Gundam-Soldiers
Side Story
The Earth Campaign
The five Gundams' actions were a direct reflection of the will of all the colonies. The Gundams were Mobile Suits created to deal with the threat caused to the colonies by OZ, a secret organization hidden inside the Alliance armed forces. After Colony 195... OZ finally emerged as the leading force in history. OZ's leader Trieze Kushurenada carried out massive operations to devastate and take over the Alliance armed forces. Having been tricked into the confrontation, bloody battles between OZ and the colonies' five Mobile Suits causes the Earth to shutter violently...
We see Heero out of his suit and hold the self-destruct button.
"Mission...accepted," Heero said to himself and press the button, which blew up his suit and he landed on the ground with a dead look on his face.
Proving what we are
At the battlefield of where Wing blew up. Kai walks up to Zechs, who was with Noin and Joyce.
"We've recovered as many pieces as possible, but it seems to have been irreparable damaged." Kai reported
"I'm sure they are. It self-destructed."
"Even the Gundam can eventually become just a piece of scrap metal. Well, a piece of Gundanium alloy, actually." Noin said
"This Mobile Suit is a derivative of Tallgeese. In other words, the technologies used for Tallgeese are basically applicable to this machine too."
"Zechs..."
"Noin, would you mind if I took this Gundam to Lake Victoria Base?"
"Are you going to try to fix it?"
"Yes," Zechs replied as he picks up a piece of Wing
"Why bother? Kai asked
"Perhaps I'm just preoccupied with that pilot."
"But the Gundam pilot died in the explosion, didn't he?"
"I don't feel it though. I know it's hard to believe that one could have survived such a massive explosion. But I honestly hope he had survived it. As fellow soldier who pilots Mobile Suits, I hope he had survived so he could come back for a rematch..."
Some time later at an OZ base, Zechs test himself on the Tallgeese. His carrier was in high altitude.
"Tallgeese, ready for descent." one of the pilots said
"Col. Zechs, there is turbulence, so watch out." the co-pilot said
"Tallgeese, weapons are functional. I'm ready for descent."
"Existing in ten seconds, we'll begin launch. Five, four, three, two, one... Launch!
Tallgeese dropped from the carrier and freefall.
At ground level, Kai watched.
"What an amazing machine..." he said
At the base, they spotted him on their screens.
"Col. Zechs, your Mobile Suit is in radar range. You can begin acceleration. Col. Zechs, Col. Zechs? Are you OK?" the base commander asked
"Yes, I can hear you. I'm going to start the test."
Tallgeese's thrusters turned on and he regain altitude and stop falling. At the base, large missiles were targeting him.
"Col. Zechs, we've already locked on the test missiles and are ready to begin firing on the Tallgeese."
"Alright, fire them!"
"Are you sure?"
"That's what this Mobile Suit is demanding!"
"Tallgeese is accelerating."
"Alright, launch them!" the commander ordered and the missiles flew toward the Tallgeese.
The Tallgeese readies it's beam cannon and fired a series of beams at the groups of missiles and destroyed them. He then dropped to ground level and saw Kai's Sazabi.
"Ready for close quarter combat testing?!" Kai shouted to Zechs.
"Ready when you are, Kai!"
"Let's see what you truly are capable of, Zechs!" Kai charged at Zechs and attacked with his saber.
Zechs dodged the attack and uses his left hand to hold his saber, and parries with Kai. Then, jumps back and fired some shots at him. Kai dodged the shots and fired back with his shot rifle. Then, Kai took out another saber and attacks with two. Zechs defends and counterattacks, knocking one away. Kai backs off and strafes left and right. Zechs then got a lock and first at Kai. But Kai left go of his shield and then blast hit the shield, which, before it was knocked down, launched its load of micro missiles at Zechs. Some hit, but the rest missed. Zechs and Kai then charged at each other and clashed one more time.
"....Alright, I think that's enough," Zechs said. Kai then stopped and powered down. "You're pretty good at close combat Kai."
"Thanks, you're not bad as well, you truly live up to your name, Zechs." Kai looks at Zechs for a moment and said in his head, "This monster completely captivates him."
Later, the Tallgeese was being stored in the hanger area. Zechs looks at it.
"It's already perfect." an engineer said
"The super burner's response is different from its design specifications."
