Author note: Hey guys, been a while. I know I usually leave these at the end but I just wanted to give you guys an update on why I was gone. Sorry for being gone so long. I had started my first year of residency in a hospital in the fall of 2019. As you are aware shit hit the fan worldwide and things got bad here. I contracted covid, but am fine, but others I work with were not so lucky. Things around here are starting to calm down with the vaccine rollout, so I should be able to start writing more frequently. I hope you all stay safe out there and lookward to my next update.

I Don't Own Anything I'm Just A Crazy Fan.

Chapter 75: Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Charlotte's childhood home.

"It was all I could do to protect her." Albert said with regret clearly in his voice.

"Protect her?..." Replied the younger man with a slight pause in his voice. Albert seemed to be debating something in his head before he continued.

"A few years ago someone came to me requesting the development of several infinite stratos frames. This individual wanted it to be completely off the book and under the table. They were offering a very generous sum of cash for this request. Naturally I refused. Only later did I learn this man was a phantom task agent." Albert told the young Emperor just how far the infiltration of the Dunois corporation was. To Albert's surprise Seth was not shocked.

"That would explain the code we found in some of the unmanned IS units." Several of the newer [C.O.M.E.T.] and [S.T.A.R.S.] units code has traces of [Joan Of Arc] coding within them and this caused Seth to suspect something of this sort. Thankfully the Empire did not give the Dunois corporation the full code for some of [Joan Of Arc] more vital systems as those were maintained strictly by them.

"When I began to put my foot down, they retaliated." Albert elaborated.

"Do you happen to know who?"

"I don't have solid proof, but I have an idea. One of the board members was replaced by his 'son' as he was getting old. Even though the man retiring was only 52. I looked into him and I couldn't find anything linking him to that bastard. Théo Ancel is his supposed son." Albert stayed as he pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Only for it to be pulled from his grasp and flung across the room.

"Those things will kill you."

"We're not even in the same room for Christ's sakes!"

"On to this 'Théo' person. Has he openly threatened you?" Seth asked.

"Only vaguely and in brief passing at the office." Responded the older man.

"That's all I needed to hear." Seth dialed a new number and a third man clad in a full body of armor joined the call.

"Your majesty." The Imperial commando said as he answered the call.

"Lieutenant Malcolm. I have a mission for your team. HVT extraction. I'm sending you all the data we have on Théo Ancel. I want him alive, but feel free to rough him up if necessary."

"It will be done, my lord." Malcolm said before his hologram faded from the call.

"What have you done?!" Albert said after getting over the shock what he just witnessed.

"I ordered Théo to be captured so we can interrorage him."

"Did you not hear what I said? If anything happens to him, my compan-."

"Mr. Dunois, this is the best way to deal with your issues. Confront anything that stands in your way and destroy it. That's what got me this far."

"You're insane. This is not only a terrible idea, but you're breaking international law with this action. You just signed a treaty with the French government and you're doing this?! Have you los-"

"Mr. Dunios, an [LAAT] will arrive at your manor in due time. It will transport you aboard to the Star Destroyer [Napoleon Bonaparte]. It's arriving tonight for tomorrow's event, but you'll get an early showing. Don't be late." Seth said as he ended the call, before Albert Dunois could respond.

He soon received a message that Malcom and his team were headed towards the location of Théo. With his matters in order, he had to head to the [Napoleon Bonaparte], he would message Charlotte regarding his absence in the morning as he was sure the girl was in bed. This plan was out of the window as he opened the door, only to me met with a sad looking blonde.

"You were talking to my father, weren't you?"

"How much did you hear?"

"Most of it." Seth looked at the blonde girl, whose eyes were crying out for an answer.

"Come with me. It will be easier to show you." He saw Charlotte shake her head in response to his request. Soon Charlotte heard the sound of the machine that took her away from Seoul several weeks ago.

A little later, Aboard the [Napoleon Bonaparte].

The two arrived on the newly created warship as it was flying towards the largest park in France for tomorrow's demonstration. Charlotte was amazing at her current surroundings. She had been aboard the [Nobunaga] when leaving Seoul, but at that time, she didn't look around. She had been in shock of the whole situation around her at that time. She saw the massive hanger above her partially open, allowing another [LAAT] to arrive. To the left of Seth was Lelouch. Charlotte hadn't been properly introduced to the man who had quickly become a dear friend to Seth. Once it landed the sliding door open to reveal three passengers aboard. Mr. Dunois, Mrs. Dunois and their youngest daughter.

