-The Corvette had jumped quickly and everyone was in their suits preparing to deploy-

Riker: It may take a while to completely deploy, so I'm going to send you out first then I will follow.

-They leave warp and Lisha and her NZ-666 Kshatriya custom was launched-

Lisha: Funnels!

Enemy Comms: A quad wing mobile suit? But that suit was supposed to be destroyed in the Laplace conflict, Raise the alarms, that mobile suit is a major threat, all cannons focus on destroying that corvette.

Ship Commander: I don't think so!

-The corvette opens its weapon storage spaces and it angles its frame protecting the mobile suits deploying and firing all weapons at enemy defensive positions-

Lisha: This is the combat I needed! Search and destroy!

-Lisha has her funnels destroy weapon positions and fires missiles at the enemy mobile suit and fighter hangars just to have the missiles fail by the station having CIWS weapons protecting the openings to the base-

Riker: Let's just focus on the enemy mobile suits for now.

-Lisha does this and directs her funnels to go back to their hives then she deploys her beam saber and has her mega particle guns in the suits wings fire at the station forcibly missing the ships but destroying fighters and enemy defense force mobile suits-

Enemy comms: Deploy the Neo Zeong!

Riker: Fall back, the Neo Zeong is nothing to play around about, especially its controller drones.

Lisha: It's no threat to me...

Riker: Wait stop! If you get taken over we can't save you!

-Lisha ignores this and continues her charge stepping in on enemy attacks especially the controlling drones-

Lisha: Don't screw around with me, remaining missiles lock on and fire!

-The remaining missiles are fired but are quickly shot down-

Riker: This guy is good.

-Riker notices the emblem on the Neo Zeong and gets nervous-

Riker: Fall back the threat level on this guy is too high for you, I mean it he is extremely dangerous!

-Lisha gets close to fire her mega particle cannons and is slapped aside bouncing Lisha around in the cabin and knocking her unconscious-

Riker: Damn you, Norma!

Norma Kai: YES I AM!

-Norma launches the controller drones at Riker controlling it using the psycho frames in the suit and in his helmet-

Riker: Time to finish this!

Norma Kai: Once and for all? Yes let us as this war is now futile for you to finish!

Riker: How would you know! Mobile armor or no, I can still beat you! Duelist Drive!

-The duelist drive was developed soon after the hybrid drive, it was developed so that it can multiple deployment modes, Assault, Defense, Pacify and Duelist, the duelist formation makes it have max energy production and output but is limited to 5 minutes as any longer usage would make the machine overheat even in space, the abilities that are enhanced are speed and attack power while defensive power is reduced-

Red 5: Do you need help my lord?

Riker: No deal with the station, drop those troops off we need to capture these ships as quickly as possible.

Carr: I'm staying whether you like it or not, Trans-Am!

-Carr had also found his two solar reactors he was looking for and was able to become an innovator although as a fallback he had to remove the Ahab Reactor and put the two drives on his back one on top of the other-

Riker: Fine, Red 5, you should be able to handle it that Gadelaza should be able to take out multiple targets at once, use your main energy cannon t take out the enemy hangars and Ship Commander, after dropping the troops off, retrieve the Kshatriya and its pilot.

Red 5: Looks like the enemy intends to capture it sir.

Riker: Change of plans, Red 5 stop them Commander, do what you can to get the soldiers to their attack target.

Death: We should be able to capture this in less than 30 minutes, the power looks like it's been knocked out from up here.

Riker: Fine, Riker Lucas engaging!

-Riker bobs and weaves through the wiring of the enemy and as well as dodges the hyper mega particle cannon fire-

Riker: Your done!

Norma Kai: Not yet!

-Norma opens the harness for the mobile suit and it parry's Riker's heat rod-

Riker: Your defense is tough, but not enough!

-Riker deploys his sword and slices through the arms and Norma ejects his suit in which his suit retaliates swinging a beam saber to make a gash in Riker's suit, which is blocked by Carr's drill lance-

Carr: Sorry but when you have a weapon like that I have to interfere.

Norma Kai: Then I guess I should just fight with my suit then.

Riker: Yeah, duelist mode off.

-The core powers down and starts cooling-

Norma Kai: Fear my new suit the Gelgoog Jäger, powered by a pair of Minovsky particle engines and has its own I field generator.

Riker: Pfft, who needs that much equipment when it may not help you in battle.