"But if we follow the design plans then flight operations won't perform well."
"I don't care. A good pilot will fly it successfully regardless."
"Yes, sir," the engineer leaves.
Kai then walks up to him.
"What are you trying to prove here...."
"To test the limits...."
"Be careful Zechs...testing the limits can be deadly...."
Elsewhere, at an Alliance base, it was all quiet in the night. The people there were just starting to relax. But then, in the water, several torpedoes race across the water and then hit the ports and harbors of the base. It was a single Cancer unit, firing his torpedoes again. At the base, it was hell.
"General, our ships have been destroyed by enemy fire from the water. We are also being attacked from the air!" A soldier reported.
Back with the Cancer unit.
"This is Red Cancer--I broke through the line of defense. I'm going to attack the advance guard."
In the air, a single Aries attacks and skillfully dodges all the shots thrown at him.
"This is Blue Angel, roger that. Don't let your guard down, Alex."
"Those words are not for me, Mueller!"
"All advanced guard are destroyed!" another soldier reported
"How many Mobile Suits are there?"
"Model signals confirmed! Cancer and Aries, one of each!"
"That can't be, just two Suits attacking us alone?"
Then, Alex aims up out of the water and fires water to ground missiles. The missiles popped from the water and down and explode on their targets.
"The defensive team has been destroyed! Enemy Suits are still undamaged!"
"A mixture of squadrons can't defend against OZ?!"
Alex and Mueller stood down as the base was surrendering to them.
"Our entire base is going to lay down its arms--we are getting ready to surrender to OZ--I want to ask you to stop your attack." The general said to Alex
"Surrender? You've misunderstood our mission." Alex replied
"What?!"
"This is called an execution!" Alex shouted as he fired his missiles at the damaged Alliance base and soldiers that were already wounded and tired.
The Aries also continues to fire its rifle and blows up everything.
"You are poor relics of the past. Let this new age baptized you all!" he fires an kills many more on the ground indiscrimitely.
"Stop! This is not a fight, it's a massacre!" the general shouted
"We've already told you--this is an execution." Mueller said and blasted the command center into dust. Then, he laughs sinisterly.
"You laugh too much, Mueller." Alex said
The next day, Alex and Mueller were heading toward Lake Victoria.
"Lake Victoria base, such sweet memories--I wonder if our Instructor Noin is doing okay." Mueller said
"We'll never be anything but children in her eyes, but I want her to see our improved skills."
"Alex, sir. We can contact Lake Victoria base now." the pilot of their transport said
"OK, this is Northeast Africa Corps, Samaria battle group, 33rd independent army, Captain Alex. Is Lt. Noin still there?"
Kai replied and his face pops up on the screen.
"This is Major Kai, welcome, but Lt Col. Noin is currently on a mission in Moscow."
"Moscow? Is she with Lady Une?"
"I don't know, that's her personal business."
"...Alright, then, we're going to attack Captain Mokarijuin of the old Alliance government. We need to resupply. We'd like permission to land."
Later, Kai, Alex and Mueller talks.
"Why are there no army personnel available for our next battle?! When did this base send out all of its Mobile Suits?!" Mueller shouted as he was upset with this.
"Noin authorized it herself." Kai replied calmly, "There is no one left and barely any Suits left."
"Are you sure about that? I think Col. Zechs had something to do with this--I heard that Col. Zechs has her running all kinds of strange errands for him."
"That may be true, but Noin's trip is still her private business."
"Why do you like Col Zechs so much? He always gets his men killed."
"We are all loyal men who serve under him," Kai somehow manages to said in respect to Zechs.
"That's stupid, you should obey only Trieze--Instructor Noin taught us that we should fight only for the dreams of His Excellency."
"It's OK, Mueller, don't waste your time on him."
"But..."
"Let's go gather up some men."
"I already told you...there are no experienced personnel available."
"...what about you.....and Zechs Marquise is supposedly excellent."
Elsewhere, Zechs and an engineer studies the battle that he and Heero had.
"If you check this data with the basic performance of 01's wreck, you can determine the skill of the pilot in the suit."
"How was the wreck?"
"It was completely destroyed. The self-destruct system of 01 worked very well."
"So the pilot didn't survive."
"Most likely."
"What the hell...." the engineer said as the results of the combat data came out.
