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Gundam Wing
Gundam Pirates
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Chapter 3:
Gundam Attack!
The pilots looked at Alexandria with confusion. How is she in Preventer? When was her Gundam built? Why wasn't it used at certain times of need? Although to Johan and Heero those questions were already answered, 'The time wasn't right'. But today was the day, the time was now, and the curtain was rising to introduce the new player.
"Alexandria DeLarge reporting for ultra violence, Lady Une." Alexandria (Or Alex as some people call her) saluted
"It's good to see you Alex." Lady Une smiled as she stepped closer.
Alex dropped her salute and hopped down from her Gundam.
"I heard that the target for our Ultra Violence is the Pirate Group Desbats."
Lady Une walked over and placed a very friendly hand on Alex' shoulder, "We'll discuss the details later on."
"Appy polly loggies Lady Une." Alex still smiled, "I have been out of practice as well as out of me Gulliver a few times and I'm a little anxious to get back to the good old lashings of ultra violence."
"That's understandable." Johan shrugged
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"Oh, no." Wufei moaned as he laid his hand against his forehead, "You brought a woman on this assignment?"
The Gundams as well as the new pilot Alex had brought themselves to the briefing room. Wufei was leaning against the steel wall while he had that same distress expression on his face.
"What do you mean Wufei?" Lady Une asked as she sat at the head of the table
"It's bad enough that we've been beaten by Pirates but now we've brought a woman into our ranks. We must really be desperate to win."
Alex who had changed into her white skintight space suit was leaning against the opposite wall. In her hand she had a stick that had an eyeball at the head of it. Little did anyone else know that if she were to pull at that end of the stick a small knife would come out of it, but there's more to it. The stick itself was actually the key to the Gundam Clockwork, very similar to the key that Johan had for his Ryu.
She heard Wufei's chauvinistic comments, so she took the stick and she hunkered on her hind legs. She was ready to jump and she did jump up and over the table, all 15 feet of it and she had her stick in her hand and she brought it down right on Wufei's head and bangs him against his knee cap.
Wufei bent over in pain.
The other Gundam pilots watched this and the first one to make the comment on this was of course Duo.
"You really had that one coming Wufei." Duo smirked, "She's not exactly a Gundam for nothing."
"Damn right!" Johan hollered
Duo looked over at Johan and was continuing the discussion on the Vindicator, Heero and Johan had explained what had been shown the history of it.
"That Gundam you were telling us about sounds like a very odd machine." Duo commented on this new Gundam that had been built
"It's odd." Trowa commented, "While I was working within Oz I never heard of a Gundam Vindicator."
Johan repeated another answer that was given, "Lady Une explained that no one knew, not even Chief Engineer Tuberoff."
"I'd like to see this babbling Gundam work in battle." Wufei added with his own tone of sarcasm, which is always obvious. He is always one of those kinds of people where you can detect sarcasm at any time. Even though he was still suffering from the bruises that Alex had given him.
"Now that we have most of the things taken care of we can head back out and kick some more ass, so shall we?" Johan asked walking to the door, he was insinuating that they should head out to battle against the pirates.
"Yes." Duo smiled as he got to his feet, "Let's show them Johan what happens when you mess with the God of Death."
"Aye." Alex smiled twirling her stick in her right hand, "We're going to give them a real horrorshow tolchoc of Ultra Violence."
"What?" Duo asked his face scrunched up in confusion.
Johan explained, "She said that we should really give them hell."
The Gundams looked at Johan blankly, it was one of those looks on a groups face that made someone feel as if they were being interrogated.
Until Quatre asked, "You understand what she's saying?"
"Yeah." Johan said, "It's like Shakespeare, you just have to listen."
Duo shrugged, "Whatever." He said as they headed out the door to the mobile suit bay while Alex twirled her cane at her side.
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Meanwhile a few hours later at the Pirate ship Eldridge on it's bridge Kazuki Peacecraft had already broken the news of what he heard from Miss Noin and Haruka Tenou.
"She said there were more Peacecrafts?" Gandor asked
"That's what she told me, three more Peacecrafts, two of them are mobile suit pilots."
Gandor began to have a serious look on his face, his eyebrows drew closer together as he went into deep thought.
