Mobile Suit Gundam SEED/Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED: Rebellion

By: Ominae

Rating: T

NOTE:

Concept of the Gundam SEED series are under the copyright of Mitsuo Fukuda, Bandai and Sunrise. Cameo appearances of characters from Mobile Suit Gundam: Lost War Chronicles are under the copyright of Bandai Games, Masato Natsumoto and Tomohiro Chiba. Cameo appearance of Sophia DiFalco and other elements of Birds of a Feather are a courtesy from Solid Shark. All other characters and technology (weapons, vehicles) are under my jurisdiction, with some exceptions.

Summary:

With Equatorial Union government forces leading the assault on the EURM-held Pasir Ris base, the mercenaries and the EURM rebels are mobilized to fight back against the invasion in order to halt the EURM's attempt to press on towards the nation's capital. Can they survive the attack or die trying? Stay tune to this chapter to find out.

Chapter 12: The Mercenaries, Part 4

Runway, EUA Pasir Ris, Singapore, Equatorial Union

Two people were seen running towards a parked PMP (Propulsion & Machinery Progress) FX-550 Skygrasper painted in a gray and black scheme. With a ladder clamped on the right side of the cockpit's edge, the two mercenary fighters were being readied for combat as the vehicle was the only air fighter made available to the mercenaries with F-7D Spearheads being used by EURM pilots.

"Say?" One of them had a pilot's suit on, on loan to her from the EURM, while climbing the ladder to the Skygrasper's navigation seat. "Why don't you have a piloting suit?"

"I can easily tell you why, oh Victorian Kestrel." grinned the blonde man, playing briefly with his ponytail before pointing to his collared shirt and necktie. "If I'm going to die later on," The man smirked to Sophia, watching him from the lens of her pilot helmet. "then I'd rather die with some class."

Sophia frowned at him. "Whatever, Madigan." Why can't Yoon and the others hurry up with the other Skygrasper instead of sticking along with Kaite?


Outskirts of EUA Pasir Ris, Singapore, Equatorial Union

On the outskirts of the main rebel camp, EURM and mercenary mobile suits and fighters backed by EURM soldiers and mercenaries on foot came face-to-face with government mobile suits and infantry backed by OMNI reinforcements.

"Sweet mother!" Elijah grinned from inside the cockpit of his customized ZGMF-1017 GINN, firing his 76 mm MMI-M8A3 machine gun at the incoming government F-7D Spearheads and Primus mobile suits. "This is better than handling a contract job!" After he reloaded his machine gun, he placed it on the GINN's rear and drew out his MA-M3 heavy sword. He then charged towards a government Strike Dagger, cutting its right arm that held the mobile suit's ES01 beam saber.

"Concentrate on what you're doing, Elijah!" reminded Gai, using his MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame Second L in action. Dodging the beam attack from the 350 mm gun launcher of a government Buster Dagger, he drew out a couple of Armor Schneider combat knives and dashed to his target. Stabbing the enemy mobile suit on its cockpit and neck, he noticed electrical charges emitted from the Buster Dagger before he took out the blades from it. After getting out of the way, the mobile suit soon exploded and it concealed the wails of the government pilot who had died along in the explosion.

Better check it with the people. Inside the cockpit of his Secundus, Rick patched in a link with Noel with Talia and the others from the command center. "Noel! Any reports on the hole traps near the base?"

"Yes there is." Rick grinned upon hearing the news. "Talia does have the details on the traps; I heard that all the traps were used."

"Great, thanks Noel." Rick then patched up a link with Talia's. "Talia, any information on the guys who fell for the traps?"

"Yes, I do." replied Talia. "In fact, I have some feeds from some of the mercenaries on foot. I should give you a link in your cockpit shortly."

Observing the visual links from the Secundus' cockpit monitors, he saw that most mobile suits and a Linear Tank had fallen for the trap. Two government Strike Daggers, a Duel and Long Dagger, a Primus, an OMNI Strike Dagger and Dagger L, most likely from the Atlantic Federation, have fallen for the hole traps. Better tell the rest on what to do.

