Chapter 10: Glimpse of the United
Start date 3.15.11 Finished 3.17.11
Disclaimer: I do not own G00 or GS/GSD this is for fun and it is fan-fiction.
Setsuna watched; his eyes wide and filled with disbelief. In front of him was the Masurao, using Trans-Am! His eyes moved, seeing the Masurao phase out of his view. He noticed the suit attacking him on the sides as Setsuna tries to parry the strikes. The 00 barely manages to defend itself from a lethal strike. It was obvious that combating against a suit using Trans-am, even the 00 Raiser had slight trouble keeping up.
The 00 Raiser flew back trying to get away from the Masurao. Setsuna hoped to use the time he had moving away to think up of a counterattack. Setsuna grunts seeing the suit dashing at him from the side.
The Masurao appears in front of the 00 and thrusts both of its beam katanas at the 00. "Forgive me, for killing you!" Graham yells. The 00 Raiser activates its GN field but the Masurao continued to push its blades through. Due to the added strength of this faux trans-am, the beams were more powerful, allowing it to pass the field.
Behind Setsuna, the Archangel neared the battle, stopping just enough so their radars would not be affected by the particles. They zoomed in on the battle. Kira stood watching in surprise. Another suit was glowing just like the 00 Raiser did that night. "What in the worlds going on out there?" Murrue questioned.
"I don't know, but it seems like he's in trouble. Come on Kira!" Athrun yelled. Murrue looked at them and asks "How do you expect to keep in contact if you're too close to the suits and your communications get jammed?" Kira sighed, knowing that would be a slight problem. He remembers that Saji was on board and thought he could help them with this problem. He heads into the room Saji was in and asks him if he knew a way around the communication jamming. "I'm not sure. The mobiles suits that have been used lately have those particles and I haven't seen them address this issue until we arrived here…." Saji sighed. He looks up at Kira and tries to assist him.
"If anything I think a different com-link would help….." he said, his words showing little confidence to what he said. Before Saji could ask what was happening, Kira left the room.
Kira heads out with Athrun. He'd have to find his own way to communicate verbally if their communications did get jammed. The two got set to launch and waited for the OK when the radio got jammed. "Huh? " Both pilots were confused by what happened. The crew on the bridge watched as three redish pink blurs past them. After the group passed the ship, Athrun noticed the radio was active again.
"Let's go Kira!" Athrun yelled.
"Right, Freedom, Let's do it!"
The Freedom and Murasame launched and followed the blurs. Both pilots assumed the blurs were reinforcements of the glowing suit that attacked Setsuna.
Setsuna watched as the beams neared the 00. He felt his wound bleeding out again from stressing it in the battle. Setsuna activates trans-am and ducks to avoid the sabers. Graham smiles at the site of the 00 Raiser activating its ability. He took it as a sign that the young man was now taking the fight with him seriously.
The two suits clashed blades and broke off and clashed once more. Setsuna charged in at the Masurao, yelling. Graham had blood in his mouth, but he didn't care. He yelled his lungs out as the two suits clashed. "I live, for the sake of fighting Gundams!" Graham said. Setsuna argues that he was different, that he had changed. He heard a familiar voice as the two suits broke of their clash at the sight of a large beam cutting through.
Graham looks over seeing the other gundams as his suit's trans-am timed out. "Grr…they're interrupting us! My particles are low..." The Masurao turned and pointed its sword at the 00. "Listen young man, don't you forget me!" The Masurao leaves the battle field as Setsuna turns the 00 Raiser around looking at his comrades.
"Setsuna!" Allelujah shouts.
"Still alive and kicking," Lockon comments.
"G-guys…" Setsuna said weakly.
Tieria hears how Setsuna's voice was on the com-link as he questions "Setsuna?"
The 00 Raiser drops as the Arios and Cherudim caught it.
Inside Setsuna was fading away from consciousness as he remembered what Lockon said from his dream. "I'll change Lockon. I'll reform myself, right here…"
Ptolemy stops in front of the gundams, waiting for them to bring in Setsuna when Feldt informs Sumeragi of two suits coming at them from the white ship. "Get Setsuna in here and cover our escape!" she ordered the Meisters.
Athrun noticed the other three suits as he stopped. The Freedom stops and turned around. "What's wrong Athrun?" Kira asks.
"Those aren't enemies. They're his allies!"
"What?" Kira turned and looked at the suits as the Cherudim and Seravee charged in at them. "It's that unit!" Tieria said noticing the Freedom. "Has it joined the A-laws?" Tieria thought it to be an enemy since it was present when the mobile suit fought Setsuna. "Whatever it chose, it's going down!" Lockon aims at the Freedom using the beam pistols and fired rapid shots.
The Freedom and Murasame dodged the fire as they tried to see what the Meisters were trying to do. "Why are they firing at us?" Kira asks.
"They probably don't know about this ship and think we're hostiles." Athrun explains. "Captain Ramius!" he contacts Murrue requesting them to send a signal for the ship to not attack them. He wanted to dissolve this conflict peacefully as soon as possible.
"Understood. Send a message to that ship!"
A message is created and sent to Ptolemy on an open channel. Feldt looked at her screen seeing a request for communication. Sumeragi thought for a moment, "If they were enemies they'd be attacking our forces right now…" She looked at Feldt. "Tell the Cherudim and Seravee to cease fire," She lets it through as she prepared to see who wanted to talk to her. Her eyes moved with a slight surprise at the sight of who it was on the other end of the line.
