Ranma Gundam 2008
By Tekkaman Xero
Chapter 5: A traitor in LONO!!
It had been several weeks since the battle with Ryoga and Mousse. Akane's burns had healed, for the most part(she had acquired Ranma's rather quick healing ability during the course of her training, though not nearly as developed), but as had been predicted, Ryoga's appearance on the enemy forces, along with the revelation of certain secrets, had taken it's toll mentally.
Akane refused to ever pilot a Mobile Suit again. Ranma and Xero had little luck in trying to get her to continue helping, and Nikita had even less luck. It was looking like the Alliance had lost one of it's best pilots.
But a more disturbing matter concerned LONO. They hadn't made a move since the attacks, which was very unlike them. It was bothering Joe to no end. Plus there was that little secret project he'd started last week that he wished he could personally supervise.
LONO mobile HQ #687: Somewhere in Australia.
"YOU LIED TO ME!!! You told me that the Alliance was evil!!"
Ryoga was pissed about how he had been misled. So was Mousse, but for now, Mousse was keeping silent. He had to think of a way to get out of LONO and still get his precious Shampoo.
"They are evil. If they weren't, your enemy Ranma Saotome wouldn't have joined."
"Akane would NEVER join the side of darkness!!!"
"Look, kid, I don't know what delusional world you live in, but the Alliance is evil incarnate by defending those countries from our attacks. Evil must be purged and we're the ones who must do it."
This guy sounds like a more modernized Kuno!!! "Whatever. I don't care anymore. I'm leaving LONO."
The LONO commander snapped his fingers and several men with large guns entered, training said weapons on Ryoga.
Now, Ryoga was unquestionably Ranma's greatest rival, and probably among the best martial artists in the world, but he was pretty sure that the Bakusai Tenketsu training wouldn't save him a gun. Add that to the fact that there are more people holding the guns than he could possibly defeat before someone shot him, and he knew he was trapped.
"Kid, no one leaves LONO alive before we win this war. You either continue to fight with us, or you die."
"You bastards.."
Mousse then realized that he couldn't continue serving LONO. For the first time ever, he decided to cancel his pursuit of Shampoo until he could take care of something else.
Both were trapped. But Ryoga was already formulating a plan.
"Listen up, you two, you'll be leading an attack on the Grey Phantom in two days. I want you to work with our tactical expert to devise an effective strategy. And no calling off the troops to fight one-on-one."
Ryoga and Mousse both saluted, "Understood, sir." However, the contempt they now held for this man they made no attempt to hide.
Nerima.
Nabiki had just sent her latest report to her Alliance contacts. She never thought this task would be so difficult. So far all her leads had hit dead ends. All she knew for sure was that the traitor was so high up in the ranks of the Alliance that it was easy to encrypt files to the point where NO ONE could look at them. And if she didn't get into those files, she couldn't find the traitor. She'd used the contacts she reported her findings to as a source of information. The more she helped, the more info she got about how Ranma and Akane were doing. Even if she couldn't find what she needed, the Alliance was more than happy to supply her with information as payment for as much aid as possible. She was positive there were others on the same task, though, and this eased her mind quite a bit.
Relaxing after sending the report, she went over what she knew about Ranma and Akane. She knew that they were both MS pilots on a special assault unit, and that Ukyo and Shampoo had recently joined the unit. She had few details, but also knew they were piloting the Alliance's most advanced MS.
Then there was the bad news she had received weeks ago. It was not information given in exchange for her help, it had been a notice to everyone in the family. It was about Akane's injury in the fight. The report had not mentioned that Ryoga had been the one at fault, but Nabiki did a little side hacking while working and discovered that Ranma's report confirmed the pilot of the suit was Ryoga. She'd make sure to make Ryoga's life a living hell if he ever showed his face around Nerima again.
Kasumi had been too shocked to speak when they got the news, and her father had been crying for days. However, when they received word that Akane was recovering just fine, Soun had come out of that state and things were beginning to return to normal. Or as normal as things can get with Ranma and Akane gone.
Grey Phantom, en route to Australia to investigate rumored LONO activity.