"Talia!" Rick yelled, seeing a Duel Dagger charge at him with its beam saber. "Coordinate with the artillery units to strike them down now!" Seeing the immediate threat, Rick drew out the Kris beam saber and crouched before he sliced the Duel Dagger in half, resulting in an explosion.

"I'll take care of that. Over and out." Rick stared at the left monitor from his seat and saw the 155 mm cannons of the Continental Military AGM (Artillery Gun Model) 1 howitzers aiming upwards before it fired its shells towards the hole traps that he had set up 2 hours ago, destroying its metallic victims.

"Avir, you guys okay?" Rick patched a radio link with his Israeli comrade, seeing his opaque faceplate and helmet on his screen.

"We're all fine here." Avir answered, frowning while the opaque faceplate hid his features. "We just didn't expect this much aggressiveness from the government and the OMNI contingent."

"Right. Over and out." With that, Rick killed the screen that he used to make contact before concentrating back on the main screens. Rick eyed an OMNI Strike Dagger remove the folded shoulder stock from the 57 mm M703 beam rifle. Have to take him out! Our Primus and Secundus suits don't have phase shift. Lucky OMNI bastards!

Lifting the OMNI Strike Dagger after using his Secundus' thrusters to catch the lone mobile suit by surprise, Rick heaved it by the arm before he tossed it to a group of OMNI Linear Tanks. Seeing the tanks were crushed, he fired his Floro 40 mm MK-1 CIWS on the crippled Strike Dagger, destroying it and the tanks in the process. Good thing I had the Secundus personally calibrated to lift a mobile suit made by OMNI so's I could execute a shoulder throw.

"Now where's that rifle I dropped?" Seeing the FERFRANS 60 mm ML-1 beam rifle that he dropped, he ejected the clip to check if it was empty. Knowing that it was, he tossed the clip aside and withdrew another kept on the Hindalco anti-beam shield on the Secundus' right arm.

Strange? Rick felt something tingle in his brain. Something was suspicious in the battle ahead of him.

What is it? Is someone who I don't know around here? What's this old feeling that I just felt a while ago?


"Charge!"

Shinn, using a regular GINN, widly fired his 76 mm MMI-M8A3 machine gun at incoming OMNI Strike Daggers and GAT-02L2 Dagger Ls that were trying to approach EUA Pasir Ris. Hastily reloading his weapon, he turned the weapon's barrel against loyalist Primuses, Buster Daggers and Long Daggers.

Damn it! Damn it to hell! At least I can partially take my revenge on OMNI for what they did to Orb, but the one who I should be after is the Freedom...

Riika was supporting Shinn, using a regular GINN in her first encounter with loyalist forces. Armed with the M69 Barrus heavy particle cannon, she aimed the weapon's scope with the aid of her special glasses and pulled the trigger. A red beam emitted from the Barrus' barrel and it plowed through several loyalist and OMNI mobile suits before it could be heard, at the end, destroying a Radar Truck used by loyalist forces on loan by the OMNI contingent.

Why did ZAFT secretly gave us GINNs, CGUEs, GINN High Manuevers, GuAIZs and BuCUEs? They should've dumped these models and fielded the ZAKU Warriors instead. Noticing two Primuses drawing out their Kris beam sabers and leaping in the air thanks to its thrusters, Riika fired the missiles from her M68 Pardus missile launchers mounted on her GINN's legs after she had a lock-on on the two mobile suits.

"Gotcha!" Riika grinned, eyeing the two exploding mobile suits before turning the barrel of her Barrus particle cannon towards a strange purple and dark grey Windam mobile suit in the area. Riika squeezed off a shot at the new mobile suit, but she could only watch as it dodged her attack before it tried to attack her with its ES04B beam saber.