"I don't recall allowing you to bring guests." Seth stated as he looked at the two additional women.

"I was curious as to why an Imperial vessel arrived at our home to take my husband." Rozenta said. "Care to explain why Charlotte is here as well?" The woman continued.

"She had overheard my conversation with her father and refused to stay at her home."

"You two were having a discussion?" Rozenta asked.

"Regarding the phantom task infiltration of the Dunois cooperation." This left a shocked look on the girls of the Dunois family, minus Charlotte, with a scornful glare coming Albert directed at the young Emperor. His was quickly disregarded as the hanger above them opened again, however, it was a black [LAAT] gunship that had landed. A group of 5 men clad in onyx black armor with teal T shaped visor on their mask, stepped off the gunship with a man dressed in pajamas, with his arms bound, and a sack covering his face.

"Sire, extraction of the HVT is completed as requested." The Imperial commando spoke as the group approached. One of the commandos gave a help nudge to their captive, nearlying causing said captive to fall over.

"Excellent work lieutenant.I hope there wasn't any complication."

"Nothing we couldn't handle. He had an unmanned IS in his security detail, but ion weaponry was able to dispatch it with relative ease." Malcolm reported.

"Glad to hear that. Remove the mask from his face." Seth ordered and one of the commandos had removed said mask from Théo. He was worse for wear. The commandos had roughed him up a little. It appeared that he had needed a little convincing to come along. They had also placed a piece of cloth in his mouth to prevent him from shouting.

Theo looked around his surroundings, gazing at the unknown internals of the Star Destroyer. Once his eyes landed on Albert he began to speak, but the cloth in his mouth just made it sound like angry muffles. Using the force, Seth loosen the knot allowing the man to speak.

"Albert, what on earth is the meaning?! You have no idea what you've done!" Before the man could speak out in anger more, the Emperor raised up his left hand, while forming a cup shape. Théo felt a pressure growing on his neck, and found himself being unable to draw air into his lungs. He fell to his knees trying to gasp for air, only to hear the sounds to footsteps approaching him. Forcing his head up, Théo looked towards Seth, once he made eye contact, released his hold on the man. Air never tasted so sweet to Théo. The entire Dunois family looked in shock, including Charlotte. She knew of the powers Seth wielded, but had never seen it up close. The Emperor could sense the fear within them, but he continued.

"I will not repeat myself. I want you to surrender all the information about the European Phantom Task cells." Théo took a deep look at Seth before his eyes grew wide.

"You! You're Umbrella's little experiment. Ichika Orimura."

"You know me? How?" Seth asked. Théo didn't reply. Seth decided to ask a different question.

"Answer me this, when is your check in time?"

"My wha-"

"I know all Phantom task agents, especially high level ones, have nanobots inside them, in the event of a capture or failure to check in, it will result in immediate termination of the agent. Considering the fact you were so important that you had an unmanned IS drone protecting you, leads me to believe you must be a person of high value. Now when is your check in?"

"It doesn't matter. It's too la-" His voice shifted into screams as lightning erupted from Seth's fingertips. It lasted for only a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity with the pain. The bound man collapsed to the floor as, though the lightning had stopped, the pain still lingered.

"Seth!" Charlotte cried out. He turned his head towards the blonde and saw a look of shock on her face.

"My Empire has developed a method of removing the nanobots, if we're given enough time. However, if the agent is unable or unwilling to give us the time necessary, well shocking the nanobots appears to work." Seth stated.

"You shocked the nanobots?..." Théo was able to let out a whimper.

"I gave you the option of telling me the time we had, and you left me with no choice." Seth raised his hand up, causing Théo to lift off the ground and float in the air. That was when Lelouch walked up to Seth.

"I think I have a less intrusive method of getting him to comply with us, your majesty." Lelouch spoke as Seth used the force to open the eyes of the captured man.

"Lelouch Lamperouge commands you, reveal all you know!" Once Lelouch made eye contact with Théo, his fate was sealed.

"Of course, as you wish. What would you like to know?" The man now said in a calm tone surprising the Dunois family members even more.

"Well sire, ask away." Lelouch motioned to Seth who was about to speak, when he was receiving a communication from his wrist. He lifted his arm up and a hologram of a woman wearing the outfit of a napoleonic officer.

"Neo? What is the matter?"

"Majesty, your presence is required on the bridge."

