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Mobile Suit: GUNDAM
TERRA
The year is Universal Century 0089, humanity has been at war with an invading group that calls themselves the Empire, for a long ten years.
The Earth Federation and the Principality of Zeon were at a tense stance in UC 0079 when, suddenly, an unknown group comes and declares the Earth Sphere for their own, along with the Space Colonies and the rest of the Terran star system.
After a five year long confrontation, the Imperial forces were driven to the far reachs of the system, and the allied forces of the EF and eon, newly formed into an Alliance, beleived the empire defeated, when for two years no activity was heard of from them. Then, in UC 0084....
A Space Colony was dropped onto the North American continent, ruining 90 of the western half of it, and severly damagng the remaining portions of it.
After investigation, it was determined that a detachment of Imprial troops had gained control of the Colony in secret, and gassed the population, before sending it on its way to the fateful impact. After a frantic search for the rest of the detachment, they were finally discovered, attempting a Colony Ram into the Zeon stronghold of Solomon. After a major battle, the Colony was oblitorated before Solomon sustained an impact. The Empire retreated for another three years, promicing that they would return one day and defeat the Alliance.
In UC 0088, a massive Imperial fleet entered the Terran system, intent on carrying out conquest of it, even if it ment their own lives to do it.
The war has raged on fiercly for a year, and in UC 0089.......
Episode 1: War of Futility
Chapter 1
Encounter
Gundam launched out of its hangar, ready to take down the enemy.
Its target, a small fleet of Imperial Battleships, armed with enough firepower to raze the planet Gundam had been launched to defend.
"Angle the forward deflectors, and ready the Turbolaser batteries to fire at the Mobile Suit. Do not let it near us!" General Halzen ordered, watching as the white Mobile Suit drew closer to the lead Star Destroyer, Iron Fist.
"Hmph...setting up those kind of defences only work for large fleets, will those Imps never learn?" The pilot of Gundam said, shaking his head.
"First, they mess with Earth, then, they get chassed out, only to come back with more numbers....when will they just leave us alone? Probably never...unless I give them a reason to stay away...." The Gundam pilot told himself.
Gundam aimed its beam rifle at the upper part of one of the Star Destroyers, the one to the right of the lead ship, and one that was farther away than the lead ship....."this should wake them up....I haven't used the beam rifle at this range before....So they won't know that it can hit from this far...." The pilot said, to no one in particular.
He fired, Gundam's beam rifle letting loose a beam of hard light, that would peirce right through deflector shields, unlike the beam spray guns of the GMs that the Imps had fought in the past.
The red beam speared through the shield as if it weren't even there, then cut into the bridge of the Star Destroyer, just about two or three decks above the bridge of that ship. Another beam gouged through the front of the ship at an angle and came flying out of the open hangar, melting several TIE fighters that had just been launched.
General Halzen was not pleased with this new discovery. "Open fire on that Mobile Suit!" He ordered. The gunners complyed, sending volley after volley of Turbolaser beams at Gundam.
Gundam just danced around the beams, the pilot laughing at the Imperials. "I will give you a free hit! Come and get me!" He challanged the lead ship.
Gundam raised its shield just before a Turbolaser beam hammered into it. The shield broke. "Dang, I had to get cocky, didn't I? ugh.....well, that ship's going home with a broken hull today...." The Gundam pilot said.
Gundam hooked its beam rifle to its wiast and drew the left beam saber. It charged at the Star Destroyer.
"Shoot it down NOW!" Halzen ordered his gunners. They opened fire on the oncoming Mobile Suit, any shots that did hit seemed to do little to slow the Suit down. Gundam got closer, and Helzen could see its yellow, glowing eyes. it got to the ship, and landed on the hull, destroying the Turbolaser batteries with its head mounted Vulcan Cannons. It raised its left arm and plunged the saber down into the hull of the Star Destroyer. Then, Gundam ran down the hull and dragged the blade through as it ran, cutting the ship open. several explosions detonated down the length of the hull breach. By the time the damage was done and the explosions had faded, Gundam had vanished.
"Damn. Damage report." Halzen ordered.
He did not like the results.
Gundam was too powerful for them to face without something equal to it. Sure, they had Mobile Weapons of their own, but the most agile of these, the AT-STs, Gundam had merely kicked out of its way, and their most powerful, the AT-ATs, Gundam used as practice targets for its beam rifle and beam saber...in the case of onwe AT-AT, it had been cut clean in half by the beam saber, right down the body of the unit...and another had had its legs removed in one swipe, during the same engagement.
