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or the Red Alert series
Chapter 7
"Lava's gonna be easy to pick out as long we don't shift it too much."
"This bio-technology's nothin' like anything we've seen before."
"That's because we mostly work with psi-technology and basic mechs. We rarely utilize the powers of bio-tech. Just be careful with the uh, skin."
Xack watched the SCVs repair Evagelion 01's interior and Dark-Psygon's systems with a look of no surprise on his face. He advanced out of NERV's launch bay and found his way back to main room where he joined Gerad and Raynor in a surveillance frenzy for the slow object that was detected earlier.
The commander of the Various called for Gerad and smirked at his Second in Command.
"Gerad, I'm allowing you to go with our classmates to Okinawa, and don't bother asking if we'll be okay without you. You should worry about yourself, we already have a small Terran outpost in the area so you'll be able to relax, but you may be called upon for duties. Otherwise, we have a jeep outside ready to transport you to the airport... Have a good time."
The former colony civilian of CL194 shook hands with his commander and immediatly accepted the vacation.
"I'll be back within the week of next."
In the next hour, Gerad had all of his things packed and left the location. Nukeleton was being tied up with wires so a cluster of shuttles could carry it to the Okinawa outpost.
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Getting Gendo to agree to accept the Various into the base was not an easy task, Xack and Raynor had to agree to several conditions before NERV even allowed the SCVs and Medics to begin work on repairing Evangelion Unit 01.
The following are the conditions: 1. Will work at gun-point 2. No data of the Evangelions shall be collected
3. Will remain at NERV until questioning has been completed and recorded
Such requirements were a bit hard to comply with, but they agreed in the end. But it wasn't likely that Xack was about to hand over the location of the Various base just yet to Gendo. He was planning to give most of the information to Shinji and Asuka, just Shinji if she is not brought to the alley.
As for the questioning Xack and Raynor would have to be exposed to a bit later, they had both agreed to just shut up during any questions that relate to locating their base. The items they had agreed to share were pretty much everythingelse they wanted to know.
The one question Patchin had to ask Gendo was, "Why did you order Rei to shoot me?"
Commander Ikari responded saying, "It was... a test."
Xack couldn't get anythingelse out of the NERV commander about that scenario.
Jim had already been questioned by Ayanami about goals and the armory. Much of the armory didn't make sense to the NERV staff, Psi Blades, GunSnipers, Dragon forms??? They originally planned to demand the TRUE weapons but then decided to let it go for now. The Various' goals was a lot easier to piece together, OZ was the enemy to them, nothing but a mass of terrorists. The unusual thing was that after every fight, the Various took any survivors and shipped them off to their homelands and families, strange behaviour for a batch of even 'stranger' people and aliens.
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Treize arrived in an expansive clearing devoid of trees, but with tall grass and small shrubs with a note saying that SEELE wanted to speak with him. He had no idea what the committe of SEELE looked like, so he didn't know what kind of transportation they used in this particular dimension. Would it be a helicopter? On foot? A car was not likely to be used in such a tranquil area.
Then a strange wind began to pick up and the field turned blue and everything disappeared. Treize did not flinch but was a little freaked out by the sudden change of background. All 12 SEELE monoliths appeared around the head of OZ in their circular manner, it was a few moments of silence before Treize began the conversation. "I never expected the SEELE group to be made of such... unusual members."
Number 4 spoke, "We suggest you explain yourself Khushrenada. About why you and your squad of Mobile Dolls couldn't defeat the 8th Angel, when a lone robot that is not on your payroll could."
Numbers 5 had it's say, "Perhaps we should dispose of you and hire the ones who defeated Sandalphon."
Treize assured the twelve that OZ was completely competent for work such as this "We need a little more time to adjust to this area." he claimed.
10 replied, "We will give you another chance Treize, but if you cannot prove yourself come the next angel attack, you know what we'll do to you."
"I understand completely." said Treize with no hesitation.
12 spoke, "In the meanwhile, we will give you the nessacary funds to repair the west wing of your Tokyo-2 base. From the reports, you have suffered greatly from something."
"My sources confirm what attacked my main base of operations was an agent of the 'Various', the group that's been opposing OZ since a little after the campaign started. But the assault seemed... out of conduct with the rest of the organization. We suspect he or she has defected." explained Treize.
