Chapter 8 –Operation Twilight Spear
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), in this story other than Krane and a few members of the Dark Celestials including their Mobile Suite designs nothing belongs to me. There will be other things in this and future chapters that also don't belong to me, quotes, can one guess what book it's from.
11th February, 12:00pm; Gwadan-Class Large Battleship/Capitalship: Gwadan (II), Hallway
Needless to say that the moral in Cecile's ship was higher than expected compared to the fact that Cecile was fighting her supposed lover who sat as the 2nd of the Fallen, but really seeing her rise above her last relationship with Rau Le Creuset to fight against him was a show of pure courage and perseverance, Cecile being a Dark Celestial Super Ace did not allow the words of Le Creuset to get to her nor his past actions as she acted as one of Krane's swords and pierced the white light as they marched towards the future. Cecile smiled as she walked with a bounce in her step and as the soldiers she passed saluted/bowed as she passed, Cecile knew that Rau wasn't the type of man to bow to death so easily which gave Cecile a chance to claim Rau as Krane claimed Kira after the Fallen were crushed, that was one of the reasons that she didn't give a damn who she killed to get that mission completed whether it be any of Rau's children except Kira but for Krane's benefit Cecile would kill Lacus without even a blink once all the Fallen were oppressed under Krane's boot, when it came to Lacus' death it was obvious that Krane would pretend to be furious with Cecile but behind Kira's back he would complement her and award her for her secret covert mission which she had the tenacity to think up and perform.
"Lady Cecile, our forces are once again ready for another attack, the Fallen Forces have once again sent out a small counteracting force!" announced Judice with a salute as she walked up to her 2nd in Command.
"We're inhibiting the Fallen's ability to aid their ground forces while Krane finishes off all the neutral territories and the Fallen Earth bound bases before leading his forces to destroy Fallen Heaven, I must admit, Krane has complicated the most basic of military plans so that it confuses the enemy even" smirked Kale as he looked at his sister "what shall we do?"
"Simple, what we have always done, crush all opposition before us!" announced Cecile with a cheeky smirk as she continued on to the bridge.
Meanwhile; Fallen Heaven Outskirts: Mobile Fortress Arcadia, Meeting Room
"Canard and Mudie have led a force to the boarder to slow Cecile's movement, it won't do much good, but it will create the illusion that our forces are still strong" sighed Rau as he looked at the tactical "do we have any possible allies willing to come and help!?"
"Well, the Junk Guild, Serpent Tail Mercenaries and Marian United Alliance have had a bit of an accident when they paid for their 'crimes' against Krane" sighed Yuan with a shake of his head and Kira sighed at the mention of it, he remembered watching the recording of the little battle deep in neutral space that stopped the Fallen coming to their aid as an area of Neo-ZAFT separated them.
"It is defiantly and issue, since Krane turned around and destroyed them for joining Antony things went downhill, also the Junk Guild bartered a lot of money off Krane for incomplete data" muttered Rau and Kira knew that it was best for them to stay MIA while Krane was still around.
(Flashback)
26th August, C.E. 75, 3:00am; Acidalium-Class Interplanetary Armed Transport: Acidalium, Bridge
"It seems Krane is trying to haul is in for the things we've done, he starts populating Mars with his forces and then suddenly he attacks our Martian Colony, now we're escorting the civilians from Mars to an abandoned Space Station so that they can escape Krane's wrath but chances of success are not rather high" sighed Ergnes Brahe as he looked at the screen that showed the Interplanetary sailing unit where people were crowded inside "even with the Junk Guild and the Serpent Tail helping us, we're up against an extremely large force that could crush us without even a blink, how long we last is up to the enemy"
"Krane isn't one to forgive those who trick him which the idea of tricking him is very rare, unlike Gilbert Durandal who will try peaceful negotiations it comes down the fact that Krane will destroy you if he has the available strength, at present after all the Armed Interventions he does have the strength and has a reason to destroy all three of our factions" sighed Gai as he looked at the tactical "I was once the strongest and deadliest pilot in all the Earth Sphere, that is until I agreed to a mission to investigate Meteor City by Chairman Durandal and paid extra by Djibril to get a copy, I'll never forget that mission!"