The Terrans GMs were basically weaker versions of Gundam, but even these had proved lethal during the last battle of the first invasion, a misserable flop.
Halzen stood on the bridge, staring at Mars, the Red Planet, the Terrans had called it. He thought about his last campaign into this star system in the unknown reigons, his mind wandering.
Gundam arrived at its destination, an old, somewhat beatup transport. The Hangar doors opened and admitted Gundam into it.
As soon as Gundam had docked, the pilot exited from the Mobile Suit.
"Hey! Nice work out there!" One of the techs said to him. "Thanks!" the pilot called back, before heading out of the hangar, removing his helmet as he walked. His brown hair has held back by a blue headband that was tied at the back. His green eyes surveyed the Gundam, before he let the doors to the Hangar shut.
He thought about how the war never really ended, it just kept stalling. It had started about ten years ago, when two hevilly armed ships came and demanded that the inhabitants surrendered to the Galactic Empire. Before anyone could even realy do anything, the Imperials had landed various Mobile Weapons onto Earth, and held most of the major cities under seige......until the development of Mobile Weapons called Mobile Suits. Then, the fight was at least equal for a time, quadrepedal behemoths of the Empire squaring off with the Humanoid Mobile Suits of the Terran Alliance. Then, as the war dragged on, the Mobile Suit that had been the basis for the GM suits, the Gundam, was pulled out of mothball storage, and commisioned as a weapon. It proved to be lethal on its own, but two more units were made to support it, one of which could merge with it....Guncannon, and Guntank (Guntank being the one to be able to merge with Gundam, and later moddd to merge with Guncannon)
Soon after the deplyment of this three suit team, the war ended, or so the Alliance thought.
The Empire came back three years later, and attacked with even more ferocity than before, now that they had a small fleet deployed.
That war ended as well.....and now....
The fleet Gundam fought today was only one of five that was in the Terran system at this time.
The pilot of Gundam looked out of a viewport in one of the coridors of the transport, the Pyro, named for its distinctive weapons systems, including a Heat Cannon, that blasted the target with pure heat, and Dual Flame projectors, that spewed a burning propellant fuel gel at the target, and the gel was adhesive.....highly.
"Sean? Back so soon, eh?" A friend of the Gundam pilot said to him. "Yep. Mike, how long until Guncannon is ready to deploy?" Sean asked the pilot of Guncannon.
"I'm not sure, the techs keep saying that they just need to fix the beam rifle....the rest is finished, as far as repair go. I am thinking of leaving the beam rifle on the ship until they fix it and take that big axe designed for Guncannon as a melee wep. I already got ranged stuff, those big cannons that the Suit is named for...." Mike said.
Sarah, the pilot of Guntank, walked up to them. "Good to see you back already." She said to Sean. "Thanks, any word about that scout ship that we saw earlier?" Sean asked her.
"Nope, and that's what worries me..." She said, her tone grave.
Chapter 2
The battle for Mars begins
The Zeon ship, Dorowa, drifted lazily toward Pyro, the Zeon ship briging suplies and transferring pilots with their Mobile Suits. "Hm....I wonder how those three are doing?" The commander of the ship asked himself.
Char Aznable, General, and commander of the Dorowa and of the Zeon Martian fleet in general looked out of the bridges main viewport, watching the Alliance transport as they got closer.
"General, the scanners have detected an enemy ship approaching us, at combat speed." one of the tactical officers warned. "Pass the warning along to the Pyro." Char told the officer. "Roger that."
"Hm...looks like I am going to get to pilot my old suit once again.......you..." Char said, pointing to a rookie, newly arrived aboard the ship. "...order the MS deck crew chief to ready my Suit, along with Gamma squadron." Char ordered. "Roger that, General Aznable." The rookie replied, getting on the com and relaing Char's orders. Char straightened his Helmet and left the command deck, heading for the MS deck.
"Captain! The Dorowa reports that an enemy ship is approaching at combat speed." The Comunications officer told the Captain. The Captain whirled about to face Sean, Sarah and Mike. "Prepare to launch." Captain Jennifer Spazintine ordered. "Yes Ma'am!" the three MS jocks replied with salutes, before taking off for the Mobile Suit Hangar.
"Captain Delaz, warn Captain Spaz that we are going to use the Minovsky Particle Field Genorator and then after she agnolages, activate it." Char ordered the Captain of Dorowa. "Roger that, General Aznable." Delaz replied.
