Earth Federation
Lt. Colonal Alexander "Xander" Marshall-RGM-79 (g) Ranger Hi Mo (high
mobility)
Master CPO Natalia "Blue Eyes" Klavaski -RGM-79 (g) Ranger Hi MO
2nd Lt. Charles "Snipe" Davidson -RGM-79 (g) Ranger Sniper varient Hi Mo
Ensign Emily "killer" Vogner -RX-77 (g) Guncannon/Ranger
Mark Timmers and Samual Rodrick -Hovertruck operators
Alright if anyone is reading this I just want to say I'm sorry for the format, its ff.net's fault, not mine. Oh and thanks to Philip Hadinata for reviewing my fic! And now on to
Nightmares and Flying Carpets
Xander woke with a start and fell out of his bed face flat onto the cold concrete floor. He lay there for a moment then forced himself up all the while cursing silently to no one in particular. He sat up on the bed and started rubbing his eyes. 'Ugh, not that dream again' he thought. This was getting old, he hadn't gotten a full nights sleep in weeks and it was starting to really annoy the hell out of him. He stood up and stretched while turning his head back and forth trying to get the kinks out. He walked up to his small closet and switched into a clean uniform. Still slightly asleep he walked outside towards the mess hall while saying the occasional "hi" to passerby. Before he could get to the life giving coffee the mess hall promised Emily waved and ran up to him.
"Morning sir, we just recieved our orders, follow me to operations and don't worry theres coffee there waiting for you" Xander smiled slightly and started speaking "Thats great, do you have the orders with you so I can review them?" She nodded and handed him a thin folder
"Right here sir" "thanks" Xander started skimming through the pages and photos and read the simple order
" To Lt. Colonal Alexander Marshall, these orders are confidential and..." Xander rolled his eyes and skipped past the red tape BS and continued "You and your Mobile Suit Team will be assigned to a recon mission near the outer rim of the Sydney impact crater to assess the accuracy of the reports of a crash landed Gau carrier and if at all possible secure it. Original reports state that the carrier was shipping 3 Dom Tropens and 1 Gouf, 1 Zaku II, and the partially assembled parts to a new mobile suit design simply known as MS-14A, it is extremely important that the MS-14A not be damaged in anyway. This is all that is known and we wish you the best of luck." Xander was alittle surprised at this, last he checked Gau's only carried 3 suits comfortably, maybe there were some dodoai 'flying carpets' out there too........
5 Minutes later in the Operations Room
"Alright people this is what we know, at approximently 1200 hours yesterday a flight of jet core fighters flew over a previously thought to be abandoned Zeon airstrip and witnessed two Gau carriers being loaded with Suits accompenied by 4 Dodoai MS transport planes, theres 2 Goufs and 2 Zaku 1's on these." He put another transparency on the overhead and continued pointing at the picture.
"As you can see the Gau where being loaded for broke, each being loaded with 9 dopp fighters and 4 suits, the first one was equiped with 4 Zaku II's." He switched to a picture of the second Gau
"Alright this is the one that matters, while the the first Gau launched and drew the fighter group away from the airstrip with its 2 zaku escorts this one was loaded with a Zaku II, Three state of the art Dom Tropens and the parts to a incomplete suit known only as YMS-14A" At this Sam raised his hand.
"Sir, ummm....not to sound stupid or whatever, how did they know it was loaded out with all this if the fighter group followed the first carrier?" The others looked towards their commander equally curious.
"Well this is where the zeeks decoy move majorly screwed up, in there rush to get the hell out of there the units commander forgot to spread minofski particles so one of the orbiting satilliates was actually usefull for once and took photos of the area". Sam nodded and Xander was about to continue when Natalia asked
"Wait, if this YMS-14A thing was unassembled, how the heck did they know that it was loaded in the Gau?" Xander sighed and answered "I wondered the same thing, but when I read the file further it explains that the Suit was complete, but the limbs, torso, and head where not assembled together and they where all wrapped in canvas marked YMS-14A , these where loaded onto the carrier via semitrucks, ok, so what right? Well apperently these trucks with these parts where seen booking out of the Torington base area where spies took photos of the suit and there you go, anything else?" Natalia shook her head no and motioned for Xander to go on with the briefing.
