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All right, here comes the legal mumbo jumbo. Gundam is owned by the Bandai Co. so I can't profit from this venture. Nor will anyone else. Or heads will roll.. I mean it.
Chapter 10- Clash by the Shore
The blonde-haired pilot calmly sat as he watched trees pass by the flatbed truck. I wonder if this entire planet is this beautiful. Orza looked at the driver, and the man was focused on his driving.
"When do we arrive at our target?" "It should be about twenty kilometers down the road." "Oh good. We're ahead of schedule." A slight grin appeared on his face. Hopefully none of my missiles will go astray.
His red eyes looked in awe at the trees as they went further down the road.
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Alex opened the door to the conference room and saw Hilde, Toki, and the fair-haired Lady Une as they waited for him.
The brunette yawned. "Alright. What's so important that it requires me to wake up at 6:00AM in the morning?" He staggered to his seat with a hand over his mouth.
"It's been a month since your team's raid on that warehouse."
"Yeah, so?"
"For that month this team has had a break."
The gray-haired technician looked over at his leader. Here I thought we were in a slow spell. I wonder if anything happened.
"For that reason I haven't brought up this assignment."
"What's that?"
Lady Une reached down and pulled out three files from her briefcase. Each file had the word 'Urgent' in red on the front. She laid the files down on the table. "Three earth facilities were destroyed this past month."
"Could have been the work of terrorists. Doesn't require us."
"All three were destroyed by mobile suits, and were lead by this mobile suit." The Colonel opened up one of the files, and a picture of a blue mobile suit with spheroid shoulders was at the top of the file. Alex recognized it as the same suit as the one from San Jose. "What do you want us to do about it?" "You're going to stop this mobile suit."
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Location: Caspian Lowlands Oil Refinery. Date: 28, 7, AC-199. Time: 2:55PM.
Oil has been a top business in the Middle East for many years, and, soon after the last battle that White Fang fought, more oil had been discovered in region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. This refinery was of moderate size, but has managed to pump a tremendous amount of oil for businesses on earth and in space.
On the outskirts of the lowlands, five mobile suits approached the refinery. The group was comprised of three Virgos, one Taurus, and the blue mobile suit, Flugtod. The Taurus flew ahead of the group, and the Virgos marched forward toward the refinery. Flugtod halted and watched the mobile suits approach the refinery.
"Level this refinery. Leave nothing standing." The red-eyed pilot said to his men over a communication link.
Orza looked on as his comrades began to make quick work of the refinery. Explosions engulfed oil processors, pipelines burst out with flames, and the main building began to crumble. Though these events would please his objectives, Orza saw something wrong with the place. The explosions are too small. There is next to no oil in this refinery. Orza maneuvered his main camera around and spotted what looked like a train on the horizon. Thought so, they knew we were coming. Did too good of a job on the past few places.
Flugtod charged after the distant train, and left the other mobile suits behind.
"Sir, what you doing?"
"Meet up at the rendezvous after taking the rest of that refinery out. I'll meet you there, later."
"Yes sir." The link went dead.
Flugtod continued toward the train, and gained ground on it. Did they really expect to get away?
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Alex sat horizontally in his seat with only the light from his console to keep him company, while the screen in front of him was completely black. The blue-eyed pilot reached forward and a communication link to Hilde appeared.
"I can't believe this plan."
"Believe it. It's better that way."
"No. I mean, this is a crazy idea. Using a refinery as a decoy, while we are stuck here waiting for God knows what." He bickered. "I bet they won't come to that refinery in the first place."
"For one, it's not a crazy plan. Secondly, Toki just reported that our guests have arrived."
"Oh. Well then, I guess I'll be quiet now."
"Good idea."
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Flugtod landed on top of the last car of the train. It's camera focused on the car it was on, and saw that the car supported the weight of the suit easily. Orza glared at his screen, I should have known. This isn't a train from the refinery. What is it, though?
A view of the Black Sea shined on the train as the blue mobile suit slowly made its way up the train, walking over several cars along the way. Orza grew more concerned with each step; there was something wrong with the train to him, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Finally, Flugtod reached a car that had the Preventors logo on top.
"This thing is a mobile suit transporter. Shit."
