Episode 4
Tallgeese Reborn
The newest addition to the Silver Scythe army stood tall in the hangar. Lieutenant Cylar looked on in amazement. Tallgeese VI gleamed even in the dim light of the hangar.
"Tallgeese, you are the only thing remaining from the mighty Zechs Merquise. His essence is within you. I will pilot you with honor" he said.
Moving to the cockpit along the walkway level with the suit, he jumped inside. Turning on all systems, he did a system check. Tallgeese VI was the most advanced suit, next to the Gundams. It even had a voice recognition system.
"Tallgeese" Cylar said.
"Voice recognition check………..complete" a droning voice replied.
"Lets go"
The suit stepped back, and turned to the main exit. Cylar cranked the engines to maximum as the vernier engines opened, and he blasted down the hallway to the exit.
***
The lonely Melissa awoke when a blip came in on her radar. The beeping awoke her.
"Who is that?" Melissa said aloud.
The main cameras came on, and she watched a red mobile suit fly by at top speed. Vapor lifted into the air, and started to follow the suit. Realizing she was going to lose it, she put the engines at full power and gave chase. Suddenly, the suit stopped completely, and turned. Melissa and Vapor did as well. A picture appeared on the screen from the suit. It was Dren Flashmar, although Melissa did not know this.
"What do you want? Why are you following me?" Dren asked in a low voice.
Inside Drens cockpit, the picture of Melissa popped up. Dren was surprised, and tried to hide it. He turned, and looked at her suit.
"I'm Melissa Peacecraft" the girl said.
"A girl?" Dren said.
"What do you want?!" Melissa said.
"Where did you get that suit?" Dren responded.
"That doesn't matter, just fight me or LEAVE!" Melissa yelled, and Vapor surged forward while pulling out the 2 blades out of their sheaths. Inferno surged back, and narrowly dodged the blades. Pulling out the claw staff, he caught the next blade in the claw. Inferno ducked as the other blade swung around at its head.
"What's going on? I don't know what you're doing!" Dren said
He pulled the claw back, opened it all the way, and fired it into Vapors chest. The huge claw slammed into the suit, and pummeled it into a mountain side, pinning it there. Inferno slowly lowered down to Vapor, as it reeled in the cable.
"Now, where did you get this suit" Dren said.
The image of Melissa came up on screen, crying.
"I found this suit in one of my mothers hangars, deep under the Sanq Kingdom" she said.
"Your mother was Reelena Peacecraft?" Dren said surprisingly.
"Yes" Melissa said sobbing.
Inferno pulled back the huge claw staff, and rose into the air with its mighty engines. It put away the staff and lowered a hand down to help Vapor up. Vapor reached up with its hand, but out of the wrist sprayed the liquid nitrogen into Inferno's face and chest.
"What the…" was all Dren could say.
"Try on some liquid nitrogen" came through his speaker.
Dren immediately turned on the super heating device in the cockpit. The exterior of Inferno began to redden, and the ice began to break off the Gundanium armor.
The entire suit was then slammed into by Vapor, coming in full speed with the engines blasting. Inferno slammed into another rocky cliff. Vapor swung the 2 silver blades into Inferno. It made 2 slashes in the chest of Inferno. Although it didn't penetrate the gundanium armor, it left to visible cuts in it. By this time, Dren was aching all over, and on the verge of consciousness. Looking into the view screens, he saw Vapor was nowhere in sight. He moved to grab the control stick, and managed to muster the strength to sit it up. He powered down, but then suddenly it all came into perspective. He was beaten…by a girl. That was the point of no return for a warrior, and especially Dren. Exhaustion, pain, suffering and anything else succumbs to rage, and rage fuels everything else temporarily. Even for that short amount of time, every part of you is running at max.
"I WILL GET YOU MELISSA!!!" Dren yelled.
***
Tallgeese cruised through the clouds, leaping out of one and into another like a whale breaching out of the ocean waves. Doing a barrel roll and pulling out the beam saber it sliced and slashed at invisible enemies. Putting away the saber, it stopped in mid-air. It pulled out the single bladed beam trident and whirled it expertly. The dober gun snapped out from over top the shoulder into the waiting hand of Tallgeese. Inside the cockpit, Lieutenant Cylar sat, feeling out the new mobile suit.