"Very well. Lelouch, get everything you can out of this man. You four with me." Seth said as he made his way towards the turbolift. He couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was about to happen. He began to reach out into the force to see if he could foresee the coming events.

Meanwhile on Reach.

On the surface of the new planet Houki was currently receiving training thanks to Chifuyu. However, they were taking a break and sitting under a tree, enjoying the unsoiled world around them. The young woman had requested to continue her training under the former world champion, but was surprised to hear that she was not on Earth. That was when she decided to contact her sister. She had yet to forgive her, but she knew that she might be able to be send wherever Chifuyu was sent to.

Tabane was saddened by the news that Houki wasn't calling to make amends, but she knew it may take a while for her to come to terms with the fact she was not only married to Houki's childhood crush, but carrying his child inside her. So she would give her as much time as Houki needed, but she was willing to help out her baby sister with whatever she desired.

Houki soon found her family temple being visited by a shuttle before being taken away to a world far away from Earth.

She was surprised to meet the other teachers of IS academy there. Nor was she wasn't expecting the Sarashiki sisters there, along with a woman who called herself their mother. Though to Houki she looked more like an older sister. The teachers and sisters were training with their IS on the planet, along with a few new faces Houki hadn't met before. There was the young boy named Shiji Ikari, who seemed to have some promise as an IS pilot, but he seemed very tired. Little did Houki know that he was training to be an IS pilot as well as a Starfighter pilot.

Houki noticed that there were a group of five girls that trained with Shinji. A pair of blue haired twins. A red headed german girl. A handies brunette who was about a head taller then most of the group, and lastly a white hair girl who seemed to be sticking to Shinji as though her life depended on it. Much to the displeasure of the red head.

She turned her head to the left and saw the swarm of droids that were hard at working building on this foreign world. They were currently resting outside near the recently built base here, but Seth had plans of building his own IS academy on Reach. Houki and Chifuyu were brought out of their thoughts when a pair of small arms wrapped around Chifuyu's back and embraced her.

"Hi, auntie!" Akikaze said with glee emanating from his force. A soft expression took over Chifuyu's face and she placed one of her hands on the arms surrounding her.

"Hello Aki, what are you doing out here?" Akikaze let go of his hug allowing the adult woman to turn around and see him wearing his Jedi younglings robes. His hair was no longer long enough to cover his ear. It was cut to a near buzz cut, but there was a part of his hair that was now braided.

"Master Keto and Dragon brought us here for some field training. Something about being in touch with the force and nature."

"Oh, so this is the little boy who has been causing an uproar at the academy." Edwards Franchee of class 2 for the first years stated. Akikaze turned his head and noticed the pilot suits that she and the rest of the others were wearing. He then noticed the several IS units around them.

"Oh, you are training with those IS thingies." Akikaze noted.

"Yup, we've been training here for the past few days. Are you interested in being a pilot?" His aunt asked the young boy.

"Daddy said he has one for me but only when I'm older." The notion of Seth ordering or rather designing an IS for his son was not shocking, but Chifuyu was curious about how far her brother had planned. Chifuyu was about to ask another question when the group of IS pilots heard a voice in the distance.

"...highness... Highness!..." The girls, plus Shinji turned towards the source of the new voice and saw another boy in the same robes run up to the group. He was around the same height as Akikaze. The young Jedi had the same style of hair as Akikaze, but it was a golden blonde in color and had these vibrant green eyes.

"Urihar! I said not to call me that. I have a name." Akikaze said with a slight amount of annoyance.

"But you're the prince. I have to call you highness." The boy replied in between breaths.

"You're my friend so friends call each other by their name." Akikaze stated.

"Either way, master Drallig sent me to get you. Our lessons will begin soon."

"Ah! Sorry aunty, have to go, master Dragon got mad at me the last time I was late. Urihar, hold on tight." Before the young Jedi could give a response to the young prince, Akikaze picked up the young boy and used Accel turn. Much to the surprise of his aunt and the rest of the group we're not aware of his abilities.

"What on Earth was that?" Iris spoke out to the shocked group of women who had no clue about the Royal family's abilities.

"He is his father's son." Chifuyu responded. However, before the group could ask more questions an alarm was blaring from the boy that was in their group. Shinji immediately answered it.

"Ah commander, I thought that flight practice wasn't for another 3 hours?" The young man said, confused by the incoming call.

"Ensign Ikari, we've been tasked with an escort mission. Head to the hangers. We need to guard a package for his majesty, shit has gone seriously south in Paris."

