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"Blah, blah" people talking on radio
'Think, think' people thinking and reading something
Alien language spoken
Authors Notes: I know that some of you disagreed on Making Kira a relative of Ryouga, and even if I did, that does not mean Kira is like him, which he is definitely not. Ryouga Hibiki died on Phoenix Mountain and that is it.
Maybe
Chapter 12A
SDF-1
THE RISE OF MACROSS
Part 1
'The Insurrection of Degwin Zabi'
MACROSS ISLAND
Two days later (after Ranma beat the crap out of Kuno III, and then a few hundred other idiots like him, plus more property damage than anyone could've possibly imagine which it was all caused by fist fights. Lt. Commander Ranma Saotome was ask to leave before it led to more severe property damage and over filled hospitals full of soldiers, and some says it may lead to the colony turning to a battlefield if he stays any longer. Like D'uh! )
The EAS Ares reentered Earth's Atmosphere along with the Archangel, the two ships approaches the now heavily protected Atoll Island that is no bigger than Orb's Onogoro Island.
Macross Island
Ever since the reestablishment of the Earth Alliance, this Island has been the forerunner to the advancement of robotic and cybernetic technology, and is in constant surveillance by ZAFT and other nations with interest for the past 2 years. Many times have ZAFT tried to pass thru their security net but without success, and even the use of spy satellites and surveillance ships has proven useless because of the OCP.
O.C.P. Optical Camouflage Projector
Similar to the Mirage Colloider, the projector shows the image of the island before the development in a form of a hologram, and by using a series of towers placed around the mountains of the Atoll Island it made visual observation difficult to anyone with a camera.
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Try to think of one of James Bond car, the BMW that becomes invisible in 'The World is not Enough' I think.
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The Archangel stop less than 4 miles from the Island since they're not allowed to come in any further for security reasons. Instead they watches it thru long range visual of the Ares slowly descends down to the Atoll Island then about 1,500 feet, it slowly disappears which surprised everyone seeing that.
Captain Ramius was wide eye on what they just saw
"Amazing" she remark "Is that the camouflage system we've heard so much about Tolle," she ask Tolle nodded
"O.C.P. Optical Camouflage Projector" Tolle exclaimed, "It's much like the Mirage Colloider only this one is projecting a false image on an area and not on an armor hull"
Mwu was impressed "That's a pretty nifty camouflage system you have there Tolle," Mwu is impressed, "no wonder ZAFT and any other any nation is trying to do surveillance on that Island, they are just getting a weird image of an untouched island"
"Well this is the top RnD facility of the Earth Alliance you know, most of the systems used by fleet today came here," Tolle told them
"VF plane approaching, and is requesting immediate pick up of Lt. Koenig," announced by Mirillia, her heart slump down, which meant that Tolle is leaving her
Tolle step forward from where he is seated as the VF was approaching the ship to pick him up. He realized it was time to leave
"Well I guess it's time to go then" he sounded a bit sad leaving them now, as do the others especially Mirillia.
Like a well-educated officer, Tolle faces Captain Ramius and ask
"Captain Ramius, request permission to disembark" Murrue stood up and smiled at the fine officer Tolle is now, she smiled and saluted him
"Request granted, Lt. Tolle Koenig, and good luck to you" she replied
Everyone saluted him as well, at the Hangar, chief engineer Murdock and the repair crew gave Tolle a salute. A thoughtful gesture from everyone who knew him, for seeing him alive again was a good feeling but seeing him leave made everyone sad.
Mirillia ran out of the bridge and lock herself in her room as not see him leave for it hurts her too much to see him leave. Captain Murrue comforted Mirillia, as the VF-1 blasted away from the Archangel. Mirillia cried and cried, after all this time; she is still in love with him.
Right then, the ships PA system sounded up
"Captain," a male announcer spoke and said "Were picking up seismic activity on Macross Island, EM fields is detected"
As the VF heads towards the Island, Tolle made one last look back at the Archangel and whispered.
"Goodbye Milly" it felt wrong to him to hurt her like this, but this was the only way to settle everything, after all, he's a married man, no thanks to you know who.
'Thanks a lot you witch' he thought then he felt a chill down his spine 'Oh, God'
Mikagami
A green haired woman sneezes all of the sudden, someone was thinking about her, and for some weird reason, she knows who
"Tolle" she was smiling, and at that moment, Tolle felt a chill thru his spine.
