-After that night had ended, he wakes to having a new meeting in the mission room and he is surprised by having troops sent from Neo-Britain, including the Grim Reaper, all of them in Shidens, four using material sniper rifles, and the rest assault types using machine guns, the Shidens were developed by the industry and trade business of Tiewaz, in which they were presented as an option for the MWDF standard suit and it was accepted because of its modularity and its ability to use types of weapons and sensors to detect the enemy-
Riker: I thought I said to defend the castle.
Reaper: You did but the order of the Queen overrules your orders.
Riker: Fair point, so let me guess you are to fill in the remainders of my missing men in my unit correct?
Reaper: Yes and it's me and two other units and we brought multiple Shidens with us, and they are fresh from the factory floor, the plan by Neo-Britain is to take the Mobile Suit industry by storm and its already been said that the performance of the suit is perfect, just what the military wants and needs and is the best counter for the Reginlaze and Graze units but it does fail in individual strength it's mostly a team based unit and we expect them to highly outperform the enemy alto units.
Riker: So, I also heard there was a competitor for the requirement.
Reaper: Yes the Portanova but it failed because it had no way to protect its sensors in the head section and its engine output was much lower in comparison, the nanolaminate armor on the Shidens makes it lighter and faster.
Riker: I see.
-Riker gets up and they enter the main meeting room containing the remnants of red squadron-
Riker: Team commanders please stand.
-Frank, Jerome and Carr stand-
Riker: You shall be assigned to one of these men as their units, by the way there are 10 of you here, there is one extra which will be my ace in the hole, you know who you are. Alright let's get a move on, sniper units, you are assigned to Team Captain Frank, he is a sniper team leader and more than capable of landing the toughest of shots. All sapper units, you are assigned to Jerome, he will be your team captain and he will teach you the ropes, lastly Carr's team, will be the remaining assault based team members, he is vanguard assault, so you will see the most action and your chances of death are higher, but remember bullets can't hit you if you know what you are doing.
-All the teams and their units stand and leave the room to go to the simulators to train with their team commanders and their new unit types-
Riker: Reaper, you are with me no complaining I need to keep an eye on you because you have never been in combat like this before, just small skirmishes inside the simulators nothing beyond that, a battlefield is much worse and much deadlier just like last battle I have a person down because they were knocked unconscious by a mobile armor and its pilot. Do not fail me.
Reaper: Yes my lord.
Intercom: All Squadrons report to the main hangar bay deck, enemy attacks are expected to begin in 2 hours, get your mobile suits ready and put on your combat normal suits, we expect heavy fighting, a large enemy fleet is spotted approaching.
Riker: Well here we go again.
-All the squadrons and their commanders line up in formation, commanding officers lining the front and behind them the four team captains and behind them the rest of their teams soldiers organized by rank. Riker looks over and sees his support craft being unloaded and prepared for launch and sees the ship commander walking over in which he joins the line-
Admiral Fox: So, I heard that those fools want this base back, and that they have a rather well placed bounty on our heads if they recapture this base, they must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they are asking mercenaries to do the first work for them. If we hold this base we can expect reinforcements from our sides and the second invasion of Mulungu will happen, but until then we must fight for the next three days and keep those mercenaries out of here, for our friends, allies, colleagues and families.
-They all shout in agreement and a cheer goes up and morale is high-
Admiral Fox: Alright then, Mount up!
-All the pilots climb inside their mobile suits and start up, by this time the enemy was beginning its land assault using the same tactics as what was used to first capture the base but instead of the base units waiting on the surface for the mobile suits to attack instead the plan was to use the skiffs and the Corvette and launch them into space and set them up in a location where they could not be seen then they attacked, fiercely despite the numbers of enemies 10 enemy ships each carrying 11 mobile suits against only 5 skiffs with 12 units each and one corvette to protect the Skiffs from destruction-
Riker: Colonel Riker Lukas, deploying!
-By this all members of Riker's team were ready to go and Lisha had been cleared to continue service in which her suit had to be lightened due to the fact that being so close to the surface made her suit use more thrust than needed and her energy storage was increased and was given a hyper bazooka as a secondary long range weapon Reapers Shiden was well made and prepared for battle and just like the battle of loum, the new suit caught the enemy by surprise tearing altos to pieces with their sword maces and their machine guns pierce through the enemy armor, the mercenaries didn't know what to do, as this suit was new to them and they didn't know its weaknesses-
Lisha: This thing is still too heavy...
Sarah: Back here again, if those jerks show up here I'll have to pay them back for what happened.
Riker: Activate duelist drive, assault mode.
Reaper: I'll wait back here and cover your back as well as protect your number 4.
Lisha: Number 4? You little.
Riker: Ha, you have some spunk Reaper, show me what you can do with the power of deciding who lives and dies in your hands.
-Riker rushes to the front heat sword drawn and rail cannon ready to fire, and fires a burst destroying 2 ships which is found to be dummy ships made to look like real enemy ships-
Riker: Dammit, they puffed up their numbers the ones I hit are dummy ships.
Reaper: Let's see then the rest of the enemy ships are probably in hiding if I had to guess...
-The lense on Reapers mobile suit adjusts and finds the target-
Reaper: There!
-Reaper fires his 200mm sniper rifle and the round rips right through the enemy ship exploding and lighting up the area showing 7 more ships, after that the suits from those ships rush Reaper and are quickly intercepted by the Kshatriya-
Lisha: I shall show you who is number three and who is number four, you jerk.
Riker: Don't get over worked you too, especially you Lisha, last time that happened you got knocked out.