A loud whooshing noise erupted from behind Flugtod, and the blue mobile suit turned around. The camera lens stared down the barrel of a Taurus beam rifle. There is only a Taurus? This is too easy. Flugtod knocked back the beam rifle, and began to punch the Taurus. Except, the right arm of Flugtod wouldn't bung. Orza forced his joystick, but the right arm still wouldn't move. What the hell? Flugtod was shoved off of the train and tumbled its way down to the Black Sea. After it came to a halt, the blue mobile suit rose up from the muddy water into a standing position, and looked back up toward the tracks. It caught sight of a blue, tan mobile suit as it walked down the slope toward the large body of water. "It can't be!" Orza stared at the mobile suit and was outraged. "They rebuilt that mobile suit. How dare them!" He grinded his teeth together.
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Alex looked ominously at Flugtod as it waded in the water. I was just lucky, that's all. He has a numerical superiority to me in ammo. One wrong move, I'm dead.
"Snow, what you doing?"
No response.
"Don't go head long at him."
No response.
"Snow! ."
"I have to make this guy pay for what he did at San Jose, and along with that one colony. Lumin, please stay out of this. This doesn't involve you anymore."
"What did you say?"
"You heard me." Alex killed the link. Well, here goes nothing.
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Orza grew more disgusted at the suit with each step it took. Those bastards, it's bad enough that they dishonor my cousin by rebuilding that thing. But, that antenna is awful looking. They could have at least done something better with it. Another thought came to him. They replaced him.
The mobile suit ignited a green beam saber as it continued to come closer.
They think that some replacement can fill his place. Well then, I'll show them a thing or two.
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Flugtod flew away from Icedig and began to head west across the sea. Icedig blasted off in hot pursuit. Hilde's Taurus just stood there as the two mobile suits disappeared into the distance. How could you be this foolhardy, Alex? Hilde stared at her screen and radar in disbelief. "Toki, are you there?" "Yes." "Do you have a lock on those mobile suits?" "Of course, it's part of procedure." "Good." The Taurus took off after them.
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Several hours went by as the Icedig and Flugtod mobile suits fought a cat and mouse battle over land and seas. Flugtod flew so close to cliffs that it scraped them at times. Icedig kept up its pursuit with its beam saber grip in hand.
Alex stared at the blue mobile suit while at the same took in the sights of his surroundings; which consisted of the Mediterranean Sea, beautiful forests, and cliffs. "If it weren't for this battle, I'll probably would stop and enjoy this place. Oh well, back to the chase."
Orza panicked more as each minute passed by. "This guy isn't letting up. Missiles just keep missing him, and my evasive maneuvers don't shake him. Who the hell is this guy!?" The blonde-haired pilot looked for anything that would aid him, and his cameras finally spotted something useful; tell tale signs of a beach.
Flugtod approached the beach faster and faster with Icedig not too far behind. As soon as Flugtod reached the outskirts of the beach, the blue mobile suit did a 180-degree turn. Icedig didn't expect this move, and desperately tried to stop in mid-air. Flugtod dodged to the right while simultaneously fired two volleys of missiles at Icedig.
"Take this!"
The missiles mercilessly nailed Icedig, and it plummeted to the water below. Flugtod gently lowered itself to the ground as it watched Icedig make a twenty-meter splash in the water.
"Serves him right. No one can be replaced. Especially my cousin." The red-eyed teen smirked at the sight of the waves dissipating. "But, to make sure." Two aiming sights appeared on the screen in front of him, and positioned themselves over the area where Icedig had crashed. "Enjoy." Two waves of missiles approached the sights and disappeared into the water. The water and sand exploded and left a fine drizzle on the outside of the screen. Orza smiled and laughed. "That was for my cousin. Rot in hell, now."
Flugtod turned around and began to walk up the beach. To Orza's amusement, there was a city by this beach. Not a very impressive city, but more along the lines of rustic; if there is such a thing with cities. "Where am I?" Suddenly, something popped on his radar.
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Hilde watched as she achieved the element of surprise on Flugtod. "Forgot about me, huh?"
The Taurus swooped down toward Flugtod and fired several shots at the blue suit. The beam rifle shots hit their target, but the blue mobile suit was unfazed by them.
"What is that thing made out of?"
Hilde's Taurus landed on the ground a good distance from Flugtod, but then something dawned on her.
"Where is Snow at?" The dark blue pilot scanned the surrounding area, but got nothing. "Oh great, he just up and vanished."
The Taurus refocused on Flugtod, and found the blue mobile suit was on top of it. Flugtod smashed the front side of the Taurus with its left arm, and sent the Taurus reeling back. The Taurus came to rest after a forty-meter skid on the beach.
Hilde got jolted around the cockpit as her Taurus crashed. "Dang it." She grabbed her head to feel for bruises, but her attention soon went back to the blue mobile suit.