"Understood. I'll join the squad ASAP." Shinji replied. He brought up the left wrist of his IS plugsuit and used the console located there. He tapped a few keys on the console and the skintight suit began to bulk up and around his limbs in particular. It had morphed into a traditional pilot suit. One that will put pressure on his limbs when exposed to high G forces. It was then that his star fighter Z-95 arrived being commanded by the purple astromech seated behind the cockpit. Shinji entered the cockpit and took off for Reach's orbit.

It was at that time that a large container being lifted by two mobile suits took off from the base, and in orbit they docked with a specialized hyperspace ring. Anya in a [Seravee] type Gundam in her knightmare's color scheme while Stella was in her [Terra] Gundam. The two docked with a mobile suit size hyperspace ring and once the response fleet was ready, headed to earth.

The jump to earth was not long considered that Reach was around 11 light years away. The [Ieyasu] and her task force arrived above earth near the [Nobunaga]. The [Nobunaga] had her hangar bay door open and was deploying her starfighters, IS units, and dropships. They raced towards the surface of the planet. Without even thinking, the [Ieyasu] followed her sister ship lead and began to deploy her own units. Anya, Stella, along with the members of purple and cyan squadrons began defending the coffin like structure as it began to plummet towards the city of Paris, as the group got closer, they saw a strange red mist covering the city.

A little while earlier, with Seth.

Arriving on the bridge of the star destroyer, Seth and his group made their way to the command console which was surrounded by officers, and that same woman dressed in the outfit of a napoleonic officer was on the hologram console which was displaying the European continent with focus on the nation of France with its shoreline. In the ocean there were seven cigar shaped objects.

"Your majesty, glad to have you here. Ah I see you have some guests."

"Neo, officers, what am I looking at?"

"Sire, is it wise to speak military matters when there are non-imperial so close." An officer with a Austrian accent spoke in English.

"It's fine, I approve of it." Seth responded.

"Very well. Your majesty, we have detected seven massive submarines around 450 km away from the shore line. Our scans show that each one is being manned by around 300 personal per sub. Matches no known submarine class. It even surpasses the Typhoon class subs of the former Soviet Union." The hologram shifted to a diagram of one of the submarines. This time a black man in officer uniform spoke.

"Emperor Fairs, this is the current data we have from the recon droid we sent out towards them. It appears to be 495 meters in length, beam is 116 meters, the height is 54 meters. This massive submarine has 1 large hangar with what appears to be a launch catapult on the upper hull. Lower hull has 3 massive hangar spaces, but we are not certain what they contain." The man spoke in an Afrikaans accent.

"They're bigger than a damn Ford-class? How did we not detect them?"

"We are suspecting they have a form of cloaking and sensor jammer aboard them."

"Can we attack them? Neo can you fire a volley of GN harpoon torpedoes at them?"

"Negative sire, they are within striking range, but are currently resting at 300 meters below the surface and our missiles can only reach 200 meters. An orbital strike from the [Nobunaga] could hit them underwater, but the amount of energy required to hit them that deep would cause a tsunami. If you're fine with causing damage on the European and west African continent we could destroy them."

"So we need to wait till they rise up."

"Do we have any mobile suits that could reach them or IS units." Seth suggested

"Only an aquatic specific Gundam, like that of project [Atlas] can reach that deeply and return. We are projecting that they could dive as deep as 2 kilometers. We could send a strike team of IS unmanned IS units, but they would be hampered since they are meant for underwater combat, and at that depth they would be slowed signi- They are rising!" Napoleon the AI known as Neo ported the sudden activity and the recon droid sent there had a live feed now being projected from the table. The submarines began to rise. The live feed revealed that mobile suits were launching from the lower hangars. This was when Seth noticed a familiar orange mobile suit.

"It's the goddamn [Revolution]." This now confirmed that the massive submarines were with Umbrella

"Sire, fighters and IS units of unknown class are launching from the upper hangars. I'm detecting 400 plus IS cores." Neo reported sending a shockwave of fear in the bridge. The [Napoleon Bonaparte] only had 50 IS units aboard for a ceremonial show planned later in the week. Same was true of her Starfighter and Mobile suit complement. The [Nobunaga] was fully armed and could delopy at a moment's notice. However the enemy would arrive before the [Nobunaga]'s forces could arrive and an IS could cause serious damage in a short amount of time. The former Sith had to come to a decision.

"Do you have a lock on the incoming forces?" Seth asked.

"I do your majesty." The AI replied.

