September 20,U.C. 0079 Alex who has now begun to experience fame as Zander the Green Demon, has been fighting for months now has been promoted to a LT. And has continued to customize his green Zaku II to maximize it's abilities. However because the color of his Zaku II remains fairly close to that of an average Zaku he has not achieved the fame that many would assume. Still Zander will continue to fight in his custom Zaku and wouldn't dream of changing it's color for the mere purpose of fame.
Aura has also customized her Zaku II as much as an Ensign with great potential would be allowed. She quickly had the color changed to a light blue with a silver lining on certain parts and then raised it's output so that it would be able to carry a Zaku bazooka along with her missile pod attachments on her legs. Aura has also obtained some fame as Aura the Twilight Serenade and she still waits for any news on a boy named Miles who may or may not have joined the Zeon military.
It is early morning and Zander along with Aura have launched from a relatively small submarine outside where the Federations main base of Jaburo is believed to be located. The submarine is only large enough to carry their two mobile suits so they must go by themselves, which didn't bother them much considering their ally often dies due to their inexperience and skill.
"We'll have to let you two out here, any closer and the feddies might notice us. We'll be waiting here for your return." These words came from a Zeon crewmember of the sub.
"Yeah, yeah just open the hatch already so we can get goin!" with that the Zeon soldier in the sub opened the hatch and Zander followed by Aura stepped out in their Zakus and began to head in the direction that Jaburo was believed to be. "Remember Aura this is strictly reconnaissance, if anything starts shooting then that means we've been discovered and that we should head back the best we can."
The two continued to walk through the dense jungle and because their mobile suits were able to blend in so well with the environment, they didn't worry too much about being seen from afar.
"I know, that's why we both have a blinder cracker. Also I don't know how anyone could see or even try to fight us here, I mean it's hard enough to walk through this jungle."
"Well it's not like there aren't clearings around here but we have to go this way to avoid being seen." Zander was having this conversation while his Zaku's eye constantly scanned the area looking for anything while he kept his knuckle shield and customized machine gun up and ready. "Wait! What's that over there? It looks kinda like a gun turret and I'm getting a slight metallic reading form that direction but I can't see anything weird besides that turret."
The two came to a stop and kneeled down. "Hold on let's see if I can see it better." Aura brought her gun up and used the scope to get a better look. "It seems like you're right that's the only thing out of place. Wait a second, I'm getting another metallic reading from far ahead moving closer to us."
"Is it a large group of tanks? Or maybe it's a Big Tray?" Zander's Zaku continued to remain motionless except for it's eye who was looking forward but since he didn't have a scope on his gun, he couldn't get the range that she was getting.
"No it's too big for tanks, and too small for a Big Tray. Maybe it's a stolen Zaku, we've gotten reports of that happening. What if it's something from the Federation's V Project?" Not even a second had passed and they where under fire from the gun turret. "Ahh! They must have sonar or something cause how else would they know that we were here?"
"Crap! I knew that something coming at us meant they knew we were here. it was probably form the eye on one of our Zakus, one of them probably saw it and they've just been acting like they didn't know we were here so we wouldn't run away!" Zander forced his way into a clearing with his shield and opened fire on the turret.
Aura quickly followed using her shield on her shoulder to force her way through and fired a shot which destroyed the turret. "Yeah! Try and shoot us now!" Almost as if she was being made fun of, the target in the distance came into range and began to shoot at her. "Hey! That's not funny." However the angle that she was at allowed the few machine gun shots that actually hit, to hither shield.
"Haha! I have to say, that was pretty funny." Zander moved to the side and pointed his gun ahead, and waited for a clear shot. "Looks like we get to see what's be en coming at us this whole time."
Aura however did not wait for a clear shot and just began to fire where the shots had come from. None were hits however but she did lure the enemy over to where Zander was hiding. "Awww man, not a single hit."
Zander was the first to see what it was and since his mobile suit was so hard to see, he was able to open fire and make a few good hits on it before it realized what was going on. "What the hell? That's a mobile suit and it ain't one of ours!"
"Damn! Where'd he come from?" said the pilot of the Federation mobile suit. "Wait a minute...that emblem, could this be Zander the Green Demon!?! Well if it is I'll just have to kill him and get that promotion I want. Hey Zander prepare to meet your defeat against my GM."