The Flugtod's shoulders began to have black holes appear, and the tips of missiles appeared from the holes.
"Oh no." Hilde desperately tried to get the Taurus back to its feet, but it was too late. Flugtod fired a wave of missiles from both shoulders, and there was nothing Hilde could do but watch.
Out of nowhere, Icedig got in between the missiles and the Taurus. With its arms seemingly crossed to protect its cockpit, the blue, tan mobile suit took the force of the missiles. The explosions forced the cyclops back several meters, but had no visible damage from Hilde's view.
"Thank you, Alex."
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As the smoke cleared, Icedig still had its arms crossed, but damage was very clear. Most of the joints sparked electricity, and the main armor of the suit was heavily dented. The arms barely functioned, and appeared to have been fused into position. Orza stared in disbelief at Icedig. He wasn't sure what to make of it, but one thought did cross his mind. I thought I killed that guy. Darn it, the Preventors must have made it stronger than it used to be. No matter, though. I'll still destroy it.
Flugtod fired several more waves at Icedig, but, when the smoke cleared each time, the mobile suit was still stood with ever increasing damage.
I'll give this guy credit. He has guts, but he is very stupid for doing so. Orza held off the urge for another wave of missiles and reached over to his communication button. Let's see what this guy looks like before I kill him.
He opened a communication link to the crippled Icedig. "Nice job, soldier boy. It's a shame." The red-eyed pilot looked at the blue-eyed pilot of Icedig. Alex had some cuts on his face, and was breathing heavily. Orza looked haplessly at his cousin. Alex.
Flugtod turned around and flew as fast as it could away from the two.
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Hilde breathed a sigh of relief as she saw Flugtod retreating. "That was close."
Her Taurus stood up and she approached the battle scarred Icedig. The Taurus landed its left hand on Icedig's right shoulder, and finally she saw the full extent of the damage. There was hardly anything left of the arms, and the front side seemed to have lost almost all of its armor.
Icedig's head slowly turned toward the Taurus, and a communication link popped up in the cockpit.
"So. what was it you were saying about me disobeying orders."
"Don't do it again."
"Right, I wished I had remembered that sooner."
The communication link snowed up.
Icedig's right shoulder fell off, and fell to the ground. The left leg joint ruptured, and Icedig collapsed to the beach below.
All right, here comes the legal mumbo jumbo. Gundam is owned by the Bandai Co. so I can't profit from this venture. Nor will anyone else. Or heads will roll.. I mean it.
Chapter 10- Clash by the Shore
The blonde-haired pilot calmly sat as he watched trees pass by the flatbed truck. I wonder if this entire planet is this beautiful. Orza looked at the driver, and the man was focused on his driving.
"When do we arrive at our target?" "It should be about twenty kilometers down the road." "Oh good. We're ahead of schedule." A slight grin appeared on his face. Hopefully none of my missiles will go astray.
His red eyes looked in awe at the trees as they went further down the road.
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Alex opened the door to the conference room and saw Hilde, Toki, and the fair-haired Lady Une as they waited for him.
The brunette yawned. "Alright. What's so important that it requires me to wake up at 6:00AM in the morning?" He staggered to his seat with a hand over his mouth.
"It's been a month since your team's raid on that warehouse."
"Yeah, so?"
"For that month this team has had a break."
The gray-haired technician looked over at his leader. Here I thought we were in a slow spell. I wonder if anything happened.
"For that reason I haven't brought up this assignment."
"What's that?"
Lady Une reached down and pulled out three files from her briefcase. Each file had the word 'Urgent' in red on the front. She laid the files down on the table. "Three earth facilities were destroyed this past month."
"Could have been the work of terrorists. Doesn't require us."
"All three were destroyed by mobile suits, and were lead by this mobile suit." The Colonel opened up one of the files, and a picture of a blue mobile suit with spheroid shoulders was at the top of the file. Alex recognized it as the same suit as the one from San Jose. "What do you want us to do about it?" "You're going to stop this mobile suit."
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Location: Caspian Lowlands Oil Refinery. Date: 28, 7, AC-199. Time: 2:55PM.
Oil has been a top business in the Middle East for many years, and, soon after the last battle that White Fang fought, more oil had been discovered in region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. This refinery was of moderate size, but has managed to pump a tremendous amount of oil for businesses on earth and in space.
On the outskirts of the lowlands, five mobile suits approached the refinery. The group was comprised of three Virgos, one Taurus, and the blue mobile suit, Flugtod. The Taurus flew ahead of the group, and the Virgos marched forward toward the refinery. Flugtod halted and watched the mobile suits approach the refinery.