"Oh boy" he forgot what Seina told him, that he should be careful not to think of bad thoughts about her. Something always happen to you later on and it is not always pleasant.
Macross Island
Before they pass thru the projection field, they hit a sort airwall, as the projection field suddenly begins to flicker on and off, Tolle and the pilot look ahead in awe to see what is before them, and he's not the only one. Everyone is looking at it.
"What the Heck" he said "Pilot, what is that?" the pilot replied
"I-I don't know Lt." he replied stuttering "That wasn't here a moment ago" the VF fly around it and he was not the only as fighters scramble from their airfields.
"What the heck happened" Tolle ask looking on what is clearly a warship with USAF markings and emblems and on its side hull, the word USAF SDF-1
What Tolle, the pilot, and several hundreds of thousands of people on the ground is looking at is a HUGE ship hovering just a few feet above the ground where a mountain once stood near the airfields.
A Huge ship, 1.5km in length, 350 meters wide and 320 meters in Height, with blue and white color schemes with menacingly looking armaments installed on it, and comparing it in size with the Ares or the Archangel, she was big mean and beautiful.
The Ares that is hovering just above the very big ship, it's crew is still in shock on what just happened less than 5 minutes ago. As the Ares was preparing to land on one of the 5 planetary shipyards, Lt. Commander Ranma Saotome was talking to First Officer Commander Lisa Hayes on some details of their date Ranma promised her when suddenly. Ranma was whisked away by a transporter. It was strange that something like that happened, since the ship has an electromagnetic shielding to protect it when someone tries to board the ship by means of a transporter.
Then three minutes later, a ship rises out of a mountain, Lisa look thru her console and reported
"High Electro magnetic pulse interference! Gravitational anomaly present, Captain! The projector is going down" she shouted thru the roaring
On the Archangel, the crew is looking at a long-range visual of the island with fascination. They can see the Island facility, buildings, and houses, a whole city is under that umbrella and something very big is floating right above the city.
"What is that?" Murrue ask but everyone has no answers for her
The Archangel was not the only one seeing it, High above the Earth is a ZAFT Surveillance ship. The Ship had kept close watch over the Island for 2 years, frustratingly, it cannot see thru the projection field. Now as the projection field flickers, ZAFT got a view of the EA most Important Research and Development Facility, and an unexpected bonus before the projector returns to normal.
The next day, ZAFT is reviewing the surveillance photos and was flabbergasted on the pictures taken on the Island, the Earth Alliance most heavily protected military facility now exposed to them.
They scrutinized every inch of the island, from the ports to the land-based spaceyard, they can see Mobile Suits, hundredsVF-1 and what look like the Rumored 'DESTROIDS' HWR-00-Mk.II called Mobile Armored Cannon a.k.a. 'MAC Monster'
The MAC is big like the Destroy Gundam, they are two legged walking Gun Turrets used as the mobile artillery of the EAF, and it carries a few similar armaments of the Destroy Gundam.
The Four 406mm cannon, is a macro version of the railgun enhanced warp barrel. The 406mm cannon can fire up to 50 rounds in semi fire using armored piercing shells with a photon head designed to ripped thru ships armor, and with a firing range at a max. Distance of 100 thousand kilometers, they can also take out a ship at low orbit and it also has 2 triple missile launch tubes with 530mm missiles in each tube. Each triple tube forms one arm, carrying three types of missiles from multiple warheads, anti-aircraft and anti-ship warheads. The MAC also possesses a positron reflector shields and 4 'Igelstellung' 75mm-automatic cannon CIWS and 12 short-range, surface-to-air missiles.
The Island has 20 of the MAC Monsters, and they are deployed at the four sides of the island compass points. Each points has 5 Destroy Gundams deployed along with companies of Strike Daggers and several unidentified mobile suits, and hundreds of weapon emplacements. The Island is a fortress
However, the focus of their attention is that of the kilometer long battleship with old U.S. Air Force markings that made a lot of speculation on where the Earth Alliance got their technological leap. On Orb, the Archangel showed the Orb Military and Morgenroete, the photos of the ship, which they got yesterday, are in better detail than ZAFT has. They analyze every detail and when they focus on what look like the main bridge of the ship stood two human figures.
