Chapter 8: Personal Aftermath

Takashi walked into the hangar full of hatred for his enemy. His eyes almost had a blood red glow to them. His normally deep cerulean blue eyes with jade green flexes and speckles were now an angry red with. The colors were in a wash that had a gradation from bright red around the pupils to a dark blood red around the edges. In the gradients were four elongated black diamonds while his pupils were slightly catlike.

Takashi: Get my suit ready! I'm heading out to rid this solar system of those damn cowards! I'll eliminate the rest of their forces while they still orbit the moon!

Janelle: No you won't! You're in no condition to fight; not physically, and sure as hell not mentally!

Jake: It'll be ready in three minutes; I'd suggest you get suited up for the standard cockpit system. Those stimulants would help you with the other system.

Janelle (yelling): You will stop that now! We can't have him flying of the handle!

Jake: (yelling): This is the only way he'll be able to calm down. Besides, those forces no doubt have information that we can't let them have. They're too far for a secured stealth link up, but they won't be for long.

Kira: I'm going too, give me any available suit!

Jake: You can't…

Takashi: Let here join in. We need them to see the enemy for what it is; a vile and twisted force of monsters beyond comparison! Let her take Orion, it's the only one that's fully completed.

Janelle: She can't pilot that! She hasn't been…

Takashi: She has extremely high spatial awareness and extreme high training scores. She knows battle, to what extent we shall see.

With that, Takashi walked into the men's locker room and changed while Kira changed into a specialized flight suit in the appropriate locker room. Takashi was in the cockpit doing pre-mission checks while Kira was getting some help from Janelle.

Kira: Why is it such a big deal that I have spatial awareness?

Janelle: It allows you to link your mind to the computers in a manner that allows uninhibited exchanges of information; this includes how to pilot the mobile suit. The cockpit is different that what your father or any other gundam pilot was familiar with.

After ten minutes, all pre-mission checks were complete and the two were snug in the cocpits of their gundams which were on a modified mobile suit carrier (the kind that transported the Mercurius and Veyeate). Takashi had calmed down a little now and was more coherent to what he was doing.

Takashi: I'm sorry I dragged you into this. I shouldn't have let you come.

Kira: It's okay. You're not alone anymore despite how you may feel. Besides, someone needs to watch your back or you'll be killed in your condition.

Takashi: Just be careful, the enemy pilots aren't going to be at the average preventer level.

Kira: Let me guess, higher?

Takashi: Yeah. ETA with enemy detachment is four minutes. Activating stealth units.

The two gundams and the carrier became invisible.

Kira: What are you doing?

Takashi: Adjusting the frequency of the device and turning on the flight recorders. Be careful not to be captured, these gundams don't have self detonation devices.

Kira: Can't we overload the reactors?

Takashi: We can do that, but it takes time. What the…

Five gundams were coming from the rear and, were using the same stealth devices at the same frequencies.

Heero: You think we'd let you have all the fun?

Duo: You'll need back up if you're going to fight an enemy fleet. Our gundams aren't finished, but we can improvise.

Heero: Kira, you need to go back, you aren't fully trained.

Kira: I can handle myself.

Takashi: She stays and that's final. If it's the fleet I'm thinking of, we'll need seven gundams to stay alive. We'll need to buddy up. Kira and Mr. Yuy will be team A, Mr. Winner and Mr. Barton will be Team B, Mr. Chang and I will be Team C, and Mr. Maxwell will use his cloaking device to fight in randomized patterns to confuse the enemy.

Duo: And if I get hit?

Takashi: Your gundam has an anti-beam coating while your wings produce a special field around your gundam that blocks everything but lasers.

Wufei: ETA 30 seconds.

Takashi: Alright, activate your berserker systems. Kira will be going without it for this battle.

Heero: Does she have ZERO?

Takashi: She's going as blind as our enemy will be. What the?

The cloaking devices suddenly failed after the gundams took unexpected EMP hits.

Takashi: Damn! I should've used the other frequency!

Heero: I've got forty suits coming at us!

Quatre: Are those Virgos?

Wufei: They're the next generation of them.

Forty rust red mobile suits with black planet defensors began to fire lasers and beams at the gundams. Duo slipped behind the virgos thanks to Deathscythe Hades' cloaking device. The new suits were Virgo Es (Epyon Generation) that looked like Virgo 1s combined with Epyon. They had the Virgo beam cannons, eight planet defensors each, and Taurus laser cannons; but also two Epyon styled beam sabers, a heat rod, and head vulcans.

Takashi: We'll have to fight together for this part. They're all using the Berserker system.

Wufei: I say we divide and conquer!

Takashi: Baka! That'll get you killed! We need something more than brute force! I have just the thing. Everyone, Cover me! Duo, slag anything that gets too close to us!

Duo: Roger!