1 made the final words, "Than perhaps this is a chance to obtain your position amongst this world..."
The monoliths disappeared and the grassy clearing appeared once again, leaving Treize to contemplate on his situation. "Perhaps it's time to release operation 'enemies are allies'."
Khushrenada returned to his base and approached a console with several buttons that had a cage etched on it with numbers. The buttons varied in size depending on how large the cage was. Treize punched a small circle with 4 on it.
Whatever had come out of the dimunitive cage scurried to the outside and through a chip implanted within it, directed itself to a cannon (primitive ain't it?) and launched itself out of it, landing right next to Tokyo-3. From there, it turned into a pulsating patch within the ground, it had burrowed underground about 4 miles and popped into a cave where it spawned... a Hatchery...
A second agent approached Geofront with an extremely slow speed. An eblem of a multi-color swirl was faded but still recognizable over the Yuri eblem. The mass steadily heading towards NERV was white and shaped like a stealth bomber.
"Must fight for Yuri..." muttered a voice.
Next to the pilot was a Yuri Clone whispering instructions into his ear, maintaining a control over the bleached haired pilot's mind.
"That's it. Move towards the opposing one, find the Various commander and kill him, kill him and the group goes with it. The Zero-System imbedded among this material will aid you in battle and you will win..." hissed the clone of the maniacal bastard.
"...yes..."
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"All done. That wasn't an easy job."
"Good. Get to work on the Dark-Psygon, the Medics will take over now."
"Yes sir!"
Evangelion Unit 01 had it's systems repaired, now the organic bits were getting worked on by Terran Medics. A rather quick 4 hours had passed since The Various had blown NERV's defenses to smithereens. A small batch of G.I.s and Flak Traks had arrived to protect NERV until the SCVs had the time to set up some Sentry Guns and Missile Turrets. Xack was being called for questioning now, being interrogated by Asuka again.
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"For the last time, where is the base located?"
"I'm not telling NERV anything about the base's area! That's for Shinji to know if he agrees."
The pilot of Unit 02 raised an eyebrow and asked, "What did you tell Baka- Shinji?"
Xack sneered in Asuka's face, "Why don't you ask him yourself?" He proceeded to fold his arms across his chest and cross his legs. His face smirked and seemed to dare Asuka to try and ask that again.
Instead she frowned, put her hands on her hips and was about to ask where the base was again with an added threat, when from up above Geofront came a bomb.
BLAM!!!
Xack instantly knew who dropped the bomb.
"It's Keagan!"
"What? How do you know that from one assault?" asked Asuka.
"From the intensity of the bomb." replied Xack "Now I reccomend that you get in some sort of shelter and lay low."
"You can't order me around."
#All Evangelion pilots, suit up and get your butts down to the launch bay!#
"That can." Xack simply said.
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In the main deck, the screen showed a cloud white mass above NERV. Geofront lay below it with 2 layers blown clear off it! Another bomb flew out of the bottom of the mass and blasted another layer into pieces.
"Damn! Is he mad?!" screeched Xack.
"At this rate, he'll penetrate NERV in a matter of minutes." informed Hyuga.
Xack quickly thought to himself, he turned toward the launch bay and ordered an SCV to send for the High-Psygon.
The SCV named Margun was wide eyed in surprise and asked if Xack was crazy or not.
"I'm not crazy," responded Xack "but I have a plan. Send the High-Psygon to these coordinates and I'll get the Dark-Psygon to the exact same area."
"But not all the systems function! Only 30 percent of it's circuits have been fully repaired!" protested Margun.
"I know, but if my hypothesis is correct, your monthly vacation begins early." said Xack with a serious look on his face.
"... ... Oh all right." Margun gave in and opened the cockpit to the Dark- Psygon. "Commander, HQ says that ETA of the High-Psygon's arrival at specified coordinates is about 3 minutes."
"Good. The sooner the better, make it two minutes by activating the thrusters."
"Yes sir."
Xack made a final contact to NERV, he patched in through his com-link.
**Could someone open the launch bay doors?**
**What about our agreement? Staying here until all questioning has been done?**
**To hell with them! Many things are far more important than such conditions. Besides, if we can't stop Keagan from destroying NERV, why bother with the questioning?**
Fuyutsuki took no hesitation after Xack responded and gave the order for the Dark-Psygon to launch. He was about to send the Evangelion pilots as well but, **NO! Keep them back!** yelled Xack over the com-link.