A closer detail shows who it is on the ship.
"What is it with this boy" Ms. Erica Simmons exclaimed, "He seems to be everywhere these days" she sighed then Ms. Simmons ask her thoughts
"Ranma Saotome, and who do you suppose is that person with him?" Murrue shook her head of not recognizing the short spiky redheaded girl, she reply
"I don't recognize her, but do you think that ship really belongs to the old USAF Dr. Simmons?" she ask
"I don't know" she replied, "Something like this being built by that old military? That's too unbelievable, and yet it's not impossible" she looks to towards the others for she has an Idea, or more of a Theory.
"We all know in our history books that U.S. Colony 1 is America's no.1 research and development facility for advance technology. It was believe, that they were developing technology such as artificial gravity, inertial dampers, and antimatter, as well as new forms of advanced computers that said to be far superior to anything we have now before it was destroyed by a nuclear attack."
"Presumed destroyed," Mwu said correcting
"There was no evidence that Colony 1 was ever destroyed, and stories have it that before the U.S. dissolved and then formed the Atlantic Federation, a group of USAF officers said to have hidden an enormous cache of advance technology and data from Colony 1, heck, there was even a rumor that they have hidden an alien spaceship somewhere. Hey! You don't suppose that's…" Murrue cuts him off as he was about to point out the ship
"Well if that's your alien spaceship Mwu, then it's safe to assume that the Earth Alliance is now in possession of a very powerful ship, a Warship to be exact"
"As entertaining is this discussion, we are only speculating on rumors and conspiracy theories here everybody" Ms. Simmons spoke and looking back at the screen and at the ship.
"Still, with so much firepower than 'Heaven's Base' you can't help wonder if all of that is for that ship" to everyone they agrees, with so much firepower the probability of that ship is the one they are protecting. They do not know that even the Earth Forces do not know that something was buried on the Island.
"SDF-1… I wonder what that stands for," Murrue mutters to herself
Yesterday
Super Dimensional Fortress 1 or SDF-1, was the three-letter word stood for. Ranma, seated at the Captain's chair with the key sword placed on an ignition system. He watches a small screen where the builder and former owner of the ship is explaining something further to him.
It started, when he was suddenly found himself in space and he is talking to someone named Zor.
The man named Zor gave Ranma abit of a pep talk and explaining a few details to him before he transfer authority of his ship into his hands along with a massive neural download of information and knowledge from Zor's homeworld and hundreds of other worlds from their History, Cultures, Science, Medicine and more. The kind of download Zor has given him would have killed an ordinary person, Ranma however is beyond ordinary for someone who absorbed knowledge and though it gave him, a slight headache as he tries to makes sense of everything that Zor gave him.
(That or Ranma's brain is connected to a Subspace pocket or a Blackhole to keep that much knowledge, go figure)
Washu was there also when the SDF-1 started to power up after the appearance of the Zentraedi, since she's the one had it rebuilt and upgraded it. Ranma looks around the ship's Command and Control, and he's still couldn't believe that Zor gave this ship to him so he turns to Washu and ask her about Zor
"So what happened to Zor and his people Washu?" Washu breathe deeply, before she explained it to him.
"Well, soon after this ship appeared, we went on a search and rescue operation with the USAF, sadly though of the 50,000 thousand who took the trip they lost 15,000 people," she said
"The survivors were resettled about 500 light-years from here, Zor in return cooperated with us, and told us about Tirol" she pause and then continues "It seems that Tirol have just went into a ten year civil war, only this was partly an opposite of the Earth's Cosmic War if you remember what we told you and Zor's download"
He nodded as he remembers from the download.
"Harvesting genes from the Natural born for the genetically Enhanced in order to help produce their own children," he said and Washu nodded
"Precisely"
Ranma sighed he pinched the skin of his nose bridge as he remembers that part of Tirolian history.
'The Tirolian Civil War', a.k.a. 'The War of the Naturals and the Enhanced'
The Naturals lost the War, Zor and a few others was able to fled the empire before the Tirolian Army subdued them, but they were track down, Zor ship was but a few that escaped the Tirolians round up like they were nothing but cattle to them.
Ranma has another headache coming he sighs, when he realized that the ship would cause a lot of trouble for him and the Alliance.
