Chapter 7

After they left the bridge Mikazuki and Shino headed to the locker rooms to put on a Normal suit, the old suits were replaced with new ones made specifically for use with the Alaya-Vijnana system they were colored red and black, Akihiro was there already with his suit half way on.

"So what's the plan?" Akihiro asked as he continues to put on his suit.

"Yeah, what are we gonna do, Mikazuki?" Shino asked as he starts to put on his suit.

"Shino will use Flauros and shoot through the Hammerhead's front armor taking out on of it's engines you can pick which side you want to fire on, after that you will join me and Akihiro against their mobile suits which there should be only three." Mikazuki said as he puts on his suit.

"Okay." Akihiro said and then he heads to the doors as his suit is on.

"I like it! Nice and simple, time to show them my Ryusei-Go's power." Shino declared as he finished putting on his suit.

"Flauros," Mikazuki said coldly freezing Shino in his tracks. "It's name is Flauros until you can buy it from Chaos or at least personally fund the maintenance of Flauros, that's what he said, sorry Shino." Mikazuki said then he left the room and a slightly depressed Shino followed him out.

When they got to the hanger Akihiro was already launching in the Graze Custom, Mikazuki made his way to Barbatos and got the all clear from Nadi so Barbatos was good to go, when he sat in the cockpit and connected to Barbatos the strain was less than half of what it used to be, which going by the piloting data they got from Flauros meant that his brain was getting used to the process and the synchronicity with Barbatos was up by ten percent.

The pilot records show that the more the pilot uses the Alaya-Vijnana interface the more in tune they get with the Mobile Suit, under perfect conditions with proper time management and relevant drugs full one hundred percent synchronicity with a Gundam Frame is possible in three to six months.

Given that the technology was developed to end the greatest war know to man it stands to reason that they would want competent pilots trained and ready as soon as possible.

The drugs that the previous pilots used were listed in the records and Chaos was making plans to acquire them when an opportunity arises, and the fact that Gjallarhorn has erased or sealed away most records of the Calamity War no one would be on the lookout for any buying said drugs.

Mikazuki's level of synchronicity with Barbatos was currently at twenty-five percent which was mostly thanks to his upgraded Alaya-Vijnana system and Chaos helping him along.

Mikazuki runs a last minute system check as they load Barbatos on the launching platform.

"Confirmed dispatch of mobile suits from target. There are two of them." Fumitan said to Mikazuki over LCS.

"I got it," Mikazuki responds.

The platform lowers Barbatos to the catapult hatch and then he was launched out from the ship at high speeds, he took the cannon off his back and held it in his right hand then he fired his thrusters to quickly catch up to Akihiro.

"Thanks for waiting." Mikazuki said to Akihiro as he caught up to him.

"I wasn't waiting." Akihiro said with scoff.

Mikazuki used his optical scanners to get a better look at his enemies, the enemy ship was behind two mobile suits of a similar type called Hyakuren, one was a mix of light and dark purple, and the other was a mix of light pink and dark pink.

Artillery fire was being exchanged between the Isaribi and the Hammerhead, they made sure to stay out of the line if fire of both ships as they close in on the enemy mobile suits.

"Oy Mikazuki, I am ready to fire." Shino said over the comms.

Mikazuki looked back to the Isaribi and saw Flauros that was coloured crimson red land on the top of the ship, it then started it's transformation mechanism shifting the entire mobile suit into a stationary heavy artillery weapon.

There was an alert and Mikazuki dodged left narrowly avoiding several bullets from one of the enemy mobile suits, he fired a shot from his cannon forcing the enemy to separate.

"I'll take the pink one." Mikazuki said to Akihiro before flying off to engage Amida.

"Okay." Akihiro grunts as he engaged the purple mobile suit.

Mikazuki trades fire with Amida for a few minutes from mid-range but it was becoming clear to him that Amida's Hyakuren is too fast for him to hit with his cannon at it's rate of fire, so he tossed the cannon aside and pulled his mace off his back before firing his thrusters to engage Amida in close range.

Amida draws her own melee weapon that was a single-edged blade and meets him eagerly, the two clash several times with Amida skillfully deflecting Mikazuki's attacks.