"Open fire and destroy as many as you can with your weapon systems till they are 25 kilometer away from the city."

"Wait, you want me to fire my main cannons inside of the city?" Neo asked for clarification?

"Yes, once they are within 25km, switch to your point defense system for any of those machines that get too close. Now open fire!" Seth ordered with more force in his tone. It was at this moment that the people inside the ship felt the ground beneath them begin to shift. They heard the rumble of the main guns as the Venator's 40 turbolaser cannons unleashed their wrath.

The surrounding people living in the city were stunned when the quiet night was distrubed by the sound of an unknown weapon system firing in their homes. This was made more apparent when they saw missiles launching from the ship.

"Contact the [Nobunaga], have the send down troopers and all available fighters, and IS pilots. Inform the French government of what's happening and our actions." Seth said as he turned around making his exit from the bridge. He brought up his wrist and contacted Lelouch.

"Change of plans, come to the bridge and coordinate our defenses. We have a lot of hostiles coming to the city."

"Where are you going?" Lelouch questioned.

"I'm getting in a mobile suit. We have an [0] Gundam in the hangar. I'm the only one who can fight the [Revolution]." The Emperor responded as he made his way towards the turbolift.

"Seth, wait!" Charlotte said as she followed, who was followed by her family members. Once in the turbolift [B.L.A.Z.E.] and [F.L.A.M.E.] materialized into their human forms causing confusion in the trio who did not know of the two girl's true nature. To them they just saw two random women appear from nowhere.

"Prep the [0] Gundam with the full armor configuration. I want it ready in 2 minutes." Seth spoke into his wrist.

"Roger sire. It will be done." A voice responded. It was after this that Seth pressed a few more keys on his wrist and the robes he was wearing transformed into his white Gundam meister outfit.

"Once the enemy arrives, I want you two to keep any unmanned IS units away from me, or possibly [F.L.A.R.E.]." Seth said as the lift lowered.

"Do you have a spare IS on this ship I could pilot?" Charlotte asked, surprising her family members.

"Charlotte I cannot in good faith ask you to join my forces in repelling the incoming enemy."

"But this is my country! I want to help defend it if I can. I hate when you get like this. Let me help you please." Charlotte spoke with a pleading tone in her voice. After looking into her eyes for a few moments, Seth created a clone and the elevator open.

"Follow the clone, the mobile suit hanger is in the opposite direction." Said the real Seth as he left for the [0] Gundam.

With the clone leading them, the Dunois family was led back to the hangar bays. There they saw a floor panel open up and a familiar IS appear, however there were a few noticeable differences on the unit. [Joan of Arc] has her armor plating seemingly cut down the middle. The unit's legs and thrusters were far less bulky and seemed more streamlined.

"As a show of good faith between the Eternal Empire and the French Republic, we have retrofitted [Joan of Arc]. Its thrusters were replaced with Ion thrusters, allowing the IS to leave a planet's atmosphere unassisted. It has been integrated with foldout armor gen 2 throughout the whole unit, allowing it to be modulated for certain advantages, but with the gen 2 foldout armor it is able to accept loadout packages mid-battle if needed. We also swapped out the original core for a second generation one. So improved energy computation and overall energy output with 4000 energy points available Charlotte. We will hand back the original core soon enough." The clone of Seth said before a hologram of a young woman in a french knight outfit appeared next to him.

"This is Jeanne, the smart AI of your IS unit. She will from here on out assist you in and out of battle. I hope you two will get along well." Seth said before pressing a button on his wrist causing the nanites in Charlotte's outfit to transform into an IS plugsuit.

"Hello mistress Dunois. It will be my pleasure to serve you from here on out. If you have any questions regarding my body, feel free to ask, however we tried to keep as much the same as possible." The female knight said as she vanished and lights appeared throughout the body of [Joan of Arc] .
"Charlotte Dunois! If you're gonna join us, hurry up! We are launching in 2 minutes!" A woman's voice shouted. The group turned their head towards the voice and found 9 women in IS suits preparing to launch in a mass production model the empire made.

"Come on Charlotte, we gotta move." Flame said as she and Blaze activated their IS forms.

"Right." The french teen got inside her upgraded machine and the main hangar bay opened above them.

In the lower hanger, Seth was going through the final activation checklist. They had rushed to get the full armor loadout for the [0] Gundam. It was a recreation of the first generation Gundam from Celestial Being. Though it was upgraded from the original specs to be a more capable fighter, such adding head vulcans and increased mobility, this did not make it on par with Seth's own Gundam [Rogue Stargazer]. The Empire brought the machine for a demonstration that was scheduled later in the week. Which is why Seth had requested a full armor package for the mobile suit on the off hand it was needed, and it was about to be put to use.