"It feels like, I just open another 'Pandora's Box of Chaos' when this ship came out of hiding" a holoscreen opens up by his armchair it shows the Archangel and the ZAFT Surveillance ship
"Yep, I definitely did" Washu nods a little, she agreed with him about that, for inside of the giant Nuclear Furnaces known as the 'Reflex Engines' is a prize that the Tirolians would go to war if they wish to obtain it. Again
Today
Aprillius Colony
At one of the mansion home owned by a once leader of ZAFT, Degwin Zabi is watching the afternoon light fades, but when an officer came to him and gave him a photo of the SDF-1, he was wide eyes and his hands shaking in anger at the photos that have been brought by someone, Zabi recognize it immediately.
"Zor Ship!"
"It's none other than the ship of the famed rebel leader" Mordecai spoke, stepping forward, and looking quite amused at Zabi's reaction.
"How could this be!" he shouted, "We destroyed that ship 200 years ago and why is it here of all places," asking Mordecai fumingly
"We don't know that yet Zabi," he replied, ignoring Zabi rage and continues to talk
"I heard rumors of Zor Ship carrying a precious cargo he had taken from the masters, do you" Zabi understood what he's referring to
"That's just it, a rumor," Zabi answered
"But the Possibility that it could be true" Mordecai seems to believe it exist
"The Flowers of Life" The name that all Tirolians know what it is, "So, what do we do now, since Khyron is forcing us to provoke a war again? He only gave us one week to do it, so what are your plans Degwin," he ask him with the slyness of a snake, yet inside in his heart was beating with immense joy for some strange reason.
Zabi feelings about Zor's ship however are different; the ship that defied the Empire, and rumored to have carried some of the very source of Tirol's power is on board. Yet it was all that, a rumor
"Mordecai, are you assuming that the Protoculture Matrix is in there," questioningly he said Mordecai replied
"I never said it was on that ship, only in rumor did I hear that it was, and if that was true, Earth would be very different" Zabi nod agreeing with him and calmly said
"Maybe you are right" he looks at Zor Ship again "If the Matrix was still in there, this world would be very much be very different" he replied in agreement to Mordecai assumption. Still, there is an opportunity here intends to exploit.
"Yet we will take that ship" he said, "The Masters will be pleased to have Zor ship as a gift" Mordecai smiled for a moment in hearing that from him, however
"One problem Zabi" Mordecai pointed out something to him "You are under House Arrest,"
House Arrest after Captain Gladys gave that surveillance she got at Armory-1; he was immediately relieved of active duty and put under house arrest until the investigation is finished.
Zabi just snorted, "Like that will stop me," he was about to walk away then he look back to Mordecai
"I'll deal with this ship Mordecai, go home" he ordered as though he was his servant so Mordecai played one
"As you wish, Sir" he reply in a sarcastic tone of voice, Zabi doesn't see his expression but he was smiling as he leaves him
'Blasted Natural' he thought with irritant to the man, 'if I did not need him, he would have killed him by now'
Zabi quickly went inside the mansion and walk towards a wall, put his palm on the wall and spoke the word "Open" the wall opens up to a secret room, there a comm. system is placed and there he began to put a link outside the house without the fear of being monitored.
"That little girl maybe the Chairman of the PLANT Council, but I can still control ZAFT" he activated the communication system
On one of the computer console is a data file of one Lacus Clyne furnished by Mordecai Xambi.
"It's time to tell the others to commence Operation Overlord," he press the on button and the communication system went active
"By the Time the others figure it out, Zor's Ship will be mine" sounding so confident of the actions he is taking.
Across the PLANT territory, several ZAFT ships began to move on a course to Earth's orbit while two battlegroup heads towards EA Space. For many of ZAFT have waited for this moment to take on the Earth Alliance again, for many of them believed that they should have destroyed the EA before they had a chance to regain their strength and no one believe that they will live in peace without bothering anyone.
To many the Earth Alliance Forces is the root of all Evil. And Zabi, is using that fear to make ZAFT do what it wants because of that.
Now that the Earth Forces have gained incredible technology to upgrade their ships into Starships, new and more powerful weapons, obtained new territories, claimed Mars and went on to Jupiter using their FTL Drives they call Warp and then First Contact with aliens.