Cherudim and Seravee stopped their fire but kept their aim at the two suits.
"I'm surprise to see you again…" Sumeragi said. She looks at Murrue on the screen. Murrue gave a light smile as she greets Sumeragi. "I am Murrue Ramius, Captain of the Archangel. I'd say the same, but it seems we've started off on the wrong foot…"
After some explaining, Sumeragi orders the Meisters to treat the Archangel and its units as friendlies. The two ships land in an area near the Orbital Elevators. Saji returns to Ptolemy. The two prepared to meet as they had a small group of people with them as they met outside. Allelujah, Lockon, and Tieiria stood by Sumeragi as they looked at Murrue accompanied by Kira, Athrun, and Andrew.
"First off, I'd like to thank you for taking in Setsuna and Saji in their time of need." Sumeragi said.
"No need to thank me, after all, if it weren't for your assistance when that red mobile suit attacked us back then, we would have been in a lot of trouble." Murrue admits. The two exchanged words as they realized they were not enemies.
Lockon went off to have some time for himself when he got an unexpected call. "Huh?" He answers the phone. His eyes widened as he heard who called. He explains the situation to his comrades and informs them of the Coup. After hanging up the phone he heads to Sumeragi and informs her of Katharon's arrival to this world.
"I see….another transition caused by the 00 Raiser. Thanks for keeping me updated."
Sergei's location
Sergei watched Hercury's announcement and after finding evidence of a different world outside of the base, he chose to remain at the base. "Hercury, are you that angered at the A-laws to go and do this…in a world that isn't even ours…?"
He sighs knowing if he were in Hercury's shoes he would have done something similar. Hercury took the Elevator by surprise and with what forces A-laws had in this world it would tie their hands.
He stood up and orders one of the soldiers on the base to have a Tieren ready for launch. He gets into the all-region type and heads to Africa with a group of ESF mobile suits. "What are you thinking about Hercury? What would this achieve?" he questioned.
Homer Katagiri's location
Homer and Goodman conversed on the issue at hand. "If word of what happen gets out to the General Public, A-laws will be the target of both of the Military forces of this world…"
Goodman smiles and shows Homer a plan. "That is why I've set up our troops ready for it, Commander."
"Take every precaution needed. We can't lose our people's support and we must gain the support of the people here."
Africa Orbital Elevator- control room
Hercury watched as A-laws forces surrounded the tower. He assumed as much as he didn't show any sign of surprise by this maneuver. "All we can do now is wait on what Celestial Being will do…"
ZAFT – PLANTs, Durandal's Location
The commotion in the office was just the tip of the iceberg. All around the PLANTs, people were talking about this situation. Everywhere you turned, someone was asking what the PLANTs, EA, or ORB would do in response of this situation.
Durandal sighed as he gave his orders. "I want all available troops to Africa now! I want eyes on what's happening!" He turned to his desk looking at the communication device. "Where are you Ribbons?" he asks quietly to himself. Durandal tried calling him multiple times but he didn't answer.
Down on Earth the Minerva got the order to head to Africa to assist in defusing the situation. Shinn stood by the Impulse as he heard the update. "What? Hostages?" he narrowed his eyes and balled up a fist in anger. "First they bring in these suits and then their military. Now they bring in their own personal issues to us?" Luna complained. "I'm starting to hate all of this…"
"You said it Luna" Shinn agreed.
Rey stood by his Zaku and didn't give much thought to the issue; considering it wasn't directly ZAFT's problem, for the time being.
Atlantic Federation/Phantom Pain
"So what do you want us to do, Neo?" Stella asks innocently. The two pilots stood by Neo.
"This isn't our problem, and there are more than enough suits to deal with the trouble." Neo said. He had his orders to go and assist, but he chose to ignore those orders. He'd pay A-laws back for not supporting and being there when he needed their backup, now he'd let them clean up their own mess.
The Atlantic Federation and ORB sent in groups of mobile suits to assist in the situation.
Africa Orbital Elevator- control room
Just when Hercury thought the A-laws were giving up on the people and the tower, one of his soldiers informs him of incoming A-laws suits. "There seems to be other mobile suits there as well. Based on their design, I guess they're part of one of the other military groups in this world."
Hercury sighs heavily. "So A-laws brain washed them as well…." He said disappointingly.
Near the control tower the ZAFT ship, Voltaire, continued heading towards the control tower. The closer the ship got to the area the jamming got worse. "I can't believe this is happening first Junius Seven, now this!" Yzak complained. Dearka led a squadron of suits to assist the A-laws suits but they declined, claiming to have things under control. Yzak and Dearka failed to notice Memento Mori was near the control tower and ready to fire. The A-laws troops did what they needed to in order to hide the truth from everyone.
The mobile suits hovered just outside the control tower. They sent in the automatons. The mechanized robots moved and hacked into the broadcasting line uploading manipulated media footage to fool Hercury into believing what he recorded was the truth shown to the world.
He turned to his right when he hears of a mobile suit ascending to the control room. The image of a Tieren All-Region type appeared on the screen. Hercury smiled in joy. "Send mobile suits to escort him here. That's the lease we could do for him."
Sergei was escorted in and looked at Hercury, "Stop this, Hercury. There's nothing to gain! They won't give into your demands. You see what's out there." Sergei tried to persuade his friend to stop this nonsense.
