Mission 498: Sub-Mission 2: Defense of the Sanc Kingdom

Lt. Commander Elise von Dietrich

This was the hardest part of the mission ever; the Romafeller Foundation was intent on destroying the Sanc Kingdom and we had to make sure that the mobile dolls never stepped one foot in the capital city. Lieutenant Noien was secretly building up a defense force to help protect the Sanc Kingdom from the incoming onslaught. When Princess Relena found out about the defense force, she permitted her and Herro to continue building it up to a certain extent. Herro was given the Zeta Mk II from Trieze Kushrinada; he had made modifications to it before giving it to Herro and asking him to give it back to its original pilot. The Zeta Mk II's armor was upgraded to Gundanium alloy; it was given a buster rifle, better beam sabers and its combat system was upgraded to the ZERO System. This ZERO Combat System was tailored for Newtypes and for Loren, even though he wasn't a Newtype like Emma and most of Gundam pilots in the Gekko Fleet. Trieze really had been upgrading all of the Gundams in the Gekko Fleet with Gundanium alloy and certain enhancements like the upgraded combat system. Fa lost one of the Rick Diaz suits and Trieze found it and modified it to the same extent as the Gundams. Trieze was really helpful to us since we were instrumental in helping him take out the Earthsphere Alliance. Neyla had everyone scrambling in the Black Reaper Unit to get every bit of Intel she could present to Princess Relena Peacecraft. The Black Reapers got everything needed and more Intel about the Romafeller Foundation's plan for building a battleship, Libra, so they could show off their strength. Milliardo was out in space when Romafeller started marching towards the Sanc Kingdom; I hoped and prayed that he would make it and bring at least two Gundam pilots with him.

Lieutenant Emma Sheen

All of us began getting back into our Gundams and were training ourselves on the ZERO Combat system that Trieze Kushrinada had installed in our Gundams when we got separated from them. Herro warned us about the ZERO system and told us we might end up killing each other in the process. Even though we were warned, we still continued our training. We really didn't have much time until Romafeller would come and attack. We eventually got the hang of the ZERO system after Fa and Roux tried to kill each other.

The day before Romafeller attacked, many mobile suit pilots from OZ came and joined the Imperial Guard to help defend the Sanc Kingdom; we even had guerilla soldiers come and join up too. The princess was a bit uneasy when OZ deserters and guerilla fighters were suddenly entering her country. Neyla and Lieutenant… I mean Captain Noien assured that they would make sure that those who joined the Imperial Guard would stay and not run. In the mobile suit bay, Neyla and Noien assembled the new recruits to discuss some things.

"All right you're all aware that Romafeller is going to attack the Sanc Kingdom and try to destroy it completely," began Noien. "You are part of the Imperial Guard and you need to remember that we are only protecting this country, not attacking anyone. Second, you must realize that as a member of the Guard you will be defending the teachings of the Peacecraft family."

There was silence among the recruits as Neyla stepped forward and motioned to one of pilots to open a channel into outer space where Milliardo and the other Gundam pilots could hear. The pilot of the Sandrock Gundam went back to the Maguna Corps to get his Gundam back, fight off Romafeller in the Middle East and bring them back to the Sanc Kingdom so they could help us in the oncoming fight.

Neyla cleared her throat and said, "I want you all to raise your right hand and repeat after me. This is the oath you swear by. If any mobile suit pilot in space or on Earth wishes to come to the aid of the Sanc Kingdom, then I ask you do the same as well. Don't say this oath if your intentions are not noble and just."

Milliardo Peacecraft

I didn't know what Neyla was thinking, but I raised my right as she began speaking.

"I solemnly swear," began Neyla.

"I solemnly swear…"

"To defend this nation, the Sanc Kingdom."

The pilots at the Sanc Kingdom and I repeated the next line. As I repeated the next line I heard the pilots of Gundam 05 and 02 repeating the same words as I did.

"And uphold the teachings of the Peacecraft family; the teachings of total pacifism."

The words left a sharp impression in my mind as she said that line. I still said the line and Neyla continued.

"I will lay my life for this nation until the day I no longer breathe life or until the sovereign releases me from this oath."

"My strength will uphold the weak and my sword will defend the just."

This line sounded like she took it from the Code of the Round Table and it actually moved me. I felt that I was being knighted to defend my country from Romafeller.

"I swear that I will keep this oath and if I don't, I will banish myself from this kingdom unless the sovereign pardons me."

"This is my oath and I will keep in my heart when I go into battle and service for this nation, the Sanc Kingdom."

Neyla's oath definitely left an impression on me as I racing towards Earth and the Sanc Kingdom. Both pilots followed me wanting to join the fight. Then the pilot of Gundam 05 spoke up and said, "This woman has a sense of justice. Atonku wants to fight in this battle and I will follow his wish. As for this woman, I will follow her if Atonku wants to follow her."

