Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Stargate SG2. But then again, you didn't know that.
AN Important! Read this right now! Otherwise your interpretation of the chapter will be completely inaccurate!
This chapter contains a lot of Mobile Suit versus Mobile Suit combat. Therefore I need to put up this notice that states that all of my Mobile Suits are Sixteen/Eighteen Feet Tall and not meters tall. Therefore, you can't say that these things are extremely inefficient since that size makes it perfectly conceivable for the weapon to exist. Now then, you can read on.
May 8, 1999: Milky Way: Nox Homeworld: High Orbit: Third Lagrange Point
White light filled a deserted hallway in the main orbital armory of the Nox Homeworld, depositing Tomas and Harry. Both had submachine guns strapped over their shoulders, both fingered the trigger. Silently, Harry made hand signals for the two of them to move down the hall. Tomas nodded and the duo moved out of the darkened hallway.
Turning a corner, the two ran right into a rebel patrol. The Nox looked surprised to see them and only just brought up their weapons before they were mowed down by dual fire from the humans. Grimacing, the two pilots hid the bodies before moving on. They pressed their bodies against a wall and opened a door. Inside was a small hanger with several Mobile Suits inside. All were of older design than the two were used to.
Two Mobile Suits were active in the hanger and turned to face them. They were Ester suits. Without hesitating the rebels started firing on the two human pilots, who in turn dived out of the way behind a group of dormant suits. The duo each climbed into the cockpit of one of the combat walkers, bringing them online.
'Eagles,' Harry muttered in his mind. 'Okay, maybe this'll be a bit tougher than we thought.'
The rebels hadn't seen which suits the two had climbed into and relented to just destroying them all. Harry brought his online just in time to move out of the way from a stream of Gatling fire. Hovering slightly, he aimed a conventional rifle at the enemy Aegis suits and let loose a stream of fire. The bullets tore off one of the arms before slamming into the cockpit, killing the pilot inside.
Meanwhile, Tomas brought his suit online and targeted the other suit. He dashed forward, his Eagle drawing a beam saber, and sliced into the cockpit. Coughing a little, he released the blade and grabbed a rifle from one of the other suits.
"Alright, what's the plan?" Tomas inquired as the two Eagles came up alongside each other. Harry's face appeared on his screen.
"We need to advance into the main hanger," Harry said as his Eagle turned towards the open end of the room. "Advance at your own discretion." He ran off down the hall and turned left at the junction. Tomas shrugged to himself and went in the opposite direction.
Harry turned a corner in his Eagle, running right into a group of three Aegis suits. Cursing, he activated his suit's thrusters and hovered backwards firing his machine gun. The bullets slammed through the head of an Aegis and knocked it over just as the others started firing. The Eagle floated from side to side avoiding fire and returning it when possible. In simplistic terms, he was trapped between a rock and a hard piece of twenty millimeter bullet.
"Hyahh!" A blood curdling cry broke through the radio as two beams sliced into the Aegis suits. The explosions revealed his wingman in his own stolen Eagle. "What would you ever do without me, eh?" Harry grunted in response and moved on with him. The two proceeded through a Mobile Suit sized door into an enormous hanger.
Approximately nine Mobile Suits occupied the room, three active, six not. The active ones turned and started firing on the intruders. The Eagles separated, Harry to the left, Tomas to the right. Harry fired a continuous stream of fire at the enemies, killing two Nox soldiers while Tomas sliced through the third.
"Alright, we've got the Mobile Suits captured," Harry relayed to Thor. "You can send in the Spec Ops team any time." Simultaneously, he blew the cockpit on his Eagle and jumped out. Tomas did the same as four humans beamed into the room.
The Loki Team was one of the special human pilot teams of the Asgard Special Forces. The thought of the Special Forces had been proposed by a thirteen year old Harry Potter as an alternative to Artificial Intelligence Mobile Suits. The war with the Replicators had not faired well and the fleet of AI Suits could not cope with the extreme processing power of the bugs. However, Harry proposed a powerful case to the High Council to allow humans into the military, having proved his race's ingenuity on more than one occasion.
Thus the Special Forces were divided among the various ships in the fleet with four highly trained pilots assigned to each Beliskner class ship, with each team commanded by an Asgard captain. Thor's own ship had only Harry and Tomas as assigned pilots since the Beliskner rarely engaged the enemy, instead acting on more… diplomatic missions than that.
Combat greetings were exchanged between the Spec Ops pilots as they quickly moved to acquire their new Mobile Suits. Out of the corner of his eye, Harry caught the Lancer standing quite elegantly in its white and blue paint scheme. Without even thinking he climbed into the cockpit of the only Mobile Suit in the room he recognized.
"Alright this is Captain Potter," Harry said over the radio as his suit came online. "Everyone sound off on your suit's status."