"Damn!" Riika grabbed her MA-M3 heavy sword after she dropped her Barrus particle cannon and attempted to strike the new enemy. As the sword was about to hit the Windam's A52 offensive shield Type E, a ZGMF-515 CGUE was then in front of her without Riika noticing and tried to thrust its MA-M4A heavy sword at the Windam. Howver, its pilot had quickly blocked it in impulse. Riika halted her attack when the CGUE was in front of her.

"Think you can kill one of my comrades?" sneered Rey, inside the cockpit of the CGUE. I was able to sense him though. Wonder if he's familiar. "Take this!"

What? This can't be! He reminds me of a ZAFT commander that OMNI used to fight with before... Neo gritted his teeth, using his Windam's A52 offensive shield to block the stab attack meant for him. Good thing I sensed his approach.

"Here's help!" Dearka, from the cockpit of one of the Buster Daggers that he acquired from the EURM, began to connect the 350 mm gun launcher and 94 mm high-energy rifle to form an anti-armor shotgun. Aiming it at the Windam, he fired four shots that proved to be meaningless when Neo had also dodged the shots meant for him; they instead went for two OMNI GAT-01A1 105 Daggers in its Aile Dagger configuration, instantly destroyed when the shots made contact with the Daggers twice.

"I sense someone." Neo looked at the monitors inside his Windam. "I felt someone was here too besides this CGUE." Activating the rocket thrusters on the Windam's mounted AQM/E-A4ME Jet Striker, he began to search the battlefield to find out where the second link was coming from.

"Thanks." Riika thanked Dearka and Rey for saving her hide.

"No problem." replied the two in unison.


On the ground from the mobile suit battles, EURM infantry and special forces soldiers were clashing with their loyalist counterparts on foot with assistance from their tanks and armored vehicles. Only this time, they were being backed by loyalist and OMNI Marines.

"The Marines! The Marines are here!" yelled an EURM Special Strike Force soldier, making sure his Equatorial Union Army flecktarn toque was on before he engaged some loyalist soldiers with his SAR-24 assault rifle while using the hill as cover.

"Shit!" murmured another. "Why aren't our Marine guys coming to aid us?"

"Apprently they've been held up elsewhere. Our Linear Tanks are too busy helping the others." Major Bauer, for the first time, had decided to fight alongside his fellow soldiers in the battlefield. Dressed in Equatorial Union Guards gear, he reached for a 30-round magazine from the magazine pouch of his load bearing vest and reloaded his weapon before he opened fire against a group of Atlantic Federation and Republic of East Asia Marines. Being assisted by regular and conscripted EURM forces, most of the OMNI Marines were killed before the uninjured ones were forced to get them of harm's way. Nearby, EURM Continental Military AV-1T (Turreted) vehicles fired its 50 mm cannons on incoming loyalist and OMNI soldiers while their ST Kinetics Bionix-2 MBTs and a couple of Linear Tanks were providing cover fire. Loyalist forces where doing the same thing, though they had Linear Tanks to aid them as well.

In a recently made trench nearby, Athrun was with Cagalli and Kisaka alongside several other mercenaries including Sahib and Conil.

"Cagalli! Are you okay?" asked Athrun, hearing a rocket nearly hit their position.

"Don't worry about me! I'm all right!" Cagalli shouted through the sounds of machine gun bullets and rocket warheads being fired by the opposing parties.

"Better move, people! We're still under fire!" Sahib loaded a warhead onto an antique Rosoboronexport RPG-7D3. When Kisaka stared at him, the Libyan guerrilla explained to him. "PG-7VR warhead."

"Dual warhead for taking out vehicles with anti-armor protection." grinned Conil, holding an IZHMASH AK-74 assault rifle. "Better get back to business..." murmured the pre-teen girl, firing the assault rifle at approaching loyalist forces.