"Ok, the Second Gau was Launched and was soon followed by the two dodoai while the Core fighters shot down the first Gau and destroyed the Dodoai and Zaku's protecting it, there where no survivors from any of the craft unfortunatly. The fighter group caught up with the second Gau attack group and destroyed one dodoai, while the gouf riding it dove off and landed on the Gau, the other dodai destroyed 2 fighters but it was also shot down.The Gau then launched its Dopps, this is when things become sketchy, the jet core squad entered one hell of a dog fight with the defending Dopp squad, wiping each other out completly except for one Jet core fighter. The surviving core fighter dropped a missle spray right into the tail of the Gau, causing it to crash land on the northern rim of the Sydney Crater, the surviving fighter made it back to base and was able to report these findings" His team took this all in without asking anymore questions, he then continued with the rest of the briefing.
"Our point of attack is simple, Snipe will keep well back from the rest of the group to supply cover fire, Emily will take the hodgepodge suit, which by the way the mechanics just started calling it the GM-Cannon (g) into a medium range cover, Emily this things speed is the same as that Mass Produced Guncannon you practiced in so theres no reseason for worry there." Emily smiled at this and said "thanks sir" Xander smiled back alittle and continued
"Ok, the Hovertruck will be put in at the shore of the impact crater to supply combat and sonar data, Natalia and I will go to investigate the actual wreck, which really isen't a wreck, its mainly intact, including the particle cannons mounted on it so everyone be careful. Alright, last bit of info, we have no idea whether the carrier was abandoned or not, we are there to recover the YMS-14A and then get the hell out, we're being given a Midea transport and a jetcore fighter which will be put on standby until the package is secure. Any Questions? Good, lets go."
Xander led his team to the hanger walking past mechanics and heavy lifting equipment towards his GM. He grabbed the grapple line and clicked the 'ascend' switch and was lifted to the units cockpit and jumped in. He straped himself into his command seat and started his systems check all the time wondering why he had a sudden sense of dread.........
Alright if anyone is reading this I just want to say I'm sorry for the format, its ff.net's fault, not mine. Oh and thanks to Philip Hadinata for reviewing my fic! And now on to
Nightmares and Flying Carpets
Xander woke with a start and fell out of his bed face flat onto the cold concrete floor. He lay there for a moment then forced himself up all the while cursing silently to no one in particular. He sat up on the bed and started rubbing his eyes. 'Ugh, not that dream again' he thought. This was getting old, he hadn't gotten a full nights sleep in weeks and it was starting to really annoy the hell out of him. He stood up and stretched while turning his head back and forth trying to get the kinks out. He walked up to his small closet and switched into a clean uniform. Still slightly asleep he walked outside towards the mess hall while saying the occasional "hi" to passerby. Before he could get to the life giving coffee the mess hall promised Emily waved and ran up to him.
"Morning sir, we just recieved our orders, follow me to operations and don't worry theres coffee there waiting for you" Xander smiled slightly and started speaking "Thats great, do you have the orders with you so I can review them?" She nodded and handed him a thin folder
"Right here sir" "thanks" Xander started skimming through the pages and photos and read the simple order
" To Lt. Colonal Alexander Marshall, these orders are confidential and..." Xander rolled his eyes and skipped past the red tape BS and continued "You and your Mobile Suit Team will be assigned to a recon mission near the outer rim of the Sydney impact crater to assess the accuracy of the reports of a crash landed Gau carrier and if at all possible secure it. Original reports state that the carrier was shipping 3 Dom Tropens and 1 Gouf, 1 Zaku II, and the partially assembled parts to a new mobile suit design simply known as MS-14A, it is extremely important that the MS-14A not be damaged in anyway. This is all that is known and we wish you the best of luck." Xander was alittle surprised at this, last he checked Gau's only carried 3 suits comfortably, maybe there were some dodoai 'flying carpets' out there too........