"I want to help any enemy of the Romafeller Foundation," said Duo Maxwell, the pilot Gundam 02. "The god of death is returning to Earth and I'm gonna punish anyone who attacks the Sanc Kingdom."

I smiled and said to the Gundam pilots, "Thank you for helping defend my home country."

"Hey don't thank us until the battle is done," Duo said proudly.

Char Azenable

The oath the soldiers of the Imperial Guard swore was impressive. After we all said the oath, we all began making preparations to defend the Sanc Kingdom. Neyla was already going over the battle plan with Princess Relena. Part of the A.E.U.G. force and Karba would assault Romafeller bases in the heel of Italy, try and intercept as many mobile dolls before they cross the mountain border and cut down Romafeller's numerical superiority over the Imperial Guard and launch long range missiles from the ARGAMA towards the sea. The Blue Typhoon and Aldumha would move towards the sea and strike the main force and stall for more time to complete our defensive positions; at least three hours to complete the positions. The Sandrock Gundam and the Maguna Corps got here ten hours before the main attack reached our string of island fortifications guarding New Port City. The rest of the A.E.U.G. was spread out defending the mountain border, New Port City or the island fortifications. This seemed like an impossible battle to me, but Commander Kaiou always loves to fight against the odds and come out on top victoriously. Lt. Commanders Elise von Dietrich and Eika Ichijo were commanding the defense of the capital; Lt. Commander Otoha Sakurano commanded the island fortifications' attempt to buy time for us at the capital and Lt. Commander Karen Sonomiya led the defense of the mountain border. Commander Kaiou commanded the entire battle plan and the attack on three Romafeller bases in the heel of Italy. Once the attack on the bases commenced, the mission clock started ticking. Tails came on the COM and reported, "Enemy main force approaching from the sea. Radar is picking up forty aircraft carrying twenty Virgos mobile dolls each. Island sonar is picking up Cancer and Pieces mobile dolls underwater, about one hundred thirty six of each. Romafeller reinforcements are two hours behind the main force carrying double the number of Virgos mobile dolls."

Commander Kaiou snarled curse words in Spanish over the COM and thought for two minutes about what to do now that she learned about the reinforcements. She came on the COM again after snarling another round of curse words in Spanish.

"Okay I want the Taurus Squad from Section Nine to launch from the Blue Typhoon and engage the reinforcements," ordered Commander Kaiou. "If the reinforcements come under attack the main force will have to pull some its main troops to come and put down the attackers."

The Commander opened a line to Lt. Commander Sakurano and said, "Have the island fortifications let the main force pass without any contest." Lt. Commander Sakurano froze in place and protested the change in plans. The commander then explained her change in tactics.

"If you strike early when the main force is passing through, the reinforcements will easily finish you off when the main force weakens the defenses and heads for New Port City. By allowing the main force to pass through unopposed, Duke Durmel will think it's going to be an easy battle."

"I get it, if the reinforcements get weakened or destroyed and then the main force will have to rely on what it's got or retreat," finished Otoha.

"That's correct Otoha," replied Neyla. "Have Shadow and the others wait until the reinforcements have halfway passed through the fortifications."

"Yokai," acknowledged Otoha.

The commander then put me in charge of seizing the first of the three targets while the bulk of the Gekko Fleet remained in New Port City. Amuro Ray, Lieutenant Emma Sheen and Fa were stationed at the mountain border with Lieutenant Commander Karen Sonomiya and the force that was preparing to slow down the mobile dolls. Trieze Kushrinada and his soldiers were stationed along a one hundred fifty mile stretch of land thirty to fifty miles from the mountain border of the Sanc Kingdom and were asked to quickly create a string of fortified posts at certain areas of strategic importance along the way with the goal of wearing down the mobile dolls. Once the first line had been penetrated they would then fall back to their next of defense and etcetera. The Trieze Faction would only be permitted to enter the Sanc Kingdom once the fortifications had been breached by the mobile dolls.

Strike Force Commander Neyla Kaiou (MISSION CLOCK +0:57:13)

Romafeller base "Alpha," en route to Target Delta

The attack was swift and the base fell like dominos in a snap. Romafeller didn't seem to invest in man power for this base because we were able use our overwhelming force to take it and the base staff put up weak resistance as the Hunters and Elites moved in to clean out the base. That's right, I said Hunters and Elites… you thought it was only going to be mobile suit pilots only? No one mentioned that seven black ops units and civilian engineers were in on the battle plan because I never told the others that. As we moved to the next base, we encountered better resistance to target Delta but it was a little less unified and lacked the necessary strength to beat us back. Sango, Kohaku and I led the charge to the next base and right now we've just got a visual of target Delta.