1st December, C.E. 72, 9:00pm; L6: Outside Meteor City, Battlefield
"That was harder than I expected" grunted Gai as he redirected the Astray Blue Frame Second L away from the half-PLANT Colony but suddenly he was attacked from all side by multiple green beams causing Gai to dodge.
It seems that Gai's enemy was using a Prototype Strike DRAGOON System which seemed to head away from Gai in a single direction, the DRAGOONs reattached to the backpack which it had launched from and Gai growled at what he saw, it seemed to be a heavily upgraded imitation of the Providence Gundam which had been customised for its pilots usage. The Gundam was shinny ebony as it almost blended in with the stars behind it, almost being the repetitive word as there were no star dots covering the ebony figure except the two glowing red dots that were the Gundam's eyes, the few lines on the figure to distinguish the different parts were crimson lines as red as the blood in which the hands of its pilot was coated in.
"So you Gai Murakumo, nice to meet you!" sneered Krane as he deactivated the lock on his DRAGOON Backpack sending all his DRAGOONs before using the 'Judicium' Type23 Large Beam Rifle while at the same time firing the 'Kilerous' XBS16 Beam Tactical Shield's Beam Cannon "now, since many consider you the greatest pilot in the world, give me some sport!"
Gai grunted as he dodged the shots coming from directly ahead before dodging back and forth from side to side as the DRAGOONs opened fire with the Beam Submachineguns causing Krane to smirk as he charged forwards with the 'Kilerous' XBS16 Beam Tactical Shield's Beam sabre glowing active as he clashed with the Blue Frame Second L's Tactical Arms in Large Sword Mode.
"You obnoxious brat!" snarled Gai as he moved away and transformed the Tactical Arms into its 90mm Gatling gun form before opening fire however the bullets all bounced off the Providence MKII Custom "a variation of Phase Shift Armour, should have known, with your resources"
"Humph, pathetic human, your life is an endless obligatory!" scowled Krane as he intensified his beam net and range so that there was little chance of Gai getting close to him as he moved away while firing at Gai with his 'Judicium' Type23 Large Beam Rifle which impacted the left arm of the Blue Frame Second L causing the Tactical Arms to transform to Large Sword Mode to block as Krane sent one of his Large DRAGOONs with Beam Spikes activated at the Blue Frame Second L which cleaved the sword in two however Gai used the sword as a distraction while drawing his retractable knife blade which he stabbed into the DRAGOON as it passed before snapping the knife blade off which Krane laughed with a clap as his eyes turned golden "impressive, but I believe its time to end this!"
26th August, C.E. 75, 3:30am; Acidalium-Class Interplanetary Armed Transport: Acidalium, Bridge
"After that my O.S. froze and all the data I collected suddenly deleted itself, he then headed off laughing, research proves that the Providence MKII Gundam he was using was later rebuilt into the Despair which we all know was later upgraded to the Extreme Despair" muttered Gai with a scowl.
"We have a problem, we have confirmation of an enemy force heading in this direction, and it is being led by a Minerva-Class Battleship!" announced Lowe as he ran into the room and Ergnes growled.
"Why didn't you tell me before!" shouted Ergnes as he ran off the bridge to prepare for Mobile Suite launch as he ran past his sister Setona Winters "Setona, take the bridge, the enemy will be here any minute!"
3:45am; L4: Neutral/unoccupied Space, Battlefield
"Humph, let's get this over as soon as possible so we can get back to his majesty" smiled David Loc coldly as he moved the Blast Impulse Custom off to the side and hence dodged a shot from the GSF-YAM02 Guardshell's Beam Cannon.
"Here they come" grinned Lucy Heartweight with a lick of her lips as she headed off in a different direction before firing with her Creation Mega Launcher which the shot was off and instead his debris instead of the ship.
"Humph, if these humans think that they can avoid Krane's retribution, they must overestimate their chances!" laughed John Pitt as he opened the Abyss Impulse Custom's wings and fired the two MA-X446E triple beam cannons which impacted a piece of debris which crashed into the Acidalium and sent it off course before John fired the M117 "Balaena Kai" dual-barrelled dual beam cannon which the shots skimmed the two sides of the ship "that was closer than you shot, Lucy"
"We just need to get closer" shrugged Mare but smirked insane when the Turn Δ launched out of the Acidalium firing its beam rifle all the while, Mare folded down the Super compact Creation Mega Launcher and fired causing the Turn Δ to use its "Voltaire Lumiere" light propulsion system to swiftly evade the powerful Creation Energy burst.