Carr: I shall stand by in case you need me Riker.

Riker: Please do, I'll try to handle this myself.

-Riker and Norma did as that did a year ago and stand ready in ready to draw positions for their swords it was up to skill, speed and luck now, and they watched each other, sitting at a stand off with the other-

Riker: (Quietly to Athena) Prepare the defensive mode, chances are his sword besides his beam sabers will also be an energy based weapon.

Carr: Draw!

-Riker and Norma quickly go for their swords and Riker reaches it first in which he charges and slices off the arm of Normas mobile suit-

Riker: Now to finish you.

Norma Kai: As much as it would be nice for you if I died here, I think it's time I left, now!

-Norma ejects and his brothers mobile suit catches the ejected capsule in which it runs off with it to the same ship that escaped a year ago and they escape successfully again-

Riker: Damn cheater.

Carr: He has no honor in him does he?

-The conversation is cut short when the MWDFS Olympus Mons jumps in via a man made worm hole rift-

Red 5: Sir I was able to recapture the suit and Lisha, but she is still unconscious.

Death: We have captured the station and the ship making and repair facilities.

Gen. Jackson: Crew and captains report in on the deck and you will be assigned your new ships.

Riker: Halfbeak type ships. And it looks like one larger ship, is that the flagship?

Carr: That is a flagship type, very few are made that is a rare ship indeed, whoever gets it will be one lucky man.

-They land back on the Corvette which brings them back into the ship and the Kshatriya is rerouted to the repair bay and Lisha is moved to the medical bay and is moved into a medical jelly capsule where she is stored and Riker had a look at her face and she had a cut on her forehead and had a bruise on her head-

Riker: Dammit, She shouldn't have charged that machine, it could have killed her so easily.

Sarah: Not your fault, you warned her and tried to stop her, but she just kept going, all we can hope for is that she is strong and heals quickly.

-Riker reports to the Bridge and the General is waiting for him and the remaining team that did not get knocked unconscious-

Gen. Jackson: Good work now all we have to do is register the ships RFIDs to match friendly codes and marks them as MWDF ships using the colors and markings, it should only take an hour and then we will head to the fallback point at LHS3872A1.

-Riker returns to his room and Sarah follows close behind, Riker is still thinking of how he could make that suit safer so Lisha doesn't get bounced around as much-

Riker: Perhaps an inertial dampener insider her seat, maybe tighten the strap in belts, nah, the second option wouldn't work because it would risk snapping her neck. Maybe the first option but where could I get equipment like that from?

-Riker goes on and on and comes to one final conclusion, make the shields and thrusters on the suit more sensitive to the psycho frame control systems-

Riker: I'll send that to Sayla as a requirement for if she serves in the next battle.

Sarah: She might not, remember she got bounced around pretty good, she at least has a concussion, and at most she has a serious brain injury.

-The preparations are made and all the captured ships, crew and mobile suits launch and jump the LHS3872A1, in which they were already under attack-

Gen. Jackson: All crew to your mobile suits, I repeat all crew to your mobile suits, equip physical based weaponry, the enemies are using nanolaminate armor also we expect them to be using Altos as well, so expect a wide variation of weaponry and it's not standard military, these guys are mercenaries, so expect them to play dirty, tonight is predicted to be the coldest night on LHS3872A1 so if you go down, make sure to carry your survival kits and beacons so we can track you down.

-The onboard basic grunt mobile suits were changed from GM customs to GN-X Mk4s but instead of energy weapons, the weapons are traded from a bazooka cannon and extra missiles, as well as ERA-

Riker: They must be expecting the worst.

-Riker, Sarah, Red 5 and Carr moved to their mobile suits which were now stationed on the corvette and from there the Corvette was prepared for launch-

General Jackson: Prepare for drop in 10 seconds, 5 seconds, 3,2,1 drop.

-All ships dropped from warp ending up behind the mercenaries blocking their escape route-

Gen. Jackson: Corvette deploy!

-The corvette launches and opens up the mobile suit launch bay in which all three suits and the mobile armor is launched, Riker pulls out his rifle and aims for the rear hull of one of the ships, and puts it in line with the enemy power core, killing a ship in one shot-

Riker: Charge!

-All mobile suits follow his lead and charge the enemy formation-

Gen. Jackson: All cannons, FIRE!