"Watch Sergei, watch at how your government acts." Hercury shows him two video footages. One showed the automatons killing the civilians and the Coup members protecting them. Another, shown on national television, showed the members killing the hostages. Sergei watched as his eyes were opened to the truth. He realized that his assumptions about A-laws were true—no they were worse than me could possibly imagine.
"Now do you see how the A-laws work? We try to bring the truth and they change it to their favor."
"They're manipulating the media to gain support…"
A-Laws Standby Forces
Kati called her superiors wanting an explanation for the sudden stop of her attack. "Why would they need this many forces to deal with this Coup?"
Outside Andrei watched the birds flying by as he thought of how could the leader of the Coup was someone he respected. He was taught to always do as he was ordered and do all that was needed to achieve peace. He just couldn't understand why Hercury would do this.
Celestial Being/Archangel
The Archangel crew was in Ptolemy watching the footage of the people killed by the Coup members. The crew of the Archangel was fooled and thought that the enemy was the coup members. They looked at the Celestial Being members confusingly, seeing no sign of shock from what they saw. There was more of a disgusted look on their faces.
"So will you be aiding A-laws or the rebels?" Athrun asks. "I've heard A-laws did unspeakable things, but here they are assisting civilians."
"You just haven't seen the truth." Tieiria retorts.
"What truth? This footage is on the news, there's no more truth than that." Cagalli comments.
Sumeragi sighed. "Mileina."
"Yes Ma'am" Mileina steps forward and shows the crew of the Archangel the image of a robotic machine.
"What is that?" Kira asks.
"Those are automatons. They are used by A-laws to go into areas mobile suits cannot and kill any person they are programmed to."
A video file appeared. Kira and the others watched in horror at what they saw. These automatons were killing people, People who didn't have any weapons to defend themselves. Lacus turned away and buried her face in Kira's chest, not wanting to see the deaths of children by these machines.
"The A-laws manipulated the media footage to make it look like the rebels shot their hostages, but in reality it was the automatons that did the killing. The coup is just an attempt to bring the truth out to the public. A-laws saw this as a threat and sent in their machines to help them with their dirty work."
Kira stepped forward. It was clear to him now that the A-laws were the evil ones in this situation and as far as he knew, everyone here were the only ones that knew the truth and had the power to do something about it. "I want to help."
"Huh?" Sumeragi was taken back by his forwardness to the situation.
"I want to help you. I'll do anything I can."
Sumeragi noticed something, a sign of determination. She hadn't seen this kind of determination in anyone other than Setsuna.
"I'll help too" Athrun announced.
Soon the whole crew of the Archangel agreed to help Celestial Being.
"You have our full support on this matter, Miss Sumeragi." Murrue said smiling at her.
"I understand. We'll head out now. Katharon forces are already there."
"Who are Katharon?" Athrun asks.
"They're a rebel force opposing A-laws. They have their own supplies and they assist us when we need it." Lockon said.
Everything was settled as Ptolemy flew off and the Archangel follows. Sumeragi contacts Murrue requesting mobile suit technology information so she could best assess the strengths and weaknesses of their forces. "I've got a basic Idea of how your era's technology works, but from the looks of things, your machine doesn't operate like the others we've encountered." Murrue was surprised by this allegation.
She never met someone so observant, "They're military tactics must go much more in depth compared to ours…" she thought. She replies to Sumeragi "I would but all responsibility of the suit falls under the pilot's authority, but I can give you the information of our other units,"
Sumeragi listened and smiled. "Whether or not she's telling the truth I can't tell for sure, but if I were in her situation I would have done the same thing…" Sumeragi noticed the signs of secrecy coming from Murrue. She respected that in some sense. Both forces had something to hide. "I understand, Thank you. I'll contact Kira then" she said disconnecting the line.
Sumeragi contacts Kira and asks him about the battle strength of the Freedom. Kira didn't give much. He wasn't sure if it was right to give out the fact that the Freedom operated using a Nuclear reactor. He just gave Sumeragi the armaments and told her it used Phase Shift armor. He explained to her what PS armor was, but she was a quick study and his explanations were stopped before he finished. He didn't mention the Full Burst, seeing that it would be irrelevant to tell her something she would see in combat.
Sumeragi thanks him and thinks of what the right battle plan would be and what the enemy forces would do. "From the mobile suits out there ZAFT has already gone to support A-laws. They probably got fooled by the broadcast and thought A-laws were allies. The Atlantic Federation hasn't made any announcements regarding this situation….but the fact that some mobile suits present in the airspace says differently…" She predicted that with ZAFT sending many forces to this location, there was a high chance of the Minerva showing up.
Minerva
Shinn and the others stood in the pilots' quarters and watched the broadcast. "Damn it!" Shinn yelled angered at all of the innocent blood spilt.
"How could they do something so horrible…." Lunamaria put her hands close to her body feeling sick from seeing children and women killed mercilessly by the rebels.
Heine watched but the only thought he had on his mind was fighting the blue gundam once again. "I should have been able to get him to use that system…" he sighed and then looked at the Orbital Elevator. "If he won't use it here…then there will be many casualties…and with what they've done so far, casualties of civilians are not something they will allow."
The Ship neared the Elevator. Within an hour, they would reach the right point to launch their suits.