**Why?**
**Because of Lockdown! If the EVAs get lockdowned, all machinery will fail and be disabled for several minutes! If any of that aura I sensed before I was captured the second time was real-**
"Then the EVAs will go beserk, endangering the pilot's lives." finished Misato.
**If you call it that...** Xack quietly said. **In other words, don't launch the Evangelions, no matter what situation I'm in.**
And at those words, the Dark-Psygon flew off into the air and started running along the streets of Tokyo-3 as soon it hit the ground. It was spotted immediatly by Keagan who was just dropping a third bomb onto Geofront.
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Within the cockpit of the Lockman in it's bird form, both the Yuri Clone and Keagan screeched at the same time, "YOU FOOL!!!!"
Keagan began to chase Xack, a Mobile Suit race, and whoever loses gets to die or be spared.
{Damn.} thought Xack as he dodged the Lockman's laser blasts swiftly. {Time to kick it up a notch.}
The Dark-Psygon switched on the thrusters and... Putt putt. {Ah, hell!}
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Regardless of everything Xack had said, Gendo had ordered that all three Evangelions be launched. This action was called for in order to see the Various commander's potential on the battlefield.
**Remember, only watch him.**
**Hai...**
**Hai!**
**musn't run away...**
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{Why isn't he locking my Mobile Suit? He could kill me easier this way. Then again, why is he after me in the first place?}
Xack had no time to examine the aura within the white bomber, as he had to sustain complete focus on whipping around on the ground to avoid any further damage to the Dark-Psygon. He was near the rendezvous point and High-Psygon was waiting there. He just had to get past one more street. That's when he saw them, a civilian mother and her child gawk-eyed at the Dark-Psygon, and a bomb headed straight for Dark-Psygon's head. {They will surely be caught in the blast.} thought Xack. He made no reaction and let the bomb come toward him. **Run!** screamed the external speakers on the black and blue robot. But they didn't run, they just stood helplessly on the pavement.
Too late anyway, the bomb had struck the target's hand that had been stretched toward the sky to catch the bomb.
From a distance, Asuka found this foolish, Rei was confused, Shinji was at a stand still, all three awaited the mushroom cloud to follow. But none came.
Xack had contained the explosive in his plasma shield at the cost of 800 points of shield and much of the Dark-Psygon's parts. Both arms, elbow down were torn apart, the head's circuitry was completely exposed, and the right leg was completely missing. The Dark-Psygon struggled to keep standing and then collapsed to the ground with a dull thud on the side of it's head
The child and mother escaped safely, thanking the mysterious bot in their minds.
Within the cockpit, Xack pulled down the bottom half of his Dark Templar mask and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and closed his eyes, {Your welcome... Now to test my theory.} Xack emitted psychic waves at the High-Psygon, focusing the remainder of his strength...
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"Far too easy." muttered the currently blank eyed pilot and the Yuri Clone. Lockman cocked it's gun and layed a finger upon the trigger, poised to launch a plasma assault. "Heh. heh. Hm? ARGH!"
The High-Psygon rammed the Lockman making it spin uncontrollaby in the air. The Lockman flipped to robot mode in mid-air and recovered quickly, raising it's gun again ready to lockdown the yellow Mobile Suit. That's when it happened... Both Psygon's glowed with their respective auras, blue and red (like both Archon kinds), and launched the auras at each other. The auras exchanged and the Psygon's were now emitting one another's aura. Then the ground around (JUST around, as in about the area of which their feet cover) the Mobile Suits began to crack and sunk into the ground as beams of red and blue light spewed out toward each other and made contact. A massive purple entity emerged from the center of the light and temporarily blinded everyone in the vicinity of Tokyo-3 and a little bit beyond.
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Just before the Yuri Clone opened his eyes, he shook a little and thought to himself, {It couldn't be? Not that...} He opened his eyes and saw what he feared to happen. This Mobile Suit was like none other, though it's structure was similar to a Dark Archon's, it had a slightly smaller head and High Archon (just the normal Archon) eyes. It was not in a huge sphere like Archons, but just bathing in a shallow aura covering, a purple one. The energy made up the limbs of the Archgon as well. It's head was in the exact same shape as Xack's, even the hair was the same.