Char straightned his red uniform tunic, waiting for the launchbay doors to open. He saw his radar go staticy for a moment, before the automatic canceler kicked in and it cleared. He could see the Imperial ship much closer than it had been when they first picked it up on sensors.
General Halzen watched as the sensors whent dead from an unknown interferance.
"Whats causing that?" he asked the sensor tech. "Unknown sir, but I would guess it is some kind of native interferance, like radiation from the local star." The tech told him. "Hm.....try to find a way around it....I don't like fighting blind." Halzen told the tech.
"General! Our weapons targeting systems are malfunctioning! We cannot lock onto the Zeon or the Alliance ships!" One of the tactical officers told him. "Damn.......fire manually then!" Halzen ordered. "But General.......we were not trained to fire manual!" The same officer said. "Then learn how to do so, and NOW!" Halzen ordered, addressing the Gunner crews as a whole.
"General Char Aznable, Launching!" Char announced, as he kicked in the boosters of his customized Zaku Delta, a new aerospace adaptaion of the Zaku 2. The Mobile Suit rocketed down the launch corridor, blasting out of the bay and into the void, straight for the Imperial ship. "Greetings, General Aznable!" A voice came over the com lines to say. Char regonized the voice. "Greetings Gundam!" He replied, seeing the Gundam come up beside him and salute.
He returned the salute. He felt, more than saw, a emerald beam lance out from the Imperial ship. He simply moved to the side a bit, then flipped the Star Destroyed the bird. The pilot of Gundam laughed. "Nice one, General." Gundam said.
General Halzen saw two Mobile Suits approach, one, the same as the one that had attacked them just hours before, the other, the personal Mobile Suit of General Char Aznabe, the infamous Red Comet, who had gotten the name from a comment made by Halzen's former superior officer, who was beaten in that battle, Halzen becoming his successor. Aznable had managaed to destroy 7 Star Destroyers that dark day.
"No way....it can't be! The Red Comet! He's here!" One of the newer gunners said, accidentally firing a Turbolaser shot in panic. The Red Comet dodged the shot easilly, then made a gesture with his Mobile Suit's left hand, with the middle finger of it extended and the back of the hand facing toward the Star Destroyer, to display the upraised finger. "What is that supposed to mean? Some kind of taunt?" Halen asked himself, trying to remember the time he had spent on the planet called Terra as a spy, then remembering the signifigance of it. He glared at the red Suit. "Open fire on the white Mobile Suit and the Red Comet!" Halzen ordered.
A wall of emerald beams was the gunners reply to the order.
"Incoming. Left or right?" Gundam asked Char. "Right." he said. "Roger that." Gundam replied, heading left of the wall.
The wall of emerald light passed between them and cut through empty space. The two Mobile Suits continued their trajectories, coming around the Star Destroyed from either side.
The two suits drew their weapons.
"NOW!" Char ordered to Gamma squadron and the Gunncannon that was merged with the Guntank to create a Mobile Armor, known as the Gunarmor.
Just as the rest of the Imperial contingant of Star Destroyers arrived, the group Gundam had been talking about when he had said Incoming, the Alliance strike force consisting of Gamma squadron and the Gunarmor arrived, slashing across the line of Imp ships and mauling one so badly it detonated a moment later.
Gundam and Char boosted right at the bridge of the ship that had been presant already, blasting away at the rest of the ship with their weapons. Explosive ammo erupted across the hull of the ship, destroying Gunbatteries, crimson beams cutting all the way trough the ship and emerging out of the other side.
Halzen was quite displeased. "I think it is time to revieal our new weapon. Com officer, contact the transport ship Balthazar and alert them to deliver the new weapon." he ordered. "Yes General." the officer replied. "Pull us out of the fight, Helmsman." Halzen ordered.
The ship pulled back and spun around, the uper deck block almost hittting the white Mobile Suit as it turned. The Mobile Suit swung its beam saber at the ship, just missing. The Star Destroyed made a microjump into Hyperspace, getting just far enough away that the Alliance would not know where they had gone.
The transport Balthazar arrived in the battle area, disgourged its cargo, then left before the Alliance Forces could get to it.
Gundam watched in horror as the crates that had been dumped burst open.......
reviealing......
Grey Mobile Suits, carrying long barreled beam rifles and using large shields of grey metal for defence, bearing the Imperial Logo. The Imp Suits blasted forth at the Alliance Forces, fireing some kind of heavy beam shots out of the long rifles.
