For the sake of this chapter and the next few, there's one more mobile suit that I need to add:
ZGMF-515s CGUE Hunt Nexx Custom
A custom black and red CGUE used by Hunt Nexx, the"Chaos of Grimaldi,"that is barely different from most CGUEs. The output of this CGUE is almost equivalent to that of the ZGMF-515Xs used by Silent Eve, however Hunt's CGUE unit does not have the enhanced battery system and sacrafices it's combat time for it's increased performance. This is unit is used by Hunt Nexx until before he joins the Lander Team and recieves his GuAIZ.
Silent's CGUE, still holding the blue yellow high-maneuver GINN flew at a normal speed towards the December PLANT. Inside his cockpit, Silent took off his helmet and let his hair flow out in the zero gravity. He sighed and then looked towards the GINN on his left screen. "Calling Narcius, mission half-complete. I have recovered one of the stolen GINNs," he announced.
"Understood, Silent," Elly replied. "Captain, Silent has recovered one of the GINNs, sir."
"Very well. Get them back on the Narcius, have a security detail ready for the thief, Elly," George ordered with a slight nod.
"Right, sir. Silent?"
In his cockpit Silent was still glaring at the GINN. In his mind, he was still thinking about who would actually try to attack the December PLANT.
"Silent?" Elly's voice broke his train of thought.
"Yes, hunnie?" he chuckled slightly.
"Not now...Captain wants you to dock both your CGUE and the GINN on the Narcius," Elly relayed.
"Got it."
"And, there will be a security detail waiting when you get there," Elly finished.
"Sounds lovely..." Silent replied with a smile. "See you in a few minutes..."
Elly smiled, "see you soon." She sighed and then leaned back in her seat.
"It's a little late Elly, so go take a break. The PLANT and Narcius is no longer on emergency status," George explained. He gestured slightly, telling her to get off the bridge. Elly yawned and nodded at the same time; she then got up, and left to bridge of the Narcius, heading towards Silent's quarters.
As the two units approached the Narcius, Silent was still glaring at the cockpit of the GINN. Who is in there? He asked himself, can't be from Serpent Tail...or Junk Guild...must be a damn Alliane dispatch... Silent sighed again, and rolled his eyes while maneuvering his CGUE to head straight into the Narcius docking bay. "I wonder..." he whispered to himself when he flipped a switch. The left screen switched from displaying the GINN he was holding, to displaying the inside of the GINNs cockpit. "What the hell...?" he whispered to himself again when his eyes met the sight of a girl clenching herself, and struggling for life in the cockpit. "Oh...what has the Alliance done now...?" he stopped examining the girl when his CGUE finally landed into place inside the docking bay. Silent let go of the GINN, and it too was strapped down. As the unit was being cooled off, Silent looked out and saw Pierre's and Carry's damaged GINNs getting repaired.
The Narcius's docking doors fully closed. The entire docking bay then fully ventilated, and the atmosphere returned to normal. A few ZAFT soldiers armed with guns floated towards Silent's CGUE and the captured GINN. Silent opened the cockpit hatch and stepped took a step outside of his unit to assess the situation at hand. Two of the armed soldiers floated up to Silent's position, and then saluted him "sir, is everything alright, sir?" one of the soldiers asked.
Silent just saluted back and said, "I'm fine, check the pilot of the GINN, I believe that she needs medical attention."
"Sir!" the soldiers saluted back and then joined the others. Silent then followed them down to the GINN.
Three soldiers stood amred & ready a distance from the hatch of the High-Maneuver GINN, with Silent standing behind them. Two other soldiers approached the cockpit hatch from opposite sides, and prepared to blow it open. Those two soldiers looked to Silent, who just nodded in aknowledgement, telling them to open the hatch.
A loud noise of the hatch slamming open filled the docking bay. And in the split seconds that the hatch opened, a figure jumped out and tackled two of the five gaurds. It was the girl that Silent saw. She was screaming in pain as she then back-handed another gaurd into another one.
Silent didn't hesitate and immediately grabbed the girl, and held her down. She kept struggling to get free, but Silent had a firm hold on her. "Let me...go!" she screamed, agony plagued her voice.