Ensign Sarah (MISSION CLOCK +5:09:51)

Island Fort #5, 150 miles south southwest of New Port City

As predicted by Neyla, the Romafeller Foundation sent a massive force to completely wipe out the Sanc Kingdom. The main force had passed us and the reinforcements were following right behind the main force just two hours like Tails said on his report of the enemy force. The reinforcements were half way through our fortifications when Lt. Commander Otoha Sakurano clicked her COM and signaled to begin the attack. Natonku and I burst out of the water and opened fire on a mobile doll carrier. The whole area around a hundred mile radius flashed with tints of red, yellow and orange as the battle to weaken or wipe out the reinforcements commenced. The Blue Typhoon launched the Taurus squad while firing its laser cannons at the mobile dolls that deployed out of their carriers. Two fighters also launched from the Blue Typhoon to assist the Taurus Squad in attacking the reinforcements. The Romafeller reinforcements didn't expect an attack on them. Within three hours, the reinforcements began withdrawing and we began a push to wipe them out completely. An hour later the reinforcements were destroyed and Otoha radioed Neyla that the reinforcements had been wiped out and we wanted to join the battle in New Port City.

"Permission denied," answered Neyla.

"But Neyla…" I protested.

"We need you guys regroup on any island forts that have sustained little or less than serve damage," said Neyla in a firm tone, "and wait for the Romafeller main force to retreat in your direction."

"And if they don't retreat?" I challenged Neyla.

"Then Elise and Eika-san will call you guys in for pincer attack to finish them off or relieve the defenders," answered Neyla.

I huffed in frustration, but I had to listen to her. Orders were orders and I wasn't going to question them; besides, her plans were always brilliant and they worked. Otoha began calling the island forts to begin reorganization of our defenses. Of the twenty island forts established as a first line of defense, three were destroyed and seven were badly damaged beyond repair. Forty-six soldiers lost their lives while we attacked the reinforcements as they were heading to New Port City and retreating. Romafeller lost three hundred nineteen brave soldiers in the ambush. Neyla then came on the COM and reported, "All targeted Romafeller bases have been captured and we are moving towards the Sanc Kingdom and assist the mountain border defense."

Several winks from acknowledgement lights came from the commanders.

Lt. Commander Karen Sonomiya (MISSION CLOCK +8:41:19)

Sanc Kingdom mountain border

I was relieved when Neyla said she and the other A.E.U.G. and Karba forces were coming to help us out. After we divided up the forces I was left with a pretty weak force; but we were able to establish a system of fortifications and we dug a network of caves that hid land based Mega Particle Cannons that we could fire at the mobile dolls with. The mobile doll carriers and mobile dolls themselves were grinded to a standstill and had to fight through the defensive fortifications of the Trieze Faction. Trieze himself fought in an antique Leo mobile suit called Tallgesse II. His unit was looking to redeem themselves in battle after losing some critical battles and being chased around the world by Duke Durmel's mobile dolls. Thirty minutes was all it took to break through a fortified position; but every time when the mobile dolls moved to the position previously occupied, it would be destroyed with charges that were dug the night before. It looked like they were practicing scorched-earth policy to keep the mobile dolls from taking the positions and using them. Each time a position was lost to the mobile dolls, the Trieze Faction would fight fiercer and grind them down again and longer than at the last position. The Trieze Faction was getting closer and closer to the border; Captain Henkensen and the Radish were getting visuals of the Trieze Faction falling back at least every forty-five to eighty minutes. Neyla said in order to use the land based Mega Particle Cannons we would have to wait until mobile dolls were at least thirty minutes away from the border. Trieze and his men eventually made it to the mountain border and skipped defending the last string of defenses when he learned we had Mega Particle Cannons hidden in the mountains. The Radish updated me that the mobile dolls were forty minutes away and if we were going to use the cannons, we had to charge them up right then and there while the mobile dolls were approaching. I gave the order to charge up the Mega Particle Cannons and set defenses around the mouth of the caves while they were charging. The mobile dolls advanced faster than expected; but the cannon was already charged up and ready to fire.

"Mobile dolls are ten minutes away from border," reported Captain Henkensen. "If you're going to fire the Mega Particle Cannons, fire them now while the mobile dolls advancing."

I gave the order to the mobile suit pilots guarding the entrances of the caves to pull away and fire the cannons. Multiple shots exited the caves and raced to their intended targets striking them with ease. When the smoke cleared about sixty-nine point eight percent of the mobile dolls were wiped out while more were on the way. The limited number of mobile dolls gave us a little breathing room and time to integrate forces from the Trieze Faction into our defenses. When the dolls entered the country, we began our counterattack to destroy the mobile dolls or force or them to retreat. Colonel Trieze commented that the mobile dolls weren't going to retreat unless their controllers ordered them to. It was really okay as long as there weren't any people piloting those Virgos mobile suits; I really don't want to have to kill people; life is too precious to me.