Gamma squadron lost twenty Mobile Suits from the first barage..................
Chapter 3
The new Mobile Suits, and the Gigas Tyranus
"We have lost twenty Zakus from just that first barage! Its like their wielding Turbolaser Rifles!" one of Char's subordinates said, alarmed by this new development.
"Stay calm, and stay focused. Don't just sit and stare at them...fight!" Char ordered his squadron. "Roger that, General!" his subordinate said. "You heard the General! FIGHT!" the captain of Gamma Squadron ordered.
The Zaku Mobile Suits formed up for a moment, then broke as each pilot selected a target, then engagaed it. "Gundam, Guncannon, I have a feeeling that this isn't the Imp's only surprise for today...stay alert." Sarah told them, maintaining the anonymity of the pilots of Gundam and Guncannon, something they had to do, to protect their families from any possible retrobution their enemies could delivier, all three of them went by such codenaming, ever since they had first begun to fight in this war...this endless waltz.
"Roger that, Guntank." Sean and Mike said. The three of them had a close relationship, as friends and as wingmates.
Gundam turnd to Gunarmor, the fused form of Guncannon and Guntank, and gave a gesture to them, signalling to them that Gundam would be using them for a ride. They complyed and allowed Gundam to stand atop the flat shoulders of the Gunarmor. Sean felt.....strange....he felt something...threatining....from galactic west. He turned Gundam to face this.....sensations source. He saw a shadowy form, similar to a Zeon Mobile Armor.....
"....looks like you found me, white Mobile Suit.....now you shall die!" The pilot of the enemy unit said, breaking his radio silence, that had until then, made him undetected, Radar being screwwed up with the Minovsky interferance generated by the Zeon's Jammers.
Gundam just shrugged and Gunarmor launched out at the enemy unit. The enemy lanced out with a large beam shot, Gundam leaping away and over it deftly, the shot going overtop the Gunarmor. "Damn you!" the pilot cursed. Gundam launched itself at the enemy unit, drawing its beam saber. "Gah!" the enemy pilot exclaimed as he manuevered his unit away from a broad swing from Gundam. It drew away from Gundam quickly, out of close combat range, but not out of gun range. Gundam aimed and fired a beam rifle shot, the beam hitting, but reflecting off of the armor, upon which the reflection of Mars was visible. "Fool! Your beam weapons are useless against the Gigas Tyranus's reflective armor, its like a coating of mirrors that beams can't hurt, because they just bounce off!" the pilot said, reveailing the name of this new Mobile Armor. Gundam saw the Imperial Logo on the head of the Mobile Armor....it was as dull as the hull of a Star Destroyer.....Gundam aimed.....fired....and hit, the beam gouging into the armor, right into the center of the logo, where there was no reflection.
"Damn you, a million times, white Mobile Suit!" the pilot said. Gundam launched at the Gigas, beam saber drawn.
It stabbed the blade down into the logo, before the pilot could pull away.
Several eruptions of large size went off. "Emporor's black heart, you monster.....what are you called, so this old soldier can know the name of his match?" the pilot asked.
"Gundam." Sean said.
"Gundam, eh?........I see.......then..."
Gigas Tyranus exploded, throwing Gundam aside in the blast. "GUNDAM!" Sarah and Mike exclaimed as one.
"Gundam? Are you alright?" Char asked.
"Gundam! Respond!" Captain Spazantine said.
"Yeah.....I'm fine." Gundam replyed.
Char, meanwhile, was dealing with his own target....an annoyingly agile Imperial Mobile Suit.
"Damn..this one must be almost a Newtype....." Char said to himself as he lined up another shot and missed once he fired, the enemy Suit dancing around the stream of exploding machinegun ammo, that Char had let loose from his customized Chaingun.
"Ha! Hitting me with aim like that is impossible!" the enemy pilot taunted, the Mobile Suit giving a gesture Char assumed was obcene to the pilot's own culture. "Whats that supposed to mean, that your ego is too big for your head?" Char asked insultingly.
"Rude git...I'll show you the power of the Empire..and tell you the truth of your miserable life..right before you die!" the Imp said, getting too cocky for his own good, as he launched himslf recklessly at Char. Char slowly, calmly, drew his HeatHawk from behind him. Just as the enemy Suit got right infront of Char, trying to ram him, Char swung the heated-blade equiped Axe and let it melt into the neck of the enemy Suit, beheading it, and blinding it all at once.
