Heaven and Hell
Chapter 9: The Rebirth of Celestial Being
Katharon's leaders gained access to the Mk II GN drive and started to fight A-LAWS, secretly founded by Ronald Pinkerton after he took control of the Innovators, and Ron watched the battles between the two powers.
He played both sides against each other, watching them kill the other.
Operation Hellfire, the destruction of the human population of Earth, could still be carried out in this universe.
And Celestial Being gave him the tools to do it.
An Mk I GN drive could enhance the blast of a nuclear weapon 10 fold, and the one problem that all nukes faced-the radiation that would kill all life on any planet-was changed greatly: the radiation would only kill humans, and would fade after 48 hours in simulation.
His METEOR, discovered a month after the final battle, was still armed with the nukes.
Ron found the Exia R1 fighting a squadron of A-LAWS Aheads, and decided to help. Just as an Ahead nearly cut the arm off,
Ron cut the Ahead in half, killing the pilot.
"Setsuna, what did I tell you?" "C-Colonel?"
"Against close range suits, you use your beam rifle!"
Then the METEOR jumped in and Ron hooked up to it.
"FULL BURST!"
Only two Aheads survived, and one had a hard time pulling out.
Ron decided to leave them alone.
Then Tieria Erde's new GN-008 Seravee appeared.
"C-Colonel? Where did you come from?"
"Where do you think? I have a ship!"
The Morgan and the other two suits landed on the colony that Colonel Pinkerton would later take over.
Ron jumped out of his upgraded Morgan.
"Colonel, it's been some time."
Ron had changed.
He now sported an eyepatch, a legacy of the final battle, as a GN Strike Dagger actually impaled the cockpit, destroying his left eye and the left half of his brain.
'Thank the gods for my work in organic memory transplant.'
"What's with the eyepatch?"
He lifted the patch, showing his cybernetic eye. (AN: Think the T-101's eye from the first Terminator movie, but with a normal eye socket)
"How?"
"I got ambushed. Thankfully my Morgan's GN drive and other power systems are nowhere near the cockpit, so I survived. My brain was almost liquefied. Thankfully, my research into organic memory transfer saved me."
"Organic what?"
"My memories and other things related to the brain were transferred into a miniature computer that was installed into my brain."
"Setsuna F Seiei!"
Ron turned to see a boy in a spacesuit.
"Saji Crossroad."
"Hello, gaki."
Saji looked at Ron.
His eyes widened at the sight of the Colonel.
"YOU!"
He knew the Colonel: an evil bastard.
"How nice to see you again."
He ran at the Colonel and punched him in the face.
He broke his fist.
"Does no one learn? I HAVE A TITANIUM SKULL!"
The next day: CBS-74 Ptolemaeus II
Saji sat in his cell, reading up on the missions of Celestial Being and some bits of Colonial history, as given by Colonel Pinkerton.
His parents, Karla and Kevin, with his older brother, Mikhail, were taken by the Cylons to be experimented on when their ship, the Diana, was captured.
He discovered this before the Fall of the 12 Colonies, and attacked the Cylons with what seemed like murderous fury.
Saji saw the images of the mutilated bodies, and the result of those experiments: the 8 organic Cylon models.
At least 5000 people-the note from the Colonel said 'don't quote me on that'-for only 8 models of organic Cylons.
But all of this was in another universe.
So how did he get to this one?
And why did he join Celestial Being?
He had no reason.
He might have been interested in the GN drives, but he was a great, if not the greatest, designer he'd seen: it took years to design a Mobile Suit, and he created the CDF-X01 Dart Gundam in 3 weeks!
And the mass-produced models were even easier to design.
Then there was the original ADF-X01: a genius design in the first stage.
The following ones got better and deadlier.
The Mk 4 used a GN drive and a nuclear power plant.
It was a 7th Generation Gundam, and the last 2 didn't even exist!
Evil or not, that bastard was a damned genius.