His glowing red eye rotated in his socket, turning round, bringing up data on the screen.
"I must commend Tranel for the link up between my cybernetics and Tallgeese" Cylar said to himself.
Activating the capture shield, several discs slip out of the shoulder like poker chips. The discs powered up, and created a 3-D orb. Tallgeeses arm moved left, and the orb followed. The main engines flared to life, and the suit shot forward, with the discs following close behind. The dober gun that was mounted on the shoulder rotated back over the shoulder and back into the back. As Tallgeese dropped back into the lower atmosphere, the discs filled back into the shoulder. Lowering into the area of the Silver Scythe base. The main tower operators voice came over the radio.
"Lieutenant Cylar, welcome back. How is that new suit of yours working?" the voice said.
"Excellent. I am coming in for a landing. My cybernetic parts need a recharge" Cylar answered.
"Yes sir"
Lieutenant Cylar walked down a dark hallway towards a large metal door. When reaching it, he leveled his eye with a red beam. His cybernetic eye spun in its socket and the machine answered
"Scan accepted"
The door slid open, revealing a large machine on a table with several wires running out of it. Cylar walked over and pulled up a chair. He plugged in 3 wires into jacks in his forearm. He lifted his hand to above his left ear and lifted away his hair, revealing another jack. He plugged in that wire, and plugged in the final 4 into each leg, 2 in each. He turned on the machine. After activating, the machine made a soft humming sound. Cylar sat back and began to drift off into sleep.
A young pilot in his 20's sat in the cockpit of the newly built Gemini suits.
"Corporal Cylar, begin the tests" a voice said.
"Sequence beginning" the man responded.
The Virgo suit marched forward, approaching the targets. Torsos of Leos moved on tracks, sliding back and forth. The suit moved forward and pulled out the battle axe. Moving forward, the targets began to fire on the Gemini. Slashing with the axe, the first target fell over, and exploded. The other 2 slid back, but only to be destroyed by the swinging axe.
"Good job Cylar. Return to base"
"Rodger…wait, base come in. I am having a reactor problem. The heat is overloading the rest of the suit" Cylar said.
He watched as the heat reading went off the chart, and then, suddenly the reactor exploded. The explosion surged through the suit, jetting flames out of every portion of the suit. The cockpit exploded.
Cylar came out of the dream screaming. Suddenly as the horrible dream had come, it has passed. The memories of the past were still embedded in Cylar's brain. The test of the Gemini, the reactor overload, and his near death. He reached over and turned off the charging machine. Pulling out the cords imbedded in the jacks out, he wiped the sweat away from his forehead. The dream was always haunting him. That day had changed the rest of his life. 40% of his body was all cybernetic parts, and if not for those metallic parts, he would have died. His body was so badly destroyed, he needed to get these parts. Deep down though, he thought this was a blessing in disguise, for if not for the accident, he would not had advanced so far as he would have as a soldier. As a normal human pilot, his skills were above average, but with the cybernetics, he surpassed all others. Cylar stood and made sure everything was ok. The machine had fully charged everything up to maximum efficiency. Standing tall, he regained his composure, and strode towards the door. As he approached it, it slid open. Passing through it, it hissed shut, and locked.
Location: former California, USA
Charlie sat in a chair in a small restaurant. The heavy smog still lingered in the air. It had been this way since before the first colony had been built. The pollution had gotten so bad that all people had to wear oxygen tanks when they went outside. Every building had air tight rooms you had to pass through and vacuum out all polluted air before entering. The air had become extremely flammable and toxic. Charlie finished his late breakfast of eggs, bacon, and milk, and looked up to see a digital news flash come up on the projection screen on the wall.
Mysterious Suit saves New York City after attack by several mobile suits. Many military leaders baffled by appearance of mobile suits. Many leaders discussing rearmament of military forces. Some even mentioned the return of the mighty Gundams. Preventers have already re-activated their mobile suits, much against the voice of the World Nations disapproval.
"That's just gonna start more battles" Charlie mumbled to himself.
Reaching over to pick up his oxygen tank and mask, he suddenly stopped. Someone was tapping on his shoulder, he raised his head, and glanced up. He saw a girl with brown hair standing over him.
"Yes?" Charlie said questioningly.
"Are you new around here?" the girl asked "never seen you before, because I come here all the time".