"What is it?"
"This pilot can't be human. This must be some kind of input mistake."
"What does the results tell you?"
"Reaction speed is abnormal. Same with muscle power, and stamina, which are beyond human capacity. I was told the pilot is a boy--these numbers are unthinkable!"
"It might be true--He must have had special training in space."
Zechs remembers Heero coming out of his Gundam and pressing the self-destruct button. He remembers the look in his eyes.
"But I don't feel superior anymore. I thought the key to winning was good piloting of a Mobile Suit. A pilot who could make the best use of Tallgeese...That pilot could probably bring out the full potential of this suit," Zechs continue to say to himself as he looks at Tallgeese, then he thought again, "Those results....they seemed...familiar...I've seen someone else like that before..."
He then remembers a boy about 16, that has the likings of Heero, but is different. Then, Alex interrupted Zechs.
"What a wonderful Mobile Suit you have there....I didn't know that you collect antiques."
"Do you think you can use this effectively in battle?"
"I already have."
"I heard 01 destroyed itself in Siberia."
"I heard you made a sortie on the Sanktt Kingdom in Northern Europe."
"The pilots in Northern Europe couldn't do their best with this old Mobile Suit."
"What are you saying?"
"We are going to make a sortie on the Mokarijuin fortress of the old Alliance government tomorrow. But, we don't have enough Mobile Suits so we were trying to recruit some men."
"...There's no need. I will carry out the mission with you in this suit, as a subordinate to you two. Kai is coming too."
"You col.? Why?"
"It's no problem. You two were in charge of the battle in Samaria. Correct?"
"Alright then Col Zechs, I'm ordering you to launch with us at 0400 hours tomorrow morning in the Tallgeese."
Zechs turned around and saluted. Later, he met with Kai.
"You sure you know what you are doing. You've just demoted yourself....and myself and put us under the command of...them?" Kai said
"I thought you like to go out for once and fight real targets."
"I do, but...this is odd....we should be commanding them, not the other way around."
"Just ignore the fact...see ya at dawn..." Zechs walks away.
"sigh...why do I put up with his arrogance,"
The next day, Kai and Zechs were launched in their personal carrier. At a river, Mueller, another Aries pilot, and Alex readies to launch.
"This is red cancer...taking off," Alex said as he launched his suit.
"Don't let them see us. It will give them an excuse to fire their Noventa cannon, the pride of the Alliance."
"Yes, sir," the other pilot said as they enter their suits.
"Alright, let's move out."
"Lt. Mueller!"
"What is it?"
"Don't you need to activate your jamming!?"
"No,"
"But the enemy will detect you!"
"They'll detect Zechs and Kai's Mobile Suits long before they see us."
"Are you using Col Zechs, and Major Kai as a decoy?"
This will get them to fire their Noventa cannon inland."
"I understand sir."
The Aries sets off.
"Heh, let's see if the Lightening Count, and the Crisom Lightning is as good as they say they are." He and his lance mate dusk off.
At where Zechs and Kai are, they ready to deploy themselves.
"We've reached the deployment point."
"OK, get ready to release Tallgeese and Sazabi."
"Col. Zechs."
"What is it?"
"We received a message from Red Cancer, "Good luck."
"I will do my best without his luck."
"Releasing the Tallgeese and Sazabi"
The two suits dropped and fell. Almost instantly, the base detected Kai and Zech's suit.
"The enemy is coming straight for us from inland." a soldier said as they detected Zechs and Kai
"OZ is attacking indiscriminately, even in this remote region. Launch the Noventa cannon. Don't let them get any closer." the officer ordered
On top of the mountain, a huge cannon aims at Kai and Zechs.
"We have their range. The angle of trajectory is optimal. We are ready to fire."
"Open fire!"
The cannon fired a single round at the approaching suits and it bursts into many scattered explosive rounds that ignited everywhere. Engulfing Zechs and Kai's suits.
"High pressure strike confirmed, the targets have been hit."
"What the!?"
From the clouds, they saw Zechs Kai appear and opened fire.
"The enemies are still approaching, right through the explosions."
"They're descending towards military unit #2. He has not been damaged!"
Zechs and Kai continued to fire at the enemy suits outside of the base, until not one was standing.