"Arthur, get me a visual on the tower." Gladys ordered. Arthur brings up a view of the tower as she saw how to forces were positioned. "What's going on with that formation…?" she had a troubled feeling, like this battle would be more than it seemed. The ship continued toward the elevator as Gladys pushed the troubled feeling away and tried to focus on the task at hand.
A-laws
Kati sat down and looked at a map of the Elevator. She found it odd that their forces were separated in two areas.
"Maybe they don't want to attack before they get the hostages out?" Billy suggests.
"Why would they deploy their forces for falling debris?" she questioned. She zooms the image out even further when she saw the asteroids and formation it took. She realized what A-laws were going to do as she narrowed her eyes in anger.
Celestial Being/Archangel
Sumeragi requests Feldt to zoom out the image so she could see what was happening. She thought about why the forces were positioned like that when it hit her. "This formation…they're preparing for debris…that means….One of those has come through…." She looked up. The severity of the mission had changed and it gave her Goosebumps all over her back and arms.
Hercury and Sergei's location
The two soldiers watched as the A-laws forces took their position. Hercury was surprised by the formation, expecting them to surround their forces. He requests one of his soldiers to zoom in on the area near the control room. The image showed many asteroids around a certain location, clustered together in a way. "They're hiding something…but what…?" Hercury questioned. His eyes showed a sign of realization as they widened. "Oh no…."
Out by Memento Mori, soldiers kept Goodman informed on the outside forces, keeping the Satellite weapon hidden as best they could. Goodman prepared the weapon to fire as he gives some thought to his intended targets. "The rebel forces, Katharon, and Celestial Being. May you feel the force of God's thunder!" he smiles evilly as the weapon activates.
Celestial Being/Archangel
Sumeragi contacts Murrue and sends her the information. "The missions changed."
"What do you mean?"
Sumeragi shows her an image of the Memento Mori. "This satellite weapon, A-laws is planning to fire it at the Elevator."
"What?" Murrue and everyone on the bridge nearly had a heart attack.
"They're willing to fire on that many civilians?" Athrun yelled.
"That's not all; here is the predicted damage from the weapon."
Sumeragi shows her the image and radius of the damage.
Everyone's mouths dropped. They looked at the predicted damage in horror.
"Why isn't any of the military aware of this? What about ZAFT's space forces, they should be able to see the weapon!" Athrun said angrily.
"They've most likely taken precaution to hide it. They surround the weapon and hide it from ZAFT and the other groups." Sumeragi gave a small explanation of the optical camouflage.
"They've probably used many suits using the camouflage to hide the weapon. Using the particles to jam radar signals to hide any side of it."
Sumeragi requests an image of the weapon and then zoomed out to see other objects in the area. "Those asteroids….they should have been drawn in by the Earth's gravity…"
"So does that mean it's really A-laws disguising themselves?" Lasse asks.
Sumeragi thought for a moment coming up with a tactical plan. "Here's the plan" Sumeragi said.
Africa Orbital Elevator- control room
Hercury sighed heavily. "I was too naïve. The moment I took these people hostage…the A-laws saw them as nothing more than dead weight to their cause…" He motions his hands ordering all forces to assist the civilians to the surface as quick as possible and to evacuate the area.
"The federation will kill these 60,000 people…just because they know the truth."
A-laws Standby forces
Kati slammed her fist down on the arm rest in anger. "How could they be allowed to do this?" she questioned. She couldn't believe that A-laws would fire at civilians.
Billy looked at the map and comments "the commander is willing to do any sin imaginable to obtain true peace."
Kati ignored his words. "True peace? This isn't true peace, this is a massacre…"
Goodman's ship
Goodman smiles as he comments. "Watch as we destroy what too humanity centuries to build!"
Orbital Elevator – Earth
The Earth Federation forces stayed in position as they waited for something to happen. The Cherudim, Arios, Seravee, Freedom, Strike Rouge and both Murasames launched.
Tieria opened a com-link between his teammates. "Could the Innovators have a hand in this?" he questioned.
"Those bastards have really shown their true nature…" Lockon said in disgust.
Allelujah gets a visual on a Katharon suit heading down the tower. "Katharon forces have made a break for it!" he informed everyone. "Huh?" He watched as the Katharon suit was shot down by the Federations suits. This sparked an all-out battle between the forces.
"Damn it why did they have to do this now!" Lockon charged in ahead of the others.
"Lockon Stop!"
"You're being too reckless!"
The other Meisters rushed in and followed.
Kira sighed as he gripped the controls tightly. The Freedom spreads its wings out and flew toward the battle quickly. The Murasumes followed in their mobile armor forms. Athurn's unit flew by the Strike Rouge. He contacts her using a special com-link line given to them by Celestial Being to counter the jamming due to the high amounts of particles in the battle area. "Be careful…Cagalli…"
Athrun's unit flies off and transforms into its mobile suit mode and began firing at the enemy suits.
The Earth Federation forces were over powering the Katharon forces until a small group was destroyed by pink beams. The Arios charged in and fired at the Federation suits. It pulls out a saber and turned around, slashing a suit in half.
Another group was shot down by a large beam shot by the Seravee. Tieria looks down at all the old suits from the HRL, the Tierens. The Seravee aimed all of its cannons down at the forces and fired, obliterating them.
Kira uses the Freedom's high mobility to dodge the enemy's fire. The Freedom's cannons flipped out and the Multi-lock rose up in the cockpit. The icons locked onto multiple targets and the Freedom fired all of its weapons. The beams hit the arms and limbs of the suit. Kira was still adamant about not killing if he didn't need to. "This situation's already put a lot of people's lives at risk…" he thought to himself.