"Ranma!" Xero called.
"Yo?" As usual, Ranma was in his Gundam, practicing. The Mobile Trace System/Virtual Environment cockpit had allowed Ranma to practice with his Mobile Suit while also keeping up his martial arts training, while not having to separate both activities. Currently has was running a simulation of a fight with Ryoga's Sazabi. Ranma was beyond certain that he would face Ryoga again, and he wanted to be ready.
"After this mission, it might be best to return Akane to Nerima."
"I agree, there. but didn't you say we couldn't leave because of what we've seen?"
"She'd officially be an Alliance member on medical leave. I'm thinking a visit with her family might get her back in the cockpit, and if it doesn't, then we don't have to worry about her."
Meanwhile, said person was in her quarters, silently crying to herself. She'd never felt more betrayed in her life. First finding Ryoga had joined LONO just so he could fight Ranma! Then finding out he was P-chan!! Right now, she just wanted to shut herself out and die. But she knew that was the coward's way out.
When Akane had asked to talk to Ranma after she woke up when she first got injured, she had flat-out stated she would never fly a Mobile Suit again. Through Ranma's talk it was clear that her confidence had been badly damaged. For a short while Ranma had been keeping an eye on Akane to make sure she didn't kill herself. She had been slipping into a deep depression, but Ranma had determined she didn't want to take the coward's way out, she was above that. But, Ranma knew it was a sign of hope, that there was a chance that even if they couldn't get her to pilot again, she would at least snap out of her depression.
She missed her family, too. She was also wishing she could go home.
Two days later.
"Captain on deck!" Nikita shouted. Every person on the hangar deck snapped to attention(including Ranma's Gundam).
"As you were." Joe said as he made his way to Ranma.
"I've gotten approval for Akane to return to Nerima on medical leave after this mission is over. She'll need a physician's checkup while she's there."
"Why are you telling me? Shouldn't you be telling HER?"
Joe handed Ranma the folder containing the written approval. "I think it would be better for you to tell her. You're closer to her than anyone else on this ship."
"I see."
At the point there was an explosion, and the ship went to Red Alert. Joe rushed to the bridge. "Report!"
"Ten stars of Mobile Suits are attacking us from below!"
"Battle stations!! Deploy all Mobile Suits!!!"
The MS pilots immediately scrambled to power up their suits. Xero was the first to be ready. Reports showed at least two stars were Goufs, so he opened up the GP-01's Flight Mode, and Nikita with done the same with the Mk. II.
Ranma was next in line, having already been in his MS, he needed to only switch it over from simulation mode to combat mode.
Ukyo, Shampoo, and Blair had not been on the flight deck and therefore were the last to get powered up and ready to deploy.
"Captain," Xero asked, "When will we get some reinforcements?"
"The Australian Army doesn't have Mobile Suits but they're sending some planes to give us some support. There are two Salamis cruisers about 30 minutes away, but that's all."
"All, right, people, you heard him. We have limited combat abilities but we gotta try and hold our own for at least 30 minutes!!!"
The suits were then launched. Xero and Nikita headed for the Goufs while the others headed for the ground targets.
Blair's voice rang through the radio. "Visual confirmation! The two leading MS are the Sazabi and the Kampfer! Saotome! Stay alert, Sazabi seems to be looking for you. Ukyo's is engaged with the Kampfer."
The fight was on. Sure enough, Ryoga was looking for Ranma. But not for the same reason as last time. Soon he had found Ranma, and charged.
This did not go unnoticed by Ranma, and he prepared to fight. However, at the last second, Ryoga veered away, removing his beam saber, he slashed down and destroyed one Gouf and it's Dodai YS carrier. "This is Ryoga Hibiki to the Grey Phantom. I announce my intention to defect."
This caught everyone off-guard. Then Mousse's voice was heard on the radio. "As do I. If you'll just get Miss Kuonji here to stop attacking me."
Ukyo had been wondering why Mousse had not made an offensive move. Her GM Cannon was much slower that the Kampfer, after all. But upon hearing that, she broke off her attack.