"I knew that Milliardo and Relena would survive." He thought to himself, "Milliardo left at the age of seven and joined the Oz military under the name Zechs Marquise. Relena was adopted by Vice Foreign Minister Dorlin and she became Relena Dorlin. But this other Peacecraft, his Peacecraft name is his middle name. How could he be related to the Peacecraft family."
Kazuki noticed Gandor going deeply into thought, so he asked in a very sly tone to slowly squeeze the right information out of him or rather hear Gandor say that the other two Peacecrafts are genuine but the Gundam Pilot isn't.
"What are you thinking about Gandor?" He asked
Just to hear Gandor say that Johan isn't a Peacecraft would be the greatest thing to come to his ears. The hope that this Gundam isn't a family member but rather that he's using the name somehow. It would be wonderful to hear that, at least it would soften the blow that just an ordinary Gundam blew off the legs of Kazuki's mobile suit. Still if that Gundam is a Peacecraft that makes the situation even bitterer than before. Kazuki smiled in anticipation hoping to hear Gandor say that there are no other Peacecrafts.
"I remember now!" Gandor shouted, "I remember a family member of the Peacecrafts leaving a few years before the Sank Kingdom was destroyed. Her name was Marie Peacecraft, she married some Spanish man from the colonies and they eloped to space. King Peacecraft wouldn't exactly consent to the marriage so Marie left. So maybe this Gundam Pilot is her son."
"NO!" Kazuki shouted in his mind, this really is the worst thing that's happened to him, this means that not only a Gundam or a Peacecraft but also a family member beat him. How worse could things get!
"Con Sensors!" an operator shouted on the bridge, "We're detecting one massive object a few thousand miles of the port bow! It's closing in fast!"
"Maybe things won't get that bad." Kazuki thought, "Perhaps this is a new convoy full of goods for us."
"Con Sensors!" the operator shouted again, "The massive object has stopped and eight objects have launched from it. Possibly mobile suits, closing in quickly."
"How quickly?" Kazuki asked
"I'd say recklessly!"
"The Gundams." Kazuki spat, "Damn them!"
Then Kazuki had a thought, "The last time I checked there were only seven, where did that eighth one come from?"
Kazuki looked around the bridge, which looked very much like the bridge of a submarine except it looked more spacious especially with the window in the front of it. Kazuki looked above him from where he stood and found a small handheld microphone. He reached up and snatched it away from its small steel harness and pressed its side button with his thumb.
"Con Engineering!" He called through the microphone, "How are the repairs on the Gundam Waterproof? And report on how many mobile suits we have."
He lifted his thumb away from it and heard the response from it. The report came through:
"Con, this is engineering. The Gundam Waterproof isn't done yet, whatever blew its legs off did a good job of it."
Kazuki was irritated but didn't do anything and the report continued.
"We have about 80 of our original 100 mobile suits, but they and their pilots are ready for battle. Including our RAG-79 Aqua GM."
The Aqua GM was a mobile suit that was used by the senior staff of the Eldridge. It was very much like the Gundam Waterproof but it didn't exactly have all the weapons or perks. It only had a certain number of missiles as well as its beam saber.
Kazuki pressed the thumb button, "Roger that." He said
"Con Sensors." The operator shouted again, "The eight objects are nearly within battle range. What are your orders?"
Kazuki pressed the thumb button on the microphone again.
"All hands." He said, "This is the Captain, battle stations."
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"Here we go again." Johan said as he started up his Gundam Ryu with the same black oblong key as well as start up the music of Rage against the Machine's Wake up.
At the same time the other Gundams were getting ready for the battle ahead of them. But the ones that were the most unusual were Heero and Alex.
Heero sat in the Vindicator starting it up while watching the screens come on and looking out into the cargo bay in the 360 degree angel within the cockpit.
"Heero." The Midas system called, for a moment the tone was like that of Relena when she said his name close to his ear, "The Gundam Vindicator is ready for launch."
Heero stayed silent.
This system didn't have the mind warping effects of Zero but to Heero if this kind of talking keeps going on it will become mind warping for him or at least annoy the hell out of him.
"Do we have launch clearance?" Heero asked as he felt the engines firing up
"We have permission to launch Heero." Midas replied
"Understood."