The full armor package for the Gundam was an add-on rigging that was attached to the back of the unit. It was loaded with several missile pods, housed a large beam cannon on the right shoulder, additional thrusters and four semi-arm which two were holding lunar-titanium shields with an anti-beam coating. The other two arms were free and able to be used as needed. The left shoulder was equipped with a rack of rocket pods On the left arm of the mobile suit 5 rocket launcher pods rested with a shield covering them. The right arm was equipped with a twin barreled heavy beam rifle. Covering the rifle was another shield.

With green light across the board, and a solid connection between the GN drive engine and the Full armor package, Seth turned on the [0] Gundam. A red, white, and blue color scheme overtook the grey mobile suit as the phase shift armor was activated, and the light glowed with a bright green fury.

"All systems cleared. This is the Emperor, launching in the Full armor [0] Gundam!" Seth said as the clamps holding the mobile suit released and the unit dropped from the lower hanger, and a shower of green GN particles erupted from the suit. Flying towards the incoming hostiles he was joined by several [Jegan] mobile suits and the squadrons of IS units. As he was getting into formation that was when he noticed that there was an additional unit in flight.

"Why is the [Joséphine Rose] flying with you?" Seth asked. Charlotte looked behind her and was a similar exoskeleton, however instead of being orange in color it was blue.

"Diana?!" Charlotte said out over the comms, shock clearly evident in her voice.

"Like I would let you get all the glory. This is the perfect debut for my IS." The teen stated as though it were a simple matter of fact.

"Diana, turn back immediately. This is not some demonstration. You have no live combat experience." Seth ordered the young woman, but before she could respond all the pilots received warnings that they were being targeted and locked on to.

Seth zoomed in and saw that the [Revolution] was leading the charge. The surrounding Mobile suits appeared to be some sort of upgraded [Zaku] units.

"All units, prepare for combat, remember to avoid the nuclear reactors. We don't want to irradiate French soil." Seth's voice began to take a much darker tone that was picked up on the comms. Soon the firing of the turbolasers from the [Napoleon Boneparte] ceased, beyond the horizon soon filled up with several dozen mobile suits, IS units and a swarm of fighters drones.

Once the units were within three kilometers, the weapons were let loose.

Diana, having never seen live combat prior, was overwhelmed by the chaos of the battlefield unfolding in front of her very eyes. She saw steaks of green and pink beams screaming across the battle, a few nearly hitting her. A [S.T.A.R.S.] unit noticed her behavior and labeled her a low level threat to be destroyed.

Diana was struck with a blue beam of energy that grazed her, knocking a few dozen energy points from her. Turning towards her attacker, she materialized one of her twin gatling guns and fired several rounds at the drone. The drone evaded the inexperienced pilot and brought out a red energy blade. Diana brought out her own energy blade and blocked several strikes from the unmanned IS, only to have her guard be broken.

Terror rose within the young teen as the red energy blade was thrusted towards her, only for Charlotte to use [Ignition Boost], and with her shield in her hand, block the incoming strike. The energy blade of the automated IS lodged itself within the shield and get stuck.

Seeing an opportunity while the unmanned machine was stuck, Charlotte opened the secret hatch on the shield and two beam rotary cannons unleashed a fury of blue bolts of energy. Under the close range barrage, the unmanned machine took the full force of the attack and after it's shields were drained the chassis of the machine didn't hold out for much longer. With it's body drained of all power the energy blade dematerizaled allowing what remained of the drone to fall towards the ground.

"Diana, are you alright?!" Charlotte shouted out with panic.

"Uh, yeah I'm n-not hurt. You saved my life Charlotte, why?" The younger blonde said with shock in her voice.

"Because you're my sister?" Charlotte answered confused.

"Even after everything mother and I have done, you still chose to save me?"

"I couldn't just let you die, Diana." At the sound of this tears started to swell up in Diana's eyes. Charlotte would have moved to comforted her younger sister, but the sound of a nearby explosion shook the out of the moment.

"HEY! CUT THE EMOTIONAL MOMENT AND GET IN THE FIGHT!" A voice roared at the two sister over the comms. The sisters turned towards the originator of the voice and saw Flame inside her IS form fighting off several of the unmanned drones, with Blaze next to hear firing several blue beams of energy from her palms.