"You guys aren't Goud, but you'll do" smirked Elijah as he charged in his Custom ZAKU Warrior and slashed in two Riika's Creation Mega Launcher with the buster sword causing her to fume as she backed away while firing her wrist mounted Duel Beam Submachineguns which Elijah's beam rifle was caught before he managed to get away from the Neo-ZAFT Imperial Knight.
"Damn, you work for Krane, you're a member of his royal guard who have been blessed with Techno Interface to serve him!" growled Gai and Lucy's eyes went wide with insanity.
"So you know what I am!" laughed Lucy as she fired her Creation Mega Launcher which blasted away the upgraded Astray Blue Frame Second G's "Lohengrin" positron blaster gun as he was about to fire, Gai drew his Type 70 beam sabre and slashed through the Creation Mega Launcher as Lucy backed off and drew her MA-M90 "Defiant Kai 2" beam javelin which she brought around and slashed only to be blocked by Gai's Type 70 beam sabre "your only a human!!"
"Just because we're a different race doesn't give you the right to try and kill us!" countered Gai and Lucy laughed at that as she drew a second MA-M90 "Defiant Kai 2" beam javelin and cut the beam nozzle of the Type 70 beam sabre thereby cutting the beam emitter in two.
"Death to the failed!" announced Sarah as she charged in Mobile Armour at Lowe with Beam Claw activated forcing Lowe to dodge but before he could counterattack with the "Gerbera Straight" katana the claw came back around and snapped the Katana in two.
"I haven't failed yet!" shouted Lowe as he drew his Type 71 beam rifle and Shield and began opening fire on the Chaos Impulse Custom which Sarah growled as she launched the EQFU-6X mobile weapon pods which began opening fire from multiple directions "what of your precious ships!?"
"Boring" sighed David as he open fire with the Creation Mega Launcher before firing all his available missiles at the enemy ships, the Creation Mega Launcher's shot slammed into the side of the Acidalium causing it to veer off course and crash into an Asteroid, the missiles however damaged the engines of the Serpent Tail's Flagship and the Cornelius-class tender flagship of the Junk Guild: ReHOME.
"Time to withdraw with the damage done the ships will overflow with plasma and the those civilians inside the Acidalium are crisp" shrugged David as he headed off back to their Mothership, at the same time the other members of the Imperial Guard finished up their own opponents, Lucy stayed behind to cut apart the limbs of the Astray Blue Frame Second G before withdrawing also.
(End Flashback)
14th February, C.E. 76, 1:00pm; Pre-Minerva-Class Heavy Battleship: Varda, Bridge
"Everything is almost ready, your majesty, our forces are ready to claim the remainder of Southern America for ourselves!" announced Renaldo as he saluted his Emperor which Krane nodded with a smirk "shall Operation Twilight Spear begin!?"
"Indeed, have our forces use a Triangle Formation, break through their frontline of defence, after that all forces are to take Omega Formation to double up defences on the side of our forces as we advance!" announced Krane as he made his way towards the lift "I'll be heading out too!"
15th February; Overview of Operation Twilight Spear
On the 14th February, C.E. 76, the Neo-ZAFT Empire began a full scale invasion of central and western area of South America where their targets were the U.S.S.A Guerrillas and the OMNI Enforcer units at Jaburo and surrounding areas that were not following the orders to withdraw to the north especially Panama. Neo-ZAFT attacked the OMNI Supply lines to the north firstly and nuked the Capital City of the U.S.S.A while also nuking their major military base, the Countries of South America that fell to Krane included Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay and Argentina. Also Krane gained most of the Amazon Basin and gained the control of OMNI's partially abandoned Jaburo Super Port Secret Base to use as HQ in future conflicts in the area as well as his fight north towards the OMNI Centre of Power, Mobile Dolls were showered into the countries of Southern America and Krane now plotted of fighting against Kira Yamato and observing the power of the Judgement Gundam.
Info – And now you know why Krane has been busy of late while pretending to be relaxing, for a moment even I though he was going to attack Orb but instead he moves to reinforce their South American Forces with Mobile Dolls and such, Krane's next target is once again Kira. Review!!