As it swung around, the pilot, in a panic, serching for him to attack him in return before he finished the headless Suit, Char brought the heated Axe down and into the core of the Mobile Suit, cleaving it in half, right down the center. He boosted away as it exploded.
"Thats what you get for getting too confident, Imperial." Char said, his red Suit mock saluting the debris of the enemy unit. He felt, more that heard the warning, the approach from behind, of an enemy Suit. He calmly swung the axe behind him and hit. He then spun about, letting his Suit's right hand slide around the handle of the Axe, the hand only closed around it but not holding, until it finished with the turn. Char yanked the Axe out of the Suit and punched the enemy Mobile Suit in the head, hard. Kicking it away from him, he said to the stunned pilot "Blame it on the misfortune of choosing to fight me. Now....don't do that again." Char chided, his Zaku waving its index finger in a no-no gesture.
"General! The Imperials are withdrawing!" His Subordinate informed him.
"Good, Squadron, cease fire and form a defencive net around our ships....just in case." Char ordered.
The Zeon Suits complyed and returned to the two ships, who had held off, with the help of Zeon Mobile Armors, the rest of the Imperial Star Destroyers, who were now retreating....for now, that is.....its only a matter of time before they deploy those MS units as their mainstay weapons....Char thought bitterly. "He searched the open com lines for one name......finding the name, he opened a private channel....
"Brynhild.....how did your new unit hold up?" Char asked with concern. "Well, actually. I was surprised that it would work as well as it should, for such a new unit." She said in reply. "Good, was the hunting good today?" he asked. "Yep, plenty of fresh treats!" Brynhild said, her eyes lighing up with a warriors flame.
"Good." Char said, Brynhild......have I ever told you how I feel about you....? Char thought to himself......he sw her eyes look inward....as if she had heard his thoughts....curious....he thought....he shrugged, making a mental note to look into his suspiciouns later. "Return to the Dorowa." Char said. "Roger that, returning now." Brynhild replyed.....she looked up at him again..."I managed to get one of those Suits rifles...and you might be curious about what their using......." she said to Char. "Oh?...dare I ask...what are they?" Char asked......
"Well....you know how those battleships...they have Turbolaser cannons.....well.....their Mobile Suits use Turbolaser Rifles.....I tested one...it has a slow fire rate, because the weapon has to charge up for another shot after letting on fly.....the data from it might be usefull....and if I may...I would like to hang onto it....I think I might be able to figure out a use for it." Brynhild said to Char...."Roger that.....head to the ship." Char said.
Gundam followed Guncannon and Guntank into the Pyro's hangar, Sean eager to get out of the Mobile Suit so he could go use the restroom. "Jeez, kid....looks like you've been to hell and back." the Tech Chief, a man who insisted they just call Bob, said to Sean as he climbed out of the Gundam's cockpit. "Yeah....and its not as hot as they say it is either....." Sean said in reply, causing the Tech Chief to erupt in laughter. "heh, I guess your right!" Bob said.
Chapter 4
Defender, Part 1
"This is the civvilian transport Natalis! We are under fire from Imperial units! Requesting assistance immedeatly!" Captain Mira said over the emergency line. "Captain! The attackrs have launched.....m-mobile suits!?!?" one of the younger crewmembers said, in panic.
Just as Mira was about to ask where the Suits were......
A large head came into view, just infront of the main viewport. The glowing, yellow "eye" of the Mobile Suit flared menacingly.
Mira stood her ground instictively, as she hit the emergancy beacon controls.
"uhwaaaAA!!!"
Sean shot upright in bed, awoken by a nightmare of a civilian trnasport finding itself under fire by....Mobile Suits...."hmmmm......just a dream......wasnt it?" he said to himself, realizing that it felt quite real......too real to be just any normal dream...or nightmare.
At the same time......
"YAA!!" Sarah exclaimed as she bolted out of her chair by the viewport, drawing glances from one of the crew members in the library. She had just awoken from what could only be described as a nightmare......her mothers ship coming under fire, from Imperial Mobile Suits. She shook her head to clear the horrific image from her mind. She made her way to the communications deck, to make a call.
Mike awoke with a start, out of his nightmareish dreams. "great...first it was clowns in spacesuits...then giant freakish spiders....now Mobile Suits attacking Civie ships......" he said to himself.