Silent was confused. "I'm...ehhh...not holding you...that hard," the two kept on struggling. "Somebody get some restraints or something, NOW!"
Withing seconds, a few ZAFT soldiers floated to Silent and the girl with restraining harnesses. The girl struggled ever so more and kicked one of the soldiers in the face. She then tried to slam Silent into one of the other soldiers, but Silent was able to hold her steady.
Watching them from a distance, Pierre smirked at the events while Carry just watched. "Looks like Silent made a new girlfriend, wonder how long it takes for her to kill him," Pierre chuckled.
"She's really struggling. I mean really struggling," Carry pointed out.
"What do you mean by that?" Pierre looked to Carry.
"Like she's being eaten up from the inside, or something."
"Huh..." Pierre looked back at Silent and the girl. She was finally wrapped up and restrained, but still struggling to get free. "Damn, here I was hoping for a good show, too..."
"You would've lost. My money's on Silent," Carry chuckled. "You just wanna see him get hurt 'cause he's better than you."
"Asshole..." Pierre flicked Carry off. They both laughed for a few seconds and then left the docking bay.
"Quickly," Silent ordered, "take her to medical!"
"Sir!"
Silent sighed at the sight of the struggling girl beign taken away. He then proceeded to leave the docking bay as his CGUE and the other mobile suits were being looked at by the Narcius mechanics. When Silent arrived in his room, a little girl was jumping up and down on his bed, laughing and giggling while holding some of Silent's medals. Silent then noticed that at his desk, Elly had fallen asleep with her uniform half-off. Silent smiled when walked up and kissed Elly while she slept. Silent then tended to Ala, "you really like all my medals?"
Ala laughed and smiled while continuing to jump around, "uh-huh! They're fun!"
Chuckling softly, Silent walked over to Ala and sat on the bed. She stopped jumping and he held her and placed her on his lap. "You know what this one means?" Silent said pointing out some of the medals.
"...no..." Ala shook her head. She held up the heart-shaped medal to Silent.
"It's a Blood Heart. It means I was at the Bloody Valentine incident. I was saving people there too, ya know," he pointed out. "I did everything I could on that day too..." Silent started to whisper.
"Are you...m-my...new daddidy?" Ala struggled to ask.
That's right, she's full Coordinator. No wonder she can already interrogate me..."That's only if your mommy wants me to be." Silent then dozed off, holding Ala who also fell asleep.
Moments later, Elly awakened and looked around. "Oh, Silent's room..." she whispered. Her eyes then came across Silent holding onto Ala while sleeping. "Aww...there so cute together..." she whispered. When she approached the two resting, the computer had turned on, and George was on the screen.
"Silent? You there! Come on, we don't get paid to sleep out here!" George shouted into the communicator.
"Elly here, Silent's sleeping right now, you want me to wake him?" she answered.
"Elly, what-...ohhh...nevermind then. Can you just wake up Silent, we need him immediately."
"Sure..." she then turned to Silent and shook his shoulder. "Hey, wake up sleepy-head."
Silent sighed briefly before fully waking up, "huh? Hey...how are you?" he lightly whispered as he tried to stretch his arms.
"I'm fine. You two look cute together..." Elly chuckled slightly, brushing Ala's face. "The captain wants to see you..." she said as she looked into Silent's eyes.
"Okay...I'll be back as soon as I can," Silent said as he picked up Ala and gave her to Elly. "You two just wait here and get some rest..."
Elly smiled back as Silent left the room. She lay back in his bed with Ala and pulled the sheets over them. She closed her eyes and began to think about Silent. When the war's over...we can truly be together... she whispered in her mind.
Silent arrived on the bridge of the Narcius. George was sitting in his chair, stroking his mustache while examining something on the screen in front of him. Silent approached George and was able to fully see the image on the screen; it was the girl that Silent had brought onto the ship, she was tied down toa medical bed but was still violently struggling to get free.
"She's very agressive, but not intentionally..." George pointed out.
"What do you mean?" Silent asked.
"She's not really doing all of that by her free will. According to the physician, she's in a lot of pain."