LONO mobile HQ #687
"Dammit!! I knew I should've installed that system in both of their units!! Listen, assault team! Destroy the Sazabi and the Kampfer! Their pilots must not be allowed to defect." He sat back and sighed. "Doctor, how much time until we can hit Mousse's auto-eject and bring him back here for your mental reconditioning?"
"The Mobile Suits programming does now allow an ejection unless the situation is dangerous. First, we need to be within 25 miles, and since the remote unit's concept of "danger" is more vague, all we have to do then is wait for it to get low on ammuniation.
"Good. If we can't have them both, we'll have one!"
Back at the battlefield, the addition of Ryoga and Mousse in the fight against LONO had made a considerable difference. So far, only Blair had been shot down, but there was no severe damage. The GM could be fixed easily, and Blair probably wouldn't be spending much time in the infirmary. Things were looking up, and the arrival of the two Salamis cruisers made all the difference. Though heavily outnumbered (A/N: Ten stars = 50 Mobile Suits!!! The Grey Phantom had six units deployed, and each Salamis only carries twelve), the GM Custom was more advanced than the Zakus and Goufs the LONO Forces used. Had LONO used it's more advanced Doms and Gelgoogs, the Alliance may have lost. As it was, the battle was beginning to wind down.
And Mousse was running low on ammo.
"Two Musais have been sighted nearby!! They're staying on the edge of the battle zone and are not deploying any Mobile Suits!"
"Captain, I'm picking up a transmission to the Kampfer. It looks an override command!"
"What the hell?! My controls just froze!!!"
At that point, the Kampfer's escape capsule flew out. A LONO Mobile Suit grabbed it and returned to the Musais. The rest of the LONO forces also retreated.
"Recover the Kampfer body and all Mobile Suits. Any idea what the transmission was?"
"It was definitely an override command set to jettison the Kampfer's escape pod. For some reason, I would think they really don't want to give up Mousse as a pilot."
But why not Ryoga?
"Captain, all units recovered. Kampfer is being locked down by Ranma."
"Have Ranma, Ryoga, and Xero meet me in my quarters."
End chapter 5:
Author's notes: You didn't think I'd KEEP Ryoga on LONO did you? However, Mousse presented a problem. According to Amazon Law, Mousse is not worthy of Shampoo. He sees defeating Ranma as his only way of proving himself worthy. Though I doubt defeating him in a Mobile Suit battle would count, he doesn't care. I made it clear he no longer wants to be in LONO, knowing he'll have to fight against Shampoo as well. But LONO has other plans. I told you before, I got big plans for Mousse.
Also, Akane WILL be coming back to Grey Phantom. Whether as a pilot, or something else, I do not know. SOMEONE from the Ranma cast will pilot the rebuilt Kampfer for the Alliance. No idea who, yet, though, since they have to replace the cockpit block and they don't know how the cockpit was set up(they need to examine it and find out, first).
I'm sorry it took so long to get this out, and this chapter is definitely rushed. But I have had several problems in real life that have prevented me from writing. That, and most of my writing time has been going towards to my new fanfic(which I intend to be the best fanfic I've written thus far. I'm taking extreme care with it). On another note, when a friend of mine looked over my MS plan for this fic he pointed out I was jumping ahead too much in reference to a special surprise I had planned for near the end. He suggested I "step up" to the idea, so to speak. As a result, Xero will be getting another Gundam that he wasn't originally going to have. However, this then raises the issue of who will get GP-01 afterwards. I'd like your suggestions on this matter, so PLEASE e-mail me or psot your opinion in a review!
Also, anyone who can guess what the new Gundam Xero will get will have the privilege of being a pre-reader for my new fanfic. Here is your ONLY hint:
It has two VERY powerful beam rifles
Before you make your guesses, I will point out that it is NOT the Wing Gundam Zero(as the beam rifle hint might lead you to believe). Ranma Gundam 2008 uses NO mecha from ANY Alternate Universe production, with the exception of the Shining Gundam(and whatever Gundam Ranma ends up with after Shining). But you have to admit, G Gundam Gundams are much better for someone like Ranma.