Mikazuki was quicker and more agile with his movements, and Amida was matching him evenly with more refined techniques enhanced by her superior experience when it comes to mobile suit battles.

Akihiro was doing well against his opponent though it was obvious that he wasn't their equal and his mobile suit didn't have the Alaya-Vijnana interface so his movements were clearly showing his inexperience when it comes to piloting mobile suits, but he spent almost all his free time doing simulator training against Mikazuki so he was no pushover.

Neither side were trying to kill the other and were actuality testing the capabilities of the other.

A flash of light in a straight line cuts across the darkness of space and then there was an explosion on the armored front of the Hammerhead, there was another flash of light followed by another explosion and when the smoke cleared there was a large dent in the Hammerhead's front armor on the right side.

"What the hell was that?!" Amida asked in shock Mikazuki through an LCS call.

"Gundam Frame Flauros, it has two large railguns on it's back." Mikazuki answered calmly as he swings his mace only for her to block it.

"A railgun? You know those are illegal, right?" Amida asked Mikazuki as she parried away his attack and tried to close the distance only to pull back as she got kicked in the shoulder by Barbatos.

"Ah, that's only if we use Nanolaminate shells or warheads, regular one's are okay." Mikazuki said with a frown as he had to dodge a barrage of gunfire from Amida.

"I guess that might be true but we are going to have to put a stop to that." Amida said with a smirk as she continues to shoot at him.

There was a new mobile suit that launched from the Hammerhead and it moved so fast the optical scanners of Barbatos only saw it for a moment before it was flying past them heading for Shino.

"Shino you have one enemy fast approaching, change back you can't move like that." Mikazuki shouts the warning through the comms.

Mikazuki took his eyes off Amida and took a kick to the head for his lapse in concentration.

"Don't look away." Amida scolds him.

Mikazuki recovers his balance and launched himself back at Amida.


Shino was barely able to transform Flauros to it's regular mode before he and the Isaribi came under fire from the new enemy mobile suit.

He tried to return fire but the enemy was too fast for him to properly see much less hit with his shoulder cannons, it was flying circles around them and hitting them with it's guns.

"Why the hell can't you stay still!" Shino roared as he just missed for the seventh time.

"Shino, you need to get that mobile suit off our backs so we can send the others in." Eugene tells him over LCS from the bridge.

"I know! But Flauros is too slow to hit them!" Shino roared in frustration.

Shino focus was drawn off of the enemy when he received an notification of a message on his screen, when he opened the message he saw that it was from Mikazuki telling him to fire his shoulder cannons at Barbatos in twenty seconds time.

Shino wasn't sure exactly what Mikazuki was planing but he was the one that calls the shots on the battlefield, so Shino complies with the instructions.

Shino turned to where Barbatos was and with the powerful optical scanners of Flauros he could perfectly make out everything, Barbatos was exchanging blows with the pink Hyakuren and was keeping close to the enemy not letting any space develop between them.

Shino watches the fight as the twenty second timer counts down and the moment it hit zero he fired his shoulder cannons.

Shino watches the next moment happen in slow motion; the shells from Flauros were mere seconds from impacting Barbatos when the Gundam dipped to the side suddenly without warning, the shells passed mere inches over the Gundam Frame's shoulder and found a target in Amida's Hyakuren, the first shell hit the upper chest area and the second shell impacted the shoulder severing the Hyakuren's arm at the shoulder, Barbatos then swung the mace upwards tearing the other arm off of the enemy mobile suit.

The enemy mobile suit that was attacking the Isaribi suddenly broke off the attack heading towards Mikazuki and Akihiro, Shino was now free to resume attacking the Hammerhead.


"I think you surrender, you can't fight anymore," Mikazuki said to Amida through an LCS channel.

"That may be true but you boys haven't won yet," Amida said with a smirk from her disarmed mobile suit.

Mikazuki saw an alert and fired his thrusters and avoided getting hit by the bullets from Lafter's Hyakuri, Mikazuki could follow her movements much better than Shino could with Flauros for Barbatos was built for speedy and agile fighting.