"Level this refinery. Leave nothing standing." The red-eyed pilot said to his men over a communication link.
Orza looked on as his comrades began to make quick work of the refinery. Explosions engulfed oil processors, pipelines burst out with flames, and the main building began to crumble. Though these events would please his objectives, Orza saw something wrong with the place. The explosions are too small. There is next to no oil in this refinery. Orza maneuvered his main camera around and spotted what looked like a train on the horizon. Thought so, they knew we were coming. Did too good of a job on the past few places.
Flugtod charged after the distant train, and left the other mobile suits behind.
"Sir, what you doing?"
"Meet up at the rendezvous after taking the rest of that refinery out. I'll meet you there, later."
"Yes sir." The link went dead.
Flugtod continued toward the train, and gained ground on it. Did they really expect to get away?
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Alex sat horizontally in his seat with only the light from his console to keep him company, while the screen in front of him was completely black. The blue-eyed pilot reached forward and a communication link to Hilde appeared.
"I can't believe this plan."
"Believe it. It's better that way."
"No. I mean, this is a crazy idea. Using a refinery as a decoy, while we are stuck here waiting for God knows what." He bickered. "I bet they won't come to that refinery in the first place."
"For one, it's not a crazy plan. Secondly, Toki just reported that our guests have arrived."
"Oh. Well then, I guess I'll be quiet now."
"Good idea."
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Flugtod landed on top of the last car of the train. It's camera focused on the car it was on, and saw that the car supported the weight of the suit easily. Orza glared at his screen, I should have known. This isn't a train from the refinery. What is it, though?
A view of the Black Sea shined on the train as the blue mobile suit slowly made its way up the train, walking over several cars along the way. Orza grew more concerned with each step; there was something wrong with the train to him, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Finally, Flugtod reached a car that had the Preventors logo on top.
"This thing is a mobile suit transporter. Shit."
A loud whooshing noise erupted from behind Flugtod, and the blue mobile suit turned around. The camera lens stared down the barrel of a Taurus beam rifle. There is only a Taurus? This is too easy. Flugtod knocked back the beam rifle, and began to punch the Taurus. Except, the right arm of Flugtod wouldn't bung. Orza forced his joystick, but the right arm still wouldn't move. What the hell? Flugtod was shoved off of the train and tumbled its way down to the Black Sea. After it came to a halt, the blue mobile suit rose up from the muddy water into a standing position, and looked back up toward the tracks. It caught sight of a blue, tan mobile suit as it walked down the slope toward the large body of water. "It can't be!" Orza stared at the mobile suit and was outraged. "They rebuilt that mobile suit. How dare them!" He grinded his teeth together.
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Alex looked ominously at Flugtod as it waded in the water. I was just lucky, that's all. He has a numerical superiority to me in ammo. One wrong move, I'm dead.
"Snow, what you doing?"
No response.
"Don't go head long at him."
No response.
"Snow! ."
"I have to make this guy pay for what he did at San Jose, and along with that one colony. Lumin, please stay out of this. This doesn't involve you anymore."
"What did you say?"
"You heard me." Alex killed the link. Well, here goes nothing.
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Orza grew more disgusted at the suit with each step it took. Those bastards, it's bad enough that they dishonor my cousin by rebuilding that thing. But, that antenna is awful looking. They could have at least done something better with it. Another thought came to him. They replaced him.
The mobile suit ignited a green beam saber as it continued to come closer.
They think that some replacement can fill his place. Well then, I'll show them a thing or two.
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Flugtod flew away from Icedig and began to head west across the sea. Icedig blasted off in hot pursuit. Hilde's Taurus just stood there as the two mobile suits disappeared into the distance. How could you be this foolhardy, Alex? Hilde stared at her screen and radar in disbelief. "Toki, are you there?" "Yes." "Do you have a lock on those mobile suits?" "Of course, it's part of procedure." "Good." The Taurus took off after them.
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Several hours went by as the Icedig and Flugtod mobile suits fought a cat and mouse battle over land and seas. Flugtod flew so close to cliffs that it scraped them at times. Icedig kept up its pursuit with its beam saber grip in hand.
Alex stared at the blue mobile suit while at the same took in the sights of his surroundings; which consisted of the Mediterranean Sea, beautiful forests, and cliffs. "If it weren't for this battle, I'll probably would stop and enjoy this place. Oh well, back to the chase."