The strike Rouge held its shield up and kept on firing at the suits around it. It rotates frequently to avoid getting hit. "This is just crazy!" she yelled out.
Andrew's unit flew around and fired at the enemy units. The mobile armor fired off missiles. The missiles hit the torso of a couple units destroying them instantly.
Minerva
The Minerva arrived at their launching point and the mobile suits launched one by one. The two Zakus were on Guuls while the Saviour and Impulse proceeds into the battle.
In the Bridge, Gladys watched as the screen shows the image of the Archangel and Ptolemy. "They joined forces? But why are they attacking the Federation forces and not the rebels?" she questioned. She felt that troubling feeling come back again. Her hands gripped the arm rests tightly.
Shinn's camera shows him an image of the Meisters. "What the hell?" He couldn't believe what he saw; the Celestial Being suits were helping the rebels.
"Shinn!" Lunamaria cried out
"What?" he turned toward her direction. The camera's zoom in on the direction Lunamaria looked as he watched in shock. "I-is that the…Freedom?" He grits his teeth in anger, seeing the Freedom disarm a Federation suit. "It's helping them too?"
Athrun turned around, surprised to see the Impulse. "It's Shinn's suit…she was right!" Athrun saw the impulse firing at Katharon's forces. "No, he doesn't understand! Stop it!" he yelled out. He pushed the communication line to try to contact the Impulse. "Damn it!" Failing to do so, The Murasame transforms into its mobile armor form and charges toward the Impulse.
Shinn and Lunamaria fired their rifles at the enemy. Shinn had his sites on a Katharon Hellion. The beam on the Impulses' rifle charged, ready to fire. Athrun sees this and charged in faster. The Murasame rams into the Impulse, stopping its fire. The Impulse dropped its rifle from the hit as Shinn looked up. "What the?" he said. The Murasame transforms into its mobile suit mode and aims its rifle at the Impulse.
Shinn grunted in annoyance as the Impulse pulls out one of its sabers and dashed at the Murasame. Athrun's unit pulls out its saber and parries the Impulses slash. The two sabers collide as the two units fought, flying back and forth as their weapons clashed. "Who are you?" Shinn yelled out. "Stop this now, Shinn! You don't know you're doing!" Athrun yelled.
"You! What are you doing here helping those rebels?" The Impulse reached down, grabbing an Armor Knife and throws it at the Murasame. Athrun fired the CIWS Vulcans at the direction the knife was thrown, destroying it.
"Shinn!" Lunamaria cried out worriedly. The red Zaku aims the cannon and fired at the Murasame. The Murasame changed into its mobile armor form and moved up, dodging the blast. "Luna, stop! You can't take this guy. You go and take care of the other mobile suits; I'll deal with him…" Shinn said. He didn't want her to get hurt.
Luna saw how serious he was and didn't argue as she heads off firing at the other Katharon members.
Rey
Rey's Zaku fired a fury of missiles at a group of Katharon suits. He turns to the right as the camera zoomed in on the Freedom. "Freedom…" Rey grits his teeth together, remember what Durandal told him. He believed in Durandal's words, believing that he was Rau and that anything Rau must do he had to do.
"Freedom!" Rey shouts. The Zaku fired its rifle at the Freedom. Kira hears the sensors alerting him of incoming fire. He turned around to see the shots coming at him as he flipped the Freedom to dodge the shots. The Freedom hovered for a moment before drawing its saber. Kira dashed quickly at the suit and disarmed Rey's Zaku, cutting the legs off. Kira watched as the suit was picked up by its allies. "Who was that..?" he questioned.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy prepared to make its way up to space. "You can't expect the ship to do any good up in space. We'll be using too many particles on the way up there and by the time we're out in space we won't have anything powerful enough to destroy the weapon!" Ian argues.
He hears the door open and turned around, seeing Setsuna. "I'll use the 00 Raiser."
"What? But your conditi—"
"It's our best shot. The only thing that has the power to destroy that satellite weapon is the 00 Raiser, but you already know that…"
Sumeragi sighed. "Trans-am Raiser…"
"I need a Mission Plan…" Setsuna requests. Sumeragi turns off the line and thinks up of a plan for the 00 Raiser. She didn't expect to use the 00 Raiser considering his condition, but it really was their best chance at destroying the weapon.
"You're going to need a pilot for the 0 Raiser…" Ian said. "I could ask Lasse, but he's…"
Setsuna turned around looking at Saji "You'll be the pilot…"
"Me?"
"Sixty thousand lives are at stake. You will be fighting to save them…"
Saji agreed, keeping the thought of saving lives as his main motive for piloting. He gets into a pilot suit and sat in the 0 Raiser.
Sumeragi informs every one of the updated battle plan. Lockon, Kira and Andrew cut a pathway for Ptolemy to head up the tower. "We'll perform a two stage acceleration… understood?" Sumeragi asks.
"Roger." They said in unison.
The launch hatch opens as the 00 launched first, then the 0 Raiser. The two machines' docked, forming the 00 Raiser. The suit flew up towards Momento Mori.
Orbital Elevator – Control room
Hercury sat in the seat looking at everything, the room was empty and he was satisfied. "All the soldiers and hostages have made their way down, you should too" he said looking at Sergei.