"Ok, time to try out the new burniers," Zechs shouted as he jets passed enemy fire.
"Alright, Alex, Mueller. You're clear for attack!" Kai shouted
"What's happening? Why don't you use the Noventa cannon?!" the Alliance officer asked
"The Mobile Suits are too fast. I can't target them."
Then, Alex and Mueller appear and continue to attack the fortress.
"A new attack. They're attacking from the sea now!"
"Alex, flank on the left! Mueller, to the right!" Kai ordered, "I'll press on in the center!"
"Copy that!" Alex replied
"Roger!" Mueller responded
From all around them in the command center of the base, there explosions and the place was falling apart.
"I didn't realize this fortress was so weak."
Outside, Zechs lands his suit before the command center.
"Communications have been established! We can contact the enemy now."
"This is Captain Zechs of the 33rd independent army. You've lost your best fortresses already, so continued resistance is useless. I order you to surrender right away. This would have been the wish of the late and honorable Noventa, who hoped for a peaceful world."
"Our Mobile Suits corps has been destroyed. Number five dock has also been destroyed."
"Sigh...alright...I understand. We will surrender." but then Alex, Mueller, and even Kai kept on attacking.
"Kai, what are you doing, stop them at once!"
"Oops, sorry Zechs!" Kai said, "Alright guys, stand down! They've already surrendered."
But Mueller and Alex continued to attack and ignored them.
"Hey, come on guys. Let's not be trigger happy here!" Kai
"Col Zechs, you've exceeded your authority in asking for a surrender. You're here to obey us. The execution of the old Alliance government is up to us."
"Execution!?" Kai and Zechs said at the same time.
"These people are stupid because they are against our new world order. This is a cleansing. So, I'm going to clean up things."
"And here it comes!" Mueller shouted as he and another Aries fires at the command center and destroys most of it.
"That damned OZ! You're still using dirty methods." the base commander said as he picks himself up from the rumble.
"The enemy command center has been hit. I'm going in for a second attack." another Aries said
"Stop! Are you really officers of OZ? How dishonorable. You should have a sense of shame." Zechs shouted and the Aries obeys.
"Captain Mueller, Col Zechs has commanded us to stop attacking!"
But then a wave of missiles from the base flew into their directions.
"Look out!" Kai pushed the Aries out of the way and gets hit instead. His suit then crashed into the sea.
"Zechs, what did you do? You got him killed. Die!" Mueller and Alex attack Zechs. "Die!"
But Zechs appears from the clouds and takes out his beam saber and dices Mueller's suit in half, killing him.
"Damn you Zechs!" Alex shouted and launched more missiles at him until he fell into the waters. "You thought that this type of Mobile Suit is easy to deal with. Now, I'm going to destroy the target I really wanted to. Die!"
Zechs was a sitting duck and Alex takes aim. Then, he was grabbed from behind.
"What the!" It was the Sazabi, Kai was not dead, "My god...Undamaged!"
"Your skills are great, but even though you are a student of Noin, you are still foolish." Kai said
"Shut up! Don't speak the name of Noin to me!"
"You're the kind of fool that makes me and Zechs look bad,"
"Shut up. You're too self-righteous."
"No, you are not worthy of having power." Kai drew his saber, which ignites with a golden yellow glow, "Foolish children!"
And Kai rips Alex's suit apart.
"Hey Zechs...you alright?"
"Yeah, a bit shaken, but fine..."
"Good..."
Back at Victoria base, Zechs reports to the technician about the burners.
"The condition of the Burner is good."
"Thank you very much." Zechs then hand him a file, "This is?"
"This is the report on Alex and Mueller. Send this to Chief Noin."
"To Noin?"
"She will regret that she taught them just fighting skills and nothing about character."
"But..." Zechs and Kai walk away.
"War is unfeeling...wars are heartless..."
In an underground facility, Wing was being repaired.
"Wars truly are indeed heartless...but I'm rebuilding a Mobile Suit which was used by the enemy before me. I am unqualified to be a soldier, like Alex and Mueller..."
"You think too lightly of yourself, Zechs..." Kai said as he walks up to him.
"To think of yourself like that, you would have died long ago..." Zechs turned to face Kai, "But you are alive, because of your instincts as a soldier. There are very people like you around here..."
Zechs looks back at the damaged Wing.