"We'll have to make up later, we still gotta save our country. Stay close to me from now on." Charlotte stated. Diana nodded and the two sisters flew to rejoin the fight.

With Seth

The fully armored Gundam was not designed for combat in atmosphere. The Full Armor package was best utilized in a zero G environment as it added a lot of weight to the unit and slowed it down. However, with the added weight, gave it more mass and more inertia, making it a heavy hitter.

The [0] Gundam landed on one of Umbrella's [Zaku] and was pinned to the floor. The pilot inside attempted to move his machine, but the weight of the Gundam was too much for the hydraulics. Seth deployed one of the beam sabers and impaled the pilot's location. Another [Zaku] saw what was happening and using its massive back thruster on its back with a heat axe deployed. The glowing axe was met with a pair of shields that protected Seth. The second [Zaku] pilot saw the shoulder mounted laser turn towards his direction before it aimed directly at his cockpit. The last thing the pilot saw was the pink glow of the barrel.

Taking aim with the twin beam barreled he fired at another group of enemy mobiles, destroying a fe, before using the attached thrusters to evade several return fire from the survivors. These survivors were attacked by several imperial [Jegan].

"These pilots are very inexperienced, much less than the ones in Korea. Where the hell is the [Revolution]?" As Seth was readying himself to hunt down the closest mobile suit, he saw a white beam of energy streaking towards him. He wouldn't be able to move in time. However, as [0] Gundam's leg was just making contact with the ground, it landed on a location that was structurally unstable. A normal car or even a tank would be fine on this patch of road, however the added weight from the full armor package, made the mecha far too heavy and crumbled the ground below. This forced the mobile suit to slump down, avoiding the deadly beam. Only destroying some buildings behind the Gundam.

"He dodged that!" Ichika inside of the [Revolution] said with absolute disbelief.

"Commander Orimura, hostile mobile suits are returning fire."

"I can see that." After having their Emperor's life threatened, the Imperial [Jegan] pilots fired in the direction of the beam's origin and soon spotted the Orange Gundam. However, he wasn't a lone. Dozens of [Zaku] and several units that appeared to be an upgrades version. [Geara Doga] series of mobile suit was the [Zaku] successor and the product of combat data gather from the disaster from the invasion of North Korea for Umbrella. The empire would soon learn how lethal this new unit was.

Seth used the main thruster engines, getting himself unstuck and spotted the orange gundam. With no hesitation he lifted the twin barreled heavy beam cannon and fired. The [Revolution] avoid the first few beams and activated his wings of light. He bought up the massive beam rifle that nearly killed his target, but that was quickly shot by one of Seth's blasts. Tossing the gun aside before it blew up, the clone pulled one of his shoulder mounted beam boomerangs. Seth used the head vulcans and destroyed the incoming vulcans before changing his target back on to his clone and charged forward.

Beam after beam came after the pilot of the [Revolution]. Having been expecting Seth's assault, the clone used a nearby building for cover and pulled out a beam saber, however he couldn't stay behind the building for long as Seth fired through the building. His concern for collateral damage was thrown out the window. Most civilians in the area of the current battle had been evacuated but there was no way at the moment to determine the area was cleared of innocent lives.

"Seth, things are getting hot over here. Second of enemies coming. Radar from the [Napoleon] is registering them as Jets" Blaze spoke inside of his mind.

"Jets, are they running out of ISes?" The Emperor responded.

"We've been hitting them hard over these last few weeks. I'm surprised they still had forces to launch an attack like this." The demoness chimed over the comms as she ripped apart an unmanned machine that was taking aim at the Gundam. Much to the horror of Diana's as she had never witnessed such brutality, even though it was a machine.

Seth charged towards his clone's mobile suit, but was met with a pink beam saber. The main body was able to avoid the strike, but the long twin barrel heavy beam cannon was severed. With the barrel destroyed, Seth purged the weapon from the mobile suit. He thrusted backwards to avoid a second strike, while firing the last of his missiles in both the left shoulder mounted rack and the left wrist mounted pod, before purging that from the suit.

The [Revolution] raised the back of his wrist, and generated two beam shields, while moving to avoid the incoming missiles. The missiles were set to detonate near their target, thus they caused damage to the nearby building and did little actual damage to the orange Gundam.