"Maybe she wouldn't be in a lot of pain if she wasn't struggling so much. Then again...she was clenching her stomache in a fetal position before we got inside the Narcius."
"Is that so...well then I guess something must seriously be wrong with her," George sighed and took another sip of coffee. He continued to look at the screen, watching the girl struggle for life, "so...what is she, Serpent Tail? Junk Guild?"
"Neither," Silent leaned over to get closer to the computer screen. "I think that she's Alliance, if not, a Blue Cosmos terrorist."
"Hmm..." then the physician came on board the bridge and saluted Silent and George. Silent and George quickly returned their salutes, "so...what's the status doctor?"
"Well...for one thing this subject is very strange..."
"What do you mean?" Silent asked, raising an eyebrow in suspicion.
"She's a natural, no doubt but there's something else about her. Our medical scans revealed that there are several micro-implants that have been fitted into her brain and several of her bodily glands," the physician pointed out.
"Huh...meaning what exactly?" George inquired.
"Meaning she's a natural, that's been cybernetically-enhanced in some ways. In our quick analysis, it's hypothesized that she could very much have abilities equal to or greater than Coordinators."
Silence reigned the bridge at that statement. All the personnel listening to the situation had surprised faces that exchanged with George's own surprised look. Silent went into a slight thinking pose, and began to contemplate what was just said.
"Plus," the physician began to examine his report, "the micro-implants in her brain are somewhat also centered in her madula oblongata. She could have no fear and be very agressive when it comes to combat."
"So how do you explain her current problems?" Silent pointed to the screen.
"Well...we took a blood sample from her to find out her problem."
"And what did you find?"
"There are traces of the Natural drug Gamma Glipheptin in her system. I believe that she's currently experiencing the agonizing withdrawl symptoms of the drug."
"Glipheptin...I know that drug..." George whispered.
Silent caught sound of what George said, "sir?"
"Gamma Glipheptin is a kind of steroid drug introduceda long time ago when Coordinators were first living on Earth. The stimulant increases stamina and reaction time of naturals for a certain period of time. That allows Naturals to physically compete with Coordinators before the drug wears off."
"Can we synthesize any Glipheptin ourselves, doctor?" Silent asked.
"What?" the physician was puzzled.
"Let's give her some Glipheptin, I want to ask her a few questions. If that's alright with you, Captain."
"Can it be done, doctor?" George looked to the physician.
"Give me 10 minutes, I think I can make a normal dose to calm her down, sir."
"You have five, I don't want this poor girl dying on us, got it?" George ordered.
"It's done, sir," the physician saluted George and Silent again, who saluted back, and then the Physician left the bridge.
"I see that you and Elly are doing good," George chuckled slightly. Silent didn't say anything. "Just remember, both of you are soldiers, like me and everyone else on this ship. ZAFT's not really concerned about fraternization, but-"
"Just keep business as business and separate from pleasure," Silent finished off George's sentence.
"Something like that. Just don't your feelings interrupt you, okay? Chairman Zala is looks highly about you like you're his son, you know."
"I know all that. He's supported me a lot since my father past. He and Siegel Clyne have been there for me, and I haven't let them down as of yet, George."
"Just don't start now, Silent. And remember, the Clyne's are wanted for treason." George pointed out.
Silent left the bridge. He wandered throughout the ship thinking about his father and Patrick Zala. He looked out one of the Narcius windows towards the PLANT. Silent began to remember his father's funeral, 11 years ago. Then his mind wandered to Siegel Clyne, who gave Silent the sword that he wears on his ZAFT uniform. After some time, Silent began walking again and arrived at the medical bay of the Narcius. He walked inside and saw the physician administering to the girl his dose of Glipheptin.
"She stabalzing now, doctor?"
After the girl struggled a little, then calmed down, the doctor backed away and looked to Silent. "She'll be fine now, so give her about a minute to fully recover."
"Thank you, doctor. Can you leave us alone for a while, I need to get some answers."
"Just wait for her to recover a little," the physician said as he left the medical bay.
When the doors closed, the hissing sound had startled the girl. She snapped her head around and was scared out of her mind. "What's going on? Where am I!" she shouted.