To be continued...
Side Story
The Earth Campaign
The five Gundams' actions were a direct reflection of the will of all the colonies. The Gundams were Mobile Suits created to deal with the threat caused to the colonies by OZ, a secret organization hidden inside the Alliance armed forces. After Colony 195... OZ finally emerged as the leading force in history. OZ's leader Trieze Kushurenada carried out massive operations to devastate and take over the Alliance armed forces. Having been tricked into the confrontation, bloody battles between OZ and the colonies' five Mobile Suits causes the Earth to shutter violently...
We see Heero out of his suit and hold the self-destruct button.
"Mission...accepted," Heero said to himself and press the button, which blew up his suit and he landed on the ground with a dead look on his face.
Proving what we are
At the battlefield of where Wing blew up. Kai walks up to Zechs, who was with Noin and Joyce.
"We've recovered as many pieces as possible, but it seems to have been irreparable damaged." Kai reported
"I'm sure they are. It self-destructed."
"Even the Gundam can eventually become just a piece of scrap metal. Well, a piece of Gundanium alloy, actually." Noin said
"This Mobile Suit is a derivative of Tallgeese. In other words, the technologies used for Tallgeese are basically applicable to this machine too."
"Zechs..."
"Noin, would you mind if I took this Gundam to Lake Victoria Base?"
"Are you going to try to fix it?"
"Yes," Zechs replied as he picks up a piece of Wing
"Why bother? Kai asked
"Perhaps I'm just preoccupied with that pilot."
"But the Gundam pilot died in the explosion, didn't he?"
"I don't feel it though. I know it's hard to believe that one could have survived such a massive explosion. But I honestly hope he had survived it. As fellow soldier who pilots Mobile Suits, I hope he had survived so he could come back for a rematch..."
Some time later at an OZ base, Zechs test himself on the Tallgeese. His carrier was in high altitude.
"Tallgeese, ready for descent." one of the pilots said
"Col. Zechs, there is turbulence, so watch out." the co-pilot said
"Tallgeese, weapons are functional. I'm ready for descent."
"Existing in ten seconds, we'll begin launch. Five, four, three, two, one... Launch!
Tallgeese dropped from the carrier and freefall.
At ground level, Kai watched.
"What an amazing machine..." he said
At the base, they spotted him on their screens.
"Col. Zechs, your Mobile Suit is in radar range. You can begin acceleration. Col. Zechs, Col. Zechs? Are you OK?" the base commander asked
"Yes, I can hear you. I'm going to start the test."
Tallgeese's thrusters turned on and he regain altitude and stop falling. At the base, large missiles were targeting him.
"Col. Zechs, we've already locked on the test missiles and are ready to begin firing on the Tallgeese."
"Alright, fire them!"
"Are you sure?"
"That's what this Mobile Suit is demanding!"
"Tallgeese is accelerating."
"Alright, launch them!" the commander ordered and the missiles flew toward the Tallgeese.
The Tallgeese readies it's beam cannon and fired a series of beams at the groups of missiles and destroyed them. He then dropped to ground level and saw Kai's Sazabi.
"Ready for close quarter combat testing?!" Kai shouted to Zechs.
"Ready when you are, Kai!"
"Let's see what you truly are capable of, Zechs!" Kai charged at Zechs and attacked with his saber.
Zechs dodged the attack and uses his left hand to hold his saber, and parries with Kai. Then, jumps back and fired some shots at him. Kai dodged the shots and fired back with his shot rifle. Then, Kai took out another saber and attacks with two. Zechs defends and counterattacks, knocking one away. Kai backs off and strafes left and right. Zechs then got a lock and first at Kai. But Kai left go of his shield and then blast hit the shield, which, before it was knocked down, launched its load of micro missiles at Zechs. Some hit, but the rest missed. Zechs and Kai then charged at each other and clashed one more time.
"....Alright, I think that's enough," Zechs said. Kai then stopped and powered down. "You're pretty good at close combat Kai."
"Thanks, you're not bad as well, you truly live up to your name, Zechs." Kai looks at Zechs for a moment and said in his head, "This monster completely captivates him."
Later, the Tallgeese was being stored in the hanger area. Zechs looks at it.
"It's already perfect." an engineer said
"The super burner's response is different from its design specifications."