Mikazuki took the gun from the ripped off arm of Amida's Hyakuren and fired off his thrusters closing in on Lafter's Hyakuri while trying to shoot her, though it proved challenging with how fast her mobile suit was moving.

With Mikazuki keeping Lafter busy the others were free to act; the Isaribi fires two missiles at the Hammerhead and when they are shot down they released a large amount of smoke that obscures the vision of the enemy, they stopped flying backwards and fired the ship's main engines to rapidly fly towards the enemy ship.

The Isaribi looked like it was going to collide with the Hammerhead but at the last moment the Isaribi changed course turning the ship, and passing over the Hammerhead without crashing into it, the boarding party lead by Orga jumped off onto the Hammerhead as the ships pass each other.

Flauros fired on the Hammerhead from atop the Isaribi as the ships pass each other destroying one of the Hammerhead's engines partially crippling the enemy ship's mobility.

Mikazuki used a grappling device modeled after the one used by the Schwalbe Graze to latch onto Lafter but that proved to be a hasty decision as he was soon being dragged around by her mobile suit.

He tried to get a shot off as he was being dragged around by wire of the grappling device but he couldn't get a lock on her so wasn't close to hitting her.

"Your inertial control isn't working, right? You'll suffer if you don't let go." Lafter taunts from her mobile suit over LCS.

"If I let go, you'll go sink the Isaribi before we can sink your ship." Mikazuki retorts calmly.

"But that's what a battle is for." Lafter said casually not showing that she is actually worried for her crew.

"You won't get in Tekkadan's way." Mikazuki said fiercely as he strains under the g-force from being dragged around at high speeds.

"Your the one that's in the way." Lafter said angrily, then she speeds up her mobile suit and moved around a large asteroid that was floating around in the area, the wire started digging down into the boulder pulling Barbatos into a collision course with the large asteroid throwing up a large dust cloud from the impact.

"Goodbye, young boy, it was fun." Lafter said with a smirk as prepared to fly away.

Lafter's Hyakuri is jerked back by the wire and the dust cloud clears revealing Barbatos holding onto the wire.

Mikazuki had been able to react before crashing into the large asteroid and used the mace to slam into the asteroid first, he fired the pile bunker using the recoil to kill off more of the momentum lessening the overall damage significantly.

"I finally got you." Mikazuki said with a smirk before he pulled hard on the wire dragging her mobile suit crashing into the large asteroid kickimg up dust cloud from the impact.

The impact made Lafter's Hyakuri rattle from the force of the collision, she had to grit her teeth from the pain of the jostling.

"It's time for you to disappear." Mikazuki said with the mace raised ready to bring down on Lafter's Hyakuri.

"Don't underestimate me." Lafter shouts to Mikazuki and triggers a mechanism releasing the arms from the Hyakuri large propulsion unit to block the mace from hitting her mobile suits head.

Mikazuki was taken by surprise and the mace slid off her arms impacting the large asteroid instead.

Barbatos and Lafter's Hyakuri had their heads less than a meter apart from the other, Mikazuki was glaring at Lafter over LCS but their was respect in his eyes for how she fights, Lafter was also glaring at Mikazuki and she also had respect in her eyes for his skills as a fighter.

"You're a sore loser." Mikazuki said with his glare still in place.

"You too. Girls hate pressing boys, you know." Lafter said with a glare as well.

"Well, I personally am attracted to strong women like you, Mikazuki Augus and you?" Mikazuki said with smirk breaking the tension.

"Ah, my name is Lafter Frankland." Lafter said with a blush not expecting him to say that.

Before they could resume their fight Orga and Naze called out to their respective crews telling them that everything was settled.

"Well, I guess we have to settle this at a later date." Mikazuki said to Lafter and he pulled back from her mobile suit while pulling his mace out of the asteroid.

"I guess, I will see you later Mikazuki." Lafter said with a smile before flying off to the Hammerhead.

"Later, Lafter." Mikazuki said as he heads back to the Isaribi.


Amida's Hyakuren was locked in the hanger and the woman in question got out of the cockpit with her Normal suit open at the top, she looks around the hanger and sees Naze so she floats over to him.