Heero shoved the joysticks forward and the Gundam Vindicator rocketed out of the mobile suit bay. At the moment that the Vindicator rocketed out of the bay Heero felt his body being pushed back into his seat like the drop of a roller coaster.
"Ugh." He moaned as he tried to get used to the G forces that pushed him back into his seat.
"You should be more careful Heero." The Midas reported
If the Midas system were a person Heero would simply say something like Leave me alone or Stay out of my way. Although Heero couldn't exactly say "Shut the hell up" because that would be more like Duo's line. So Heero simply ignored the Midas observation of his handling of the controls.
Meanwhile back in the cargo bay Alexandria DeLarge started up the Gundam Clockwork by inserting her cane into the start up slot, which was towards the front of the cockpit although it didn't obstruct the view within the screens. She like Johan started up her own music within the cockpit, but it was Beethoven's 9th Symphony 4th movement. If one were to ask her what it was like to fly out into battle in that Gundam and listening to that music she would say this;
It was gorgeousnes and gorgeosity made flesh. It was like a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. And I knew such lovely pictures.
The pictures she would see would be of images in her mind of her slicing, dicing and blowing up mobile suits. She imagined going through all those enemy suits like Rosie O'Donnell through a box of Ring Dings.
Her Gundam Clockwork started up and rocketed forward still having its wings covered and it's gattling unused. She didn't even stretch out the Gundanium wings to show what was underneath it or arm her gattling; it was as if she was preparing. Or rather she was waiting until she saw the lights in the enemy mobile suits eyes.
In fact, when Duo watched the Clockwork take off he thought to himself, "I like her." He thought, "Her Gundam is like mine, almost as if she were the Goddess of Death." He smiled, "That would be interesting. But what is she hiding under those wings? I can see that she has the appearance of my DeathScythe but she has pieces of Trowa's Gundam. I'd like to see her in action. Good luck Alexandria, or rather The Goddess of Death."
Next in this line was Johan, he knew that this would be the time for the surprise. HE reached down to the COM system.
"Hey guys." He called, "Check this out!"
He started up his Gundam, which only floated a few feet up in the air in the mobile suit bay. Inside the mobile suit Johan pulled the level all the way back and the surprise took form in front of the Gundams eyes. Duo, Trowa, Quatre, Wufei, and Milliardo saw the Gundam mobile suit transform, it looked as if it was going to bird mode. But that wasn't anything new they saw it in bird mode before. As they thought that something happened, the buster rifle was placed into the suit carrier arms while the shield wings expanded outward like a bat. The legs of the suit came together to form what appeared to be a tail, a Gundanium tail? Suddenly the buster shield began to extend outward like the neck of a turtle coming out of its shell, as it did it began to look like the neck of a dragon. The finishing touch was that the arms were like the legs of a dragon while another pair came from the legs of the mobile suit.
This was the surprise; Johan had added a Dragon Mode to his Gundam Ryu. It was now a Gundanium Dragon. Its neck that was the buster shield looked around with its green eyes and it flapped its bat wings while the engine wings began to fire up.
At the same time, the cockpit had changed as well. Instead of joysticks that controlled this Gundanium beast they were now reigns like those of a horse. As the cables stretched to the floor in front of Johan he sat down in the same chair that was part of the mobile suit cockpit. His hands felt the buttons on the reigns and he pulled then one way and then the other to make sure that they were working right. He looked down and saw the pedals that would control it's speed he reached his foot out and pressed the accelerator just as the song Wake up was reaching it's climax.
"How do you like that?" Johan asked hoping the COM system was on.
"Damn man!" Duo called through the COM, "That is some great stuff!"
"Thanks Duo. Now all of you God be with us and kick ass."
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"What are you going to do Kazuki?" Gandor asked as he was leaving the bridge to the mobile suit bay.
"I'm going to wait here." Kazuki said as he sat in his chair.
"You've got to be kidding!" Gandor shouted, if he knew what Kazuki was thinking he would advise against it, "If you stay here, they'll come after you. Plus they'll try to rescue the hostages."
"I know that Gandor. That's why I'm going to stay here, more than likely that Gundam will try to get on board. Tell the troops to let him through, I want to face him alone."
Gandor's eyebrows raised, "Sure Kazuki."