A message appeared on one of the screens inside the [0] Gundam, warning that his shoulder beam cannon was low on ammo, as was the overall energy remaining inside the mobile suit was reaching close to empty. He had underestimated just how much of an energy hog the Full Armor loadout would be. Unlike his regular Gundam, he couldn't fuel the mobile suit with the Marker inside of him, give the suit damn near infinite activation time.

"Shit, [Napoleon] I need a GN pack, send me one." The Emperor requested over the comm, directly to the AI aboard the Star Destroyer.

"Resupply droid launching now. Replacement Beam rifle coming too. I recommend purging all excess armor, the [Revolution] outclasses your unit. Warning, additional unknown aircraft are arriving from the French coast. Will be in the combat zone in 30 seconds. I estimate the current Vulture droids will not be enough to hold off these new units. Starfighters from the [Nobunaga] will arrive in 2 minutes. Reinforcements from Reach are 15 minutes away, please hold out until then."

"Thanks keep us updated Neo." Seth responded as he purged the extra arms and threw one of the shields at the revolution who sliced it in half. Taking out a Beam saber, the [0] Gundam braced itself for a close quarters engagement. However, before he could continue his fight, the force screamed inside his mind that something horrible was about to happen.

"Detecting multiple missile launches from the submarines! They're reaching high hypersonic speeds!" Neo said with panic in her voice over an open channel.

"Divert all power to your shield! All units, brace for impact!" Seth shouted over the comms. He had no idea if these missiles were nuclear, since Umbrella was not seemingly getting into that field. He knew the target would be the Star Destroyer, what he was unsure of was if his current location would be a target as well.

The missiles screech above his current location, none seemingly coming his way, at a breakneck speed. He could only hope that the shield on the [Napoleon] would be able to take the hit. If the Marker aboard the ship broke its containment, they would have a much more serious issue on their hands. However, the flying ship was not its target. The missiles passed by harmlessly over the Star Destroyer and struck the main city of Paris.

"The missiles detonated over the city of Paris! Unknown biological agent released!" Neo reported. Seth requested a live feed, soon a window popped up and showed the city of Paris being covered by a red cloud. Paris had a population of 2.5 million normally. That was not the case today. News of [Napoleon] being displayed, had attracted a lot more people. Including international travelers. This could rival or even surpass the Lanshiang incident since multiple missiles were launched.

"Get eyes inside and contact the French president! Tell her she ne-" The [Revolution] noticed that the [0] Gundam had stopped, and saw an opportunity.

"You shouldn't lose focus! Over what, a million or so deaths?" Ichika mocked over a live channel. The pink beam saber slashed off the right arm of the Gundam. Seth cursed as this battle just got a lot harder for him.

Charlotte and Diana felt their blood run cold as they saw the live feed of the capital of their country under attack. Footage of the Lanshiang incident had leaked online, and both girls had seen it. The thought of their city, their people now becoming infected stuck them with a fear they had never felt. The younger sister looked towards Charlotte and saw tears streaming from her face, like her.

"Dad and mom are on the ship, but what about my friends? Charlotte, I..I don't know what to do?" The girl was clearly in shock. Everything she had ever known had just changed, in a manner of seconds.

"GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR LADIES!" Flame roared at them as she and Blaze arrived next to them.

"This isn't good, we need to focus on helping the survivors." Blaze stated.

"Right." The two half sisters said as they flew towards the brewing disaster.

"Contact BSAA Europe HQ! We got a major incident on hand." Seth told Neo as he continued to avoid several slashes from his opponent. However he was unable to avoid a kick as a building blocked his path. The kick knocked him into the building, getting the Gundam stuck. Seth saw the [Revolution] preparing to stab at his cockpit.

Using the force he was able to divert the beam saber away from the cockpit, but it struck the remaining arm on the Gundam, leaving it without a way to hold a weapon. Things looked grim for the Emperor, had it not for several Proton torpedoes locking on to the orange Gundam, forcing him to move. Several laser cannons landed blue bolts of energy on the mobile suit. Seth saw a squadron of Z-95 headhunters flying above them, this was then followed up by another orange Gundam along with a Seravee type Gundam charging up a large GN particle blast.

"Nice timing you two!" Seth said with relief in his voice.

"We have a package for you." Anya responded.

"Go get it honey! We can handle this guy!" Stella chimed in as she transformed into her Gundam's beast form, attacking the [Revolution]. Seth looked outward and saw the large black obelisk descend from orbit revealing a new mobile suit. Opening the cockpit of the [0] he jumped out on the destroyed city streets and ran towards the new mobile suit.

To Be Continued.