As the Gm pilot said this he lifted up his machine gun and pointed it at Zander. "Not so fast Feddie!" Zander brought up his gun much faster and opened fire and after several rounds he disposed of the GM's shield. Zander then halted his fire and ran towards his opponent who was already firing. All of the shots were guarded and once Zander got close enough he hit the Gm's gun to the side and began firing point blank at the suit's stomach and emptied his gun's remaining rounds. "Looks like you were too slow to fight me!" Zander then jumped back while changing the clips of his gun to avoid the explosion and looked over at Aura wondering why he had gotten no cover fire or backup, no matter how unneeded it would have been.
Just as soon as he looked over he saw the answer and it was that she was fighting a GM of her own and just made the decisive hit against it with her bazooka. "They're good but we're better! Right?"
"You know it!" said Zander as he lifted his gun upwards in victory. However neither of them should have looked over because two brand new GM's were in mid jump and began to fire. "Crap!" and even though Zander was wide open he managed to sidestep which dodged a few of the shots and also the Gm had landed right where he was standing so he had a clear shot. "Now take this!" Zander began to but his opponent dashed to the side threw it's gun down and reached down at it's leg and pulled out a glowing sword. "What the hell is that?!?!" Zander said as he lost his gun to the saber and with the second slash would have lost his life had he not drawn his heat hawk in time.
"So, you're Zander huh? Well that name sounds familiar." Said the unknown Federation pilot as their blades were pushed away from each other. "Well I have to say I'm impressed that not only did you have the power to block my slash but also the speed."
"Why does your voice sound so recognizable? Well it don't matter! Cause now you die!!" Zander's blade came down with great force and although it was guarded, as the two blades were thrown apart Zander hit the GM in the face with his knuckle shield then came down again with his heat hawk cutting off the GM's right arm which was holding the beam saber.
"Damn, you are good but I think you should help your friend, her axe isn't as strong as yours." The pilot clearly needed to buy some time to escape, and it worked because Zander knew that no kill was worth a death.
Aura's heat hawk was too weak to take on the beam saber of a GM and her bazooka was on the ground in two pieces from what had to have been a slash form the saber. "Ahh! My weapon is running low on power, it can't compete with such a weapon. I gotta use my blinder cracker!" Unfortunatly the GM pilot saw her reach for a cracker and quickly cut off her entire left arm and then overpowered her heat hawk because it had not been customized like Zander's had. "Damn it! Try these missiles u bastard!" however the GM was more than ready and guarded the ones on it's left and dodged the ones on it's right and although this destroyed it's shield Aura had nothing left to fight with.
"I have to make it there in time!" said Zander but a gun turret came out of the ground and shot the missile pods in his left leg which then exploded bowing off the bottom half of his leg. "Damn!!" once he hit the ground he fired the missiles in his right leg to destroy the turret but knew that know he would never make it in time to save Aura.
Before the GM could cut through her Zaku it was hit with a missile from above which greatly damaged it's left side. When every pilot there had looked to see what had fired, a dark red Zaku II which wasn't quite the same colors as Char Aznable or Johnny Ridden, came down with it's heat hawk and cut into the GM's pilot seat which of course killed the pilot. "You ok there Aura?"
"Yeah, thanks to you but who are you" said Aura with a look of confusion on her face.
"C'mon you mean to tell me that you don't know?" said the pilot looking at the two of them waiting for an answer as he purposefully kept his vid image off their screens. "It's me, Miles!"
"Hmph, I thought so." Said Zander trying to act like who knew all along when he really had no clue up until then.
"Miles!!! I knew if I stayed around Alex long eno…"
That's Zander!" said Zander while she was in mid sentence.
"Ok, I knew if I stayed with Zander long enough that I would run into you." She said with a grin on her face showing that she was clearly in a good mood. This was of course understandable considering she hadn't seen him for the longest time.
"Yeah it's me now let's get you guys back to base." The both began to help Zander when he said that because it's kind of hard to walk when you only have one leg."
They all managed to make it back to base because they made it to their pick up sub before the enemy could assemble any more units. Once back Zander got news that he would be one of the first to receive a new prototype mobile suit that would only be given to him and Ramba Ral for combat testing in less than a month. Even after knowing this Alex had the repairs begin on his Zaku because he knew that he couldn't just abandon it when he got a new mobile suit. They all began to relax and catch up with each other but Zander is being eaten away by his questions of who was that GM pilot that seemed so familiar and what will this "V project" mean for Zeon. With this he can only hope that his strength holds up in the battles to come.