"This is Tomas," the pilot reported in. "My suit's doing pretty good. I'll be able to engage in combat at any time."
Harry glanced over at the suit. It was fairly unarmored but appeared to be very fast. Its grey on red color scheme seemed almost too perfect for his personality. The only weapons were two beam sabers mounted on the back, a beam rifle on the waist and a small shield identical to the one on the Lancer. Two large engines adorned the area directly behind the cockpit.
"This is Loki Team Leader," another voice said, a face appearing on the radio. The man had dark brown hair and shallow blue eyes. His militaristic outfit fit him perfectly. "Our suits seem to be incomplete. The operating system can't keep up with either the suits' capabilities or ours. We'll need to evacuate to the Bernard to upgrade them before we can join you in the attack."
"Roger that Loki Leader," Harry acknowledged. He watched as the other four suits struggled to stand up. "Tomas and I are A-Okay on that note. I think that we should head down to the city first and try and stop whatever it is they're trying for. At the very least we can stall them and keep their forces occupied until you guys can join us."
"Roger that, Loki Team's pulling out," the team leader confirmed. The four inop Mobile Suits beamed away. A moment later, Thor beamed his two pilots out into space outside the armory.
"Harry, we've just received word from the Nox commanders who managed to escape the attack," Thor's face appeared onscreen. "The armory is the epicenter of the attack. Mobile Suit reinforcements are inbound in shuttles. They are asking you to destroy the Mobile Suit shipments and the armory itself before reinforcements can arrive."
"Roger that Dad," Harry confirmed. "We'll take care of them. Thor Team Leader out."
The Lancer's sensors locked onto several ships moving towards the planet, apparently trying to begin reentry. Tomas quickly dispatched to take care of them as Harry turned on the armory. His mega cannon opened as he locked onto it. An extremely powerful beam of energy shot out and impacted the armory, tearing in apart. The explosion blinded his cameras as he headed out to join his wingman, drawing a beam saber in the process.
"Harry, I've detected several groups of anti-air platforms in the atmosphere protecting the main city," Tomas reported as he sliced into a carrier. "I don't think that we'll be able to break through." Harry destroyed another carrier before observing a few of the ones that he'd missed begin reentry into the atmosphere.
"In that case let's hitch a ride," Harry offered and dashed for one of the carriers entering the atmosphere. The Lancer latched onto the back of the metal ship. Tomas attached his suit onto another carrier and the two entered the atmosphere unopposed. To the rebels, the two Mobile Suits had just disappeared.
May 8, 1999: Milky Way: Nox Homeworld: Capitol City
In the democratic building of the Capitol City, the leaders of the Nox Rebellion stood with the leaders of the pacifist Nox government. The city had been captured in the first hour of operations; there just wasn't a military to operate the Nox weapons and therefore no one to stop them.
"Sir, one of our Mobile Suit staging areas was just completely destroyed!" a young rebel said heatedly to his commanders. "There's nothing left!"
"Sir, a Mobile Suit has entered City Sector A9! The model is consistent with the NMF-024 Lancer!"
"I've got another Mobile Suit entering City Sector C4!" another lieutenant cried out. "Both are engaging our police forces!" The commanders all gasped as the images of the two Mobile Suits came on screen. The Lancer shot down a street and impaled an Aegis Police Unit square in the cockpit.
In said cockpit of said Mobile Suit, Harry looked around the streets of the Capitol City with disdain. The city, now covered in snow, crawled with rebel forces. He grimaced. The thought of so many weapons existing without anyone to use them annoyed him to no end, and to see them used like this… He had no remorse for the people he killed.
Fire covered his view screen for a brief moment before he boosted back and upwards. The Lancer turned on his command to see three Aegis suits standing in close proximity. He switched weapons for a brief second and a red hot whip launched out from Lancer's shield, burning through the cockpits of the enemy Suits.
On the other side of the city Tomas, in his nameless Mobile Suit, shot two Eagles in the legs and sent them spiraling into the city streets. Gatling fire shot towards him. He raised his shield in front of the cockpit and moved out of the way before returning fire and nailing the offending Aegis in cockpit with his laser rifle.
"These guys aren't very experienced," Tomas remarked as he shot another Aegis in the chest. "They don't stand a chance against us."
"Look at your power levels," Harry ordered. Tomas looked down at his screens. The power levels had dropped under seventy percent.
"What the hell…" he muttered. "My Ester can keep fighting for days if it's used right!"
"Your Ester uses conventional weaponry," Harry reminded as he sliced through another Aegis. Several Eagles came in from above but were quickly dispatched by a shot from his heat whip. "That laser rifle of yours drains power much faster than anything else." He paused and dispatched three more rebel Mobile Suits. "At the rate we're going, we'll run out of power within the next forty-five minutes."