It was then that everyone noticed the pack that was on Ragnorak Gundam. It had two anti-ship swords mounted on the back, both sets of wings from the Surtur pack, a plasma cannon on each hip, two laser cannons, and a long beam rifle on the back between the swords. Takashi then activated the body sensor system and raised the connection level for the berserker system. He then launched all thirty-two wing bits from his four wings. They began to flight in a sworming pattern, shooting lasers at any Virgo they were directed at.

Takashi: This takes… a lot of… concentration! Everyone…around me! That includes you Death!

Everyone obeyed as the bits formed a beam shield around the group. Takashi fired his laser and plasma cannons as the bits powered to near overload levels. Once enough power had been gathered, the bits sent out five pulses at ten second intervals, draining the shield of its energy while destroying the Virgos and their reinforcements.

Takashi: (gasp) That (inhale) (exhale) is called the Aegis Pulse!

Ragnorak began to lose power as Takashi fell to a kneeling position on the floor of his cockpit.

Takashi: I've done everything I can until my reactor builds up more power. Anyone who wants to take command must do so now. I'm out of commission for the rest of this battle.

Kira: Why did you do that if this would be the result?

Takashi: I'd rather one suit be put out temporarily that three or more suits lost. Those Virgos knew your suits' weaknesses. You can hack the planet defensers with your gundams' computers. I'd suggest you take as many planet defensers as you can. They were the only parts of the Virgos that didn't suffer crippling damage.

Heero: Alright, Duo and Kira will stay behind with Takashi…

Takashi: Let her fight. The only other suits left are Malachores, Tauruses, Serpents, and modified version of the original Tallgeese.

Quatre: Do they have any abnormal systems?

Takashi: The Tallgeese unit is modified for space combat and has the ZERO system, the other suits have nothing but the standard Colonial War combat systems

Duo: I'm staying back here to take care of any stragglers.

Takashi: Don't, if you try that they might find a way to track you. Just get the planet defensors and head to the red ship near the front of the fleet.

Wufei: There's something you're not telling us about that ship and your…

An alarm went off in all seven gundams.

(rhythm emotion begins to play)

Takashi: Dammit! They're powering up the cannon for testing! You have to take out that ship before it fires!

Heero: what is the target?

Takashi: My guess is the world nation's government building. I'll try to get backup, you guys have to get to that cannon and stop it!

Kira: But…

Takashi: Get going! You don't have time to argue!

Trowa: He's right Kira! Let's move out!

The six remaining gundams begin to fight through the gauntlet of mobile suits while Takashi begins to bring up his communications

Takashi: It's time to choose whom you will follow. Black Chimera is not the supreme justice of the universe that we've been forced to believe! It's time for us to rise up and fight for the lives that have been stolen from us! Let us take back what is ours and bring this lie crashing down at out feet! Join us as we fight for our freedom!

The screen went black as Ragnorak powered up and began to fly through the horde of enemy suits at blinding speed. One third of the suits that were engaged in fighting (al five tallgeese, twenty malachores, thrity tauruses, and ten serpents) stopped as their armor changed from their normal color schemes to a black, red, and blue color scheme with the black aegis symbol on their shoulders. The collective battle cry "For the Khali!" was heard from all the pilots on the comm. channel.

Duo: What the hell?

Quatre: They just turned on each other?

Takashi: They've all served under me in the past and were all persuaded to join my little coupe! If I'm taking down Black Chimera, I'm going to need more than nine suits to do it.

Duo: Nine suits? I thought there were only seven!

Jake: Did you really think we would only have seven gundams?

Janelle: No time to talk! Common Tak, we need another gundam to destroy that ship!

Takashi: Roger, I'm commen at ya!

Takashi flew past the others to join two more gundams at the red ship.

Janelle: It was a pain stealing these back…

Jake: But it was well worth it! They put in even more goodies!

Takashi: Alright! Jake, cover us! Janelle, get on the other side and start cutting!

The two gundams put all their beam and laser weapons together to make two enormous cannons. Using wing thrusters, the two gundams shot the ship and began to circle around it horizontally. Within thirty seconds, the ship was drifting into two pieces as it exploded.

(end song)

Jake: Time to finish the job

Jake performed the same cannon "trick" as Takashi and Janelle, then they put the three cannons together into a triangle shaped cannon (one on top, two on the bottom) then began firing it at the five remaining ships. Two were taken out in one shot. The second and final shot (due to low energy) was about to be fired on what looked like a heavy carrier when it's color scheme and insignia changed to match the defected mobile suits. It began launching suits and firing on the two remaining ships. The other six gundam along the the "defectee corps" took out the remaining suits and ships while the three identical gundams disassembled their "mega" cannon and docked onboard the carrier for emergency cool down and repairs. Once the battle ended, the gundams and defected suits docked with the carrier that was now on its way to earth.

(((Somewhere in a dark throne room with a light shining on a man kneeling to someone on the throne)))

?: I want this organization purged Loki! We cannot let this rebellion go unpunished.

Admiral Loki: As you wish master. I will need two days to complete the task.

?: Then you shall have them, but you shall not fail me again or you will be terminated