Sean got a strong feeling that he should get to the bridge....he dressed and bounded swiftly down the low-gravity corridors. He found a shortcut to the bridge months ago, an unused matenance route, that moved vertically from one deck to the next. He shot up the closest one, arriving on the comand deck in record time. As he entered the bridge, he could see Sarah and Mike already and suited up.....he looked at what he was wearing, and it was his flight suit.....
Sarah had been on the com deck for five minutes, trying to get ahold of her mother, or atleast the ship at all....but no responce. She got a bad feelign and headed o the bridge....Mike had gone to the Library, to get a book, when he saw Sarah fly past him, she told him to follow her, and he did......and then he realized something.....she had gone to the library the night before, in her flight suit, and what he had put on before leaving his quarters was his own flight suit....."odd."
"Sean!" Sarah said, calling him forward. "Looks like your ready to launch now......whats going on here?" Sarah asked him......and getting suspicious about something...but not sure whether or not to put it in words just yet. "I had a bad dream....you guys too?" Sean asked them both, they nodded.
"Looks like you guys found out......" Captain Jennifer Spazintine said to them......"The civie ship, Natalis, called out with a distress call, then activated their beacon......and after that, we lost contact." She told them. "Isn't that...?" Sean began to ask. "Yes.....it is...." Sarah answered him. "I have already contacted general Aznable....he is on his way to their location to see what he can do......but we are closer, and will make it before even the Red Comet arrives if we move now." Captain Spaz said. "Can you three launch if the Suits are ready......can you do it now?" She asked them. "Yeah, I think I can say for all of us when I say, that we are ready." Sean said, nods of ascent coming from Sarah and Mike. "Good, go....now.......I will inform them to ready the Mobile Suits immediately." Spaz said to them. They took off for the Launch Deck. Captain Spaz turned to the night shift officer in charge of in-ship coms...
"Order Bob to ready the Mobile Suits.....Now!" She said. She turned toward the helm officers.
"Get us to the civie ship as fast as possible!" She ordered.
Their answer was to get to work, and within seconds, the ship was on the move.
Five minutes later....
"Hey, Sean, you ready?" Bob asked.
"yeah......" Sean said. Gundam steped onto the launch catapault....
"Gundam....LAUNCHING!" Sean yelled as his Suit shot down the corridor, and into the fray of battle.....followed by the Gunarmor.
"Gunarmor.......head for that Star Destroyer....I will take the Mobile Suits." Gundam said, already making for the five Suits swarming about the civie ship. "Roger that, Gundam." Came the reply.
"Hey! you bucket heads!" Gundam yelled over the broadcast channel. The Imp Suits stopped swarming and turned toward Gundam.
"Yeah....I'm talking to you! Come and Get SOME!" Gundam exclaimed as he ran one Imp Suit through with the left beam saber, drawing the right one and cutting a second Suit open with it. "Feh...your no fun." Gundam said to the Imps.
He got a strange feeling suddenly....and somehow knew that he was about to come under fire, he boosted to his left, as a emerald beam shot past him....right where he had been a second before...."ok...THAT was really wierd...." Gundam said to himself. Gundam spun around to face his attacker, and found himself starring down with a green Mobile Suit.......the same shade of green as the personaly colors of Jansen Calagi, the Green Edge, one of the Imperial ace Tie fighter pilots of the second Terran sector war........"So.......we meet again, white Mobile Suit?"
"Its you!? I thought I got you?" Gundam said, incredulous...."You thought you got me...but I got away,,not without injury though...and now I have you to blame for many things...including my lack of ablity to walk with my own two legs, and the loss of my left eye, thanks to you! Time to die, white Mobile Suit!" Jansen said, enraged. The green Mobile Suit stabbed at Gundam with a heat-bladed knife, intent in mauling the cockpit with it. Gundam kicked the Suit away from him and brought the beam rifle to bear, firiring at the Suit. It danced around his beams.
Suddenly, several expltioned wrecked across the side of the Suit, and a red blur shot past...like a Red Comet. "Its...you." Jansen said with disgust. "Hmph....is that any way to treat a rival.....talking about them as if they are nothing? Are all of you Imperial soldiers so rude?" Char asked calmly.........
Defender
Part 2
"Why you, Char!!!!!" Jansen bellowed wildly. "Now now....don't get you knickers in a twist." Char chided.
"Uh....General.....I don't think doing that is a good idea...you know how this guy is...." Gundam warned Char. "Hm...good point." Char replied.