Lt. Commander Eika Ichijo (MISSION CLOCK +7:07:09)

New Port City

As Neyla predicted, the main force came to New Port City to destroy it. We weren't going to let Romafeller destroy the country while we were defending it. Tails' report was accurate when we got visual of the incoming invasion force and it was massive.

"Commence attack of the carriers," barked Elise. "We need to cut down the number of mobile dolls we'll have to face on the ground."

"Launch Cancer and Pieces suits from the underwater docks," I ordered Control and Command. "If Tails is right, we'll have to face an underwater attack and we'll need to defend our onshore positions."

"Roger that Lt. Commander," acknowledged C&C.

Mobile suits were already firing at the carriers as they were getting ready to drop their payload of mobile dolls. Mobile dolls were firing at us as they landed in the water and they deployed their shields to block our mobile suits' beam rifles. Had Romafeller done their homework correctly, they would've seen the upgrades we gave the Imperial Guard. We gave them Adamant Shredders to punch through any shield as well as rockets and surface-to-air missiles. We fought back hard thanks to the Maguna Corp when they launched their ambush attack on the mobile dolls. Milliardo came on time just as our defenses were about to collapse and cave in. He came piloting Kamille's Zeta Gundam along with three other Gundams.

"The God of Death is back and it's time carry out his wrath!" exclaimed the pilot of the Gundam carry a scythe.

"Hi everybody, we're here!" exclaimed Purru. "Sorry for the wait."

"We're just glad we got extra help," commented Noien.

"I appreciate your efforts to defend my home kingdom," Milliardo said to Noien.

I ignored the reunion between Milliardo and Noien and ordered, "All units in New Port City, keep up the counterattack until all mobile dolls are wiped out! No cowering in fear!"

"Who said we're going to cower in fear Lt. Commander Ichijo?" challenged one of the mobile suit pilots. "All right boys, we're going to send these mobile dolls to hell even we go down with them!"

I looked over to Elise and she was frustrated by the mobile dolls; as was Tsunakashi, the wolf spirit in her body. I could sense that they were going to do the same thing Neyla did during the battle against the Metrex, unleash Tsunakashi's true form, her Burst Mode. They gathered all the power they had and concentrated it into the device Elise had her hand when she appeared out of Kikikashi.

"Charge, spirit DNA, BURST MODE!!" shouted Elise as she ran her hand over the energy they mustered together.

Elise disappeared back into Kikikashi and the armor began glowing bright colors like an aurora as day turned into night instantly. After a split second, Tsunakashi appeared out of the bright aurora. The armor around her face, most of her legs and arms were gone. Tsunakashi's face was a bright blue with navy blue stripes like that of a tiger, she had a slim figure and her lance continuously glowed different colors. Most of us were amazed at Tsunakashi in her true form as we watched her use her powers to defeat the mobile dolls. She moved to the sea and aided the costal defenses by creating a large massive wall of ice in the ocean and sent frozen brightly colored wolves at the mobile dolls striking them with fierce swiftness. Then what was left of main force were about to drop their mobile dolls when Tsunakashi aimed her lance up into the sky and sent ice energy up in the sky.

"Frozen Lobo Meteor Strike!" shouted Tsunakashi as frozen wolves rained down on the carriers and completely destroyed them all.

The battle to defend New Port City was over; all that was left to do was to go help Karen-chan at the mountain border. Tsunakashi led the charge with the survivors of the siege towards the mountain border.

I cleared my throat and said on the COM to the island defenders, "The main Romafeller force has been destroyed at New Port City; all units are to move quickly to the mountain border and help with repealing the other mobile doll force."

"Yokai!" acknowledged Otoha.

Lt. Commander Otoha Sakurano (MISSION CLOCK +15:38:26)

Sanc Kingdom Mountain Border

All of us boarded the Blue Typhoon and the Aldumha headed to the mountain border to finish off the mobile doll invasion force. Even though the main force had been destroyed, we still had the force Karen-chan had been holding back while we took care of the capital and island defenses. Karen-chan was getting very tired from holding back the mobile dolls and she needed relief right away. We actually outran the force from the capital because Karen-chan's need was great and I wanted us to get there quick as possible. Karen-chan was flooded with relief that we made it to help her and the force under her command. We quickly launched as soon as we arrived on the scene. Noien contacted Princess Relena about their move to relieve Karen-chan.

"Miss Relena we're moving to the mountain border to assist the border defense," said Noien.

"All right," acknowledged Relena. "Make sure that you and the other Gundam pilots return so we can discuss how we're going to react to this attack."

"Roger that," replied Noein.

It took only an hour and a half to destroy the remaining mobile dolls and we returned to New Port City to discuss our next course of action.