Chapter 3:The Battle for Earth Begins
February 21,U.C. 0079 Alex, along with several other soldiers arrived on Earth yesterday to act as one of the first waves in the drops meant to take control of Earth. Although Garma Zabi hasn't shown up yet, the first waves of fighters sent to Earth are meant to secure strategically valuable points in order to prepare for Garma's arrival.
Alex set out with his team of himself and two other Zakus including the mysterious young girl who finally decided to launch, but due to her rank she was given a Zaku I. His other ally was piloting a Zaku II, however this pilot was not Mike because after his first battle he wanted to go back home and live the life he had before the war began so he deserted late in the night.
The team of Zakus we're headed towards an enemy base that was not too far from where they had landed. "My first mission on Earth, this should be fun. Plus I finally have a fin on the head of my Zaku and missile launchers on it's legs, so that makes me feel better knowing that I earned it before I made it to Earth."
Then a voice that Alex couldn't recognize said "Hey Alex, you know Miles right?"
Even though Alex didn't know exactly who was talking he kept walking and just replied "Yeah I know him, why? Also, since when did you start talking?"
The girl seemed unprepared to answer but still said "Well before the war I lived with him and I heard about you from him so I figured if I was around you that I might run into him. The reason I hadn't started talking to you until now is because I didn't feel too comfortable around Mike.By the way my names Aura."
"Haha yeah Mike does that to people and I haven't seen or heard from Miles since this war began, and I've heard about you from Miles too. Anyway we're almost there so get ready." Alex said that as they neared the base, which was on flat ground, had three hangers, and several other buildings. The only visible weapons at the time were four large gun turrets. "Ok so here we go. Everybody split up, I'll go down the middle and one of you go left while the other goes right, Let's go!"
Alex in his Zaku began to run forward and started to fire his machine gun which gave away his position but since they had seen him coming a few minutes ago the base began to launch all the tanks they could and also started firing from their turrets. Alex could easily dodge the shots that the turrets fired because he could see them coming from a distance and had more than enough time to dodge, and this also applied to his allies.
Once Alex had gotten within range of the tanks he stopped moving for a moment and fired all the ammo that his missile pods had which took out two buildings, a turret, and countless tanks because they were too close together having just launched. "Is this all? All they can use against us are stupid tanks? This is just sad."
Aura was doing well too, she had just taken out two turrets and about 10 tanks with her bazooka but then took a lot of damage from the tanks that were still left. "I guess after enough shots from tanks hit that they'll be pretty powerful even against a mobile suit."
Just when they thought that they had the enemy on the run Alex's other ally in the Zaku was killed by a large group of cannon fire. "What the hell was that!" Alex's question was soon answered when a Big Tray came into sight. "Crap! Well this did seem a little too easy. I only wish I hadn't used up my missiles on those tanks and buildings. Aura I think you should retreat, you only have a bazooka to fight with and you don't have enough ammo."
"Well I can still give you cover fire and back you up, okay?" she said this as she began to back up while firing.
" Just remember that's your own choice." With that Alex started running to the side while firing his machine gun and once he got behind a building he changed clips. "Now take this!" Alex did the highest jump that his Zaku could do which wasn't much but it would do so he fired until his gun began to overheat at which point his Zaku began to fall. This worked out surprising well, because before he fell the Big Tray fired and Alex fell at such timing that all shots but one which he guarded with his shield and landed back behind the building. "Man that was close but I did a good amount of damage."
However because of Alex's tactics the Big Tray was too distracted and Aura had landed on top of it after making the farthest jump her Zaku could, which was just enough and she fired down at the bridge. "Yeah I did it!"
Alex decided not to mention the large amount of damage he had done because she seemed so happy form the kill. However one turret was still left and destroyed the eye of her Zaku but then Alex quickly reacted and destroyed it with his machine gun. "You okay? The battles over, we've secured this base thanks to you."
"Yeah I'm okay and thanks I did my best." Aura's Zaku stood up as the remaining enemy troops evacuated in trucks because they had nothing left to fight with. "Now what?"
"Now uhhh, I guess we just wait for our allies show up to collect anything that we can use that was left behind. I'll send a message to tell them that we've won."
Alex sent the message and later on when his allies could be seen in the distance he used a signal flare and him and Aura got the repairs they needed and Zeon continued to take control of Earth. This would be the beginning of Zeon"s presence on earth and this presence would continue to grow until a stalemate would be reached which would not change for some time.