Chapter 5: A traitor in LONO!!
It had been several weeks since the battle with Ryoga and Mousse. Akane's burns had healed, for the most part(she had acquired Ranma's rather quick healing ability during the course of her training, though not nearly as developed), but as had been predicted, Ryoga's appearance on the enemy forces, along with the revelation of certain secrets, had taken it's toll mentally.
Akane refused to ever pilot a Mobile Suit again. Ranma and Xero had little luck in trying to get her to continue helping, and Nikita had even less luck. It was looking like the Alliance had lost one of it's best pilots.
But a more disturbing matter concerned LONO. They hadn't made a move since the attacks, which was very unlike them. It was bothering Joe to no end. Plus there was that little secret project he'd started last week that he wished he could personally supervise.
LONO mobile HQ #687: Somewhere in Australia.
"YOU LIED TO ME!!! You told me that the Alliance was evil!!"
Ryoga was pissed about how he had been misled. So was Mousse, but for now, Mousse was keeping silent. He had to think of a way to get out of LONO and still get his precious Shampoo.
"They are evil. If they weren't, your enemy Ranma Saotome wouldn't have joined."
"Akane would NEVER join the side of darkness!!!"
"Look, kid, I don't know what delusional world you live in, but the Alliance is evil incarnate by defending those countries from our attacks. Evil must be purged and we're the ones who must do it."
This guy sounds like a more modernized Kuno!!! "Whatever. I don't care anymore. I'm leaving LONO."
The LONO commander snapped his fingers and several men with large guns entered, training said weapons on Ryoga.
Now, Ryoga was unquestionably Ranma's greatest rival, and probably among the best martial artists in the world, but he was pretty sure that the Bakusai Tenketsu training wouldn't save him a gun. Add that to the fact that there are more people holding the guns than he could possibly defeat before someone shot him, and he knew he was trapped.
"Kid, no one leaves LONO alive before we win this war. You either continue to fight with us, or you die."
"You bastards.."
Mousse then realized that he couldn't continue serving LONO. For the first time ever, he decided to cancel his pursuit of Shampoo until he could take care of something else.
Both were trapped. But Ryoga was already formulating a plan.
"Listen up, you two, you'll be leading an attack on the Grey Phantom in two days. I want you to work with our tactical expert to devise an effective strategy. And no calling off the troops to fight one-on-one."
Ryoga and Mousse both saluted, "Understood, sir." However, the contempt they now held for this man they made no attempt to hide.
Nerima.
Nabiki had just sent her latest report to her Alliance contacts. She never thought this task would be so difficult. So far all her leads had hit dead ends. All she knew for sure was that the traitor was so high up in the ranks of the Alliance that it was easy to encrypt files to the point where NO ONE could look at them. And if she didn't get into those files, she couldn't find the traitor. She'd used the contacts she reported her findings to as a source of information. The more she helped, the more info she got about how Ranma and Akane were doing. Even if she couldn't find what she needed, the Alliance was more than happy to supply her with information as payment for as much aid as possible. She was positive there were others on the same task, though, and this eased her mind quite a bit.
Relaxing after sending the report, she went over what she knew about Ranma and Akane. She knew that they were both MS pilots on a special assault unit, and that Ukyo and Shampoo had recently joined the unit. She had few details, but also knew they were piloting the Alliance's most advanced MS.
Then there was the bad news she had received weeks ago. It was not information given in exchange for her help, it had been a notice to everyone in the family. It was about Akane's injury in the fight. The report had not mentioned that Ryoga had been the one at fault, but Nabiki did a little side hacking while working and discovered that Ranma's report confirmed the pilot of the suit was Ryoga. She'd make sure to make Ryoga's life a living hell if he ever showed his face around Nerima again.
Kasumi had been too shocked to speak when they got the news, and her father had been crying for days. However, when they received word that Akane was recovering just fine, Soun had come out of that state and things were beginning to return to normal. Or as normal as things can get with Ranma and Akane gone.
Grey Phantom, en route to Australia to investigate rumored LONO activity.