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am" Charlie answered quickly.
"I'm Jerri" the girl said, holding out her hand.
"Charlie DoWarn. Just passing through the area" he said.
"Funny, I've never really found anyone who wanted to move into this area" Jerri said smartly.
Charlie stopped, and pondered the quick answer by the girl. He shrugged it off, and continued to pack up his stuff.
"As I said, just passing through" he said.
"Where were you before you arrived here?" Jerri asked.
For some reason he found himself answering.
"East coast. I wanted a little change of scenery"
Charlie stood, and put on the oxygen tank. Reaching down, he picked up his pack, and put the mask on the top of his head.
"Where you headed?" Jerri asked.
Charlie laughed out loud.
"You sure do ask a lot of questions. I'm going for a walk. Would you like to accompany me?" he said, offering his arm.
"Why yes, I would" Jerri answered, hooking her arm around his.
"Know any good, clean parks?" Charlie said as he lowered the mask over his face.
Jerri did the same, and said
"Head for one of the hover lifts. That can get us above the smog, and we can go to one of the parks on the tops of the taller buildings" she said.
As Charlie went to pay the man at the counter, he felt a small rumble. The next was stronger than that, shaking the small restaurant. Jerri released Charlie's arm, and turned to the window. A foot of a mobile suit came crashing down, and the force of the vibration shattered the window. Charlie dove onto Jerri, shielding her from the shards of glass. The toxic fumes began to billow in, and Charlie yelled to the man behind the counter
"Get your mask on NOW!"
Jerri had already regained her composure and stood up. Charlie brushed the glass off of himself. Getting up, they jumped through the destroyed window, and watched a Leo walk up the street.
"Stay here" Charlie said to Jerri.
"But…" Jerri said.
"Find cover, you might get hurt"
Charlie turned and ran up the street.
Charlie now had reached an abandoned entrance to a run down factory. He pulled away some off the steel siding and slipped inside. Pulsar stood among machinery and numerous other large metal objects along with the Gemini suit that Charlie had brought from New York City. Charlie approached Pulsar and grabbed hold of the cable that rose him up to the cockpit.
"Time for action" Charlie said to himself.
Tallgeese Reborn
The newest addition to the Silver Scythe army stood tall in the hangar. Lieutenant Cylar looked on in amazement. Tallgeese VI gleamed even in the dim light of the hangar.
"Tallgeese, you are the only thing remaining from the mighty Zechs Merquise. His essence is within you. I will pilot you with honor" he said.
Moving to the cockpit along the walkway level with the suit, he jumped inside. Turning on all systems, he did a system check. Tallgeese VI was the most advanced suit, next to the Gundams. It even had a voice recognition system.
"Tallgeese" Cylar said.
"Voice recognition check………..complete" a droning voice replied.
"Lets go"
The suit stepped back, and turned to the main exit. Cylar cranked the engines to maximum as the vernier engines opened, and he blasted down the hallway to the exit.
***
The lonely Melissa awoke when a blip came in on her radar. The beeping awoke her.
"Who is that?" Melissa said aloud.
The main cameras came on, and she watched a red mobile suit fly by at top speed. Vapor lifted into the air, and started to follow the suit. Realizing she was going to lose it, she put the engines at full power and gave chase. Suddenly, the suit stopped completely, and turned. Melissa and Vapor did as well. A picture appeared on the screen from the suit. It was Dren Flashmar, although Melissa did not know this.
"What do you want? Why are you following me?" Dren asked in a low voice.
Inside Drens cockpit, the picture of Melissa popped up. Dren was surprised, and tried to hide it. He turned, and looked at her suit.
"I'm Melissa Peacecraft" the girl said.
"A girl?" Dren said.
"What do you want?!" Melissa said.
"Where did you get that suit?" Dren responded.
"That doesn't matter, just fight me or LEAVE!" Melissa yelled, and Vapor surged forward while pulling out the 2 blades out of their sheaths. Inferno surged back, and narrowly dodged the blades. Pulling out the claw staff, he caught the next blade in the claw. Inferno ducked as the other blade swung around at its head.
"What's going on? I don't know what you're doing!" Dren said
He pulled the claw back, opened it all the way, and fired it into Vapors chest. The huge claw slammed into the suit, and pummeled it into a mountain side, pinning it there. Inferno slowly lowered down to Vapor, as it reeled in the cable.