A crude mouth appeared and began speaking to the Lockman pointing one of it's right hand fingers at the Lockman, it's voice was rumbly like an Archon's but mixed with a Dark Archon's and Xack's voice, making for a rather freakish tone.
"Yuri, you dare defile the mind of one of your traitors? Even after he chose to come to our side?"
"I indeed dare, all will fall to Yuri and none shall turn from me."
"He had the strength to defy you because he didn't want to work for a madman who didn't pay him!"
"Ah, but now his mind is weak from using this Mobile Suit, and I intend to use this for my own ends. And it's not like you payed him... Did you now?"
"Every third Friday of the month, but we need to save resources, so he doesn't get payed as much." said Xack folding the Archgon's arms across it's chest.
"What use do you have for a man who cares for nothing but himself?"
"To ensure that you don't use him!" The Archgon charged forward with an energy fist and missed striking the Lockman even though he changed fists at the last second. "What the?!"
The Yuri Clone tsked at Xack, "Did you really think that we'd come here unprepared? OZ has released the Lockman's true powers through the Zero System."
Xack was surprised to hear this and remembered the time when the Lockman became a finished model.
@Flashback.com
Xack: So it's finally completed... The LM-001.
SCV: This should hold Keagan over until next month's paycheck.
Xack (uneasily): We did solve that matter with that program didn't we?
SCV: We couldn't delete it, but as long as the pilot doesn't lose control over the Lockman the Zero System won't kick in.
Xack: Good, we don't want a renegade on our hands. A colony was lost when the Zero System first surfaced in Treize's homedimension. Even though we didn't witness it, Dr. J's word is good enough for me.
SCV: Do you think 'he'll' try to take it?
Xack: Very likely.
Flashback.com log off
"How?" was all Xack could say afterwards.
Suddenly, #UNIT 02 and 00, ENGAGE BOTH TARGETS!#
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"Captain Katsuragi! What are you doing?!" yelled Fuyutsuki.
Misato turned to face him, presenting a pair of blank eyes.
Fuyutsuki gasped briefly before he felt his mind slip away as well.
-_-_
Chapter 7
"Lava's gonna be easy to pick out as long we don't shift it too much."
"This bio-technology's nothin' like anything we've seen before."
"That's because we mostly work with psi-technology and basic mechs. We rarely utilize the powers of bio-tech. Just be careful with the uh, skin."
Xack watched the SCVs repair Evagelion 01's interior and Dark-Psygon's systems with a look of no surprise on his face. He advanced out of NERV's launch bay and found his way back to main room where he joined Gerad and Raynor in a surveillance frenzy for the slow object that was detected earlier.
The commander of the Various called for Gerad and smirked at his Second in Command.
"Gerad, I'm allowing you to go with our classmates to Okinawa, and don't bother asking if we'll be okay without you. You should worry about yourself, we already have a small Terran outpost in the area so you'll be able to relax, but you may be called upon for duties. Otherwise, we have a jeep outside ready to transport you to the airport... Have a good time."
The former colony civilian of CL194 shook hands with his commander and immediatly accepted the vacation.
"I'll be back within the week of next."
In the next hour, Gerad had all of his things packed and left the location. Nukeleton was being tied up with wires so a cluster of shuttles could carry it to the Okinawa outpost.
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Getting Gendo to agree to accept the Various into the base was not an easy task, Xack and Raynor had to agree to several conditions before NERV even allowed the SCVs and Medics to begin work on repairing Evangelion Unit 01.
The following are the conditions: 1. Will work at gun-point 2. No data of the Evangelions shall be collected
3. Will remain at NERV until questioning has been completed and recorded
Such requirements were a bit hard to comply with, but they agreed in the end. But it wasn't likely that Xack was about to hand over the location of the Various base just yet to Gendo. He was planning to give most of the information to Shinji and Asuka, just Shinji if she is not brought to the alley.
As for the questioning Xack and Raynor would have to be exposed to a bit later, they had both agreed to just shut up during any questions that relate to locating their base. The items they had agreed to share were pretty much everythingelse they wanted to know.
The one question Patchin had to ask Gendo was, "Why did you order Rei to shoot me?"
Commander Ikari responded saying, "It was... a test."