Even though Gandor knew that this move would be a bit suicidal but he felt that Kazuki knows what he's doing. He headed out the door and to the mobile suit bay with the others. He was walking along with the other senior staff of the Eldridge.
"What's Kazuki going to do?" Laramie asked
Gandor exhaled, "he's going to stay onboard. His orders are to let one of the Gundams near the Eldridge."
"Let it near?" Laramie asked loosing her head, "Kazuki's really lost it now. If he lets that Gundam onboard who knows what he'll do."
"He's in charge Laramie." Gandor said through his teeth, "Plus I think he knows what he's doing."
Laramie shook her head, she just wanted to go to the bridge and tell Kazuki that he had lost his mind that he should come with his crew to the battlefield and face them there. But no Kazuki is in charge and she has to follow the orders.
The senior staff made their way to the mobile suit bay; they saw a small percentage of their suits in shambles. Leg parts scattered here and there while the technicians and laborers were trying desperately. And there that struck the most grief into their hearts was seeing the Gundam Waterproof in shambles. It's legs blown off like an action figure that was blown up by a firecracker. This was a Gundam that was designed and built by the Desbats while Kazuki was still being trained by Gandor and it pains all of the senior staff to see it like this.
"Let's go kick some ass." Gandor instructed and shouted, "Suit up!"
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The Gundams watched the massive Eldridge slow to a halt while it deployed its mobile suits. It was as if the Eldridge were a hornet's nest and the mobile suits were the hornets. The Gundams were both admiring and despising the Eldridge. Yet at the same time a few of them were wondering why? Was it because it was their job or was it because this had turned into a small war a secret war that was fought away from the eyes of the politicians and the people? On one hand it is but then again on the other side of it, it was just another day at the office of Preventer.
On the Gundams side they watched the mobile suits come after them and the instructions were given.
Johan lowered the music of Rage against the Machine down and he called the other Gundams.
"All of you know the plan. All of you hold off the enemy mobile suits while Heero and I make our way to the enemy ship. Understood?"
"Understood." Heero replied
"Gotcha Johan." Duo called
"I understand." Trowa said
"Be careful you two." Quatre advised
"Good luck." Wufei wised
Alex laughed through the COM system while all the Gundams heard Beethoven's 9th symphony, "Off to do battle my droogs."
Here we go, Johan thought as he held the reigns tightly and maneuvered his way through the mobile suits.
Meanwhile in the Gundam Vindicator, the Midas was telling Heero about the enemy mobile suits.
"Mobile suit count…" It stated, "80, tactics level cleared."
"Commence Destruction." Heero stated as he opened fire on the onslaught of mobile suits. First missiles of all kinds fired outward in a fireworks display of destructive power. Mobile suits blew up and parts were already scattering everywhere.
"Midas." Heero called, "What is the mobile suit count now?"
"Mobile suit count…" Midas calculated, "Down to 70."
All those missiles and it only took out 10 mobile suits.
"Continue Destruction." Heero stated as he fired more missiles and shot more bullets.
BOOM! The missiles crashed
TAT! TAT! TAT! The breast gattling fired.
Further back in the line of battle were the other Gundams, Heavyarms, DeathScythe, Sandrock, Nataku and Clockwork. Each of them headed to battle, but there was something particular on Duo's mind that he wanted to know. He wanted to see it with his own eyes before he headed out into battle. That question of what was under the wings of the Gundam Clockwork was what was on Duo's mind. He waited to see what would happen.
It did, Alexandria pulled back on the controls and the wings opened, and the site astonished all the Gundam Pilots who viewed this. The outstretched Gundanium batwings had missiles stored within them like the secret compartments of missiles in the Heavyarms. Only this was in the batwings of the Gundam Clockwork. All the missiles fired out at the enemy mobile suits and like with the Gundam Vindicator a great deal of enemy mobile suits blew up and parts were scattered everywhere in the battle field of space.
The Gundams were thunderstruck at the surprise of the Gundam Clockwork. Not only did it have that Grim Reaper look to it like Duo's but it had more missiles and bullets than the Heavyarms.
"Wow." Duo said with wide eyes, "She has more surprises up her sleeve than a street hustler." He smiled, "I really like her. She is a Goddess of Death, but I'm the God of Death so look out all of you!"