"Now, where did you get this suit" Dren said.
The image of Melissa came up on screen, crying.
"I found this suit in one of my mothers hangars, deep under the Sanq Kingdom" she said.
"Your mother was Reelena Peacecraft?" Dren said surprisingly.
"Yes" Melissa said sobbing.
Inferno pulled back the huge claw staff, and rose into the air with its mighty engines. It put away the staff and lowered a hand down to help Vapor up. Vapor reached up with its hand, but out of the wrist sprayed the liquid nitrogen into Inferno's face and chest.
"What the…" was all Dren could say.
"Try on some liquid nitrogen" came through his speaker.
Dren immediately turned on the super heating device in the cockpit. The exterior of Inferno began to redden, and the ice began to break off the Gundanium armor.
The entire suit was then slammed into by Vapor, coming in full speed with the engines blasting. Inferno slammed into another rocky cliff. Vapor swung the 2 silver blades into Inferno. It made 2 slashes in the chest of Inferno. Although it didn't penetrate the gundanium armor, it left to visible cuts in it. By this time, Dren was aching all over, and on the verge of consciousness. Looking into the view screens, he saw Vapor was nowhere in sight. He moved to grab the control stick, and managed to muster the strength to sit it up. He powered down, but then suddenly it all came into perspective. He was beaten…by a girl. That was the point of no return for a warrior, and especially Dren. Exhaustion, pain, suffering and anything else succumbs to rage, and rage fuels everything else temporarily. Even for that short amount of time, every part of you is running at max.
"I WILL GET YOU MELISSA!!!" Dren yelled.
***
Tallgeese cruised through the clouds, leaping out of one and into another like a whale breaching out of the ocean waves. Doing a barrel roll and pulling out the beam saber it sliced and slashed at invisible enemies. Putting away the saber, it stopped in mid-air. It pulled out the single bladed beam trident and whirled it expertly. The dober gun snapped out from over top the shoulder into the waiting hand of Tallgeese. Inside the cockpit, Lieutenant Cylar sat, feeling out the new mobile suit.
His glowing red eye rotated in his socket, turning round, bringing up data on the screen.
"I must commend Tranel for the link up between my cybernetics and Tallgeese" Cylar said to himself.
Activating the capture shield, several discs slip out of the shoulder like poker chips. The discs powered up, and created a 3-D orb. Tallgeeses arm moved left, and the orb followed. The main engines flared to life, and the suit shot forward, with the discs following close behind. The dober gun that was mounted on the shoulder rotated back over the shoulder and back into the back. As Tallgeese dropped back into the lower atmosphere, the discs filled back into the shoulder. Lowering into the area of the Silver Scythe base. The main tower operators voice came over the radio.
"Lieutenant Cylar, welcome back. How is that new suit of yours working?" the voice said.
"Excellent. I am coming in for a landing. My cybernetic parts need a recharge" Cylar answered.
"Yes sir"
Lieutenant Cylar walked down a dark hallway towards a large metal door. When reaching it, he leveled his eye with a red beam. His cybernetic eye spun in its socket and the machine answered
"Scan accepted"
The door slid open, revealing a large machine on a table with several wires running out of it. Cylar walked over and pulled up a chair. He plugged in 3 wires into jacks in his forearm. He lifted his hand to above his left ear and lifted away his hair, revealing another jack. He plugged in that wire, and plugged in the final 4 into each leg, 2 in each. He turned on the machine. After activating, the machine made a soft humming sound. Cylar sat back and began to drift off into sleep.
A young pilot in his 20's sat in the cockpit of the newly built Gemini suits.
"Corporal Cylar, begin the tests" a voice said.
"Sequence beginning" the man responded.
The Virgo suit marched forward, approaching the targets. Torsos of Leos moved on tracks, sliding back and forth. The suit moved forward and pulled out the battle axe. Moving forward, the targets began to fire on the Gemini. Slashing with the axe, the first target fell over, and exploded. The other 2 slid back, but only to be destroyed by the swinging axe.
"Good job Cylar. Return to base"
"Rodger…wait, base come in. I am having a reactor problem. The heat is overloading the rest of the suit" Cylar said.