-All the ships open up with a large volume of fire, damaging and destroying ships and on occasion taking down a mobile suit or 2 accidentally-

Riker: So they are relying on Mercs to finish the job for them, they must have a lot of money to do this.

Carr: I imagine so, the way a kingdom leads is by seizing the funds and then using it on the people to buy or take what they need and use the profit for their own gains.

-The fighting and AAA fire gets more intense as they approach the formation and Riker redraws his plan quickly in his head-

Riker: Corvette move to the front with us, use those missile launchers, I don't want the enemy ships to escape, they either die here or surrender. Same goes to the pilots here, aim for their engines and power cores, all other units aim to take down their mobile suits, those alto units will be a pain if we don't deal with them.

-A certain symbol catches Riker's eye and he recognizes it as the same terroristic group that planned to use a colony drop against Mars to destroy its ability to be inhabited-

Riker: Leave this ship and its mobile suits to me.

-Riker Smiles and thinks about how good it is to be able to destroy the enemies that almost destroyed his home-

Sarah: Watch it!

-Sarah pushes Riker out of the way and cleaves an alto to pieces with her claw-

Riker: Thanks I guess?

-Riker moves in and destroys the ship, taking down its mobile suits and the crew with it-

Riker: Those damn terrorists, so they were hiding under the enemies wing long before we even knew where they originated from.

-Riker moves on and sees Sarah very busy with what is going on-

Sarah: You Damn bastard let go of my arm!

-Sarah moves the railgun from her arm to her wrist and grabs her axe cleaving the enemy mobile suit open and killing its pilot, until a shot ricochets off a ship and penetrates the booster on her mobile suit-

Sarah: Dammit!

-A mercenary is closing in with an alto heat knife and comes down short missing Sarah but putting a huge hole in her suit canopy-

Riker: Sarah fall back, I can't risk losing you!

Sarah: Sometimes, you need to take the risks, begin retinal projection, start the Alaya Vijnyana program.

-Sarah sees all with her eyes and continues fighting despite the damage to her suit-

Riker: Dammit, you can't just listen can you!

-Riker shoots the other two altos on an attack run for her and drags her suit back to the Olympus Mons hangar bay-

Riker: Stay here, Sayla do not let her leave, her suit is damaged and she is being reckless.

-Riker returns to the front lines and deploys his swords and gets in front of all the deploying enemies, in which he has walked himself into a mess, 100 enemies lay out before him and he begins engaging using the heat sword and heat rod, slicing, hacking, stabbing and grappling and everyone watched and as Riker finished and his last attack kills the mercenaries but he loses vision as his visor and sensor array gets damaged-

Riker: I can't see a damn thing.

Red 5: I'll deal with them sir, just back off for now.

-Riker returns to ship but he is unable to see what is happening-

Riker: Dammit I'm getting out I need to see what is happening.

-Riker gets out and sees a graveyard of ships and destroyed mobile suits, knowing that the battle is coming to an end he returns to the ship and docks his mobile suit in which his sensors are scheduled for repair and just across the hall lay the Kshatriya custom, powerless at the moment and Riker looks around the debris with his binoculars and sees what he was looking for, a linear seat, he didn't know how it survived the cold of space and the explosions from battle but he grabbed it when it was passing by and he had it cleaned, refurbished and repaired and Sayla helped him install it on the suit without waiting-

Riker: I'm taking it out, let the catapult operator and the conn know.

-Riker walks the Kshatriya to the Catapult and launches himself into the debris, using the new sensors to detect any threats and an alarm goes off-

Athena: Threat detected 250meters.

-Riker activates all the funnels and deploys the beam saber-

Riker: Where is he, show me the way.

-Riker focuses and waits for the enemy's intent to kill which would be detected beforehand by the suits psycho frames-

Riker: Where...where...where...There!

-The enemy suit pops out from behind a destroyed ship and fires a beam cannon at the suit which blocks the shot with the suits I field and then he turns and forces the funnels to attack using the beams on his last known location of the suit but it disappears and moves to a different spot-

Athena: Comms forcibly opened.

Gen. Jackson: Lieutenant Major, what are you doing!

Riker: I was taking this suit out for a performance check before the pilot recovers but I am currently under threat by an enemy moving around the debris field, I need a sonar check, I can't see his signature on the radar but I know he is out there.

Jordan: Ma'am, hostile suit moving through the debris field it's moving fast, too fast for us to target it among the debris. But I can put it on the radar for Riker.

