Episode 02
The Great Destroyer
On the outskirts of LaGrange Point 2 a cargo ship is stranded. "Hey, how long is it going to take?" Said the pilot impatiently.
"Keep your shirt on, this engines a mess. It's going to take at least an hour just to patch it up enough to get us to the colony." Said the mechanic.
"You got thirty minuets, we can be sitting on our asses with our cargo." Said the pilot. At that moment a Drake patrol ship with two Cepheuses pulled up behind them.
"Human ship, what are you doing here?" Said the Drake solider over the com-system.
"Ah crap." Said the pilot before replying, "Uh nothing officer, just got engine problems."
"Open your air locks, we're coming aboard." Said the solider. The boarding clamps lock and two Drakes can over. They looked at the pilot and saw he was a little nervous. "Present your travel visas."
"Sure, here you go." Said the pilot.
"It says here you're a cargo haler out of Colony X-1397. What are you transporting?" Said the solider.
"Nothing just furniture." Said the pilot.
"That's a pretty big cargo hold for just furniture." Said the solider suspiciously. "Open it up I'm looking in."
"You can't do that, it's against company policy, beside the hold can only be open from the outside!" Said the pilot.
"You'll open the hold or I'll arrest you!" Said the solider pointing a gun at him.
"Err, all right." Said the pilot. He hesitated and pushed a key on the console. On the outside one of the Cepheus look in the cargo bay and as the doors open he saw the outline of a mobile suit, six Taurus SXs. Then one of them turn and fired it's beam rifle hitting the Cepheus in the cockpit. The mechanic had slipped into the Taurus when portal ship wasn't looking.
"Come in we saw an explosion!" Said the solider looking out the window. They turned around and when they did the pilot pulled out a pistol and shot both of them. On the outside the mechanic was battle with the other Cepheus. Even thought the Drake solider was a better pilot he was caught off guard and had already subtended damage from the explosion of the other Cepheus and the Taurus SX was built for speed. The Taurus speeded toward the enemy and when it got with in a few meters took a sharp turn and when it was beside it unloaded, destroying it.
The patrol ship had taken off when both Cepheuses where destroyed. "Mayday, mayday, I'm under attack near colony X-1397! The enemy has mobile suits!" Said the patrol ship pilot franticly. But the ship didn't get far, it's engines were shot out from under it and brought to a halt. The Drake pilot groaned and looked out the window and screamed. What he saw was mobile suit rumored to have been seen a Gundam, to be more specific the Gundam DeathScythe. With it's beam cloak opened it looked like a demon. It took it's beam scythe and sliced the patrol ship in half.
The Taurus had caught up and was surprised to see the gundam. "Irvine, what are you doing here?" Said the mechanic over the com-system.
"I had heard over the Drake patrol scanner that your ship was pulled over." Said Irvine. "What happened?"
"Our ship broke down and then they found suits , and we had no choice…" Stammered the mechanic.
"Slow down!, lets think this over, did anyone get away?" Said Irvine.
"No that ship was last one." Said the mechanic.
"Let's get out of here, this area will be crawling with patrol ships soon." Said Irvine. Back at colony X-1397 Elizabeth and Jeros just arrived, they had to switch transports so their suits wouldn't be found.
"I don't like our suits being left behind." Said Jeros walking done the exit ramp.
"Don't worry I have an escape route planed out, just in case things get messy." Said Elizabeth. They left the shuttle port and got in to a car.
"Tell me about Irvine Seagill." Said Jeros.
"Well, he was a junker growing up, then he became premier of this colony two years ago." Said Elizabeth. She slowed down because they were heading for a check point.
"What, there shouldn't be a check point here." Said Elizabeth.
"I'll take care of it." Said Jeros. They stopped and the solider saw Jeros and went over to his side of the car. "Is their a problem?"
"There's been reports of mobile suits around the colony, we're checking everyone who's from arrived from other colonies. May I see your identification.?" Said the solider.
Jeros pulled out his identification and handed it to the solider. "Human made mobile suits, I didn't know they had the intelligence to make them." Smirked Jeros.
"You're telling me, there're only good for servants." Said the solider scanning Jeros's ID.
"Yep, this one here, she's not a good driver, but damn can she cook." Said Jeros.
"That rare man, well everything checks out here, have a nice day sir." Said the solider and handed back Jeros's ID.
"You too." Said Jeros. As they drove off Elizabeth gave a dirty look at Jeros.
"That sure can natural." Said Elizabeth.
"When you grow up around Drakes it tends to rub off." Said Jeros. On the other side of the colony Irvine was having a heated discussion with a Drake Official.
"Look Raios, if I knew of any mobile suit factories I would have told you." Said Irvine.
"You have better, or I will implement martial law in order to find these rebels." Said Raios.
"I have been completely loyal since I came into office. You don't have to do that." Said Irvine.
"I don't want to do that either, and I have brought in two divisions from the army to search out the factories. So keep out of their way." Said Raios. He left Irvine's office and in the waiting room was Elizabeth and Jeros. On the way out he looked a Jeros as if he knew him.
"Irvine will see you now miss." Said the secretary. They walk in and greeted Irvine.
"Ah Elizabeth it's good to see you." Said Irvine hugging Elizabeth.
"It's good to see you to and this is Jeros Maximus." Said Elizabeth.
They shuck hands and Irvine asked, "You wouldn't happen to be relate to Alvis Maximus?"
"Yes he was my father, did you know him?" Said Jeros.
"No, but I would have to like to. The only Drake politician who spoke of a peaceful coexistence between Drakes and Humans. It's a shame that he died, you have my condolences. Anyway lets get out of here, I know a great place where we can eat and talk shop." Said Irvine. They left and went to a restaurant there they discussed plans. He handed the specs to Elizabeth and explained it.
"This is the Taurus SX, based on the old design with a few modifications. We wanted to make it as fast as possible but we had to sacrifice it's variable transformation to do that, so are you pleased." Said Irvine.
"Yes how many do you have?" Said Elizabeth.
"Five thousand, but we're going to have to move quickly, there on to us." Said Irvine.
"How fast can you move them?" Asked Jeros.
"Two days." Said Irvine. Jeros and Elizabeth departed and a man followed them.
"You know we're being followed." Said Elizabeth.
"Yeah we're going to have to stick around." Said Jeros. Over the next two days Irvine began to move his entire mobile suit forces and when he thought he was in the clear. His transport ships were nearly in the clear when they were attacked.
"Damage report what happened!" Said Irvine.
"Two ships were destroyed and were already deployed suits sir." Said the pilot.
"I'm going out." Said Irvine. He launched the DeathScythe and head straight into the battle. Slicing his way thought Cepheuses, Irvine tried to cover his ships, but he was out numbered. He thought all was lost until he got some much needed back up. Jeros and his forces arrived just in time to help out Irvine.
"Thought you could use some help." Said Jeros. Quickly they began to clear the way for the transports. The DeathScythe fired it's beam buster shield hitting two Cepheuses and the Eypon cut down three more. There they were, back to back fighting as a team. The Drakes were taken by surprise, Jeros's and Irvine's fighting skills were remarkable. Together they took down many more giving the transports the time they needed to escape.
Fin