"You are as bad as those...those....Rouges!" Jansen accused Char. "Whats that supposed to mean? An insult? You can do better than that." Gundam said, before turning to Char...."Can you handle the baka, Char?" Gundam asked. "Sure thing Gundam. Now, Jansen.....where were we....oh, yes...the part where you get all paniced that the Red Comet has come to destroy you!" Char said, ramming his red Zaku's spiked left shoulder into the front of Jansen's green Mobile Suit.
Gundam boosted toward the main enemy ship, intent on keeping it occupied long enough for the Natalis to escape to the Dorowa's defencive field of fire.
Mira braced herself as the ship shook under more fire. "Captain! A white Mobile Suit is coming right for us!" one of the crewmembers warned. "Get a reading on that suit!" Mira ordered.
"Checking the make of the Suit.......ma'am.......its...the Gundam!"
Gundam shot past an Imp Suit, cleaving it in half with the beam saber as it did.
A helmeted head came on the main viewer, Mira could see two eyes staring out at her with fire in them, just above a mask that conceled the rest of the face. "Captain of the ship Natalis, this is the Gundam. What is your curent status?" the pilot asked. "We have hull damage on the starboard side of the ship, and breaches on decks five through eight. Our thrusters are damaged, and only working at twenty-three percent. Our radar is non functional." Mira informed the pilot. "Roger that. Already on my way." Gundam said, the masked man looking right at her, his eyes blazing with determination.Gundam boosted past the bridge, flying past very close to the viewports lining it. Gundam saw an Imp Suit approach the starboard side of the ship, aiming toward one of the gaping breaches in the hull, reading to fire from a bazooka-type weapon of some sort. "Get AWAY FROM THERE!"
Crimson beams lashed out at the enemy unit, cutting into it and demolishing it. "Two units down, three left........two left!" Gundam announced, then corected, after slagging another with beam after beam from its rifle. One of the two remaining was black and grey, with red stipes running along its limbs...."perhaps a command unit?"
"One unit left!" Gundam announced as it destroyed the plain Mobile Suit next to the assumed command unit with the beam rifle.
"Damn....its the white Mobile Suit!" the enemy pilot said over the broadcast channel. "Your priority target is that ship, destroy it now, then take care of the white unit." a voice said over the com.....a voice the pilot of Gundam did not recognize, but sounded familliar.
"Hmmm....."
"Char!!!! I WILL destroy you next time!" Jansen yelled, his Suit emiting sparks from various joints and much of the armor ruined. "Yeah...you wish." Char retorted.
The green Mobile Suit, piloted by Jansen, fled the area of combat, returning to the ship that had brought them there.
Gundam turned to keep visual on the command Suit. Suddenly, Sean got a strange...sensation..."What is this?"
He saw something fly past him, then another object, alike in apperance to the first, then another and another, making four. He saw these unknown objects swirl around the enemy Suit, then erupt in a storm of beam fire, amythest beams slicing into the Suit from everywhere around it, the attack objects swarming insanely fast around it while firing at it all the while. Gundam figured this to be a new Zeon weapon, they were always coming up with crazy, but useful, things, so Gundam added his own weapons fire to the storm of beams, red lasers peircing the heart of the purple cloud of destruction and hitting their target. with the overload of attacks coming at it, the Imperial Suit could not defend from all directions and soon was nothing but slagged metal, that erupted in an explosion seconds later as the reactor detonated.
"All enemy Mobile Suit units destroyed. Char, I am returning to the ship." a voice said over the com, a female voice, the pilot of Gundam noted.
The flying beam cannons shot past Gundam and as Gundam turned, the pilot could see the pods dock to some new Mobile Armor the Zeon had cooked up.
"Thanks for the help, Gundam and pilot of the Zeon Mobile Armor! We are clear of the engagement, and within the defencive field of the Dorowa." Mira announced over the broadcast channel.
"Gundam, Gunarmor, return to the ship." Captain Spaz ordered. "Roger that, returning." Sean replyied.
Chapter 5
A new face
Pyro set down in one of the landing fields that had been set up for large ships.
"Sean, Sarah, Mike......I need you three to go to the city and do a bit of shopping....here is the list for you. Take one of the cars." Captain Spaz ordered, handing them a list. Sarah handed it to Sean, who handed it to Mike.
"Oh maaan....why do I always get stuck with the lists?" Mike said.
The Armored Car roared out of the open bay doors, dropped a meter, slamming onto the tarmac and jolting the people aboard it, and rocketed down the runway.