"Hey, calm down. You're already strapped to a bed as it is, you don't need to struggle anymore," Silent pointed out.
"You're the one that was holding me in the hangar?"
"Yea, now then, straight to the point. You're on a ZAFT carrier next to a December colony PLANT. Who ever you're working for is not gonna help you, now who are you?"
The girl just remained quiet. She looked away from Silent instead of trying to address him directly.
"Alright, alright. I figure you don't want to tell me anything until I tell you something?" Silent inquired.
The girl continued to remain quiet until she looked at Silent in the eyes. Quietly, she gazed into his silver-colored eyes, covered by his slate-colored hair.
"I'll take that as a yes," Silent sighed. "My name is Silent Eve. I'm head mobile suit pilot on this ship. Now, who are you?"
"I'm..." she began to hesitate.
"I kinda saved your life. That Gamma Glipheptin could've killed you if I hadn't asked the doctor to give you some," Silent explained as he detached his sword from his hip and placed it on the bed next to the gir.
The girl sighed again. "I'm...Naomi. Naomi Kusanagi."
"Okay, Naomi. Who do you work for, the Alliance or Blue Cosmos?" Silent continued to inquire.
Naomi tried to stay quiet. She looked away from Silent and towards the different medical supplies. "If I tell you things, will you-"
"We'll supply you with Gamma Glipheptin so that you won't kill yourself. However, you will still be a prisoner of depending on what you tell us, okay?"
"I'm a Second Lieutenant in the Earth Alliance. I don't really have a full designation as a pilot and most of my records in service are erased."
"Oh...why's that?" Silent was now more intrigued by Elly.
"They designate me as a Living or Biological CPU..."
"Biological CPU..." Silent began to ponder on what she said for a few seconds. "...Does that explain the micro-implants throughout your body and brain?"
"Yes...I'm cybernetically enhanced as a Natural to exceed you Coordinators...and the Glipheptin helps give me physical boosts as well," Naomi continued to explain. Silent remained quiet to hear more from Naomi. "And my rank probably means nothing...because the big-heads in the Alliance regard me as equipment..."
"Don't take this the wrong way, but...the Alliance is treating you as if you're a pilot whore." Naomi continued started to remain quiet. "You essentially sold yourself to be erased, and then made better to be called a piece of equipment. Sounds like they turned you into a whore to me."
Noami was now slightly agitated by Silent's statement. "...I'm not a whore, you asshole."
"No you're not...and I'll admit, you are actually pretty attractive for a Natural. But, what were you really doing out here?"
Naomi tried to keep quiet about it. She didn't want give off any more information about her ship mates and their full plans. She thought quickly, piecing together little bits to give off a deceptive plan. "We were just trying to sneak in and destroy the PLANT if we couldn't...uhh...hold it hostage..." she sighed out.
"I see. Well...some of that information is good enough for me." Silent stood up and re-equipped his sword to his hip.
"What's that sword for?" Naomi asked, pointing to the sword with her face.
"This sword is just a re-scaled version of a CGUEs sword. It's fromtwo great men whose families have been mine, and I would always protect them," Silent explained as he finished equipping his sword.
"What are you, some kind of Coordinated Knight," Naomi sarcastically said.
"Yes and no. You were just beaten out there in space by me. I'm the Knight of December, and don't you forget it." Silent began to take steps closer to Naomi. He unsheathed his sword and pointed it at her, the tip inches from her face.
"Is this where you threaten me?" Naomi said in a cute and innocent tone. She barely leaned forward and started to lick the point of Silent's sword. She continued to play with the sword with her tongue.
"You can't use sex to tempt me. This is a war, and you're my enemy for now." Silent pulled the sword away from her mouth. He then used to sword to cut the restraints on Naomi, and then he fully sheathed his sword. "I'm taking you to the brig myself. It's a change in the living conditions, but it has to be done." Silent held Naomi's arm, and started to take her out of the medical bay and towards the brig of the Narcius.
As they were walking through the halls of the Narcius, Pierre stopped them before they could get to the brig.Pierredidn't even render to Silent asalute. "Yo Silent, Chairman Zala wants to see you in December City ASAP. So, when you finish with you're date, get to the PLANT."