With so much technological advancement in their hands many in ZAFT fears that one day Earth Alliance will once again commit their forces into another war against them, and what they have been seeing is not making them happy at all. Many are driven by envy, because the Naturals have achieved what they could not do, and being bested by a Natural has hurt a lot of Pride, and gave a leech named Zabi a way to exploit them, the way LOGOS did to the Earth Alliance.
Degwin Zabi began contacting all of the Tirolian commanders in ZAFT that commands ships and battleforces. Zabi uses an encrypted tachyon frequency to contact his forces, unknown to him though every communication he made is on a 'wiretap' by the Mikagami as it orbits Aprillius colony in cloak.
Mikagami
Kamiki Seto, in communication with President Lang and his Joint Chief is hearing every word coming out of Zabi mouth. Admiral Gloval was also on board instead of returning to Earth with the Ares, they all listens for an hour as he gave them all orders
"We must take Zor's Ship Intact so begin Operation Overlord and I will have the Tirolia up and running to assist you"
"But Sir" a captain is objecting, "we would be committing 200 ZAFT ships to the operation, the PLANT Council will most likely sent the rest of the Fleet to stop us" he said
"Don't worry about that," he told him "By the time they knew what is happening, they will be too busy dealing with the Coup I'm starting"
That got everyone attention. Seto turns to Pres. Lang
"It would seems that the PLANTs will have a rebellion in their hands" Seto sat back at her captain's chair and listens to his Tactical officer's Hirata Kanemitsu's evaluation on the Information they just got.
"Operation Overlord, is a strategy taken from the Allied Forces in the 20th Century World War II, 1944 invasion of Normandy France" he then showed a tactical view of the entire sector of space and continued
"These two Groups numbering 50 ships is heading towards the Earth Alliance Space Academy Athens, and Spacestation Helena, these ships at the opposite side of the planet, now identified as hostile, is now enroute to Macross Island and they will be above the Island within the hour"
"A classic diversion tactic" Gloval remarks
The President can see there was not much time to order a defense or interception
"I will have those ZAFT Ships intercepted immediately, however those heading towards Macross Island will be a problem and I don't know if the defenses can hold up against that much a force until reinforcements get there in time, and what about that coup on the PLANT Council"
One thing that Herbert Lang, President of the Earth Alliance doesn't need right now is a Hostile Government at this crucial time. Lady Seto step up
"Let me will deal with the problem Mr. President, just deal with that ZAFT fleet" she broke the link and she turns to Admiral Gloval
"We may need the Boys to deal with the problem here Admiral" the Admiral nodded in agreement. Gloval knows that if the council falls then Zabi can easily take control of ZAFT, and all of its military might well be committed to a new war against them.
"I understand Lady Seto, the boys are ready to move if Zabi..." just then, Hirata screamed
"Lady Seto! The ZAFT forces at Armory-1, something is happening"
"What is it?" the many screens across the command room shows that Armory-1 ships, Space Shuttles, Mobile Suits started to shut down all of the sudden for no reason, a female bridge crew officer reported what just happened.
"There was a ZAFT Emergency Broadcast all across the PLANTs, something is happening at Armory-1, were detecting a data transfer in the broadcast, analyzing, it's…a computer command program"
"It's Zabi" Seto confirmed, "He's making his move now"
"The man doesn't waste time does he," Gloval said
Armory-1
There was an Emergency broadcast from all ZAFT military communications, and was received by every ship, shuttles, and Mobile Suits. They shut down for a moment then computers rebooted back up to a confused and unsuspected military.
Minerva.
Meyrin Hawke, who is in charge of communication watches her computer rebooted back up, she was a bit troubled of what just actually happened when she received a data transfer along with the strange rumbling sound coming from the colony. So, Meyrin quickly type a diagnostic command on his console to see what was lost, nothing happened
"Something's wrong here," trying not to panic, she type the command repeatedly, and still nothing. At that moment, she knew what just happened
"I'm lock out, Captain!" she called out yelling to her then someone yelled
"The computers are not responding to my commands" Meyrin's station was not the only one, as Talia ask the others to report in
"Status on the rest of the system" she orders and the response was the frantic reports from every station officers
"We're lock out of Navigation!"
"Weapons are offline, systems not responding!"