He turned on his beam Scythe and headed into the battlefield.
"Hey guys!" Duo called, "We better get moving if we don't want to die!"
The other Gundams snapped out of their thunderstruck trance and headed back to battle.
Although there was one Gundam who stood staring at the Gundam Clockwork, the pilot was Quatre in his Gundam Sandrock. He watched with wide eyes as he watched the Gundam Clockwork do it's own work. He was amazed that there was a Gundam like this and yet they never encountered it once. He had suspicion of whom this Alexandria DeLarge was, but the another event happened.
He looked at the screen and within an instant that slowed down to a crawl he saw the singular square eye of a Taurus Space suit and in it's hand a beam sword that would come down on his beloved Sandrock. In that slowed down instant the Taurus space suit was blown away from Sandrock.
Quatre's head snapped to his right and then to his left and there he found a true sight for sore eyes. He found what must have been around twenty suits armed with guns and all flying towards Quatre's Sandrock. He knew who it was.
At that moment a small transmission came through of a bearded man, Quatre knew him as Rashim. It was the Maquanate Corp of the Middle East.
"Master Quatre." Rashim said, "We're not going to let you go into this battle alone. We done that once too many and we're not ever going to do it again."
Quatre knew that Rashim was referring to the battle against the AI mobile dolls. He also remembered back to the battle back on Earth when they were trying to break into the Treize Mansion. He knew that Rashim was also referring to that as well.
"I'm sorry everyone." Quatre apologized
In the small screen Quatre saw the bearded Rashim smile, "As long as your alive Master Quatre."
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Up ahead near the Eldridge Johan and Heero were coming up to the massive ship. The plan was to infiltrate the ship although Heero didn't bother to ask how, and to his knowledge neither did Johan. But that didn't matter because he had his own ways to make a door.
"Johan." He called, "Stand Back I'm going to make a door."
He raised the buster rifle to one of the doors.
"I would not recommend that Heero." The Midas suggested, "We must remember that there are hostages in there and the orders were to rescue the hostages."
Heero grind his teeth.
"Don't worry Heero." Johan called back, "I have a method to open a door."
Heero watched the Gundanium Dragon latch itself onto one part of the Eldridge. To Heero it looked like the door to the mobile suit bay. For one it seemed large enough to fit several mobile suits through.
The Gundam Ryu laid across the door like a lizard on a rock and its head drew back and out slid the heat rod like a tongue. It lifted its head and brought it back down again while the heat rod shined its bright red color like a sword about to be forged. It came down in a circular motion and made a sloppy circle in the mobile suit bay door. As the pieces of the mobile suit bay door collapsed, Heero saw the opportunity and flew in. Johan did the same thing, only his Gundam drew back its wings and slid right into bay.
The reason for the haste was that, in emergency situations like this, large ships usually put in double doors that way if one is destroyed the other one will take over. And the other one did take over; it shut it self behind the hole cut door that Johan made.
Inside the bay both mobile suits sat like a warrior crouching next to a dragon. At least that's what it would look like to an ordinary person. But the cockpits of these Gundanium giants opened and out hopped their magnificent pilots. Heero Yuy and Johan Rodriguez, each of them armed. Johan armed with his Outsider handgun, two standard side arms, an M-16 rifle and his katana, while Heero was armed only with guns.
Heero cocked his gun and said to Johan, "I'll find the leader and keep him still. You find the hostages."
Johan smiled, "You know I think Duo was right, we quiet guys are always the ones who do things the flashiest way."
To be continued…
Author's Notes: I had designed the Gundam Clockwork, though the author "Clockwork Pilot" said that her favorite Gundam pilot was Duo Maxwell. I couldn't' think of anything more appropriate then a mobile suit that looked like the DeathScythe Hell, though I added some extra features. Specifically from Trowa's Heavyarms. However the Gundam Ryu on the other hand I had thought about the call sign for Johan "Star Dragon". I began to think that if the Gundam Ryu can change into bird mode then it should have a Dragon mode, so I simply put that in and took away a few things in order to make it a little sleeker. Such as I merged the Engine and Shield wings, but I left on the carrier arms in order to carry the buster rifle. Now let's see how it does in combat.
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