"Thank you, Pierre," Silent acknowledged and Pierre left. "Asshole..." Silent whispered as he continued with Naomi.
In another part of space, at the Mendel colony, a group of Alliance Strike Daggers were moving throughout the colony areas. Their mobile suits grouped in teams of three, 18 of the them total. They were ready to engage any enemy mobile suit in their path. Suddenly in front of them, were two GINNs, with normal colors. One armed with a Barrus heavy cannon and the other with a simple machine gun. They opened fire and immediately took off in opposite directions.
Two Strike Daggers were alreadydestroyed by the blast of the Barrus cannon, and another was heavily damaged from machine gun fire. However, this did not stop the other Daggers from pursuing the GINNs. Four teams pressed for the GINN with the Barrus cannon and the last two chased the GINN armed with the machine gun. The Strike Daggers were opening fire, one after another. Their continuing volleys of beam weapons lit up the empty space colony. The GINN then threw it's Barrus cannon into their line of fire, and it was hit and destroyed. The explosion slightly surpirsed the Strike Daggers and theyceased fire, no longer detecting the GINNs movements.
Suddenly, two more Strike Daggers, the ones farthest behind were destroyed. The others scrambled to assess where the shots came from, and then they detected the GINN again. However, in that instant that the GINN was detected, the front two most Strike Daggers were destroyed again.
"What! Where are they comming from!"
The confused Strike Daggers began firing in random directions. Then an object appeared behind some of the debris. It then quickly dashed to another object of debris. It had to be a mobile suit. Then the GINN distracted the Strike Daggers again by moving in with its sword. The Strike Daggers all faced the GINN and started to open fire. The mysterious mobile suit moved in again, and landed directly in the middle of the Daggers. They all faced the unit as light finally hit the mobile suit, revealing it's identity. It was black and red CGUE, and it's mono eye flashed and eerie purple glow before it would make its move. The CGUE moved its left arm with the Shield and Vulcan system across it's chest, targetting the Strike Daggers on his right side, and the it's right arm with it's machine gun towards the left side. Then the CGUE opened fire so quickly it destroyed the Daggers. The CGUE shifted positions again. This time the left arm was facing front, and the right arm with his machine gun was facing back, and opened fire again, destroying another three Daggers. Again the CGUE shifted positions, extending both arms to opposite ends and firing and destroying another two Strike Daggers. The one that was left tried to escape, but the CGUE pulled out it's heavy sword and sliced at the lone Dagger twice. The Strike Dagger was cut into four pieces and exploded.
The CGUE moved out of the colony area and joined the two GINNs.
"How did you two do?" a deep and mature voice came from the CGUE.
"We finished off the other units that went after Rell, sir," one GINN pilots congradulated.
"That's good, let's head back to the ship."
"Yes, sir," the GINNs acknowledged.
"Captain Nexx, sir, how do you think the Alliance will explain this one, sir?" one of the pilots asked as the GINNs and the CGUE moved back to their Vesalius class vessel.
"Hmm...they'll think about the chaos of the battle, and remember Grimaldi. But the Alliance's lack of honor forces them to send troops blindly against a superior opponent," replied Hunt Nexx, the pilot of the black and red CGUE. "We're only getting minor skirmishes these days since Operation Spitbreak, and I'm finding them dead boring."
"Well, sir, there's a rumor that the Alliance is trying to produce more advanced mobile suits to take on ours," one pilot added.
"I don't think that would be a good thing for us. After all, one of ZAFTs mobile suits were stolen, allegedly by the Alliance with the help of the Clyne's," the other pilot added.
"But ZAFT's making new mobile suits too," the other pilot argued.
"That's true..."
But theirs still no response to my units request for high-mobility GINNs. It'll be too hard for my teammates to take newer enemy mobile suits soon, Hunt thought to himself as their mobile suits were about to dock with their Vesalius vessel. Damn the Alliance, they're probably gonna release their last human weapons to beat the Coordinators...
"Captain," a communication came from the ship. "We have an order from December City. It's from Chairman Zala, he wants to see you ASAP, sir."
"Roger. Hmm...what does Zala want with me now?" Hunt wispered.