"What about you?"
"I am the commander of this operation. I will stay and see it through to the end." He replies. "Whatever happens after this, please make sure future generations know the truth." He requests.
Sergei grunted in anger and pulled Hercury up and looked into his eyes angrily. "This isn't the right way to atone for your sins! Saving as many lives as you can is!" he lets Hercury go and heads out,
At Momento Mori the cannon charged up to ninety-three percent. One of the soldiers alerts Goodman of an incoming enemy. "Send the Empruss out and all other forces. No reason to hide anymore. It'd only delay the inevitable."
The asteroids disappeared and mobile suits dashed down at the gundam. The cannon came in view of everyone near the area.
Voltaire
Yzak watched as he gritted his teeth together. "Who's controlling that weapon? How did we fail to see this?:" He slammed his fist down in anger. He wanted to do something about it, but he had his orders. He learned from the last war what could happen to traitors even if it was for a good cause.
Dearka was in a similar situation. He defected from ZAFT earlier than Yzak and for that, he got demoted. He couldn't face another trial. Both of them watched helplessly as the cannon charged.
00 Raiser
The 00 Raiser reached a point where Setsuna felt he could destroy the weapon. "Preparing to release all compressed particles," The binders moved up and positioned themselves parallel to the GN sword II's. "Activate the Raiser system."
"Uh, understood," Saji pushed the buttons activating the system and watched the screen as it charged. A warning image appeared as he yelled back at Setsuna "Enemies detected!"
The 00 Raiser dodged the orange beams as Setsuna saw the mobile armor. The Empruss dashed at the 00 and fired the egner whips. The whips latched onto the 00 and shocks Saji and Setsuna. The two screamed in pain. "Saji…!"
Saji moved and watched the levels reaching their charged point. "S-system…."
Divine used the egner whips to hold the 00 Raiser, the particle cannon charged as he moved into at a closer range. "With this, I will avenge Bring's death!"
Saji watched the level rise up until the screen showed the words 'COMPLETE'. Saji tells Setsuna the system was online as Setsuna yelled out "Trans-am Raiser!" The 00 Raiser glowed a redish pink as it fired a large beam at the Empruss. Divine tried to use the GN field but the blast was too strong and broke through, destroying the Empruss and killing him in the process. The beam continued on rushing up towards the satellite weapon destroying all the suits that was in its path.
The Momento Mori reached full power as it prepared to fire. "Incoming high energy blast sir!"
"Uh…what?" Goodman watched a large pink beam shooting up and sighed as it clearly missed the weapon. "Ah it missed"
Voltaire
Yzak watched from the ship seeing the size of the blast. "The color of that beam…Get me a visual on what shot that!" he demanded.
An image showing a small portion of the 00 Raiser appeared on the screen. "So it is them….Celestial Being…"
"They miss though…" Dearka said disappointedly.
Goodman's location
"The beam is moving, sir" a soldier behind him said.
The Beam moved and started to cut the Satellite weapon. Setsuna yelled as he pushed the controls forward. He didn't hold back he put all the particles possible into the beam. The beam damaged the Weapon heavily but it wasn't enough.
"No, don't do it!" Setsuna watched in horror as the tip of the cannon still charged.
"DON'T DO IT!" he yelled. The 00 Raiser fell back down to earth as Setsuna watched the cannon fire.
The cannon fired once, but once was enough as it damaged the structure of the tower. The pillar began to auto purge, releasing its outer shell.
Yzak and Dearka watched in horror at the destruction the cannon caused.
Down below everyone stopped fighting at the sound of the explosion and beam firing. "Did he do it?" Kira asks. Andrew and everyone looked up hopefully. Shinn stopped as he looked up in the direction the Murasame looked.
Ptolemy
"The Cannon struck the Pillar, its auto purging!" Feldt informed.
"Fragments above will burn in the atmosphere, but the ones below will hit the Earth…."
Sumeragi prepares a message to all forces in the areas, the situation was critical. The message was sent out to both allies and enemies.
Everyone stopped fighting when they saw a piece of the tower fall.
"They really did it…" Allelujah said.
"The tower…it's collapsing!" Tieria cries out.
The message appears on everyone's screen. Sumeragi spoke about the situation
"To all units with in this airspace. I'm transmitting data via visual com-link." The image of the predicted destructions and areas of most damaged appeared on every pilots screen. "Please destroy the Pillar fragments that will be entering the air spaces I have indicated. Down below are densely populated areas."
"What!" Shinn said looking at the data.
"My god…." Lunamaria said.
Murrue and Gladys narrowed their eyes. Gladys grunted, "Why didn't I see this coming? Why was ZAFT left out of the attack?"She thought.
"Unless we work together and put aside our differences, tens of millions of lives will be destroyed. Do not fight as a soldier of a faction at war. Fight for humanity's sake. I beg of you, save those people's lives."
The Arios, Cherudim, Seravee, Freedom, Strike Rouge, and both Murasames moved out to destroy the fragments, leaving the battle behind. Shinn watched as the suits fired at the large pieces and destroyed them, but more kept coming down.
Lunamaria became nervous. It was one thing to break a colony down but it was completely different seeing the pieces raining down on her. It felt like a hopeless situation.
"Attention all ZAFT pilots, your orders are to destroy the fragments and do not allow one of them to hit the earth!" Heine ordered.