"Then let's fight to the best of our abilities until that time comes," Tomas offered and shot another suit in the chest. "Normally I would want to go for disabling shots but…"
"We can't take any chances right now," Harry finished for him. He lashed out and destroyed another Aegis. "Let's just hope our best is good enough," he added to himself.
May 8, 1999: Milky Way: Nox Homeworld: High Orbit: Bernard
"How is the revitalization coming along?" Loki asked his human pilots a few minutes after they came aboard.
"We should be ready in about ten minutes, sir," the Team Leader responded, not looking up from his rapid typing. "The operating systems on these things are incomplete. We nearly had to write them from scratch."
"I'll pass the word onto our soldiers on the ground," Loki nodded before beaming back to the bridge.
May 8, 1999: Milky Way: Nox Homeworld: Capitol City
Harry took a deep breath when he heard Loki's transmission. He dodged a hail of fire before opening a channel to the rebel base. "This Asgard Special Forces Team Leader Harry Potter; I am hereby ordering the immediate disarmament of the Nox Rebel Army. You will deactivate your Mobile Suit forces immediately. If you do not comply your lives are forfeit and we shall eliminate you."
A face appeared on his screen. "Did you honestly expect us to simply give up?" one of the commanders in the Democratic Building asked. "We have taken this nation over. The new government of the Nox is as is. I do not care how many lives are sacrificed the in process but you will not succeed in defeating us. If you continue to attack we will consider it an act of war on the part of the Asgard High Council and will act as such."
"Then your lives are forfeit." The channel closed and the fighting resumed.
Tomas landed next to the Lancer. The two became surrounded by rebel Mobile Suits and they had less than twenty minutes of power left. The enemy lined up their shots perfectly, drawing out the agony.
White light blinded the city streets as four humanoid machines appeared around the two human pilots. Lasers shot out from the Mobile Suits and shredded the rebel forces. The newly arrived specialists charged after the routing rebels.
"We thought you could use a hand," the Loki Team Leader said across the radio. Both Thor Team Members grinned and resumed combat. Harry and Tomas fought back to back on their way towards the Democratic Building, guarded by four mechanized copies of Tomas's nameless Mobile Suit.
Inside the Democratic Building, the commanders of the Nox Rebel Army blanched. The odds had just swung in the Special Force's favor and according to the lieutenants, the total Mobile Suit count had dropped from an initial two hundred and seventy units to a mere fifty. Before long, the Spec Ops had surrounded the building and were fighting off the last of the Rebel Mobile Suits.
The door behind the rebels opened without warning and six men charged in brandishing weapons. They fired bullet after bullet into the rebels' bodies, leaving the original Nox officials alive.
"Are you alright, Minister?" one of the armed men asked as the others dragged the bodies away.
"Why yes, I am, thank you," the alleged Minister nodded. "I thank you kindly for your intervention, Commander. I feared the worst when the fighting ended." The building shook as a Mobile Suit exploded next to it. The screens around the room showed no more rebels that were fighting. "This rebellion has ended in failure. Let us make sure that something like this can never happen again."
May 8, 1999: Milky Way: Midgar: High Orbit: Beliskner
The crew of the Beliskner, Thor, Harry and Tomas, sat on the bridge looking out at the peaceful blue planet beneath them. One hour had passed since the rebellion ended and the Beliskner had returned to Midgar after the completion of its assignment. The Loki Team had remained behind to oversee the democratic reconstitution.
"It's incredible," Harry muttered, breaking the thick as ice silence. The other two looked at him with impassive expressions. "They had all those weapons and no one to use them. They were so easily overthrown and yet so bloodily reconstituted. And now they're just going to destroy their weapons so they can never be used again."
"The Nox are finally returning to the pacifistic state that they have adored for centuries," Thor reminded. "We should feel honored that we managed to bring back a way of life to such an honorable people."
"I'll feel honored when I receive a thank you," Harry shrugged. "The Nox are being the same as they've always been: appreciative but not outwardly so."
"It isn't the first time," Tomas yawned. "You remember that one time we saved the alien outpost ship that was stranded when its hyperspace generator was down? They never said thank you either."
"Anyway…" Harry interrupted, "…I need to be back on the Galileo in ten minutes so I bid you all farewell. Tom, I'll be sure to come back and visit soon. Please explain the situation to your mom for me." He shrugged and beamed away.
"That kid…" Thor and Tomas both muttered to themselves.
(End Chapter)
Well, that's it. I've just completed yet another chapter. This might be my last update for a while. You know how it is. Boredom can make you not do something you know you will enjoy doing just because you don't want to think too hard about it. So, how did you like it? Did it live up to your expectations? DO you just hate the Mobile Suit combat in general? This is the last form of this combat for a while so don't worry about that. From here on into the next five or ten chapters it's all ground combat and Galileo/Wraith combat. Until next time, BANZAI! (See, I listened to you.)