Xack couldn't get anythingelse out of the NERV commander about that scenario.
Jim had already been questioned by Ayanami about goals and the armory. Much of the armory didn't make sense to the NERV staff, Psi Blades, GunSnipers, Dragon forms??? They originally planned to demand the TRUE weapons but then decided to let it go for now. The Various' goals was a lot easier to piece together, OZ was the enemy to them, nothing but a mass of terrorists. The unusual thing was that after every fight, the Various took any survivors and shipped them off to their homelands and families, strange behaviour for a batch of even 'stranger' people and aliens.
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Treize arrived in an expansive clearing devoid of trees, but with tall grass and small shrubs with a note saying that SEELE wanted to speak with him. He had no idea what the committe of SEELE looked like, so he didn't know what kind of transportation they used in this particular dimension. Would it be a helicopter? On foot? A car was not likely to be used in such a tranquil area.
Then a strange wind began to pick up and the field turned blue and everything disappeared. Treize did not flinch but was a little freaked out by the sudden change of background. All 12 SEELE monoliths appeared around the head of OZ in their circular manner, it was a few moments of silence before Treize began the conversation. "I never expected the SEELE group to be made of such... unusual members."
Number 4 spoke, "We suggest you explain yourself Khushrenada. About why you and your squad of Mobile Dolls couldn't defeat the 8th Angel, when a lone robot that is not on your payroll could."
Numbers 5 had it's say, "Perhaps we should dispose of you and hire the ones who defeated Sandalphon."
Treize assured the twelve that OZ was completely competent for work such as this "We need a little more time to adjust to this area." he claimed.
10 replied, "We will give you another chance Treize, but if you cannot prove yourself come the next angel attack, you know what we'll do to you."
"I understand completely." said Treize with no hesitation.
12 spoke, "In the meanwhile, we will give you the nessacary funds to repair the west wing of your Tokyo-2 base. From the reports, you have suffered greatly from something."
"My sources confirm what attacked my main base of operations was an agent of the 'Various', the group that's been opposing OZ since a little after the campaign started. But the assault seemed... out of conduct with the rest of the organization. We suspect he or she has defected." explained Treize.
1 made the final words, "Than perhaps this is a chance to obtain your position amongst this world..."
The monoliths disappeared and the grassy clearing appeared once again, leaving Treize to contemplate on his situation. "Perhaps it's time to release operation 'enemies are allies'."
Khushrenada returned to his base and approached a console with several buttons that had a cage etched on it with numbers. The buttons varied in size depending on how large the cage was. Treize punched a small circle with 4 on it.
Whatever had come out of the dimunitive cage scurried to the outside and through a chip implanted within it, directed itself to a cannon (primitive ain't it?) and launched itself out of it, landing right next to Tokyo-3. From there, it turned into a pulsating patch within the ground, it had burrowed underground about 4 miles and popped into a cave where it spawned... a Hatchery...
A second agent approached Geofront with an extremely slow speed. An eblem of a multi-color swirl was faded but still recognizable over the Yuri eblem. The mass steadily heading towards NERV was white and shaped like a stealth bomber.
"Must fight for Yuri..." muttered a voice.
Next to the pilot was a Yuri Clone whispering instructions into his ear, maintaining a control over the bleached haired pilot's mind.
"That's it. Move towards the opposing one, find the Various commander and kill him, kill him and the group goes with it. The Zero-System imbedded among this material will aid you in battle and you will win..." hissed the clone of the maniacal bastard.
"...yes..."
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"All done. That wasn't an easy job."
"Good. Get to work on the Dark-Psygon, the Medics will take over now."
"Yes sir!"
Evangelion Unit 01 had it's systems repaired, now the organic bits were getting worked on by Terran Medics. A rather quick 4 hours had passed since The Various had blown NERV's defenses to smithereens. A small batch of G.I.s and Flak Traks had arrived to protect NERV until the SCVs had the time to set up some Sentry Guns and Missile Turrets. Xack was being called for questioning now, being interrogated by Asuka again.
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"For the last time, where is the base located?"
"I'm not telling NERV anything about the base's area! That's for Shinji to know if he agrees."
The pilot of Unit 02 raised an eyebrow and asked, "What did you tell Baka- Shinji?"