"Ranma!" Xero called.
"Yo?" As usual, Ranma was in his Gundam, practicing. The Mobile Trace System/Virtual Environment cockpit had allowed Ranma to practice with his Mobile Suit while also keeping up his martial arts training, while not having to separate both activities. Currently has was running a simulation of a fight with Ryoga's Sazabi. Ranma was beyond certain that he would face Ryoga again, and he wanted to be ready.
"After this mission, it might be best to return Akane to Nerima."
"I agree, there. but didn't you say we couldn't leave because of what we've seen?"
"She'd officially be an Alliance member on medical leave. I'm thinking a visit with her family might get her back in the cockpit, and if it doesn't, then we don't have to worry about her."
Meanwhile, said person was in her quarters, silently crying to herself. She'd never felt more betrayed in her life. First finding Ryoga had joined LONO just so he could fight Ranma! Then finding out he was P-chan!! Right now, she just wanted to shut herself out and die. But she knew that was the coward's way out.
When Akane had asked to talk to Ranma after she woke up when she first got injured, she had flat-out stated she would never fly a Mobile Suit again. Through Ranma's talk it was clear that her confidence had been badly damaged. For a short while Ranma had been keeping an eye on Akane to make sure she didn't kill herself. She had been slipping into a deep depression, but Ranma had determined she didn't want to take the coward's way out, she was above that. But, Ranma knew it was a sign of hope, that there was a chance that even if they couldn't get her to pilot again, she would at least snap out of her depression.
She missed her family, too. She was also wishing she could go home.
Two days later.
"Captain on deck!" Nikita shouted. Every person on the hangar deck snapped to attention(including Ranma's Gundam).
"As you were." Joe said as he made his way to Ranma.
"I've gotten approval for Akane to return to Nerima on medical leave after this mission is over. She'll need a physician's checkup while she's there."
"Why are you telling me? Shouldn't you be telling HER?"
Joe handed Ranma the folder containing the written approval. "I think it would be better for you to tell her. You're closer to her than anyone else on this ship."
"I see."
At the point there was an explosion, and the ship went to Red Alert. Joe rushed to the bridge. "Report!"
"Ten stars of Mobile Suits are attacking us from below!"
"Battle stations!! Deploy all Mobile Suits!!!"
The MS pilots immediately scrambled to power up their suits. Xero was the first to be ready. Reports showed at least two stars were Goufs, so he opened up the GP-01's Flight Mode, and Nikita with done the same with the Mk. II.
Ranma was next in line, having already been in his MS, he needed to only switch it over from simulation mode to combat mode.
Ukyo, Shampoo, and Blair had not been on the flight deck and therefore were the last to get powered up and ready to deploy.
"Captain," Xero asked, "When will we get some reinforcements?"
"The Australian Army doesn't have Mobile Suits but they're sending some planes to give us some support. There are two Salamis cruisers about 30 minutes away, but that's all."
"All, right, people, you heard him. We have limited combat abilities but we gotta try and hold our own for at least 30 minutes!!!"
The suits were then launched. Xero and Nikita headed for the Goufs while the others headed for the ground targets.
Blair's voice rang through the radio. "Visual confirmation! The two leading MS are the Sazabi and the Kampfer! Saotome! Stay alert, Sazabi seems to be looking for you. Ukyo's is engaged with the Kampfer."
The fight was on. Sure enough, Ryoga was looking for Ranma. But not for the same reason as last time. Soon he had found Ranma, and charged.
This did not go unnoticed by Ranma, and he prepared to fight. However, at the last second, Ryoga veered away, removing his beam saber, he slashed down and destroyed one Gouf and it's Dodai YS carrier. "This is Ryoga Hibiki to the Grey Phantom. I announce my intention to defect."
This caught everyone off-guard. Then Mousse's voice was heard on the radio. "As do I. If you'll just get Miss Kuonji here to stop attacking me."
Ukyo had been wondering why Mousse had not made an offensive move. Her GM Cannon was much slower that the Kampfer, after all. But upon hearing that, she broke off her attack.