"Captain, nothing is working!" XO Arthur shouted in near panic
"What the hell is going on?" Gladys shouted as trying to find someone to answer her
Just then, she hears explosions, as she look thru glassless windows she can clearly see ZAFT Mobile Suits attacking their own base.
All across the Military Barracks, Warehouses and parking fields for MS, unmanned Mobile Suits from GINN, CGUE, ZAKU, BuCUE, ZuOOT, GOUFs, DINN all of the Mobile Suits suddenly came to life and began moving on their own without a pilot like… a Mobile Doll.
Between a Mobile Suit and a Mobile Doll there were hardly any differences in operation except for the pilot, but when that data transfer was received by the central computer, it rewritten the OS and became an unmanned war machine, compliments of Tirolian advance computer programming, that gave the Mobile Suits Incredible mobility.
For years the Tirolian, have assisted the development of many of ZAFT weaponry such as the MS, and for years they placed hidden programming within its complex systems in throughout their computers, from Mobile Suits to Communication Systems, unnoticed, ignored and undiscovered. Today, all of ZAFT are helpless except for one base.
Aprillius Colony
ZAFT Military Base Alpha 1
Degwin Zabi watches his puppets at Armory-1 with sheer delight. With the colonies isolated and in chaos, Zabi and his loyal troops with unaffected MS gather at the military base close to the PLANT Supreme Council Hall.
Degwin Zabi faces his own troops that are gathered together. He gave a speech in front of them
"TODAY WE SHALL TAKE BACK OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE AS THE SUPERIOR SPECIES OF HUMANITY," he shouts thru his lungs
"WHILE THE COUNCIL TALKS OF PEACE, THE EARTH ALLIANCE REARMED, AND HAVE NOW REGAINED ITS MILITARY MIGHT ONCE AGAIN AND AGAIN HAVE THREATENED THE STABILITY OF THE WORLD," he walk back and forth as he speaks to the troops
"LACUS CLYNE AND THAT WHIMPERING COUNCIL, THOSE SPINELESS DOGS HAVE LET THESE DISGUSTING NATURALS TAKE THE BETTER OF US, THE COUNCIL HELD US BACK AND HUMILIATED THE HONOR OF ZAFT AND FORGOTTEN THE SORROWS CAUSED BY THOSE DAMNED NATURALS, AND REPEATING ONCE AGAIN THE SAME MISTAKES AS BEFORE. WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPENED AGAIN! WILL YOU LET THE TRAGEDY HAPPEN AGAIN? WILL YOU FOLLOW ME TO STOP THE MISTAKES BE REPEATED" All of them shouted "Yes' thru their lungs, Zabi smiled with satisfaction of the soldiers blind trust in him, for they shows no signs of questioning his orders because they are blinded by the hatred to Naturals as he had always expected from them.
Within minutes 5 DINNs, 10 GINNs, 15 BABIs and 10 ZAKUs flew up towards the PLANT Supreme Council building, followed by 10 GAZuOOT and 15 BuCUE on the ground with ground troops and auxiliary follows from behind.
Traveling from the opposite direction is Zabi Limo heading towards the spaceport. He looks back to the troops he ordered to attack the council, he look to his aide and ask him
"Where is Xambi?"
"He is not is in his home Sir, and he's nowhere to be found" he replied and informs some other matters "But we have strip the gene banks of all the stored chromosomes elements we've harvested and are now among the leaving shuttles" Zabi nods his approval
"Excellent" he said "By tomorrow Khyron's Fleet will be here with Zor ship in my hands and we shall be back home, hailed as heroes" Zabi started to laugh, as the thought of coming home with so much gift for the Empire will make him very powerful. He envisioned himself being given a parade, cheered and revered by his real and true people, not the coordinators, but the Enhanced people of Tirolia. Zabi is as delusional as a certain samurai wannabe, though not as worst.
"Let that man go," he is referring to Xambi, "He's no use to us now,"
As his Limo goes towards the spaceports, a man in a trench coat watches Degwin limo pass him by and then continued to walk towards the Council Hall carrying a briefcase.
PLANTs Council Hall
Everyone is in a panic, as they can't get any open communication line to anyone since the computer network shut them out, and even cellphones and Television broadcast of ZAFT were not working since every systems is patch into the Military World Wide Web
Inside the council hall, Lacus and a frightened council is listening to commander Waltfeld report.