Follower the orders, the impulse and Zaku heads off and tries to intercept the pieces. Seeing the battle situation, Shinn switches to the Blast Impulse and heads off to destroy the fragments.
The Seravee turned around and defends a populated area as it aimed all of its cannon up at the falling fragments. The backpack opened revealing a Gundam face. "Releasing all compressed particles." The Seravee fired multiple shots destroying a group of the fragments creating a large cloud of smoke in the process. Down below the people saw the pieces falling and rushed to safety.
The Cherudim fired its Sniper gun at the pieces but it didn't get all of them like Lockon wanted. "Haro!" He yelled. Haro deploys the shield bits as the bits fired rapidly assisting Lockon in destroying the fragments. Some got past as Lockon grunted in anger at this. "No..!" he noticed a light blue colored beam firing the piece, destroying it. "Hey that's…" He saw the Lunamaria's Zaku behind him. "What are you looking at? Keep firing!" she yelled at him.
The Arios chased the fragments and fired its twin beam rifle at it rapidly. It transformed and continued firing, but the beams didn't get a wide range of fire. It aims its sub beam machine guns and fired at the fragments. Even though this gained more range there was just too many of them. "Damn it…." Allelujah looked down to see one pass him but calmed down when it was shot down. "Marie?" he questioned surprised by her appearance on the battlefield, "But—"
"This isn't a battle, this is to save lives!" she argued. The GN archer transformed and fired its beam rifles at the pieces. The Arios returned to firing at the fragments, but Allelujah kept an eye on Marie.
Kira activates his SEED mode. The Freedom fired its rifles at multiple fragments. The Freedom fired all of its weapons once more as It used its full burst. The blast destroys multiple fragments, but there were just too many, even for the multi-firing capability of the Freedom. Kira turned around trying to get one of the fragments when he sees it destroyed. He saw the Impulse. "That looks like…."
Shinn puts his voice on the speakers as his voice could be heard easily by Kira. "Come on!" The Blast impulse hovers next to the Freedom and fires its missiles and then the cannons flipped out and it fired the dual cannons.
The Freedom returns to firing the Fragments, remaining in its full bust mode.
The Strike rouge and the two Murasames gathered in a trio as they fired at the fragments. "Athrun, how can we keep this up? We'll run out of power!"
"Just keep firing!" he yelled at her. Athrun's unit fired off its anti-air missiles and destroyed a couple fragments. The combined fire power of the three provided great assistance to the destruction of the fragments. The three glanced down seeing shots being fired from below
"This is Katharon…" Lockon said noticing the suits.
"The Coup members…?" Tieria questioned seeing them firing and assisting Celestial Being.
"And the regular army!" Allelujah said.
Every pilot there stopped being a soldier for a Military group; they only focused on saving the lives of the innocent. Coordinators fought together assisting naturals and naturals helped coordinators.
The sensors blared on all the suits when more mobile suits appeared.
Ptolemy
"More forces form the Atlantic Federation has arrived!" Feldt said.
Sumeragi thought of who could arrive this late. "Must be that group…"
"Should we call back Mr. Erde and the others?" Mileina suggests.
Sumeragi thought for a moment, "They wait until now to come…just so their government doesn't look bad by ignoring a crisis by sending in a small number of forces so they send in the Cavalry now…" Sumeragi deduced. She watched the Gaia, Chaos, and Purple Windam lead many suits in to help.
"No, it doesn't look like they've come here to fight."
Phantom Pain forces
"Alright everyone, Lets hurry and finish this off." Neo ordered.
"Right." The two extended said in unison.
All of the units fired their weapons on the falling fragments. With this many units out on the battlefield the situation had lightened up with a small glimmer of hope.
Kira stopped his firing for a moment and looked around. "What's this feeling…?"
00 Raiser
The 00 Raiser fired and destroyed what fragments it could. "Come on, Charge!" he yelled. He needed trans-am but he used too many particles in the attack on the weapon. The sensors blared as the 00 Raiser bumped into something. The camera zoomed in on the Saviour. "That guy…"
The two suits exchanged glances for a moment before firing at the fragments back to back. The Saviour uses its plasma cannons and rifle to fire at the fragments. Saji grunted and did all he could to help moving the controls back and forth as the 0 Raiser fired it's missiles at the fragments.
After a long moment of firing Saji informs Setsuna of the particle levels. "Good." The 00 Raiser broke from the position as Heine looked over. "Trans Am Raiser!" Setsuna yelled. The 00 Raiser fired another large beam and moved it destroying a large amount of the fragments that fell. The 00 Raiser stops firing as dove down to assist the others.
Heine watched in awe as he saw the raw power the 00 had. He watches the suit diving down as he saw two circles coming from the suits drives. Heine follows to see what else this suit could do.
The 00 Raiser stops in the air as it fired powerful beams at the fragments destroying two or more with just one shot. The Meisters saw Setsuna using trans-am and does the same. Each suit activates their trans-am and continued to fire at the fragments.
The 00 Raisers' GN sword II emits beams from where the rifle shot its beams. The 00 used the GN sword II's beam sword mode. The 00 combines the swords at the handle and throws it horizontally. The sword spun rapidly and sliced up many fragments. (1)
The Cherudim used the added fire power of Trans-am to spread out the attack of the bits and his weapons. Lunamaria was forced to stop, seeing the energy of her suit decreasing by the minute. She looks up to see constant explosions due to the Cherudim's fire.