"But if we follow the design plans then flight operations won't perform well."
"I don't care. A good pilot will fly it successfully regardless."
"Yes, sir," the engineer leaves.
Kai then walks up to him.
"What are you trying to prove here...."
"To test the limits...."
"Be careful Zechs...testing the limits can be deadly...."
Elsewhere, at an Alliance base, it was all quiet in the night. The people there were just starting to relax. But then, in the water, several torpedoes race across the water and then hit the ports and harbors of the base. It was a single Cancer unit, firing his torpedoes again. At the base, it was hell.
"General, our ships have been destroyed by enemy fire from the water. We are also being attacked from the air!" A soldier reported.
Back with the Cancer unit.
"This is Red Cancer--I broke through the line of defense. I'm going to attack the advance guard."
In the air, a single Aries attacks and skillfully dodges all the shots thrown at him.
"This is Blue Angel, roger that. Don't let your guard down, Alex."
"Those words are not for me, Mueller!"
"All advanced guard are destroyed!" another soldier reported
"How many Mobile Suits are there?"
"Model signals confirmed! Cancer and Aries, one of each!"
"That can't be, just two Suits attacking us alone?"
Then, Alex aims up out of the water and fires water to ground missiles. The missiles popped from the water and down and explode on their targets.
"The defensive team has been destroyed! Enemy Suits are still undamaged!"
"A mixture of squadrons can't defend against OZ?!"
Alex and Mueller stood down as the base was surrendering to them.
"Our entire base is going to lay down its arms--we are getting ready to surrender to OZ--I want to ask you to stop your attack." The general said to Alex
"Surrender? You've misunderstood our mission." Alex replied
"What?!"
"This is called an execution!" Alex shouted as he fired his missiles at the damaged Alliance base and soldiers that were already wounded and tired.
The Aries also continues to fire its rifle and blows up everything.
"You are poor relics of the past. Let this new age baptized you all!" he fires an kills many more on the ground indiscrimitely.
"Stop! This is not a fight, it's a massacre!" the general shouted
"We've already told you--this is an execution." Mueller said and blasted the command center into dust. Then, he laughs sinisterly.
"You laugh too much, Mueller." Alex said
The next day, Alex and Mueller were heading toward Lake Victoria.
"Lake Victoria base, such sweet memories--I wonder if our Instructor Noin is doing okay." Mueller said
"We'll never be anything but children in her eyes, but I want her to see our improved skills."
"Alex, sir. We can contact Lake Victoria base now." the pilot of their transport said
"OK, this is Northeast Africa Corps, Samaria battle group, 33rd independent army, Captain Alex. Is Lt. Noin still there?"
Kai replied and his face pops up on the screen.
"This is Major Kai, welcome, but Lt Col. Noin is currently on a mission in Moscow."
"Moscow? Is she with Lady Une?"
"I don't know, that's her personal business."
"...Alright, then, we're going to attack Captain Mokarijuin of the old Alliance government. We need to resupply. We'd like permission to land."
Later, Kai, Alex and Mueller talks.
"Why are there no army personnel available for our next battle?! When did this base send out all of its Mobile Suits?!" Mueller shouted as he was upset with this.
"Noin authorized it herself." Kai replied calmly, "There is no one left and barely any Suits left."
"Are you sure about that? I think Col. Zechs had something to do with this--I heard that Col. Zechs has her running all kinds of strange errands for him."
"That may be true, but Noin's trip is still her private business."
"Why do you like Col Zechs so much? He always gets his men killed."
"We are all loyal men who serve under him," Kai somehow manages to said in respect to Zechs.
"That's stupid, you should obey only Trieze--Instructor Noin taught us that we should fight only for the dreams of His Excellency."
"It's OK, Mueller, don't waste your time on him."
"But..."
"Let's go gather up some men."
"I already told you...there are no experienced personnel available."
"...what about you.....and Zechs Marquise is supposedly excellent."
Elsewhere, Zechs and an engineer studies the battle that he and Heero had.
"If you check this data with the basic performance of 01's wreck, you can determine the skill of the pilot in the suit."
"How was the wreck?"
"It was completely destroyed. The self-destruct system of 01 worked very well."
"So the pilot didn't survive."
"Most likely."
"What the hell...." the engineer said as the results of the combat data came out.