"RPG!" yelled a Repubic of East Asian Marine, shouting to let his comrades get clear of the PG-7VR warhead as it streaked towards an Eurasian Federation Linear Tank, scoring a hit when it exploded after the warhead penetrated its interior. Moments later, the same Marine was gunned down by Cagalli and Kisaka; the former trading her ST Kinetics SAR-24 for an IZHMASH AKMS assault rifle that Sahib and other guerrilla mercenaries had brought in to the Equatorial Union.

"What's a girl like her doing in the battlefield? She's quite young." whispered Kisaka, staring at her for a while before turning his attention to the incoming loyalist Marines by firing an IZHMASH AKM assault rifle.

Reinforcing the mercenary's trench position was a ST Kinetic Bionix-2 MBT parked near them. Commanding it was Edmund at the commander's position with Reed at the driver's position and Loretta at the gunner's position.

Good thing I left Kazahana back at the mobile suit pool. Don't want her to be in the frontlines. Loretta thought, in the gunner's position.

"All right!" Edmund had a visual confirmation on a lone OMNI Dagger. "Fire at the Dagger's legs!"

"Got it!" Loretta grinned, aiming the tank's 105 mm cannon at the Dagger's unprotected leg joints. "Aiming at the left!"

"Go get her, Loretta!" cheered Reed, driving the tank carefully.

Gotcha! Loretta fired a 105 mm shell at the Dagger's left leg joint twice before targeting its right leg joint. Thanks to the vehicle's autoloading system, the Serpent Tail mercenary could concentrate on disabling the OMNI mobile suit.

Loretta, moments later, pumped her fist up. "Got it, Edmund!" The trio watched the Dagger slowly move, its joints severely damaged.

"Okay!" grinned Edmund, scoring a hit for the first time ever since fighting with OMNI forces as a tank commander once.

"You're mine, sucker!" Yzak, in his still functioning Duel Gundam, lunged at the disabled Dagger by slamming it with its shield to keep the pilot disoriented before he drew out his beam saber and stabbed it at the body, performing a vertical slice. "Hrah!" The ex-ZAFT Red yelled as he forcefully made a cut on the center of the mobile suit short of cutting its cockpit before he retracted the weapon. The Dagger soon was engulfed in an explosion, taking its pilot along with it.

From a distance away from the battle, Jess was inside his ZGMF X-12 Astray Out Frame standing near the base. Using his gun camera to take photos of the battle in both mobile and foot battles, he was excited at the rate of photos that he was acquiring.

Great! Really great! Mr. Aducarf should be pleased with the photos after I send an e-mail to him. Checking his monitors, he noted that Miriallia was taking photos of the battle from a safe place inside EUA Pasir Ris. Suddenly, the Astray Out Frame's sensors indicate an enemy mobile suit approaching him from the front.

"What!" Jess was startled by the appearance of a loyalist Primus, with its Kris beam saber. "Hold it! I'm not here to fight!" barked Jess, using the loyalist forces frequency. Seeing that the mobile suit would not stop charging him in a threatening manner, he was forced to drop his gun camera and draw out a single beam saber from the Out Frame's waist.

"Dammit!" Jess gritted his teeth, moving behind his opponent and stabbing the Primus at its back. "I'm a frickin' journalist, not a soldier!"


This area seems to be quiet. Better check with DaCosta. In another area near the outskirts of EUA Pasir Ris and away from the current battlefield, Andrew was piloting a TMF/A-802 BuCUE alongside Jean, in his MBF-M1 Astray Jean Carry Custom, Canard in his newly upgraded YMF-X000A/H Dreadnought H and Mikhail in his ZGMF-1017M GINN High Maneuver Type. "DaCosta, any signs of any loyalist or OMNI forces in the area?"

"I don't have any signs of - Wait a minute! Oh my god! Sir, enemy forces are in the area!"

"All right! Loyalist and probably OMNI forces are in the area!" Andy channeled a radio message to Jean, Canard and Mikhail simultaneously.