He watched as the heat reading went off the chart, and then, suddenly the reactor exploded. The explosion surged through the suit, jetting flames out of every portion of the suit. The cockpit exploded.
Cylar came out of the dream screaming. Suddenly as the horrible dream had come, it has passed. The memories of the past were still embedded in Cylar's brain. The test of the Gemini, the reactor overload, and his near death. He reached over and turned off the charging machine. Pulling out the cords imbedded in the jacks out, he wiped the sweat away from his forehead. The dream was always haunting him. That day had changed the rest of his life. 40% of his body was all cybernetic parts, and if not for those metallic parts, he would have died. His body was so badly destroyed, he needed to get these parts. Deep down though, he thought this was a blessing in disguise, for if not for the accident, he would not had advanced so far as he would have as a soldier. As a normal human pilot, his skills were above average, but with the cybernetics, he surpassed all others. Cylar stood and made sure everything was ok. The machine had fully charged everything up to maximum efficiency. Standing tall, he regained his composure, and strode towards the door. As he approached it, it slid open. Passing through it, it hissed shut, and locked.
Location: former California, USA
Charlie sat in a chair in a small restaurant. The heavy smog still lingered in the air. It had been this way since before the first colony had been built. The pollution had gotten so bad that all people had to wear oxygen tanks when they went outside. Every building had air tight rooms you had to pass through and vacuum out all polluted air before entering. The air had become extremely flammable and toxic. Charlie finished his late breakfast of eggs, bacon, and milk, and looked up to see a digital news flash come up on the projection screen on the wall.
Mysterious Suit saves New York City after attack by several mobile suits. Many military leaders baffled by appearance of mobile suits. Many leaders discussing rearmament of military forces. Some even mentioned the return of the mighty Gundams. Preventers have already re-activated their mobile suits, much against the voice of the World Nations disapproval.
"That's just gonna start more battles" Charlie mumbled to himself.
Reaching over to pick up his oxygen tank and mask, he suddenly stopped. Someone was tapping on his shoulder, he raised his head, and glanced up. He saw a girl with brown hair standing over him.
"Yes?" Charlie said questioningly.
"Are you new around here?" the girl asked "never seen you before, because I come here all the time".
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am" Charlie answered quickly.
"I'm Jerri" the girl said, holding out her hand.
"Charlie DoWarn. Just passing through the area" he said.
"Funny, I've never really found anyone who wanted to move into this area" Jerri said smartly.
Charlie stopped, and pondered the quick answer by the girl. He shrugged it off, and continued to pack up his stuff.
"As I said, just passing through" he said.
"Where were you before you arrived here?" Jerri asked.
For some reason he found himself answering.
"East coast. I wanted a little change of scenery"
Charlie stood, and put on the oxygen tank. Reaching down, he picked up his pack, and put the mask on the top of his head.
"Where you headed?" Jerri asked.
Charlie laughed out loud.
"You sure do ask a lot of questions. I'm going for a walk. Would you like to accompany me?" he said, offering his arm.
"Why yes, I would" Jerri answered, hooking her arm around his.
"Know any good, clean parks?" Charlie said as he lowered the mask over his face.
Jerri did the same, and said
"Head for one of the hover lifts. That can get us above the smog, and we can go to one of the parks on the tops of the taller buildings" she said.
As Charlie went to pay the man at the counter, he felt a small rumble. The next was stronger than that, shaking the small restaurant. Jerri released Charlie's arm, and turned to the window. A foot of a mobile suit came crashing down, and the force of the vibration shattered the window. Charlie dove onto Jerri, shielding her from the shards of glass. The toxic fumes began to billow in, and Charlie yelled to the man behind the counter
"Get your mask on NOW!"
Jerri had already regained her composure and stood up. Charlie brushed the glass off of himself. Getting up, they jumped through the destroyed window, and watched a Leo walk up the street.
"Stay here" Charlie said to Jerri.
"But…" Jerri said.
"Find cover, you might get hurt"
Charlie turned and ran up the street.
Charlie now had reached an abandoned entrance to a run down factory. He pulled away some off the steel siding and slipped inside. Pulsar stood among machinery and numerous other large metal objects along with the Gemini suit that Charlie had brought from New York City. Charlie approached Pulsar and grabbed hold of the cable that rose him up to the cockpit.
"Time for action" Charlie said to himself.