-Riker advances on the group and informs all tho other teams-
Riker: All teams and units in the area, 3 out of the remaining ships here are real, a majority of them are dummies but all the mobile suits are real, search and destroy, quickly we don't want our base being taken.
-Then a boom of a warp drop appeared and it was a ship from the empire of Mulungu-
Riker: Incoming enemy reinforcements be advised, the enemy aces may be with them.
-The fighting intensifies and the remaining 7 ships join the landing party and the three at the front are destroyed and before they can properly register the targets, the 7 remaining ships deploy dummies as well to throw off the aim of the bases forces, Riker is not confused and gets closer to the ships to find which ones are real and fake and in doing so, he also destroys the dummies in his way to get to the actual ships-
Frank: Commence barrage on the empire ship they will be attacking soon enough.
Jerome: Get in close to the ships trying to enter the atmosphere we will attach charges and detonate them before they can enter.
Carr: My team, act as a decoy for Jeromes unit, make sure that their focus is on our units.
-Riker looks around and he sees them, Vlad and Norma Kai watching the attack as if they were watching a movie, Riker breaks off and charges them, and Sarah follows suit and Vlad fights Sarah and Norma fights Riker, a death match to be seen especially from afar-
Riker: Dammit, he got faster...
-Riker moves to fire but before he can squeeze a shot of Norma moves-
Sarah: Mine too, they must have increased their suits output limiters limits.
Riker: Then let's push them harder!
-Riker pushes his drive to the maximum in duelist mode and Sarah activates her Alaya Vijnyana and their abilities are much faster as well, putting them on par-
Riker: So what'd you do huh? Increase your limiters, experimented with a new engine? It doesn't matter it only matters how good you are with the new equipment not how good the new toys are!
Norma: Is that so?
-Riker ignores him and continues the engagement and he keeps getting faster and faster, pushing the suits limits-
Riker: Faster, I need to go faster!
Athena: Limits reached, any further will damage the suit.
Riker: Deploy coolant heatsink, Fire!
-Athena sucks all the heated coolant into a deplorable heatsink and changes it for a new disk which was stored inside the unit, the deployed heatsink is fired at Norma and Riker fires at it blowing it up-
Riker: I still need more, I need to break the ceiling, there has to be more, I need it!
-The suit reads his mind and flashes back to his memory, and reads his mind and the ai Beckons-
Athena: Do you seek more power?
Riker: Yes, anything to protect my friends, I would even become like a demon!
Athena: As you wish...
-The suit heats up and reshapes its armor using the moving armor frame inside the suit, the head splits open and it reveals the face of the gundam 00 but it's different the V fin is bent at each halfway point like the Bael, everyone stares in awe confused as to what is happening, the armor opens revealing a power core pulsating with immense power, and it reseals itself inside and when the metal cools the body is of no Gundam anyone has seen and the weapons don't change but a sheath covers the heat saber and it changes from a heat saber to a katana, one red hot, using the heated coolant as a cutting tool for the sword the color of the suit matches that of what a demon would be, Red and Black no white, blue or yellow in the color-
Riker: So, let's do this, DUELIST CORE!
-Riker's suit glows yellow and he charges Norma in which Norma retaliates activating trans-am but Riker is faster and slices off the arm of Normas mobile suit and he comes back and slices the leg, the head and finally the body-
Riker: It's over!
-Riker slices through the suit and it explodes as soon as he puts the sword back into its sheath on his hip-
Sarah: Holy shit, he actually did it...
Vlad: No, Norma, no no no!
Riker: Your next, surrender or die, your choice.
-Vlad surrenders, because of what he had just seen and it makes Riker turn around and attack the ship that showed up, using only the sword cutting the hull apart piece by piece, destroying the air defense and ship cannons first and then going after vital points like the bridge and engines-
Sarah: Your luck, you bastard, your team almost killed me, now I get to show you the same kindness your crew did me.
Riker: Sarah, no motives for revenge or anger following them will get you killed in the long run.
-Riker keeps going faster and his trail is green in color and he finishes off any remnants that decide not to surrender-
Riker: Checkmate, game over...
-All units return to their ships, beat up but only one unit damaged heavily and no units destroyed, the suit turned from a bloody angel to a dark demon in the matter of minutes and when they return to the ground, Sayla looks it over and sees no issues in the armor, but the armor compound has indeed changed by taking in the environment and how it is full of nano laminate armor and absorbs as well the residue from the anti beam coating on defeated mobile suits, making a gluttonous killing machine, hell bent on ending the war-
Sayla: I can't explain it, the suits armor is absorbing pieces of armor and the frame still remains intact but the armor is attached on a deeper level than a normal mobile suit. But what I can do is use tools and make it clean, polish it other wise it's going to look not very good looking, also we will load another disposable heat sink into you suit to top it off. Also if I had to guess it's a mix between the nano laminate armor and the heatsink exploding causing the sudden change in the armor but that's the only theory I can make right now.
Riker: Fine...please do.
Sarah: It sure looks like a demon more than an angel that's for sure, what shall it be named?
Riker: I don't know.
Athena: Xaroth, that is its name Gundam Burner Xaroth.
Riker: Xaroth it is, something tells me I'm going to have a deeper relationship with this suit than I have now.
Sarah: As long as you don't do something weird to it.
-Riker laughs and they all head to the ship bar for a drink and everyone gives him a weird look because of what had happened in battle and they stayed where they were even when he sat down with his team but the room got awkward, until someone decides to crack a joke and the ice dividing everyone melts with laughter-