"What is it?"
"This pilot can't be human. This must be some kind of input mistake."
"What does the results tell you?"
"Reaction speed is abnormal. Same with muscle power, and stamina, which are beyond human capacity. I was told the pilot is a boy--these numbers are unthinkable!"
"It might be true--He must have had special training in space."
Zechs remembers Heero coming out of his Gundam and pressing the self-destruct button. He remembers the look in his eyes.
"But I don't feel superior anymore. I thought the key to winning was good piloting of a Mobile Suit. A pilot who could make the best use of Tallgeese...That pilot could probably bring out the full potential of this suit," Zechs continue to say to himself as he looks at Tallgeese, then he thought again, "Those results....they seemed...familiar...I've seen someone else like that before..."
He then remembers a boy about 16, that has the likings of Heero, but is different. Then, Alex interrupted Zechs.
"What a wonderful Mobile Suit you have there....I didn't know that you collect antiques."
"Do you think you can use this effectively in battle?"
"I already have."
"I heard 01 destroyed itself in Siberia."
"I heard you made a sortie on the Sanktt Kingdom in Northern Europe."
"The pilots in Northern Europe couldn't do their best with this old Mobile Suit."
"What are you saying?"
"We are going to make a sortie on the Mokarijuin fortress of the old Alliance government tomorrow. But, we don't have enough Mobile Suits so we were trying to recruit some men."
"...There's no need. I will carry out the mission with you in this suit, as a subordinate to you two. Kai is coming too."
"You col.? Why?"
"It's no problem. You two were in charge of the battle in Samaria. Correct?"
"Alright then Col Zechs, I'm ordering you to launch with us at 0400 hours tomorrow morning in the Tallgeese."
Zechs turned around and saluted. Later, he met with Kai.
"You sure you know what you are doing. You've just demoted yourself....and myself and put us under the command of...them?" Kai said
"I thought you like to go out for once and fight real targets."
"I do, but...this is odd....we should be commanding them, not the other way around."
"Just ignore the fact...see ya at dawn..." Zechs walks away.
"sigh...why do I put up with his arrogance,"
The next day, Kai and Zechs were launched in their personal carrier. At a river, Mueller, another Aries pilot, and Alex readies to launch.
"This is red cancer...taking off," Alex said as he launched his suit.
"Don't let them see us. It will give them an excuse to fire their Noventa cannon, the pride of the Alliance."
"Yes, sir," the other pilot said as they enter their suits.
"Alright, let's move out."
"Lt. Mueller!"
"What is it?"
"Don't you need to activate your jamming!?"
"No,"
"But the enemy will detect you!"
"They'll detect Zechs and Kai's Mobile Suits long before they see us."
"Are you using Col Zechs, and Major Kai as a decoy?"
This will get them to fire their Noventa cannon inland."
"I understand sir."
The Aries sets off.
"Heh, let's see if the Lightening Count, and the Crisom Lightning is as good as they say they are." He and his lance mate dusk off.
At where Zechs and Kai are, they ready to deploy themselves.
"We've reached the deployment point."
"OK, get ready to release Tallgeese and Sazabi."
"Col. Zechs."
"What is it?"
"We received a message from Red Cancer, "Good luck."
"I will do my best without his luck."
"Releasing the Tallgeese and Sazabi"
The two suits dropped and fell. Almost instantly, the base detected Kai and Zech's suit.
"The enemy is coming straight for us from inland." a soldier said as they detected Zechs and Kai
"OZ is attacking indiscriminately, even in this remote region. Launch the Noventa cannon. Don't let them get any closer." the officer ordered
On top of the mountain, a huge cannon aims at Kai and Zechs.
"We have their range. The angle of trajectory is optimal. We are ready to fire."
"Open fire!"
The cannon fired a single round at the approaching suits and it bursts into many scattered explosive rounds that ignited everywhere. Engulfing Zechs and Kai's suits.
"High pressure strike confirmed, the targets have been hit."
"What the!?"
From the clouds, they saw Zechs Kai appear and opened fire.
"The enemies are still approaching, right through the explosions."
"They're descending towards military unit #2. He has not been damaged!"
Zechs and Kai continued to fire at the enemy suits outside of the base, until not one was standing.
"Ok, time to try out the new burniers," Zechs shouted as he jets passed enemy fire.