LONO mobile HQ #687
"Dammit!! I knew I should've installed that system in both of their units!! Listen, assault team! Destroy the Sazabi and the Kampfer! Their pilots must not be allowed to defect." He sat back and sighed. "Doctor, how much time until we can hit Mousse's auto-eject and bring him back here for your mental reconditioning?"
"The Mobile Suits programming does now allow an ejection unless the situation is dangerous. First, we need to be within 25 miles, and since the remote unit's concept of "danger" is more vague, all we have to do then is wait for it to get low on ammuniation.
"Good. If we can't have them both, we'll have one!"
Back at the battlefield, the addition of Ryoga and Mousse in the fight against LONO had made a considerable difference. So far, only Blair had been shot down, but there was no severe damage. The GM could be fixed easily, and Blair probably wouldn't be spending much time in the infirmary. Things were looking up, and the arrival of the two Salamis cruisers made all the difference. Though heavily outnumbered (A/N: Ten stars = 50 Mobile Suits!!! The Grey Phantom had six units deployed, and each Salamis only carries twelve), the GM Custom was more advanced than the Zakus and Goufs the LONO Forces used. Had LONO used it's more advanced Doms and Gelgoogs, the Alliance may have lost. As it was, the battle was beginning to wind down.
And Mousse was running low on ammo.
"Two Musais have been sighted nearby!! They're staying on the edge of the battle zone and are not deploying any Mobile Suits!"
"Captain, I'm picking up a transmission to the Kampfer. It looks an override command!"
"What the hell?! My controls just froze!!!"
At that point, the Kampfer's escape capsule flew out. A LONO Mobile Suit grabbed it and returned to the Musais. The rest of the LONO forces also retreated.
"Recover the Kampfer body and all Mobile Suits. Any idea what the transmission was?"
"It was definitely an override command set to jettison the Kampfer's escape pod. For some reason, I would think they really don't want to give up Mousse as a pilot."
But why not Ryoga?
"Captain, all units recovered. Kampfer is being locked down by Ranma."
"Have Ranma, Ryoga, and Xero meet me in my quarters."
End chapter 5:
Author's notes: You didn't think I'd KEEP Ryoga on LONO did you? However, Mousse presented a problem. According to Amazon Law, Mousse is not worthy of Shampoo. He sees defeating Ranma as his only way of proving himself worthy. Though I doubt defeating him in a Mobile Suit battle would count, he doesn't care. I made it clear he no longer wants to be in LONO, knowing he'll have to fight against Shampoo as well. But LONO has other plans. I told you before, I got big plans for Mousse.
Also, Akane WILL be coming back to Grey Phantom. Whether as a pilot, or something else, I do not know. SOMEONE from the Ranma cast will pilot the rebuilt Kampfer for the Alliance. No idea who, yet, though, since they have to replace the cockpit block and they don't know how the cockpit was set up(they need to examine it and find out, first).
I'm sorry it took so long to get this out, and this chapter is definitely rushed. But I have had several problems in real life that have prevented me from writing. That, and most of my writing time has been going towards to my new fanfic(which I intend to be the best fanfic I've written thus far. I'm taking extreme care with it). On another note, when a friend of mine looked over my MS plan for this fic he pointed out I was jumping ahead too much in reference to a special surprise I had planned for near the end. He suggested I "step up" to the idea, so to speak. As a result, Xero will be getting another Gundam that he wasn't originally going to have. However, this then raises the issue of who will get GP-01 afterwards. I'd like your suggestions on this matter, so PLEASE e-mail me or psot your opinion in a review!
Also, anyone who can guess what the new Gundam Xero will get will have the privilege of being a pre-reader for my new fanfic. Here is your ONLY hint:
It has two VERY powerful beam rifles
Before you make your guesses, I will point out that it is NOT the Wing Gundam Zero(as the beam rifle hint might lead you to believe). Ranma Gundam 2008 uses NO mecha from ANY Alternate Universe production, with the exception of the Shining Gundam(and whatever Gundam Ranma ends up with after Shining). But you have to admit, G Gundam Gundams are much better for someone like Ranma.