"Good job out there, although I never expected them to take you out of the fight. How was it?" Naze asked as he leans on a guard rail.

"It's not a fun thing fighting children, not that I can call that pilot one anymore," Naze looked at Amida intrigued as she said this. "He must have killed his first person at a very young age, he doesn't hesitate to kill nor do I think he feels remorse for those he does kill, he was the one in command out there and he carries his responsibility well. He is more than a killer though, his eyes held a warmth for the people he cares for, all in all, those boys are full of promise." Amida finished with a smile.

"Then he must be impressive for him to receive such praise from you, but I agree with you that they have a lot of promise." Naze said with a smile.

Sometime later Naze and Amida both were sitting in armchairs in the Hammerhead's lounge room, across from them sitting on a couch was Orga on one side Kudelia was in the middle and Mikazuki was on her other side, standing behind them were Eugene and Biscuit.

There was a table in the middle of the room that had five cups of tea on it along with two plates of pastries that Mikazuki was casually eating.

"Maruba will be thrown into our resource mining satellite, we'll have him work to pay back the costs for this." Naze said to Orga.

"That's your business now. We'll leave that up to you." Orga said.

"Please excuse me." One of the members of the Turbines said as she poured some tea for them.

"By the way, I've only seen women on this ship." Orga comments.

"Of course. This is my harem." Naze said as he took a sip of his tea.

"Huh?"/"What?" Kudelia and Eugene questions confused.

"Crewmembers on this ship are all my women." Naze said with a smirk.

"All of them?" Biscuit asked surprised.

"They're your wives?" Kudelia asked.

"I guess that's what it means, and there are about five children." Naze said amused by their reactions although he noticed that Mikazuki hasn't reacted at all and is silently eating.

"Five?" Kudelia said shocked.

"And those children are…" Orga trails off as he asked this.

"Of course they're all my children. From different mothers, though." Naze said calmly and Kudelia blushes.

"Stop talking about stupid things, we have work to do." Amida said putting an end to Naze's fun.

"Oh, that's right," Naze said with a cough then he lost his easygoing demeanor before speaking again. "I've seen your strength, so what is it that you want?" Naze asked.

"Well, we want to escort Miss Kudelia Aina Bernstein here to Earth, to do that, we need a guide who can secure a safe route. We'd like to hire you to guide us." Biscuit said to Naze.

"There is one more thing, can you make us Tekkadan, a subsidiary of Teiwaz?" Orga asked Naze with a serious look on his face.

"We're targeted by Gjallarhorn..." Biscuit starts to say.

"And with Teiwaz as your backing support, you can fight back." Naze finished for him and Biscuit nodded his head yes.

"I guess it's fine. I'll talk with the Old Man." Naze agreed to help easily.

Eugene and Biscuit released a sigh of relief, Orga and Mikazuki who's shoulders were tensed relaxed.

"Thank you very much." Orga thanked Naze.

"It's not yet decided that you can get in, I'm only making the introductions so you can negotiate with him. The rest is up to you guys." Naze told Orga so that they don't get their hopes up.

"I understand." Orga said understanding that there are no guarantees.

"Negotiate with your father?" Kudelia asked Naze.

"What? No, that's not it." Naze said with a laugh.

"He means Mr. McMurdo Barriston, the boss of Teiwaz." Biscuit said to Kudelia before turning back Naze. "By the way, didn't you want to check something about Miss Kudelia? Something about her being property." Biscuit asked.

"How much can I say…" Naze trailed off thinking before talking again. "What do you guys think about Gjallarhorn?" Naze asked.

"Gjallarhorn?" Biscuit asked confused as to what this has to do with the topic at hand.

"Well, they're military right? But I don't know much..." Eugene said unsure.

"They ended the Calamity War three hundred years ago, after that they used their immense military power to prevent further war, they've kept an independent eye on the four economic blocs. That is Gjallarhorn." Kudelia explained what she knows.

"Now each of the economic blocs feel they are a burden, because the current Gjallarhorn are pursuing their own interests. And at such a time, this young miss showed up. 'Kudelia from the Noachis July Assembly.' The heroine of the times who led the Mars independence movement." Naze said then he looks at Kudelia before continuing. "One regional independence activist goes around Gjallarhorn and will meet with an economic bloc leader of Earth. If that happens, it's a serious matter, something that could shake up the governing system of Gjallarhorn."