Xack sneered in Asuka's face, "Why don't you ask him yourself?" He proceeded to fold his arms across his chest and cross his legs. His face smirked and seemed to dare Asuka to try and ask that again.
Instead she frowned, put her hands on her hips and was about to ask where the base was again with an added threat, when from up above Geofront came a bomb.
BLAM!!!
Xack instantly knew who dropped the bomb.
"It's Keagan!"
"What? How do you know that from one assault?" asked Asuka.
"From the intensity of the bomb." replied Xack "Now I reccomend that you get in some sort of shelter and lay low."
"You can't order me around."
#All Evangelion pilots, suit up and get your butts down to the launch bay!#
"That can." Xack simply said.
=================================
In the main deck, the screen showed a cloud white mass above NERV. Geofront lay below it with 2 layers blown clear off it! Another bomb flew out of the bottom of the mass and blasted another layer into pieces.
"Damn! Is he mad?!" screeched Xack.
"At this rate, he'll penetrate NERV in a matter of minutes." informed Hyuga.
Xack quickly thought to himself, he turned toward the launch bay and ordered an SCV to send for the High-Psygon.
The SCV named Margun was wide eyed in surprise and asked if Xack was crazy or not.
"I'm not crazy," responded Xack "but I have a plan. Send the High-Psygon to these coordinates and I'll get the Dark-Psygon to the exact same area."
"But not all the systems function! Only 30 percent of it's circuits have been fully repaired!" protested Margun.
"I know, but if my hypothesis is correct, your monthly vacation begins early." said Xack with a serious look on his face.
"... ... Oh all right." Margun gave in and opened the cockpit to the Dark- Psygon. "Commander, HQ says that ETA of the High-Psygon's arrival at specified coordinates is about 3 minutes."
"Good. The sooner the better, make it two minutes by activating the thrusters."
"Yes sir."
Xack made a final contact to NERV, he patched in through his com-link.
**Could someone open the launch bay doors?**
**What about our agreement? Staying here until all questioning has been done?**
**To hell with them! Many things are far more important than such conditions. Besides, if we can't stop Keagan from destroying NERV, why bother with the questioning?**
Fuyutsuki took no hesitation after Xack responded and gave the order for the Dark-Psygon to launch. He was about to send the Evangelion pilots as well but, **NO! Keep them back!** yelled Xack over the com-link.
**Why?**
**Because of Lockdown! If the EVAs get lockdowned, all machinery will fail and be disabled for several minutes! If any of that aura I sensed before I was captured the second time was real-**
"Then the EVAs will go beserk, endangering the pilot's lives." finished Misato.
**If you call it that...** Xack quietly said. **In other words, don't launch the Evangelions, no matter what situation I'm in.**
And at those words, the Dark-Psygon flew off into the air and started running along the streets of Tokyo-3 as soon it hit the ground. It was spotted immediatly by Keagan who was just dropping a third bomb onto Geofront.
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Within the cockpit of the Lockman in it's bird form, both the Yuri Clone and Keagan screeched at the same time, "YOU FOOL!!!!"
Keagan began to chase Xack, a Mobile Suit race, and whoever loses gets to die or be spared.
{Damn.} thought Xack as he dodged the Lockman's laser blasts swiftly. {Time to kick it up a notch.}
The Dark-Psygon switched on the thrusters and... Putt putt. {Ah, hell!}
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Regardless of everything Xack had said, Gendo had ordered that all three Evangelions be launched. This action was called for in order to see the Various commander's potential on the battlefield.
**Remember, only watch him.**
**Hai...**
**Hai!**
**musn't run away...**
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{Why isn't he locking my Mobile Suit? He could kill me easier this way. Then again, why is he after me in the first place?}
Xack had no time to examine the aura within the white bomber, as he had to sustain complete focus on whipping around on the ground to avoid any further damage to the Dark-Psygon. He was near the rendezvous point and High-Psygon was waiting there. He just had to get past one more street. That's when he saw them, a civilian mother and her child gawk-eyed at the Dark-Psygon, and a bomb headed straight for Dark-Psygon's head. {They will surely be caught in the blast.} thought Xack. He made no reaction and let the bomb come toward him. **Run!** screamed the external speakers on the black and blue robot. But they didn't run, they just stood helplessly on the pavement.
Too late anyway, the bomb had struck the target's hand that had been stretched toward the sky to catch the bomb.