"Forget it, Andy!" yelled Jean from his Astray Jean Carry Custom mobile suit. "Here they come!" Eyeing a combined Loyalist-OMNI mobile suit squad approaching with OMNI Linear Tanks and Loyalist ST Kinetic Bionix-2 Tanks, he blasted at the loyalist Strike and Buster Daggers with his Type 71 beam rifle from a distance while blocking incoming beam shots with his shield.

"You scum of the Earth!" snarled Mikhail, having an evil laugh with his MA-M3 heavy sword at the ready. "I'm going to make sure that you're all gone to cure this country of you people!" Grabbing a surprised Duel Dagger by holding on its head, he drove the MA-M3 sword all the way until the tip of the blade portruded out of the Dagger's rear. Hearing some electric wires shorten out, he drew out the weapon and kicked towards a number of loyalist and OMNI Strike Daggers, blowing them up in an explosion that took most of the Strike Daggers out.

"Why you!" Dodging beam saber swipes from two Primuses, Canard activated the Dreadnought H's Armure Lumiere defensive barrier. Creating a barrier that covered his mobile suit, he jumped back after deactivating it before he fired his RFW-99 Zastava Stigmate beam submachine gun at them, eliminating the two mobile suits. Eyeing the Linear and Bionix-2 tanks on the ground, he aimed the muzzle of his submachine gun at them before he had to reload his weapon. More enemies approaching! Noticing a group of loyalist Buster and Long Daggers coming near him, he activated the Dreadnought's Buster Mode in order to have its beam cannons ready to fire at his adversaries.

"Take this!" Firing the beam cannons, a couple of Buster Daggers, Long Daggers and an unfortunate Primus had its right arm destroyed from the beam fire. Eyeing the surviving Primus, Canard dashed towards it and lunged at it before using the RBW Type 7001 "Romteknica" beam knife attacked on his beam submachine gun to stab the Primus at its cockpit. Retracting the beam knife hastily, the Primus was then caught in a fiery explosion that took it out of commission.

At the controls of his BuCUE, Andy engaged with two Dagger Ls armed with M703K beam carbine rifles. Using the BuCUE's double-edged beam saber, he sliced both of their legs off with great manueverability in its quadrupled mode. Effectively crippling them, he ran a short distance from the two downed mobile suits before he unleashed a volley of 400 mm missiles from its missile launcher mounted from the BuCUE's back.

"That oughta take care of them." Andy grinned under his helmet after watching the launched 400 mm missiles make short and quick work out of the disabled mobile suits.

"Are you all right?" Canard's face came on Andy's monitor.

"Don't worry about me, youngster. Just make sure you do your job." nodded Andy. He chuckled when he swore he saw Canard mumble something about being called a youngster before the former ended his visual connection with him.


Why do I have a bad feeling that someone's about to attack me?

Looking around an area that had been recently been cleared of both loyalist and rebel forces, Rick moved his Secundus around while eyeing the discarded mobile weapons including destroyed mobile suits, tanks and IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle)s. He swept the outskirts of a nearby forest with his ML-1 beam rifle and eyed the radar on his cockpit; he moved way too far from the battlefield. "Damn, I'm too vulnerable to be all alone out here." whispered the NSF rebel, a bit worried on his position.

Rick suddenly felt someone tingle in his head. Someone's here. He tried to glance behind him, using his mobile suit to eye his rear. And I think it's coming from the...

Quickly turning around, he fired a volley from his ML-1 beam rifle. Watching the orange beam blasts make contact with the green beam blasts, the two simultaneously vanished into thin air in a small explosion.

"Nice!" Someone said on Rick's radio. "Normally, pilots would have been too slow to see someone react in time to get out of the way. But it appears you were able to get rid of my beam shots."

Rick then saw a Dagger configured in an Aile Striker Pack, charging towards him with its ES01 beam saber on the Dagger's left hand after storing the M703 beam rifle at its rear with the shield on its left hand. Rick then stored his ML-1 beam rifle on its rear and drew out his Kris beam saber from the Secundus' right shoulder and tried to stab him, but missed. Not him, but he has the same level of awareness as I did a while ago.