Arios continued on firing its submachine guns. The beams were much stronger now and were able to do much more damage.
The Seravee fired high powered concentrated beams at the falling fragments. It then charged a large beam and fired.
The combined fire power of all four suits using Trans-am astounds everyone in the airspace. Shinn watched as his eyes were wide open at the power of these gundams. "How…how is that possible…how can they still have that much fire power." Shinn just stares at the 00 Raiser seeing the particle circles looking at it like it was something he couldn't let his eyes off of.
Shinn and Kira watched the 00 Raiser pass them as they saw the green particle circles becoming larger and larger. Shinn started to hear voices in his head. "Huh? What the hell's going on….?" Kira blinked as he thought, "This again..?" The 00 Raiser continued to fight as long as it could while it used trans-am. It circles the entire area before stopping and firing again. The circles grew larger and larger as the captains watched.
Ptolemy
"Miss Sumeragi, 00's Trans-am—"
"I know… It's causing another one…." Sumeragi knew with the amount of particles on the battlefield something was happening and something was going to come through.
"The circumferences of the particles seem to be larger than before." Anew informs.
"What's going on…Setsuna…?" Sumeragi thought.
Archangel and Minerva
Murrue and Gladys watched as the bright light grew more and more. "This light..." Murrue said
"It's so…." Talia spoke.
"Soothing…" the two said in unison.
The pilots in the vicinity of 00 Raisers Trans-am experienced particles flooding their cockpits as they heard voices. Stella looked around confusingly as she wondered where the voices were coming from.
Shinn looked around just as confused as she heard a girl's voice. "Who is that..?"
Kira and Murrue's eyes widened when they heard a familiar voice. "I-it can't be…." Murrue said aloud.
Sting put his hands on his head, "Make the voices stop!" He yelled.
Just as it came so quickly the effect ends as the 00 Raiser's trans-am stopped.
Ptolemy's sensors blared as A-laws suits arrived. Sumeragi noticed the models and assumed them to be from Kati's troops.
Andrei and Louise aided in the last of the fragment destruction. While destroying the fragments, Andrei discovered two suits coming out of the tower. "They must be the leaders of this Coup, follow me!" he orders. Louise follows him as the two head off to chase after Hercury and Sergei. Marie spots the Tieren and noticed the design as she goes after it. "Marie!" Allelujah yelled. He follows her in response.
Near the end of the day
Most of the forces have retreated. The sun sets as Sergei watched the destruction caused by the incident. He finds Hercury's suit, relieved that his friend made it out alive. Hercury spoke of how he caused all of this and he was about to say something when a beam shot through the suit. "Hercury!" Sergei yelled out.
Andrei fires at Hercury's suit before he could finish his sentence. Sergei charged in at the mobile suit in vengeance. Andrei charged in at the Tieren, not knowing that his father was inside until he heard his voice. "You? You're a part of this?" His anger grew assuming his father was a part of this chaos.
"Andrei, wait let me explain!" Sergei wanted to tell his son the truth about the army he served, but Andrei was too angered to listen, blinded by a gruesome hatred for his father. "You killed mother and now you do this?" he yelled.
The Tieren struggled; Sergei didn't want to fight his son. He didn't try to put up a good fight. Marie searched around for the Colonel and finds him fighting a GN-XIII. She tries to help him but Louise gets in her way. "I won't let you get near the Lieutenant." She said.
Marie watched as Andrei stabbed a beam saber into the cockpit of the Tieren. "Colonel!" she yelled. The Arios stopped by her and Allelujah heard her screaming. "Colonel? That was Colonel Smirnov?" Allelujah questioned.
One month time skip
Ptolemy
The crew rests up and resupplies. Setsuna continued his treatment for GN poisoning. Allelujah had trouble with Marie who claimed to be Soma. Each Meister had something to do while they had time away from the battlefield.
Feldt and Mileina kept an eye on the sensors when something odd happened. "What the?" The screens on all of the computers and modules flickered and the main computer showed a screen with the words "Downloading" and then a screen showing the words "Updating"
"Are we being hacked…?" Sumeragi asks.
"I can't tell, all of the controls are locked…" Feldt said worriedly.
There was an image shown on the screen. This image was not only shown to the crew of Ptolemaios, but it was shown worldwide. Durandal, Dijibril, and everyone watched as the image portrayed a number 8 in particle form.
ZAFTs forces were watching an announcement made by the fake lacus when it was interrupted.
"What is this?" Gladys questioned.
"Those look like…" Murrue noticed the green particles that reminded her of the 00 Raiser.
The number turns sideways as the number split. The two halves then moved toward each other and a bright light flashed. When the light subsided, an old balding man sat in a chair holding a cane. On the floor was Celestial Beings insignia.
"Two worlds become one." The man said.
Ribbons and Celestial Being members watched in shock, seeing Aeolia Shemberg on the screen.
"This is could only mean…" Sumeragi realized what came of the 00 Raiser's last trans-am.
"Veda is here" Ribbons said smiling.
(1) - This maneuver can be seen on Gundam Musou 3 00 Raiser Gameplay, it is the 00's Chain 4 move.
Chapter 10 is done. Edited it for a long time before posting it, but if there is slight errors, then point it out kindly . I am taking the next week off to plan out the next couple chapters, so the next update will be on or in between 3-27-11 to 4-3-11.
Next time – Chapter 11 "Chase"