From a distance, Asuka found this foolish, Rei was confused, Shinji was at a stand still, all three awaited the mushroom cloud to follow. But none came.
Xack had contained the explosive in his plasma shield at the cost of 800 points of shield and much of the Dark-Psygon's parts. Both arms, elbow down were torn apart, the head's circuitry was completely exposed, and the right leg was completely missing. The Dark-Psygon struggled to keep standing and then collapsed to the ground with a dull thud on the side of it's head
The child and mother escaped safely, thanking the mysterious bot in their minds.
Within the cockpit, Xack pulled down the bottom half of his Dark Templar mask and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and closed his eyes, {Your welcome... Now to test my theory.} Xack emitted psychic waves at the High-Psygon, focusing the remainder of his strength...
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"Far too easy." muttered the currently blank eyed pilot and the Yuri Clone. Lockman cocked it's gun and layed a finger upon the trigger, poised to launch a plasma assault. "Heh. heh. Hm? ARGH!"
The High-Psygon rammed the Lockman making it spin uncontrollaby in the air. The Lockman flipped to robot mode in mid-air and recovered quickly, raising it's gun again ready to lockdown the yellow Mobile Suit. That's when it happened... Both Psygon's glowed with their respective auras, blue and red (like both Archon kinds), and launched the auras at each other. The auras exchanged and the Psygon's were now emitting one another's aura. Then the ground around (JUST around, as in about the area of which their feet cover) the Mobile Suits began to crack and sunk into the ground as beams of red and blue light spewed out toward each other and made contact. A massive purple entity emerged from the center of the light and temporarily blinded everyone in the vicinity of Tokyo-3 and a little bit beyond.
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Just before the Yuri Clone opened his eyes, he shook a little and thought to himself, {It couldn't be? Not that...} He opened his eyes and saw what he feared to happen. This Mobile Suit was like none other, though it's structure was similar to a Dark Archon's, it had a slightly smaller head and High Archon (just the normal Archon) eyes. It was not in a huge sphere like Archons, but just bathing in a shallow aura covering, a purple one. The energy made up the limbs of the Archgon as well. It's head was in the exact same shape as Xack's, even the hair was the same.
A crude mouth appeared and began speaking to the Lockman pointing one of it's right hand fingers at the Lockman, it's voice was rumbly like an Archon's but mixed with a Dark Archon's and Xack's voice, making for a rather freakish tone.
"Yuri, you dare defile the mind of one of your traitors? Even after he chose to come to our side?"
"I indeed dare, all will fall to Yuri and none shall turn from me."
"He had the strength to defy you because he didn't want to work for a madman who didn't pay him!"
"Ah, but now his mind is weak from using this Mobile Suit, and I intend to use this for my own ends. And it's not like you payed him... Did you now?"
"Every third Friday of the month, but we need to save resources, so he doesn't get payed as much." said Xack folding the Archgon's arms across it's chest.
"What use do you have for a man who cares for nothing but himself?"
"To ensure that you don't use him!" The Archgon charged forward with an energy fist and missed striking the Lockman even though he changed fists at the last second. "What the?!"
The Yuri Clone tsked at Xack, "Did you really think that we'd come here unprepared? OZ has released the Lockman's true powers through the Zero System."
Xack was surprised to hear this and remembered the time when the Lockman became a finished model.
@Flashback.com
Xack: So it's finally completed... The LM-001.
SCV: This should hold Keagan over until next month's paycheck.
Xack (uneasily): We did solve that matter with that program didn't we?
SCV: We couldn't delete it, but as long as the pilot doesn't lose control over the Lockman the Zero System won't kick in.
Xack: Good, we don't want a renegade on our hands. A colony was lost when the Zero System first surfaced in Treize's homedimension. Even though we didn't witness it, Dr. J's word is good enough for me.
SCV: Do you think 'he'll' try to take it?
Xack: Very likely.
Flashback.com log off
"How?" was all Xack could say afterwards.
Suddenly, #UNIT 02 and 00, ENGAGE BOTH TARGETS!#
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"Captain Katsuragi! What are you doing?!" yelled Fuyutsuki.
Misato turned to face him, presenting a pair of blank eyes.
Fuyutsuki gasped briefly before he felt his mind slip away as well.
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