5 Minutes later in the Operations Room
"Alright people this is what we know, at approximently 1200 hours yesterday a flight of jet core fighters flew over a previously thought to be abandoned Zeon airstrip and witnessed two Gau carriers being loaded with Suits accompenied by 4 Dodoai MS transport planes, theres 2 Goufs and 2 Zaku 1's on these." He put another transparency on the overhead and continued pointing at the picture.
"As you can see the Gau where being loaded for broke, each being loaded with 9 dopp fighters and 4 suits, the first one was equiped with 4 Zaku II's." He switched to a picture of the second Gau
"Alright this is the one that matters, while the the first Gau launched and drew the fighter group away from the airstrip with its 2 zaku escorts this one was loaded with a Zaku II, Three state of the art Dom Tropens and the parts to a incomplete suit known only as YMS-14A" At this Sam raised his hand.
"Sir, ummm....not to sound stupid or whatever, how did they know it was loaded out with all this if the fighter group followed the first carrier?" The others looked towards their commander equally curious.
"Well this is where the zeeks decoy move majorly screwed up, in there rush to get the hell out of there the units commander forgot to spread minofski particles so one of the orbiting satilliates was actually usefull for once and took photos of the area". Sam nodded and Xander was about to continue when Natalia asked
"Wait, if this YMS-14A thing was unassembled, how the heck did they know that it was loaded in the Gau?" Xander sighed and answered "I wondered the same thing, but when I read the file further it explains that the Suit was complete, but the limbs, torso, and head where not assembled together and they where all wrapped in canvas marked YMS-14A , these where loaded onto the carrier via semitrucks, ok, so what right? Well apperently these trucks with these parts where seen booking out of the Torington base area where spies took photos of the suit and there you go, anything else?" Natalia shook her head no and motioned for Xander to go on with the briefing.
"Ok, the Second Gau was Launched and was soon followed by the two dodoai while the Core fighters shot down the first Gau and destroyed the Dodoai and Zaku's protecting it, there where no survivors from any of the craft unfortunatly. The fighter group caught up with the second Gau attack group and destroyed one dodoai, while the gouf riding it dove off and landed on the Gau, the other dodai destroyed 2 fighters but it was also shot down.The Gau then launched its Dopps, this is when things become sketchy, the jet core squad entered one hell of a dog fight with the defending Dopp squad, wiping each other out completly except for one Jet core fighter. The surviving core fighter dropped a missle spray right into the tail of the Gau, causing it to crash land on the northern rim of the Sydney Crater, the surviving fighter made it back to base and was able to report these findings" His team took this all in without asking anymore questions, he then continued with the rest of the briefing.
"Our point of attack is simple, Snipe will keep well back from the rest of the group to supply cover fire, Emily will take the hodgepodge suit, which by the way the mechanics just started calling it the GM-Cannon (g) into a medium range cover, Emily this things speed is the same as that Mass Produced Guncannon you practiced in so theres no reseason for worry there." Emily smiled at this and said "thanks sir" Xander smiled back alittle and continued
"Ok, the Hovertruck will be put in at the shore of the impact crater to supply combat and sonar data, Natalia and I will go to investigate the actual wreck, which really isen't a wreck, its mainly intact, including the particle cannons mounted on it so everyone be careful. Alright, last bit of info, we have no idea whether the carrier was abandoned or not, we are there to recover the YMS-14A and then get the hell out, we're being given a Midea transport and a jetcore fighter which will be put on standby until the package is secure. Any Questions? Good, lets go."
Xander led his team to the hanger walking past mechanics and heavy lifting equipment towards his GM. He grabbed the grapple line and clicked the 'ascend' switch and was lifted to the units cockpit and jumped in. He straped himself into his command seat and started his systems check all the time wondering why he had a sudden sense of dread.........