Battlestar Yashuman
The new Mk III GN drives were about to arrive from Jupiter, where Ron had set up a GN drive manufacturing facility.
Ron replaced the older Mk II with the newer Mk III, and prepared to send a few to the CB facility to test on their weaker Gundams.
The only problem he had was that 00 could destroy the Morgan using the Mk III GN drives.
He would need to create a new GN drive that knew only be made once, and it would be so powerful that not even the 00 Gundam with twin Mk III GN drives could destroy it.
The Mk IV would stretch his design limits.
And his designs were always unbelievable, but hey, he was a badass when it came to designing everything, right?
Mission briefing to recover Allelujah Haptism
Ron listened to Sumeragi berate her so-called 'ability' to forecast tactical situations.
He started laughing like an insane man.
"What's so funny?"
"That even she realizes the truth! You can't predict a tactical situation! You can only fight through it!"
"So, what's your plan?"
"Read up on the Battle of New Caprica, and you'll find out."
Sumeragi's eyes widened and she smiled.
"I have. And I think I can improve on it."
"I thought of it. You can never improve on my plans."
"This isn't the Galactica, Colonel: we're too small."
"Jump when you enter the water, then. My weapons won't be affected."
"What?"
HRL anti-government forces prison
Kati Mannequin saw a huge ship enter the atmosphere.
It looked like a huge alligator, and it wasn't slowing down.
Then they heard evil laughing coming from the radio.
"SURPRISE, COCKFAGS!"
The huge alligator, the Battlestar Yashuman, was over 100 meters above the water, then disappeared, making a huge tidal wave.
Then another ship crashed into the water, making it worse.
This was one hell of a coordinated attack.
Then a huge cannon shell knocked Kati's carrier into the water, effectively knocking it out of the fight.
It sank, but the crew was still alive, trapped.
Above the water, the Morgan, equipped with the METEOR, started blasting the ground troopers with plasma fire.
'GN particles are affected by water, but not high energy plasma!'
No one survived the assault, at least in a mobile suit.
"Are you trying to keep up your reputation as the most bloodthirsty bastard in Celestial Being?"
Ron looked at Tieria.
"Are you trying to keep up your reputation as the most feminine Meister in Celestial Being?"
"Funny, Colonel."
"I thought that thing-what did you call it?"
"Mobile Suit Embedded Tactical EnfORcer: METEOR."
"METEOR was a space-only weapon."
"Tieria, I'm a fucking genius. If I want to turn this thing into a giant butt-plug, I will."
Setsuna started laughing.
"He's got a good point."
Then GN-007 Arios, the super-Kyrios, landed at the point Allelujah was supposed to be.
Ron sat back as he waited for the Katharon morons and Allelujah to get moving.
What better way to test his newest weapon then by nuking the prison?
Two transports belonging to A-LAWS took off and got out of the battle zone.
The Ptolemy surfaced to pick up the Gundams and once they landed, it dived to 2000 feet.
Ron armed one of the nukes he took from the Union and fired his GN-nuclear missile.
He jumped away before it exploded, destroying both the prison and surrounding areas. From high orbit, he smirked at the destruction.
"Damn, I'm good."
He jumped back to the surface, minus the METEOR.
"We detected a nuclear explosion on the surface!"
"Not my doing. I guess A-LAWS don't want anyone knowing they screwed up. I'm docking, so you'd better have a hanger for me!"
"Copy that, Colonel. Hanger 5's ready for you."
"Yokai."
Updated 09/14/10
Um...shit. He's got super nukes!
A huge stockpile of nukes plus the ability to make Mk I GN drives equals bye, bye Earth.
Operation Hellfire (hence the reason it's called the To Hell and Back series) is the plan to destroy all human life on the planet, but Ron's missing the one key item to keep the planet from going lifeless: in this case, the GN drive. The GN particles and the radiation will kill all human life while keeping everything else alive.
Next Time: episodes 5-8 of Gundam 00.
Ja Ne!