"Alright, Alex, Mueller. You're clear for attack!" Kai shouted
"What's happening? Why don't you use the Noventa cannon?!" the Alliance officer asked
"The Mobile Suits are too fast. I can't target them."
Then, Alex and Mueller appear and continue to attack the fortress.
"A new attack. They're attacking from the sea now!"
"Alex, flank on the left! Mueller, to the right!" Kai ordered, "I'll press on in the center!"
"Copy that!" Alex replied
"Roger!" Mueller responded
From all around them in the command center of the base, there explosions and the place was falling apart.
"I didn't realize this fortress was so weak."
Outside, Zechs lands his suit before the command center.
"Communications have been established! We can contact the enemy now."
"This is Captain Zechs of the 33rd independent army. You've lost your best fortresses already, so continued resistance is useless. I order you to surrender right away. This would have been the wish of the late and honorable Noventa, who hoped for a peaceful world."
"Our Mobile Suits corps has been destroyed. Number five dock has also been destroyed."
"Sigh...alright...I understand. We will surrender." but then Alex, Mueller, and even Kai kept on attacking.
"Kai, what are you doing, stop them at once!"
"Oops, sorry Zechs!" Kai said, "Alright guys, stand down! They've already surrendered."
But Mueller and Alex continued to attack and ignored them.
"Hey, come on guys. Let's not be trigger happy here!" Kai
"Col Zechs, you've exceeded your authority in asking for a surrender. You're here to obey us. The execution of the old Alliance government is up to us."
"Execution!?" Kai and Zechs said at the same time.
"These people are stupid because they are against our new world order. This is a cleansing. So, I'm going to clean up things."
"And here it comes!" Mueller shouted as he and another Aries fires at the command center and destroys most of it.
"That damned OZ! You're still using dirty methods." the base commander said as he picks himself up from the rumble.
"The enemy command center has been hit. I'm going in for a second attack." another Aries said
"Stop! Are you really officers of OZ? How dishonorable. You should have a sense of shame." Zechs shouted and the Aries obeys.
"Captain Mueller, Col Zechs has commanded us to stop attacking!"
But then a wave of missiles from the base flew into their directions.
"Look out!" Kai pushed the Aries out of the way and gets hit instead. His suit then crashed into the sea.
"Zechs, what did you do? You got him killed. Die!" Mueller and Alex attack Zechs. "Die!"
But Zechs appears from the clouds and takes out his beam saber and dices Mueller's suit in half, killing him.
"Damn you Zechs!" Alex shouted and launched more missiles at him until he fell into the waters. "You thought that this type of Mobile Suit is easy to deal with. Now, I'm going to destroy the target I really wanted to. Die!"
Zechs was a sitting duck and Alex takes aim. Then, he was grabbed from behind.
"What the!" It was the Sazabi, Kai was not dead, "My god...Undamaged!"
"Your skills are great, but even though you are a student of Noin, you are still foolish." Kai said
"Shut up! Don't speak the name of Noin to me!"
"You're the kind of fool that makes me and Zechs look bad,"
"Shut up. You're too self-righteous."
"No, you are not worthy of having power." Kai drew his saber, which ignites with a golden yellow glow, "Foolish children!"
And Kai rips Alex's suit apart.
"Hey Zechs...you alright?"
"Yeah, a bit shaken, but fine..."
"Good..."
Back at Victoria base, Zechs reports to the technician about the burners.
"The condition of the Burner is good."
"Thank you very much." Zechs then hand him a file, "This is?"
"This is the report on Alex and Mueller. Send this to Chief Noin."
"To Noin?"
"She will regret that she taught them just fighting skills and nothing about character."
"But..." Zechs and Kai walk away.
"War is unfeeling...wars are heartless..."
In an underground facility, Wing was being repaired.
"Wars truly are indeed heartless...but I'm rebuilding a Mobile Suit which was used by the enemy before me. I am unqualified to be a soldier, like Alex and Mueller..."
"You think too lightly of yourself, Zechs..." Kai said as he walks up to him.
"To think of yourself like that, you would have died long ago..." Zechs turned to face Kai, "But you are alive, because of your instincts as a soldier. There are very people like you around here..."
Zechs looks back at the damaged Wing.
To be continued...