Orza panicked more as each minute passed by. "This guy isn't letting up. Missiles just keep missing him, and my evasive maneuvers don't shake him. Who the hell is this guy!?" The blonde-haired pilot looked for anything that would aid him, and his cameras finally spotted something useful; tell tale signs of a beach.
Flugtod approached the beach faster and faster with Icedig not too far behind. As soon as Flugtod reached the outskirts of the beach, the blue mobile suit did a 180-degree turn. Icedig didn't expect this move, and desperately tried to stop in mid-air. Flugtod dodged to the right while simultaneously fired two volleys of missiles at Icedig.
"Take this!"
The missiles mercilessly nailed Icedig, and it plummeted to the water below. Flugtod gently lowered itself to the ground as it watched Icedig make a twenty-meter splash in the water.
"Serves him right. No one can be replaced. Especially my cousin." The red-eyed teen smirked at the sight of the waves dissipating. "But, to make sure." Two aiming sights appeared on the screen in front of him, and positioned themselves over the area where Icedig had crashed. "Enjoy." Two waves of missiles approached the sights and disappeared into the water. The water and sand exploded and left a fine drizzle on the outside of the screen. Orza smiled and laughed. "That was for my cousin. Rot in hell, now."
Flugtod turned around and began to walk up the beach. To Orza's amusement, there was a city by this beach. Not a very impressive city, but more along the lines of rustic; if there is such a thing with cities. "Where am I?" Suddenly, something popped on his radar.
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Hilde watched as she achieved the element of surprise on Flugtod. "Forgot about me, huh?"
The Taurus swooped down toward Flugtod and fired several shots at the blue suit. The beam rifle shots hit their target, but the blue mobile suit was unfazed by them.
"What is that thing made out of?"
Hilde's Taurus landed on the ground a good distance from Flugtod, but then something dawned on her.
"Where is Snow at?" The dark blue pilot scanned the surrounding area, but got nothing. "Oh great, he just up and vanished."
The Taurus refocused on Flugtod, and found the blue mobile suit was on top of it. Flugtod smashed the front side of the Taurus with its left arm, and sent the Taurus reeling back. The Taurus came to rest after a forty-meter skid on the beach.
Hilde got jolted around the cockpit as her Taurus crashed. "Dang it." She grabbed her head to feel for bruises, but her attention soon went back to the blue mobile suit.
The Flugtod's shoulders began to have black holes appear, and the tips of missiles appeared from the holes.
"Oh no." Hilde desperately tried to get the Taurus back to its feet, but it was too late. Flugtod fired a wave of missiles from both shoulders, and there was nothing Hilde could do but watch.
Out of nowhere, Icedig got in between the missiles and the Taurus. With its arms seemingly crossed to protect its cockpit, the blue, tan mobile suit took the force of the missiles. The explosions forced the cyclops back several meters, but had no visible damage from Hilde's view.
"Thank you, Alex."
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As the smoke cleared, Icedig still had its arms crossed, but damage was very clear. Most of the joints sparked electricity, and the main armor of the suit was heavily dented. The arms barely functioned, and appeared to have been fused into position. Orza stared in disbelief at Icedig. He wasn't sure what to make of it, but one thought did cross his mind. I thought I killed that guy. Darn it, the Preventors must have made it stronger than it used to be. No matter, though. I'll still destroy it.
Flugtod fired several more waves at Icedig, but, when the smoke cleared each time, the mobile suit was still stood with ever increasing damage.
I'll give this guy credit. He has guts, but he is very stupid for doing so. Orza held off the urge for another wave of missiles and reached over to his communication button. Let's see what this guy looks like before I kill him.
He opened a communication link to the crippled Icedig. "Nice job, soldier boy. It's a shame." The red-eyed pilot looked at the blue-eyed pilot of Icedig. Alex had some cuts on his face, and was breathing heavily. Orza looked haplessly at his cousin. Alex.
Flugtod turned around and flew as fast as it could away from the two.
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Hilde breathed a sigh of relief as she saw Flugtod retreating. "That was close."
Her Taurus stood up and she approached the battle scarred Icedig. The Taurus landed its left hand on Icedig's right shoulder, and finally she saw the full extent of the damage. There was hardly anything left of the arms, and the front side seemed to have lost almost all of its armor.
Icedig's head slowly turned toward the Taurus, and a communication link popped up in the cockpit.
"So. what was it you were saying about me disobeying orders."
"Don't do it again."
"Right, I wished I had remembered that sooner."
The communication link snowed up.
Icedig's right shoulder fell off, and fell to the ground. The left leg joint ruptured, and Icedig collapsed to the beach below.