"Crikey!" grunted Rick, using its Hindalco anti-beam shield in time to block the attack.

"Name's Chevalier." introduced the pilot of the lone dagger. "Morgan Chevalier."

"Okay you James Bond wannabe!" Rick tried to slash at Morgan's Dagger, but the latter blocked it with his ES01 beam saber. "That's as far as you can go!" With that, he shoved the Dagger after winning the beam saber clash when Rick swiped his beam saber upward, causing Morgan to loose his balance.

"Morgan!" yelled a female voice from Rick's radio. Nearby, a Buster Dagger used a combined 350 mm gun launcher and 94 mm high-energy rifle to fire pot shots at Rick. Sensing the incoming projectiles, Rick nimbly dodged it after using the Secundus' thrusters to help him avoid being hit by them.

"Miss me, woman!" taunted Rick, watching the Buster Dagger store the 350 mm gun launcher and 94 mm high-energy rifle after decombining them before it lunged at him with dual ES01 beam sabers. Looks like this tingling sense of mine is a blessing after all.

"Woah!" Rick couldn't believe that he was fighting against a mobile suit that wielded two beam sabers. He then prepared his shield up to block any incoming beam saber attacks. "This is tough!"

"My name's Rena Imelia, you rebel scum!" sneered the Buster Dagger's pilot, using the ES01 beam saber on its left hand to slash at Rick's Secundus. "Don't you forget it!"

"Of course not, onna (woman)!" Thanks to his Hindalco anti-beam shield, he blocked every beam saber swipe at him from the ES01 beam sabers that Rena's Buster Dagger used.

Dammit! Rick tried to figure out his next strategy as he kept using his anti-beam shield to block the beam saber blows meant for him. If I don't do something, I'll be dead in a few minutes...

When Rena raised her right ES01 beam saber upward to score a vertical swipe, Rick used his shield to block a hit from the left ES01 beam saber before performing a head butt on the Buster Dagger, causing it to fall down on its back.

"Gotcha, girlie!" Standing near Rena's Buster Dagger, he was about to deliver the final blow by stabbing it with his beam saber when he came under attack by Morgan's Dagger, firing its Igelstellung II 40 mm CIWS at him, and another mobile suit.

Kuso (Dammit!)! Rick took the brunt of blocking a stab attack coming from unknown mobile suit's giant trident with its anti-beam shield after moving left and right to dodge the 40 mm bullets. Better check if our contacts gave us info on these mobile suits. Minutes later, Rick was able to identify the third enemy mobile suit.

"The GAT-706S Deep Forbidden." murmured Rick, glancing momentarily at the side monitor before raising his shield to block another incoming stab attack from its trident. From behind the Deep Forbidden, Rick observed Morgan's Dagger helping Rena's Buster Dagger stand up.

"You better listen and listen good!" The voice of the Deep Forbidden's pilot was now on Rick's radio. "I'm Jane Houston and I'll be the one to send you to your maker!"

Dashing back, Rick used his ML-1 beam rifle to fire at Deep Forbidden, but his beam shots missed as its Geschmeidig Panzer energy deflection armor had automatically blocked its shots from its shield pods.

"Noel!" Rick patched up a radio link with her back at EUA Pasir Ris. "Does Deep Forbidden have a weak spot that I can take advantage of?"

"Not as of now." replied Noel, ending it by swallowing her saliva. Rick had heard it, meaning it was not good. "The Deep Forbidden's known to have energy deflection armor, just like the GAT-X252 Forbidden that OMNI used to invade Orban soil."

"What?" Rick didn't like what he heard from Noel. "So what do I have to do about this?"

Natarle's voice came in on Rick's radio. "Rick. Listen to me. The Deep Forbidden fights quite similarly to the original Forbidden. I remember someone got rid of Forbidden by letting him finish off his mobile suit's energy before wiping it out."