"YEEEEHAAAAWWW!!!!"
"Saarraaaahhh!! NOOO!!!! AHHH!!!!"
"HOOLYY GUNDAAAAAM!!!!"
The Car arrived at their first stop, schreaching to a halt just infront of the main doors. Both the pilots of Gundam and Guncannon were completely terrified beyond sanity, their hair blown back and their eyes frozen open. Sarah was laughing still. "Look at you two......snap out of it. We got here, after all." She told them.
The two males more or les fell out of the car. Mike staggered about for a second, seeing nothing but spinning colors, Sean clutching his head and muttering words to himself.
Sarah shrugged, and the two other pilots soon recovered. They went into the store, straight up to the service desk, and showed the clerk the list of need suplies.
"Sure thing, we will have them sent to your ship." the clerk told them.
As soon as they exited the store, shouts could be heard.
"General Aznable! The Red Comet! Yay!" and other such shouts of hero worship rang in the streets.
"Ah....Sean, Sarah, Mike!"
Sean and the others turned and saw the Red Comet standing before them. "Hey there Char! How you doing?" Sean asked. "Pretty good.....I've been training a new pilot before she was to transfer to your ship. I'm not sure where she is right now though.....I think she said she was going to do something." Char told Sean.
"Roger that....Sarah, Mike, I'm going to have a walk around, Char, it was nice to see you again." Sean said. "roger that Sean." Sarah said. "It was nice to see you too, Sean." Char said. "Hey, Char...you want to get some ice cream?" Sarah asked him as Sean walked off, just wandering about.
He soon came across a pond, where several Ducks and Geese were sitting about in the mid-afternoon. He heard a call, and saw a Crane fly down, and land at the waters edge. He saw it look right at him......
"Thats odd, it never does that to just anyone....." a voice behind him said, familliar to him, from the battle a day before.
"hm?" Sean turned around, and saw a lady sitting on a bench, long purple hair flowing down her shoulders and back, wearing a Zeon uniform, and a black leather biker jacket with a strange emblem on the shoulders of it, one Sean was not familliar with. She was looking right at him.
"Who are you?" Sean asked. "The question is really.....Who are we all?" she said gravely, before she flashed him a smile, when he looked confused. "It was a joke.....I'm Brynhild.....and you must be....him....the one I have seen in dreams.....the one who is Earth's doom or destiny....you have such pretty eyes." She said. Sean just looked dumbfounded by now. "uh....um...er....Sean.....my name....er...yeah." he said, unsure of what he should say. "...they are pretty...but with a keen intellect...and an edge...like a Wildcat...." She commented. "...Ironic, that your emblem IS a Wildcat." She said, gesturing toward his uniform sleve, where a Wildcat emblem was emblazoned on it.
"There you are, Brynhild." Sean heard come from his left. he turned and saw Char coming toward them.
"I see you have met Brynhild, the pilot I spoke of earlier. She is excelent in a Mobile Armor.....especially a Newtype Mobile Armor." Char said.
"I...see....hmm...Nice to meet you, Brynhild." Sean said to her. "It was my pleasure to meet you." She said in reply. "I am going to head over to the ship, to fly my unit over to the Alliance ship. See you later, Char." Brynhild told him, as she rose from her seat, and left for the landing fields.
"uh....she is kinda..uhm..." Sean began to say.."...mystirious?" Char finished with a question. "...yeah. Thats it." Sean said.
Char nodded. "She is a Newtype, and a powerful one at that. She has been working with those powers for quite some time now...and Newtypes tend to get perceptive like that after awhile....she had been pretty high up there already when I began the training...and she spooked me even, with her perceptivity. We came across the old Texas Colony, destroyed in the first Imperial attack, and with the civilains in it not having time to evacuate.....it was haunted.....the ghosts of the past just could not rest....she gave them their deserved rest......" Char said.
Sean and Char heard the sound of a Mobile Armor in the distance, and saw it lift off from the Dorowa's landing field and fly over to the Pyro. "Thats the Mobile Armor from yesterday!" Sean said. "Yep, that was her in that.....she built that unit herself." Char told him.
"I see.....nice Mobile Armor." Sean said.
"Well, I should probably get going now...see you later, Sean......" Char said to him before turning to leave. ...Gundam... Sean thought....he turned toward Char on instinct...unsure as to why he thought that word suddenly like that. Char was looking at him, then nooded to himself, then turned and left with a causal salute.
"Char......."