Riker: Please do, I'd rather not get this suit destroyed.

-Riker waits and sees him in the radar and it's charging straight at him-

Riker: FUNNELS!

-The funnels line up and shred everything in its way in that direction and when the debris clears he sees that he has hit an enemy Sniper Alto, with the same symbol as the ship he destroyed-

Riker: I'll incinerate it.

-Riker fires all his beam cannons and completely destroys the suit and the pilot in one shot and the suit explodes, the funnels then return to its hives to recharge-

Riker: Target destroyed, RTB.

-Riker takes it a full throttle through the debris and dodges it at high speed and he does this to test the new seat, Riker hits the brakes reversing thrust and slowing down with multiple G forces pushing on his body and he almost passed out before returning the mobile suit to the docking bay-

Riker: (panting) This thing is an animal if you don't expect as much power that comes out of it.

Sayla: Satisfied?

-Riker nods and returns to his room after debriefing and falls asleep, Sarah is walking the hall on guard duty and sees that Riker had debriefed and returned to his room, especially after the suit test-

Sarah: Your pushing yourself too hard.

-Sarah continues walking then when she gets off shift, she goes to the medical area and checks on the status of Lisha who was currently still unconscious-

Sarah: Is there anything we can do?

Regeneration Doctor: Not at the moment, we expect her to stay under for at least another 2 hours, when we got her, her body was tired out and beat up, a cut on her forehead and multiple bruises on her head and abdomen. We think we should not disturb her sleep as the medical materials that are going in to help her body repair the damage are helping her regenerate her skin and brain, we expect brain damage but from what we are giving her it should be fixed but we expect her to still have a headache from time to time for at least 2 or more days so during that time we recommend that she stay in the medical area until it's fixed completely.

-Sarah leaves and walks the ship, and heads to the hangar and looks at the NZ-666 and sees all its modifications-

Sarah: Damn monster...

-Sarah returns to hers and Riker's room and she lies down next to him, and during this time, the Olympus Mons orbits the planet until it meets up with the rearguard fleet and the ship docks on the planet below-

Gen. Jackson: What are you talking about, this ship can't get decommissioned yet, the ship has not even served for the minimum of 50 years...what? We are to disband and be reassigned? Over my dead body, this ship and its crew are the most effective force within 100 light years of Sol, any other fleet will not be able to pull off what is being planned. Whatever!

-The General slams the phone down into its receiver and is visibly angry at the GHQ and its policies-

Jordan: Ma'am, if you want to go off on our own, I believe I speak for everyone on the ship but we stand with you, the GHQ is nuts for giving up a good and reliable ship like this one, this ship has become my home over the last year and a half, and I'll be damned if I'm giving it up to be broken up and forced on to other ships. Any objections voice them!

-The currently awake ship crew agreed with silence and weapons were handed around in the ship and were told to continue operations and if any engineer came onboard to help dismantle the ship they would be captured and thrown off the ship-

Sarah: Riker wake up, we have an issue.

Riker: Huh...

-Riker gets up and is handed a pistol in which he is filled in with what happened and at this point when they have landed Lisha has regained consciousness and remained inside the medical bay, which the doctors locked themselves in and armed themselves and barricaded the doors-

Riker: I see now, the GHQ has gone nuts trying to decommission their best tool in the shed is the work of a madman.

-When they docked they did not receive any fuel but the boarding officers and engineers were surprised when they were surrounded by soldiers who beckoned them to get off in which they did not want to comply-

Riker: Commander, I'm only going to say this once, there has to be something wrong, dismantling a ship that's one of the best in the fleet is the work of a madman. You and I know it both.

Commander: Im sorry Count Lukas but it's true, your men and all soldiers are to be reassigned to the current remaining ships. Same goes for the engineers and mechanics.

-Riker lifts his rifle and pushes the commander to get off with the muzzle of his gun and when he gets them to the door, the commander jumps and yells Fire!, in which the mobile suits opened fire with machine gun fire and some people got hit-

Riker: Back up, close the door, prepare my suit I'm going to get rid of them myself.

-Riker gets into his suit and puts on a nearby large Gatling cannon and grabs his heat sword in which the top elevator gets him out where the mobile suits in the bay are focused on the lower section of the hull where the door was-

Riker: Checkmate.

-Riker fires his cannon and disables the suits in which more come along and then a cease fire is called by the Admiral at the station-

???: This is Admiral Fox, all units hold fire, I repeat cease fire!