"I wonder who it was?" Rick couldn't believe that two mobile weapon tacticians don't have a slight idea to how he could disable the Deep Forbidden. "Better concentrate on that later." I can't just run around and wait for it to exhaust itself. I might run out of power too.

Eyeing his opponent, Rick charged forward using his thrusters for additional speed and used his anti-beam shield as protection from Deep Forbidden's trident. Better improvise. When Rick was able to get close to Deep Forbidden, he used the shield as a melee weapon by striking it at its body.

"You damn rebel!" gritted Jane, forcing herself to let Deep Forbidden move a few steps backward. I have to admit, he's good.

"An opening!" yelled Rick, executing a punch at Deep Forbidden's chest. "Now to..." As Rick was about to use the Kris beam saber that he drew out, he mysteriously sensed someone else's presence besides Morgan's

Damn it! Someone else's here! Rick kicked Deep Forbidden away and hastily stored his beam saber. Drawing out his ML-1 beam rifle, he fired a few shots before he saw the purple mobile suit, charging at him from the air, dodge his beam shots and try to hack his weapon with its ES04B beam saber in hand. Rick sidestepped to dodge the beam slash and used the Secundus' left metallic palm to disorient him.

It's him. Neo eyed the lone Secundus carefully when he eyed the main monitor from the holes of his mask. He has the same sense as me.

"Shit!" He drew out his Kris beam saber again, this time from the Secundus' left shoulder, and stored his ML-1 beam rifle after jumping back away from it. "Hey, does anyone know this mobile suit?"

"Rick." Noel's voice came on. "I got fresh information that it's a GAT-04 Windam. It's not in production yet, so it's most likely a prototype."

"Nice of you to sense my approach!" Neo attempted to swipe at Rick's Secundus with the ES04B beam saber at the ready after being able to get to Rick's frequency after landing on the ground. "Usually someone would have been dead if he reacted too late. But it seems you were able to find out where I was going to attack."

"I'll have to thank my sixth sense for that!" Lunging at the Windam with his beam saber, Rick tried to do a stab maneuver when Neo quickly block it and countered with a beam slash. Likewise, Rick blocked it and countered again. The same pattern was going on for a few minutes. Morgan, Rena and Jane could watch with amazement.

"Amazing." Morgan saw the fight going on between them. "Does that rebel have the same sense as Captain Neo and I do?"

"Rena," Jane established communication with Rena. "You think we should help Captain Neo?"

"I don't know." Rena replied. "I'm just as confused as you are."

"Allow me to introduce myself." grinned Neo, dodging every beam saber slash that Rick tried to do before blocking the last one with his A52 offensive shield before striking the Secundus' left arm.

"My name's Roanoke!" Neo fired the Windam's M2M5 "Todesschrecken" 12.5 mm CIWs at Rick after getting airborne before firing the Mk1323 rockets at him. "Neo Roanoke!"

I heard about him. Rick watched Neo landed his Windam near him, raising his beam saber to strike him. Intel says that he's a recent OMNI officer, said to be from the Atlantic.

"Tell me yours!" Neo, holding his ES04 beam saber, attempted to slash him when Rick parried the move with his Kris beam saber, predicting its strike again.

"My friends and family call me Rick, but you don't have the same privilege as they do!" Rick clashed beam sabers with Neo's after the latter blocked the former's attempt to strike him; the two then engaged in a beam saber clash.

"The name's Richard Yamato Chung." Rick gritted at his new opponent. "And it's not a real pleasure to meet you!" The EURM Guardsman budged his beam saber to strike Neo. So far, Neo had kept his guard up and kept the beam saber clash to a standstill.

"Oh." grinned the masked man. "But it is a pleasure to meet you."

"You won't be when I through with you!"

Neo could only grin at him even more. "Then so be it."

Chapter 12 END