"I don't really get it, but she's really important?" Eugene asked.

"How is that related to property?" Biscuit asked Naze with a confused look on his face.

"Ask the Old Man for more info. Well, she's not a figure that someone like me can handle. This young miss." Naze said with a smile.


The meeting with Naze has ended several hours ago and the Tekkadan members were back on the Isaribi.

At the moment Mikazuki, Orga, Biscuit, Shino, Akihiro, Chad, and Dante were on the bridge of the Isaribi, all the doors were sealed and all the monitors are off except the large one that they were all standing around.

"Was it really necessary for us to play dumb with them, Mikazuki?" Biscuit asked with a frown.

"Yeah, I didn't like acting like an idiot who doesn't really know anything." Eugene said with a scowl.

"Yes, it was necessary. They were lying to us about what they were doing on Mars," Mikazuki said as he pulled up a file that showed all the ships that docked at the spaceports around Mars, it showed that Turbines ship docked at a spaceport not two days after the attack from Gjallarhorn.

"Your saying they knew about us the whole time?" Orga asked with narrowed eyes.

"No, they probably have informants in Gjallarhorn who told them about the failed attempt to kill Kudelia, then they probably approached Maruba who was desperate to save his own skin so he agreed to everything they put before him without hesitation." Mikazuki pauses before speaking again. "They were probably told to acquire Kudelia without a lot of attention being drawn to them, but it seems we got lucky that Naze doesn't want to kill kids and instead turned the battle into a test; if we lost he would have taken Kudelia and probably offer us jobs working under him though Tekkadan would have to be dissolved, and if we won he could sell us joining Teiwaz working under him to his boss."

"So either way they ultimately get what they want," Akihiro said gruffly.

"So they played us!" Shino said in anger.

"No, what Mika is saying is that Naze gave us a chance even though he didn't have to." Orga said silencing any arguments. "I hate to say this but we don't have any real power so there is no need to play us, since they don't even see us a player on the board." Orga's voice was laced with anger both at the people looking down on them and himself because he feels powerless as Tekkadan's boss.

Everyone was quiet after Orga said that and as much as it burned them to admit it, they were just inexperienced novices that couldn't even finish the job they took on their own.

"We are Space Rats who people look down upon but we can turn what others see as stigma into a strength, the Alaya-Vijnana system gives us an edge over others in one particular area; military capability." Mikazuki said getting everyone's attention. "Thanks to the information Chaos gave us along with the upgrades he made to the Alaya-Vijnana system we are able to train our people in various subjects areas in a short timeframe, plus the information we copied from Gjallarhorn's database archives gave us the plans for most of their current arsenal from ships to mobile workers, we have the potential to turn Tekkadan into a military organization without equal given enough time, but for now we have to bide our time." Mikazuki finished saying.

"Mika, is right which means we have to work for Teiwaz but at the very least we can trust that Naze won't treat us as disposable tools, considering how he made Turbines in the first place." Orga said to the group and they agreed with what he said.

They talked about a few more matters before everyone went their separate ways, Mikazuki walked towards his personal room and closed the doors behind him.

"We received the complete analysis of the Pluma that was recovered along with Flauros, you can check it over yourself." Mikazuki said out loud to his empty room.

"Hmmm, it seems everything is in order and I can start finalizing the AI protocols for the droids." Chaos said as he read through the data on the tablet with his form stretched out of Mikazuki's back.

"Are you sure that we should do this?" Mikazuki asked Chaos.

"Tekkadan needs a dedicated and skilled workforce to serve as doctors, engineers, navigation and communication personnel. The droids are the perfect solution to that, they can work indefinitely without the need for sleep, rest or payment and all the skills can be learned instantly by simply programming the droids with the necessary information. And don't worry I will make them unable to do anything to hurt humans." Chaos said with a smirk.

"Okay, I guess that makes sense, and it is a matter for tomorrow I am going to sleep." Mikazuki told Chaos before dropping onto his bed.