Admiral Fox: General Jackson, please have the lieutenant commander return to his spot on the ship.

Gen. Jackson: Yeah right, you plan to decommission our ship and reassign all of our troops for no good reason.

Admiral Fox: Yes this is about that, it was only a certain party that wanted to do this through illegal means with a political stance, any and all officers who follow this order are traitors, arrest them and they will be court martialed through a military tribunal. All mobile suit pilots you are not to blame, please bring your suits back to their assigned spots and have them repaired, mechanics you are not to blame either, General, you are ordered to continue operations, as an order through the commission of the Battle Master back at GHQ on earth. You are not to be charged with insubordination as well.

-Riker lowers his suits cannon and sheaths his sword in relief-

Riker: Phew, that could have gone a lot worse.

Sarah: I'll say, hey let the doctors know that the danger has passed and get the wounded to the care facility, quickly now! Time is of the essence!

-The decommission of the fleet was a hoax set up as a political game by one of the Mulungu sympathizers inside the GHQ he was also tried for insubordination, treasonous intent and misrepresented of the branch of military, he was found guilty and was stripped of his rank and his privileges and sent to prison, same goes for the officers following his command which he had bribed with money, and expensive offers as well as a place among the military in Mulungu once the Sol system had been successfully beaten back and invaded-

Riker: Attention! Admiral on deck!

-Everyone rose from their seat inside the ship and saluted-

Admiral Fox: At ease people, at ease, mind if I join you? I know it's not my place but as admiral at this facility I want to know everyone on the roster, and it would be most effective on your end because even though I may be of higher rank...

-He fills a glass and raises it-

Admiral Fox: I still believe that if you treat your soldiers like your own children, they will follow you into the depths of hell if you ask them, and I plant to do that when the time is right and you trust me, to the crew of the Olympus Mons and its pilots.

-He nods and drinks and the festivities continue, Viper and Francis as well as their teams show up as well and there is a cheer that goes out when they arrive-

Viper: Riker! I heard you returned, look at you a full blown count now, oh, sorry your highness.

-They both laugh and have a fun time and the Admiral walks up to Riker and asks to speak to him on the observation deck-

Admiral: You know Riker, people like you are true leaders, true legends, and they very rarely appear and throughout this extended campaign I felt like this was a war that would never end, all it takes is one man to change the tide of battle, one man. And that is why I want do two things, promote you to Colonel and have your own ship, lead your own crew, go on missions of your choice and your choice alone.

Riker: But sir, I'm no ship captain, I'm a mobile suit pilot, I may understand the basic tactics but being a one man unit knowing my own strengths and weaknesses and being able to fight without the burden of others weighing me down is what I feel like I need, I know that there are great pilots and captains out there. Also I technically have my own personalized ship with my own pilot, and it serves me, he can handle something like that but with me, I want to be able to fly without the weight of others weighing me down, keeping me from fighting hard.

Admiral Fox: Is this so, let's see it then.

Riker: Alright.

-Riker leads him to the door past the mobile suit bay and he floats in where the corvette is docked and the four mobile suits are also docked-

Riker: This is the Landes, a high speed, highly maneuverable, highly armed, stealth capable warship, it is quiet, gets in and out quickly and can deploy mobile suits quickly without the enemy noticing. Her jump drive capacity is 20 light years a jump, and runs on a high energy nuclear generator instead of fuel like the Minovsky particle and Ahab wave generators do. And is more efficient than the use of a solar furnace or a gas powered generator. The one warning about it though is not to get too close, this thing is armed to the teeth, machine guns, cannons and missiles, a dangerous cocktail of destruction but more than capable of taking down a facility or lots of ships.

-The admiral walks along the side of the ship and runs his hand on the hull and looks at it like he was ready to jump in and fly it-

Riker: I wouldn't fly it, its a wonderful tool but its weaknesses are its weight, it would not be able to take off because of the tonnage that it is on this planet, it would need a complete overhaul on the engine drive system to do that, there is only one other way, de a course for the nearest star system, get away from the surface where you won't take anything with you on accident and hit the throttle but why fly it now?

-Riker lets him know the rest and they return to the party, Sarah takes him by the hand and they leave to the medical room to go see Lisha who was now awake and injuries were well on the mend and from there the night went smoothly and it went well from there, almost too well-