"Every Computer Systems we have that are patch into the communication systems has lock us out completely, so were using radio and civilian communications to get in contact with the rest of ZAFT" he pause for a moment and then told her more bad news.
"Ms. Clyne, all of ZAFT is completely Immobile and were getting reports that Armory-1 is under attack by our own Mobile Suits, they are being turned against us"
"Turned against us how?"
"We don't know how, but were getting reports that the Mobile Suits are unmanned and moving on their own," he answered
"Dear God"
Just then, at that moment the systems of the building rebooted back online, after the technicians turned it off and remove the Mainframe memory chips, installed new ones and reinstalled a new OS which took them 30 minutes to do it.
"Were back online," announced by a relieved female council member
They got a signal from the INN channel, a reporter at Armory-1 is showing the carnage caused by ZAFTs own Mobile Suits; they were manned by no one, but operated by a command program and is attacking ZAFT ground forces.
The Council was in horror as they watch conventional ZAFT soldiers without Mobile Suits fighting and being slaughtered by their own weapons as they found themselves entrenched in buildings. The soldiers fought with guns, Rocket launchers and RPGs. Any weapons that could take down a Mobile Suits are used but the MS still kept coming. Then in act that no one thought it could happen to ZAFT, their soldiers drop their weapons and began running away from the battlefield leaving the others behind, many panic, and many felt it was useless to fight against Mobile Suits, and so they ran away. Across the PLANTs, the disturbing scene of their soldiers throwing their guns away was to them, a more horrible scene than slaughter.
To retired ZAFT veteran soldier, the scene was embarrassing to them, and it made them remember the First Cosmic War.
In the First Cosmic War, EAF conventional troops fought tooth and nail when they went up against the ZAFT Mobile Suits. They fought to the bitter end despite ZAFT superior weaponry the Mobile Suits. They gave no ground until the last man dies; EA soldiers gave a better account of themselves then despite the odds.
The Broadcast reached Earth and what they see, are ZAFT soldiers running away from their own Mobile Suits, now being turned against them. The Earth Forces and other soldiers that fought in the first war were disgusted at the cowardice of ZAFT soldiers, as they drop their own guns and runaway from the battlefield. Too many EA soldiers however, it was payback. To them, in their point of view during the First Cosmic War, it was a one sided battle up against mobile suits. However, even they could not believe that their greatest enemy would abandon the battlefield like that, yet to some military analyst, this was expected to happen. It became clear that ZAFT have become too over reliance on their powerful Mobile Suits and without them, they are helpless.
Waltfeld shook his head in dismay at what he's watching so he turn his sights away.
"This is humiliating" he remark everyone look to him curious, Waltfeld told everyone the reason why
"When we fought the Earth Forces using our Mobile Suits during the First Cosmic War, they were in the same situation as we are now, except they fought us tooth and nail without even retreating. They never threw their guns away, they fought to the last man holding them," he sounded like he admired them, for courage against the odds is to him admirable.
Waltfeld look to them again, his expression is disappointment at their soldiers, it showed them that ZAFT is seriously lacking
"No doubt that the EAF is seeing this right now, and they must be enjoying the show were giving them"
Several ZAFT officers look down on their feet with shame, in some ways they agreed with Waltfeld. ZAFT have become too reliant on their Mobile Suits, spending more on their machines, than give proper training when it comes to conventional combat, and that has largely been ignored, as they have no actual training to fight a Mobile Suits if the time ever occurred. Now it has, and the results are on the bigscreen TV for everyone to see.
Right then a frantic soldier barge in with a report
"Chairman Clyne, Mobile Suits troops from Alpha-1 base is coming here and we just got word that Commander Zabi sent them here"
Lacus was shocked "Zabi? he's suppose to be under house arrest"
"He's no longer in his home chairman Clyne, he's not there anymore"
To Waltfeld thoughts, 'If Zabi has operational Mobile Suits then,' He can only think of one conclusion and it's not good
"It's a Coup!" Waltfeld declared
To everyone around, their thoughts came to one conclusion "He must have stage all of this for a rebellion," Waltfeld shouted, as the first volley of missiles was fired at immobile ZAFT MS. The siege at the Supreme Council Hall has begun.
TBC
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