were used in the Creation Engine that destroyed Atlantis)
Operating system: Grade Unrespectable Newtype Damnation Armoured Module
Weapons:
1x "Ascend" Particle Cannon, located in unit's head
1x "Cataphract" hyper-velocity Mace with 10x built in beam spikes that can act as 1x EEQ7R extensional arrestor launcher each
1x "Diskarmor" composite shield with 2x beam machinegun with 1x MA-X200 beam sword/Beam Cannon
1x M759 80mm beam machine gun, mounted in nose and operable only in Mobile Armour mode
2x M8M9 76mm beam machine gun, mounted on shoulders and operable only in Mobile Armour mode
2x MMI-X340 "Palma Fiocina" beam cannon, mounted on bird claws and operable only in Mobile Armour mode
2x beam spikes, mounted on bird claws and operable only in Mobile Armour Mode
2x Spear-DRAGOON Carrier Pods, carries 6x Spear-DRAGOONs each (1x High-energy beam rifle, 1x Beam spike)
Optional Weapons:
10x "Void" Smart tracking Missiles, 5x equipped on each wing
2x Type 86Z5 beam naginata, stored in wings
Other Equipment:
Two winged HiMAT System with modified "Voiture Lumière" booster engine
2x large jet engines
Mobile Armour Transformation System
2x "Eternal Reflection" beam shield projector in left wrist and shield on right arm
Neutron Engine (able to counter radiation with harmless radiation)
Psycoframe Cockpit System (enhances Newtype powers and connects the A.I to the Pilots mind via the Newtype powers of the pilot)
Mobile Armour Transformation: It is designed to transform to the same type Mobile Armour as the GAT-X370 Raider
Information: The reborn Raider Gundam under Neo-ZAFT technology, it like its siblings are equipped with the new Celestial Engine that uses Nuclear Isotopes to function, it is a Newtype based weapon
Pilot: Steven Soka
Code: ZGMF-X252S
Name: Reaper
Producers: Meteor City Secret Research Teams
Powerplant: Prototype Celestial Engine (designed with unknown particles that are code named Creation Particles and supposedly were used in the Creation Engine that destroyed Atlantis)
Operating system: Guardian Unified Newtype Defender Armed Module
Weapons:
1x carried "Reaper" beam scythe which can split into 2x anti-armour hand scythes that one scythe can be propelled as a Beam Boomerang
1x "Hell Magma" High-Energy Plasma Induction Cannon with Beam bending capabilities, located in chest
2x "Ballista'" 115mm beam machinegun, located in backpack unit
2x "Balaena Xiphias MK1" Plasma Beam Cannon railguns, stored on backpack unit
2x MMI-GAU26 17.5mm CIWS, located in Mobile Suite's head
2x MA-M941 "Vajra" beam sabre, located and stored on waist
2x Large Super Strike DRAGOON remote weapons held on backpack unit (6x GDU-X9 beam machine gun, 2x Beam Spikes)
Other Equipment:
2x "Eternal Reflection" beam shield projector in right wrist and on left wrist also
2x movable backpack units that produce a "Gizmech Panzer" deflection armour effect when in use
Neutron Engine (able to counter radiation with harmless radiation)
Psycoframe Cockpit System (enhances Newtype powers and connects the A.I to the Pilots mind via the Newtype powers of the pilot)
Information: The reborn GAT-X252 Forbidden with a present day technology by Neo-ZAFT, it like its siblings are equipped with the new Celestial Engine that uses Nuclear Isotopes to function, it is a Newtype based weapon and is equipped with the new "Gizmech Panzer" deflection armour
Pilot: Kirsty Voskolv